Saturday, July 21, 2018, the Corvairs were well represented at the annual Keeneland Concours. This great event is sponsored yearly as a fund raiser for the UK Children’s Hospital. Below are some images of our Corvairs as well as the Corvair Wanna Be. Enjoy.
We will meet Saturday June 16, at Unique Automotive at 10:00 AM.
Unique Automotive address is 3918 Bardstown Rd #3, Louisville, KY 40218.
After the garage tour we will drive thru The Parklands with a stop at the barns and big silo. Continuing thru the Park we will exit on Bardstown Road with a stop for lunch at Mark’s Feed Store. We have a room reserved at Mark’s. Location of Mark’s Feed Store on Bardstown Road
If you’ve ever owned a Corvair, you know all too well how difficult it can be to find someone with the skills and inclination to work on this rear-engined wonder. One of the great benefits of belonging to a local club is that this might be the only place you will find someone with both. At Derby City, we try to host at least two tech sessions annually. It’s a great way to make some needed improvements to your car and also, a chance for new Corvair owners to get a better understanding of their new cars.
The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY hosted a display of Corvairs in its Special Event display area for the month of October, 2009 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Corvair.
On October 2, 1959 Chevrolet dealerships across the country opened their doors to reveal the 1960 model Corvair. Originally intended to be a four door economy car, the Corvair developed into much more including sports cars, 2 and 4 door models, convertibles, station wagons, trucks and vans. The weekend of October 2 and 3, 2009, Bob Hook Chevrolet in Louisville, KY rolled back the clock and filled its showroom with a variety of Corvairs, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Corvair.
On September 15-16, members of the Derby City Corvair Club attended the second annual Hoosier Corvair Classic. Again the main event, the car display, was held at Ray Skillman’s Classic Car dealership in Greenwood, IN. We enjoyed perfect weather for the weekend and we all made it there and back without any major issues. As always, it was great to get together with our friends from Indianapolis. Thanks again to Circle City Corvairs for hosting this event.
As part of the “Tacoma or Bust” trip of almost 7000 miles, the last half (third?) of the trip had us traveling over a good portion of Route 66 – roughly from the California-Arizona Border (at Oatman, Arizona) to Oklahoma City.
More trip description hopefully to come…
Well we haven’t updated this site for a while so here are some of our events…
Mar 12 – Lexington St. Patrick’s Day Parade
April 21-24 – Corvair Springfest in Helen, GA
April 30 – trip to Ky/OH with VMCCA
May 7 – Derby Day party at Poneleit’s on the lake
July 12-16 – CORSA national Convention in Springfield, IL
Our trip so far….
This epic voyage began Wednesday, July 16, when Cliff and “Chicken Little” left Lexington with a goal of the national CORSA Convention in Tacoma, Washington with return route including Route 66 through the Southwest.
The first stop was dinner with an old friend, Scott Trunkhill in Iowa City. After spending the night in Cedar Rapids, IA, the site of the 2010 national convention, it was on to Rochester to meet up with Dave and Ina Keillor. The drive through northern Iowa and into Minnesota was nothing but miles and miles of cornfields. Then there was the occasional cattle car. Man, I don’t know when I’ve smelled anything that strong in my life. Staying ahead of them became the challenge of the day.
After arriving in Rochester, I spent the afternoon getting reacquainted with Dave and Ina. I met the two of them years ago at a performance workshop in Dayton, Ohio. Dave had been working on a 65 Monza that he and Ina sold to her brother back in 68. They re-acquired the car in 2004 and have done an incredible job of turning “Mr. Redd” into a beautiful example of what Chevrolet could have done with the car if they had wanted to.
Meanwhile, Beth was in Atlanta for the XSEDE conference. She will have to tell you what that stands for. I picked her up in the airport at 5:30 on Thursday. This is where things began to unravel. You can see from the photo that the airport isn’t very large. In fact, I’ve been in mall parking lots that were bigger than this. I got all turned around as we were leaving and for a split second, it looked like we were going to get hopelessly lost. Man, if I can’t get out of this parking lot, what business do I have traveling cross country? But, we finally got out. Thank goodness for the peanut trail
On to I-90!
Windmills!
Gas at a Sinclair station
Badlands
Sunset
Then on to Wall, SD
Saturday morning we visited Wall Drug in Wall, SD – billboards advertise “Free Ice Water!” “5 cent coffee!” and what got Cliff: “Homemade donuts!” famous since the 1930s.
Then Saturday saw 500+ miles on I-90 west toward Bozeman, Montana
Went thru a corner of Wyoming.
Met a Wyoming Highway Patrol Officer
Welcome to Montana
Here are all the photos from my digital camera of the 2014 parade. Thanks for coming out, everybody! To view as a slideshow, just click the first picture, then you can navigate forward and backward through all the pictures. Enjoy!
