Cage build has begun!

Racerlinn · 09-23-2004, 12:29 PM

Dropped my baby off a couple weeks ago at my cage fabricator. It's slowly progressing (they have day jobs and they are doing me a favor as my car is the only non-Corvair that they have worked on in many years and they are plenty busy with race Corvairs). Here's a few pics of the progress so far:

Hope to have it back in a couple weeks so I can get a track event in before it gets too cold to shake the car down a bit. I miss my car. This is the first time it has been "away" since I bought it in April 1992......

nismo91 · 09-23-2004, 12:34 PM

Looking good so far! (Viewing with envy/jealousy)

Can't wait to have my cage install someday.

Jim #98NX · 09-23-2004, 05:59 PM

Looks good... make sure you do the lower X in the back!

Welcome to the club.

FastNX · 09-23-2004, 09:03 PM

awesome!

It's hard to beleive there are racing Covairs. I saw one at Mosport and I went to check it out in the pits afterwards to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

///M5 · 09-23-2004, 10:46 PM

damn that's nice i want one.....

Racerlinn · 09-24-2004, 08:40 AM

Mainly vintage stuff, hill climbs, and lots of Solo's. Central Indiana seems to have the highest percentage of active competition Corvairs in the country. We have had as many as 6 at a normal, regional Solo event. We almost always have at least 3.

Unfortunately the lower X in the rear is not in the budget right now.

Peter · 09-24-2004, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Racerlinn

Mainly vintage stuff, hill climbs, and lots of Solo's. Central Indiana seems to have the highest percentage of active competition Corvairs in the country. We have had as many as 6 at a normal, regional Solo event. We almost always have at least 3.

Unfortunately the lower X in the rear is not in the budget right now.

I'd heard about corvair owners talking about how much fun they
were, never imagined people actually racing them. Nice cage!

I can't *wait* to be at the point where I'm gutting my own
Classic and putting a cage in. I can get all the straight tubing
pretty easy, but the mandrel bender isn't something I have, so
I'll end up with the autopower weld-in kit.

Nice cage again!

Peter

Racerlinn · 09-24-2004, 09:51 AM

I had the opportunity to drive his red Stinger at a Solo event:
http://www.corvaircorsa.com/yenko04.html
Warren has 2 race/solo corvairs, 1 "factory" drag race car (it's way cool), 2 street corvairs, a corvair station wagon, and a corvair pickup. It's definately a life style. The Sentra doesn't fit in very well at his shop.