I'm surprised our Canadian members haven't flagged this one before:

http://www.oldscollege.ca/

Note that 2013 is their centennial year, and they are having a charity auto auction later this month:

http://100.oldscollege.ca/jc-list

Lots of very cool vehicles, including a 1955 REO and 1956 and 1959 Oldsmobiles.

Here are photos of all 103 vehicles:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldscol...7632941708914/

 

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I need to enhance my education!

 

That is a neat collection - looks like a lot of unmolested vehicles - Loving those trucks and the Model A wrecker and 56 Lincoln - never knew Corvair has a SW and a van.

 

When I was 7 or 8 (about 1962-1963) a neighbor across from where I lived at the time, had a Corvair wagon parked behind the garage, it never moved, and we frequently played around it, odd that it was only a couple years old that it was not running. I have never seen another one. There is a Corvair club that shows up at the Gilmore Car Museum, during one of the larger events, and they have not had one there.

 

The Corvair wagon body is actually quite similar to my 62 F-85. The tailgates are the same, except that the 'vair tailgate doesn't reach down as far towards the bumper due to the engine being there. The tailgate windows interchange (well, the fixed ones do). The roof panel is also very similar, though shorter due to the shorter 'vair wheelbase. Same thing for the side windows. Interestingly, I often wondered why the cover on the spare tire well in my wagon was so large and heavy. Turns out it is EXACTLY the same part as the engine cover on a 'vair wagon. Of course the Tempest wagons used the same transaxle, suspension, and associated floorpan sheetmetal as the 'vair wagon, except that the Poncho transaxle was modified with an input shaft from the front instead of from the rear. The ATs still had the torque converter hanging out in the breeze where the 'vair engine would have been.

The rampside 'vair pickups are even cooler. GM's version of the VW Van pickups. There's a guy who brings several 'vairs, including a rampside and a wagon, to GMs @ Carlisle every year.

 

Now that is one heck of a collection