Harvs11 Posted 25February, 2014 Report Share Posted 25February, 2014 Close your eyes and you could be forgiven for thinking "911"http://youtu.be/eTGayn3Y800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myred911 Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 ahh Ralph Nader went to town on this. Surprised any survive to this day. Good to see it tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Definitely a cult car and there are still quite a few in the USA. You'd definitely take one over an early Valiant or Ford, wouldn't you? They tried to get through the world's toughest jungle in ~1961 in these. Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhH1U_NAcM Just watch the water crossings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrest Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Definitely a cult car and there are still quite a few in the USA. You'd definitely take one over an early Valiant or Ford, wouldn't you? They tried to get through the world's toughest jungle in ~1961 in these. Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhH1U_NAcM Just watch the water crossings What a knockout loved every minute of it. Camp & cheesy sure, but they still did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Like with the Mooney 911 aircraft . they also had this variant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myred911 Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Like with the Mooney 911 aircraft . they also had this variant! Hi TAZZIE, I have met a few Mooney owners, all seems to hold the Porsche Engine in high regard. Reading between the lines is seems that the airframe conversion to accommodate a longer engine was very expensive. Porsche butted heads with the entrenched engine manufacturer, Lycoming in the US who pressured the FAA to delay its certification. In the end Porsche gave up. Mooney sued Porsche for whatever but I never heard the outcome. rEd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 The problem indeed was money...a lesser engined plane could do the same functional job ; appears there was no crying need to reinvent that particular wheel at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZ930 Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Two Porsche engines were used on the "Bond's blimp". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 26February, 2014 Report Share Posted 26February, 2014 Two Porsche engines were used on the "Bond's blimp". and now back on topic! http://youtu.be/n86B2NQKwMo and The area where it might let you down is in the twisties, and that brings up an important point about the Corvair, for which many an auto enthusiast can never forgive- it gave us Ralph Nader. His book, Unsafe at Any Speed,lamented the unique handling characteristics of a swing axle rear suspension. Which, when exacerbated by the pendulum-like effect of the engine back there creating excessive oversteer, lead to several Corvair-related accidents.P Never mind that thousands of European drivers had been managing to not get killed by similarly designed cars for decades, Nader knew Americans needed protection from these Detroit deathtraps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnr356 Posted 27February, 2014 Report Share Posted 27February, 2014 yes,i used to rebuild them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnr356 Posted 27February, 2014 Report Share Posted 27February, 2014 ahh Ralph Nader went to town on this. Surprised any survive to this day. Good to see it tho. oh,they're still around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 1March, 2014 Report Share Posted 1March, 2014 Wow, that made me want a corvair. The fact some nanny state guy hated them makes me want one even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter M Posted 1March, 2014 Report Share Posted 1March, 2014 What a knockout loved every minute of it. Camp & cheesy sure, but they still did it. I even watched part II and just loved how the cars looked completely pummelled when they finally made it but the white tyres gleamed! The first series had Beetle like swing axles but the later squared shaped cars had a similar rear end set up to the corvettes. It's odd that they sold 1.8 million but they are remembered as failures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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