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Marketplace - 1969 Chevrolet Classic · Corvair | Facebook
Only 6,000 Corvairs were produced in 1969 and of that total, only 521 were convertibles. This Corvair convertible is an original example with 35,000 miles. Original color, some imperfections and minimal rust spots. Runs great and recently tuned up. I have the Original tires, size 13, hard to find. $350
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This is a huge bargain. A 22nd series Custom 8 sedan with only 53,000 miles, a redone, with original patterns at least - interior a straight rust free body for $10,000!!!
I do have a question for the professionals on here. What if anything can be done with the paint? Can it be buffed out for more shine, do you just need to repaint it?-
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Marketplace - 1948 Packard Custom 8 · 4 Dr. | Facebook
This is a very solid 1948 Packard Custo 8 Deluxe. The current owner's Grandfather bought it new in 1948! This Packard is showing a little over 52,000 original miles on the odometer. It has a ton of documentation that goes with the sale. The straight eight cylinder motor still runs great and the three speed manual transmission still shifts beautifully. The interior was redone several years ago but still looks new. The body was repainted several years ago as well with a single stage acrylic enamel. The body panels are all original and all metal. The paint job isn't the best, but it still turns heads when driving by. The chrome is still in very good condition. The glass is still in very good condition except for the driver's side rear door window which does have a crack in it. The undercarriage is still very solid with no rust issues with the frame. All gauges seemed to be working when the car was running. The lights and horn work too! Overall, this is a car that can be left
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One of Paul Bracq's best designs in my opinion, and a forerunner of most of the 1970's and 1980's Mercedes and BMW styling exercises. I am 99% sure this posting will illicit yawns from most members here. It is proof that I love all cool old cars, as I regularly post Lincolns from the 70's as among my favorites. I owned a 1972 250C and have laid eyes on a smog infested 1976 W114.
They are well styled, but I will admit the interiors remind of minimalist German and Russian cars of the era.-
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Marketplace - 1970 Mercedes W114, 250C | Facebook
Clean body, very nice interior, will clean up real nice. No engine or transmission. Was going to make a hot rod/outlaw out of it, but shifting directions. 3 owner car and I have an amazing box of paperwork and history as well as W114 factory books etc. it’s a shame I cannot build them all.
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$500, but you would really need it, which I don't know of anyone restoring one needing the whole rust free body. That would imply that someone purchased a rusty but complete 1938 Special or Century perhaps for ? $2,000 and thought "well I better get a better body for this project."
Those people don't exist anymore.-
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One more thought - while dissolution of clubs will likely lead some to join the AACA, the knowledge or specificity of the club resources will be laundered out. One could argue that club members will simply join a club - the AACA - where they can continue to enjoy their hobby, and the old club will simply go away.
But, all old car clubs that I have belonged to have unique resources that may also be lost. Archives may or may not be transferred to AACA oversight. Some clubs have footprints at national museums. The Cadillac LaSalle Club, for instance, manages a building on the grounds of the Gilmore.
It would seem a measured proactive membership as a sub-group might help retain some of these archives and donations for the greater use of the old car hobby. I have been involved in another transportation historical society where the valuable archives were absconded by the then President and the club went under.Just some more thoughts.
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While not a member of the club where I just noted a comment on their marque specific forum - which I won't name - the subject came up of a chapter in the Seattle Washington area effectively closing for this marque specific club. Forum members then chimed in to say that their chapters were effectively moribund, dead.
Here in Iowa, the region of a club I did join, an old car club with a national mark - went out of region status due to aging out and member disinterest.
The issue with national clubs representing marques becoming "regions" or sub clubs (or whatever you want to call them) of the AACA has been brought up before. But based on what I know, which isn't a lot - these club's leaders feel very prideful that giving up a national footprint to become a "chapter" of the AACA would be sacrilegious.
But, we will see - not may see - but will see some of the orphan clubs simply dissolve in the next 10-15 years as diehard members who ran the clubs pass away, chapters close, they can't reach a quorum for running the club and simply stop publishing a magazine.
Which raises some questions for me. Does the AACA leadership lead in this area of marque specific club chaptering? Do the clubs have such an ego that they just say "no way, I'll let the club die before we become a chapter of the AACA!"
I don't know, I am only spit balling. I know that when I was a member of many clubs, I was also a member of the AACA. I believe there are many cross functional memberships.
Is it better for the long term "health" of the hobby to have a strong national club like the AACA made up of strong "Chapters" or do we just let the marque specific clubs linger on until they dissolve, and pick up members that still want a home?
I am curious if the AACA leadership has done a mass reach out in the past 5 years to marque specific clubs to gauge interest in a long term solution. We all know the issues "clubs" face in general, this seems to be a bygone social concept that is dying a slow death, greatly contracting before our eyes.
In the great age of expansion, one forum member noted in this other forum I visited to get the seed idea for this thread - it was discussed that the Vintage Chevrolet Car Club of America (VCCA) is contracting despite the obvious production of Chevrolet. He noted - the VCCA is competing with many many sub groups of Chevrolet. Nova, Chevelle, Corvette, Camaro, etc.
This has also been the case for Pontiac and Oldsmobile, and the Buick Club of America is all years encompassing but has a decided focus on post war Buicks.
I was a member at one time of the Kaiser Frazer Owners Club. That organization I believe is below 1000 members worldwide, has aged out many members and is on life support with no real forum. But they would probably say "no" to becoming a chapter of the AACA.
How would an offer to join the AACA and be recognized as a chapter be handled? Isn't it kind of unprecedented in the AACA by-laws and world? The Buick Club has all manner of specific groups under it's umbrella, 37-38 Buicks group, Modified's, 53-54 Skylark, etc. I don't know for certain, but does the AACA even have specific interest groups or is just one big umbrella?
Wouldn't a contracting group like the CCCA see a benefit of being under the AACA? I have asked a lot of questions, because I have not seen this topic come up for awhile and I am curious what the current state of affairs is for the core issue of declining club memberships and the AACA position.-
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6 hours ago, Pfeil said:
As a former mechanic, then to automotive engineering. I had two years of automotive mechanics in High school. While in college I had a part time job, I was also lucky enough to have my local VW dealership sponsor me in VW's auto mechanics school that the dealer mechanics went to providing someday I went to work for them.
I had heard it before, in High school, in college and at VW school how important the tire pressure between front and rear were to the proper handling of these types of cars is.
Yes it took me a little while to understand the tire pressures discussion. So, with all the weight on the rear of a Corvair, tire pressure can certainly be increased and still allow a contact patch. BUT - the rear still lifted or lost contact. Sometimes.
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13 minutes ago, lhend50 said:
Don't be surprised if it does sell faster than you think. These cars are hot. I have a friend that inherited 5 continentals of this vintage. He just sold a convertible that needed absolutely everything and got 11000 for it. Believe me when I say everything. Sold a parts car for 6000 and it was coupe, again, in poor condition. Market seems pretty strong on these cars. These sales were within the past 2 months.
Glad for your friend but a bad deal is a bad deal. There is no market reason why these 4 door Continentals should be “hot”. Super expensive to restore, extremely frustrating to restore- see this ad as a prime example - and still quite a few finished nice cars for sale in the $60,000 range.
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A big part of appreciating these is they have to be in great shape. Like new. Photos seldom do them justice.
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Longer wheelbase helps reduce the “elephantitus”.
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Yes. Thank you. He reached out to me. Thanks to you. My feedback would be - I used their option for notifying them I wanted to be reinstated 3 times and he never received it. So perhaps others have tried as well.
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Marketplace - 1966 Mercury Marauder · S55 | Facebook
Sorry if I am piggybacking.
1966 Mercury Marauder S55 428 car is from Montana very good shape for the year floor and trunk are solid.Body is pretty nice one small rust spot.Paint is faded. Original motor was replaced with a 68 390.I do have all the parts for 66 428 except the block,It does have a clear Montana. Title in my name.I am firm on the price and will not reply to low ball offers. My name is Larry and calls are the best as I do not like to be messaging back and forth,If you don’t have the money don’t waste my time as I am busy. My number is 218- three 2 six-6 six nine three 0. Larry
Would go well with my X-100
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This discussion has morphed a little but I will add that I think the 2nd generation Corvairs were very attractive, 1965 on. I went to an auction in the Iowa countryside about 7 years ago that had a large Corvair inventory, and all went for $200 to $450. There were some rare cars, and they weren't all rusted out. I was there for something else, and still regret not getting a 66-68 Corvair. To me, the 2 door hardtops looked better than the Convertibles, the 2 door hardtops with those thin A and C pillars.
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I was surprised to see that tire pressures were LOWER in the front (if I read that right) and much higher in the rear. Why? I am asking a legitimate question, I don't know.
I am a former mechanic. It would seem that tire pressure that was lower in back would help keep the car on the road. Anything higher would place less contact, and less incentive to stay on the road. I know the Corvair and VW had rear engines pushing down, but clearly, in turns and wet, they let go anyway.
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I saved one (saved the ad) located in Nebraska that has the 428 swapped for a 390. Still has 428 badges. I just don’t think anyone can go wrong with a bucket seat console 2 door hardtop in the age of split bench seats, except Meatloaf.
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9 hours ago, bryankazmer said:
Not at all true as far as design intent. It, like the Citroen 2CV and the Model T, was mean to be in many cases the first car a family could afford. Hence the name « Volkswagen. »
Not in the US. Germany yes. In the 1930’s Germany was still in the depression. Most families could afford no car. So yes, it was the family car.
But in the US, most sales went to families as a 2nd car or as GM put it - to college nerds and professors.
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I will play Devils Advocate. The 1960 Corvair was an unstable car in certain driving circumstances. It was later revealed that GM bean counters axed a $14 rear axle stability bar that would have helped a lot. Richard Donner GM CEO - was a bean counter and changed the culture of GM from engineering to accounting.
Im not sure about Nader, he was probably a thorn that wrote books without perfect information and I never cared much for him - but there were fundamental issues with the 1960 Corvair that could have been avoided.
The Beetle worked because it was a low hp car meant specifically to be a 2nd car and could not achieve the speed of the Corvair in wet corners. By 1963, the stabilizer bar had been added.
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7 hours ago, Bloo said:
I believe the K-H wheels were standard on X-100 and optional on all Marauders. Do you mean there were some 1970 X-100s without them?
Correct. 1970 X-100s had standard hubcaps. Optional were the KH wheels.
The Marauder (not X-100) could not be ordered with the 429. 429 was exclusive to the X-100. Marauder got the FE 390 only.
The X-100 got fender skirts because that was considered a “luxury” item but they add nothing to the car in my opinion. I believe the rim blow steering wheel was also a standard X-100 feature.
Absolutely the bucket seat console interior was optional. Sad really. But the X-100 was meant to cut into the Buick Riviera, Olds Toronado sales and by 1969 very few of those had bucket seat consoles. Mercury did not want to cut into Cougar sales, they wanted to take away from GM.
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Ed, I’m not sure KH wheels were a Marauder standard. This isn’t an X-100, where they were standard in 1969. KH was optional on all 1970 X-100s.
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What a mess. Dealer added vinyl top? That Aqua color is one of the best in my opinion but this car needs the $100,000 restoration and will never receive it.
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Thank you! I’ll go in and check today.
1969 Corvair Convertible 35,000 miles $13,500
in "Not Mine" Automobiles For Sale
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I posted this because of the recent thread under GENERAL DISCUSSION regarding safety of the Corvairs (and VW).
This is a beautiful car, I agree with the seller to add those Chevy Rallye wheels and wider tires. If true, this car is a benchmark car with only 35,000 original miles, 500 or so made, with likely half of those gone by 1977 or so. Beautiful color and the kicker is the ad says it has been on marketplace for at least 6 months. $13,500 is not unreasonable for a fun open air convertible from the 1960's.
But if you could get this for $11,000? wow.