The March 2020 newsletter - Text Version 

Updated 02-Mar-2020 ==== Copyright (c) 2020 Corvairs of New Mexico       

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   March 2020 / VOLUME 46 / NUMBER 3 / ISSUE 534 
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First Place, Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, 2005 & 2012
Third Place, Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, 2010

EDITOR Jim Pittman

NEXT MEETING 	Regular Meeting:  March 7th at 10:00 AM
		Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Albuquerque NM 87108

THIS MONTH
  President's Message ................................ Dave Allin
  Car Council Meeting Notes .......................... Dave Allin
  Dues Due Dates ........................... Membership Committee
  February Regular Meeting ............................. Kay Sutt
  Information on the Anniversary Party ............. Rita Gongora
  February Board Meeting ............................... Kay Sutt
  Images of the Tri-State Web Page ............... Tarmo and Tami
  Birthdays & Anniversaries ................ Membership Committee
  McScellaneous Ramblings Mike McGowan The Good Old Days  AIRHORN
  Spring Equinox Earliest This Year .. contributed by Larry Blair
  Identify Parts ........... Charlie Biddle - Chicagoland AIRHORN
  Twenty Years Ago Today (Newsletter Production) .... Jim Pittman
  Calendar of Coming Events .................. Board of Directors
  Treasury Report ................................. Steve Gongora
  March Issues, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 Years Ago .. Club Historian

COVER Snow Covers Sandia Mountain -- 1965 Monza Coupe

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OFFICERS and VOLUNTEERS
President        Dave Allin     505-410-9668         dnjallin @ comcast.net
Vice President  David Huntoon   505-281-9616        corvair66 @ aol.com
Co-secretary    Linda Soukup    763-226-0707     studeboytony @ gmail.com
Co-secretary      Kay Sutt      505-471-1153            tarmo @ juno.com
Treasurer       Steve Gongora   505-220-7401     stevegongora @ msn.com
Car Council      Dave Allin     505-410-9668         dnjallin @ comcast.net
Membership      David Huntoon   505-281-9616        corvair66 @ aol.com
Merchandise    Vickie Hall      505-865-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
Sunshine        Heula Pittman   505-275-2195            heula @ q.com
Newsletter        Jim Pittman   505-275-2195             jimp @ unm.edu
Old Route 66    David Huntoon   505-281-9616        corvair66 @ aol.com
Past President    Ray Trujillo  505-814-8373  rtrujilloabq505 @ gmail.com
Past President    Pat Hall      505-620-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
Past Vice-Pres  Tarmo Sutt      505-690-2046            tarmo @ juno.com

MEETINGS:   First Saturday of each Month at 10:00 AM
        Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

INTERNET   CORSA's home page  www.corvair.org/
               CNM's newsletters  www.unm.edu/~jimp/
 New Mexico Council of Car Clubs  www.nmcarcouncil.com/

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

DUES DUE DATES MARCH 2020

DUE LAST MONTH ================== INACTIVE DATE
2020.02    Barbara & Gordon Johnson    25-MAR-2020
2020.02               Larry Yoffee     25-MAR-2020

DUE THIS MONTH ================== INACTIVE DATE
2020.03        Kelli & Mark Morgan     25-APR-2020
2020.03             Natalie Robison    25-APR-2020

DUE NEXT MONTH ================= INACTIVE DATE
2020.04               Terry Hall       25-MAY-2020
2020.04              Conner Siddell    25-MAY-2020
2020.04            William  Darcy      25-MAY-2020
2020.04      Deborah & John Dinsdale   25-MAY-2020

DUE MAY 2020 ==================== INACTIVE DATE
2020.05                NONE            25-JUN-2020

INACTIVE ========================= INACTIVE DATE
2019.01       Carolyn & Dan Palmer     25-FEB-2019
2019.02                Mike Butler     25-MAR-2019
2019.03              Brenda Wilvert    25-APR-2019
2019.10                Alan Gold       25-NOV-2019

Send your Dues to:

CNM Treasurer -- Steve Gongora
c/o House of Covers
115 Richmond NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87106

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

As of 27-Feb-2020 we have 43 active family memberships.

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PRESIDENT'S LETTER
Dave Allin

It's party time! Our anniversary party is Saturday, March 7, at the Highland
Senior Center. We will have our usual business meeting at 10:00, and then move
to the banquet room for the luncheon and party. We will be bringing in barbecue
from Rudy's, along with sides, and we will have soft drinks and water. During
the party we will present the Ike Meissner award. Please bring $15 in cash to
pay for the food.

Meanwhile, preparations for the Tri-State are moving right along. We are already
receiving registration forms, including one from Arizona. Many of our local
members have registered, but some have not yet provided a check for the banquet.
If you have registered but not given Steve or me a check, please remember to
bring one to the party Saturday.

Lupe Arellanes is doing a terrific job in preparing the printed materials for
the event. In addition to the T-shirts, she had produced insulated bags with
embroidered Tri-State patches, drinking glasses with laser-engraved Tri-State
logos, and is working to produce a high-quality program for the event. She and
her husband, Jim, have also volunteered to help with the on-site reception and
registration. When you see Lupe and Jim, thank them for their excellent
participation and assistance.

At our business meeting on Saturday, I will pass around sign-up sheets for the
various tasks that will need to be accomplished during the meet, such as
reception, setup, raffle sales, car wash, car show, and games. There are many
things going on during those three days, and we need all the help we can get to
ensure it all goes smoothly. If you can donate just an hour or two of your time,
it will be greatly appreciated.

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NEW MEXICO COUNCIL OF CAR CLUBS MEETING -- FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Dave Allin

* Due to other commitments, the Treasurer has resigned. Joe Ballengee, the
  former Treasurer, volunteered to step in until a new Treasurer can be elected
  in June.
* Collector Car Appreciation Day will be July 15, and the Council is looking
  for a club to volunteer to host an event on that day.
* On March 20, from 8:00 am to noon, Valencia High School is hosting a car show.
* Spring Thaw, hosted by Bob Agnew at the The Olde Car Garage, will be April 18.
  Bob's team will do free oil changes and vehicle inspections for collector
  cars, and there will be a birthday party for Bob with free food and drinks.
* On May 3 there will be an auto parts swap meet at the Balloon Fiesta field,
  along with a car show, to raise money for the Wheels Museum.

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Please be prepared to give Rita $15 per person in cash for the Rudy's Barbeque
food at the Anniversary party, Saturday March 7th at 10:00 AM at Highland.

If you have not yet registered for the Tri-State Banquet or paid for the Banquet
meal, please give a check for $40 per person ($15.95 for children) to Treasurer
Steve Gongora or President Dave Allin.

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GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
2020-Feb-01 -- Kay Sutt

The meeting was called to order by President Dave Allin at 10:10 at the Highland
Senior Center located at 131 Monroe Street, NE. Nineteen members were present at
the meeting. No guests were present.

Vice President David Huntoon reported there were ten nominations for the
Meissner Award, and presented them to Pat & Vickie Hall and Terry Price, the
last three winners of the award, to select the next recipient. The three
adjourned briefly and a selection was made. The award will be presented at the
Anniversary Party on March 7.

Secretary's Report: The minutes, as published in the last newsletter, were
approved without being read in the meeting. Kay Sutt had no other items to
report. Subsequently, Vickie Hall requested the following corrections: 1) where
the Sunshine Committee report reads $10 in income from the sale merchandise, it
should read $70. 2) under old business Vickie states she was NOT the one who
indicated the ABQ Journal needs 4 weeks advance for publication. Thanks, Vickie,
for keeping me honest!

Treasury: Steve Gongora reported the balance in the club's account at meeting
time was $7,002.61, and no bills had been presented yet this month.

Sunshine Committee Report: Vickie Hall indicated she has sold one Care & Feeding
book during the last month. She has insulated bags for sale for $3, and Lupe
offered to embroider the CNM logo on them. Vickie indicates the committee is
coming along well with the 'registration bags' for Tri-State, but she still
needs donations of packs of cards, emery boards, note pads and combs for the
bags.

Old Business:

Most of the rest of the meeting was dedicated to Tri-State discussions and
preparations, and the discussion was both lively and productive!

The official Tri-State website, tristatecorvairs.com, is up and operational,
although there is some final tweeking needed, including installation of the
finalized logo, a link to the NMCCC Museum Car Show page (which Dave Allin
subsequently sent me; Thanks, Dave!) and the final links to the tourist sites we
believe will be helpful to folks in planning their stay in Albuquerque. Steve
and Tami will link the CNM and Tri-State websites to one another. Thanks, Tami
and Tarmo, for your work getting the site up! It looks good, and hopefully
people will have fun maneuvering around all the fun things interspersed with the
necessary information on the site.

Terry Price indicated he is working to send postcards to the newsletter
chairpersons of various other clubs in the region inviting their club members to
the Tri-State meet.

Curtis Shimp reported to Dave a glitch in making his hotel reservation; he was
quoted a parking fee in addition to the nightly rate and he was told the special
rate was only for Friday & Saturday nights. Dave Allin discussed this with the
hotel, and that has been corrected, so there is no fee to be charged Tri-State
attendees for parking and the $99 (plus tax) rate is good for three days before
and three days after the event.

Six club members met with the hotel folks to complete planning for the banquet.
There will be two main courses (Rockefeller Chicken or Tequila Seasoned
Scallops), with alternate options available for vegans and for children (likely
chicken fingers for the kiddos). The cost will be $40/pp for the regular meals
and $15.95 for children, due by May 1 with the completed registration form. The
group was shown the space where the banquet will be held, and it should serve
nicely for a group our size. The hotel will provide black/white tablecloths and
a mirror on which to place the centerpieces Rita is making, a dais and lectern.
The hotel will also provide audio/visual equipment and a tech to set it up.
Tables will be set for 8 people, but if needed 10 can be seated at each table.

Dave Allin has contacted CORSA, Hemmings Motor News and NMCCC to establish
advertising for the Tri-State event.

The Museum Car Show will cost $10 to enter a car in the show, but no fee to view
the cars. The Corvairs have typically met at 7:00 A.M. at the Hotel Chaco, just
north of the Museum, to go in as a group. There were 32 Corvairs at the last
Albuquerque Tri-State, so we are hoping for a great showing this year too! Dave
Allin will forward the flyer/connection to the NMCCC site for our webpage. This
has subsequently been done. Thanks, Dave!

Lupe Arellanes presented an actual T-shirt with the logo for the group to see.
Her daughter Bianca has worked hard on this project design. It is a black shirt
with a blue Ultravan and event info printed on it. She gave options for
presentation of the shirts, and the members voted to have the small, Route 66
logo on the front and the Ultravan logo on the back. Lupe indicates the club
will own the logos, and based on the quote she received, we will be able to sell
the shirts for $10 each. There was discussion to tweek the logo to include the
word CORVAIR on the ultravan's license plate. Lupe also presented the nametags
and car window descriptions she plans to have printed up for all pre-registered
attendees, based on the information they include in their registration forms.
Just for fun, she also showed some beer glasses with the event logo, which we
all agreed might be fun to sell as well. Several members indicated they wanted
to have some now, and Lupe gave away the glasses she brought to the members
guessing closest to the number she selected between 1 & 20. Thanks, Lupe and
Bianca for all your hard work!

Volunteers are needed for the Tri-State! Brenda Stickler and Lloyd Piatt agreed
to work the reception/hospitality room, but they can't do it alone, and other
volunteers are needed. Dave Allin will prepare a spreadsheet for members to sign
up for times for all the events requiring multiple volunteers. Please sign up
and support CNM and Tri-State; participation is what makes a successful event!!!

Rita Gongora will sell raffle tickets for her baskets, and it was agreed they
would initially be available in the registration/hospitality room, where people
can pick which basket they wish to win in the raffle. The raffle winners will be
available on a board at the banquet.

There was discussion regarding the time for Friday registration. People will not
be able to check into the hotel until 3:00 P.M. so it was agreed registration
would remain 3:00 to 9:00 P.M. on Friday.

There was other chit/chat about the Tri-State, but no other decisions were made
regarding the event, and, frankly, so much was flying fast and furious, your
humble secretary was unable to capture anything else. If I missed anything
important, please be sure to let me know for amendments to the minutes at next
month's meeting.

The Anniversary Party for the club will be held Saturday, March 7 at the
Highland Senior Center located at 131 Monroe Street, NE from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00
P.M. Thanks, Rita, for arranging this event! Since Tri-State is so important
right now, we agreed to have a regular meeting prior to the meal. The Meissner
Award will be presented at the meeting. To make arrangements simpler it was
agreed that, rather than a potluck, we will take a headcount during the meeting
and order Rudy's takeout, at a cost of $15 per person, to be paid on-site. Rita
offered to place the order and pick up the food, and she and Steve will provide
the paper goods. The club will donate the drinks.

Larry Blair presented the options discussed at the last meeting to honor the
military service of two long-time members we have lost, John Wiker and Bill
Reider. Larry indicated we have a very short time to make a decision if our
offering is to be placed at the NM Veterans Memorial in Albuquerque during their
Memorial Day ceremonies. The options were a brick for $40, a rose bush/plaque
for $100, a tree/plaque for $350 and an 8" x 8" custom designed plaque on the
amphitheater wall for $500. Larry has roughed out a design for the plaque, and
five club members stepped forward to donate the $500, so the club will not have
to expend any money. Thank you to those who donated money to honor these two
long-time, valuable members!

New Business:

The funeral for Bill Reider was scheduled for Friday, February 7 at 10:00 A.M.
at the Glory Christian Fellowship Church at 2417 Wyoming NE, followed by a
reception at the church, with internment at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. The
cortege, for those wishing to join, will leave the church for Santa Fe at 1:30
for the scheduled military ceremony at 3:00 P.M.

Jim Pittman sent word the newsletter deadline for this month is Friday, February
28 at 9:00 P.M.

There will be no Board meeting this month. Rather, that meeting will morph into
a Tri-State meeting to be held Saturday, February 22 at 10:30 A.M. at Steve and
Rita Gongora's home at 8419 Palo Duro, NE. Anyone working on Tri-State is
invited to attend.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:45.

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CNM'S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Rita Gongora

On Saturday, March 7th we will be celebrating our club's 46th anniversary. Our
regular membership meeting will be held at Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe
NE, beginning at 10:00 AM, followed by a Rudy's Bar-B-Que luncheon. We will have
the room from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

I am asking all who plan to attend to RSVP by calling our home phone number,
505-292-5570, and leave a message telling me how many will attend and will eat
lunch at the party. The cost is $15 per person.

I will be picking up the food from Rudy's and delivering it to the center. The
menu will consist of Brisket, Chicken, Potato Salad and Baked Beans. We will
serve the food buffet style.

The recipient of the Ike Meissner award will be recognized at our celebration.
We hope to have a good turn out of folks for this event.

Thank you -- Rita -- 505-292-5570

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES 02/22/2020
Kay Sutt

Location: Steve & Rita Gongora's home on Palo Duro, NE

Present: Dave Allin, President, Dave Huntoon, Vice President, Steve Gongora,
Treasurer, Kay Sutt, Secretary, Rita Gongora, Terry Price, Tarmo Sutt, Jim
Arellanes

Treasurer's Report: Steve indicates a total of $6,947.25 is in the CNM account
currently. Dave Allin gave Steve a couple more checks for Tri-state meals.

Vice-President's Report: Dave Huntoon has tentatively scheduled this year's
highway cleanup days in April, June, August and October.

Secretary's Report: None

Anniversary Party:

The party will be held at the Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe Street, NE,
immediately following the business meeting, which will start at 10:00 A.M. on
Saturday, March 7 at 10:00 A.M. Food will be brought in from Rudy's Barbeque, at
a cost of $15 per person, due at the meeting (in cash, please). Rita Gongora has
made the arrangements with Rudy's and will pick up the food, plates, utensils,
etc. after we have a head count, and she/Steve will supply the ice/ice chest and
cups. Leroy Alderete will provide drinks. The Ike Meissner award will be
presented at this meeting/party.

Tri-State Meet:

The majority of the meeting centered around the May 15-17 Tri-State meet. Dave
Allin has prepared a tentative volunteer sign-up sheet, which he will pass
around at the next meeting. Categories where volunteers are needed include
Reception/Hospitality, Registration, Raffle Sales setup/operation, Car Show
setup/operation, Games setup/operation, Tour coordination/operation and Banquet
Setup. Please come to the next meeting prepared to sign up for the categories
you wish to work to make this a successful Tri-state meet. The more people
willing to volunteer, the lighter the burden for everyone, and the more fun we
can all have.

Discussion of the balloon rides brought about the need for a shuttle, and Rita
Gongora indicated she would use their van for this function.

Discussion regarding what will be needed for the carwash was also brought
forward. It was agreed a few plastic buckets and a couple hoses would be
provided by CNM for this function.

Jim Arellanes wore a prototype of the Tri-state T-shirt to the meeting, and it
was agreed we would have estimates of the numbers/sizes of shirts to be
purchased by the club by next meeting for Lupe to begin printing. It was agreed
the club will purchase glasses to be etched with the meet logo to be made
available for sale at registration.

Jim agreed he would ask if Lupe can prepare an event brochure and banquet
schedule to be available to participants, and Tarmo/Kay will send Lupe copies of
the Taos programs as examples. Kay agreed to contact Steve Goodman to try to get
complete lists of Rocky Mountain and Pikes Peak club members to send postcard
invitations to them. Terry Price has sent out nearly 150 postcard invitations to
surrounding CORSA club members, with more to come.

There are currently 21 people signed up for the banquet. Please get your hotel
and banquet reservations in soon. Remember, May 1 is the deadline for
registration.

The meeting concluded at about noon and those present enjoyed a full lunch
spread provided by Rita! A lively Corvair tech discussion followed among the
gentlemen present.

Thanks, everyone, for your time and your work!

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Happy March Birthday Wishes to:
	David Allin - Jim Arellanes - Anthony Berbig - Linda Cochran - Art Gold
Vickie Hall -- Barbara Johnson -- Lesha Kitts -- John McMahan
Lloyd Piatt --- Brenda Stickler

Happy March Anniversary Wishes to:
	Josie & Leroy Alderete --- Anne Mae & Robert Gold

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Reprinted from the AIRHORN -- Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts -- February 2020

McScellaneous Ramblings
Mike McGowan
The Good Old Days

I wrote a column about how I like the old cars for the way they feel responsive
and fun. I did not say they are fast by modern standards, they are not. Those of
our age remember the 1960s and early 1970s as a golden age of fast and powerful
cars, but they are not. Technology marches on: computers, materials, lubricants,
engines, transmissions, traction.

What was the fastest car of that bygone era? Corvette 427? Boss Mustang? Hemi
Cuda? The most common quoted yardstick for that is 0-60 mph times. It is
difficult to measure exactly, but there are published tests from the time. The
quickest of these cars were under six seconds, down to around five seconds. What
supercars can do that now? Well, forgive me for sullying your nostalgia about
the good old days, but today just ordinary cars do that. A V-6 Toyota Camry will
run in the fives and pass most of those old beasts. Modern supercars will turn
0-60 in less than three seconds, some near two seconds.

So what does this have to do with Corvairs? I usually try to work in a Corvair
story. Well, one of the features of modern cars is computer control. Most
aspects of the engine and chassis are managed by computer systems. One thing
they can do is limit the power output. How can this make cars faster? Now that
engines can make 700-800 horsepower, their heat loads vastly exceed the capacity
of any cooling system. The driver or the car must have the judgment to limit the
time using max power or the system will overheat and fail. If the driver will
not ease off, then the car must protect itself. Dodge Hellcats will switch their
air conditioning systems over to engine cooling duties at times of high power,
then limit the engine power before things get too hot.

Corvair had a similar problem when the 1968 models combined A.I.R. pollution
control systems with car air conditioning. The combined heat load overwhelmed
the fan cooling so in hot weather and high speed the engine temperature would
climb without limit. To prevent the engine from destroying itself, the testers
backed off the power. But customers could not be depended upon to do that, so
Chevrolet discontinued the Corvair air conditioning option to protect their
warranty risks.

I like to say that cars are getting smarter, in some ways maybe smarter than we
are. They can actually protect themselves from some kinds of driver abuse. This
also means that, for short times under certain conditions, they can also allow
unprecedented levels of performance.

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Subject: Fw: Keeping Track of Time
From: Larry Blair < blairylar@hotmail.com >
Date: 2020=Feb=26 21:24:20  MST

May be more than you want to know.

From: AOL Oath Team < joeloisel@aol.com >
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:15 AM
To: AOL Oath Team < joeloisel@aol.com >
Subject: Fwd: Keeping Track of Time

When I was in grade school, I learned:

Spring begins on March 21, Summer begins on June 21, Fall begins on September
21, and Winter begins on December 21.

There are 365 days in a year, except leap year:

	"Thirty days hath September,
	April, June, and November.
	All the rest have 31,
	Except the second month alone
	To which we 28 assign,
'	Til leap year gives it 29."

Earlier this week I was reminded of this event from history:

February 24, 1582: Gregory XIII issues a bull requiring all Catholic countries
to follow October 4 with October 15 and replace the Julian calendar with the
Gregorian (which we still use today). By 1582, the Julian calendar had drifted
from the equinoxes by a full ten days.

And while looking at today's weather forecast, I discovered the article in the
attached Word document.  If you want to see some accompanying pictures and
additional weather records, copy this link to your browser:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/spring-is-coming-earlier-in-u-s-this-
year-than-it-has-since-1896/684213

Spring is coming earlier in US this year than it has since 1896

By Lauren Fox, AccuWeather staff writer
ASTRONOMY Updated Feb. 25, 2020 4:07 PM

Those hoping for an early spring this year will get their wish.

The vernal equinox will take place on March 19 throughout the entire United
States including Alaska and Hawaii, almost 18 hours ahead of when the vernal
equinox occurred in 2019. Moreover, the 2020 equinox will have arrived earlier
than any other equinox in the last 124 years.

The vernal equinox falling on March 19 is a phenomenon that has not occurred in
the U.S. since 1896, according to Geoff Chester, the public affairs officer for
the U.S. Naval Observatory. This is the same year Utah became the 45th state and
automobiles became available to the public.

The U.S. Naval Observatory oversees the so-called Master Clock, a system that
keeps precise time for a host of clocks around the world used in GPS devices,
cellphones and computers, among other things.

Each year, the equinox is expected to take place either on March 20 or 21, but
in 2020, the entire U.S. will experience the equinox on March 19.

This shift in timing comes from the uneven amount of days fitting into a
calendar year. Each rotation of Earth takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1
seconds, and doesn't fit exactly into a 24-hour day.

The reason the 2020 equinox is particularly noteworthy is that it will be the
first equinox since the one in 1896 to arrive early enough that it ends up
occurring on March 19 throughout all U.S. time zones, Bob Berman, an astronomer
at Slooh, told AccuWeather.

During 2016, the most recent leap year, the equinox occurred on March 19 for
Pacific and Central time zones, but not in the Eastern time zone where it fell
on March 20.

This year, the equinox will occur at 11:50 p.m. Eastern time on March 19,
Chester explained, adding that the equinox will occur an hour earlier in each
time zone going from east to west.

In the Central time zone, the equinox will occur at 10:50 p.m. and spring will
officially arrive at 9:50 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. in the Mountain and Pacific time
zones, respectively.

He said that in universal time, the equinox this year will take place at 3:50
UTC on March 20, while in 1896 it occurred at 2:23 UTC, meaning that the 2020
equinox will not break the record.

In 2028, however, the equinox will occur at 2:18 UTC, beating the 1896 record.
The next record to beat will be 15:04 UTC on March 19, which happened way back
in 1696 and was the earliest equinox of the 17th century. The year 1600 was also
a leap year.

In 2096, the last leap year of the century and therefore the year with the
earliest equinox, it will occur at 14:06 UTC on March 19. Therefore, the 1696
record will not be broken at any point in this century.

The Gregorian calendar, created by Pope Gregory in 1583, factors in the extra 56
minutes and 4.1 seconds by including an extra day in February every four years
as a leap year. However, an extra day every four years is an overcorrection to
the calendar, and Pope Gregory accounted for this. For every century year, the
calendar resets by skipping leap year. Every 400 years, it does not reset and
maintains the leap year. The year 2000 was a year that did not reset; therefore,
it had an extra day.

A leap year occurs once every four years, adding an extra day to the short month
of February. Why do leap years exist?

Berman said the skipped leap year will cause the remainder of the 21st century
to have earlier leap year equinoxes. Each leap year for the rest of the century
will arrive 43 minutes earlier than the leap year prior.

"We say that this is the earliest equinox of our lives, but we're going to keep
saying that," Berman told AccuWeather. "We're going to be able to say that now
every four years ... So we're going to keep having earliest-ever starts of
spring," Berman said.

RELATED:

In the years 300-400 A.D. the equinoxes fell on March 21, but because of the
Julian calendar used at the time, which did not have the same 400-year system as
the Gregorian calendar, the vernal equinox continued to occur earlier each year
until it ended up landing on March 15 by the year 1000.

If Pope Gregory had not replaced the calendar when he did, the calendar would be
about 20 days off at this point, affecting not only the equinoxes but also
seasons as a whole and holidays like Christmas, according to Berman.

"If we stayed on the old Julian calendar, you would have a discrepancy of one
day, roughly every 128 years. With the Gregorian system now we have a
discrepancy of one day in something like 3,500 years," Chester told AccuWeather.

The year 1583 was the first in which the new Gregorian calendar was adopted in
Europe, and the equinox occurred on March 21, and a change was clearly in order.
The year prior to the adoption of the new calendar, the Julian calendar
miscalculated the equinox by 11 days. It "occurred" on March 10 in 1582.

According to Berman, the inaccuracy of the Julian calendar was an issue for
ancient people, who relied on equinoxes, as they are the only times that the sun
rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west.

Ancients would use the equinoxes to orient themselves and their homes. They also
used it as a way to determine when the seasons were changing, which allowed them
to prepare for the migration of animals they would hunt for food and determine
what types of crops to begin planting.

In modern times, many look to spring as the end of winter, with warmer weather
ahead. Even though winter wasn't as harsh this year in many parts of the U.S.,
anyone longing for the milder air of spring should consult the AccuWeather 2020
Spring Forecast for a peek at what our forecasters say is in store after March
19.

This year, meteorological winter is set to conclude on Feb. 29. It began on Dec.
1.

In the year 2100, the leap year will be skipped, resetting the calendar and
pushing the equinox back to March 21. Chester said after this century, there
will not be another equinox on March 19 until the year 2436.

"It's all normal, it's all part of the plan," Berman said. "Nothing to worry
about, but it is producing the earliest equinox of our lives."

I've been talking about "days" so far.  What about "hours" and time zones?
Here's my paraphrase of what I've heard about that:

As Le Nien would say, "3,000 years ago" (or earlier) everyone kept track of time
by watching the shadow on a sun dial.  Everybody on the same imaginary line
(longitude) stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole would experience
"high noon" (the time of the shortest shadow of the day) at the exact same
moment.

Sometime along the way somebody figured out there are 24 hours in a day and 360
degrees around the circle called the Equator.  Therefore it was mathematically
reasonable to establish 24 time zones around the earth each with 15 degrees of
longitude between their east and west boundaries.  It was agreed to designate
the longitude line that goes through Greenwich, England, as the "Prime Meridian"
(the zero degree longitude line).  Time zone "boundaries" would occur every 15
degrees eastward and westward around the earth.

The boundary between the 12th eastward and the 12th westward time zones became
the International Date Line, the place where today's date and day of the week
begin each day as the earth rotates. That works well on the oceans, but where
people live on land, time zone boundaries and even the date line were adjusted
by mutual consent to allow people on either side of the mathematically
established boundary to have the "same time and date" as they moved back and
forth across the boundary during their daily living.

Communities north or south of each other had the same time.  Those east and west
of each other had different local (sun dial) times, but, as the railroads
enabled people to move east or west far faster than the sun moved, it became
prudent to established a standard railroad time to be able to schedule trains to
meet and pass safely as they traveled east and west across the country.  The
"standard time" changed by one hour at the mutually agreed upon boundary of the
time zones.  The result is that continental USA today has Eastern, Central,
Mountain, and Pacific Time zones.

When our children went to their mother to ask "What time is it?" she would tell
them, "Go ask your dad."  They would respond, "We just want to know what time it
is, not how to build the clock!"

So what's the point of all of this?  During the winter months of the year we all
operate on Standard Time.  However, much more recently than when I was in
school, someone deemed it appropriate to invent Daylight Savings Time.  I just
wanted to remind you to be ready (unless you are in Arizona or a few other
locations) to set your clocks FORWARD one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 8
... to begin Daylight Savings Time!

Don't be late for church!

David Mueller

P.S.  You'll get that hour back ... on Sunday, November 1st...

P.P.S. ---- I am forever a foe of the folly of Daylight Saving Time.
My problem with it is that changing by an hour twice a year messes with
our circadian rhythm - that is, our sleep-wake cycle. Humans and most
other living things evolved with an approximate 24-hour light-dark cycle.
Artificial light allows us to stay awake during the dark cycle and
contributes to a continual lack of sleep time.

We are by now more or less used to this and cope with it somehow,
although many people routinely do not get enough sleep.

Imposing a one-hour step in our normal 24-hour cycle twice a year
further disrupts our sleep pattern and it may take several days to
get back to a workable 24-hour cycle.

So we lose an hour in the spring, have problems adjusting, then
supposedly get back that hour in the fall. But the hour we "get back"
is not equivalent to the hour we lost.

We are intelligent enough to get up and start our day at an
appropriate time. Why don't we quit this insane practice of going
into and out of Daylight "Saving" Time twice a year? -- Jim

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Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts -- February 2020

The Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts have a tradition, often reported in their
AIRHORN newsletters, of bringing in a collection of Corvair parts and having
members guess what they are.

In the February issue there was such an exercise, reported by editor Charley
Biddle.

Charlie gave permission to copy the article, but I thought instead I'd show the
pictures and the names of the parts and let our members guess which was which.

Look for answers later.

____ A.I.R. pipe, 1968-1969 all engines.
____ Brake hose, front wheel, 1969 Corvair only.
____ Carburetor float, Rochester H, 1964-1969.
     Note small hole for stabilizer spring.
____ Carter YH choke thermostat to choke housing gasket.
____ Clutch cable pulley, early models. Three were used.
____ Dust shield, 1963-1964 car rear wheel bearing.
____ Early model heater hose duct, behind the back seat, 1963-1964.
     There are two, a left and right duct.
____ Fan belt guides, late 1964 and later, on idler pulley.
____ Fan belt guides, late 1964 and later, on top engine shroud.
____ Flasher unit, emergency flasher,  1967-1969.
____ Flasher unit, two bulb flasher, 1157 bulbs, 1964-1969.
____ Heater control cold air lever, 1961-1969.
____ Powerglide gas linkage bell crank, 1961-1964. Inner end of throttle.
     lever shaft is splined to move the throttle valve in the valve body.

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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

This photo was on the cover of the March 2000 issue. Inside was the story about
how your newsletter was produced. Here is a condensed and updated version of
that story.

How Your Newsletter is Produced -- Jim Pittman

We could discuss our newsletter in several ways: Chronology and Schedules,
Content and Style; History andChanges; Value to the Club; Tools and Techniques;
How do I keep on doing it; Future possibilities.

Chronology: I do a little of the newsletter at a time during the month as
opportunity presents itself. My editing month usually starts as soon as the
previous month's pages are printed and delivered to Sylvan. The newsletter
originally exists as a series of computer files. Many are text files that change
little and in a consistent way from month to month: visualize the list of
officers, the dues due page and the calendar. Some files are graphics that must
be prepared anew each month. One is a master page layout file. As soon as one
newsletter is finished, I make a new folder for the next month and copy new
files to that folder. The new cover with its dates has to be updated and I have
to obtain cover art from somewhere. The dues due paragraph has to have another
month added (I list the current month plus two future months) and possibly some
overdue members must be dropped.

Schedules: Chuck Vertrees sends minutes via e-mail and the President's column
arrives via email. Dennis Pleau often emails articles from Virtual Vairs on the
Internet and occasionally I get a photo as a graphic file attachment to e-mail.
I have all of our back issues, so I scan the covers of issues that will appear
as miniatures on the Seven Years Ago page.

Although the date for submitting material is the 15th of the month, in practice
it's two Fridays before the next meeting; by then I need to have most if not all
material in hand so that on Saturday I can put it all together and print
camera-ready copy. Sometimes I can get the newsletter together and print a final
copy by Saturday afternoon, but usually it's not finished until Sunday. Then I
take it to Sylvan, heave a great sigh of relief -- and the cycle starts over
again.

Basic features of our newsletter are: an illustration on the cover with the
title, date and issue number, a table of contents, a "dues due" page, meeting
minutes, board meeting minutes, the president's letter, a "for sale" section, a
summary of what we published seven, fourteen and twenty-one years ago, a
three-month calendar, previews of coming events, and reports on past events. A
Billiken cartoon appears as often as Mark Morgan sends them. Tech tips or
articles may be written by CNM members, lifted from other CORSA publications or
filtered from the Internet. Every December we have an index for the year and
every January there's a member list. These features have been present since
early in the life of the newsletter.

Style and Content: I try to balance tradition with innovation. I like boxes
around pages and the Club's logo at the top of each page. I try to pay attention
to fonts and layout to help make the text easier to read and help you find each
part. I think style improved a lot during the early years; you may have an
opinion as to whether it reached a plateau and when. Now and then we have had
particularly interesting features and sometimes they go away. For example, the
Burma Shave signs lasted many months but may never return; they are just too
time-consuming and I probably burned out on making up rhymes. From time to time
we have a monthly column by a member and they'll give out for one reason or
another.

History: Mark Morgan started the newsletter in December 1974 with a "January
1975" issue. It featured a sketch of Santa and a reindeer, waving from a
Corvair, surrounded with snowflakes. Mark edited over a year's worth of
newsletters, then Glen Thompson took over when Mark left college for the Navy.
Glen's issues were less colorful than Mark's but featured some good technical
and general interest articles. When Glen's responsibilities took him away from
the newsletter, there was a dry spell, and Steve Gongora and Sylvan Zuercher did
quite a lot of unacknowledged work to keep it going. I took over (did someone
ask me to do it or did I volunteer? I don't remember) with the January-February
1978 issue and we haven't missed a month since. I have called on Bill Reider
more than once to finish up an issue when I had to be out of town. Thanks, Bill!

Name: At first the newsletter was labeled just "Corvairs of New Mexico" but
several members wanted a distinctive name and a contest was proposed to find a
name. "Enchanted Corvairs" won and became official with the March 1979 issue. I
must say, this was not my first choice, but I am used to it now and pleased with
it.

Value: I think, in addition to publishing dues notices, meeting minutes, news
and technical lore, the newsletter is valuable to the Club as a reminder that
"Next Wednesday is CNM night" and thus reinforces our habit of going to
meetings. I think a strength of our Club is the fact that we don't change the
meeting day and time and we have had few changes in meeting location.

Tools: In the beginning the newsletter was produced by typewriter and then
photocopied. For the finished copy I usually used an IBM Selectric at work which
produced excellent quality type, if I could avoid typographical errors. In 1980
I combined my interest in computers with the needs of the newsletter to justify
spending $6000 on an Apple II and NEC Spinwriter. Over the years the Apple II
has been supplanted by an Apple IIgs and a Macintosh and the Spinwriter was
supplanted by several laser printers. Being a computer fan has certainly been of
benefit to our newsletter because there's no way I would have continued it very
many years with typewriter and white-out liquid! It's handy to have a spell
checker, but typos typos sometymes stilll sneeke thruogh.

The final page layout is done these days with Pagemaker 6.5 and photos are
processed with Photoshop 5.5 and Graphic Converter 3.7. We bought a Sony digital
camera and we have a Hewlett-Packard scanner to make pictures or graphic images
suitable for printing. An Apple LaserWriter printer with the ability to enhance
photographs provides "camera-ready" copy. I'm still using an Apple IIgs to
produce mailing labels. I used to print them on paper and Sylvan would have to
photocopy them onto label sheets, but now I print them directly onto Avery
stick-on label sheets with an HP LaserJet IIp. So far I have not had the
LaserJet eat a label and gum up the inside of the printer.

How I keep doing it: I sometimes feel as though the newsletter is at a point
where it mostly does itself. Of course I have to actually put it together, but
despite having no idea what will be in next month's issue, something always
comes along. As often as not, when I think the next issue will star Slim
Pickins' and be five pages long, extra material shows up and I have to ask
Sylvan if we can afford thirteen or fourteen pages. (More than six sheets of
paper pushed us up to the two-ounce postal rate.) Maybe there really is a little
guy in the back of my head who, with only a little help from me, figures out how
to get stuff and where everything should go every month.

The Future: there are probably few CORSA organizations that have had the same
newsletter editor for twenty-six years. Although I'm not ready to give it up
yet, I doubt that I can continue for twenty-six more years. If I quit, could we
get another editor? What might the future format of our newsletter be? Color
photos? We have had color before, but right now it's too expensive. A newsletter
published on the Internet? I can't see it, at least not until access to the
Internet is as cheap and easy as making a phone call. Despite its fabulous
growth, I don't see the Internet becoming as easy and cheap as the telephone for
quite a few years. I think we'll be getting our paper newsletters in the mail
for some time yet.

The content and style of the newsletter could change, though, and maybe you
could be the one to change it. If you have ideas about improving the newsletter,
send them along to me, or get them to one of the officers, or bring them to a
board meeting. Hopefully the little guy in the back of my head will like your
ideas and go along.

2020 Update:

I originally typed camera-ready pages and took them to Sylvan Zuercher who got
them printed, folded,  addressed, stapled, stamped and mailed, sometimes at the
last minute. When Sylvan’s health deteriorated Heula and I assumed the chore of
printing and mailing. Bill Reider suggested that my page-layout program could
produce PDF files that could be put on my web page in full color. I now send a
PDF file to our printer via the internet, they print from it, then I go pick up
the finished copies. We still print and mail about 33 copies each month, but
many members download the newsletter from my web page. I have full-color PDFs of
the newsletter going back several years but due to space limits only the most
recent three months are on my web page. I have no idea how many people download
newsletters from my web site.

Just as I like old cars, I like old computer hardware and software. My Mac is 9
years old, my HP printer is 13 years old and my Epsom printer/scanner is 9 years
old. The Apple IIgs no longer lives, but its software for printing mailing
labels is over 20 years old and now runs in the “Sweet 16” emulator that runs on
a Mac!

Digital cameras revolutionized newsletter production. Our first digital photos,
thanks to a Sony camera borrowed from Wendell Walker, showed up in 1999. In
recent years I have put many iPhone photos in the newsletter.

I’m now at forty-four years. How long can this go on? I don’t know. I hope I
will know when to stop before the quality of the newsletter begins to fall off.

Wish me luck!

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SAT 07 MAR 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
SAT 07 MAR 10:00 - 2:00 PM Reserved for our Anniversary Party at Highland

SUN 08 MAR  2:00 AM Set your clocks ahead an hour. No worries, we will get the
           hour back after tolerating a one-hour jet lag experience in November.

WED 18 MAR  5:00 PM Board Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE

WED 25 MAR  7:30 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING OLD CAR GARAGE 3232 GIRARD NE

FRI 27 MAR  9:00 PM Deadline for items for April 2020 newsletter
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SAT 04 APR 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
WED 15 APR  5:00 PM Board Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
WED 22 APR  7:30 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING OLD CAR GARAGE 3232 GIRARD NE
FRI 24 APR  9:00 PM Deadline for items for May 2020 newsletter
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SAT 02 MAY 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
MAY 15-16-17 :: 36TH ANNUAL TRI-STATE CORVAIR MEET :: CORVAIRS OF NEW MEXICO
Marriott Pyramid North : 5151 San Francisco Rd NE Albuquerque : 505-821-3333
WED 20 MAY  5:00 PM Board Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
WED 27 MAY  7:30 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING OLD CAR GARAGE 3232 GIRARD NE
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SAT 06 JUN 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
WED 17 JUN  5:00 PM Board Meeting: Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE
FRI 26 JUN  9:00 PM Deadline for items for July 2020 newsletter
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WED 24 JUN  7:30 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING OLD CAR GARAGE 3232 GIRARD NE
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See the New Mexico Council of Car Clubs Web Site for more "NMCCC" activities
======================== http://www.nmcarcouncil.com/ ======================
SUGGESTION: A visit to the Telephone Museum on Fourth Street
SUGGESTION: A visit to the new WEATHER LAB at the Balloon Museum
SUGGESTION: A visit to the Soaring Museum in Moriarty
SUGGESTION: Activities with other clubs such as VMCCA.
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TREASURY REPORT FOR 01-22-2020 to 02-xx-2020
DATE      CHECK#    AMOUNT PAYEE       DESCRIPTION           BALANCE = $6,924.61 $6,924.61
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2020.01.21 elec -$   10.00 NM State    Annual Corporation Fee         -$   10.00 $6,914.61
2020.01.21      +$   13.00 Deposit     50/50 for January               $   13.00 $6,927.61
2020.01.21      +$   50.00 Dues        J.Yelich       26 m CNM         $   50.00 $6,977.61
2020.02.04 2364 -$   80.36 J.Pittman   Newsletter Printing FEB 2020   -$   51.09 $6,926.52
2020.02.04 2364 -$         J.Pittman   Newsletter Postage 34 x $0.70  -$   23.80 $6,902.72
2020.02.04 2364 -$         J.Pittman   Newsletter Envelopes (34)      -$    5.47 $6,897.25
2020.01.30       $  140.00 Dues        F.Riggs        26 m CNM & CORSA $  140.00 $7,037.25
2020.02.04 2365 -$   90.00 CORSA Dues  F.Riggs        26 m CORSA      -$   90.00 $6,947.25
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SEVEN YEARS AGO [ MARCH 2020 VOL 46 Nr 3 ISSUE 534 ]
Jim Pittman

2013 V.39 Nr 3 #450

The cover: Our newsletter is printed at ABQGrafix. There were photos from
Wendell Walker's 94th birthday party. Larry Yoffee welcomed new member Allen
Greer. Thirty-Nine Years was the number celebrated by Heula, Vickie & Anne Mae.
Garrie Fox previewed the upcoming Cripple Creek Tri-State. Pat Hall solicited
scrap metal for club money. Jack O'Shea of Vegas Vairs told how to deal with
forgotten cylinder air baffles that your Corvair cannot live without.

2006 V.32 Nr 3 #366

Cover: six Corvairs in front of the Albuquerque Balloon Museum which we toured
on February 4th. Lots more photos inside. For fun, the ballad of Antonio Antonio
was featured. We had 2,995.10 in the bank. New members were Cary Hubbard and Bob
Moore, and Clay Keen re-joined after a long break. We thanked Jerry Goffe for
last month's superb tour to Bosque del Apache where an old school bus kept us
from the cold. A tech talk by Don Giles from AMSOIL was interrupted by an irate
security person who asked how we somehow sneaked by his guards to get into the
meeting room. Ray and David calmed him down and kept us from being kicked out,
but this was yet another black eye in our stormy relationship with our sponsor.
Tech article: Larry Blair told about rebuilding a late model instrument cluster.
Robert reported on a fun Car Council meeting. Heula reported on a club breakfast
at Weck's. LeRoy previewed the Montrose Tri-State, coming soon. A tech article
lifted from the Cactus Corvair Club told how to replace a clutch. Steve Goodman
enumerated several DOs and DON'Ts including my favorite: Don't Slam Your Doors!
Finally, there was the form to nominate a candidate for the Francis Boydston
Award.

1999 V.25 Nr 3 #282

Our 25th Anniversary Edition was special in every way. It featured a full-color
cover and many articles on such topics as "How I got my first Corvair" and "How
I found Corvairs of New Mexico" and "What the CNM club means to me" and my
favorite, a two-page "Billiken" spread by first president Mark Morgan telling
how the club was founded. How can I outline all the articles so generously
provided by so many members? As the introduction said, "So here we are,
twenty-five years later, with as happy and as healthy a car club as anyone could
want. We have done a lot of great things over the years, and we'll do more in
the future. It is clear that some of us will be enjoying our Corvairs as real
'daily drivers' for several more years, some of us will enjoy having them to
drive to Club events and other special occasions, and some of us will take 'em
apart, lovingly reassemble them, and keep them in the garage as special
collector cars for years to come." All still true. If you don't have a copy of
this issue, get one. The text of the articles is on my web page.

1992 V.18 Nr 3 #198

Cover: a big "18" made of Corvair images. President Steve ran the meeting.
Treasurer Wendell said we had $911. We needed someone to take over Club
properties: Wayne Christgau had moved to Iowa. LeRoy reported on the Car Council
about the Museum car show and the Great American Race in June. We got a check
for $50 for our help with the swap meet. Our tour of Bobby Unser's garage was
cancelled. Tri-State plans were firming up. Francis told us that CORVAIR
WAREHOUSE in Fresno was for sale for $20,000. Will Davis previewed our tour to
Galles/Kraco Racing. Mark Morgan continued his series of articles on driving in
foreign countries with a great one about driving in Texas. It was just fine
after he got used to it. Tech tips helped us install a cylinder head high
temperature warning switch correctly and remove those pesky stuck carb jets.

1985 V.11 Nr 3 #114

Cover: a late convertible. Francis was president, we had $351, a Museum car show
was coming up, and a project to obtain a Club banner. LeRoy reported on our
garage tour. Clayborne reported on going to Alamogordo for a visit with the
White Sands Corvair Club and announced an upcoming autocross at Holloman AFB
that we could attend. Tech tips: Bill McClellan's second installment on
Beginning to Weld; the function of crankshaft thrust bearings; how to remove the
emergency brake cable; keeping your tools "sharp" so they won't slip; vibration
caused by broken blades on the cooling fan; replacing worn steering knuckles;
and advice that if a used car is clean inside, it has probably been lovingly
maintained, so it's safe to buy it.

1978 V.4 Nr 2 #30

Cover: Simple drawing of an early sedan. We listed fun things to do at the 1978
Convention in San Diego. Steve reported organizational changes in CORSA. The
treasury held $487. We were selling member lists at 25 cents each. We planned a
dinner party at Bella Vista. Jim reviewed "How to make your car handle" by Fred
Puhn and said Corvair owners ought to understand how their suspensions worked.
Lon Wall of CORSA Oregon told about "rare" Corvairs. Francis' tech tips: (1)
heater hose repair with a coffee can (2) blower bearing installation using
thermal expansion. Heat the aluminum housing, freeze the steel bearing, stick
them together real quick! It works!

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Reprinted with permission from
The AIRHORN -- Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts -- February 2020

ANSWERS

 1. Carter YH choke thermostat to choke housing gasket
 2. Clutch cable pulley, early models. Three were used
 3. Early model heater hose duct, behind the back seat, 63-64
 4. Brake hose, front wheel, 69 Corvair only
 5. A.I.R. pipe, 68-69 all engines
 6. Heater control cold air lever, 61-69
 7. Carburetor float, Rochester H, 64-69
 8. Powerglide gas linkage bell crank, 61-64
 9. Dust shield, 63-64, car rear wheel bearing
10. Fan belt guide, late 64 and  later, on top engine shroud
11. Fan belt guides, late 64  and later, on idler pulley
12. Flasher unit, emergency  flasher, 67-69
13. Flasher unit, two bulb   flasher, 1157 bulbs, 64-69

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