Frank DuVal

The car was the same basic design as the 1973, so no need to update the shifter from the column three speed of 1973!😉

Safety ratings from the IIHS I believe. Why? Because the indoor crash track is a little over an hour from here and I have been there to watch the tests. Might be in a group to go again later this year. Walk ins are not allowed, but groups can sign up. https://www.iihs.org/about-us/contact In the lobby are the two cars involved in the FIRST two air bag equipped cars accident on public roads. Head On. Amazingly, it happened in Culpepper County VA not 30 miles from the indoor crash track. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/03/31/va-crash-shines-spotlight-on-air-bags/bc49eff4-f445-41b1-8099-d0bdce8e901f/ In unrelated news, the indoor test track in Ruckersville replaced the outdoor test track that was behind my house.....😁 It closed several years before I moved here. Dang, I could have had a ready supply of used parts.😉

All Corvairs had different tire pressure for front and rear axles. TIFIFY (There, I fixed it for you). And yes, mechanics disregarded it more than the owners did! "Fill 'em all to 30, Roy, I know what all cars need." Yes!❗ Corvair started the bucket seats four on the floor movement, and Lee Iacocca ran with it at Ford.....😮 Corvair had its place in the Chevrolet line for 10 years which.... TIFIFY 😉

Why frightening? Because of the high rate of speed the driver was already going? ❓ Speed is relative, of course, in autocross picking up the outside rear wheel is common with 60 -63 cars and 61 to 65 FCs (the Corvair trucks/vans, which, BTW used 14" wheels) but loss of control is not common, unless speed is excessive for the turn, just like all the other cars doing the same turn at excessive speed. Wheel tuck issue is when that outside wheel off the ground comes down and touches ground on the sidewall. Wheel off the ground is just a wheel off the ground, like any car. It is less of an issue than the other three wheels loosing traction due to side forces. So while the one rear tire might come off the ground (those 13" wheels just don't have that extra inch to still be touching?) typically that tire comes back onto the ground and goes merrily on its way, if the other three are sticking. Of course the Tempest had to have taller tires, it had the disadvantage of engine weight in front, pressing down on the front tires to help raise the rear one off the ground!😮 It uses the SAME 60 to 63 Corvair transaxle (with a few parts to make it a rope driveshaft input). Remember the saying, oversteer is when the passengers are scared, understeer is when the driver is scared!😉 Did you know Tucker was trying 13" wheels on the first chassis he built? Quote from August 1972 NYT: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) —The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has sent letter to the owners of 1960–63 Corvairs saying that no safety defects involving in stability had been found in tests of the automobiles. The announcement came yesterday, three weeks after Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, termed the agency's report a contradictory whitewash and said that it failed to carry a recommendation by a panel of outside experts that owners of Corvairs “be advised that these vehicles may exhibit unusual handling characteristics under conditions of hard cornering.” In its letter, the safety agency said that handling and stability of these older Corvairs did not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or for roll over.

Well, that’s a rare one. 😂. The Spyder name as dropped at the start of the 1965 model year. The turbocharged model became the Corsa. There were some decals made up because of preproduction photos (remember pre production photos can not be used as proof in AACA judging 👌) showing the air cleaner label as 180 hp Spyder.

Right, otherwise the B+ will be TWICE as high, which will damage components inside the radio.

Like stay in lower VA near Glenn? OK, that's too far to commute everyday.🤔 Everytime I drive through that I-85/I-40 area is lots of traffic, typically as bad as northern VA! Go down there and visit at the times you will be driving and see for yourself how it stacks up to what you are used to. Then visit where you might like to live (at the times you will be home) and see if it is quiet, or other criteria you need. People move here in the "country" and complain about country noises (gun fire, explosions, helicopters, etc).🤣 Others want police, sorry, only Sheriff and Deputies. Lots of great places to live in the area, investigate. And not to be morbid, but how are estates handled? NC has some very different estate rules compared to VA. Contact professional advice here. But you will be closer to Charlotte area, the old car mecca of the south!👍

But of course without a leak, you would never need to check the antifreeze!👍 Fitch Sprint is also by John. As was the Fitch Phoenix. All AACA eligible.👍

Painter's tape, please! Duct tape residue is SOOOOOOOO hard to remove.

Remember: The rear wheels steer the car, as in make the path the vehicle proceeds in. The front wheels correct for going around corners, or straight down the road! Once I understood that, understanding the rest of wheel alignment was easy.😉

KYW Philadelphia. There may be a few more. Broadcasting and broadcasting scheduled programs are different. Many experimental stations were on the air broadcasting before commercial scheduled programs began. Just like was Corvair or Jetfire the first turbocharged GM production car?😁 It's all in the words used. I'm a member of this also: https://ncrtv.org/

Yes, antiqueradios.com/forum is a good resource. I sent the web address to AHa by PM earlier today.

Until the sun went down! Then it was game on to listen to all the stations that could now go around the curvature of the earth.😉❗

And Dave, 38 Studebaker also... 😞

No, his is even fire just like the GNX. Odd fire was last built for the 1977 model year. Even fire was in the 1978 model year. You can tell even from odd real easy, since there is a distributor on these engines. If there are 8 towers and two are not used, it is odd fire. 6 towers, it is even fire.😉 So, even fire from 1978 on into the 3800 series . Yes, 3800 series have no distributors.😁

231? No, never heard that! If the engine was so bad, Buick would have never bought the tooling back from American Motors (Buick sold them the tooling after the 1967 model year for them to use in the Jeep) for use in the 1975 model year! They continued to use/update the engine into the 2005 model year! A real workhorse of an engine. It powered the 1978 Buick GNX! Fastest production car IN THE WORLD that year!!!!!!!!!!🍾😁 But, owners can kill anything.....😮

One would have to look at the schematic to make sure. Oddly, some vibrators care, but these were mostly in commercial two way radios. Or, same vibrator, but you pulled them out, turned them 180 and reinserted them. He was an arrow/ pos/ neg markings to show which way.

Buick offered Delco radios with shortwave bands before WWII. Enough we’re sold you can find them in 1940 and 41 cars today.

It could be if the body was NOS perfect! $3500 is cheap for no rust repair and repaint needed for ANY car. Pictures?

I too made several trips to see Dave Cammack's collection. He liked Corvair people. I guess it was the rear engine theme...😉 It was wonderful to go upstairs and read the blueprints of various parts. Real drawings on large paper (E size) not the Solid Works crap I get at work to look over. It was there I found which a way the polarity of the Tucker was supposed to be, as 2 of his were positive ground, and one was negative ground! Yes, it was supposed to be positive ground. The display at AACA Museum will never match Dave's display. Dave also had a large photo album of shots from the movie sets. He also had a photo series of most of the Tuckers made, and as much information as he knew of each. Then there were the model trains. I was too busy with all the Tucker information to ever look at the trains. See Joe's photos. All four walls of the upstairs room.

I know enough to tell you that NOS radio will still have to have the paper capacitors replaced before use.

Mark, I said, and Human Potato repeated, to change the polarity of the field windings with regard to the armature windings. This is how DC machines work. The magnetic field relation between the armature and field determines the direction the armature turns. Reverse the wires to the starter, no rotation change, as the relationship of the armature to field has not changed. Reverse just the field connections, then the rotation is the other way! Or vice versa, reverse just the armature wires. In your picture, that would be ground the two armature brushes marked "pigtails" and connect the leads from the field coils to the brushes currently grounded in the picture. That would reverse the magnetic field of the armature.😉 🛠️🛠️

I've had two brake line ruptures (salt caused) on dual master cylinder cars and not really any pedal with them either! 😮

I used a lot of 600 wet or dry sandpaper before I got a brake cylinder hone....👍 I never tried to remove pits, just got the crud out for a smooth finish. Worked great!😉 🛠️☃️❄️🐫🏎️ 🎠 🚗 🚋

Wash with soap and water. Then blow dry. Sounds counterintuitive water with cast iron, but do it. Then lube lightly with the fluid you will be using.