The July 2011 newsletter - Text Version 

Updated 21-May-2013 ==== Copyright (c) 2013 Corvairs of New Mexico  

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   AUGUST 2011 / VOLUME 37 / NUMBER 8 / ISSUE #431 
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Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, First Place, 2005
Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, Third Place, 2010

EDITOR: Jim Pittman

NEXT MEETING:      Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 at 7:00 PM
                   North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center
                   7520 Carmel NE          Wyoming & Carmel NE

THIS MONTH:

 Dues Due.......................................Membership Committee
 In This Issue............Photos in and around our new meeting place
 A Trio of Surreal Forward Controls.............Detroit Corvair Club
 July Meeting Minutes.......................................Art Gold
 July Board Meeting Minutes.................................Art Gold
 The Straight Man: A Story from the 2011 Tri-State.......Robert Gold
 Look What I Found......................................Larry Yoffee
 Black Cars -- White Cars................................Jim Pittman
 Birthdays and Anniversaries......................Sunshine Committee
 I Didn't Know That! The ZAZ 966.........................Robert Gold
 Calendar of Coming Events........................Board of Directors
 Two Hundred and One Oil Leaks.........................Steve Gongora
 Corvair Sighting: The Pink Panther..................Movie from 1963
 Seven, 14, 21, 28, Years Ago.........................Club Historian
COVER: Two views of a Monza Convertible.........Mark Morgan drawings

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      MEETING: First Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM
    North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center, Wyoming & Carmel NE
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    President:   David Huntoon   505-281-9616        corvair66 @ aol.com
    Vice-Pres:     Ray Trujillo  505-839-7436              ray @ bpsabq.com
    Secretary:     Art Gold      505-620-7434        rollerart @ gmail.com
    Treasurer:  Robert Gold      505-268-6878        beisbol30 @ msn.com
  Car Council:    John Wiker     505-899-3076         wikerj63 @ yahoo.com
  Merchandise:  Vickie Hall      505-865-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
   Membership:   Larry Yoffee    505-321-5909         corsa180 @ gmail.com
     Sunshine:   Heula Pittman   505-275-2195             jimp @ unm.edu
   Newsletter:     Jim Pittman   505-275-2195             jimp @ unm.edu
    Past Pres:     Pat Hall      505-620-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
    Past Pres:    Mike Stickler  505-856-6993         sticorsa @ hotmail.com
Correspondent: Charles Vertrees  505-299-0744         vertrees @ swcp.com

              DUES:  CNM: 12 months $25.00 -or- 26 months $ 50.00
                   CORSA: 12 months $45.00 -or- 26 months $ 90.00
             CNM & CORSA: 12 months $70.00 -or- 26 months $140.00

             CORSA's home page:  http://www.corvair.org
          Steve Gongora's page:  http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter871
      Larry Yoffee's home page:  http://www.corsaturbo180usa.weebly.com
             CNM's newsletters:  http://www.unm.edu/~jimp

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DUES DUE DATES FOR AUGUST 2011

== DUE JUN = INACTIVE 25-JUL-2011:
2011.06                Mark Jones
2011.06     Klaudia & Steve Sanchez

== DUE JUL = INACTIVE 25-AUG-2011:
2011.07     Anne & Geoffrey Johnson

== DUE AUG = INACTIVE 25-SEP-2011:
2011.08                Ruth Boydston
2011.08                Alan Gold
2011.08       Janet & Steve Johnson
2011.08        Nancy & Russ McDuffie
2011.08                 Bob Philips
2011.08 Mary Alice & Oliver Scheflow

== DUE SEP = INACTIVE 25-OCT-2011:
2011.09   Anne Mae & Robert Gold

== EXPIRED = INACTIVE AS OF 25-JUN-2010:
2011.01   Darlene & William Darcy
2011.01               Wibke Garrecht
2011.04                Cary Hubbard
2011.05    Elizabeth & Mark Domzalski

Send your Dues to:

           Robert Gold
           CNM Treasurer,
           1301 Valencia NE
           Albuquerque, NM 87110

Past due memberships will become inactive after a one-month grace period.
The Club will mail in your National Dues when you renew, if you send us
the renewal form from your CORSA Communique!

CORSA#   YEAR.MONTH                  NAME
 25400   0000.00                Ruth Boydston
 13007   1991.01               Frank Stadler
 07456   2008.08               Jerry Goffe
 24014   2009.03     Anne & Geoffrey Johnson
 23387   2009.04       Janet & Steve Johnson
 13137   2011.05                 Kim Patten

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July Meeting Notes 07-06-2011
Art Gold

Our meeting came to order at 7:05pm, at the new location, North Domingo Baca
Multigenerational Center, with 27 in attendance.

Officer Reports

President Dave Huntoon began the meeting by approving the minutes of the last
meeting. He stated that Chuck Vertrees won the 2011 Boydston Award. Dave
introduced a guest, Justin Whitfield, who has a 1965 500 coupe that longs to
join its fellow Corvairs in our club.

Vice President Ray Trujillo stated that Pat Hall brought the traveling plaque
which CNM won at the Tri-State, and it will stay in the club library.

Treasurer Robert Gold reported $4,458.67 in the account. He made a report of the
Tri-State. This report included: 99 registrations, 97 raffle tickets sold for
Ruth Boydston's awesome Corvair quilt, 111 tickets sold for Kay Sutt's gorgeous
handcrafted purses, and 210 tickets sold for the 50/50 raffle. This resulted in
$2,506 in club receipts. After expenses, the banquet left a surplus for the club
treasury of $371.00. Large thanks to all involved in the Tri-State planning and
implementing of the actual event.

Committee Reports

Membership Chair Larry Yoffee stated he has placed club information at the new
meeting location. A member of Pikes Peak Corvair Club will put information about
our club on their website.

NM Car Council John Wiker was not in attendance, but Pat Hall stated that the
council will be taking payments in advance for the August All-Clubs Picnic. The
council wants all clubs to pitch in bringing something to the picnic. Dave will
contact John on what the club is deciding to bring to the picnic on August 14th
at Nambe Falls.

Editor Jim Pittman stated that the newsletter deadline is Friday 7-22-11. He
also stated that John sent the information flyer for the picnic. Jim also
reported on making a special edition of the newsletter for the Tri-State, all in
color, mailed only to all who registered. Jim stated that perhaps this Tri-State
was the best one of them all, with beautiful scenery.

Sunshine Chair Heula Pittman stated that, after the Tri-State, the committee is
back in normal business mode. Hurley Wilvert brought all of the extra items from
the Tri-State hospitality room and asked us to take items we wanted.

Merchandise Chair Vickie Hall informed the prospective new member of what is for
sale from the club. She reported that the scrap metal project in April brought
the club $300 after Pat found the best price for the scrap. Pat said he did not
intend to collect scrap metal this year and he wanted to take a break and maybe
do it again in two or three years. He encouraged us to keep saving those scrap
items for a future collection.

Discussions continued about the National Convention: who planned to go, did
anyone want to caravan to Denver.

The 50/50 winner was Pat Hall who donated his $11.00 share to the Sunshine
Committee, adding $22.00 total to the group.

After the meeting, Larry suggested that our after-meeting location should be at
a nearby IHOP. Maybe we'll hear how that turned out at the next meeting.

Kevin Sullivan brought a cylinder head from his Ultra Van to show how one of the
exhaust valves had burned its way into the valve seat. Members discussed whether
it could be repaired so the head could be re-used. Who does that kind of work
these days?

Meeting adjourned at 7:48pm. We went outside to observe the red sunset and the
distant smoke in the atmosphere.

Submitted by Art "Hot Tamale with Red" Gold

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July Board Meeting Notes 07-20-2011
Art Gold

Meeting came to order at 5:05pm

Officer Reports

President - Dave Huntoon - asked if the accommodations for the new meeting site
were acceptable. The board stated that the room was small, but we may be able to
get a larger room. He also discussed the All Clubs Picnic in Nambe Falls.

Vice President - Ray Trujillo - stated it's a hot day. He said he would work
with our new meeting place to try to ensure that we can continue going there
indefinitely. It was suggested that any of us who wish to join a Senior Center
should join this one as additional incentive for them to keep us on.

Treasurer - Robert Gold - $4,770.86 in the account (including the scrap metal
payment). He also stated that he would not stand for re-election as treasurer,
and suggested that Art Gold be a nomination for the treasurer position. Robert
also stated the State Fair car show (Sunday, 9-25-11) is rolling along, but
there will be fewer ribbons available.

Committee Reports

Membership - Larry Yoffee - was absent.

NM Car Council - John Wiker - discussed the topic of the All Clubs Picnic, and
what the club should be bringing. John will make the decision on what the club
will bringing to the meeting. He also brought up the topic of who is responsible
for the name tags. This topic will be tabled until later. In the meantime David
said he'd get name tags for Connie & Hub Elmore.

Editor - Jim Pittman - stated that the newsletter deadline is Friday 07-22-11.
He also stated that the special full-color Red River Tri-State edition of the
newsletter is now available on-line.

Sunshine Committee - Heula Pittman - was not in attendance but Jim said all was
well.

Merchandise - Vickie Hall - stated that there is still merchandise for sale.

Upcoming Events

Neon Cruise (Saturday, 07-23-2011)

There was discussion about who was going to the convention and when they would
leave. Caravans to Denver, anyone?

There was some discussion of the engine from Kevin Sullivan's Ultra Van and how
he might rebuild or replace it.

Meeting adjourned at 5:46pm

Submitted by Art "24 Karat" Gold

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The Straight Man
A Story from the 2011 Tri-State

Alas, one of my great regrets is that the Gold family as a group does not do a
very good job at telling jokes. My son, Javi, from the time he started talking
has attempted to make people laugh with his jokes, but to no avail. I'm not any
better, but I still keep on trying. It turns out that contrary to my track
record, the recently concluded Tri-State, held in Red River, allowed me to "get
a laugh" that was actually funny.

You may now be thinking, "Who cares about Robert's joke telling?" Normally it
shouldn't be of any importance, but I think that all of you who have lamented
the lack of respect that Corvairs get would appreciate this story.

The scene begins against the backdrop of the 33 Corvairs that were being
displayed at the Tri-State car show. The sheer number of cars, coupled with all
that shiny paint, made for a spiritual experience for all the Corvair lovers in
attendance. I was walking with my brother, Alan, from the car show to our room
at Lifts West. We were walking by all the X-brand cars that were parked along
the way. It was then that I first noticed the rather new 911 Porsche. Some of
you might remember that a number of years ago a comparison was made between the
Corvair Corsa and the 911. Remarkably, the Corsa and 911 have many things in
common, such as curb weight, engine design and placement, as well as the type of
suspension. Someone even called our car the "poor man's Porsche", an apt
nickname for the Corsa.

So I spy this 911 and at that very moment the proud owner of the car was getting
out. Buoyed by the glow of 33 Corvairs I smiled at him and asked, "Isn't your
car one of those German Corvairs?" It cracked up my brother and made me realize
that even a no-talent person like me could get a joke right once in a while.
Needless to say, I don't think the 911 owner who acted as the straight man in
this routine was much impressed with my humor.

CNM'ers be warned that I'll be trying out my new standup routine at our next
meeting. -- Robert Gold

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Look What I Found
Larry Yoffee

Recently I returned from a visit with my mother who lost her husband of 54 years
back in March. They lived in a home that was way too big on too much land. It's
popular for people to downsize these days when they retire but for some reason
they decided to up-size back in 1984. So, she has had a lot to deal with.

My intention was to make sure she was doing ok and to fix what might need to be
fixed. My duties also included helping to clean out the basement and garage, go
through the tool situation and get rid of things no longer needed. So, we went
through everything and made a pretty good dent in it. Even got the John Deere
riding mower sold. It was fun to see some things I hadn't seen in a long time.
And then I came across this box all sealed up.

I don't get a lot of surprises these days and frankly I prefer not to. But when
I opened this box and saw that it contained all my car magazines from as early
as 1961, well, I couldn't believe it. If I even remembered them, I would have
assumed that they were long gone. But there they were, and the memories of
receiving my monthly Car and Driver and Hot Rod came flooding back. I also had
found Car Craft, Motor Trend and more.

Perhaps the one that was most entertaining and fun to see was the J.C. Whitney
catalog from 1964 to 1965. There was a 3-page section dedicated to Corvairs and
the prices of things really took me back. Back to the days when I had to work
two weeks at the grocery store to buy a ram induction for a Holley 4-barrel and
trombone mufflers.

I was not able to bring very many magazines back with me as my suitcase was
nearing its weight limit. I will get the rest in August when I visit again.

In the meantime, I have scanned and posted several Corvair related ads and
articles on my website which can be viewed at:

http://www.corsaturbo180usa.com/

Click on the menu item called "Look What I found "

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Black Cars -- White Cars
Jim Pittman

Last week I had to go somewhere in the middle of the day and I drove the 1990
Civic because it is white and the 1996 Miata is dark green, and I thought I'd be
cooler in a white car. The sky was clear and the sun was high and I thought the
white roof would reflect more sunlight than the dark green roof.

I noticed, not for the first time, the colors of cars driving around town. This
is Albuquerque at high noon in the middle of summer, and the number of black
cars I saw was just amazing. Don't people who own black cars know that their
cars are heat magnets, sucking in the sunlight and making their air conditioners
do triple duty? At lower altitudes or at higher latitudes it would make less
difference to have a black or dark color roof. Will someone tell me why anyone
in New Mexico would buy a dark-colored car?

I started thinking of this in terms of fuel economy. Sure, no one really cares
about gas mileage, we'd all rather have a powerful car instead of a gas miser
too weak to get out of its own way. But then, look at all the fuss about
gasoline prices threatening to go over $4 a gallon. What if we could
effortlessly save 10% on our fuel cost, without doing a thing, except to buy a
white car instead of a black one? Would we do it?

Wait, you say, are you telling me you can use less gas driving a white car
instead of a black one? Well, it takes gasoline to run the air conditioner. If
you put in less heat for the air conditioner to push out, it will require less
gasoline. Okay, exactly how much fuel saving could we realize? It's probably
basic physics to calculate a rough answer.

How much work does your air conditioner have to do? It has to take heat from the
air in the passenger compartment and move it to the radiator to be blown away by
ambient air. How does the heat get into the air in the passenger compartment?
Some of it comes from your metabolism -- the driver's body makes heat and every
passenger makes more. If you carry five passengers in your car, that's six times
the amount of heat as if you were driving alone.

Some of the heat comes from the engine. In a front-engine car this heat transfer
has to come through the firewall, and heat from the exhaust system may come up
through the floor. Good insulation will reduce this heat load. (By the way, a
Corvair puts essentially no heat from the engine and exhaust pipes and muffler
into the passenger compartment. Unless maybe while you are driving in reverse.)

On a sunny day, some of the heat will come in through the windshield and the
window glass. Tinted glass will reduce this heat load. If the interior surfaces
are dark colored, they'll suck up this heat, but if they are light colored they
will reflect part of the energy. Similarly, some heat will get in when the sun
heats up the body of the car, and this is the part of the heat load I am saying
we can reduce by buying a white car.

Heat also leaves the interior of the car in several ways, not just by the action
of the air conditioner. If you open air vents and crack your windows and drive
at a brisk speed, the heated interior air is replaced with ambient air. On long
trips in my Corvair I found that cracking the left rear window about an inch
would let air out without too much wind noise. The side vent window in the
summer and the heater setting in the winter were enough to keep me cool or warm
enough in any but the most extreme weather, at least at highway speeds.

When the car is parked it's possible to crack the windows to let a little of the
heated air escape from the car. But we all know that the greenhouse effect works
with a car to keep heat in the passenger compartment. The hot interior can't
radiate much heat out through the glass, so the whole car just keeps on heating
up. As the exterior of the car gets hotter, it radiates heat away from the body
of the car. Does white paint radiate as well as black paint? Maybe yes, maybe
no, you can't tell just by looking at the color. Radiation from a car on a hot
day is all in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in the
infrared there's probably not much difference between black paint and white
paint.

For a parked car in the sun, what we don't know is, how much heat comes in from
the hot engine and exhaust system, how much comes in through the glass, how much
comes in through the black (or white) roof. And we don't know how much heat
leaves the car by direct conduction and by radiation from every surface of the
car. It's possible that the components of heat transfer to and from the car that
depend on the color of the roof are small compared to the total heat transfer of
the whole car. We'll just have to do an experiment to find out.

So, let's get two otherwise identical cars, one white and one black, park them
in a sunny parking lot, and measure the interior temperatures every 15 minutes
for a couple of hours. Well, I don't have to do that experiment because I can
look on the Internet and find data from someone who already did it. Take a look
at:

http://www.tom-morrow-land.com/tests/cartemp/index.htm

You can read the article for yourself, so I'll summarize. Yes, the parked black
car gets hotter than the white car. But the interior color makes a lot of
difference: a light-colored interior takes longer to heat up than a dark-colored
interior. And, if a car with windows rolled up is left out in the summer sun
long enough, it will eventually get really hot even if it's white with light
interior.

I didn't find a study that directly stated how much more energy would go into
cooling down a car after it was parked in the sun for a half hour, but my belief
is that, if the black car with black interior gets 10% hotter (or gets hotter
10% faster) than the white car with light interior, then it must take something
like 10% more gasoline energy to run the air conditioner to equally cool the two
cars.

You can read the article for methodology, but here are just a few data points
to illustrate the results:

CAR                  BACK            RIGHT    WIND-          LEFT
COLOR       TRUNK    WINDOW   ROOF  WINDOW   SHIELD   HOOD  WINDOW
===========  =====   =====   =====   =====   =====   =====  =====
Light Gray   102.7   109.0   113.7   108.0   126.7   115.3   94.3
White         88.3   107.7    93.7   106.7   127.3    95.7   92.7
Black        131.3   111.3   147.7   110.0   130.3   160.0   96.7
Dark Red     124.0   109.0   133.7   110.3   128.7   140.3   95.7
Pearl White   83.0   103.0    92.0   105.3   124.0    87.7   93.3
Black        133.0   112.0   137.3   113.7   131.7   160.0   98.7
Dark Gray    119.3   109.0   133.3   110.0   119.3   142.3   95.0

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The author goes on to calculate averages for:

The paint temp, including Trunk, Roof, and Hood.
The glass temp, including Windshield, Left and Right Windows, and Back Window.

The following table has those results, along with the factory paint color
codes/names and interior colors.

Avg.Paint Avg.Glass PaintColor Interior ToyotaColorCode/Name Sunroof Model
 110.6     109.5    Light Gray  Gray   1C8/Lunar Mist Metallic  No   XLE
  92.6     108.6    White       Gray   040/Super White          No   LE
 146.3     112.1    Black       Gray   202/Black                Yes  XLE
 132.7     110.9    Dark Red    Black  3Q3/Salsa Red            Yes  SEV6
  87.6     106.4    Pearl White Tan    Crystal White            Yes  LE Spec.Ed
 143.4     114.0    Black       Gray   202/Black                No   LE
 131.7     108.3    Dark Gray   Gray   1E3/Phantom Gray Pearl   No   LE

As you can see, the glass temperature ranges from 106.4 degrees F on the coolest
white car to 114.0 on the hottest black car, a worst case difference of only 7.6
degrees. The difference between the average white glass temperature and the
average black temperature is 113.1-107.5 = 5.6. It all depends on your tolerance
for heat, but to me 5 to 6 degrees more for a black versus white car is not too
bad. I don't think I'd be much happier if the car was 107.5 degrees for a few
minutes after I return to the car rather than 113.1 degrees for those few
minutes.

One concern in this type of testing is perhaps the glass temperature is not
determined primarily by the internal temperature. Perhaps it's determined
primarily by the ambient temperature. However I believe this to be unlikely,
since the glass temperatures around 110 degrees are significantly higher than
the ambient temperature of 80 degrees. The windows wouldn't remain that hot if
they were getting their heat from just the ambient air.

Another concern with this type of testing is perhaps the glass temperature is
determined by the sun heating the windows directly more than from the interior
air heating them. The fact that the left window measured about 15-20 degrees
lower than the right window (due to the sun coming more from the left) would
support that concern. Car windows filter some percentage of ultraviolet rays out
of the light that passes through, and this filtered light is likely converted to
heat in the window. However, this concern is mitigated by the fact that for all
windows the white cars are cooler than the black cars, and by about the same
amount. The glass heating doesn't seem to be responsible for the differences in
recorded temperatures between the cars. Something else to consider is that if
20% of the UV is filtered by the windows, then 80% hits the interior of the car,
and most of that gets absorbed and converted to heat inside the car.

We can see that the painted surfaces of the car did indeed vary by a large
amount between the white and black cars. The difference between the average
black and average white cars is: 144.85- 90.25 = 54.6 degrees. This is about ten
times what the glass variation was.

Theories

How do we explain the difference between the paint temperatures and the glass
temperatures? On first glance it seems like if the outside of the car is much
hotter, then the interior must be much hotter too. I think there are several
effects at work here:

1. Convection. The hotter the paint is, the more the air tends to rise around
it, carrying the heat away from the interior. Also, any wind will tend to move
the paint heat away from the car interior.

2. Insulation. The paint is physically separated from the interior in the case
of the hood and trunk. And in the case of the roof, the roof liner has
insulation that keeps the heat away.

You can think of the oven in your kitchen. No matter how long you keep the oven
on at 425 degrees, you don't have to worry about the kitchen itself getting up
to 425 degrees; convection takes some of the air from the oven out the exhaust
vent, and insulation in the oven keeps heat inside. The oven does raise the
temperature of the kitchen, but nowhere near 425 degrees.

All this can explain why the paint doesn't affect the interior temperature as
much, but then why does the interior temperature rise in the sun anyway? I
believe that direct absorption of the sun is the main reason that the cabins get
hot. The sun gets absorbed partially by the UV filter in the windows, and
largely by the surfaces of the car interior. The sun that hits the dashboard or
seats turns into heat, and because it's happening directly in the interior of
the car, it's directly affecting the interior temperature. This explains why
putting a silver sun deflector in the front windshield helps so much to keep the
car cool; it keeps the sun from being absorbed in the interior of the car.

Comparison with public perception

Before doing these tests, I did a poll on the Prius yahoo group, asking what
people thought the difference in interior temperatures would be between a black
and a white car.

Here are the poll results:

How many degrees hotter do you think the interior air of a black car will be in
comparison to a white car. Assume both cars have been left closed an hour or
more to stabilize with no reflectors or other window coverings, in direct sun at
1pm, ambient temperature 75 degrees outside. The interior of both cars is the
same light neutral color. Temperatures in Fahrenheit.

Response                                 Number of Votes
Black car  0- 5 degrees hotter than white      5
Black car  6-10 degrees hotter than white      6
Black car 11-15 degrees hotter than white      6
Black car 16-20 degrees hotter than white      6
Black car 21-25 degrees hotter than white      1
Black car 26-30 degrees hotter than white      0
Black car 31-35 degrees hotter than white      0
Black car 36-40 degrees hotter than white      1
Black car 41 or more degrees hotter than white 3

So 5 people guessed too low, and 23 people guessed too high. This indicates to
me that the public's perception is not in line with reality. People think black
cars are more uncomfortably hot inside than they actually are.
This is interesting partially because because public perception makes market
realities. Certain car colors are actually worth more than other car colors on
the used car market; many pricing engines require you to enter the color in
order to get a quote. If these price differentials are even partially based on
false perceptions around sun warming, then you could save money buying a darker
used car if you like that color.

This document was written 05/08/2005. Comments?

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Seven CNMers celebrate birthdays this month:

 Geoff Johnson          August  4
 Enrique Sanchez        August  5
 Joel Nash              August  8
 Steve Johnson          August 10
 Lee Reider             August 11
 Ryan McDuffie          August 18
 Larry Yoffee           August 25

Two couples deserve HAPPY ANNIVERSARY wishes:

 Marilyn & Richard Foster       August 5
 Sylvia & Ray Trujillo          August 7

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I Didn't Know That!
The ZAZ 966
Robert Gold

I spend a lot of time watching car shows on TV. I'll never be able to do what
those craftsman do, but I do enjoy seeing them do it. What I really like is to
watch the shows that describe the history of cars. One show I've discovered that
is rather fun is Top Gear, a car show from England (they call it the UK).

The Top Gear folks love to do all sorts of odd things that involve cars. One
episode quickly comes to mind. It was a race between a car driving a mile route
to a spot at the same time a VW bug was dropped by a plane a mile above the same
spot. It had a spectacular ending.

The other night I was watching a show dedicated to cars that originated in the
Communist countries. As they did their introductions I noticed a car in the
background that looked very familiar. Is that a Corvair? Nah, couldn't be.
Maybe....

I watched them demonstrate how poorly constructed and designed those cars where,
when they finally showed us the ZAZ (Zaporozhsky Avtomobilny Zavod) 966, made in
the Ukraine. Their description mentioned the Porsche 911 since the car had a
rear engine (hmmm), but no mention was made of the Corvair.

A quick trip to my computer solved the mystery. Here is what one site said:

"Like a number of contemporary European designs and unlikely as it sounds -- its
looks were inspired by the much larger American Chevrolet Corvair,"

I think I've discovered a Communist cousin to our beloved Corvair. Maybe we need
to get a CORSA chapter going in the Ukraine? Just a thought.

-- Robert Gold

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Wed  3 Aug  7:00 PM  North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center, at the corner
                     of Wyoming and Carmel NE, just north of Paseo del Norte.
Wed  3 Aug           After our meeting, we'll go to the nearby IHOP, or maybe,
                     to the 66 Diner, 1405 Central NE

Sat 6 Aug   8:00 AM  Old Route 66 Clean-up - Ollie Scheflow

Sat 13 Aug Second Saturdays: Los Lunas "66 Cruise" starts in Bosque Farms at the
           Wells Fargo Bank. 1:00 PM in Winter, 6:00 PM during Daylight Time.

Sun 14 August ........ NMCCC All Clubs Picnic: Nambe Falls

Wed 17 Aug  5:00 PM  Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE

Fri 26 Aug  9:00 PM  September Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman
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Wed  7 Sep  6:00 to 7:00 PM     Meeting: Location to be determined
Wed  7 Sep           After our meeting, we go to the 66 Diner, 1405 Central NE

Sat 10 Sep Second Saturdays: Los Lunas "66 Cruise" starts in Bosque Farms at the
           Wells Fargo Bank. 1:00 PM in Winter, 6:00 PM during Daylight Time.

Wed 21 Sep  5:00 PM  Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE

Fri 23 Sep  9:00 PM  October Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman

Sun 25 Sep  7:00 AM  State Fair Car Show

Fri-Sat-Sun 23-24-25 September -- NMCCC Swap Meet, Los Lunas, NM.
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Sun  2 Oct  CORVAIR HERITAGE DAY (Corvair's official birthday)

Wed  5 Oct  6:00 to 7:00 PM     Meeting: Location to be determined

Wed  5 Oct      Election of Officers at October Meeting. Inform yourself! Vote!

Wed  5 Oct           After our meeting, we go to the 66 Diner, 1405 Central NE

Sat  8 Oct Second Saturdays: Los Lunas "66 Cruise" starts in Bosque Farms at the
           Wells Fargo Bank. 1:00 PM in Winter, 6:00 PM during Daylight Time.

Wed 19 Oct  5:00 PM  Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE

Fri 21 Oct  9:00 PM  November Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman
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More activities: New Mexico Council of Car Clubs: http://www.nmcarcouncil.org
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Tarmo Sutt suggested a tour to Glorietta (east of Santa Fe) to see a collection
of old guns, some as recent as the Great War of 1914-18. Is there any interest?
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Two Hundred and One Oil Leaks
Steve Gongora

My friend Dale Erickson owns the Shell Rapid Lube Oil Change on Wyoming and
Comanche. His uncle was Fred Johnson. Fred was an electrical engineer in
Minnesota who worked in the broadcast industry. He was fascinated by Corvairs.
He moved to Dallas and, doing his own research, wrote two technical manuals in
the 1970s. They can be found for sale in Clark's Corvair Parts on page 247. The
books are Corvair Wheel Alignment and Stop Corvair Lubricant Leaks. In the Leak
book it was said that there were 200 places a Corvair could leak. Dale
Erickson's father, Phillip Erickson was an architectural engineer and a great
artist. He drew this cartoon in the early 80's depicting the 201st place where a
Corvair could leak, the drain plug. What a great connection to Corvairs. I
noticed that they used the drawing in the current CORSA Communique.

I met with my friend last week, Tosh Gregg for his birthday. Tosh is responsible
for publishing the book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. The book may have
inspired Richard Finch to write his version for the Corvair. Tosh and friend
co-published his book and did a lot of collaboration in Manzanillo, Mexico. I
know it came out in the late 1960s and has sold over a million copies.

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CORVAIR SPOTTED IN PINK PANTHER MOVIE
Jim & Heula

Do you watch for Corvairs in movies and television shows? We do. Occasionally
we see one, although typically movies set in the 1960s will feature full-size
"American Graffiti" Fords and Chevies and rarely show compacts. Recently we
watched The Pink Panther movie and enjoyed trying to identify the cars that
happened to appear in this 1963 movie. Many were odd-looking Italian or French
cars, but in the "graduation" sequence the Robert Wagner character crosses the
street just after an early Buick Skylark and just before an early Corvair sedan.

Who can tell the year of the Corvair from these glimpses? I could not.

The sequence at the top of the page is of course the defining moment for Peter
Sellers in his creation of the character of the bumbling French police Inspector
Jacques Clouseau.

Get a copy of The Pink Panther movie. You may enjoy seeing images from the world
of 1963.

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YEARS AGO -- Jim Pittman

07 YEARS AGO -- AUGUST 2004  VOL 30 Nr 8 # 347

On the cover: a graph of our treasury dollars since 1996, and a photo of several
members at the Owl Cafe breakfast. Thirty-four members attended our July meeting
at Galles Chevrolet. Wendell said we had $2500 in the bank. Ruth, our caretaker
of merchandise, had 57 license plates, 19 jacket patches, 159 CNM pins and 40
Care & Feeding books available. Del and David reported on going to the
Convention in Del's "purple" Corvair. We planned a picnic trip to Ruth's place
in the Jemez. We discussed mailing exchange newsletters to other clubs. Were the
ones we got in return worth our expenses to mail to them? We learned that Mary
Lou & Mark Martinek were moving to  Washington state. Steve Goodman wrote about
a fire that almost started in the engine lid insulation of a show car -- the sun
reflected from the shiny chrome 140-HP engine air cleaner cover and acted like a
magnifying glass, heating up the somewhat oily insulation to the point of smoke!

Oliver Scheflow reported on our latest Old Route 66 clean-up by nine members and
guests. Finally, an article from the internet forecast what might happen in the
not-too-distant future when corporations and the government routinely gleaned
all our personal information and a analyzed it with sinister results. That
article was written seven years ago. Are we there yet?

14 YEARS AGO -- AUGUST 1997 VOL 23 Nr 8 # 263

The cover featured a Corvair crossword puzzle. President Domzalski ran our
meeting and Treasurer Walker said we had $7,345.40 in our various accounts.
Guests were Mike Cossey who has a 1964 Monza which he would like to sell, and
Bernadette Gongora who brought her dad, Steve Gongora. Or was it the other way
around? Sylvan said we had a new member from Farmington who had a 1965 500 which
he wanted to change from a 3 speed to a 4 speed.

Those who attended the International Convention in Lake Placid gave accounts of
their trip. (There were hints that the Lake Placid convention made us appreciate
our Vairs in the Air convention even more.) We planned to convoy to the Santa Fe
for the Car Show on the Plaza and pancake breakfast on July 4th, leaving from
the Goodwill store on San Mateo at 6:30 AM. Our VLA tour was planned for Sunday
July 27th and we intended to stop in Socorro for an early lunch. There were
eight Corvairs at the All-Chevy show. A possible summer campout was on hold.

Tech tips included an article by Mark Domzalski on cleaning up your dash
instruments to make them look like new as well as make them much easier to read.

Dennis forwarded a quote from CNN by former Apollo VII astronaut Walter
Cunningham, who was testifying this week before Congress in an attempt to spur
more space exploration. "Today, the once rambunctious American spirit of
innovation and adventure is being paralyzed by the desire for a risk-free
society. This country was established by risk-takers.... It's the Christopher
Columbuses and the Neil Armstrongs who move us forward, not the Ralph Naders.
With a Ralph Nader at the head of a wagon train, we would never have made it
across the plains and over the Rockies." Reference CNN site
http://cnn.com/TECH/9705/09/space.hearing/index.html

21 YEARS AGO -- AUGUST 1990 VOL 16 Nr 8 # 179

The cover drawing showed all the parts of a 140-HP air cleaner. Steve Gongora
penned our meeting notes. New members were Mary Lou Martinek and Steve Randock.
We discussed the future of Tri-State meets and our club voted to continue them
as they have been: Rocky Mountain, Pikes Peak and  New Mexico to continue
rotating the sponsorship every three years, and not expand to include other
clubs. We planned an economy run to Grants and a tour of the mining museum
there.

After a call for candidates to run for office in October and a preview of the
Route 66 Econo-Run to Grants, we had a nice article on the function of motor oil
additives.

28 YEARS AGO -- AUGUST 1983 VOL 09 Nr 8 # 095

The cover had a cartoon with these balloon quotes:

"Yesterday some guy came by and asked how much you'd pay to have this junker
hauled outta here.

I told him to forget it because you were planning to restore it someday."

"Thanks... some people just don't understand about classic cars!"

The car in question was Shoe's 1963 Corvair.

This month we had $515 to spend and a talk by George Morin on problems
installing a 1964 rear end in a Lakewood. Your editor had an essay on the
"rope-drive" Pontiac Tempest. Who remembers what that was and where it got that
nickname? This month we published a member list with 56 names.

35 YEARS AGO -- THERE WAS NO NEWSLETTER FOR AUGUST 1976

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