<VV> Corvair winter story

[Bryan Blackwell]

Ah, Corvair winter stories are always special.  Here's one of my 
favorites:

Once upon a time I had this '66 PG sedan that I bought to get the 140 
heads.  This was one of those cars that was cheap enough to just buy 
the whole thing to get what you want.  Anyway, after getting it I 
realize it really wasn't in too awful shape and it would be a shame to 
just part out, and a friend of mine needed something to drive.  So, I 
picked up a set of 110 heads and a battery and got it running.  It 
needed a couple other little things, but then I had a decent enough 
car.  The deal was that my friend would pay for the tags and insurance 
and whatnot, but could borrow the car.

That was such a good deal that when he bought another car and didn't 
need the Corvair, another friend took me up on it, and so on.  I think 
4 or 5 of us drove that car over two or three years.  Anyway, at some 
point my friend Don needed the service of my "loaner".  He drove it for 
most of one winter, and one day we had some snow.  Of course by then we 
all knew of the prowess of a Corvair in the snow.  Some time in the 
afternoon, Don calls me and says "I'm stuck" (I can hear the collective 
gasp already).  I say "whatd'ya mean, you're stuck?  It's a Corvair."  
"Well, uh, it's stuck, can you come help me?"  So, I grab a tow cable 
and hop into my '65 and go.

When I get to the place where it's stuck, and had a good laugh.  He was 
stuck alright.  Seems he was doing some donuts in the parking lot and 
slid the car sideways so it was straddling a median strip!  We 
basically ended up using snow to build some little ramps for the rear 
tires, then I pulled the car up onto the median and from there it could 
be driven off.  Afterward I told him that he couldn't claim he got 
stuck in the snow in a Corvair, that using the median was cheating :-)
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Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
http://autoxer.skiblack.com/
   Corvairs: '61 Lakewood, '64 Greenbrier, '65 Corsa, '66 Corsa
   '69 Road Runner, '97 Ford F-150, '99 Neon R/T
"Why do something if you're not going to obsess about it?"