<VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles

[Charles Lee]

In California, the school busses and cops pass you if you're under 80 !


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
To: "Charles Lee" <chaz@ivic.net>; "Virtual Vairs"
<VirtualVairs@corvair.org>; "Geoffrey Albert Clarke Johnson"
<geoffj@unm.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles


> I'm beginning to get worried about driving my delicate little Corvair up
> I-81 in three weeks' time! I had already been feeling a bit vulnerable
> since they raised the speed limits, because I cruise at 60ish and a lot of
> the semis now overtake me, but the UAV plague is going to make things even
> worse! Perhaps I should try to avoid the interstate!
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
> P.S. It would be terrifying in a Lotus 7!!
>
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>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Lee" <chaz@ivic.net>
> To: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs@corvair.org>; "Geoffrey Albert Clarke
> Johnson" <geoffj@unm.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 6:26 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles
>
>
>> Every time a Hummer gets blown up on the news, their sales go up. The war
>> in Iraq has made everyone feel like GI Joe, and so they need to drive
>> military vehicles on city streets.
>>
>> Did you know that you can buy spray on mud to make it look like you went
>> offroading without having to get you pretty truck dirty ?
>>
>> Remember when the Corvair was a SMALL car ?  Then it was the size of an
>> Impala (because the big cars got small - remember that ?), and now it's
>> small again.
>>
>> Up against Urban Attack Vehicles in the 6000-8000 lb range, everything is
>> small - except something even bigger !  Saw a Navigator get cut in half
>> length-wise by a semi on CA-I5 - bet he thought he was safe until that
>> happened.
>>
>> Those drivers don't buy them for safety, at least not YOUR safety, just
>> to survive whatever havoc they raise while wandering around this
>> country's roadways without a care in the world !
>>
>> Why should they care - they are safe in their tanks - it's why they buy
>> them for their wives and girlfriends - so they'll survive their own bad
>> driving.
>>
>> In a Corvair, you can avoid the accident (sometimes), instead of simply
>> surviving it.
>>
>> If you're driving a nimble little thing like a Corvair, it's possible not
>> to have the accident in the first place !
>>
>> Just my 2 cents' worth.
>>
>> Thanks for listening !
>>
>> Chaz
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Geoffrey Albert Clarke Johnson" <geoffj@unm.edu>
>> To: <UltraMonzaWest@aol.com>; <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks
>>
>>
>>> S-10 C-10 Wahtever ... it was the full size... whatever it is called
>>> now! I don't know I got rid of my full size chevy truck to get a
>>> corvair! Big truck hit small car BAD!
>>>
>>> -Geoff
>>>
>>> --On Thursday, September 9, 2004 12:57 AM -0400 UltraMonzaWest@aol.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In a message dated 9/8/2004 9:49:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>>> geoffj@unm.edu  writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Tehehehe was  not an 18 wheeler... just a big chevy s-10 full size...
>>>>> beat  up piece of junk driven by a jerk!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> *************************************************************************
>>>> ***** ***
>>>>
>>>> Geoff...S-10's are MID  size....but then when driving around in a
>>>> bathtub.........every is UP!!! LOL!!
>>>>
>>>> wcuh
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