Antelope Valley, So. Cal., Home of El Mirage and the SCTA

[Corossa]

Hi newbie here,
I just retired and am looking to build a Corvair 8. I am in high desert as yourselves, Scott and Phil .
looks like I just missed a couple of biggies and nothing in December, so I'll have to wait for the next meeting................looks like you meet at the same restaurant the board of another club I belong to meets, what a coincidence!

I had a '65 T500 back in day, a hand me down from my dad after he put 180,000 commuter miles on it. I took it to college for a couple.
Sold it to my brother to buy a motorcycle. he seized it 45 minutes later, limped it home to put it into his Greenbrier. Lately I've been looking to replace it.
Ross

[flat6_musik]

Welcome to the forum, high desert brethren! Hope to see your progress in a thread sometime soon! Yup, I just went out to El Mirage a few weeks back.......I saw one corvair out there among all the other neat stuff that was running.

[Phil Dally]

WELCOME!!! Where are you exactly.

We have another member also looking for a V8.

I know a thing or two about running a landspeed Corvair.

I've been campaigning my F/BGALT coupe at El Mirage for 12 years.

P/M me your e-mail address and I'll add you to the High Desert club notification list.

[Phil Dally]

These are the kinds of racers you might see out at El Mirage on any given race day.

On the left is retired legendary multiple 300+ mph landspeed record holder Ken Walkey.

And I think we all know who that guy on the right is...at least you better know.

The streamliner was Ken's...SBC hung on a Toronado , with a gearvender in front of that.

Ken said the front wheel drive made it a one hand on the steering wheel at 300 mph drive.