Updated 30-Jan-2007 =-= Copyright (c) 2007 Corvairs of New Mexico. EDITOR: Jim Pittman NEXT MEETING: Wednesday 3 January 2007 at 7:00 PM Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE THIS MONTH: Dues Due Membership Chairman December Meeting Minutes Chuck Vertrees Mechanically Un-inclined Ray Trujillo Birthdays and Anniversaries Sunshine Committee Daily Driven Corvairs Richard Finch A CNM Day With a Convertible Tuna Robert Gold Barrett House Collections Heula Pittman Breakfast at the Owl Cafe Heula & Jim Pittman Calendar of Coming Events Everybody Garage Tour Preview Bill Reider Wanted, For Sale or For Trade Everybody Tech Tip-details Steve Goodman, Denvair News 2,370 Miles and no Corvairs Jim Pittman Seven Years Ago the Editor Membership Roster - January 2007 Membership Chairman Ike Meissner Award and Form Awards Committee COVER: Photos from the Convertible Tuna Wendell Walker =-CNM-= PRESIDENT: Ray Trujillo 839-7436 ray @ bpsabq.com VICE-PRES: John Wiker 899-3076 wiker @ aps.edu SECRETARY: Charles Vertrees 299-0744 vertrees @ swcp.com TREASURER: Wendell Walker 892-8471 defarge505 @ aol.com MEMBERSHIP: David Huntoon 281-9616 corvair66 @ aol.com NEWSLETTER: Jim Pittman 275-2195 casa @ unm.edu PROPERTIES: Ruth Boydston 821-1506 CAR COUNCIL: Robert Gold 268-6878 beisbol30 @ msn.com DUES: CNM: 12 months $15.00 or 26 months $ 30.00 CORSA: 12 months $38.00 or 26 months $ 76.00 BOTH: 12 months $53.00 or 26 months $106.00 CORSA's home page: http://www.corvair.org CNM's newsletters: http://www.unm.edu/~casa CNM's home page: http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter871 MEMBERSHIP DUES: Dues expired, to become inactive on 25-dec-2006: Joe Ashton 2006-Nov Del Patten 2006-Nov Dues expired, to become inactive on 25-jan-2007: Mark Morgan 2006-Dec Bill Reider 2006-Dec Dues, this month: "Lube" Lubert 2007-Jan Robert McBreen 2007-Jan LeRoy Rogers 2007-Jan John Wiker 2007-Jan Dues, coming due next month: Cary Hubbard 2007-Feb Carl Johnson 2007-Feb Clay Keen 2007-Feb Frank Stadler 2007-Feb Mike Stickler 2007-Feb Dues, coming due soon: Clint Collins 2007-Mar Geoffrey Johnson 2007-Mar Dues, expired, now inactive: Cathy & Tom Bunter 2005-Aug Dan Clifford 2005-Aug Jacob Schlessinger 2005-Aug Willard Davis 2005-Dec Fred Edeskuty 2006-Feb Robert Moore 2006-Jun Lee Olsen 2006-Sep Dwight Simmons 2006-Sep Kevin Sullivan 2006-Sep Sally Williams 2006-Sep Steve Johnson 2006-Oct If your membership is due or has expired, send your dues to: Wendell Walker, CNM Treasurer, 301 Utah Meadow, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 Past due memberships will become inactive after a one-month grace period. Note that the Club will mail in your National Dues when you renew, provided that you send us the renewal form from your CORSA Communique! PHOTO: Del Patten suggested the Owl Cafe Breakfast on Saturday, December 23rd. = Enchanted Corvairs Newsletter is published monthly by Corvairs of New Mexico, = a chartered chapter of CORSA, the Corvair Society of America. Contents are = copyrighted in the names of the Authors and CNM. Articles may be reprinted in = any CORSA publication as a service to CORSA members provided credit to the = Author and this Newsletter are clearly stated. All opinions are those of the = Author or the Editor and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by CNM or = CORSA. Material to be published should reach the Editor by the 15th of each = month. Submit material as ASCII TEXT via e-mail to ( casa @ unm.edu ) or in = ASCII TEXT format on Apple II, Macintosh or MS-DOS disk, or submit a readable = manuscript. I don't like MS Word documents (they are ten times as big as the = text they contain) but no problem, I can read them, thanks to icWord 3.0. The = same goes for RTF files. So, send what you have, I'll read it! Photographs = including digital JPGs are welcome too! = This newsletter was produced in a Microsoft-free environment using a 1989 = Apple IIgs with GS/OS 6.0.1, a 1998 Macintosh G3 with OS 9.2, a 2003 Macintosh = G4 PowerBook with OS-X and a 2003 iMac with OS-X. Software includes Bernie To = The Rescue 2.6, Addressed For Success, ShadowWrite 1.3.4, Platinum Paint 2.0, = Pointless and Harmonie for the Apple IIgs and AppleWorks 6, Photoshop CS, = GraphicConverter 5.8, BBEdit 8 and InDesign CS 3 on the Macs. Printing is via = HP LaserJet IIp and Apple LaserWriter Pro 630. Ask for more technical details = if you are interested. Transportation requirements provided by Albuquerque = SunTran, 1965 Corvair Monza, 1990 Honda Civic, 1996 Mazda Miata and 2003 Honda = Civic. And when I'm 64, I'll get by with a little help from my friends. =-CNM-= DECEMBER MEETING NOTES Chuck Vertrees The meeting was called to order at the Highland Senior Center at 19:05 on December 6th. The President and Secretary were present plus a pretty good turnout of members. I didn't count attendance as I usually do. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as published in the newsletter. Wendell was unable to attend, but he called and gave me the treasurer's report. CNM had $617.83 in the checking account and $2,510.20 in the GMAC account for a total of $3,128.03. New member Art Gold was introduced. He is Robert Gold's son and has a 1965 4-door Monza. He is a teacher at Jefferson mid-school. Art has helped Robert with Car Council business in the past. Robert's car council report mentioned only the Museum show on May 29th. Unfortunately, this date conflicts with our Tri-State event in Monte Vista, Colorado. A topic to be brought up at the next Car Council meeting in January will be that more of the clubs in Albuquerque could adopt a section of highway for cleanup. The only clubs that I know of that clean up a section of highway are the Corvette Club and CNM. It would be a good idea if more clubs would do this and people would start seeing signs along the highway saying, "This section of Highway is cleaned by the ??? Club." It would make more of the citizens aware of how many active car clubs there are in Albuquerque and New Mexico. The CNM newsletter is on Jim's web page in color. It is a PDF file and can take some time to download unless you have a high speed connection. At an earlier board meeting Jim suggested that all (or at least a goodly number) of our Newsletters could be recorded on a CD and made available to Club members at a moderate cost. The response was very good from the members, so Jim was encouraged to proceed. He said he'd try to get a "beta" version to the January meeting. There was discussion of making technical articles available in a similar form. Putting together such a CD could be a significant project. We discussed upcoming activities. We'll have a tour of Bosque del Apache on January 13th. We will meet at the visitors' center at 08:30 and Jerry Goffe will meet us with a bus or van. I recommend that those who are going should go to Socorro on Friday night and get up early enough to get to the Bosque and see the birds take off at sunrise. It is worth it. In February there will be a garage tour on the 11th which I think will start at 13:30. Details will be announced. Also in February there will be a TUNA Saturday on the 17th at either Geoffrey's or Cary's garage. Time is 12:00. More details will follow. March will be our Anniversary dinner at Papa Felipe's. No time or date is available yet. Thanks to Steve and Rita Gongora for hosting another successful potluck dinner and auction in November. CNM netted about $190.00 from the auction. Also thanks to the Gongoras for setting up the Christmas Party at the Kirtland AFB Officers' Club. Again as usual we had a good turnout and a good time. Thanks to Lee Reider, Emma Rogers and Heula Pittman for organizing the successful Barrett House donation project this year. Larry Blair asked if anyone had any information about using a Corvair engine in an aircraft. Sylvan said that he had a lot of information on this. Also, a couple of years ago we visited a gentleman in Edgewood who was building an aircraft with a Corvair engine. The gentleman has since joined CNM and attended several meetings. As the meeting wound down, Sylvan gave us a short demonstration on rebuilding an early Corvair turn signal system. It was interesting to see the insides of the turn signal lever mechanism and get an idea of what parts wear out and how to fix them. Unfortunately the late models are different. The meeting was adjourned at 19:56. -- Chuck =-CNM-= NOTE: There was no December Board Meeting. =-CNM-= MECHANICALLY UN-INCLINED Ray Trujillo Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends. As you know the CNM family had its Christmas party celebration on December 3rd at the Kirtland AFB Officers Club. As usual everyone had a good time and thank you to the Gongoras for arranging the party. As part of our celebration CNM members collected a good amount of school supplies and children's books for the kids of the Barrett House. Thank you to Lee Reider and Emma Rogers for organizing the project and to all who donated items to this great cause. Also during our celebration I presented participation certificates to those involved in our economy run held in April. I felt the club also should honor the top two drivers of the event, who happened to be Bill Reider (1st place) and Jim Pittman (2nd place). I also felt the club should recognize Geoff Johnson as the captain of the gas hog gang and I meant to bring an empty gas can to present to him as a badge of honor but I forgot to bring it to the party. I also wanted to give certificates of appreciation to those who did tech sessions or presentations during the past year. Those receiving certificates of appreciation were Jerry Goffe, Larry Blair, Bill Reider, Hurley Wilvert, Dave Huntoon, Sylvan Zuercher and Tarmo Sutt. Thank you to all of you for your contribution to our membership meetings. With the start of the New Year, CNM has planned some fun events, so here's a quick run down of things to look forward to. For January, CNM's annual Bosque del Apache tour is scheduled for the 13th and plans are to meet at the refuge parking lot at 9:30am. Upon arriving Jerry Goffe has arranged a van for our group so you can get a guided tour of the site. If you haven't taken advantage of this event before then you should plan on going this year. On February 11th Bill Reider has set up a garage tour to start at 1:30. Prior to the garage tour those interested in meeting for lunch can do so at the Fiesta's restaurant at 12 noon at 4400 Carlisle NE. The first garage we'll visit is Jay Hertz's located at 2420 Midtown Place and then we'll go to Cary Hubbard's garage down in the South Valley. Bill will have maps to distribute at the February membership meeting. Also on February 17th we will hold a TUNA Saturday at Cary Hubbard's garage to work on Pat Hall's transmission. In March CNM will hold its anniversary dinner and specifics are still being worked on, so stay tuned for further details. I guess this is the section of my article where I begin to ramble on about things that are quite trivial and this month is no different. You know I've often wondered how many members actually read this entire article or if I'm just boring them to sleep. Either way, I'll continue to throw in stories that seem to amuse me because it has become a therapeutic monthly routine. Anyway, I thought a good way to find out how many members are reading the article from beginning to end would be to give you a signal that can be used to see if the message is getting out. Now the signal I'd like to use is the same one Robert Redford and Paul Newman used in the movie "The Sting." Whether you've seen the movie or not, the signal between Redford and Newman to nonverbally communicate if the scam was a green light was to put their index finger on the bridge of their nose and nonchalantly slide it down the nose. It's kind of like our own secret code, I know it sounds juvenile but what the heck you only live once. Now then, I'd like you to flash this signal at the next membership meeting immediately after I've said the phrase "Welcome everyone!" This little test is all in good fun and not meant to put anyone on the spot but more of a way to appease my sense of humor. Hopefully I'm not the only one using the signal! Before I close I'd like to thank Sylvan Zuercher for last month's tech session on repairing a turn signal mechanism and once again, if any of you would like to do a tech session or presentation just give me a call so we can schedule it in. Well I guess that's enough said for now so I hope to see you at the next club meeting, and Happy 2007 to all. -- Ray =-CNM-= HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes go to eight Members who celebrate in January: January 9 Javier Gold January 11 Clint Collins January 11 Steve Gongora January 12 Jim Arellanes January 12 Florence Hector January 13 Del Patten January 20 LeRoy Rogers January 22 Bianca Arellanes HAPPY ANNIVERSARY wishes go to: January 8 Kim & Del Patten =-CNM-= DAILY DRIVEN CORVAIRS Richard Finch I am responding to the Director's editorial in the December 2006 CORSA Communique' wherein Bob Marlow says that he believes that very few Corvairs are daily driven these days. My 1965 4-door Monza/Corsa is one that is daily driven. I used it to haul a welding machine out to the local airport this past week. I put the Lincoln 205 amp TIG machine in the right front seat and the argon bottle in the back floor. In the trunk I put the supporting tools to TIG weld a 1962 Nesmith Cougar experimental fuselage repair. I had to remove the rear seat bottom to lay on while welding. My 1965 Corvair is my prime transportation although I do have a 1996 Olds that I drive on long, fast trips to the East and to the West Coast. I purchased the 1965 Corvair 4-door in early 1968 as a one owner used car that was traded in on another Chevy product. The Corvair had about 80,000 miles on it when I bought it. I paid $650 for it. At the time, it was my family transportation car and I used it to flat tow my 1966 Yenko Stinger #YS-003 to races and to autocross events. I joined CORSA in 1972 while I lived in Santa Maria, California. I was towing the Yenko Stinger behind my '65 4-door to Sears Point Raceway to enter the SCCA National race the week-end that the Astronauts first landed on the moon. The week after the Sears Point Raceway race, I put a set of Velvetouch metallic brakes on the '65 Corvair and they are still in use today, although they likely are ready to be replaced now. The car has over 425,000 miles on it and it is still running strong, does not smoke, starts easily in all seasons of weather, does not use a quart of oil in the first 1,000 miles after an oil change. The seat covers are still good, but the two front seat bottoms are starting to split out. I have replaced the carpet 3 times and the headliner once. The back seat is still like new. The car sits outside most of the time, but with a cover over it to protect it from the sun. The car turned over the first 100,000 miles a few weeks after the Astronauts landed on the moon, and the next 100,000 miles in 1972 while it was still my family transportation car. It took a few years longer to rack up the next 100,000 miles because by then I had bought a new 1975 Monte Carlo and did not take the Corvair on long trips as much, but I still took it to events such as the Phoenix Mini-Convention and to San Diego to the CORSA National in 1978 where I won first place in street stock in the slalom. (My Yenko Stinger also took top time of day with Seth Emerson as its new owner at the same convention.) The next time it turned over 100,000 was in 1980 at 400,000 miles. It had over 420,000 miles on it when I drove it to New Mexico from Santa Barbara, CA to move here permanently in the year 2000. This Corvair has always been my going to work car, but I have not taken it on long trips since we purchased a 1969 Corvair Ultra Van in 1998. We have put 85,000 miles on the Corvair powered Ultra Van, going to CORSA conventions and to EAA conventions. Last year, we drove the Ultra Van to Prince Edward Island and back, racking up over 8,500 miles on that one vacation trip alone. Certain notable things are important about my keeping the '65 Corvair alive. The rear wheel bearings are original because I installed grease fittings in them long ago. The car has no rust because I stripped it and painted everything underneath with Rustoleum when I first bought it. I use Tide soap suds and Armor-al to clean and preserve the seats and vinyl parts. I change the oil and filter about every 6 months and use Pennzoil 30w HD winter and 40w HD summer, never multi-grade. I lube the chassis every six months, and I have repainted the whole car body twice. I wax it every 2 years. I used to run Michelin tires but now run Goodyear white walls. The front shocks are Sears and have been on it since 1968. The rear shocks were Sears, but I replaced them in 1998 with Clark's gas shocks. I have replaced both cylinder heads because of dropped valve seats, but the engine block has not been overhauled yet. I replaced the transaxle with a 3:22 to one unit with posi-traction in 1972 and it is getting noisy. I used to autocross the car all over the southwest and never lost a race with it. The suspension is still stock and never overhauled yet, but it needs it. The car was clocked at 145 mph by the California Highway Patrol on Christmas day 1978. They did not put me in jail - Christmas you know! That happened on the freeway between Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, CA. I was alone that day, so I was feeling it out! And I had just put a new set of Michelin speed rated tires on it. I drive it to cruise nights and to town to go to work. Work is a 50-mile round trip. Sincerely, Richard F. Finch, SAE, AWS 1418 Apple Avenue Tularosa, NM 88352 1-505-430-1258 A CNM DAY WITH A CONVERTIBLE TUNA Robert L Gold As a long time Corvair nut with no mechanical ability I have tapped many times into the wealth of knowledge that can be gleaned from our experienced Corvair Club members. I can't count the number of times a club member has helped me get one of my treasured Corvairs back on the road. To further this type of assistance to the "mechanically challenged" Geoff Johnson proposed that Corvairs of New Mexico conduct a help day where a group of Corvair experts get together and solve someone's car problems. Geoff came up with the idea from the Kansas club where they refer to the help day as TUNA (short for tune up). Wendell Walker hosted the first CNM TUNA on Saturday, November 18. The car of honor at this get together was Lupe Arellanes' 1964 Monza convertible. Her beautiful white on white with an aqua interior car had some issues concerning the brakes. As all of us know any car that can't stop properly does have serious issues. The surgery crew made up of Wendell, Ray Trujillo, Cary Hubbard, Geoff Johnson, Pat Hall Robert Gold, and Sara Gold gathered at Wendell's on a cool but sunny day ready for work after having breakfast at the Owl Cafe on Eubank. Lupe pulled her car into the garage and the work began. Parts were inspected and replaced, rust was shaken out of the cracks and crevasses, and adjustments were made. The crew had the look of a NASCAR pit crew trying to get their car back on the track before the pace car came back around. When all was said and done Lupe was back on the road with a big smile and good brakes. It has been proposed that the club conduct other TUNA's in the future. The CNM Board has tentatively scheduled dates for the coming months. If you have a particular problem that can be solved in a day let the Board know and we can schedule you in. Also, if you are one of our members with mechanical ability or just the ability to be a "goffer," like me, please consider attending the TUNA's. I can speak from experience when I say that we all had a great time socializing and working on Lupe's car. Let's make this the first of a lot of fun times. -- Robert Gold BARRETT HOUSE COLLECTIONS Heula Pittman Once again, Emma Rogers and Lee Reider did an excellent job with our Christmas gift project. This year, our members brought school supplies to the Christmas brunch at Kirtland AFB to be distributed to the children at Barrett House. From all accounts, the number of items was huge. Everything from really nice back packs to notebooks and notebook paper, pencils, pens, book covers, colored pencils and markers, glue, scissors and books were contributed. Some of our members contributed money to use for shopping for items. We even had a contribution of $15 from CORSA members Seth and Barb Emerson of San Jose, California who read about our project in the newsletter. They are with Silicon Valley CORSA and are the owners of Silicone Wire Systems. Emma and Lee purchased a back pack and other needed items with their money. The staff at Barrett House was quite pleased with our generous donations. They are extremely appreciative of any items that are given to them for the homeless women and their children. Perhaps we should consider making this an annual event for our Club. Thanks to all our Members for your help with this worthy cause. BREAKFAST AT THE OWL CAFE Heula & Jim Pittman When we got the e-mail from Del Patten suggesting an Owl Cafe breakfast together, we decided to take our Corvair out to meet with the gang. That was before the big snowstorm and cold snap. This morning the thermometer was in the twenties and the Corvair hadn't been driven for three weeks, but not to worry. After a few minutes on the battery charger the engine started right up. There was no problem plowing through the back yard snow drifts and we drove the 3/4 mile to the Owl Cafe. We found Dave Huntoon just arriving. "Another air-cooled car," Jim said. "VWs are especially well air-cooled in the winter," Dave said. Pretty soon Sally Williams, Geoff Johnson and Kim & Del joined us, and Julie & Chuck Vertrees were not far behind. It was great to see Del after all these months that he has been away in Virginia. Maybe after getting his fill of green chile he will be able to go back East to work for a while again. Like the proud grandmother she is, Heula circulated photographs of our new great granddaughter, Reese Elizabeth. We saw her over the Thanksgiving holiday in Baton Rouge. She's a real beauty and we are just a tad proud of her! Jim wanted to give the Corvair some more exercise so we drove up Tramway and to the foothills end of Spain where we watched cross country skiiers and some little birds chittering in the snow. Then it was back home to get to work, finishing up the January newsletter. ============================================================================ 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 ============================================================================ | | | | | January | February | March | | | | | | : 1 2 3 4 5 6 | : : : : 1 2 3 | : : : : 1 2 3 | | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | | 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | | 28 29 30 31 : : : | 25 26 27 28 : : : | 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | | : : : : : 2007 | : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : | ============================================================================ Wed 3 Jan 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Sat 13 Jan early! Tour to Bosque del Apache -- details to come Wed 17 Jan 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE Sat 20 Jan 8:30 AM CNM Breakfast -- The Kettle (across from the Cracker Barrel on San Antonio near I-25.) Fri 26 Jan 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 7 Feb 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Sun 11 Feb 1:30 PM Garage Tour: Jay Hertz's garage & Cary Hubbard's collection Sat 17 Feb 8:30 AM CNM breakfast -- TBA Sat 17 Feb 12:00 February TUNA at Carey's garage - details to come Wed 21 Feb 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE Fri 23 Feb 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 7 Mar 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE --- -- Mar ------- Look for our annual Birthday Dinner this month! Wed 21 Mar 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE --- -- Mar ------- Look for our first "Old Route 66" cleanup this month! Fri 23 Mar 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Sat 24 Mar 8:30 AM CNM breakfast -- TBA Fri-Sun May 18-20 Tri-State Meet - Monte Vista, Colorado - Pikes Peak club Sun 20 May ....... Albuquerque Museum / N. M. Car Council Car Show Sat-Sun Sep 8-9 Moriarty EAA Fly-in and Old Car Display =-CNM-= GARAGE TOUR - FEBRUARY 11, 2007 AT 1:30PM Bill Reider We will be visiting Jay Hertz's garage at 2420 Midtown Pl NE, then off to Cary Hubbard's to see his collections of cars. I will have maps at the February meeting, so be sure to attend. If you won't be at that meeting, let me know and I will try and get a map to you. Jay has a collection of 1930's Chevys and Fords. He just got a new "33" Chevy that I haven't seen yet. His cars are all in excellent shape and I'm sure you will enjoy seeing them. He also has a shop that is great. Then we will be off to Cary's. He has a number of other cars besides Corvairs. For such a new collector I think that he has a great collection. If interested, some of the members will get together for lunch at the Fiesta's Restaurant, 4400 Carlisle Blvd NE at 12 noon. Jay Hertz's garage is just a short distance away. The restaurant is on the southeast corner of Carlisle and Montgomery. LeRoy Rogers will be making arrangements at the restaurant. If you need additional information you can e-mail me at "breider28 @ msn.com" or call me at 299-4597. -- Bill Reider. =-CNM-= = = = = = FOR SALE, TRADE OR WANTED = = = = = WANTED: 2 ea, Powerglide aluminum bell housings, any year. I could pay for them and pick them up at the January Bosque Bird Watching. Richard Finch, cell # 505-430-1258 WANTED: 1964-66 Three-bar spinner hubcaps, any condition, complete or parts. Geoff Johnson -- 505-730-6601 FOR SALE: 1968 Corvair Monza Convertible, 110 HP, 4-speed. New front seat upholstery, new carpet, 2-year old top. Sheet metal in floor has been replaced. Needs paint, has rust. Asking 1,500. John Arnold -- 505-281-5542 FOR SALE: 1962 Wagon 700 $1,500.00 OBO 1967 Monza 2-door coupe, 110-HP, auto. Great interior, good condition. $2,500.00 OBO Terry Price -- 505-872-0100 WANTED: Late NOS Front Panel Jerry Goffe 345-3100 FOR SALE: 1961 Monza coupe, '66 110-HP engine, Powerglide. New interior, needs paint, minor body work. Make offer FOR SALE: 1968 Monza coupe, 110-HP rebuilt engine with 4 carbs, Powerglide. New paint, good interior. Make offer Hurley Wilvert 281-1732 hurbrenwil @ peoplepc.com =-CNM-= TECH TIP-DETAILS -- BY STEVE GOODMAN ROCKY MOUNTAIN CORSA -- THE DENVAIR NEWS DECEMBER 2006 The details of finishing a car can be easy or difficult -- minimal or extensive. The following is the saga that I have been going through with a car at the shop and will illustrate how easy it is to keep adding parts to a simple rebuild. The car started out as a simple "rebuild the engine and transaxle" job. It is a 1961 sedan with a four speed and hasn't run in years. Updating the engine wasn't bad except I couldn't really use any part of the old engine because of the size and the manual choke heads and carbs and distributor, and the fan shroud has no outlet for the top vent, and the list goes on. Plus, there is a mild re-wiring job for the new internal regulated alternator, and several wires have no ends on them. This includes the wire to the press/temp circuit which has a plastic plug over it. No big deal, I have the covers and the wiring ends, just more work with a soldering gun and shrink tubing. Now on to the gearbox. Since the car hasn't run in years the lube hasn't been circulated in the gears and bearings. The result is that the pinion and carrier bearings are poor, but luckily the gears are good. Also the old original GM gear lube had a habit of gelling badly under hot conditions and then drying to a hard "coke" condition. The transmission had such a heavy deposit of the stuff in the bottom that I had to pry it from the drain plug. Needless to say all the bearings were ruined in the trans also but luckily the gears had such a deposit of junk on them that they were good. Now the easy part is finished, rebuilding the powertrain. Let's see what the fuel lines and tank have to offer. Looking at the inlet hoses to see them completely cracked and broken means the tank has to come out. The tank sender was broken too and the float had a crack in it. Next, forcing air through the fuel line from front to rear finally worked. Large amounts of something blasted the wall on the other end of the shop. Since the owner wanted an electric fuel pump installed I removed the tunnel covers and discovered the front shift tube bushing was missing and had been gone for so long that the metal support was ruined also. Forgot to mention, the shift coupler and pin were poor also. No matter, because the boot that exits the tunnel for the shift rod was completely missing so the entire shift tube needed to be removed from the car. The brakes are next on the list, but rest assured they are in the same condition as the rest of the running gear. I have four fresh wheel cylinders sitting on the floor now. When I was looking at the fuel tank I noticed the strut rod bushings completely missing on one side. No matter what I do to the brake system it is destined to work badly because of the poor front suspension. The above is written to illustrate the amount of effort that can be put into a project car, much more than is realized in some cases. Look through the vendor catalogs at the small parts, things like the rubber boots and small bushings and then check your car to compare. Many times those small parts have deteriorated away without noticing it. -- Steve Goodman =-CNM-= 2,370 MILES AND NO CORVAIRS Jim Pittman This year we decided one more time to drive to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Thanksgiving and the car to drive was our 2003 Civic which is a fine, if somewhat underpowered, highway cruiser. We left Albuquerque early on a Saturday morning intending to stop for the night in Weatherford, Texas. When we got there the weather was so good and the traffic was so tolerable and the driver (me) so confident that we continued on to Shreveport that night. That was 881 miles in less than 15 hours. The next leg of the trip was down I-49 to Lena, Louisiana (don't blink or you'll miss it) to visit a long-lost relative. After a nice visit with coffee and pumpkin pie we continued south to Lafayette and then east to Baton Rouge. About two miles before the Mississippi river bridge on I-10 the traffic came to a stop and we inched our way toward, then onto, then over the big bridge, along with thousands of cars and SUVs and 18-wheelers. Eventually we arrived at Mary's house where she said that Baton Rouge traffic has been like this all the time since Hurricane Katrina. Mary couldn't wait to show us her new baby: a spotless, shiny BMW Z-4 with tan top. Of course we ooohhh'd and ahhhh'd over it. She promised us rides the next day. The styling is, well, I guess you love it or you hate it. Mary had been telling us she had her heart set on getting another sports car (she had to sell her 1993 Miata a couple of years ago) and she had her heart set on a Honda S-2000. Why not, she has a perfect 2001 Accord V-6 which has served her well and she's a dedicated Honda fan. When she told me she was just about ready to get her S-2000 I immediately had to call up the only person I knew who had one and get all the inside details on what it's like to own one. So I called Bill Lawless, our former member from Santa Fe who has been in Arizona for several years. It turns out Bill no longer owns an S-2000 but he told me all about how he came to get one, how much he loved to drive it, and how he finally felt he had to trade it for a more practical vehicle. I held all this Honda lore in my head until I could talk to Mary. She seemed somewhat subdued when I delivered all my second-hand tips and stories from Bill's conversation. It turned out Mary had already decided to get the BMW instead of an S-2000 and she wanted to surprise me when we arrived for Thanksgiving. Yes we did get a ride in Mary's Z-4 and yes it does go and stop and handle like a quiet and civilized and very fast race car. The automatic transmission may be the best automatic currently available. Yes, both Heula and I got to drive it. It has way too much image to suit me. I resonate much better with our 1996 Mazda Miata. So, no, I'm not going out to buy a BMW. But it was a treat to ride through the Louisiana countryside with the top down and the electric seat keeping you warm. We rode around Baton Rouge a bit and Andy took me to New Orleans in his RAV-4 Toyota. Some 14 months after the hurricane and flooding, I thought parts of the city looked a lot like they always have, except not so many people. Lots of houses just sitting there, a few being rebuilt. Plenty of traffic on the freeway, very little on the streets of Chalmette. We waited until Monday to head west and got back to Albuquerque after half a day driving into strong head winds. The blizzard came the next day after we were safely back home. That was good -- we have played in blizzards on the eastern New Mexico plains all we want to. The Civic ran great for every one of those 2,370 miles and no, not a single Corvair did we see. =-CNM-= SEVEN YEARS AGO - JANUARY 2000 VOLUME 26 - NUMBER 1 - ISSUE 292 Our cover had four Corvairs lined up in front of our new sponsor, Galles Chevrolet, where our first meeting of the new year would be held. Steve Gongora provided a map. At our last meeting at Casa Chevrolet, president Wilvert ran the meeting while secretary Vertrees took notes and treasurer Walker reported $6,084.17 in the kitty. Debbie Pleau reported on planning for the Tri-State. Dennis Pleau reported that CNM almost had a web site, to be listed as www.corvair.org/chapters/871. Wendell reported on the Wheels Museum which could possibly be affiliated with the Smithsonian and which needed "only" twenty million dollars or so to take its next step. Proposed activities for the new year were listed. Since Casa Chevrolet would no longer be doing our newsletter mailing, we asked for some help for Sylvan in getting the newsletter printed, folded, stamped and mailed. We published twenty-three e-mail addresses. Billiken's characters commented on what looked like the first day of a new century. In a Letter to the Editor (I get so few of these I treasure every one) comments were raised about the qualifications of various members (Larry, Del, Sylvan) to be full-fledged members of the Dummy of the Month Club. Anne Mae Gold (definitely not a dummy of the month) called for all CNM ladies to meet to organize projects they wanted to do this year. Possibly these projects would not include brake jobs or carburetor overhauls, but one never knows. Four pages of photos and the December 1999 Member list (we had 47 members in New Mexico and 11 out of state) wrapped up our January 2000 newsletter. FOURTEEN YEARS AGO - JANUARY 1993 VOLUME 19 - NUMBER 1 - ISSUE 208 The cover showed a sad, neglected coupe in need of complete restoration. President Patten ran the meeting and treasurer Will Davis reported $1468 in financial resources. New members were Lawrence & Geraldine Jiron and Greg Gundgik. LeRoy reported that he found the museum at Truth or Consequences. Francis reported on the GWFBTandSM; not as nice in Ontario as it was in previous years at Palm Springs. Bill reported on plans for a golf shirt purchase. Sylvan told about helping an Illinois couple whose 1963 Rampside developed a severe oil leak near Grants. Jerry planned to show photos from a trip to the Northwest Territories. Del thanked Mark & Mary Lou for organizing the T or C trip and Steve for his logos. Mark discovered Yankees in Pennsylvania. Does any of this make sense? Maybe it did at the time. Jim reported on the Christmas party at the Pueblo Indian Cultural Center. Storyteller Teresa Pijoan told about John Laughing Eyes who owned two Corvairs. Her story about the bear and the corn kernels was included in the Newsletter for those who could not be there to hear her tell it. A tech tip about a flooding carb (when the float dropped, the needle tipped sideways, then wouldn't close) came from Brian Dierks. The Newsletter finished up with the member list for 1993: fifty-seven CNM addresses in state, and eight out. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO - JANUARY 1986 VOLUME 12 - NUMBER 1 - ISSUE 124 The cover was a fanciful Mark Morgan Rampside, slightly modified. Clayborne was president and guests were Eileen Stone and Kay Bishop of the NMMVD; they talked to us about new seat belt laws and about getting a title if your car lacks one. We had $628 in legal tender. We planned a flea market sale and a garage tour to see the cars of Phil Maloof and Doug Maleki. Jim reported on articles crediting Karl Benz with building the first true automobile, one hundred years ago. The Board's list of suggested activities for the year was published. Bill's technical column said the oldest Corvairs were now 26 years old and eligible for the Veterans Motors Car Club. To keep your Corvair running another twenty-six years Bill told all you'd need to know about rebuilding your steering box. A review of the new seat belt law came from Ridepool. Billiken had his-and-hers matching oil pans for Christmas and a sketch of a new car named COR2. The annual member list showed 61 CNM addresses with three outside New Mexico; one was really out: Wayne Christgau was in England with the USAF. TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO - JANUARY 1979 VOLUME 5 - NUMBER 1 - ISSUE 40 Our cover had question marks because we still didn't have a name for the Newsletter. The cover drawing was yet another Morgan fantasy. We reviewed Mark's career as Club founder and Newsletter starter. Last month our meeting was called off due to bad weather and Jim pondered what that could mean. He decided we were keeping our precious Corvairs off the streets and out of range of the mass of Albuquerque drivers who didn't know how to handle snow. Are drivers any better today? Maybe not. Featured technical tips: Ike Meissner told how to avoid blowing cylinder head gaskets (the big secret: annealed copper gaskets) while Ted Scheftner said to get your cylinder head nuts at your Cadillac dealer: part number 1488994. Dick Hartje gave an easy way to break those wheel lug nuts free. President Sylvan gave some New Year's Resolutions for the Club, and the editor listed twenty-four suggested names for the Newsletter for members to vote on. For some reason we did not publish a member list this month. =-CNM-= CORVAIRS OF NEW MEXICO MEMBER ROSTER - JANUARY 2007 NEW MEXICO: Guadalupe & Jim Arellanes @ Albuquerque 2006.10 505-286-4787 505-878-1320 Kathy & Larry Blair blairylar @ hotmail.com Albuquerque 1985.11 505-821-1386 505-249-1035 Ruth Boydston @ Albuquerque 1974.04 505-821-1506 000-000-0000 Sandra & Jerry Chapman @ Los Lunas 2006.04 505-565-0500 000-000-0000 Linda & Dick Cochran @ Grants 2006.09 505-287-8403 000-000-0000 Angelica & Clint Collins vwbuz @ aol.com Tome 2006.03 505-866-0476 000-000-0000 Elizabeth & Mark Domzalski domzalski @ lanl.gov Placitas 1994.01 505-867-0030 505-665-1529 Gayle & Richard Finch finchbooks @ tularosa.net Tularosa 2000.06 505-585-8035 000-000-0000 Marilyn & Richard Foster @ White Rock 1999.07 505-672-9404 000-000-0000 Kathy & Doug Gadomski gadomski @ unm.edu Albuquerque 1999.11 505-265-8345 000-000-0000 Wibke & Robert Garrecht @ Albuquerque 2005.09 505-255-2212 505-884-0133 Sylvia & Jerry Goffe jgoffe20 @ comcast.net Albuquerque 1977.05 505-345-3100 505-346-4220 Anne Mae & Robert Gold beisbol30 @ msn.com Albuquerque 1982.08 505-268-6878 505-830-7930 Kelly & Art Gold @ Albuquerque 2006.12 505-620-7434 000-000-0000 Rita & Steve Gongora stevegongora @ houseofcovers.com Albuquerque 1974.12 505-292-5570 505-256-0551 Mike Hacker @ Albuquerque 2002.03 505-247-2222 505-246-2668 Vickie & Pat Hall @ Los Lunas 2005.10 505-865-5574 505-620-5574 Florence & Bill Hector @ Albuquerque 2006.04 505-275-5947 000-000-0000 Susanne & Larry Hickerson hyosilver @ aol.com Albuquerque 2002.08 505-296-1636 505-228-5284 Cary A Hubbard @ Albuquerque 2006.02 505-350-0483 000-000-0000 David Huntoon corvair66 @ aol.com Cedar Crest 1994.11 505-281-9616 000-000-0000 Carl Johnson @ Albuquerque 1974.04 505-344-3178 000-000-0000 Barbara & Gordon Johnson @ Corrales 2001.06 505-898-7688 000-000-0000 Geoffrey Johnson geoffj @ unm.edu Albuquerque 2002.02 505-730-6601 000-000-0000 Clay Keen @ Albuquerque 2006.02 505-242-6398 000-000-0000 H. 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"Lube" Lubert @ Albuquerque 1987.10 505-256-9331 505-265-3641 Connie & Robert McBreen @ Albuquerque 1989.11 505-265-2808 505-830-7915 Tracey & John McMahan jtmacs1 @ comcast.net Albuquerque 1983.12 505-323-1196 505-301-1169 Joel & Lori Nash joelnash @ msn.com Albuquerque 1974.12 505-884-5064 000-000-0000 Carolyn & Dan Palmer @ Tijeras 2006.01 505-281-7275 000-000-0000 Roger Pape @ Bosque Farms 2003/12 505-869-7200 505-238-0276 Heula & Jim Pittman casa @ unm.edu Albuquerque 1974.04 505-275-2195 505-277-8131 Terry Price @ Albuquerque 1992.01 505-244-3075 505-872-0100 Lee & Bill Reider breider28 @ msn.com Albuquerque 1974.09 505-299-4597 000-000-0000 Emma & LeRoy Rogers 004873 @ comcast.net Albuquerque 1975.07 505-294-0623 000-000-0000 Mary Alice & Oliver Scheflow @ Corrales 1992.05 505-897-2611 000-000-0000 Frank Stadler @ Albuquerque 1990.02 505-255-7326 000-000-0000 Brenda & Mike Stickler @ Albuquerque 1976.07 505-856-6993 000-000-0000 Kay & Tarmo Sutt tarmo @ juno.com Santa Fe 1976.07 505-471-1153 505-827-6190 Sylvia & Ray Trujillo ray @ bpsabq.com Albuquerque 2003.08 505-839-7436 505-266-4011 Nancy & Bernard Urbassik @ Albuquerque 2004.08 505-294-7751 000-000-0000 Julia & Chuck Vertrees vertrees @ swcp.com Albuquerque 1983.05 505-299-0744 505-272-2033 Wendell Walker defarge505 @ aol.com Rio Rancho 1989.01 505-892-8471 505-280-2190 Anne & John Wiker wiker @ aps.edu Albuquerque 2001.01 505-899-3076 505-239-3311 Brenda & Hurley Wilvert hurbrenwil @ msn.com Sandia Park 1992.10 505-281-1732 000-000-0000 Opal & Sylvan Zuercher flat6 @ hubwest.com Albuquerque 1974.12 505-299-7577 000-000-0000 OUR SPONSOR: Vladimir Pavicevic @ General Manager, GALLES Chevrolet 2005.12 505-766-6800 505-766-6800 COLORADO: Debra & Jon Anderson jbanderson65 @ hotmail.com Colorado Springs 1992.10 719-535-0294 000-000-0000 Deborah & John Dinsdale john_dinsdale @ adp.com Aurora 2000.02 000-000-0000 000-000-0000 ILLINOIS: Walter Huntoon @ Elgin 1992.11 847-464-4848 000-000-0000 Mark L Morgan rangermk @ charter.net O'Fallon 1974.04 000-000-0000 618-229-7808 TEXAS: Jack Bryan @ Duncanville 1982.02 972-296-6300 000-000-0000 WASHINGTON: Mary Lou & Mark Martinek mjmartinek @ juno.com Vancouver 1990.08 360-896-3807 000-000-0000 INACTIVE: Shirley & Joe Ashton @ Tijeras 1989.03 505-286-1513 505-828-6735 Sachiko & Willard Davis 1960dixiet @ earthlink.com Melbourne 1988.01 321-242-8092 000-000-0000 Fred & Brenda Edeskuty edeskuty @ sulphurcanyon.com Jemez Springs 1982.12 505-667-1876 000-000-0000 Steve Johnson @ Belen 2001.08 505-864-6278 000-000-0000 Robert Moore @ Edgewood 2005.06 505-286-7685 000-000-0000 Lydia & Lee Olsen obros @ gbta.net Burdett 1999.09 620-285-9134 000-000-0000 Kim & Del Patten pattendk @ msn.com Sandia Park 1980.07 505-286-6690 505-846-2951 Dana & Jacob Schlessinger @ Albuquerque 2002.08 505-237-2141 505-256-0551 Dwight Simmons @ Albuquerque 2003.07 505-897-8286 505-934-2672 Leslie & Kevin Sullivan kevin.sullivan @ boeing.com Albuquerque 2002.07 505-417-2481 000-000-0000 Sally Williams stripepike @ mac.com Albuquerque 2003.09 505-977-1428 000-000-0000 =-CNM-= THE IKE MEISSNER AWARD the Awards Committee The Ike Meissner Award is presented annually to a Corvairs of New Mexico (CNM) member, in good standing who best exemplifies a spirit of camaraderie and fellowship, in the Corvair realm, with other CNM members and other Corvair enthusiasts. To commemorate the occasion, the recipient shall be awarded a plaque suitable for prominent display. The award shall read: YEAR Corvairs of New Mexico IKE MEISSNER AWARD AWARD RECIPIENT NAME The selection committee for the awards shall be comprised of three CNM members appointed by the CNM President, within two months of the last presentation, who will work with and report to the CNM Vice-President. It is recommended that at least two of the three members be immediate past award recipients. It is preferable for the last three immediate recipients to serve on the selection committee. The CNM Vice-President shall achieve approval of the award by concurrence with a quorum of the officers of CNM. (i.e., Three of the four CNM officers must concur to approve the award.) Guidelines for consideration for the Ike Meissner Award, in order of priority, shall be: 1. Attend meetings and plan, coordinate or organize CNM activities or events 2. Share Corvair knowledge, contribute technical information and tips to the CNM newsletter or other CORSA publications. 3. Encourage owners to preserve, maintain and share in the lore of the Corvair. 4. Serve in CNM as a committee person, chair, director and/or officer. 5. Attend an official CORSA event and/or serve with CORSA in an officially recognized capacity. 6. Recruit at least one new member. The presentation of the Ike Meissner Award shall be made at the annual CNM Anniversary Banquet or at a time and place designated by the CNM President. The presentation shall be made by the CNM Vice President or an alternate designated by the CNM President. The content of the oral award presentation shall be scripted in advance and have achieved concurrence of the Ike Meissner Award Committee and the CNM Vice President or an alternate designated by the CNM President. The oral award presentation and engraved plaque shall be prepared no later than one week prior to the annual CNM Anniversary Banquet or the otherwise designated time and place. IKE MEISSNER AWARD NOMINATION The Ike Meissner Award is presented annually to a Corvairs of New Mexico (CNM) member, in good standing who best exemplifies a spirit of camaraderie and fellowship, in the Corvair realm, with other CNM members and other Corvair enthusiasts. This form is confidential. To avoid disappointment, do not divulge to or otherwise advise the nominee of this action. This form shall be submitted to the CNM Vice President or an alternate appointed and designated by the CNM President. This form will be distributed in the January issue of the Enchanted Corvairs Newsletter and at the January Membership Meeting. The DEADLINE for submission of this completed nomination form shall be NO LATER THAN adjournment of the February Membership Meeting or as otherwise designated by the CNM President. Any exceptions to this deadline shall be made by agreement between the CNM Vice President or the appointed alternate and the CNM President. To the Ike Meissner Award Committee: It is a pleasure to submit the following Corvairs of New Mexico member to be considered for the Ike Meissner Award. Name: __________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________ City, State and Zip: ___________________________________________________________ Has been a CNM member since: _________ Has been a CORSA member since: __________ Has served as a CNM official, chair or leader: Y _ N _ Approximate years: _____ Has promoted the Corvair and Corvair hobby: Y _ N _ Has helped other people: Y _ N _ Briefly describe the merits of this member and nomination: _____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Date of this nomination: ________ Author of this nomination: _________________ =END=