<VV> Hard Luck

[Marc Sheridan]

I feel a leg being pulled :o).

Hope to see you and Spike at Nelson Ledges.

Marc Sheridan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: <VV> Hard Luck


> Smitty Says:  Sometimes there is hard luck and sometimes there is the 
> other kind.  Worse luck!!  Took off for Nelson Ledges this morning with 
> Spike on the tow bar.  Got 250 miles down the road, crusing along about 65 
> and heard this whap whap sound.  Nothing I had ever heard before.  I 
> backed off the throttle a bit to see if it made a difference and the 
> engine went from 3000 RPM to zero RPM in about a quarter of a second. 
> This was accompanyed by a big bang noise and then a whole lot of silence. 
> I looked and didn't see any rods sticking out of the top of the fan 
> housing so I assume it was the Pertronix going bad or the electric fuel 
> pump.  I know it wasn't the valves because I adjusted them cold.  Anyway 
> the answer seemed to be to get it back home.  I climbed into Spike and 
> fired him up.  Helen steered the wagon while I provided the motive power. 
> We are back home.  This will be the first convention since 1980 that I 
> didn't drive a Corvair but I will see you there.