<VV> Metro's - No Corvair

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:56 AM 6/27/2009, Rick Norris wrote:

>Dang!
>I thought you guys were talking about Nash Metropolitans!
>School chum drove one (his dad's) to high school. We used to see how many
>guys we could get in it and still drive. I don't remember what the number
>was.
>The big football players had a habit of picking it up and putting it in
>someone's yard.
>Rick Norris




Seems I recall some big college Back When had a dean who drove a 
Metro convertible and the football team pranked it one evening by 
picking it up and carrying it into the school and leaving it sitting 
in the hallway in front of his office.   Someone was always doing 
this to a small car somewhere sometime.

A guy at Coburg barracks in Germany who worked at the PX (or what 
passed for the PX there, rather small post) had a Gogomobile, dinky 
little potato shaped 2 cylinder car that was always parked by the 
bowling alley (which had all of three lanes).   One evening a few of 
the guys picked it up and perched it atop 4 garbage cans like it was 
a monument or something.   I shoulda taken a photo...

One of the line squad sgts had a '69 Chrysler Newport that looked 
like an ocean liner parked beside the Gogo.



tony..