Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Corvair Center Forum Thread on Custom Corvairs.
Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Weekend Edition where I try and find radical stuff to bring to your attention: Over at Corvair Fleet Management, there was this posting about Custom Corvairs being discussed at Corvair Center. You will have to make the jump to see the rest of these wild creations.
At the Corvair Fleet Management Blog, Tom Hughes (who is by the very definition, a Corvair Fanatic) wrote the following passage:
Serendipitously, there’s a current thread on the CorvairCenter forum called, “Custom Corvair pictures.” It was rather easy to find a blue-hued example of wackiness for today’s CPotD. Another crampside, or shortened rampside, this one uniquely sports single wheel openings for each side to envelope both front and rear wheels. Interesting to say the least.
Tom then links the reader to the Cover Center Forum Thread where members placed a number of Custom Corvair Images within the thread. Some of them are wild, while others are questionable. Take a look for yourself.
Image Source: Corvair Center Forums
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Shouldn't the lakepipes run back-to-front?
You can see the real exhaust poke out back
Yeah, but the fake exhausts spoil it for me. It's like putting big slicks on the rear wheels of a front wheel drive car.
The orange NO H2O is based on something close to my first car: a '63 convertible. I can't tell what year this one is, because they've customized the taillights and the grill beneath the rear bumper, which are major clues to the year of a first generation Corvair.
I love Nonstock's van. They've taken it on cross-country trips too.
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NotStock
A Corvair of every flavor. My favorite has got to be the Lakewood wagon.
Corvairs on a Saturday. This is like Bre'fas' Scotch for car-aholics! Some real interesting rides there.
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Can someone show me a forum post of this van? I want to use that satin blue paint on my project car!
I believe this is simply an industrial type paint, used to paint everything from locomotives to milling machines. One of the guys in our car club did his '53 Caddy in this sort of satin finish. I believe he said it was called Dupont Ecron or something like that. Its not very exensive, its super hard-wearing, and very easy/forgiving to spray. The hue he used on his Caddy was apparently the same black Norfolk Southern uses on their locomotives.
I'm not coming up with anything good googling Dupont Ecron or variations. I'd be interested in finding out more about it too – I think it would look great on my Kawasaki ZRX (especially since I'm lazy & don't like to wash the bike that much). If you can get any more info from the guy that used it on his Caddy, that would be excellent!
In the industrial paint category DuPont has a couple of brands that include paints with satin finishes: Corlar and Imron.
Excellent, thanks for the tip.
http://www.notstockphotography.com/, Give them a call or an email. Real friendly guys.
The stretched late model has been making the rounds at the national conventions for over 20 years.
Awwwwww!!!!!!! our van made the list lol. You should see it now….after our three month 12,000 mile road trip the paint had to be totally touched up so we took the opportunity to make it a little more 60's and add custom faded panels to the blue.
The paint itself is actually a Kia color from a minivan so it is just a simple basecoat clear using ppg base and matte clear
Thanks again for choosing our van as a custom/oddball in a sea of normality
John Jackson http://www.NotStockPhotography.com