<VV> Found in Your Corvair

Charles Lee chaz at ProperProPer.com
Sat Jan 12 21:07:21 EST 2008


That's better than the factory worker who hung (hanged) a bolt from a string 
in a body panel of a new car (a Caddy ?) for the unlucky owner to have to 
rip the car apart to find the "clunk" under warranty.

I like your guy better ...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les" <corvair at mts.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:06 PM
Subject: <VV> Found in Your Corvair


> My '63 Spyder came with a 1963 Franklin half-dollar under the screwed-on 
> galvanized floor panel. I figure a factory worker left it there for me to 
> find, nearly 50 years later.
>
> Les
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> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:18:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Smitty Smith <vairologist at verizon.net>
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> Smitty Says:  A man called me one time saying he had a corvair in his yard 
> that had been tagged by the city for removal within 48 hours.  (no title). 
> He said it ought to be worth $10 for parts if I wanted it.  I towed it 
> home and proceeded to cut it up in disposable pieces, leaving the floor 
> pan and running gear for last.  I found the usual buck and a half in 
> miscellanious pennys and quarters under the carpets etc.  When I flipped 
> it over to remove the running gear a roll of dimes rolled out on the 
> ground.  I had gone over the floor with the carpets out and have no idea 
> where the dimes were hiding.
>  When I got Spike, he had no floor, therefore I was amazed to gather over 
> $2,50 in change as I chiseled the remaining shards of rust from the car 
> before making a new floor.
>
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