We had a BLAST at Corvair Springfest in Helen, GA. It was so nice to meet so many of our followers and they even asked me to speak briefly at the event! I have so many ideas for the car now, and you'll see them in future Corvair videos on the channel. Thank you again for all the support, and we hope to continue to bring more classics back to life in the future. Sean & Christie

@MrWaalkman

Жыл бұрын

Sorry that I missed the gettogether. :) I have my engine partially torn apart at the moment. So far a bent pushrod has turned up.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

It was a great show, and hopefully you'll be able to get your Vair back together soon.

These cars are so timeless. To me a TRUE American classic. My first car at 16 in 1976, and still the best all these years later. Love the sound.

Those Corvairs keep getting nicer every year!

Great memories of road trips with my late wife and the 62 black with red interior Corsair.

Its been awesome watching you bring this car back to life and I bought my 65 Monza from Jasper Georgia a few years back from the original owners and I brought her back to Texas and drive it almost everyway around town. I have learned alot from watching your channel and Thanks for all the hard work!

@AutoAnatomy

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

That sounded great accelerating onto the highway!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

My mother had a Corvair, when I was in high school. Nothing fancy, but in retrospect, that was one tough car. It was driven winter and summer for years and abused like crazy. Never skipped a beat. I knew where the largest pools of water formed on the roads after summer storms. Did I mention that it floats? Water that builds up in front, flows over the ‘frunk’, not where the engine is. Spark plugs are on top of the block and nowhere near the water. Car is made for summer rains

Nice job on the brakes. Also thanks for filming the show. It’s nice to see these old cars.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Corsa dash! That's rad

Love the sound of that exhaust!

@AutoAnatomy

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! You should check out the newest exhaust system build...I like it even better!

Righteous prep, trip & video, Sean!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

That was great! Thanks for taking us along!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Can't wait to see the restoration of that instrument pack and it's installation

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Me too, I'm so excited to get it installed!

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

@@AutoAnatomy Sean, while you're at it., be sure to replace the dash lights with LEDs. It'll make quite a difference.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I put LEDs in the current cluster, and it made a HUGE difference. Will definitely be doing that on the Corsa dash

I was there and missed seeing you, your wife, nor car! I’m glad that everyone warmly welcomed you! I love watching your car restoration! Keep up the good work! God bless!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Sorry we missed each other, and thank you!

corvairs are my first of classic cars. I owned a rare 63 700 coupe 443 off the line out of willow run plant

Pretty cool that there are some Corvair shows out there. Looking forward to getting mine out for its first show in a couple of months. I will likely be the only one there with a Corvair!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Get it out there, even if it's not perfect. Mine is FAR from a show car and we had a blast! They are such neat cars that are so different than every other car at the shows.

EZ on that impact!!

The dual circut brakes began in 1967, the '66 was exactly like the '65.

I have a ‘66 with a single master, might have been a mid-year change.

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

All '66s had single masters, the federal requirement for duals came in (I believe) in '67. I have a '68 with a dual, and it has the extra hookup for the brake warning light on the dash to indicate when you've lost front or back- also, if you lose one or the other, the pedal drops halfway to the floor, but you still have some working brakes. I don't know if the '67s have the warning light.

I love the corvairs that is one cool little car 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Nice to see you get out in the old girl, sounds great! I'm glad you showed how to convert the master cylinder, it sounded easy in principle but it's always nice to see it done. That's definitely on my short list of upgrades when I get mine running. I've been tackling some wiring repairs and a bit of welding. I don't know how yours is, but my '66 has bad rust in the kick panel and door hinge areas. Where the driver's side lower door hinge bolts up was about 3/4 of the way rusted out, causing the door to sag! But a bit of metal welded in and it closes great. I ought to have my harness tape and packard 56 series connectors in by the weekend so I can finish off my dash harness and start to put mine together again. Best of luck out there, Have a good time!

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jason, thank you! Mine is solid in the door hinge area but had some floor pan rust as well as scattered other places (lower area of fenders, etc.). Good job on getting your repaired, and hopefully on the next video I'll be doing some rust repair on this one.

I learned to drive on a 1969 Monza 50 years ago. I have always wanted to get another one and watching this series has fueled that desire.

@AutoAnatomy

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Best of luck in your search

The Corvair with air conditioning and headrests was cool. I used to own a '67 Camaro and the lack of headrests was troubling.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

AC would be nice, but I imagine it really drags down the performance

First car was a '65 CORSA. Loved that dash! Souped up 4bbl 4spd. I loved that car.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

Sean, another OUTSTANDING video! I have a number of things to say, but I suspect I don't have the time or room to list 'em all. You may recall a recent post I made to you regarding switching to a dual master cylinder for safety- I hadn't realized you were already ready. Interesting side note: I mentioned I was getting ready to do the same on my '64 Monza Convert- I did it YESTERDAY! I enlisted the help of my pal Larry (OK, OK, Larry did most of the work, especially bending the new brake lines). Larry, BTW, has his own KZread channel "Wise Fool's Garage", and he is quite well informed. An additional impetus was provided to me last week- I was driving down US-30 in Illinois in fairly heavy traffic in my newly repainted '64 and some idiot woman PULLED A U-TURN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME! I locked up the brakes to avoid her, PRAYING that I wouldn't blow a line and total my car! Now I feel a lot better! Another item... the CORSA National Convention is in Wisconsin Dells, WI this year, June 19-24. The Host hotel is booked, but there are other hotels in the area. Sadly, I can only make it up there for one day this year, but next year, I'm hearing that next year it will be in Dayton, OH, and I'm told it will be an excellent event. I certainly hope you can make it to one or the other, I'd love to meet you. BTW, I am with the Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts (CCE) and our website is ccecorvair.com

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kirk, thank you! I’d love to try and take the car to the Corsa nats…maybe next year we’ll try and drive it up! And I’d also love to meet y’all!!

Great, inspiring videos. Thanks for all the hard work and research. I use the same process for replacing wheel studs, but I put a liberal amount of anti-seize on the threads before using the nuts to pull the studs into place.

Thank you!.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Excellent demo on bench bleeding!

@AutoAnatomy

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for being an "intern"!

@towbar2

11 ай бұрын

@@AutoAnatomy I work on my wife's 66 Monza coupe. I just finished replacing the Frigidaire AC compressor with a new Sanden, and re-connected everything up with hoses and fittings from Cold Hose, and a hose-fitting setting-tool from Vevor. It held 10" vacuum for an hour. I charged it up. Then slung the (only had one belt on. Next time, two) belt that is now wedged in the pulley, under the motor mount, oil filter and where the fuel pump was (using an electric). Anyway, do you have a way to pull that hose out, without having to remove parts?

@AutoAnatomy

11 ай бұрын

@@towbar2 Pull the hose out or belt out? Can you email me some pics at autoanatomy@icloud.com so I can see what you're referring to?

You stated the dual circuit master cylinder appeared first in ‘66; I believe it didn’t appear until 1967.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Good to know!

Good idea to replace the single circuit master cylinder with a dual version. My 64 Corvair had a wheel bearing fail, then the axle pulled out along with the rear brake drum (going downhill), thus no brakes at all. Managed to slide the car around the corner and hit a curb- but near disaster.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you were OK!

Car events are always fun and interesting as it's also an educational opportunity. I bet that new instrument cluster is going to look real sharp!

You did a first-rate rebuild on your car and I know you spent some serious cash at Clark's in the process. Hope you didn't have too many regrets at 19:15 seeing swap meet prices on all the stuff you paid full price for. We've all been there! :)

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

It's funny, one of my friends is a Corvair guy in Anderson, SC (about an hour from me). The only things I ended up buying were some backup light lenses from him.

It was hard to tell on the pass side, but it looked like you have 2 short brake shoes on the drivers side and 2 long ones on the pass side. Should have a short shoe on the front of the backing plate and a long on the rear. And you are asking for trouble by not putting anti-seize on lug stud threads before using the nut to pull them in.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to go back and look, thanks for noticing!

COOL LOOKING GREAT VIDEO.✌✌👍👍🏁🏁🏁

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great job so far. I can't wait to get mine done to be able to drive.doing seats now then front end then engine. My gut feeling says you are thinking about injecting.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Really thinking about making my own fuel injection system

IO IROC wheels are the best for LM. Keep it in the bowtie family.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I think they look great on the car!

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

My '68 coupe has the IROC wheels. You are most certainly correct!

Have you considered replacing the 2 single carbs with a single 4 bbl? I know they used to have a kit for that back in the day. It was pretty simple with a 4 legged tubular intake manifold and a template for drilling another hole in each head for the additional legs on each side. The plates for each leg could be welded or epoxied on and they ran pretty well; also eliminated the carb synching work.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

From what little I know, the 4 barrel kits were for the 140 cars with 4 carbs factory. I don't think I've seen a kit for the dual carb 110s. Plus, I've heard they have issues with fuel icing and freezing.

amigo es un buen video para ayudar a restaurar estas maquinas me puedes decir que código de pintura es es un azul muy bonito saludos desde Colombia por tu trabajo y dedicación al Chevrolet corvair

I have center caps from Gm that fits them rims still in the boxes

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

If your interested in selling, send me an email at autoanatomy@icloud.com

Sean, I'm thinking about adding bumperettes to the bumpers. do you know their sizes? Looks like I've got to make them.

@AutoAnatomy

9 ай бұрын

Not sure, my car doesn't have bumperettes. Sorry...

Is there any way you can tell me were you got your block for your rear brakes

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I think it was California Corvair Parts

Did you keep the new front tires at a lower PSI than the rears?

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Yes, running 24 front and 35 rear

hello there will the brake cylinder also work with a 1962 corvair

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine it would work, but not certain.

It's strange that the speedo was off with the 13" tire/rim combo as that was stock. 14" was optional on some models. As long as the tire height(from ground to center point of rim) is correct then the tire/rim combo doesn't matter. That Browns FI is sweet! Combine it with a distributorless ignition and make the Corvair run even better.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

The tires I had on the 13" wheels were smaller than stock. I knew it would be off but wanted something to get the car rolling.

@cheaptricked

Жыл бұрын

What Corvair was offered with 14” wheels?

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

@@cheaptricked Corvair 95, Greenbriar, Rampside. No cars were offered with anything but 13s.

Great video Shawn. I am a 69 year old man, and remember many of my friends having these back in the day. You got my itch to get one of these. Most around here are automatics tho. Are they just as collectible, or should I find a four speed like yours? One of my best friends had a convertible Corvair and loved it. If I get one, you will be getting many questions from me. Looking on line right now for one.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for checking out our channel. From what little I know, the manual trans are more desirable than autos, but what matters most is what you want and what you will enjoy driving.

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

@@AutoAnatomy Another comment. Most of my 'Vairs have 4-speeds, but my wife insisted on an automatic, so I got her another car ('69 Monza Convert) that I switched over to a Powerglide (also, occasionally referred to as a "slushbox"). That appellation is incorrect. In the 1965 Pure Oil Trials, the 4-speed was the fastest in the quarter-mile, the Powerglide was second, and the manual three-speed was last! Mileage agreed with that, as well! Plus, the Powerglide is almost indestructible (I should know, I have SEVERELY abused a couple, and they held up surprisingly well.

@lars1588

Жыл бұрын

Someone else mentioned this, but 90%+ of the time, the Powerglide is faster than the three-speed, and slower than the four speed. I was surprised, but it's been proven. I myself have a three-speed '60 700 four-door and was disappointed to learn this lol.

Just wondering. Any idea what you’re getting for gas mileage since the rebuild with the mild cam change ?

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

I got about 17 on the interstate doing 70-75 mph, but I had put some larger jets (54s) in the car before leaving and they were too big. I think with it running better it should get around 20-ish.

@Kpar512

Жыл бұрын

@@AutoAnatomy OK, you're probably getting tired of my comments, but I have had experience with "modern E-10 gas". I had to switch to larger jets to accommodate the "lean-burn" problem with oxygenated fuel. That killed my mileage, but solved some problems with misfires that drove me nuts.

Just curious, what's your mpg?

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

About 16-17 so far, but I need to downsize jets. It should be around 20-ish when tuned better

@mikeknowlden9617

Жыл бұрын

@Auto Anatomy that's very interesting. A so called sports car getting 20 mpg in the 60s making 130 hp ( I know 110 lol) . How Far have we actually gotten in the battle for economy and environmental crap? Thanks!

So now hopefully you can invest disc brakes for your car 🚗 just think how fast you can slow down.

@AutoAnatomy

2 ай бұрын

Maybe the next upgrade?

80 MPH and no flip ? you mean ralph lied ? of course he did

@AutoAnatomy

3 ай бұрын

I know...such a downer

True. Dual masters started in ‘67.

@AutoAnatomy

Жыл бұрын

Good to know, thanks!

@milkdropmo

6 ай бұрын

I drove a 65 Monza 140 4 speed from 1974 thru 1978. Was a senior in high school in 77 when I lost a left front brake cylinder. Luckily I was just sitting in line at a fast food drive thru when it went! Drove the 6-miles home with just the e-brake which was not in a convenient place for use while driving 😂. Thinking of getting another as I’m heading toward retirement. Love your channel! Keep ‘‘em coming please!

@AutoAnatomy

6 ай бұрын

@milkdropmo They’re great cars, pick up another one if you can!

My first car was a 1965 Corvair. I now have a 2013 Mini Cooper LOL.