<VV> Re: No starts

[Thesuperscribe at cs.com]

Matt talks about push-starting one of his old cars... My first car, at age 17 
in 1960, was a worn-out '49 Plymouth. Among the many lessons it taught me was 
don't buy a worn-out car, and don't be too cheap to buy a new battery when 
it's time. 

For about two weeks during the late spring of '62 the Plymouth's flat-head 
Six wouldn't turn over when I returned to it after a few hours. Oh yeah, I need 
to get a battery. But it's dead now, so... I got pretty good at pushing the 
car to a running pace, jumping in, shifting the three-on-a-tree to 2nd, turning 
on the key and letting out the clutch. It always fired up. 

I thought it was funny and bragged about it to my mom and sisters, but they 
were horrified. "Poor Tommy is going to college full time and working almost 
full time to pay tuition, and he should have a decent car," they told each 
other. Hey, it's OK, I said, because I didn't know any better. 

But they pooled some spare money and helped me buy a new car -- my '62 Monza 
coupe. I later paid 'em all back, but that essentially is why I'm writing this 
tonight. 

--Tom Berg

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In a message dated 7/21/2005 3:18:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:


> In a message dated 7/21/2005 1:18:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> Rt66Vairs at aol.com writes:
> 
> > My Corvairs never failed to start in all the years I lived in Chicago. But 
>  
> > 
> > whenever a car did I
> > thought of the Peugeot. 
> > 
> > Tim Abney
> > IECC
> > 
> *****************************************************************************
> *
> ****
> In the Fall of '73.......all I had was a Vette / 396 p/u / Hog......friend 
> needed a loan to buy a Vega.....interest, collected as soon as he got the 
> Vega  
> valve guide seals in...a '61  403........no starter........cranked it a few 
> times..easy..then found it was easier to push and jump in.."4 on the 
> tree!".....and  finally traded it for my 1st Vair!
> 
> Matt Nall / Patiomatt / WCUH / Chairman V V
> 69 Monza Cpe., 66 Monza vert, 65 Crown v8 Cpe.
> Somewhere between Reno, NV and Coos Bay, Or.
>