Updated 30-Jan-2007 - Copyright (c) 2007 Corvairs of New Mexico. Volume 30 - Number 1 - January 2004 - Issue 340 EDITOR: Jim Pittman NEXT MEETING: Wednesday 07 January 2004 at 7:30 PM Galles Chevrolet, Lomas & University THIS MONTH: How to Clean Automobile Glass the Internet Dues Due Dave Huntoon December Meeting Notes Chuck Vertrees Rebuilt & Restored Mark Domzalski CNM Christmas Party, 2003 Heula Pittman Calendar of Coming Events Everybody Seven Years Ago Jim Pittman I'm Glad I've Got Positraction Jim Pittman Ask Trains (Denvair News) Mark W Hemphill 2003 CNM Member List Your Editor COVER: Buffalo (Bison) near Taos Pueble, August 1970 - photo: Jim Pittman =CNM= HOW TO CLEAN AUTOMOBILE GLASS the Internet "Larry Gadbois" (lgadbois@earthlink.net): news:mEe09.7613$Ky3.494320@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net... "Buy a bottle of household ammonia. Mix with water per directions. Spray on glass generously. Use paper towel or newspaper. Wipe till glass is dry. Don't clean windows in direct sunlight (cleaner dries before you can wipe off residue.)" "Fred Smertz" (just_nobodyxx@nospam.com) wrote in: news:eG0EjtPNCHA.456@cpimsnntpa03... "...add vineger to the solution too." "Old Cranky" (oldcranky@comcast.net) wrote in: Newsgroups: rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata "A drop or two of dishwashing liquid in an ammonia-water solution (with or without vinegar) helps lift the dirt off and hold it in suspension. I got this from a window cleaner at a casino in Atlantic City. Cleanest windows I ever saw." =CNM= Dues Expired or Due or Approaching Due: Expired: Robert Harvey 2003-Aug Jacob Schlessinger 2003-Aug Jason Ward 2003-Oct David Huntoon 2003-Dec Fred Edeskuty 2003-Dec Roger Pape 2003-Dec Due This Month: John Wiker 2004-Jan LeRoy Rogers 2004-Jan Coming Due Soon: Mike Stickler 2004-Feb Carl Johnson 2004-Feb John Dinsdale 2004-Feb Frank Stadler 2004-Feb Oliver Scheflow 2004-Feb Geoffrey Johnson 2004-Mar Mike Hacker 2004-Mar Jay Ecclestone 2004-Mar If your membership is due or has expired, please send your dues to: Wendell Walker, CNM Treasurer, 301 Utah Meadow, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 Note: the Club will mail in your National dues when you renew, but only if you send us the renewal form from CORSA Communique! =CNM= DECEMBER MEETING NOTES by Chuck Vertrees Vice President Sally Johnson called the meeting to order at 19:40. There were 19 members present. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as printed in the newsletter. Wendell Walker reported that CNM had $1,337.34 in the checking account and $4,697.93 in the GMAC account for a total net worth of $6,035.27. We made about $440.00 from the auction at the Pot Luck in November. It was brought to the attention of the members that there were three of the founding members of CNM present: Jim Pittman, Carl Johnson and Mark Morgan. Mark was called back to active duty with the Air Force and is TDY at Kirtland AFB. He is the one responsible for sending Jim the cartoons and comic strips from all over the world. Also he has sent the drawings of some of the fanciful Corvairs that have graced the cover of our newsletter. There was no Car Council report because there was no meeting, and they will not have another meeting until next January. Members were reminded that the monthly breakfast this month would be at the Cracker Barrel on December 20th at 08:30, also again a reminder about the Christmas dinner on December 7th at the Officers' Club East on Kirtland AFB. Jerry Goffe announced that Steve Gongora was at home quite sick. Mark Domzalski had e-mailed him that Mark's mother Audrey has passed away a day or two before. Mark and Elizabeth were there because Audrey was having some serious surgery. Mark and Elizabeth said that if anyone wanted to make any donations, it would be appreciated if they were made to a Hospice program. After a short discussion it was voted that CNM would send $250.00 in memory of Audrey Domzalski. On a more pleasant note, it was decided to have a Bosque del Apache tour on January 11th. Jerry Goffe said he would be available at the bosque for anyone who wanted to come on Saturday afternoon to watch the sunset landing of the cranes and geese. They could then stay in Socorro that night and be out at sunrise on the 11th. He will bring some slides to the January 7th meeting, when details can be discussed. If you want more information you can go online to: http://www.friendsofthebosque.org Wendell said that Ollie, Rita and Anna Mae have the Ike Meissner award under control. There was some discussion of presenting it at the anniversary dinner in March. Apparently a few members forgot that we had decided to move the Ike Meissner award from the Christmas party to the annual March birthday party. The meeting was adjourned at 20:05. A discussion on the various ways to cut body sheet metal, with examples and the pros and cons of each method, followed. Thanks to Geoff and Sally Johnson for the sheet metal demo. =CNM= REBUILT & RESTORED Mark Domzalski December 22, 2003 Happy New Year CNM! See y'all at the meeting on the 7th. For those of you who missed breakfast at Cracker Barrel on the 20th, put the next one on your calendar and drive on over. A good time with holiday cheer was had by all. On Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11, 2004, Jerry Goffe and his humble assistant (yours truly) will be hosting a Special CNM weekend tour event at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge south of Socorro. On Saturday, we will have an afternoon tour starting from the Visitor Center at 1:00pm. We will take a leisurely afternoon tour of the Bosque with the intent of being at the south end of the refuge loop near the Farm Deck for sunset. If you are planning to stay overnight, there are plenty of rooms in new motels in Socorro at reasonable rates. Check on line at www.friendsofthebosque.org and you can link to the Socorro site and find rooms. Jerry recommends trying Acosta's Bed & Breakfast in San Antonio. We plan to have dinner at a nice place in Socorro and be back at the Bosque before sunrise, ~6:45am, at Flight Deck for the mass lift-off of the light geese as the sun rises. After sunrise and pictures, we will travel out to Unit 3, just off the highway at the south entrance to the Bosque and watch the Sand Hill Cranes leave for their morning feeding. Depending on the size of the tour group, we might try to go to Acosta's for breakfast for those who have built up an appetite. Then back to the Bosque for a morning tour and departures for home as you please. As many of you know, Elizabeth and I were in Jasper, Georgia when our chapter last met. I was supposed to be in California on business, but circumstances dramatically changed and we are still working through the after effects. Many of you have met my folks over the years when they have been in town during some CNM gathering. Mom had surgery for cancer that went poorly on November 20. Elizabeth and I made a quick trip to Georgia on the 21st with the intent of returning home the following Monday. That was not to be. Through a course of consultations, we ended up taking Mom home on Monday where we cared for her with attending hospice care nurses until she passed away the following Sunday, November 30, at 12:10pm. Dad and I were holding her hands and Elizabeth was at my side as Mom passed away. We had lots of good time with her during the week before. Both laughter and tears as our family shared the experience and said our goodbyes. Now we have the hard task of adjusting to life without her. It is hard on us, but especially hard on Dad who had shared his life with her for over 52 years. She told us we would be okay and we let her know that we also knew we would be okay. We stayed for an additional week to help Dad with the memorial service for family and friends. We are adjusting now, but find that there are times when we stumble a little as we work past the grief and mourning. We had such an enlightening and amazing experience with the hospice service that my dad asked for donations to a hospice in lieu of flowers. Neither Elizabeth nor I cannot express the depth of our gratitude for the $250 CNM donation to Presbyterian Healthcare's hospice program in my mother's memory. Your kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity are the strength of our chapter and are exactly what make CNM one of the finest organizations with which Elizabeth and I have or could ever hope to be associated. I believe I could experience no greater pride for any organization I have ever known than for CNM and our association with all of you. Please be safe in the New Year and enjoy your loved ones. Time is a fleeting resource. Your time together is a treasure. We'll see you all soon at he next CNM get together. With our love and deepest gratitude, -- Mark & Elizabeth =CNM= CNM CHRISTMAS PARTY, 2003 Heula Pittman Rita and Hector did it again. They made all the arrangements at Kirtland AFB where we gathered for good food, fun and fellowship for our celebration brunch. Santa's elves did their regular good deeds and showered the "children" and officers of the Club with special treats. Several of our regulars were not in attendance; some because of illness in families and sadly, because of deaths. We missed you this year. It was a pleasure for many of us to finally meet the "infamous" Mark Morgan, one of the founding members of CNM. Mark is reputed to have actually owned a Corvair many years ago. Not content with providing much of the energy needed to start the club, he helped keep it going by starting the newsletter in December 1974. He is also a talented artist and we have published many of his "Billiken" cartoons over the years. A reservist called up after 9/11, he "arranged" his TDY to Kirtland so he could attend the December meeting and our Christmas party! Despite his travels all over the world, Mark has continually maintained his CNM membership, has provided art work and articles for the newsletter and has attended quite a few CNM meetings and events. Richard and Gayle Finch drove up to the party from Tularosa in a brand-X instead of their usual Ultravan. Richard brought sample copies of his new book, "How to Air Condition any Corvair Vehicle" and suggested that the books would make swell door prizes at meetings. We were glad to see Gayle doing much better than the last time we saw her with a severe eye infection. Our thanks go to all the faithful members who help make our annual event such an enjoyable one. See you next year! =CNM= ============================================================================ C O R V A I R S o f N E W M E X I C O C O M I N G E V E N T S ============================================================================ | | | | | J a n u a r y | F e b r u a r y | M a r c h | | | | | | : : : : 1 2 3 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | : 1 2 3 4 5 6 | | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | | 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | | 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | 29 : : : : : : | 28 29 30 31 : : : | | : : : : : 2004 | : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : | ============================================================================ Wed 7th Jan 7:30 PM Regular Meeting - GALLES CHEVROLET 1601 Lomas NE Sat 10th Jan 1:00-4:00 CNM Ladies - TBA Sat 10th Jan 1:00 PM Bosque del Apache tour - Jerry Goffe & Mark Domzalski Sun 11th Jan 6:00 AM Bosque del Apache tour - Jerry Goffe & Mark Domzalski Wed 21st Jan 5:00 PM Board Meeting - House of Covers Fri 23rd Jan 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 4th Feb 7:30 PM Regular Meeting - GALLES CHEVROLET 1601 Lomas NE Sat 14th Feb 1:00-4:00 CNM Ladies - TBA Wed 18th Feb 5:00 PM Board Meeting - House of Covers Fri 20th Feb 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 3rd Mar 7:30 PM Regular Meeting - GALLES CHEVROLET 1601 Lomas NE Sat 13th Mar CNM Ladies - TBA Wed 17th Mar 5:00 PM Board Meeting - House of Covers Fri 26th Mar 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Fri 26th Mar 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 7th Apr 7:30 PM Regular Meeting - GALLES CHEVROLET 1601 Lomas NE Sat 10th Apr 1:00-4:00 CNM Ladies - TBA Wed 21st Apr 5:00 PM Board Meeting - House of Covers Wed 23rd Apr 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 5th May 7:30 PM Regular Meeting - GALLES CHEVROLET 1601 Lomas NE Sat 8th May 1:00-4:00 CNM Ladies - TBA Wed 19th May 5:00 PM Board Meeting - House of Covers Fri 21st May 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= =CNM= SEVEN YEARS AGO Jim Pittman Seven Years Ago - January 1997 - Volume 23 - Number 1 The cover had Corvair vans taking over the world in 1997. Sylvan Zuercher reported a new member, 1965 owner Raymond Burns of Taos, and we heard that Fred Edeskuty was planning to rejoin the club. President Mark Domzalski ran our meeting. Treasurer Will Davis reported $7,369,71 in our various bank accounts. We looked into putting part of our money into a mutual fund and the Board decided on $5000 to go into the Dow-5 starting in January. The final tally for the Michelle Goffe foundation contributions was $900. Thanks to Steve and Rita Gongora for hosting our "Ethnic" Pot-luck Dinner. Bob Beasley showed us the tie rod that fell off his Starfire - at 5 MPH in a parking lot, not at 65 MPH on the highway. After the meeting adjourned, Sylvan demonstrated the fine art of disassembling your carburetor. On Saturday we planned a session on putting it back together again. Mark Domzalski told how to get modern sound in your FC with a new AM/FM/CD unit and door-mounted speakers. Kent Wall told how to get better defroster heat by adding a baffle plate. Jim Pittman gave us a chronology of the precursors, the founding and the development of the club to date. Finally, our member list had 61 names. Fourteen Years Ago - January 1990 - Volume 16 - Number 1 The cover said Corvairs were good for any time zone. Was a major race track to be built north of town? Jerry Goffe reported that the November Medal of Honor parade was most impressive. Brian Zolna announced he was leaving the Air Force and would go back to Pennsylvania, so we'd need a new treasurer. Val Vaughn's company was to take over our newsletter printing. New or recycled members this month included Chris Baca, Wayne Christgau, Dick Cochran, Bill Denison, Fred Edeskuty, Nicole James and Randy Knoblauch. Tom Martin's La Ventana column explored the life of Bill Reider from Chicago to Korea to Albuquerque. A member list was published and there were 57 names. Finally, a full page ad told us that Francis Boydston was getting out of the Corvair parts business and Mike and Brenda Stickler were taking it over. Twenty-one Years Ago - January 1983 - Volume 9 Number 1 The cover featured an early coupe zipping around an autocross course. We voted to continue to meet at Ed Black's instead of moving to a restaurant - the best vote the club ever made. George Morin gave a great talk on re-lining your brakes and Bill Reider evaluated an engine compartment lock. Twenty-eight Years Ago - January 1976 - Volume 2 Number 1 The cover featured Mark Morgan's "What do you mean, not a REAL Monza" cartoon. We had new "Corvairs of New Mexico" front license plates. We had 42 members and Jim Pittman reported the results of our first Club questionnaire (14 people responded, claiming a total of 44 Corvairs) and provided an article on improving your shifting by installing a Clark's bushing kit. Finally, Anna Gould and Terry Gray told us about the 1960 Corvair being rated Car of the Year by Motor Trend, and the 1962-1964 Spyder being rated a Milestone Car by the Milestone Car Society. =CNM= I'M GLAD I'VE GOT POSITRACTION Jim Pittman It was 1970 and I was a not-quite-starving graduate student. My 1966 Corsa and I were a one-car family. My rebuilt 1968 engine was running great and I'd think nothing of jumping in the car and driving hundreds of miles whenever I felt like it. It was a rare weekend when I wasn't out somewhere touring another part of New Mexico or Colorado. One day my medical student friend Gaither asked if I'd like to go on a week-end trip to Taos where he was scheduled to visit a rural clinic as part of his medical school training. He wanted me to provide transportation for a couple of other students. I hadn't spent much time in that part of northern New Mexico and expected to see a lot of nice mountain scenery as well as the historic and exotic town. Visiting "hippie" communes with the clinic's student staff promised to be a unique experience. When Gaither told me that one of the medical students was Renee, a beautiful Californian, I was even more pleased. My other student was Randy, a tall, easy-going Oklahoman. Gaither had three other students who'd be going up with him after class on Friday. Randy, Renee and I were able to take Friday off, so we left Albuquerque early and had a pleasant and uneventful trip up the Rio Grande valley: Santa Fe, Espanola and Pilar to Ranchos de Taos where we stopped to see the famous church. Arriving in Taos, we found the clinic and met the students there and learned where we'd be able to sleep for two nights - we had sleeping bags and we were all welcome to crash in the local students' apartment. Our visit to the local communes with the clinic staff was set for Saturday, so we were free for the rest of the day to be tourists and take in the sights. We were driving through town looking at the adobe buildings and art shops when Randy, who had been here before, suggested that since the weather was perfect and we had plenty of time, we should go out to a place he knew of where we could hike down into the Rio Grande gorge. The plan was satisfactory to Renee and me, so we headed north on the highway to Questa. We stopped for gasoline and then drove to the area looking for the right spot. Randy peered uncertainly at the dirt side roads on the west side of the highway. Eventually he pointed out a road that looked like the one he'd taken before. We turned onto the road which soon degenerated into a couple of deep ruts through the dirt and rocks. No problem, I just kept the wheels up on top of the middle ridge and the right shoulder of the trail. We wound slowly along the meandering dirt track for what seemed like miles, getting closer and closer to the big crack in the desert that was the gorge. Eventually the ruts began to fade away until we were just driving on dirt and rocks. We parked some distance from where the ground started to slope down into the gorge, grabbed our canteens and hats, locked the car, and headed for the gorge. The Rio Grande gorge at this location is a magnificent sight. The desert extends flatly in every direction. Snow-covered Colorado mountains loom to the north and Wheeler Peak towers to the east. We saw the gorge as a narrow and deep crack in the earth. The sides were rocky and precipitous. The little river winding along below looked like a far-away creek. There did not seem to be any way to get to the bottom without risking life and limb. No problem, Randy said, we'll just walk along the rim until we find the trail. So we turned south and, sure enough, before long there was a nice, well-defined trail heading into the gorge. Down we went. Pretty soon we were surrounded by cliffs and the sky seemed to be receding to a narrow band above us. As we approached the river (it was looking wide and deep and fast now) we came to some ruins made of stone blocks or broken concrete. That looks like a building down by the river, said Renee. Yes, said Randy, I think this used to be a resort of some kind, you know, like a warm spring. Sure enough, down at the river's edge near the ruins there was a pool of nice warm water. You can see this place for yourself easily enough without driving to Taos and finding that dirt road - it's one of the places where the motorcycle trio Hopper, Fonda and Nicholson stopped in the movie EASY RIDER. We were in no hurry. We played in the warm water awhile, then wandered along the river bank to see what else we could see. Other than the river and the rocks, there wasn't really much. The remains of the stone building were pretty much the only sign of civilization. We eventually started back up the trail toward the upper world. Now and then we'd find a particular spectacular vantage point and sit down to rest and admire the view. At one of these stops we were high enough to see most of the sky and we could see a big gray cloud over the desert toward the west. A few minutes and a few hundred feet higher, we could see that the cloud was a lot bigger and blacker and was exhibiting all the appearances of a true desert thunderstorm. Indeed, by now we could see lightning and the wind was picking up. We'd better get out of here and get back to the car before it rains on us, we said. We hurried. But the trail didn't go right up the side of the gorge, it went up at a shallow angle, and there was a long way to go before reaching the top where we could get to the car. Meanwhile the clouds were building, getting blacker, starting to cross the gorge! Could we get to the top before it arrived? We couldn't. Just about the time we got to where we were able to see the car, it started to rain on us. The word "rain" is too puny to describe a desert thunderstorm. The wind howled and big hard drops pounded our backs and we were quickly soaked. Lightning threatened to fry us in our tracks. We could hardly see where we were trying to walk! Randy yelled, Give me the keys -- I'll run ahead and unlock the car! I tossed him the keys and he took off. Renee and I were more cautious. The desert was now wet and slippery and within two seconds Randy slipped and fell. No damage, though; he was just muddy from head to toe and the rain quickly washed a lot of the mud off. We carefully made our way to the car and jumped in. Now we were relatively safe from the rain and lightning, but the inside of the car instantly fogged up. I started the engine and put the defroster on high. We had some towels so I could dry my glasses and have an even chance to see through the slapping wipers. We headed for the road. There were the ruts of the primitive road. I tried driving on top of the ruts. No way! The wheels slid down into the ruts and the belly pan scraped over the rocks in the middle. The ruts guided the wheels and steered the car! I could not do anything but go or stop! I didn't dare stop. As the grinding sounds under the car continued, Randy gave me an alarmed look and I said, I'm sure glad I have positraction! Maybe we won't get stuck! Right! said Randy. Slowly we scraped along, the wheels spinning and sliding as the ruts twisted this way and that, the rain pounding in the roof. Randy kept swiping the damp towel over the windshield to get rid of some of the fog. Finally we could see the highway and we gratefully pulled out on the pavement. The storm, having lost us from its clutches, went tearing across the desert to the east as if it wanted to get to the mountains before it ran out of water. The car slung mud from its wheels and seemed to run fine after its ordeal. The fog gradually faded from the inside glass. We began to feel as if we might get dry someday soon. Boy, that road sure turned into mud in a hurry! Randy said. Yes, and it's a good thing I've got positraction, I said. Otherwise we might have hung up on the ruts and got stuck. Yeah, right, Randy said. A few minutes later we are driving along the highway thinking about our adventure. Uh, Jim, Randy says, just what is positraction, anyway?! A historical note: in July 1970 my 1966 Corsa coupe had just over 85,500 miles. Its new 140 engine was well broken in at about 34,300 miles. The trip to Taos and back was 426 miles, gasoline cost 37 cents per gallon and I got about 21 miles per gallon. The scraping of rocks against the bottom of the car left no serious damage that I could detect. =CNM= ASK TRAINS from Denvair News, Rocky Mountain CORSA Denver, Colorado - September 2003 It's time to get the oil changed in my car again, so I wonder, how often do railroads change oil in locomotives? What is the interval before service is required, and how is it measured, in miles, hours, or days? Here are some answers. -- Neil Seely, Rochester, N.Y. Lubricating oil almost never wears out, but it does become contaminated and its chemical additives depleted. Cars use such a small amount of oil, it makes more economic sense to change it. Locomotives use large quantities of lube oil, so it is replenished. Locomotive oil filters are changed regularly, usually at the same time the locomotive undergoes a Federal Railroad Administration-mandated periodic inspection. Oil filters on an SD4O-2, for example, are typically changed during the FRA 92-day inspection. Newer engines have better filter media, bigger filters, and oil has been improved too, all in the pursuit of less downtime for maintenance. The SD7OM has doubled the filter-change interval to 180 days. Oil is contaminated by three things: fuel, from leaking injectors or fuel lines; water, primarily from coolant leaks; and solid particles, mostly soot from incomplete combustion blowing by the piston rings. Railroads regularly analyze lube oil with a spectrograph in a laboratory. The presence or absence of substances in the oil shows many things, such as fuel contamination or incipient main bearing failure. On this basis the oil might be changed, but more typically the cause of the contamination is diagnosed and resolved. As mentioned above, diesel locomotives consume large quantities of lube oil: 25 to 30 gallons a week in heavy service, practically all of it left in a thin film on the upper cylinder walls as the piston scrapes downwards, then consumed in combustion. So the oil in effect is changing itself constantly. The fuel contamination evaporates or is combusted, the water evaporates, and solid particles are removed by the filters. Every engine will always have some raw fuel in its oil from blow-by but unless there are a lot of solid contaminants for it to adhere to it will be evaporated. Adding oil is a maintenance item, so in the 1970s most railroads started specifying increased lube oil capacities. The lube oil capacity of a "basic oil pan" SD4O-2 is 243 gallons, whereas an "increased capacity oil pan" is 395 gallons. That extends the oil replenishment interval from perhaps once every 15 days to once every 60 days for an SD4O-2. Oil is regularly "sweetened" with chemical additives, based on laboratory analysis: == detergents to consolidate solids so they are large enough to be caught by the filters == anti-corrosives because fuel contains trace amounts of sulfur which becomes sulfuric acid during combustion == Ph-mediators to maintain the acid-base balance of the oil and limit galvanic corrosion of the many different metals that make up a diesel engine. GE 4-stroke engines produce larger soot particles than 2-stroke EMD engines, so they have filters with larger holes. A GE filter in an EMD engine won't do much of anything to stop dirt, whereas an EMD filter in a GE engine will plug up in a matter of a few weeks -- you don't want to mix them up. It all goes to show that under the paint a diesel locomotive is a fascinatingly complex beast. --Mark W Hemphill =CNM= HOW TO AIR CONDITION ANY CORVAIR (C) 2003 ---- Richard Finch, SAE If you have ever wished your Corvair was air-conditioned but were put off by the many problems of factory air, Richard has written the book for you. In 76 pages this profusely illustrated book guides the competent backyard mechanic through the process of planning, obtaining parts, fitting, installing and adjusting an air-conditioner. Corvairs with air suffered from added weight, sluggish performance, reduced fuel efficiency and a tendency to overheat. Many Corvair models were never available with air. 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We're moving so please come and help yourself to very low priced parts. Mike Stickler 344-2039 FOR SALE: 1968 Monza coupe, 110-HP motor w/4 carbs, Powerglide, rebuilt engine, new paint, good interior. $2995 Hurley Wilvert 281-1732 FOR SALE: 1993 GMC Safari Minivan, AWD, 8-passenger. New windshield and tires, 170,000 miles. $2995 Hurley Wilvert 281-1732 FOR SALE: 1964 Corvair Monza convertible. Rebuilt motor, new paint, new tires, new seats, new top, new boot cover, new upholstery, new door panels and back seat panels, new carpet inside and trunk, new front shocks, all paint colors match. AVAILABLE: new heavy duty rear springs & shocks and some trim pieces. NEEDS: minor engine tweaking, transmission rebuild kit, some trim and weather stripping. CONTACT: Eddie Stern 385-6595 or: George Dahl 463-6522 work: 345-9148 (Los Ranchos Fire Dept.) FOR SALE: Elliott Knapp's daughters want to dispose of a few Corvair parts, including: = one pair of brake drums = one Monza wheel cover = two mufflers = other assorted car-related parts are available = a 1950 Buick with 30,000 miles is available, but it's in a barn in Oklahoma. For more information, please call 296-9421. FOR SALE: Yellow Tri-State T-shirts - $10 - XXL $12 Call Bill Reider Yellow Tri-State Golf Shirts - $14 - XXL $16 299-4597 FOR SALE: Book on MG-T series. $7,500.00 - Jerry Goffe - 345-3100 Comes with an MG-TD. FOR SALE: Super Manual for 1960 Cushman. $3,000.00 - Jerry Goffe - 345-3100 Comes with a 1960 Cushman. FOR SALE: 1961 Honda Scrambler - no book. $2,650.00 - Jerry Goffe - 345-3100 THIS ARRIVED VIA E-MAIL: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:07:10 EDT From: PORDLAW@aol.com To: casa AT unm DOT edu Subject: 1963 rampside I got your name off the internet and was wondering if you might can help me with info. on a truck I recently bought. It's a 63 rampside, totally original, I'm the 3rd owner. I found the truck in Ca. and brought it home to Artesia. I'd like to find a buyer and someone that might know it's value. The truck runs and drives great, it's all orignal, from the paint and hub caps down. Thanks for your help * * * * * CNM ADS ARE FREE TO CNM MEMBERS, $5.00 TO NON-CNM MEMBERS * * * * * =end=