The official blog of the 2012 International Convention of the Corvair Society of America, which took place in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, July 25-28, 2012. Presented by the member clubs of the Northeast Corvair Council.


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A New Rampside

The progress that Cal Clark is making in the restoration of his Rampside is sufficiently impressive to justify our calling it a "new" Rampside.
 
From the earlier posts on this blog you can see how thoroughly Cal dissected the body, excising all vestiges of any rust, and installing new metal extensively.
 
Here we see that paint being applied to the restored body shell. The original fleet orange is gone, replaced by a rich deep red with a contrasting white stripe.
 
Note, by the way, how that stripe extends onto the door jamb. Your blog editor and Cal had discussions about where the stripe should stop, and apparently, the end of the stripe varied from year to year. On your editor’s 1964 Greenbrier, still wearing its factory-applied paint, the stripe extends only partially into the door opening. Other Corvair 95 vehicles examined by Cal had the stripe extending more fully onto the door jamb. Cal has applied the paint in the manner he believes to be the most accurate reflection of what would have been done when his truck was new.
 
You can see this truck, and many more, in Sturbridge this summer!