<VV> running lights - sales pitch ;)

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

Are you kidding me?  I carry tools in my Honda Odyssey minivan and it's the car equivalent of a Fridgedair refrigerator - it never breaks down (uh, knock on wood).  I'm just a little paranoid and I like having the recources available to fix the little things.  I've got a fanbelt and tuneup kit (cap, rotor, points, condensor)in the trunk already and I've only had the car since last Saturday.  My wife once changed a fan belt on her corvair without any tools.  One broke and so she pulled over.  A firetruck happened by and she had one of the helpful firemen crank the car while she guided the belt onto the pulley (with the jack tool I think - not her fingers.  Worked a treat.

mike

> 
> From: SPYDER62 at aol.com
> Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 11:17:39 EDT
> To: mhicks130 at cox.net,  virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> running lights - sales pitch ;)
> 
>  
> In a message dated 4/20/2005 7:36:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
> mhicks130 at cox.net writes:
> 
> I was a  little apprehensive but it ran very nicely.  I think it was the 
> first  time I went out in a Corvair without tools!!  I'll have to fix  that.
> 
> 
> Why worry about tools? short trips no problem, even on long (800-1000  ea.way 
> ) mile trips I don't carry more then a fanbelt (never needed it) and the  
> 9/16 wrench to change it and a screw driver. If you can't fix a it on a vair  
> with a srcew driver and 9/16 -1/2 combo it's not a road side repair in my  
> book.In 35 years of Driving Corvairs only been towed home once ( rear axle  bearing 
> in a Greenbrier).
> rich
>  See you all in Portland 
>  From what I got from the meet I went to last night it will be a good  
> convention don't miss it.
> 
>