<VV> Corvette Arises (no Corvair)

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

No offense taken, although obviously spoken by a "prestige car" owner ! 
Touch a hot button, did I ?

Corvette might be a good car, but is it MORE than it is advertised to be ? 
The Corvair is just that.

I don't "hate" Mustangs either, but they are, as you say, "straight line" 
cars, mostly for the "prestige" of owning one.

I like the Corvair because it is more than it appears to be, being 
advertised  (in 1967) as "America's cheapest hardtop," which it may have 
been, but it was so much more.

I had just posted how I nearly had to sue my Mustang salesman after I drove 
my buddy's Corsa and became completely disenchanted with the Mustang I had 
ordered, having been caught up in Mustang-mania (I was just out of high 
school and new nothing about cars, but I knew that the Corsa was more car 
than the Mustang could ever be !)

I've driven almost nothing but Corvairs since then, except as A->B 
transportation, and then only because I don't want to wear the Corvair out.

Did I ever post how my Vair could weave in between the muscle cars on the 
cloverleaf interchanges, at double the "advisory" speed limits, on my way 
home from school ?  Try that in a Mustang !   (Sure, they caught up on the 
straights, where I would at least try to obey speed limits, but they had to 
prove something, though I'm not sure what.)

Maybe a Corvette could have done that too, but you would EXPECT it to do 
that, for that price, right ?

The Corvair is a surprising sleeper, and a Corvette is expected to perform !

So, I am going to ignore the other comments ...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawerance Nall" <nalllm at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvette Arises (no Corvair)


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
>
>> I think that most of the price of a modern Corvette is for "prestige" of
>> owning one.
>
> ============================================
>
> The above:   Spoken by someone who has either;
>
> 1  Not driven one where it's capabilities can be explored
>
> 2  Doesn't know how to "drive" a car...just how to  "operate" it. *
>
> *  typical 60's Mustang buyer
>
> No Flame!
>
> Matt
>
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