<VV> the crazy things people say about Vairs'

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

Well, this had round taillights, but I think the "Batman" wing-fins and the 
fat that you could probably part a "real" Corvair wagon INSIDE this car 
would give it away.  (I did use it to haul my Arctic Cat snowmobile around.)

Mine was white, but you can get the idea :
http://www.hearse.com/vehicles/motorized/buick/1960/flxible/ambulance/v001/images/001.jpg

Hard to mistake for a Corvair, wouldn't you say ?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Western Canada CORSA" <westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca>
To: "'Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per'" <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
Cc: "Fraser Field (Fraser Field)" <ffield at shaw.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:12 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> the crazy things people say about Vairs'


We've got a WCC member with one of those funky ambulances.  I don't know
what year it is, but it does have LM taillights!

Regards,
Joel

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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Charles Lee at Proper
Pro Per
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:58 PM
To: Geoffrey A Johnson
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Subject: Re: <VV> the crazy things people say about Vairs'


A "few" years back, I had a 1960 Buick "Flxible" ambulance (ala
"Ghostbusters") with the extended chassis, raised roof, a "4-door" with 4 of
the big "2-door" doors - each longer than the abbreviated doors typically
used on a 4-door.

Anyway, this this was HUGE, and I had my required "I LOVE MY^ CORVAIR"
bumper sticker on the back "vault" door.

So, this guy comes up, admiring my car (it was REALLY impressive), and
quips, "I didn't know Corvair made a station wagon."

I started to tell him that, well, they did make a Corvair wagon, but ...

I decided to leave it alone, and let him believe that "Casper the Friendly
Hearse" was a Corvair, so he tell his friends that the Corvair made big cars
too.

Too much explaining and the stories he would tell were much more
interesting.

PS: If you like "Professional Vehicles" and would like to see this car in
its "hayday" catch the episode of the original Twilight Zone where William
Shatner imagines (?) a gnome tearing the wing of the airliner apart in
flight.

He is taken away in "Casper" at the end of the show.  (I bought the car from
a teacher who was moving from CA to NY, and buying this was cheaper than
renting a moving van, and he "got rid of it" when he was finished, and I
just could NOT resist it.  (Friends kept asking me, "Why don't you get a
'big car' ?" - so I did.)

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