<VV> Bordering Comical...

[Cliff Tibbitts]

I'm not sure how a Simca managed to sneak into this group, but now that you
mention it.............

My dad bought a 59 Simca for my sister and I to learn to drive on in 1967.
I am not sure what model it was, but it had an in-line 4, (in the front)
with a 4 speed manual, column shift.  It was wild.  We trashed the engine,
but as luck would have it, that year in auto mechanics, one of the donor
cars was a 62 Simca, also with an in-line 4.  The engines were nearly
identical, so I re-built that engine and stuck in back in the 59 and we
drove it a while longer.  It was a fun little car, but not as much fun as
the Corvair I bought a couple of years later. 

Cliff Tibbitts
66 Monza, 140/speed
It's alive and on the road.
Still needs to be painted.

http://www.tibweb.com/gallery/200607/20060722t-index.html

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Subject: <VV> Bordering Comical...
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    Ford unleashed TV ads that featured an arrow with a moveable head. The 
head was supposed to be the engine. When the head was at the front of the 
arrow, it shot straight and true. When the head was moved to the back of the

arrow, it was erratic. This brilliant piece of advertising nonsense implied 
that a front engine car was the right way, and the Ford way. A rear engine 
car was the wrong way, and the Corvair way.

 Not saying this isn't true, but what I remember form the early 60's is 
similar ads by Simca (a French  product marketed by Chrysler) saying the 
same thing.  Amazingly, or humorously, they later introduced a rear-engined 
car.  A neighbor had one of their older, front-engine, rear drive cars and a

friend's older sister had one of the rear-engine ones. 
www.centuryinter.net/Simca/

Mike Ioanes 

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