<VV> longest trip in a Corvair

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

I did Greensboro to Kansas City, Mo (via Crittenden, KY!), and then Kansas 
City to Hershey, and then Hershey back to Greensboro, in the 8-door in 1999 
(I think) - that's a total of 2445 miles according to Mapquest. I didn't 
have any breakdowns, either!

Cheers

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <NicolCS at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:00 PM
Subject: <VV> longest trip in a Corvair


> Los Angeles - Sheboygan, Wisconson, Cleveland, Los Angeles. 3500-4000mi 
> (???)
> My friend, John Engelhart, had contracted with Solar Automotive (ca. 1973) 
> to
> build a Cavalier.  Now this was right before SA folded and soonafter they
> actually did close their doors with John's car in process but not 
> finished.  Art
> Hershberger had told John that the car's bodywork was done and that all it
> needed was an engine. To try to see what we could salvage, we drove there 
> in my
> '63 140/4 factory GB/95 Camper with a spare 140 powertrain supposedly for 
> the
> Cavalier, carried in the load area of the GB.  We arrived to find only a
> primered shell.
>
> Three significant events that came of the trip:
> 1) John made a deal to take the Solar catalog/demo car, a Sprint, and that
> was a very fine car, but John was so bitter that he left the car with me 
> for a
> year, then sold it.
> 2) During the trip, at the tender age of 19, I perminently ruined my back
> jerk-lifting a stuck tool box over the "cargo" engine. (The GB's generator 
> failed)
> 3) The GB dropped a valve seat a few miles from Solar and their now
> unemployed mechanic and I swapped-in the "cargo" 140 engine.
> One out of three ain't bad...
> C. Nicol
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