Nader's Nightmare

[bsoder]

Great imagination...awsome execution, really dig 'em both B)

[Wagoneer81]

The Corvair is absolutely crazybad! Neatest design I've seen in ages, and very well executed. I wouldn't be afraid to drive the real thing...

Now, on to the Corvette.... In my 32 years of modeling I have seen several cars that have turned my head, several that have left me thinking, 'Why?' or 'what were you thinking/smoking/drinking?' And several that impressed me so much that I wanted them for myself... But this car just grabs me by my hotrod racer parts and doesn't let go! I want one! I am going to steal your pics and someday, build my own version of what the perfect roadracer should be... Job very well done! I can't wait to see what comes from your fertile, jumbled, warped mind next!

[CorvairJim]

I found the Bi-Polar's thread in the Workbench forum shortly after posting my response above. Man, you have some fan-flippin-tastic skills, and an imagination to match.

It's funny, I started a model similar in concept to Bi-Polar back in September in response to one a friend of mine built, based on a '60 Corvette that he narrowed to a single-seater and mounted on a sprint car chassis. The discussion I had with him was about how I'd do something along those lines with a Corvair. My model uses the AMT 1969 Corvair reissue, shorn of it's roof and narrowed to single seater width about 18 scale inches ahead of the rear wheel openings. From there on back, the body stays stock width, although I may have to widen it depending on the track of the Penske Indycar chassis that's going under it. Yes, the rear slicks will be inside the quarter panels while the fronts will be out in the open. The leading edges of the quarter panels become inlets for cooling air for the engine, brakes, and intercoolers, along with a fresh air supply for the engine intake. I'm planning a mid-mounted twin-turbo Corvair engine for it. Like yours, I'll be using the Indycar's wings front and back... At least those are the plans at the moment. So far, I have the front of the body narrowed and it's basic bodywork is done (including closing off the wheel openings), and the rear section has had the scoops roughed in and the factory wheel openings smoothed to remove the slight lip around them.

[ARTEMIS1759]

Nice Corvair to be a true 60s custom it just need a bubble top lol.