<VV> Paucity of Corvair mechanics
Ron
ronh at owt.com
Thu Jul 10 18:46:03 EDT 2008
And then you tell your club members about your experience with the shop and
then there's a whole new bunch of people living around there that won't go
to the place. At least, that's what I do.
RonH
----- Original Message -----
From: <FrankCB at aol.com>
To: <airvair at earthlink.net>; <Wrsssatty at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Paucity of Corvair mechanics
>
> Mark,
> I agree completely! Reminds me that about 25 years ago when my wife
> was
> driving a 67 Monza everyday to work, she pulled up to a stoplight and
> when
> it changed to green, the car refused to move. She tried L, R and D on
> the PG
> but it was like they were all NEUTRAL. After determining there was
> plenty of
> AT fluid, I had the car towed to a nearby Transmission Shop and when I
> spoke
> to the owner, he said he didn't work on "rear-engined" cars. I said it
> was
> a simple Chevrolet Powerglide and probably the pressure regulator valve
> was
> simple stuck open so there was no pressure to engage the bands at low
> speed.
> He still refused to work on it and told me to fix it myself! So, after
> borrowing a neighbor's station wagon, I towed the Monza home and DID fix
> it
> myself.
> But the point is, as you suggest, he was AFRAID of the unfamiliar,
> even
> though it was a basic GM PG transmission.
> Frank "thanks for the memories" Burkhard
>
> In a message dated 7/10/2008 4:22:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> airvair at earthlink.net writes:
> [SNIP]
>
> I feel that much of the resistance from mechanics about working on
> Corvairs
> is what it always has been, the fear of the unfamiliar. What we Corvair
> owners need to do is to emphasize whenever asked (by the media) that
> Corvairs are easy to work on, but just different. And if any mechanic is
> competent, he CAN fix a Corvair. It's just that a lot of mechanics (even
> today) fear the unfamiliar, and hence tell their clients that they won't
> work on Corvairs "because they're too hard" and not the real reason,
> admitting to their own fear of the unfamiliar.
>
>
> [SNIP]
>
>
>
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