Someone did an electric conversion to one of these.  No info on if it was able to time travel. 😄 

These conversions are interesting, but not as interesting to me as when someone put a small block V8 into a Chevrolet Corvair. 😄 😄

Hook

3 hours ago, LHookins said:

 

These conversions are interesting, but not as interesting to me as when someone put a small block V8 into a Chevrolet Corvair. 😄 😄

Now that I’d like to see, I love Corvairs.  My mother got one when I started going to school. Fond memories of being picked up on some afternoons after school and her saying “Should we go for an adventure?” and driving to parts of the city we’ve never seen, or go to favorite places in Golden Gate Park, like the aquarium or where the buffalos were kept.  To this day I’m furious w/Ralph Nader for writing “Unsafe At Any Speed” 🤬

Edited May 27, 20251 yr by Mike A
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14 minutes ago, Mike A said:

“Should we go for an adventure?”

❤️

14 minutes ago, Mike A said:

To this day I’m furious w/Ralph Nader for writing “Unsafe At Any Speed”

Absolutely agreed.

Do people still go on adventures?

Hook

3 hours ago, LHookins said:

Do people still go on adventures?

My mother shared my love for aviation.  My sister, who was 17 years older than me, lived in Milwaukee with her family. My mother would do a lot of projects for her, like sewing children’s clothes and other stuff like that and sending them.  When she had a package and/or letter to send to my sister, she’d ask me if I thought it would arrive quicker if we mailed it from the post office at the airport. Of course, I said yes and we’d drive to KSFO.  After mailing the item, she’d ask “Since we’re out here, should we watch the planes for awhile?” “YES!!”.  There was a lot right up against the start of RWY 1R that’s been closed to the public since 9/11.  It was so close you could probably hit a plane if you threw a tennis ball at it.  The best part was when a 727 would take off, it was deafening.  And if you were sitting in a car, you could feel a physical vibration caused by it.  Awesome.  Great memories of adventure.

@LHookins This guy’s YouTube channel is my “virtual Time Machine memory” of watching planes at KSFO.  His father was an airline pilot based there in the 1960s and he started this channel with home movies his father made.  Over the years other people sent him their films to put up on this channel.  I like this video below as it has some unique perspectives, specifically the shots of approaches to runways 28L & 28R filmed from close to the edge of those runways right at the bay which could only have been filmed by someone who had access to the field.  I love those shots of the 727s approaching with the tons of thick exhaust 😷

 

On 5/26/2025 at 5:11 PM, LHookins said:

These conversions are interesting, but not as interesting to me as when someone put a small block V8 into a Chevrolet Corvair. 😄 😄

You would likely enjoy watching Matt's Off Road Recovery videos then. He personally owns at least 20 Corvairs and the most recent count. He just loves Corvairs!

His "signature" recovery vehicle is a heavily modified Corvair Station Wagon they named the "MOORVAIR..."

If Back to the Future was made in the 60's instead of 80's the Way Back Machine would have been a Corvair.

 

 

@LHookins @n4gix @Fielder

Thanks, guys, for all the Corvair love.  My mother had a 1961 2-door Corvair, white exterior and blue interior, like this one:

I loved that car and all the adventures it took us on.  In October or November of 1968, my parents & I went to the Chevy dealership to order a 1969 Camaro for my mother.  My parents were offered $50 for trading in the Corvair.  I was furious, I told them to sell it to me! (I was 12 at the time).  I offered to pay more (though I only had a paper route for income at that time) and we could just keep it parked on the street for 4 years until I turned 16 and get a license.  I wanted to keep that Corvair so badly.  Oh, well, all good things must come to an end.  Great memories!

Edited May 29, 20251 yr by Mike A
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I look at that picture of that white Corvair, and I can feel your love for it. And I can feel my own.

Hook

Another memory popped up.  In the 1970s, a local TV station played episodes of a Japanese series called "Ultraman".  The  main character was Hayata.  Like Clark Kent turned into Superman, Hayata turned into Ultraman.  Hayata belonged to the Science Patrol, which had the duty to fight of monsters, etc.  I watched a few episodes, saw that it was quirky, so I kept watching.  Ultraman would usually get the 💩 kicked out of him against the monsters in the beginning, but would rally and win in the end. 

Then one day there was an episode that showed what the official vehicle of the Science Patrol was:

You guessed it: the Chevy Corvair!!!  In Japan of all places.  I thought "Man, this show just gets better and better.  Seems like the Corvair is good enough for the "Science"  Patrol.  Up yours, Ralph Nader!"