I was driving home from Albertson's yesterday and saw this gem parked in someone's driveway. Seeing this car made me refresh my memory of the vehicle, thank you wiki. I found some interesting facts about the car aside from the obvious ones about fumes entering the car; all the bad ones. A few things that I found is that the car had no 'Park' for the two-speed Powerglide that Chevrolet employed. The gear selector went as follows: R-N-D-L. Also the air cooled flat six that was mounted in the rear was a common upgrade in Volkswagen Dune Buggies. The six cylinder was also offered with a factory turbo producing about 180 hp seen here. It says TURBOCHARGED and has checkered flags and everything.
Reminds me of Civics that have the POWEREDD BY HONDA! stickers across the hood. Or maybe I totally missed the concept and the Honda's are really powered by this.
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The old turbo Corvair Corsas were delightfully stupid vehicles. GM hadn't yet gone through its LSD-induced late-1970s identity crisis, so the car wasn't completely castrated and was actually quasicompetent--which is a bummer, because all of the great engineering that went into the powerplant wasn't matched by any engineering in the, you know, body, brakes, and suspension.
After all, it tooks zee Germans another five years to get that idiotic rear-engined formula figured out. And let's face it--when you've beaten zee Germans, you've probably just built a shitty product.
The nice thing about the Corvair is you can give them a $50 paint job.
There is actually a guy here in town who autoxs them, I think I blogged about that sometime back.
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