[NoVa-Corvairs] The Corvairs of DC

[daniel@danielgoldberg.net]

Frank,
You're not wrong.  Actually, you're quite correct.  I just needed to talk to myself out of leaving a note and otherwise harassing the owner since I already have too much automotive drama in my life.
Maybe I'll stop by -- I think I remember where it sits.  A 911
is a pretty stout car when maintained, although this one looked pretty neglected.  All of that rust was pretty astonishing considering that the SCs were the first galvanized Porsches.  In comparison, the Capitol Hill Corsa looked pretty straight
daniel

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Subject: Re: [NoVa-Corvairs] The Corvairs of DC

From: "Frank DuVal" <corvairduval at cox.net>

Date: Sun, February 16, 2014 12:40 pm

To: novacc-list at corvair.org

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> 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

>

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