Back when I was contemplating making the jump into the world of Westys I had a couple criteria. One, the Westy had to mechanically sound. As I have mentioned previously I am not THAT mechanically inclined but I am reading “How to keep your VW alive” among others to learn. I didn’t want to get something that I had to dump a lot of money into right away (hahaha…if you only saw the bills so far). The other criteria is that the body and interior had to be good to…again see reasons above.
Indulge me as I take a walk down memory lane a little bit here… I remember as a kid my Dad went to a car auction and came home with a 65 Corvair convertible. Understand my Dad was always fascinated by older cars and was a bit of a gear head even though he never seemed to have the time or the money to spend working on a classic car. The first few years we took it out in the summers for the day but overtime it didn’t get used that much and spent more time under a tarp than on the road. Just after Easter he passed away suddenly and I went back to Winnipeg. I can’t remember which website this one was on but it was located in St.Andrews, Manitoba which is just outside of Winnipeg. So while I was in Winnipeg dealing with family stuff I took a day (because I needed it!) and went to look at this Westy.
Overall it was in decent shape and had about 65000 original miles on it. There was some road wear on it but not too bad. I wasn’t keen on the configuration inside but everything was original. One thing that scared the bejeezus outta me was that it had basically been sitting in a garage for the past several years and nothing had been done to the engine. So not only would I have to get an out of province inspection done on it but I would have to figure a way to get my car as well as someone to drive the Westy 1400+ kilometers back to Calgary (that’s about 870 miles for you Yanks btw). My sister offered to drive it out West but I couldn’t do that to her.
Indulge me as I take a walk down memory lane a little bit here… I remember as a kid my Dad went to a car auction and came home with a 65 Corvair convertible. Understand my Dad was always fascinated by older cars and was a bit of a gear head even though he never seemed to have the time or the money to spend working on a classic car. The first few years we took it out in the summers for the day but overtime it didn’t get used that much and spent more time under a tarp than on the road. Just after Easter he passed away suddenly and I went back to Winnipeg. I can’t remember which website this one was on but it was located in St.Andrews, Manitoba which is just outside of Winnipeg. So while I was in Winnipeg dealing with family stuff I took a day (because I needed it!) and went to look at this Westy.
Overall it was in decent shape and had about 65000 original miles on it. There was some road wear on it but not too bad. I wasn’t keen on the configuration inside but everything was original. One thing that scared the bejeezus outta me was that it had basically been sitting in a garage for the past several years and nothing had been done to the engine. So not only would I have to get an out of province inspection done on it but I would have to figure a way to get my car as well as someone to drive the Westy 1400+ kilometers back to Calgary (that’s about 870 miles for you Yanks btw). My sister offered to drive it out West but I couldn’t do that to her.
Here are the pictures of what would, I’m sure be the Orange Monster… I'm sure my Dad would have loved my Green Monster. :)
The Badger King says:
ReplyDeleteI think I remember that Corvair, although I only ever saw it in the garage. Wasn't it dark blue?
(You should be able to figure out who this is ;)