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

Ace-Garageguy · Saturday at 02:05 PM

Bainford · Saturday at 02:28 PM

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 · Saturday at 04:24 PM

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

espo · Saturday at 04:31 PM

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 · Saturday at 05:30 PM

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 Saturday at 05:31 PM by sfhess

Mattilacken · Sunday at 03:26 PM

That’s cool! I does like this one better though, a Swedish built Covair, midengine supercharged Audi RS6 V8. Öhlins pushrod suspension built by one guy.