<VV> Corvair web site content- More> The Real Corvair Safety Story : Corvair crash worthness

[Mike Stillwell]

 I have a picture of mine to add from 2 years ago. '66
Monza Coupe. T-boned a very old woman in a Buick
Skylark. Pulled right out in front of us at about
25-30. She said she never saw us. Pushed the front in
a good 2 feet on the driver's side. I bent the
steering wheel, but no injuries to myself or 15 month
old in his car seat in the back. I couldn't figure out
why the horn was stuck on, until I looked at the
wheel. No damage to the gas tank and the column didn't
move back at all. 

 Mike
 YS-117

--- Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per
<chaz at ProperProPer.com> wrote:

> I second that emotion ... for "a section [to] be
> offered on the Corvair.org 
> site where it shows, "Safe
> at Any Speed"
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: "Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per"
> <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:09 PM
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> 
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> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "BBRT" <chsadek at adelphia.net>
> > To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>;
> <fastvair at yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:17 PM
> > Subject: <VV> Corvair web site content- More>
> Corvair crash worthness
> >
> >
> >> >From a non-Corvair guy. Some advice to us...
> Good idea, methinks. Tim,
> >> >could
> >>  and we do compile and seek out stories and
> pictures from our members?
> >>
> >> Chuck S
> >> BBRT
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "- To: "BBRT" <chsadek at adelphia.net>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:12 PM
> >> Subject: RE: More> Corvair crash worthness
> >>
> >>
> >> Suggest the Corvair Club compile these
> stories..............YES
> >> REALLY...........and put them on the website
> under "Safe At Any Speed;
> >> "  Or "Why you should'a canned Nader years
> >> ago for being the lying slug that he is!"
> >>
> >> These are too good to
> waste.................really...................you
> >> gotta keep these and compile them!!
> >>
> >>
> >> From: <CorvairEd at aol.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Back in 1972 in Shreveport, LA. I was driving my
> 61 Monza with my
> >>> wife
> >>> and
> >>> three kids in the Corvair with me.  I was
> stopped at a red light  and
> >> a
> >>> woman
> >>> driving a 72 Ford LTD Wagon rear ended the
> Monza.  The Wagon  had the
> >> a/c
> >>> condenser broken the radiator smashed and the
> water pump broken off
> >> of
> >>> the motor.
> >>> The hood was ruined and both fenders were pushed
> back  into the front
> >>> doors
> >>> so they would not open.  The woman had to crawl
> over  into the back
> >> seat
> >>> to
> >>> exit the car.
> >>>
> >>> None of us in the Monza were hurt and after I
> pried open the engine
> >>> lid I found nothing broken and was able to drive
> it home.  The only
> >>> problem  was that I was unable to latch the
> engine lid.  As good
> >>> fortune would have it, the woman's husband was
> the owner of my
> >>> insurance  company, needless to say I had no
> >>> trouble getting my Monza fixed properly.
> >>>
> >>> Ed Corson  (CORSA member)
> >>> Inland Empire Corvair  Club
> >>>
> >>
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