<VV> 4doors, was: Atn Joe R, was: Email format, was: New Corsa member sort of.

Jay Pitchford jay.pitchford at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 13:57:11 EDT 2009


OK, does anyone else want to know how "slightly pregnant" happens?
8-)

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, airvair at earthlink.net <airvair at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> The post I was posting from didn't contain your email address. Don't know
> why. Hence the list posting.
>
> But as far as your remark on 4doors, it's YOU who don't have any taste in
> styling. Dave Newell himself told me that GM designers felt that they had
> done their best work on the LM 4door. So if Bill Mitchell & company didn't
> have any taste in styling, then they didn't lead the 50's and 60's in
> sales, either. You can walk 360º around the LM Corvair 4door and not see a
> wrong angle. It's beautiful from any direction.
>
> Whereas for the coupe (which I can only presume you feel is better
> looking), I've always said that from a 3/4 angle, the car looks "slightly
> pregnant", what with the rounded roof and skinny "C" pillar, rounded
> backlite, and rounded body lines, not to mention the short hood/long deck
> (criticized by Car & Driver) look, all adding up to that oddly bloated and
> off-balanced look. The best thing you can do for the poor dear is to add a
> Fitch Ventop to it. That masks the short hood/long deck look and hides the
> "slightly pregnant" bulges, giving it a much more balanced look. And John
> Fitch was known for his taste in styling.
>
> But beauty is in the eye of the beerholder, and you're obviously too sauced
> to make such a degrading comment against the beautiful LM Corvair 4door.
>
> -Mark
> 4doors 4ever!
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: The Robbins <therobbins82 at gmail.com>
> > To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > Date: 9/7/2009 10:10:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: <VV> Atn Joe R, was:  Email format,was:  New Corsa member
> sort of.
> >
> > The address is at the top of every VV email so excuuuuse me. You have no
> > sense of humor, oh wait you drive 4 doors so you have no taste on top of
> > that. ROTFLMAO.  I have no choice other than a dish so I walked many
> miles
> > in those shoes, sorry I tried to help won't happen again. A great feature
> of
> > VV, put out an idea and get ridiculed for it, won't happen again.
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
>
>
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