[NoVa-Corvairs] The Corvairs of DC

[Frank DuVal]

The incentive answer is..

Because they are so much fun to drive. In almost 40 years of dealing 
with Corvairs and other old iron, the pretty ones usually sit because 
they are too valuable to drive. The rusty ones get driven in all sorts 
of weather to all sorts of events. We call this daily driving! 
Convertible in the rain? Just drive fast enough and you don't even need 
to put the top up. So much more fun and they actually start and run when 
you get in them. 99.99% of the time they also get back home. You are 
right, rusty cars are fun commuter cars. And you don't even care where 
you park them.

Frank DuVal

My not driven regularly enough 66 AC 4 door came out of DC.

On 2/16/2014 9:30 AM, daniel at danielgoldberg.net wrote:
>
> After the yesterday's meeting I found myself in Georgetown gawking at 
> the following old pieces of iron I found on side streets inside the 
> right angle formed M and Wisconsin:
>
>
> - ~1980 Porsche 911SC, silver: two things caught my eye about this 
> car: (1) no silly whale tail marring the purity of the lines; (2) 
> outside of a junkyard I can't recall seeing a Porsche 911 with so much 
> rust-through and dead paint.  A battered 911 could make a fun 
> [summer] commuter assuming you could make it reliable [and what's the 
> incentive to make such a rust-bucket mechanically sound?].
>
> daniel