<VV> Re: Yucky Beer uses -- Some Corvair (Grolsch)

[LonzoVair at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/22/2006 7:35:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Taruffi57 at aol.com writes:

snip <<He had accumulated lots of cheap wine and beer  and gave me a supply 
of Grolsch.>> snip again  << I now  use what I  have left to clean my garage 
floor of oil  drippings.>>
 
 

Joe, I'm not sure if you grow any tomatos or if Mrs. Joe has a flower  
garden, but you can take that "so called" beer and place it in some small cups  
around any plants and the slugs (snails) will crawl in there and drown (the cups  
need to be sunk into the ground so the opening is almost level to the ground  
surface)... I can remember my Grandma doing that with her "stale" Falls City  
when she'd find one that she didn't finish... those snails are happy to get 
ANY  beer, since they always get carded around here...
 
I put some more miles on the 69 yesterday... had to go to another  funeral... 
this time the funeral was for the mother of one of my best friends...  she 
was only 60, and I'd known her for the last 25 years... she died in a freak  
accident... she's been battling epilepsy most of her life, but had a seizure  
while she was leaving the bathroom in her home. Eddie, her son, told me that on  
her way down she hit her head on the sink, breaking her nose, and when she hit 
 the floor with her face it shoved her nose up into her brain, killing her  
instantly. He told me the Coroner told him he didn't believe she suffered at  
all, and never knew what happened... it's just a shame... she was a nice lady,  
and was always very nice to me... more than once I spent the night on her  
couch when I didn't have a place to go... I saw some of our other  classmates 
there, some I hadn't seen in over 20 years... and I also saw some of  Eddie's 
uncles, although most of them had changed quite a bit, but they still  
remembered me. I asked Eddie after his aunt came in and kissed me on the cheek  and 
said "Lon, where have you been? I've not seen you in a month of Sundays!"...  I 
said "Ed, have I not changed any, or am I the only tall friend you have?"....  
he said "You got fat... that's all.".... His uncles Damon & Dudley both fell  
in love with the Corvair... both saying "I wish I could find one of these... I 
 haven't seen one in years!".... then they started asking what I ever did 
with my  1950 Buick Roadmaster... that was the last time they saw me, about 1989, 
and  that was my daily driver... I told them "The Gulf War hit, gas prices 
got over a  dollar a gallon, and then someone wanted it more than I did... when 
he offered  me way more than I thought it was worth, I sold it"... and then I 
told them how  I took that money and bought my first Corvairs...
It was good to see them, and great to reminisce about the "old days"...  they 
invited me back to their "family reunion" and Damon said "We  won't have all 
these outsiders here, just family, like you."... it made me feel  good.
The 69 ran great, but I think I'm going to swap out the distributor... it  
stumbles when you first start up and put it in reverse... died twice  as I was 
getting ready to leave... but it always does that... I think it might  still 
have the "smogger" distributor installed, and since all that stuff is  removed, 
I think a regular distributor should work nicely...
Anyway, that was my weekend... my second funeral in as many months... I'm  
ready for a reprieve... 
Later,
Lonzo   

Lon Anderson  in White Mills, KY
CORSA, Corvanatics, Derby City Corvair, Central Ky  Corvair
Quart Low Quarterly Editor
1961 Greenbrier 110/pg
1963  Greenbrier 110/4spd
1964 700 sedan 95/pg
1969 Monza  110/pg