corvair in stock or superstock?
 

is there or was there ever a chevy corvair in stock? would be kinda cool to run one what class would that go into v/s?

Re: corvair in stock or superstock?
 

Tom Gould out of South Carolina has one that he's raced in IHRA as well as NHRA over the years.

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Re: corvair in stock or superstock?
 

is he on the site? any contact info? since getting rid of the old yeller nova, this 65 corvair i have is begging for attention.

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Tom races IHRA in D2 pretty much now a days and I have seen in several times in the last couple of years. I forget what race it was but I remember seeing that silver bullet put the front tires in the air about 6 inches on a few runs. BTW the car is in show room shape! Jim


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Re: corvair in stock or superstock?
 

I'm pretty sure he is on this site, but doesn't post much. I don't know the name he goes by here or have any contact info handy.

Re: corvair in stock or superstock?
 

Pretty sure he goes by "TGould". Weird huh? Jim
His email is
tgould@hargray.com

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Didnt Bob Shaw win the Sportnationals in 1975 with a Corvair?

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ron seibenick won indy class like a 100 times in a corvair still has the car now he races a fwd car

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Waaay back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was a Corvair stocker called "Slo-Iz-Cheep". It was raced in the Mpls/St.Paul area by Roger Wilhelmy, a technician at a Chevrolet dealership in St. Paul. One of the coolest races I've ever seen (to this day) was the final of "Legal Eliminator" (basically a Saturday night bracket race made up of Stock, Super Stock and then-Modified cars), at Twin City Speedway. The contestants were Gene Pearson, with his "Impossible Dream" A/MP Camaro and Roger Wilhelmy, with his Corvair. The dial-in difference was like 8 seconds, and Pearson spent most of that literally just idling on the starting line. He caught Roger a millimeter before the finish line and won the race. When they came out into to the burnout box, you couldn't find a place to stand.

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283Nova, The 110 hp Corvairs are natural V/S cars. The 95 hp (factored to 100 hp after Bob Shaw won the Sports Nationals in 1975) cars are natural W/S cars but have to run V/S in NHRA since no 6 cylinder cars are allowed in W/S. So, if you are going to run NHRA, the 110 is the better choice. IHRA allows 6 cylinder cars in W/S.

Tom Gould