<VV> Re: Proposed Website : Corvairs that have sacrificed their lives for their owners

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:02 PM 10/25/2006, Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per wrote:
>Ouch !
>
>Yours took it just like mine - all on the front driver's side.
>
>Shows just how well the unibody protects the occupants.

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>Maybe we should have a page for Corvairs that have sacrificed their 
>lives for their owners, with a little mention of how well the 
>occupants fared in the accident ?
>


I have one of those, a red '69 Monza that took a thunderous shot to 
the LR fender by a Ford that ran a stop sign, spun the car around 
sideways into a telephone pole on the corner at the intersection hard 
enough to break the pole... and crush a Verizon terminal/distribution 
box which caused a bit of a problem with phone service in the 
neighborhood.   ...ripped that sucker right out of the ground, left a 
wad of what resembled broom straw sticking out of the ground.   I 
sustained only minor injuries which healed in a week or so.    The 
car was a mess, windshield broken, RR quarter window broken, backlite 
glass broken, RR fender crushed in by the pole far enough to damage 
the wheel and pop the tire (also broke the backlite and quarterwindow 
glass and bent the roof pillar), LR fender demolished, busted the 
battery, bent the swing-arm, mangled the wheel-tire, twisted the rear 
unibody and bent both rear box-members in the engine bay and buckled 
the tops of both rear fenders.

In spite of the damage I didn't have the heart to part the car 
out.   It remains stored in a hay barn.    I actually managed to 
cobble the remains together enough to drive the car into the hay 
barn, although it crabbed a bit getting it there.

Anything can be fixed...  and I've not fully given up on someday 
going back into this car armed with torch, saws, MIG welder, and a 
bunch of replacement sheet metal just for spite.   And, because it's 
a '69 Monza built on the last day of production on the original 
Corvair line, October 28, 1968, about 11 AM that morning.

Someday, maybe, sooner or later...  ;)  The fact that it's still here 
is reason enough to seriously consider repairing it.


tony..