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Newsletter of Lehigh Valley Corvair Club Inc. (LVCC) the fifth wheel Winner of the 2014 CORSA Tony Fiore Newsletter Competition SEPTEMBER 2017 HTTP://WWW.CORVAIR.ORG/CHAPTERS/LVCC ESTABLISHED 1976 Inside this issue Next LVCC Meeting: 1 Wednesday 9/27/2017 Phil Levering Scores 2 at CORSA Convention! LVCC Welcomes 2 3 New Members Robesoniia Car Show 2 Report LVCC Meeting Notes 2 from July Photo Gallery: Compact 3 Cars at Robesonia Singh Grooves for 4 Your Cylinder Heads After the Storm. How to 4 Save Your Corvair Corvair Cooking Corner 6 By Mary Ann Stamm Chrysler A57 Multibank Next Meeting: Wednesday 09/27/2017 6 Tank Engine Cruise Night Schedule: 7 Time 7:30 PM. Place: Lehigh and Northampton Transpor- Where? tation Authority Headquarters (LANta), 2nd Floor Meeting Room, 1060 Lehigh Street, Allentown , PA 18103. Lati- LVCC Classified 8 Ads tude : 40.587607 | Longitude : -75.474405. Bring a guest! Local Car Shows & Don’t get locked out. If you arrive late, the main door of the 9 Other Events LANta office building may be locked. This is for security purposes. But the facility is open around the clock, so ask LVCC Officer one of the garage employees to direct you to the second 10 Contact Information floor. The Fifth Wheel is published monthly by Lehigh Valley Corvair Club Inc. (LVCC). We accept articles of interest to Corvair owners for publication. Classified advertising of interest to Corvair owners is available free of charge to all persons. Commer- cial advertising is also available on a fee basis. For details, email our newsletter editor, Allan Lacki, [email protected]. PAGE 2 THEFIFTHWHEEL SEPTEMBER 2017 Phil Levering Scores ! Robesonia Car Show their portable chairs five rows deep. It was quite a sight. by Allan Lacki LVCC’s Phil and Joanne Levering, driving their 1965 Corvair Corsa con- On Labor Day, I took my Corvair to the vertible, just missed winning the overall Stewart's Root Beer Car Show in Robe- LVCC Meeting Notes Ed Cole Award at this year’s Corvair sonia. This was billed as the successor Society of America Convention by 1.49 to Kauffman's Annual Antique & Cus- Our meeting of August 23 was attended points out of 1,080! tom Cruise-In with which you may be by Steve Hurst, Larry Lewis, Allan familiar. Kauffman's no longer spon- Lacki, Ed Prescott, Fred Scherzer, Den- In addition, they won the Manual sors the show, so it has moved to Robe- nis Stamm and Dick Weidner. Transmission, Four Carb class in the sonia instead. Economy Run and the Street Stock 4 Official Reports. Dick read the minutes class in the Autocross. 381 cars showed up and that was way from our June meeting and the treasury more than expected. But the Robesonia report for July. According to Dick we The Edward N. Cole Memorial Award recreation field was large enough to had $1,204.82 in our treasury account was established nearly four decades ago accommodate all of us. There wasn't at the beginning of the month. Ex- (1978) to honor the memory of Edward much shade but the grassy lawns were penses amounted to $62.90 for photo- N. Cole as the father of the Corvair. very nicely maintained. It sure beats copy, postage and other supplies related This award perpetuates his memory by asphalt in the sun! to the newsletter. This left a balance of conducting an annual competition of $1,141.92 at the end of July. Dick the highest standards in all facets of In addition to five Corvairs, some early pointed out that the end-of-month bal- Corvair activities. The International '50s compact cars were on display. All ance for July does not account for sev- Corvair Convention is the only oppor- of them were highly customized, but it eral hundred dollars in dues payments tunity members have to participate in was nice to see them just the same. received during August, so the treasury this exciting and rewarding competition They included a Nash Rambler wagon, is actually in better shape than reported a Willys Aero and a Henry J. The only here. The minutes and treasury report Congratulations Phil & Joanne! one missing was a Hudson Jet. I have- were approved in accordance with par- n't seen one of those in a long, long liamentary procedure. time! New Members! Other Chapter Business. For several Of course, there were dozens of Cor- years, LVCC has been using an EZ-Up LVCC gained three new members in vettes, Mustangs Camaros and hi-po canopy owned by Randy Kohler's sister August. They are John Egerton, Chuck Mopars at the show. I don't recall see- at Das Awkscht Fescht. A motion was Mason and Kyle Regan. ing any brass-era antiques, which are made to have LVCC to purchase an always interesting, but there were some EZ-Up of its own. The motion was John returns to LVCC after several original un-restored cars, including a seconded and approved. years having been active in the Blue '35 Chevrolet Standard business coupe. Mountain Corvair Club and the North- And speaking of un-restored originals, I Larry Lewis agreed to have an ac- east Corvair Council in the interim. was parked next to a super-clean 1963 quaintance of his do a presentation for Corvair Monza sedan owned by John us at our March 2018 meeting. Larry's Chuck Mason hails from Eagleville, PA Sterley. John isn't interested in car friend is an expert on historic license and is an avid car enthusiast. In addi- clubs so I didn't attempt to corral him plates going back to the early days of tion to his appreciation of Corvairs, he into LVCC, but he often shows his Cor- motoring in Pennsylvania. is, or at least was, a member of the Free vair and that's a good thing. Spirit Chapter of the Buick Club of Allan Lacki agreed to file LVCC's IRS America. Music was provided by Flamin' Dick tax return for the year ending July 31, and the Hot Rods, a 50's and 60's rock- 2017. (This has been completed). Kyle Regan was a spectator at Das n-roll party band that plays a variety of Awkscht Fescht last year and was so music from the years of 1955 to 1968 - Member News. Steve Hurst discussed impressed with our display of Corvairs "The Golden Years of Rock-n-Roll." his progress in building a high perform- that he vowed to get one for himself. This band attracts a lot of older group- ance engine for his early Corvair. He's now the proud owner of a Corvair ies and they showed up in abundance at Among other things, it will be equipped Corsa. Robesonia. The band and the crowd with modified 140 hp cylinder heads. were separated by a side street where In addition to porting and polishing the rockers danced to the music and, in intake and exhaust runners, Steve has back of that, the audience was seated in opted to cut "Singh Grooves" in the SEPTEMBER 2017 THEFIFTHWHEEL PAGE 3 Compact Cars at Robesonia Car Show! Two of the five Corvairs at the show Early ‘50s Compacts. A Willys Aero! Early ‘50s Compacts. A Henry J! Early ‘50s Compacts. A Nash Rambler wagon! John Sterley’s flying wing roof. Unrestored ‘Vair! Flamin’ Dick & the Hot Rods had people dancing!! PAGE 4 THEFIFTHWHEEL SEPTEMBER 2017 combustion areas of the heads. The The groove has beneficial effects on the After the Storm Singh Groove theory is explained in compression stroke as well as the another article of this newsletter. power stroke. On the compression The summer of 2017 has been wet and stroke, the groove channels the last bit wild in many sections of the country Jerry Moyer asked everybody about the of air / fuel mixture towards the com- and the news reports are filled with sto- kind of engine oil they are using. Steve bustion area, maintaining swirl until the ries of widespread flooding. With eve- Hurst and Al Lacki said they are using spark provides ignition. On the power rything else going on, a water-logged Brad Penn oil. Steve added that, for stroke, the groove provides a channel Corvair is probably low on the list of new engines, be sure to use petroleum- for hot gasses to jet towards the cylin- priorities, or at least it should be. But if based oil until the piston rings seat-in. der wall and ignite comparatively more your Corvair has been damaged by Dick Weidner said he is using Mobil mixture in the squish area. It also ap- flood waters, you'll eventually need to high-mileage oil with good results. All pears that the groove can destroy stand- assess what can be done to save it. agreed that, unless the engine has roller ing vortices in the squish areas as well. rockers, the oil of choice needs suffi- That's a good thing. Your repair options depend on the ex- cient ZDDP (zinc) content to protect tent of the flooding, water type, depth camshaft and tappet surfaces. Does it work? Some people say the and duration of submersion. Naturally, groove theory pans out. Others say a car that's been totally submerged will Ed Prescott continues to work on the they work for a while until the grooves need a lot more attention than one that rear suspension of his Corvair Corsa. A become carbonized, at which point, the was in a few inches of standing water. friend of his brother's pressed new performance improvement diminishes .