Comments by "CalBob750" (@calbob750) on "Hagerty" channel.

  1. I owned a 1964 Corvair in 1969. GM added a rear stabilizer bar to the Corvair in 1964 to counteract the serious oversteer tendency. The Corvair had excellent fuel economy and snow traction compared to the typical American land barge of the day. It is interesting how many enthusiasts make apologies for the oversteer tendencies which also plagued Porsche 911 and VW beetles at the time. Speed shops and auto accessory shops did a brisk business in “anti sway bar sales”. I imagine the people who engineered the rear suspension had an awareness of a handling tendency that was well known in Porsche and VW of the time. It could well have been the bean counters at GM that didn’t want to spend the extra $14.98 per Corvair to prevent or tame oversteer. Another plus for the Corvair is that it had a heater that really worked in cold weather. Ask a VW owner who lived in cold weather states. You carried an ice scraper in the VW to scrape frost from inside the windshield in below zero temperatures.
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  2. DUSTY PENDLETON my thinking is that because most cars had the same tire inflation on all four tires people did the same with the Corvair. Most people never read the owners manual.
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  3. Back in the day Jaguar engines were expensive to repair. Swapping with a Chevy V8 was the cheapest way to keep you Jag on the road.
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  4. If only I hadn’t traded mine in on a 68 Jaguar Mk 2
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  5. I owned a 1988 924S. If you don’t think this is a real Porsche you’ll find out when you take it in for service and repairs.
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  6. And then along came the Pontiac Solstice.;)
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  7. One of the few cars with a turbo charged engine in its time. Certainly, ahead of its time. Not quite an Elon Musk level advancement.
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  8. tankermottind It was “you know what your doing” attitude that was prevalent at the time and in this video that makes apologies for Corvair, VW, and Porsche back in the sixties. Back then speed shop and auto accessory stores were doing a brisk business in “anti sway bars” to counteract a dangerous handling characteristic that bean counters at GM could have avoided by spending $14.98 per vehicle. This needed component was added to production Corvairs starting in 1964.
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  9. Amazing that a car without galvanized body panels survived driving in the elements of the four seasons without rusting away over the years.
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