<VV> For What Its Worth Dept.

[Bob Gilbert]

Unfortunately work got in the way of my attending this year's convention but
I had a similar experience to Bill at our local show and shine on Canada
Day. About a hundred cars of all ages, types and conditions showed up.

In addition to the usual comments most of us have heard , "cool" was by far
the most common adjective used when people looked at the engine bay of my 66
180 convertible. That was a new one to me.

But what really surprised me this time was the number of people in the
sub-40 age group (I'm guessing a bit here) that simply had never heard of
the Corvair and were astonished when I said it was made by Chevrolet.

One woman even had to check in the trunk as she didn't believe that there
wasn't an engine there!

After that I deliberately left the trunk open slightly and watched a fair
number of people do a double take as they casually walked by, glanced under
the trunk lid only to see - no engine! 

Bob



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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Bill Kronen
Sent: July-03-08 6:27 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> For What Its Worth Dept.

After returning home from the Convention (great time) with renewed 
enthusiam and increased motivation, got my 63 Spyder vert out of its 
long winter hibernation.  Started right up and drove it home 40 miles.  
Gave it a bath and polished up its paint and took it to its first Show 
and Shine of the year on Tuesday.  On July 1st we celebrate Canada Day, 
the birthday of this country.  Anyway, it was a small show but at the 
end the Spyder came away with one of the 7 prizes, a plaque from a 
category I hadn't seen before.  It wasn't the 'Best Chev', or 'Best 
Convertible' but it was the 'Best Too Cool'.   So this air cooled little 
marvel now has a new name as suggested by one of our club members.  It's 
'TOO COOL"  It may never reach Concours status since it gets lots of 
summer driving but it will be forever, 'Too Cool'.
Bill Kronen
Rocky Mt. House, Alberta, CAnada
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