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The Official Publication of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Corvair Society of America --- Chapter 947 Dedicated to the enjoyment, history and preservation of the Chevrolet Corvair produced from 1960 through 1969. This unique, rear-engined, air-cooled automobile grabs as much attention today as it did 50 years ago! VOLUME 281 JANUARY 2017 Look for us on the Web! http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/CorsaNews WEB 2.. Letter From the Editor 3. Treasurers Report 4.. Coming Events 4.. SFBA Corsa Meeting Schedule 2017 5.. South Coast Corsa Corvair Car Show 9 Corvair Classifieds Next Meeting - Thursday Jan 5 th 7:00PM - Black Bear Diner Hwy 680 at Sycamore Valley Rd in Danville Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! from SFBA Corsa! from SFBA Corsa! from SFBA Corsa! from SFBA Corsa! from SFBA Corsa!
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SFBA Corsa - January 2017 page 1
The Official Publication of theSan Francisco Bay AreaChapter of the Corvair Societyof America --- Chapter 947
Dedicated to the enjoyment, history andpreservation of the Chevrolet Corvairproduced from 1960 through 1969. Thisunique, rear-engined, air-cooled automobilegrabs as much attention today as it did 50years ago! VOLUME 281 JANUARY 2017
Look for us on the Web!http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/CorsaNews
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2.. Letter From the Editor
3. Treasurers Report
4.. Coming Events
4.. SFBA Corsa Meeting Schedule 2017
5.. South Coast Corsa Corvair Car Show
9 Corvair Classifieds
Next Meeting - Thursday Jan 5th
7:00PM - Black Bear Diner Hwy 680at Sycamore Valley Rd in Danville
Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!from SFBA Corsa!from SFBA Corsa!from SFBA Corsa!from SFBA Corsa!from SFBA Corsa!
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The Spyder Web is published twelve times a year by SFBA Corsa, Chapter 947 of the Corvair Society Of America (CORSA). The group meets monthly on thefirst Thursday at 7:00 PM at Black Bear Diner on Sycamore Valley Rd in Danville except for special occasions. Membership costs $25/yr (membership inCORSA, $38/yr, is encouraged). An associate membership (newsletter only) is avialable for $15/yr. Memberships begin on January 1 of each year (first year isprorated).
Advertising space in the Spyder Web is available for $50/yr (1/4 page), $75/yr (1/2 page), and $100/yr (full page). Business card size ads are $25/yr but do notinclude a subscription to the newsletter. All material should be sent to the editor (address above) or emailed to [email protected]. Material must bereceived at least two weeks prior to the next meeting date.
USE OF MATERIAL: Written permission from the Editor is required for all original material for any use other than reprinting in a Chartered CORSA Chapter newsletter.Permission must be sought in advance for material reprinted herein.
Current SFBA Corsa OfficersPresident Tony Richards, PO Box 765, Mill Valley, CA 94942 email: [email protected]
Vice-President Harry Kypreos, 7840 Creekside Dr,Dublin, CA 94568email: [email protected]
Secretary Clark Calkins, 1907 Alvarado Ave.,Walnut Creek, CA 94597 - (925)478-8909
email: [email protected]
Treasurer Paul Lacey, 16550 Blackberry Hill Rd,Los Gatos, CA 95030 - (408)354-9393email: [email protected]
Committees
Membership Harry Kypreos (address above)
Library Dave Newell, 1481 Hamrick Lane, Hayward, CA 94544 - (510)782-4265
Newsletter Clark Calkins (address above)
Editor At Large Tony Richards (address above)
Advertising Paul Lacey (address above)
InternetWeb http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/CorsaNewsemail [email protected]
Letter From the Editor
On The Cover: Our 2016 Annual Holiday Dinner was held at Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! in Dublin. One of the rare timesyou will see me in a photo. Thanks to Janet for taking this picture and adjusting the flash setting so as to not over power theforeground!
(see Letter... on page 3)
I hope you were able to attend our Holiday Dinner a
week or so ago. This year we had the dinner at Frankie,Johnnie, & Luigi Too!, an Italian restaurant in Dublin.We had fourteen members and guests in attendance.The food and the wait staff were excellent. I arrived around6:30 to let them know the “final” head-count and havethem save the cake for after dinner. I expected to be thefirst there, but I found Rob, Zandra & Ceasar, from Napa,were already sitting in the bar area. Shortly there afterothers started showing up. But right at 7:00 they hadthe table all set and we proceeded to sit down and thewaiter took good care of us. Even doing separate checkswhich made it much easier!
When I stopped by a few days earlier to give them ahead-count and menu selection list (as best I knew), Ispoke with the manager on duty then and he said thatour group was not too large and we could probably justorder off the regular menu. I didn’t think much more aboutthis. On Saturday night when we were seated they handedeveryone menus and I just assumed we could order what
we wanted. Then half way through the dinner the manager thisevening (the same lady I had originally spoke with)came up to meand asked if this list of dinners she had was ours. This was thesame list written up when I stopped by a few days earlier. I said yes
Cheese Cake for Dessert - Delicious!
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Treasurers Report – December 2016Paul Lacey
Checking Acct. Cash/ChecksBeginning Balance $3163.84 $00.00
Income New memberships $0.00
Expenses Newsletter (Dec) ($48.30)
Ending Balance $3115.54(*) $00.00
(*) My estimate.
that was ours but when we were seatedthe waiter gave us all menus so weassumed that we should order off that.After all the other manager (who wasalso on duty this evening) had said weprobably would do this.
Well as it turned out that they hadmade up the banquet menu items andwere keeping them separate. So nowthey had 10 or so extra dinners in thekitchen. Oops! Anyway when we left Ispoke again with the manager as I feltbad about the mix up. She said “Don’tworry about it, it was our mistake.” WellI guess the staff will at least eat wellthis night!
Interestingly after the last meeting whenwe had selected Frankie, Johnnie, &Luigi as the restaurant of choice, Istopped by the following night to makethe reservation. Originally we wantedSaturday Dec 3rd but this was bookedand I chose the next weekend, Dec10th, which was still available. Alsothey said that with a group our size (Ihad estimated 15-20 people based onour previous responses) we would needto pre-order off the Banquet Menu. As Iwasn’t certain this would be accept-able, I sent off emails to our Board tobe sure they thought this would beokay or else I could explore other op-tions. They said this was fine so I madeup the flyer with the Banquet Menu andasked people to let me know if and howmany would be coming and what theirselections would be.
A week or so later I was starting to getnervous because I hadn’t heard fromanyone and I was thinking that if Ineeded to change the reservations thattime was running out. But shortly thereafter I started getting some responsesso I decided to wait a bit longer beforepanicking. In a few days I would sendout a second request to those I hadn’theard from but expected to. Thisbrought in more responses and brought
the head count to twelve or so. Whenthere was only a week remaining be-fore the dinner I phoned all those I couldwhom I still hadn’t heard from just tobe sure they had gotten the message.
I know I worried too much and I hope Ididn’t bug people more than neces-sary. I wanted the dinner to be well at-tended as some were driving a long wayon what turned out to be a rainy day.
Now on to something completely dif-ferent. Skip Polacchi, a long timeSFBA member and Corvair Parts ven-dor, sent in the following note:
“Hello Clark, Thelma and I traveledto Palm Springs and participatedat the GWFBT. We enjoyed so-cializing with many of our SFBAclub members. The GWFBT wasa well organized event. Paul Laceystopped by my sellers space andwe shared old stories and currentevents. Thelma and a few wiveswere able to do some shoppingand site seeing on Saturday. Yesthe ride down and back is long butwe lay over at Fresno. Best ofhealth & spirit to you and Carol.”
Letter...Skip also sent in a new list of items forsale. See the Classifieds.
Also in the last newsletter I showed apicture of a vendor at the Fan Belt Tosswhere I said I couldn’t tell who the ven-dor was. That was Skip! To see why Imissed this, I went back to try and getthe original photo I used from the Cac-tus Corvair Club’s web site but the pagewas no longer there. I wonder if the Clubobjected to me “borrowing” the photosthey published? Quite possible. Ohwell.
Our next meeting will be on January5th at 7:00 PM again at Black BearDiner in Danville. See you there!
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Coming Events…January 5th 2017 Regular SFBA meeting, Black Bear Diner, 807 Camino Ramon,
Danville,CA
February 2nd Regular SFBA meeting, Black Bear Diner, 807 Camino Ramon,Danville,CA
March 2nd Regular SFBA meeting, Black Bear Diner, 807 Camino Ramon,Danville,CA
SFBA CORSA Meeting Schedule 2017Thursday Jan 5, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Feb 2, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Mar 2, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Apr 6, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday May 4, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Jun 1, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Jul 6, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Saturday Aug 5, 12:00PM SFBA/Valley Club Picnic at Quarry Lakes park, Fremont, CA
Thursday Sep 7, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Oct 5, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Thursday Nov 2, 7:00 PM SFBA Regular meeting, Black Bear Diner in Danville, CA
Saturday Dec 9, 7:00 PM SFBA Holiday Dinner, Location & Date to be determined.
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At the Holiday Dinner Josh Deitcher
(new SFBA member) showed somepictures of a Corvair Car Show he at-tended in Downey, CA (Southern Cali-fornia area). He and Chris Rogers (aformer SFBA member which you prob-ably remember) drove his ’64 110 con-vertible.
This was held at the original Bob’s BigBoy Restaurant. He was pleased thathis car made it there and back with noproblems. Even took the Questa Gradewithout issue.
He sent me this note and lots of pic-tures. Look at all of the Corvairs thatshowed up!
“Hi Clark, I wanted to thank you againfor putting on the dinner on Sat. It wasgreat to meet you guys and dinner waspretty good, too!
You mentioned that you would be in-
terested in some pictures from theSouth Coast Corsa show earlier thisyear at Bob’s Big Boy (FormerlyJohnnie’s Broiler) in Downey that I drovemy 64 down to. I have attached a few
South Coast Corsa Corvair Car Show
(see Car Show... on page 6)
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photos to this email and will send an-other with more photos. There’s also apic attached of that cheesecake thatyou brought.
“Looking forward to attending the first
meeting of the year next year.
“Here are the remainder of the pics fromthe show. I have many more and somefrom this years fan belt toss, if inter-ested. Let me know.
Happy Holidays to you and your fam-ily,~ Josh”
Here is Josh with his sign proclaiming he traveled500 miles to get to the Car Show. Now only another
500 to get home!
Car Show...
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ClassifiedsCorvairCORVAIRS FOR SALE
‘61 Monza coupe, this belonged tothe late Pete Peterson. Running whenparked, have been sitting for sometime.
Asking $900. Contact Sandy (408-248-3137) or Paul Lacey (408-354-9393.San Jose area. (03/16)
‘63 Greenbriar, this belonged to thelate Pete Peterson. Running whenparked, have been sitting for sometime.
Asking $1500. Contact Sandy (408-248-3137) or Paul Lacey (408-354-9393. San Jose area. (03/16)
CORVAIR CARS WANTED
Late model coupe, super straight,Monza or Corsa preferred. EveningOrchid would be best. Bruce Mooers,Napa aerea. (707)967-9600 - (12/15)
CORVAIR PARTS FORSALE
Walt Anderson has the following partsfor sale. These are NOS GM parts inoriginal boxes. He is located in Oak-land, call for details (510)531-1967,jwanders@ cwnet.com (04/16)
License Lamp Housings, FC & Lake-wood. Part #5954861 (2) $50/pair
Exhaust Valves (2) with keepers fir FCand Turbo. Part #3821002 - $20
Oil Cooler - 8 Plate Part #3155403 -$25
Skip Polacchi has the following partsfor sale. Parts are located in Red Bluff& Santa Rosa. Best to call evenings(530)474-4227. Besides these listedparts Skip also has many more engineparts, heads, cams, cranks, posi,turbo. All new or rebuilt.
F/C Turned brake drums (2) - $20
F/C Hub caps (4) - $20
F/C Front door NOS L&R lock latch -$30
Spyder Dash - has wooden face - $75
Corsa Communiqués + Quarterlies,1970 - 2000 - $150
1964 Rear Air Grill (NOS) $150
1964 Read Air Grill, very good. $75
1963-1964 Rear Axles with good bear-ings. $55 each
1964 Turbo Carb Kit, NOS major kit.$65
Early Bumper Guards, Reconditioned4 complete sets. $180 per set
Early Bumper Guards, used - verygood, 4 complete sets. $100-$120 perset.
Bill Thomas 4 carb heads (1 pr), angleport exhaust, all new parts $1500.
‘65-’69 R+L Rear Control Arms (1 pr)w/rebuilt axle bearings w/backing plate.$1300 both.
F/C Steering Box (1), excell used$75.
All New Engine parts from crank toheads for a 145 cu” motor $650.
Late 164 Rebuilt Motor, TRW STOpistons, long block no carbs, dist, alt$800.
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FIRST CLASS
To:
www.CaliforniaCorvairParts.com
SFBA CORSA1907 Alvarado AveWalnut Creek, CA 94597
