<VV> RE: Frank Responds Re: dust busted, (some Corvair) ...

[Mark Corbin]

Frank,

I fully realize that, and didn't mean to direct it personally to you. But it's like the Big Lie that keeps being repeated, and repeated, and repeated, until it becomes an accepted "fact". I've said ever since day one that it was a totally false impression, and for the reasons I cited. It was originally meant as a hateful slam against an otherwise good vehicle, and no doubt coined by some idiot who didn't have a clue, let alone good eyesight. But every time I hear someone use that term I try to point out the error of their ways. Not that one person will make much difference in the world. But maybe it'll give at least ONE other person pause to think. Heck, I even had to correct my own mother on it.

I say HELP STAMP OUT THE "DUSTBUSTER" MISNOMER!

-Mark (hoping my thoughts on this will spread...)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
To: airvair at earthlink.net;ScottyGrover at aol.com;TTuttlelandscape at aol.com
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: 9/23/2007 11:55:33 PM 
Subject: Frank Responds Re: dust busted, (some Corvair) ...


Mark,
    The term "Dustbuster" was a common reference to GM's plastic minivans of that era.  Just do a Google search on "GM Dustbuster" and you'll find over 100 entries that refer to those GM Minivans as "Dustbusters".  One entry even says:  "Like GM's other orphans, Corvair, Vega, Fiero, Allante, and Reatta, GM stopped production of the APV just when they were getting it right." 

    So I didn't invent the term, Mark.  I'm just using what is the generally accepted nickname for them.  I'm sorry that you don't like it.  But it doesn't detract from the usability and reliability of these excellent vehicles.
    Frank "already has glasses" Burkhard
    

In a message dated 9/23/2007 9:28:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, airvair at earthlink.net writes:
It may be just me, but having owned a '95 TransSport since new, the term
"dustbuster" really grates against me. If there was anything on the road
that looked like a "dustbuster" it was the first gen F**D Aerostar minivan.
A guy around here has a tan one, and the lines and front grille make it
look for all the world like a giant dustbuster. Just look at its lines.
Seriously. Not so any of the "All Plastic Vans" from GM. The lines aren't
EVEN close.

Now maybe it has an "anteater" look to it, as someone once said. And I
could live with that term.

But the A.P.V. resembling a dustbuster?? NO WAY, JOSE! You seriously need
glasses, man.

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: <FrankCB at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> converting a 2nd gen corvair to 3.8 buick engine
>  
> Scotty,
>     The 3.8 Buick engine is a V6 and fairly recent  vintage.  It was used
in 
> the Turbo Buicks and I have a later version in my  1995 Pontiac Trans
Sport 
> "Dustbuster". 
>
>     Frank "good memory for some things" Burkhard








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