409 Corvair

[clm69z28]

Where I grew up in the Orange County area of So Cal in the early to mid 70's, there were a fair number of these conversions running around. One of the families who's kids attended my high school owned Crown (sp?) Manufacturing, who built conversion kits for all sorts of makes of cars, and they would show up with all kinds of strange conversions. I seem to remember a Porsche 912 with a Corvair in the back that ran pretty well.

Another buddy had a Corvair with the Crown conversion and the engine was located in the back seat making for a nice mid-engine setup, but the back seat was gone and the engine cover wasn't the best noise/heat insulation (but made it sort of stealthy). And the transaxle was still the weakest link, so you had to roll on the throttle, but he sure surprised a lot of people with that car.