<VV> RE: Wise Gal - A Corvette is America's Sprts Car - Corvair :"America's Cheapest Hardtop" ?!?!?!?

Sun Aug 20 03:40:46 EDT 2006

I've heard of cars with suspension so taught that you ride over a dime, and 
tell if it was heads or tails.  Must've been a 63 Stingray ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RKB" <rkbyers at verizon.net>
To: "Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per" <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> RE: Wise Gal - A Corvette is America's Sprts Car - Corvair 
:"America's Cheapest Hardtop" ?!?!?!?

> The real reason I think is much more logical.  Early Sting Rays rode like 
> a buckboard and old bones don't take kindly to the torture of a taut 
> suspension, which increases as you speed up  That rear suspension may have 
> been IRS but the front was still pretty basic.  63's were among the worst 
> of all, except for an 84 with a Z51 kit.
> regards,
> Ron
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per" <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
> To: "Arjay Morgan" <n3lkz at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:19 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> RE: Wise Gal - A Corvette is America's Sprts Car - 
> Corvair :"America's Cheapest Hardtop" ?!?!?!?
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>> I'm not even going to get into why someone who would own a Corvette 
>> that's not trying to show off.   A Corvette is the very definition of an 
>> overstated car.  Sure, they're nice, but they are SUPPOSED to be !  You 
>> paid for that image.
>>
>> With a Corvair, you get a car that was supposed to be a "compact, 
>> economy" car, and those discerning to enough know, would know, or 
>> discover when they inadvertently found themselves behind the wheel of a 
>> Corvair, especially in a corner, that their car is so much more than 
>> passersby could know.
>>
>> If this very proper, elderly gent, sans midlife crisis, really wanted to 
>> enjoy a nice ride in a classy car, he should be driving a Corvair, with a 
>> knowing smile, enjoying what his little Corvair says about him, although 
>> so many will not know.
>>
>> A Corvair says so much about it's driver that a Corvette so profoundly 
>> overstates.
>>
>> Sorry, but I like "sleepers," cars that are much more than they appear to 
>> be.  That is a Corvair, not a Corvette.
>>
>> A friend (the same one who "introduced" me to Corvairs, always told his 
>> friends that he drove a Camaro, to "impress" them, and they were 
>> disappointed, expecting a Camaro.  I told my friends I had a Corvair, and 
>> when they saw my Corsa convertible, they were impressed.  It was an 
>> interesting dichotomy to watch the faces of people when we were together.
>>
>> "America's Cheapest Hardtop" - Aarrgghh !!!!!  What were they thinking 
>> ?!?!?!?!?
>>
>> OK, soapbox overload...<EOF>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Arjay Morgan" <n3lkz at yahoo.com>
>> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 9:25 PM
>> Subject: <VV> RE: Wise Gal
>>
>>
>>> After being pretty much rained out at the Plant City, FL cruise-in on 
>>> Saturday we found ourselves homeward bound on Rt. 39 behind another 
>>> early model Corvair, who was behind a Sting Ray style Corvette. It was 
>>> still spitting rain, the sun was setting, wife, Elayne, was by my side.
>>>
>>>  After a few miles at 50-55 mph (Rt. 39 is a 60 mph, 2-lane road) the 
>>> Corvair ahead of us had had enough and passed the Corvette on the 
>>> straight. What was amazing was that the Corvette driver let him do it. 
>>> That left us behind the Corvette.
>>>
>>>  Curious, and wondering if the Corvette was suffering some sort of 
>>> malfunction, I remained behind. After another few miles Elayne piped up 
>>> with, "Isn't that amazing, a Corvette that's not trying to show off."
>>>
>>>  We stayed behind the Corvette for another 10 miles, both of us driving 
>>> at a safe and sane 50-55 miles an hour, given the wet road, the 
>>> sprinkling rain and the approach of darkness. Elayne continued to marvel 
>>> at the Corvette that refused to "show off."
>>>
>>>  When we reached a traffic light I pulled alongside in the right-turn 
>>> lane and saw the reason for the unusual Corvette behavior --- there sat 
>>> a gentleman, of an age, replete with a full head of gray hair. There was 
>>> no blonde chick with him, nor was there any evidence of there ever 
>>> having been one. Just a nice old gentleman out for a cruise in his 
>>> Corvette. When's the last time you saw such a thing? When's the last 
>>> time you saw an aged Corvette driver who was not having a mid-life 
>>> crisis?
>>>
>>>  Only in Florida.
>>>
>>>  Now, a question for the manufacturing engineers in the crowd. Ford has 
>>> announced it is closing a half dozen plants until the end of the year. 
>>> I'm assuming that means they'll be "mothballing" them for a while. The 
>>> question is, what do you do to mothball something as huge and 
>>> complicated as an automobile assembly plant? Do you just turn off the 
>>> power, send the workers home, and let the mud daubers take over? If so, 
>>> does that mean the robots are just stuck at Position 38 like so many 
>>> arthritic ballet dancers?  What about the cars that are midway down the 
>>> line, do they just stay there, frozen in time? Or, are there orderly 
>>> ways to shut the enterprise down, complete with miles of shrink-wrap? 
>>> This inquiring mind would like to know.
>>>
>>>  Arjay Morgan
>>>  slightly damp 64 Monza convert
>>>
>>>
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