<VV> my fiance' and the 65' Corsa project/parts car aka women and cars

[n5hsr]

Yowsa!  Where do they hide women like that?  My mom was a bit like that, but 
instead of playing with dolls at 9 she was with Granddad under the hood of 
the DeSoto learning how to tune it up.  She's dressed down a couple car 
mechanics over the years that saw a woman in a headscarf and a cloth coat 
and thought '$cha-ching$' only to find out she knew more about cars than Dad 
did and a lot of newer mechanics. . . .

She was also pretty good at roughing it.  My sister, OTOH, thinks roughing 
it is a hotel without room service. . .

Charles
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric S. Eberhard" <flash at vicsmba.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 13:39
Subject: <VV> my fiance' and the 65' Corsa project/parts car aka women and 
cars


>I am lucky -- my wife shares the hobby with me.  She works on them,
> gets greasy, hands me tools, so forth.  Sometimes I'll come home from
> work and find her puttering about on one restoration or the other,
> all by herself.  She even took it upon herself to have Jeff Williams
> (California Corvair Parts) restore my coupe which was rotting in the yard 
> ...
>
> We once (30 years ago) restored a 67 Fiat 850 Spyder.  We did all the
> work ourselves including paint.  It was beautiful (fly yellow).  We
> (my fault being impatient) did not do one thing ... replace the gas
> tank.  I went for one of those sealant products.  It never worked and
> no matter how many fuel filters I put on it, every couple of hundred
> miles it would get dirt in the carbs.  This was complicated dual
> Weber setup (yeah, high performance 850cc engine!).  One day I came
> home from work and my wife lit in to me about the Fiat (she was
> driving it that day).  It had died in the middle of the main street
> in town.  So I groaned inwardly wondering how I could get a tow truck
> that late at night, was it safe, etc.  So I asked with trepidation,
> what did she do?
>
> Answer ... she coasted off the road.  Then she took the tool box I
> always keep in the trunk, and removed all the jets (idle and main)
> for both carbs.  She took them over to a nearby gas station and blew
> them out with the air hose, and then re-assembled the
> carbs.  Yikes!  I asked her if it still ran :-)  It was in the
> garage.  I asked how she managed to get those complicated Webers all
> adjusted on the street ... she said she counted the number of turns
> on each jet, idle screw, etc. when she removed them.  Just like I
> taught her (screw them all the way in first, then count out ... as
> counting going in is an in-exact method).  And the car ran perfectly,
> I never had to change a thing.
>
> So that's my girl! One of the reasons I kept her.
>
>
> Merry Christmas from:
>
> Eric S. Eberhard
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