[1969] A suggested moment of thanks this afternoon ...

[Thompson, Ed]

...around 1:30 EDT, for the nearly ten years of production, of over 1,700,000 waterless wonders, that came to a halt forty-three years ago today, as the blue Monza coupe, #5999, was pushed out of the way to make way for the final Vair, the elusive #6000 Olympic Gold Monza coupe, at the Willow Run assembly line.  (I might be a bit off on a few of those details.)  I was a freshly drafted Army private that Wednesday, my first letter from home shortly after, to Ft. Campbell KY, included the local newspaper clipping of the event.  My first car, a '65 Corsa turbo coupe, which had brought me to the induction center, sat in my late Dad's garage -- I miss him much more than that first Corvair.

Ed Thompson
Milwaukee
#3753, 110-glide, white over frost green, 1980-89



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