<VV> St. Charles Rampside

[J R Read_HML]

Vic,

Yes, I know that Rampside - it has a wooden dash for the interments, right? 
A really nice vehicle and one I wouldn't mind owning!

Anyway, Al (not his real name) was short lived with CCE.  Two years - maybe 
three, at most.  He got into Amphicars and I ran into him (not literally) at 
a Poker Rally in Wisconsin last August.

That truck is now owned by (SFAIK) Herb Nelson - a long time CCE member. 
Had I known that it was for sale at the time, when John (Capone's real first 
name), I would definitely have been making a serious offer!

The last Chicago convention was 2001.

This has been cross posted to Corvanatics.  No flames - just a regular 
cross.

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Later, JR
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
'66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vic Howard" <vichoward at frontiernet.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Cc: <sheridanma at adelphia.net>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: <VV> St. Charles Rampside


> Wow! Small world!!!!
> I owned that rampside for nearly 10 years and sold it to a gentleman in 
> the
> Chicago area the year before the Chicago Corsa Convention. Funny thing, 
> and
> this is true, his last name is Capone!!!  In Chicago no less.
> After he viewed dozens of photos and was certain this was the rampside for
> him, he flew to Las Vegas and a friend of his drove him down to the 
> Bullhead
> City, Arizona area where I live (across the Colorado River from Laughlin,
> Nevada), paid the money and drove it straight through, back to Chicago. 
> The
> only problem he reported was that the idler pulley froze up on him about 
> 100
> from his home. He called someone from the Corsa Registry and they came out
> and installed another on it and he continued his trip home. I flew out to
> the National Convention in the Chicago area the next year (don't recall 
> what
> year that was) and he met me at the convention, drove me around the area 
> in
> the rampside. That was the first time I had ever ridden in that rampside 
> as
> a passenger. I am so proud that rampside is still out there entering car
> shows. The colors are exactly the same colors I had it painted although he
> planned to have a new paint job done to it since it had obtained a few 
> door
> dings and rock chips.
> Vic Howard
> Fort Mohave, Az.
> Corsa member
> President, Vegas Vairs
> owner of: another 61 Rampside, 66 Monza coupe
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:30:13 -0400
> From: "Marc Sheridan" <sheridanma at adelphia.net>
> Subject: <VV> St. Charles Rampside
> To: "virtualvairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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> Here is a picture of a Rampside at a car show in St. Charles IL. Didn't I
> attend a CORSA convention in that town a few years ago?
>
> http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/2005show/05goodys/
>
> Marc Sheridan
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