<VV> Newbies who've never driven a Corvair

[Wrsssatty at aol.com]

I guess once upon a time I, too, was a newbie who'd never driven a Corvair.  
My big sis did buy one as her first new car in '63 but traded it in on a '68 
'Vette long before I got my license.  The 'Vette, BTW, was stolen 2 months 
later from our driveway.  Anyway, my first car was a '66 Renault Caravelle--sorta 
Renault's answer to the VW Karmann-Ghia.  Rear-mounted in-line water-cooled 4; 
swing axle rear suspension with rebound straps and a front stabilizer bar.  
Great minds think alike:  larry and Marybeth claypool have one.  Anyway, I was 
used to riding in Corvairs and driving rear-engine cars with swing axles.  
Come the '80s I decided I wanted a Corvair all my own.  First, I joined Corsa.  
Then I bought my Corvair:  a '66 Monza convertible with 140 and PG.  Turned out 
to need more work than I was capable of.  About the time it got out of the 
shop I went in--with a nasty hernia!  Never drove that one very much.  Then I 
moved to NJ, in the shadow of Manhattan.  Not much garage space in the New York 
metro area so I made do with my Corvair model/toy and sales lit. collection.  
Kept up my Corsa membership, though, and looked forward each month, as I still 
do, to the arrival of my communique.  Finally bought a nice, drivable '63 
Monza convertible around '96 that I still have.

Oh, and since everyone just HAS to know, I'm 46.  Glad to be old enough to 
remember as a kid standing on the Chevy dealer's lot and looking at row after 
row of brand new Corvairs!

Bill Stanley