At the end of the day, let's just be frank- it was a big gamble to produce a rear-engine car. The 1965 Corvair was a beautiful car, but if Chevrolet had done the same stying on the Nova, they would have had a huge hit.
Very interesting video. I would however, quibble with the dealership's offer of "condiments" to prospective Corvair buyers. "Sir, may I offer you some ketchup?"
The conflict in a nutshell: British settlers developed Rhodesia and brought it to Western standard. Left-wing extremist traitors to the West destroyed the settler state and handed the country to corrupt terrorists to rule. These terrorists turned it into a shithole country in record time.
I have 104fr and 107ft, I wish I could find 106fr as well. Note, highly doubt that Russians get there hands on Ukrainian Strela, as it gained popularity only after 2014. Regarding to handguard, Anastasia is right, you shouldn’t file the handguard, I would rather work on the hammering technique 😂. Bulgarian rifles are the only rifles that made to the exact late Soviet specs, so Zenitco fits there the same way in Russian. The trick is to hammer it using players. B33 is getting hammered too. P.S. I am looking at prices list you added in 2024 and it makes me cry.
Y’all DO KNOW who was funding Ralph Nader RIGHT ? Nobody with functioning brain cells ever believed anything that came out of Ralph Nader’s mouth once you realize who was funding him
Fundamentally, if anti communism requires us to shred the Bible and the Constitution-and it does-then we should be proud to be satanic and illiberal. God is dead. Paine was wrong. Only strength matters.
I restored a 1962 Corvair 700 coupe for my wife and she loves the little car! Since I drive Corvettes , she refers to it as Corvette’s little sister ! lol. 🇺🇸💙👍🙋♂️🖖🏻😊
Former Corvair owner. Just wanted to say that the Nation isn't a 'far left' publication. It's a long respected mag on the left, but well within the political mainstream.
Turn of the century hunting asthetic is a whole vine brother. One that is my jam 🤘 and with the music and everything… 👏👏 perfect. But when u mentioned the AK? I realized ur redneck oxide!! 🎉
Fantastic video! Although the coupe wasn’t necessarily a Monza when it came out in January ‘60, Monza was a performance package (correct me if I’m wrong) 😊
Would love to have one of the Corvairs/Monzas from 1965 or after, particularly a convertible. It's a shame that Nader cast a pall over the Corvair and that GM management failed to take advantage of positive revjews of the car (particularly of Corvairs making it through the Darien Gap) and essentially washing their hands on the car by the mid-60s.
I use 3d printed ones and results are simmilar to yours. They maybe work up to 25 rounds. 30 rounds will almost always have failure to feed. And in my experience plum work a little better than bakelite. I use them just as 20 round decorative mags for range use only. Bakelite looks so much better than plain beryl mag in my jack.
Best reproduction and affordable proper for wear that actually comes from Zim is Cortney boot company. They do make many boots not on there sight just ask and they will make. I got my old style shoes in the very rare waffle soal from them. I don’t know if she will make double buckles, but I still have mine and don’t wear them any more. And my Villies are not periods appropriate since they have a new modern tag on them but except for the price tag of that tag same same. Look them up. I say “she” because my contact is a woman. I hated the leather double buckle boots to no end. I also hated the ‘Nike” canvas style boots. Boy I was hard to satisfy for being poor. Easy way to decide if you like my style is look up Rigby and Sons rifles and find there “Jungle Jim’s” boots. She will make them MUCH less expensive because you won’t get the blue tag…same boot just no tag
The rear engine design of the Corvair caused a serious weight imbalance because the engine was too rearward of the back wheels. A possible solution would have been to move the engine forward several inches closer to the backseat... with the secondary luggage space moved from behind the rear seat to behind the rear bumper. A better solution would have been a front wheel drive transverse water cooled four cylinder engine sourced from Opel.
In retrospect that’s probably true. Would be interesting to know if that option ever occurred to GM engineers. 🤔 Let’s not forget, however, that at that time a lot of European cars, not only the VW Beetle, had the same rear engine layout. It only died out in the early seventies when FWD became the norm for compact cars.
@@stevieray6216 The rear engine design on the several vintage European cars was better because their engine's center of gravity was much closer to the rear axle compared to the Corvair. Also, at that time there was no unified approach to small car design. There were successfully engineered small cars with a conventional water cooled front engine/rear wheel drive... others with a transverse water cooled front engine/front wheel drive...and rear engine air cooled rear wheel drive cars. The Renault Twingo III/Smart ForFour are rare examples of modern rear engine cars...which is practical engineering only in very small cars.
From an Aussie. Thank you for the time, effort and inspiration in producing this video. I found the history fascinating, very fascinating. Thank you. My first car was a rear engined aircooled 1.1 liter Beetle and I have been a fan of the concept ever since. Engien in the rear, aricooled and simply and fast removal and installation of the engine. I have been in manufacturing for 40 years and of that, 10 years as a heavy vehicle component manufacturer dealing exclusively with Defense in that time. With my experience with old air cooled VWs and aircooled Porsche 911s and my engineering experience, and marketing, I am convinced that there is room for a rear engined aircooled car in the market place even today, Imagine a rear engined flat six air cooled engine behind a modern VW seven speed auto/manual. I own a VW transporter T5 with this auto and I keep thinking about a Corvair engine, coupled with this VW auto. and rear engined. Gotta be possible, I have just bought a Corvair 140hp motor not working with the intention of reconditioning the engine. My first ever Corvair purchase (other than books going back to the 1970s such as How to Hotrod your Corvair Engine. I am picturing, hydraulic valve lifters, fuel injection, engine computer management system. tweeking the compression ration, perhaps a 911 aircooling shroud, or VW Tyoe 4 air cooling system. It is in my imagination at the moment but that is where dreams begin and may materialise into reality in time. BTW. several years ago I was driving in Melbourne Australia and saw a second generation Corvair in front of me, I had to laugh out loud when I saw the number plate - RNADER,
@ call me camo There are additional mods done ar the front feedlips and at the rear on the bakelite magazines, converted by both Century and Robinson Armament. My vepr.223 came from the factory (RA) with a modified 5.45 mag converted by RA. It runs flawless. My suggestion would be to find a Century modified magazine and drop your POD follower in there and it will run without any problems.
Well, I like the Corvair, and I would have liked a factual history of the car. However, I was disappointed by the incendiary partisan rhetoric adopted by the Trump-crazed author of this script. Listening to the narrator go through the winey poor put upon corporation garbage is tiresome. I am sure he would be perfectly happy to worship the visage of wealth and power. Having the government regulate products protects consumers. If you think auto companies are as pure as the driven snow, I refer you to the Ford Pinto debacle, in which money took a backseat to human life. Perhaps the Overton window has drifted so far to the right that anything to the left of Adolph Hitler is now considered to be the work of a bomb-throwing commie. This is cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Lmao completely unhinged. Was anything he said here actually incorrect? Where does Hitler and Trump come from? Dude touch grass. Like, unplug you goober. Ironically Hitler would have nationalized all of this, do you even know about Volkswagon?
4:00 hey man, I love your videos, they're very cozy. I'd watch whatever you feel like posting. I liked your Corvair video even tho I'm not really a car guy.
An amazing story,but also a sad one-although I have read a lot about the. Corvair and Ralph Nader,I didn't realize how much nasty politics were involved and how such an innovative car,for all it's faults,could be tarnished by such muckrakers -a genuine "What if!"
Ford played dirty against chevy and that wasn't the first time I'm sure. The corvair would have probably sold record numbers comparable to Volkswagen and Ford didn't want that.
I suspect he was simply an ambitious political animal who may have achieved a certain amount of fame from his book but did not achieve political greatness. Did he ever run for house of reps or the senate?
The ‘swing-axel’ rear that ‘Nader’ harped on was nothing new when the “Corvair’ came along; VW, Triumph Herald, MB sports car… all utilized the same rear suspension at that time… … but ‘Nader’ needed to make a name for himself as a crusading ‘consumer advocate’. As a teen, my first car was a ‘1960 Corvair coupe’ w/ manual transmission, & I loved it. Because I liked the car so much & understood the ‘tuck-wheel’ issue, I installed a very simple, inexpensive ‘aftermarket’ item which countered that issue… … & I installed it myself. All these decades later, & I still stop to look at any ‘Corvair’… & think about getting one again. Per this vid, the 2nd model of the ‘Corvair’ had a completely different suspension. ‘Corvair’ died in part because it became a specific political football.
Hi Camo, nice video! I just want to add that the Corvair station wagon was discounted in favor of the Monza convertible due to lack of room at the factory to produce both. In the mean time, the Monza convertible out sold the station wagon anyway. Please reply. Dave...
