<VV> Darien Journeys

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/1/2008 11:11:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  p
koehler01 at atlanticbb.net writes:

I have  heard previously that they were left behind 
in the jungle even though they  had less than a couple of 
thousand miles on each of them. There was a  report a while 
back that someone on an expedition in the area where the  
trip ended found some of the remains still rotting  away.





Like several other folks, I pay close attention to the Automotive press and  
keep an eye on references to the Corvair. I never hesitate to jump in to 
defend  the Corvair. As a decades long reader of Autoweek, (since Competition Press 
 times) I have seen the Darien Corvairs pop-up at least twice. In the  early  
70's Autoweek reported on a team of Land Rovers in a British  military 
expedition traversed the Darien gap. They were reported baffled  to winch themselves 
past at least one Corvair wondering WTF it was doing  there. I, of course 
informed them by a letter to the editor. Some time in the  90's a group of 
American Jeep enthusiasts barged their cars up to the northern  most points in 
Alaska with an eye toward traversing the full Northern and  Southern American 
continents. They completed the trip to the tip end of South  America (Not sure if 
you would want to attempt that today, politics and  drug-culture being how they 
are) The Autoweek story proclaimed them as only the  second group to traverse 
the "Infamous" Darien Gap. My letter to that editor  offered a copy of 
"Daring the Darien" video to prove that not only  were they following the British 
Military Rovers, but a group of Corvairs  that had passed through more than 30 
years before. In 2000, at the Daytona  Convention, I listened to Deac Hundley 
(sp?) tell his account of the trip. I  recall hearing that at least one of the 
cars was shipped back to the US for  promotional use, but I could be wrong.  - 
Seth Emerson  
 

Seth  Emerson

C's the Day! - Corvair, Camaro,  Corvette



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