This beautiful 1966 Chevrolet Corvair 110 4-door hardtop has been in the same family since new. With 98,400 miles and a four year old high quality repaint, it really looks the part of a survivor despite the repaint–fitting into our “restovivor” category. It’s located in the Barn Finds hometown of Boise, Idaho and is listed for sale here on eBay. The opening bid is $4,400 and there’s no reserve.
Just think; a relatively practical classic with hardtop looks and four doors for easy family access. Not only that, but you have great parts support and a lot of fellow owners to help you along your rear-engined, air-cooled journey into Corvairdom. The seller has posted a neat video here where they describe how the engine was rebuilt at a Chevrolet dealer when the car had 45,000 miles.
If you look really closely during the video, the seller will point out a few places where tree sap has damaged the paint. However, I don’t think anyone will notice unless you are at a Corvair show. I love the original wheel covers and narrow white wall tires.
I’m hoping this carpet can be straightened out a lot, but it sure is clean! I’d like to fill this frunk up with picnic supplies and head out to the park with my family. Or maybe Cars & Coffee in Raleigh. It’s actually quite a bit of storage space.
Doesn’t the interior look great! There’s a lot more room in that back seat than I would have expected. The sedans have the same 108″ wheelbase as the coupes, but I don’t remember seeing that much space in the rear of a coupe. Although the original radio has been replaced, it is included in the auction, but the seller states it needs repair.
That engine compartment looks very clean, and it starts first turn of the key in the video. I think the seller removed the spare for this picture, because it’s there in the video. Overall, if this car stays close to its opening bid, this will be one heck of a buy for a family classic! Do you agree?
Very nice! Maybe an extra set of blackwalls with mini-lite wheels to change up the look on occasion.
I always wondered what a gen 2 Corvair 2 and 4 door wagon would have looked like? I can envision a sedan with the Fitch extended c-pillars.
Again very cool…..
Sam, I love the Corvair wagons — I wonder if anyone has tried to splice old rear to newer car?
I’m surprised more of you aren’t interested in this one. I know I’m not the ONLY four door fan out there…
My favorite body style in the Corvair, given that a wagon killed Ernie Kovaks.
Ernie Kovaks killed Ernie Kovaks.
Ernie Kovacs was not used to driving his wife Edie’s car..always preferring to take the Rolls Royce that he had and on the night of his death he gave Edie the keys to the Rolls and said he was taking the Corvair. He apparently was in the midst of lighting a cigar when he lost control of the wagon near the corner of Beverly Glen Bvd and Santa Monica Blvd. The road surface was slick from a rain storm earlier in the evening. He was turning and the car slammed sideways into a light pole throwing him across the car. He died of head and chest injuries. His hand was outstretched toward the cigar on the sidewalk. He was one-of-a-kind.
Thankyou…Ernie was a funny guy. Porsche didn’t kill James Dean…Buick didn’t decapitate Jayne Mansfield.
Saw this on Ebay last night. These are really snappy little hardtops, even nicer looking in person than in photos, and this one looks clean as a whistle. The black interior is a big plus, most would’ve been blue with this color (assuming that’s the original color)
The only nit I can find to pick is the bright blue wheels peeking out from behind the wheel covers. Repaint those black, or better yet, replace with 14’s, and you’re good to go with this one.
I owned a ’69 Monza with Power Glide. Sweet little car. I’ve read that the ’65 and ’66 models are perhaps the easiest to keep tuned up due to having no smog control equipment.
Wrong body, wrong engine, wrong color, but I love it!
You don’t see many 4 doors preserved in this condition. These were great little cars that got an unjust rap thanks to big Ralph. I bet this has more room in that back seat than most of today’s compacts, and way more style!
Ralph Nader’s critiques were aimed at the 1960-1963 cars
1964 had a transverse bring to eliminate jackknifing, and the 1965 through 1969 cars had an entirely different fully independent suspension at the rear
General Motors ceased the development of the Corvair in April 1965. Ralph Nader’s book, “unsafe at any speed” came out in September 1965.
Nice car but i would’nt give 2cents for a 4 door corvair unless it was a station wagon
This is still one of the nicest looking and best engineered cars ever built. If that body said Karmenn or the name plate said ISO Rivolta or something similarly exotic, we would all be swooning over its aluminum cylinder heads or its futuristic yet elegant lines or perfectly sculpted flanks. It’s tragic that this line received no further development. This may have been the one true chance at an American Grand touring sports car.