Originally Posted by
1gary
You guys remember Corvairs??.You know-the chevy rear engine cars.Well I owned one.I also knew about Crown Corvairs that had a kit to a swap of a 327 SBC mid-ship.One one I owned came from my dad's boss where both of them worked at the chevy engine Plant in Tonn,NY.Well the car developed a problem where it kept breaking the nose off the starters.This Corvair was kind of rare too where it had a tilt steering.So we figured it out that the ring gear on the flywheel had the welds broke so that ring gear would move all over that place and break the starters.So my dad is at work and I on my own decide to drop the engine out the bottom of the car and try to sneak it as a project Crown Corvair kit over time.So that meant I had to release all the shrouding of the engine to get it to drop out of the bottom of the car.I don't to this day know why,but it hung up on something and I couldn't get it to drop.Grrrrrr.So I get under the dumb thing and yank real hard.Yeah a bolt for the engine trapped under it.I lay there what seems like for ever swearing it like a dunk sailor,but couldn't lift it off.Everytime I lifted and had to let it back down it hurt worse than before.:eek::mad::CRY:So I hear a car pull up and a door close on it and now I am swearing worse than ever.My Dad come into his garage and says what the hell you doing??.Well I let out some more four letter words and he gets a big grin across his face.So he says......Well guess ya really stuck huh.I said ya ya.He lifts the engine up some to take off the pressure,but not enough to let me out.He tells me you done swearing in MY GARAGE yet??.He lets the engine down some again and says ya sure???.I say ya,ya-let me out-let me out.:CRY::CRY:He then lifts the engine off me and goes into the house.He found in the kitchen mags about the V8 swap.I had two bad bruises right in the center of my chest from the engine mount bolts.The next wk the car was gone.Later I found out he sold it back to his boss.:LOL::LOL:For yrs later I remember "that look" on my Dad's face and never would swear around him again.Still I think he thought it was funny to have control over his teenage kid like that....even if was only for acouple of minutes.;);)