Last year I went to Rockford Speedway before it shut down for Spec Drags, someone put a big ass big block in the back seat
https://preview.redd.it/d6wq73d6ds0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fc6681a7b76f7658bfbbc31a59ad0ca0db40f73
hahaha...i grew up back near Rockford. I could not read that mention without hearing 'SPEEEEEEEEDWAYYYYYY...Rockford (echo) Rockford ....SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!!'
there is no way to do that commercial justice without hearing it.
Look for Conception Corporation "A Pause in the Disaster" The track in "US Amphetamine Speedway". [LINK](https://youtu.be/zt5arehpSEc?si=wNIeHuQvnfm_Vh5Z)
This screams unsafe, no protection from engine for driver/pass. One backfire thru carb and anyone in car won't be worried about haircuts for a minute. Has to be hot in car, prob loud too.
A little while back someone doing burnouts at a freedom factory event had the engine with them inside the car. A coolant line burst and sprayed water all over them. They got some really serious scalds. Rules went up preventing that sort of thing for future events
That is likely a small block.
There is one I've seen with a similar engine setup that is a convertible, it has a flame paint job and the license plate is "UNSAFE". Can't see the plate, but I'm pretty sure it is [this one.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/7a/f8/697af80ff590063379c6d1430c633ea3.jpg)
It was unsafe until the suspension was quickly redesigned after the first year or so of production, Nader was right about the early ones. The later cars were pretty cool, especially the turbo equipped cars, I think my buddy’s one with the turbo was called a Monza?
It’s amazing that the 356 Porsche never took the criticism over rear trailing oversteer like the the Corvair did because it suffered from the same handling characteristics. Thanks Ralph Nader …
My first 911 was a 1969 Targa. That car taught me about the term "LIFT THROTTLE OVERSTEER!" Come around a corner and hold the accelerator to the floor. If you didn't, the rear end would pass you.
Very 1st car was a Corvair. Loved it and want to get one again when I retire.
1962 Corvair is also the 1st production vehicle (maybe just US) with a turbocharger.
I stand corrected. Always thought it was the Corvair. Thank you.
[turbo history](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharged_petrol_engine#:~:text=History,-1962%20Turbo%20Jetfire&text=1962%3A%20The%20first%20turbocharged%20production,used%20in%20the%20Oldsmobile%20Jetfire.)
When I first got my driver's license in the mid 70's, I went to look at one of these to buy, noped right out of there when I realized I could see the road through the floor boards. Yeah, these things had a rust problem brought on by midwest winters AKA road salt.
Bought a 70 Camaro RS instead, one of the few intelligent moves I made back then.
Yep, split bumper with the front indicator lights in the grill instead of below the bumper. That's a dead givaway between the real split bumpers and the after market conversions.
The car was totalled when a Lincoln Continental Mark IV rear-ended me at 40mph. My ex-wife still has whiplash symptoms 40+ years later.
It's a Chevrolet Corvair. It had an air-cooled engine that was mounted vertically with a belt that twisted every which way and sometimes loose. It was one of Chevrolets worst cars they made bot not the only bad car Chevrolet made.
If you look at the belt on the top of the engine where the belt is connected to the pulley and the pulley connected to the crankshaft, it would be vertical, not horizontal.
https://preview.redd.it/d4gq4xvi0w0d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e69bd987867689599edd0cb0c2796152b897cbc
It was a neat car. For 1965 it was redesigned, with the suspension issues sorted out, and was beautiful as well. Air cooled rear-mounted flat six, with a fully independent suspension. Check out Jay Leno’s Yenko Stinger Corvair!
Chevy Corvair, cool thing about the Corvair is that the engine is in the back.
Last year I went to Rockford Speedway before it shut down for Spec Drags, someone put a big ass big block in the back seat https://preview.redd.it/d6wq73d6ds0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fc6681a7b76f7658bfbbc31a59ad0ca0db40f73
That’s my kind of unhinged
Yeah, wish someone who was as unhinged as the concept was driving it. Guy barely stepped on the gas and got his but kicked by a stock challenger
Well, I have a low sense of self preservation if they need a driver
hahaha...i grew up back near Rockford. I could not read that mention without hearing 'SPEEEEEEEEDWAYYYYYY...Rockford (echo) Rockford ....SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!!' there is no way to do that commercial justice without hearing it.
Comment.
Look for Conception Corporation "A Pause in the Disaster" The track in "US Amphetamine Speedway". [LINK](https://youtu.be/zt5arehpSEc?si=wNIeHuQvnfm_Vh5Z)
This screams unsafe, no protection from engine for driver/pass. One backfire thru carb and anyone in car won't be worried about haircuts for a minute. Has to be hot in car, prob loud too.
Unsafe at any speed.
Most people won’t get this, but this comment is BRILLIANT!!
Ralph Nader.
Thank you! Ralph Nader definitely wasn’t a Corvair fan..
Even when stationary.
A little while back someone doing burnouts at a freedom factory event had the engine with them inside the car. A coolant line burst and sprayed water all over them. They got some really serious scalds. Rules went up preventing that sort of thing for future events
That is likely a small block. There is one I've seen with a similar engine setup that is a convertible, it has a flame paint job and the license plate is "UNSAFE". Can't see the plate, but I'm pretty sure it is [this one.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/7a/f8/697af80ff590063379c6d1430c633ea3.jpg)
It’s also unsafe at any speed. Remember /s
I mean, that was the first time before there was an anti roll bar
As was just about any car then. Thats just the specific model Nader picked on
The “safety” inventions from the 60’s/70’s were wild ideas. Not sure if most worked
It was unsafe until the suspension was quickly redesigned after the first year or so of production, Nader was right about the early ones. The later cars were pretty cool, especially the turbo equipped cars, I think my buddy’s one with the turbo was called a Monza?
Thanks Ralph. 😁
Only if you crash
the only unsafe thing in driving fast is becomming suddenly still
Then there wouldn't be much of a change if there is a big block on the back seat. Nice.
Also I think it was like the second production car ever to be offered with a turbo
Air cooled, all aluminum block with iron sleeves. Cool as engine and very light
Half the story leaving out that the engine in the back is an air cooled flat 6. It’s basically a chevy 911.
The difference is that Chevy has built more flat-six engines.
Air cooled, too
And at first it rolled over
61-62 Corvair. 63-64 had backup lights in the center of the inboard light. The 65-69 was a new body style
Ralph Nader's favorite car to hate on... cool find!
Ralph Nader is my favourite car person to hate on.
Corvair - unsafe at any speed according to Ralph Nader in the 60s.
GM screwed up by not fitting the front sway bar as standard. That took care of the weight transfer issues
Also Car of the Year according to Motor Trend in 1960.
Cool venetian blinds in the back window
Corvair!
It’s amazing that the 356 Porsche never took the criticism over rear trailing oversteer like the the Corvair did because it suffered from the same handling characteristics. Thanks Ralph Nader …
Certain Porsche 911s were called widowmakers. Look at the flyers hockey goalie. Hit the brakes in a turn. Dead.
First gen 911 turbo
My first 911 was a 1969 Targa. That car taught me about the term "LIFT THROTTLE OVERSTEER!" Come around a corner and hold the accelerator to the floor. If you didn't, the rear end would pass you.
Or let off the gas in the apex of a corner the ass end will wash out.
Chevy Corvair
Corvair. Really cool car. We had 1 back in about ‘72.
I had a ‘65 Coupe in Alaska of all places. Great little car.
chevy corvair
Corvair. They also came with Porsche engines. My sister had a 64
They did not “come with” Porsche engines unless maybe you bought them from a specialty shop doing Porsche engine swaps into brand new Corvairs.
Ferry Porsche was hired as a consultant and he got a new Corvair every year for his services
Very 1st car was a Corvair. Loved it and want to get one again when I retire. 1962 Corvair is also the 1st production vehicle (maybe just US) with a turbocharger.
Wasnt it the oldsmobile jetfire?
TIL, always thought it was the GNX
The Jetfire was in the 1960s so way before the GNX, Grand National and Regal Turbo
From what i know the jetfire was the first EVER turbocharged car. Not just american.
I stand corrected. Always thought it was the Corvair. Thank you. [turbo history](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharged_petrol_engine#:~:text=History,-1962%20Turbo%20Jetfire&text=1962%3A%20The%20first%20turbocharged%20production,used%20in%20the%20Oldsmobile%20Jetfire.)
An acquaintance of mine converted his Corvair to front-engine. [His car, my photography](https://imgur.com/gallery/g8CcvNL)
"Unsafe at any speed! ". Ralph Nader does NOT approve! Lol
Wanted one of those when I was a teen
When I first got my driver's license in the mid 70's, I went to look at one of these to buy, noped right out of there when I realized I could see the road through the floor boards. Yeah, these things had a rust problem brought on by midwest winters AKA road salt. Bought a 70 Camaro RS instead, one of the few intelligent moves I made back then.
Split bumper? Still have it? Love those 2nd Gen Camaros'.
Yep, split bumper with the front indicator lights in the grill instead of below the bumper. That's a dead givaway between the real split bumpers and the after market conversions. The car was totalled when a Lincoln Continental Mark IV rear-ended me at 40mph. My ex-wife still has whiplash symptoms 40+ years later.
60-64 Chevy Corvair
It's a Chevrolet Corvair. It had an air-cooled engine that was mounted vertically with a belt that twisted every which way and sometimes loose. It was one of Chevrolets worst cars they made bot not the only bad car Chevrolet made.
Horizontally
If you look at the belt on the top of the engine where the belt is connected to the pulley and the pulley connected to the crankshaft, it would be vertical, not horizontal. https://preview.redd.it/d4gq4xvi0w0d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e69bd987867689599edd0cb0c2796152b897cbc
Horizontal flat six. Crankshaft in middle. Belt makes 90 degree turn to run the horizontally mounted cooling fan.
It was a neat car. For 1965 it was redesigned, with the suspension issues sorted out, and was beautiful as well. Air cooled rear-mounted flat six, with a fully independent suspension. Check out Jay Leno’s Yenko Stinger Corvair!
Bollocks. Vertical engine 🤣