64 Corvair caught on fire bigtime! What do I do now?

[Mfankha1]

Lucky guy. Sorry it happened. How does the top of the engine look under the shroud?

Matt

[TikiRalf]

Hi TikiRalf, I'm in Paris. The Netherlands is not too far...I'll keep an eye out for that white wagon! Hope you're well.

Yes is real close

Yes please do, and who knows if your ever in the netherlands and want to have a corvair talk, be my guest, coffee is ready

[NMVair]

You do have the right attitude. It seems to me with a little clean up and replacement of obviously burned parts you'll be well on your way to being back on the road. These guys seem to have some spare parts keep up the conversation and you'll be back on the road.
Personally, I would look at it as a demolition job. Just start removing parts until it looks unburned and then replace them with the old ones if they are good and newer ones if you need to. I would think you might be surprised at how much you can salvage. I mean it seems to me that these cars were mostly metal so that's a good start. Just keep chugging along. But also be honest with yourself you don't want to skimp on parts that are hard to get to. In those circumstances get a good replacement part. Its common sense. These cars are different but they are not complex, you can do it. Si, se puede! Go for it man. may the force be with you.
Dave
P.S. If it helps, probably 75% of Corvairs on the road need to replace their wiring harness. So you probably needed to do that anyway....

[azdave]

I noticed Ed's charred 64 back for sale again. Wonder how many times it has been sold since then? No one has ever bothered to fix the paint. What a shame after all we did to get it running.

Seller says, "Low miles and in really good condition". I've worked on that car plenty of times and know it quite well. Not the description I write.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/ ... 63947.html