<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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