Pietenpol-List: Corvair engines in AL
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:52 am
Original Posted By: Jim Markle
There was a guy from Alabama that left a brief post a few weeks ago on theYahoo Corvair group stating that he had engines. He wasn't an airplane guy,he just had a lot of junk. So after a few emails with him, I decided todrive down last weekend. I got four 110hp engines, all were complete, threewere '65-'68, one was a '64. I got an extra crank, an extra set of heads,three 12 row fin oil coolers, an extra set of pushrod tubes, an extra set ofvalve covers, two side draft motorcycle carbs, and a gascolator for myModel-A. It was $400 for the engines, the rest he just loaded into mytruck. At $400, I didn't have the heart to pay him any less.He still has five 110hp engines in the barn, one '65-'68 (suffix RH), andthe rest are '64 (suffix YN if memory serves me, I was a little overwhelmedat the time). On the loft of the barn, he said there were additional headsup there, but I didn't go up to look (the floor was falling through). Healso has an old van parked out back with six engines, two were partial(missing at least one head), and at least one was low HP. I couldn't checkthe others without emptying the van. He also had at least a dozen Corvairson his property. My guess is there are a couple of the right cores inthose. The nicest Car on the property, which is not to far off of beingdrivable, had a 110 badge on the trunk.This gentleman is just a good-old-boy who's partied a little hard in hislife. His property was a mess. All the Corvair stuff was from his dad andhe had no interest in it other than selling it. I think he had in the pasttwice the quantity of engines but has recently been tearing them down andselling the aluminum for scrap. What I'm saying here is if you areinterested, you probably should act fast.A note about the barn. It's full of stuff. There are Corvair cylinderslying all over the place. There's a few cranks, distributors, pistons androds, and other miscellaneous parts just lying around. This doesn't countthe flathead Ford engines parts, old fenders, radios, and countless othernon-Corvair parts that were interesting. The barn is falling apart withholes in the roof and only about half of it was dry. Don't expect to walkinto a clean shop and have perfect engines sitting on engine stands; wearboots and get a Tetanus shot first.Just up the interstate from where he lives is a large utility trailermanufacturer/retailer. I had a hard time not buying a 16 footer and goingback for more. By the way, four engines in the back is about all a Ford 150can manage, I white knuckled it all the way home. He wanted to give me acouple of extra Corvair blocks in case one of my cranks were bad or wrong, Icouldn't take them simply due to the weight in the truck already.His name was Eric Lippert in Cullman, AL. He's got no phone, but he doeshave satellite internet and his email is justeric1agn(at)yahoo.com. He's anice guy, looks like he could use the money, and would like to see theseengines being used as opposed to melted down.Robert HainesDu Quoin, Illinois________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:02:06 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
There was a guy from Alabama that left a brief post a few weeks ago on theYahoo Corvair group stating that he had engines. He wasn't an airplane guy,he just had a lot of junk. So after a few emails with him, I decided todrive down last weekend. I got four 110hp engines, all were complete, threewere '65-'68, one was a '64. I got an extra crank, an extra set of heads,three 12 row fin oil coolers, an extra set of pushrod tubes, an extra set ofvalve covers, two side draft motorcycle carbs, and a gascolator for myModel-A. It was $400 for the engines, the rest he just loaded into mytruck. At $400, I didn't have the heart to pay him any less.He still has five 110hp engines in the barn, one '65-'68 (suffix RH), andthe rest are '64 (suffix YN if memory serves me, I was a little overwhelmedat the time). On the loft of the barn, he said there were additional headsup there, but I didn't go up to look (the floor was falling through). Healso has an old van parked out back with six engines, two were partial(missing at least one head), and at least one was low HP. I couldn't checkthe others without emptying the van. He also had at least a dozen Corvairson his property. My guess is there are a couple of the right cores inthose. The nicest Car on the property, which is not to far off of beingdrivable, had a 110 badge on the trunk.This gentleman is just a good-old-boy who's partied a little hard in hislife. His property was a mess. All the Corvair stuff was from his dad andhe had no interest in it other than selling it. I think he had in the pasttwice the quantity of engines but has recently been tearing them down andselling the aluminum for scrap. What I'm saying here is if you areinterested, you probably should act fast.A note about the barn. It's full of stuff. There are Corvair cylinderslying all over the place. There's a few cranks, distributors, pistons androds, and other miscellaneous parts just lying around. This doesn't countthe flathead Ford engines parts, old fenders, radios, and countless othernon-Corvair parts that were interesting. The barn is falling apart withholes in the roof and only about half of it was dry. Don't expect to walkinto a clean shop and have perfect engines sitting on engine stands; wearboots and get a Tetanus shot first.Just up the interstate from where he lives is a large utility trailermanufacturer/retailer. I had a hard time not buying a 16 footer and goingback for more. By the way, four engines in the back is about all a Ford 150can manage, I white knuckled it all the way home. He wanted to give me acouple of extra Corvair blocks in case one of my cranks were bad or wrong, Icouldn't take them simply due to the weight in the truck already.His name was Eric Lippert in Cullman, AL. He's got no phone, but he doeshave satellite internet and his email is justeric1agn(at)yahoo.com. He's anice guy, looks like he could use the money, and would like to see theseengines being used as opposed to melted down.Robert HainesDu Quoin, Illinois________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:02:06 -0600 (GMT-06:00)