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^^^Early 60s Chevy Corvair....a Ralph Nader Special.
Since you asked about the engine........rear-engine, air-cooled flat-six (boxer) design.
Yes sir, you are on the money.
Dang, I thought this would be a hard one. Lol
Originally Posted by Jakerin
I worked a car engine fire one night on a Corvair and the battery which was in the same compartment as the engine, blew up! Luckily the hood was down so I didn’t get soaked with acid but it sure scared the hell out of me. Sounded like a grenade.
I'm glad you didn't get hurt.
Exploding battery is serious business to anyone standing close by, as ya'll already know.
Originally Posted by jer
My first car- a very well used blue '64 Corvair. Didn't last long...
At 16 years old I knew nothing about cars but just looking at it,I knew it was junk. Lol
Plus all the rust! Lol
Originally Posted by tex2670
Yes - a handful of makes place the battery in the trunk. But a vast majority have the battery in the engine compartment.
My neighbors Jaguar has a battery in the trunk.
Only reason I know is I helped give him a jump start.🤓
Yes sir, you are on the money.
Dang, I thought this would be a hard one. Lol
As a teen-ager on my first job, I had to keep those things filled with oil and gas when they splattered oil-gunk all over the inside of the engine compartment.
Pulling into the grocery store today, I see one like this beauty.
I was too slow to get a pic from my phone so I had to find one to drop for ya'll.
It was a very unique shade of blue, possibly a custom color, somewhere between blue with gray.
This one is a brighter blue than the one I saw.
PS- I fired up microsoft paint and air brushed out some the hints. lol
Bentley Continental GT or the very similar Rolls Royce Ghost.
It's a Rolls. Biggest clue to easily differentiate it against the Bentley is the placement of the rear door handles given how the doors swing open opposite of other cars.
It's a Rolls. Biggest clue to easily differentiate it against the Bentley is the placement of the rear door handles given how the doors swing open opposite of other cars.
Well that and the RR logo on the front quarter panel.
Well that and the RR logo on the front quarter panel.
Its used to be that one could easily tell a Rolls from a Bentley from the Flying Lady hood ornament, but recent Rolls products, to combat theft, drop the ornament down under the hood through some mini-doors when the engine is shut off.
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