Mid-engine 1:1 Corvair autocrosser, very cleanly built...

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[Bainford]

When I was a car crazy teen, the widely reconised 'fastest car around' was a Corvair with a hot LT-1 where the back seat used to be. A clean, well built car, and generally untouchable. 
 

At the time I actually preferred his brother's car, another late Corvair, but lowered on wide steelies all around, stripped interior, and the hot rodded air-cooled six. It looked like a well prepared SCCA club racer on the street. 

[meechum68]

Beautiful car and the engineering is awesome.  Love unique cars getting a second and third life!   

[espo]

First of all, this has to be one of the ultimate Corvairs I have ever seen. Living in southern California in the '60's I had a chance encounter one evening with a Corvair that had a conversion that was done using a kit from a company called Crown Enginering. I was returning from a dinner party in Orange County and was heading back towards San Bernardino where I was living at the time. There is or was a winding canyon area that the hiway went through as you approached the Riverside area. I was driving my '67 El Camino 396 4-speed when this Corvair pulled up alongside of me and jumped on the throttle a couple of times as sort of a challenge. Being young and dumb I took the challenge and promptly found myself looking at his taillights getting very small very quickly. 

[sfhess]

There was a guy near my home in Granada Hills, Ca who had a Corvair with a Olds Toronado drivetrain mounted in it.

Someone in Provo, Utah in the early 70s had a shortened 4-door 65-up Corvair with a front-engine/rear drive that was powered by a small block of some sort.  It looked pretty wicked at the local autocross. Very nimble.  Driver did most of the steering with the throttle

Edited 17 hours ago by sfhess