<VV> Unexpected non-technical Corvair benefit

[Charles McKinley]

Lonzo,
	Right about the 64 hood. When people ask, I always say it's "mostly  
63." But it has some '60 parts as well as new stuff from every year  
from 1993-2010, so I can say it's a true 50-year car.
Chuck

On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:47 AM, lonzovair at aol.com wrote:

> Chuck,
> Beautiful car, and lovely daughter!
> So, it's a 63 with a 64 hood, huh? Interesting...
> Again, great picture.
> Lonzo
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McKinley <cmckinley313 at cox.net>
> To: Charles McKinley <cmckinley313 at cox.net>
> Cc: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
> Sent: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 6:46 pm
> Subject: Re: <VV> Unexpected non-technical Corvair benefit
>
> Well, nobody really objected to my original post on this story, so I'm
> dropping the other shoe. Here's a pic of said daughter and said car,
> taken when she just turned 17 and had been driving  it for ~6 months.
> By the way, it's a 3-speed manual, and the non-synchro doesn't bother
> her a bit. Pretty cool little hood ornament. (And this pic MIGHT have
> made it into a GM advertising brochure.)
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
>
>
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> On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Charles McKinley wrote:
>
> > I might be skirting trouble posting this story, but I thought most
> > of you would identify with it, so, as they say, better to ask
> > forgiveness after the fact than ask permission and be squelched.
> >
> > When my daughter was about 12 she insisted that I save my '63 Monza
> > 900 for her when she was road-legal, and she commuted with it for
> > her last two years of high school, to the admiration of many and the
> > curiosity of all. It remains her prize possession and her vehicle of
> > choice.
> >   She is now 18 and in a music theater program at a prominent
> > conservatory for performing arts in a major northeastern city, which
> > I will not name to avoid libel suits.     Show business being what  
> it
> > is, almost all the male members of the class are, shall we say,
> > light in the loafers, and while she admires them all as performing
> > associates, they leave a bit to be desired as weekend companions.
> >   She was recently home for spring break and drove the Vair at every
> > opportunity. I asked her if she appreciated various improvements I'd
> > made since the last time she drove it. Her answer struck me as
> > provocative and completely unexpected - she said, "Yes! It makes
> > straight guys stare at me!"
> >
> > I doubt if that would ever make it into a GM advertising brochure.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chuck McKinley
>
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