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Car of the Day: September 5, 2015; Racing Champions '60 Chevrolet Corvair Police
Topic Started: Sep 5 2015, 02:19 AM (718 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car of the day is from corvairjim's collection, and is Racing Champions' 1960 Chevrolet Corvair Police.


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The Chevrolet Corvair is a compact automobile manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet for model years 1960-1969 over two generations. As the only American-designed, mass-produced passenger car to feature a rear-mounted air-cooled engine, the Corvair range included a two-door coupe, convertible, four-door sedan, and four-door station wagon body styles, as well as passenger van, commercial van, and pickup truck variants. The Corvair competed with imported cars such as the original Volkswagen Beetle, as well as the Ford Falcon, Plymouth Valiant, Studebaker Lark and the Rambler American. The Corvair's legacy was affected by controversy surrounding its handling, scrutinized in Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed, as well as a 1972 Texas A&M University safety commission report for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration which found that the 1960-1963 Corvair possessed no greater potential for loss of control in extreme situations than its contemporaries. The name "Corvair" is a portmonteau of Corvette and Bel Air. The name was first applied in 1954 to a concept with a hardtop fastback-styled roof.



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The 1960 Corvair 569 and 769 series four-door sedans were conceived as thrift cars offering few amenities in order to keep the price competitive, with the 500 (standard model) selling for under $2,000. Powered by the Turbo Air 6 engine 80 hp and three-speed manual or optional extra cost two-speed Powerglide automatic transmission, the Corvair was designed to have comparable acceleration to the six-cylinder full-size Chevrolet Biscayne. The Corvair's unique design included the "Quadri-Flex" independent suspension and "Unipack Power Team" of engine, transmission and rear axle combined into a single unit. Similar to designs of European cars such as Porsche, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and others, quadri-flex used coil springs at all four wheels with independent rear suspension arms incorporated at the rear. Specially designed 6.5 in by 13 in. 4-ply tires mounted on 13 inch wheels with 5.5 in. width were standard equipment. Available options included RPO 360, the Powerglide two-speed automatic transmission ($146), RPO 118, a Gasoline Heater ($74), RPO 119, an AM tube radio ($54), and by February 1960 the rear folding seat (formerly $32) was standard. Chevrolet produced 47,683 of the 569 model and 139,208 769 model deluxe sedans in 1960. In January 1960, two two-door coupe models were introduced designated as the 527 and 727 models. Following the success of the "Mr. and Mrs." Monza styling concept cars at the 1960 Chicago Auto Show, management approved the neatly appointed bucket-seat trim of the 900 series Monza. This model began arriving at showroom floors in April 1960. Despite their late January introduction of the coupe, these cars sold very well; about 14,628 base model 527 coupes, 36,562 727 deluxe coupes and 11,926 927 Monza club coupes, making the coupe one of the most popular Corvairs.



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:toy: For those you might ask - yes this little Racing Champions Corvair police car represents an actual police car - all of the cars in the series did. Now, can any of you picture yourselves being pulled over by a police officer driving a Corvair? For whatever reasons this one was the hardest one to add to my collection - just never found it on the pegs so if sold by collectors always as part of bigger assortments. Finally found it on its own and it happily sits with my other Louisiana police cars.
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I have a tough time with the looks of the early Corvairs, except the Forward Control models, and for sheer oddity the Lakewood wagon. I prefer the styling on the later '65 and up models, but by then the Forward Control models were history. Don't recall any late run wagons either...
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Hobie-wan
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Interesting choice to make a police car. Looks nice though.
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corvairjim
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Frankly, Hobie, I prefer the "Late Models" too. The "Early Models" were an attempt to match the styling of the standard size Biscayne, Bel Air, and Impala. You can see that best expresses by the way the roof extends over the rear window on the sedans. Unfortunately, that styling cue went away on the big cars for 1961, and the Corvair's body was locked in for 5 years, by which time it was definitely looking dated. Then along comes the 1965 and it's modern looks. Seriously put a '65 Corvair Monza next to a '65 Mustang, and suddenly the brand new Mustang looks several years old. Performance? Don't put your 4-barrel 289 Mustang up against a Corvair Corsa with it's optional turbocharged 164 c.i. flat-6 'cause you'd lose! 225 h.p. in a 2,650 lb. car doesn't cut it up against 180 (under rated for insurance purposes, more like 230) ponies in the 2,400 l.b. 'Vair. Heck, I once dusted a modified 289 Mustang with my carbureted '66 Monza factory rated at 140 h.p. Of course I wanted more, so with some easy mods I got 225 h.p. at the wheels out of her. Yes, that's the car in the photo below. "Easy Mods" means taking the compression up to 11.5:1, 4 primary single barrel carbs instead of 2 primaries and 2 secondaries, dual Turbo mufflers (Today's Trivia: The ever-popular "Turbo Muffler" was in fact the standard muffler on the 1965-6 Corvair Corsa Turbo. VERY low restriction and, oh boy, that beautiful sound!)

The late model's fully independent suspension put it in a league all to itself compared with other compact's handling. Funny thing: the early models, with their pillared roofs make them seem more solid and even somewhat quieter for a daily driver. So for fun, the late model is the best bet but for day-to-day driving, I'd take a '64 with it's standard "Camber Compensator" transverse rear leaf spring. The 1960-63 cars could be a handful if you make the mistake of inflating all the tires to the same PSI rating. If you follow GM's advice and keep the fronts about 7 PSI lower than the rears, you're golden.
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JustMatt
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N'Awlins y'all!
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Dragnet_Supporter
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Looks great. I don't have this one, but will certainly put it on my want list :)
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Stangfreak
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This is a wonderful casting and RC did one fine job on it. Unfortunetly this is the only one I was able to acquire...


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daniel60
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Steve that car is beautiful and thanks for the picture of it.
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This is a wonderful casting and RC did one fine job on it. Unfortunetly this is the only one I was able to acquire...


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:bangles: :fiddle: :1: :wave: charming car and amazing diorama,many thanks from Austria :fiddle: :bangles: :1: :petkitty:
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