<VV> close but no cigar!

[Ray Rodriguez]

Heh!

     My father was the auto mechanics instructor at East Brunswick Vo-tech 
for 20 years, retiring in about 1992.  I have heard dozens of these type 
stories from him.  He had in his shop not a 180 engine, but an entire 
corvair donated by GM.  Many cars and parts were donated to his shop by the 
manufacturers, GM in particular was fond of doing this.  Using these parts, 
selling them, or doing anything other then teaching with them is HIGHLY 
illegal, and though no one would likely ever find out my dear old dad was a 
stickler for the rules.  He scrapped many valuable new condition antique car 
parts, including the entire Corvair after its usefulness as a teaching 
instrument was long past.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandra Sheppard" <seafire at nbnet.nb.ca>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: <VV> close but no cigar!


I was at a  meeting last night and met a gentleman who told me a Corvair 
related story that I had to pass along.  He started working as a school 
teacher here in New Brunswick in 1974 and found a wooden crate/box  in the 
corner of the shop classroom......., guess what was inside?

This is no joke, he took a peak  and found a brand new untouched 180HP 
turbo-charged engine. A little asking around revealed that it was supplied 
to the school from Oshawa's GM plant for the shop students to 'play with' 
but nobody knew anything about air-cooled horizontally opposed engines so it 
laid there until he stumbled across it. (I wonder if this was a common GM 
practice)

In fact the school GAVE it to him but here's the frustrating part, he had no 
garage at home so left it at the school until a storage area was available . 
Needless to say  by this point of the conversation he had my full attention, 
and I was ready to claim the treasure. However, fate, destiny, call it what 
you will, intervened. In the late 1980s the school burnt and you guessed it, 
the engine was crushed beneath the buildings steel framework.

In a puff of smoke  the treasure was gone. I guess it just wasn't meant to 
be. AAAHHH!
I think I need a therapist to get over this one!

Graham Sheppard
Sackville, New Brunswick
69 vert
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