<VV> valiant comments (pun intended!)

[james rice]

Ned:  Three things.  Or is it four?
1.  You protest to much.  At a high level, the Valiant, Lancer/Dart, Falcon,
Comet, Tempest F-85, Buick Spl and the Corvair were all the Big Three's
effort to answer the same question.  Thus the comments are within the
historic context of the Corvair.  The Corvair was by far the most
technically radical answer to the question, with the Tempest being next
most.  All the others were so uniformly unimaginably conventional (except
for the BOP aluminum V-8 and the iron V-6 and the slant 4!) to cause me to
yawn, then and now.  But they sold, and them morphed into "real man sized
cars" and spawned the muscle car era.

2.  You protest selectively.  While I expressed personnel experience with
our Valiant/Duster, others have done the same about other cars.  These
rabbit trail discussions allow us insight into others, and usually dry up in
a couple postings.  But if I understand your "suggestion", you would have us
be not allowed to mention any other car than the Corvair, or any problem car
issue which does not involve a Corvairs.  Daapiggaaintagounaflya.

3. To protest inconsistently.  Where were you during the absolutely inane
exchanges about Volts, Ohms, Wattage and LED light bulbs?  I believe the
original question was about dim dash lights.  I hope the original questioner
got a useful answer.  But what followed was a waste.  Who cares about the
technical details of light bulbs?!!  When a question is asked, give us a
list of possible causes and fixes and drop it.  But noooo, it went on and on
between technical geeks (sorry guys) to no worthwhile end for the rest of us
so far as I can discern.

I found the Valiant discussion, such as and as brief as it was, interesting.
But my delete key was really overworked on the LED light bulb
technicalities.  So we are even.

Later,
	Historically Yours,
				James Rice

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:10 EDT
From: AeroNed at aol.com
Subject: Re: <VV> Vaiant (No Vair what so ever)
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org

I really like this discussion about what is or isn't a Valiant and when it
went out of production, or didn't. The "you don't know your MOPARS like the
MOPAR guys know MOPARS" was good to, but this is a CORVAIR discussion group.
Would it be too much to ask that you take this off-list? My delete key is
getting tired.

Ned