<VV> Underrated Corvair is a Sleeper: "America's Cheapest Hardtop" ? Yeah, right !

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

... and just knowing that you can out handle them is satisfying !

I have dozens of memories of frustrated muscle cars blazing past me, only to 
zip around them in "a cloverleaf" on the way home from school.

It was fun to watch them trying to keep their cars on the road in the 
corners, and then I'd be a mile ahead before they got out of the corner, but 
they'd roar up in my rearview, only to do it again in the next curve.

Many GTO, 442, and Charger owners have shaken their heads in disbelief, 
demanding to see "What's under the hood ?" and even more so when I'd have to 
say, "No, the engine is back here !"

Fun times.  "America's Cheapest Hardtop" ?  Yeah, right !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FrankCB at aol.com>
To: <chaz at ProperProPer.com>; <n3lkz at yahoo.com>
Cc: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:30 AM
Subject: <VV> Underrated Corvair is a Sleeper: .


>
> In a message dated 8/20/2006 1:20:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> chaz at ProperProPer.com writes:
>
> Sorry,  but I like "sleepers," cars that are much more than they appear to
> be.  That is a Corvair, not a Corvette.
>
>
>
> I'm with you pal.  Cars that are more than  they appear to be are the ones 
> I
> like.  Reminds me of the time long ago  with my wife Milly driving her 
> Corvair
> on a frequently curving back road when up  behind us comes a mightily 
> powered
> and much modified muscle car huffing and  puffing to get around us in the
> straight-away sections of the road.  But  the curved sections came up too 
> quickly
> and Milly always left him way behind  every time we came to a curve.  On 
> the
> next straight he'd be right on our  tail again but again falling way 
> behind on
> the next curve as he couldn't corner  nearly as fast as she could in her
> mostly stock 1965 Monza  convertible.
>    Milly really appreciated the way the Corvair  handled especially in the
> winter.  She delighted in pulling around  Mustangs and passing them as 
> they
> struggled spinning rear tires trying to get up  small inclines in the 
> snowy/icy
> roads in the NJ winter.  And she always  waved to them as she passed them. 
> (Of
> course, she did have studded snow  tires on the back of her 
> Corvair.)<GGGG>
>    Frank "long memory" Burkhard
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