<VV> No Corvair on my signature

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

Why Arthur, you sly devil, you coaxed one of us to ask and then told 
your wonderful Corvair
story which I am sure all on the list enjoyed reading !  I sure 
enjoyed the history lesson and if
you have some pictures and a few more tangents on some of your 
travels with your Corvairs
it would make a great article for the Communique magazine.

Corvairly,
Chuck Armer
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  At 12:23 PM 10/8/2006, you wrote:
>Sorry,    No story there.  That is the signature I use for the 
>Monaco Motor Home Group.  As to the Corvair,  When my mother was in 
>her 70's she thought that she would like to drive again and so they 
>bought a new 65 Monza 4 door 110 3 speed and took delivery Dec 1964. 
>She drove it about 100 miles or so and then decided that she really 
>didn't want to drive in the Los Angeles Area traffic. My father 
>drove it until he stopped driving in December of 1971.  At that time 
>a Corvair was not worth more than a couple of hundred dollars so 
>they gave it to me. I didn't need it so did not use it much until 
>the gas crunch of the mid 1970's  At that time my wife had to drive 
>about 30 miles a day so she used it until the mid 80's  I then used 
>it as a "Toad" behind our motor home. It has 105K miles on it and is 
>not being used any more.  We have not driven it in several years 
>other than to move it as the motor home is parked behind it.  When I 
>retired  I repaired the rust and painted it but
>  that was 20 years ago and it has not aged to well.  I was going to 
> fix it up and give it to our grandaughter for her 16th birthday in 
> a few months, but her mother, our daughter does not want her to 
> have it and I don't think she wants it  She wants her mothers 
> MBZ.  It is very original, although well worn and shabby.  I don't 
> want to pay for ins. so it is registered as non-operation.  I can't 
> get collector car ins. as it is not inside although it is behind a 
> locked chain link fence and is blocked by 3 other cars.  It is just 
> too costly to add another car to our policy in our zip code.  When 
> the ins. and registration was current we loaned it many to visitors 
> who did not have a car with them.  Rust? yes but no dents.
>
>Arthur Balazs
>89 Monaco Crown Royale 8.3 Cummins
>Saturn 2000LW2 V6,
>
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