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The Official Publication of theSan Francisco Bay AreaChapter of the Corvair Societyof America --- Chapter 947
Dedicated to the enjoyment, history andpreservation of the Chevrolet Corvairproduced from 1960 through 1969. Thisunique, rear-engined, air-cooled automobilegrabs as much attention today as it did 50years ago! VOLUME 277 SEPTEMBER 2016
Look for us on the Web!http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/CorsaNews
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2.. Letter From the Editor
3. Treasurers Report
4.. Coming Events
4.. SFBA Corsa Meeting Schedule 2016
5.. Car Talk
6.. 2016 SFBA/Valley Picnic & “Car Show”
11. Corvair Classifieds
Ray Welter with His“New” ‘64 Spyder
Next Meeting -Tech SessionSaturday Sep 10th 10:00AM, 7840Creekside Dr, Dublin, CA 94568
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The Spyder Web is published twelve times a year by SFBA Corsa, Chapter 947 of the Corvair Society Of America (CORSA). The group meets monthly on thefirst Thursday at 7:00 PM at Black Bear Diner on Sycamore Valley Rd in Danville except for special occasions. Membership costs $25/yr (membership inCORSA, $38/yr, is encouraged). An associate membership (newsletter only) is avialable for $15/yr. Memberships begin on January 1 of each year (first year isprorated).
Advertising space in the Spyder Web is available for $50/yr (1/4 page), $75/yr (1/2 page), and $100/yr (full page). Business card size ads are $25/yr but do notinclude a subscription to the newsletter. All material should be sent to the editor (address above) or emailed to [email protected]. Material must bereceived at least two weeks prior to the next meeting date.
USE OF MATERIAL: Written permission from the Editor is required for all original material for any use other than reprinting in a Chartered CORSA Chapter newsletter.Permission must be sought in advance for material reprinted herein.
Current SFBA Corsa OfficersPresident Tony Richards, PO Box 765, Mill Valley, CA 94942 email: [email protected]
Vice-President Harry Kypreos, 7840 Creekside Dr,Dublin, CA 94568email: [email protected]
Secretary Clark Calkins, 1907 Alvarado Ave.,Walnut Creek, CA 94597 - (925)478-8909
email: [email protected]
Treasurer Paul Lacey, 16550 Blackberry Hill Rd,Los Gatos, CA 95030 - (408)354-9393email: [email protected]
Committees
Membership Harry Kypreos (address above)
Library Dave Newell, 1481 Hamrick Lane, Hayward, CA 94544 - (510)782-4265
Newsletter Clark Calkins (address above)
Editor At Large Tony Richards (address above)
Advertising Paul Lacey (address above)
InternetWeb http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/CorsaNewsemail [email protected]
Letter From the Editor
On The Cover: Ray Welter recently picked up this nice ‘64 Spyder. He already has a ‘62 that he was going to fix up, but hecould buy this Spyder from a friend for less than he was going to have to spend on his ‘62. And it’s in great shape. So he nowhas two Corvairs. It’s funny how thery multiply. Welcome to the club!
(see Letter... on page 3)
I hope everyone enjoyed our Annual SFBA/Valley Pic-
nic as much as I did. I arrived a bit early to try andsecure a couple of nice tables for our use. But evengetting there a bit before 10:00 am was not enough. Myfavorite tables (the two at the end with great views onthe lakes and parking lot) were already “taken”. In factthere were only two tables in this section that were avail-able. Fortunately they were decent tables over lookingthe parking lot (soon to become Corvair Car Show) and,if you stood up, you could also see the lakes. On thebright side these both had newer BBQs that made start-ing the coals easier (they could be turned so face thebreeze if desired). Not too bad. I unloaded my stuff to“occupy” these tables and they settled in with my cof-fee and donuts.
When I arrived, most tables were already “taken”.
Just as I was beginning to question if I had the correctdate, Paul showed up (around 10:45). As seems to hap-pen every year, people start arriving around 11:30 as Iam getting the coals fired up. First one Corvair, thenanother, and another... In all five or six Corvairs showedup (evenly split earlies and lates).
The attendance this year was quite good. Even without some of ourusual attendees (Ed & Faye, Fred & Marlene, and others) I counted18 people. For the first time I can remember there were more SFBA
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Treasurers Report – August 2016Paul Lacey
Checking Acct. Cash/ChecksBeginning Balance $3179.06 $00.00
Income New memberships $45.00
Expenses Newsletter (August) ($36.48) Picnic (approx) ($50.00)
Ending Balance $3137.58(*) $00.00
(*) My estimate.
than Valley folks. Several peoplebrought extra lounge chairs whichworked out well.
In the end we finished off about 15burgers, 10 dogs, and a tri-tip accom-panied by several salads, pies, veggietrays, cookies, and a wonderful pump-kin bread. I manned the burger BBQand Seth took care of the tri-tip on theother BBQ. This worked well. For surenobody left hungry. You will find sev-eral pictures on pages 6 - 8.
Just as we were leaving, Paul had adead battery in his Corvette. I tried tojump start his car but the battery wasso dead that it just wouldn’t do any-thing (no click, no nothing). Paul calledAAA and within 15 minutes the truckarrived (a world record response time Iam sure). He had to use two batteriesin series (that’s 24 volts) to get the carstarted. I hope Paul made it home okay!
Thanks to Tony, we have three newmembers this month. They decided toswitch from “Charter Members” to “As-sociate Members”. Thanks Tony andwelcome Terry Hoffer, Bernard Roxx,and Gene Keller!
This month you will find another “CarTalk” column by Tony. This is very help-ful as I am sure everybody gets tired ofreading what I write. I want to encour-age everyone to send in material forthe newsletter. Especially pictures.After all it is Your Club!
Our next meeting will be a Tech Ses-sion at Harry's house in Dublin. Thetheme this time will be on de-flashingCorvair heads for better, more even,cooling. This is an important subjectas you will find out It should be inter-esting! Members of Valley are certainlywelcome as are family and friends.There will be plenty. As usual a BBQwill follow the demonstrations and therewill be coffee and donuts (if you getthere early enough that is). The sched-uled starting time is 10:00 am.
Letter...
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Coming Events…
September 10th SFBA Tech Session. Harry & Carol Kypreos house, 7840 CreeksideDr, Dublin, CA 94568
October 6th Regular SFBA meeting, Black Bear Diner, 807 Camino Ramon,Danville,CA
November 3rd Regular SFBA meeting, Black Bear Diner, 807 Camino Ramon,Danville,CA
SFBA CORSA Meeting Schedule 2016Thursday Jan 7, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Feb 4, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Mar 3, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Apr 7, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday May 5, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Jun 9, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Jul 7, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA - Hwy 680 at SycamoreValley Rd
Saturday Aug 6, 12:00PM SFBA/Valley Club Picnic at Quarry Lakes park, Fremont, CA
Saturday Sep 10, 10:00 AM SFBA Tech Session, Harry & Carol Kypreos’ house, 7840Creekside Dr, Dublin. CA, 94568. BBQ follows.
Thursday Oct 6, 10:00 AM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA - Hwy 680 at SycamoreValley Rd.
Thursday Nov 3, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting,Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA - Hwy 680 at SycamoreValley Rd.
Saturday Dec 1, 7:00 PM SFBA Holiday Dinner, tentative date and location to be determined.
SFBA Corsa - September 2016 page 5
CAR TALKby Tony Richards
I don't watch television. Not network
TV anyway. I usually rent a disc fromNetflix.Some series I have watched this pastyear include 'Six Feet Under'. The se-ries opens with Nathaniel Fisher, amortician, getting killed when his newCadillac hearse gets broadsided by abus. The rest of the show depicts mem-bers of the Fisher family, who run theirfuneral home in Pasadena. The seriestraces these characters' lives over thecourse of five years.
Not really any cool cars in this one.
Another series I watched was 'Dexter',a television series set in Miami, cen-ters on Dexter Morgan, a forensic tech-nician specializing in blood splatterpattern analysis for the fictional MiamiMetro Police Department, who leads asecret parallel life as a vigilante serialkiller, hunting down murderers whohave slipped through the cracks of thejustice system.
Again, not really any cool cars.
Recently a TV series I found on Netflixwas 'Fargo', seasons 1 & 2. If you eversaw the movie of the same name, Fargois a dark comedy crime thriller, filmwritten, produced, edited, and directedby the Coen Brothers. It stars FrancesMacDormand as a pregnant Minnesotapolice chief investigating roadside ho-
micides that ensue after a strugglingOldsmobile car salesman, played byWilliam H. Macy, hires two criminalsto kidnap his wife in order to extort ahefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.
In Fargo, season 1 of the TV series,Billy Bob Thornton stars. Set in Janu-ary 2006, the season follows drifterLorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) whostops at a hospital following a car ac-cident and influences local mild-man-nered insurance salesman LesterNygaard with his violent and deceptiveways. Their meeting sets forth a se-ries of murders throughout the city.Meanwhile, Deputy Molly Solversonand Officer Gus Grimly attempt to solveseveral crimes across the state theybelieve may be linked to Malvo andNygaard.
Not really any cool cars in this show,either.
Then I order up Fargo, season 2 of theTV series, a prequel to the events inseason 1, takes place in themidwestern United States in March1979. It follows the lives of a youngcouple—Peggy and Ed Blumquist —as they attempt to cover up the hit-and-run and subsequent murder of RyeGerhardt, the son of Floyd Gerhardt,matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family.During this time, state trooper LouSolverson and sheriff Hank Larsson
(well played by Ted Danson), investi-gate three murders linked to Rye.
Now for the cool car part: Peggy wasdriving a light metallic blue 1965 CorvairMonza coupe when she struck RyeGerhardt as he crossed the road aftermurdering the third of three people.Sadly, Peggy's husband Ed, trying to'cover up' the damage to the Corvairthat occured when Peggy hit Gerhardt,deliberately runs the Corvair into a tree.But the Gerhardt family goon figures itout by matching a piece of broken head-light lens found at the scene of the hit-and-run with the headlight on theCorvair at the body shop.
Ed and Peggy Blumquist are not verysmart people; other than the fact thatthey own a Corvair.
The story revolves around the Corvair.It is featured in most of the episodes!
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2016 SFBA/Valley Picnic & “Car Show”- by Clark and Others
Here is a beautiful view of then lakes. The water level looks tobe fairly high. You can’t see here, but there were boating and
fishing going on.
The “condiment table” had all of the fixings for the burgers andhot dogs. Off to the side were several salads, veggie trays,
and desserts.
For those that think that I don’t get to eat. Between foodrequests I grabbed a burger & hot dog. Can’t have just one!
Seth is talking with Harry, Roger, Walt and his wife (just offthe picture unfortunately). As you can see it was a verypleasant day. The initial cloud cover burned off by noon.
Here are a few pictures of our Annual
SFBA/Valley Picnic at Quarry LakesPark in Fremont. It was an exception-ally cool day for August. The initial over-
cast gave way to partial sun by after-noon. All-in-all very pleasant. While Iwas manning the BBQ someone else(I forgot whom - sorry) was taking the
pictures. Both of the piknicers andCorvairs in the lot. Thanks!
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Paul discussing something important I am sure with ? (sorry Idid not get the name - or just forgot).
Tony standing by his ride this afternoon. Well at least it’s aChevy.
Corvairs are starting to line up. If only we had a way to reserve a section of the lot all of our cars could be together. hemm,
Valley member Corsa Fernando? standing by his late modelconvertible.
Ray Welter’s nice ‘64 Spyder. Check out those wheels!
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Walt Anderson’s nice ‘64 convertible. Notice the rear hood hasbeen raised for added cooling.
Harry’s ‘62 convertible. Love the license plates!
Roger’s nice late model coupe. Greart paint job! Just another view of the lot.
Walt moved the battery to the front. Note the cut-off switch sohe can disconnect the battery for storage.
I am getting ready to leave and Paul needs a jump as hisbattery went dead. Some how the ignition was left on.
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To get to Harry’s, take Foothill/San Ramon Rd off of Hwy 580 and go North one block. Make a left turn at the light on Dublin Blvd
and go three blocks. Turn right at the stop light on Silvergate Dr. Go about nine blocks and turn left on Creekside Dr. Harry’shouse is a block and a half on the left (three houses past Wildcat Ct next to an un-built parcel).
Harry Kypreos, 7840 Creekside Dr, Dublin, CA (925)875-1408
Tech Session Directions(Saturday, September 10th at 10:00AM)
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ClassifiedsCorvairCORVAIRS FOR SALE
‘61 Monza coupe, this belonged tothe late Pete Peterson. Running whenparked, have been sitting for sometime.
Asking $900. Contact Sandy (408-248-3137) or Paul Lacey (408-354-9393.San Jose area. (03/16)
‘63 Greenbriar, this belonged to thelate Pete Peterson. Running whenparked, have been sitting for sometime.
Asking $1500. Contact Sandy (408-248-3137) or Paul Lacey (408-354-9393. San Jose area. (03/16)
CORVAIR CARS WANTED
Late model coupe, super straight,Monza or Corsa preferred. EveningOrchid would be best. Bruce Mooers,Napa aerea. (707)967-9600 - (12/15)
CORVAIR PARTS FORSALE
Walt Anderson has the following partsfor sale. These are NOS GM parts inoriginal boxes. He is located in Oak-land, call for details (510)531-1967,jwanders@ cwnet.com (04/16)
License Lamp Housings, FC & Lake-wood. Part #5954861 (2) $50/pair
Exhaust Valves (2) with keepers fir FCand Turbo. Part #3821002 - $20
Oil Cooler - 8 Plate Part #3155403 -$25
Skip Polacchi has the following partsfor sale. Parts are located in Red Bluff& Santa Rosa. Best to call evenings(530)474-4227. Besides these listedparts Skip also has many more engineparts, heads, cams, cranks, posi,turbo. All new or rebuilt.
F/C Turned brake drums (2) - $20
F/C Hub caps (4) - $20
F/C Front door NOS L&R lock latch -$30
Spyder Front dash harness to fusebox for F/C - $25
Spyder Dash - has wooden face - $75
Corsa Communiqués + Quarterlies,1970 - 2000 - $150
New Tires 205 75R14 on rims for F/C(2) - $75
1964 Wood wheels with hubs, horn &contacts. - (2) at $300 each, (1) at$200
1964 Rear Air Grill (NOS) $150
1964 Read Air Grill, very good. $75
1963-1964 Rear Axles with good bear-ings. $55 each
1964 Turbo Carb Kit, NOS major kit.$65
1964 Rear Differential, rebuilt with3:27 gears 4 spider, double snout. $375
Early Bumper Guards, Reconditioned4 complete sets. $180 per set
Early Bumper Guards, used - verygood, 4 complete sets. $100-$120 perset.
1964 Spyder Dash, excellent face, allguages working, senior class. $225
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FIRST CLASS
To:
SFBA CORSAPO BOX 422ORINDA, CA 94563
www.CaliforniaCorvairParts.com
