<VV> What have you found in your Corvair?

[Lonny Clark]

When I took the interior of the Spyder apart, I found an old pull-tab
Blitz-Weinhard can, a bunch of glass shards from a once-broken backlight, a
receipt for the tires that were still on the car (dated 1975), and a signed
picture of Janet Guthrie.

When I did the GTO, I found a lot of 1/8-mile and 1/4-mile timeslips and a
trophy plaque from Balboa Dragstrip (1967).

Lonny

On Jan 11, 2008 3:49 PM, cfm <cfmann at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Every since I bought this Corvair of mine (last July), I pretty much took
> on a bastard without knowing; an "ad-hoc",
> "been-around-the-block-a-few-times" kind of a car. All kinds of gremlins,
> needs this, needs that, one particular annoyance is that I was given a pile
> of keys without really knowing what key opens what. So naturally I tossed
> most all except the ones that "worked". You know the kind, they fit but
> don't feel right. Only to discover I never had the right keys in the 1st
> place (GM changes the cylinder type in 69 or so and forgoes the Hexagon key
> style, like I had been using).
> And I had power washed the engine bay last fall and saw this little metal
> box in the air cowl at the top of the engine bay towards the front. On the
> metal "shelf", a air turbulence thing, I imagine, was this peculiar little
> metal box and didn't think anything of it at the time. Yesterday or so, I
> scanned the engine bay for no apparent reason and "rediscovered" this little
> box again. Is was magnetized, kind of rusty. I picked it off the shelf and
> set it aside. Today, I picked it up again, to study it closer and low and
> behold, it slides upon and bear two shiny GM keys.
> My Corvair bears gifts, I like it. Its started to yield presents, I have
> bought this car to many, many already.
> And so it continues, this love hate relationship with my car.
>
> So this prompted me to call out to all of you and ask, "What have you
> found in your Corvair (that you didn't know about) that either made you
> happy, sad, shreak, etc?? Like a skeleton of an alien, or as mundane as a
> birds nest.
>
> maybe a series of short stories could be adapted to the Communique on this
> topic?
>
> Chris
> 69 monza coupe 140/4
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