<VV> Getting in the trunk, and the trunk as a cooler

[Tom Berg]

OK, it's time to get out of the trunk and put something in there. 

Back in the day, I commuted to Marquette U in Milwaukee in my new '62 Monza 
coupe, and as part of the extracurriculum I got to really like beer. As I 
dropped a sandbag into the trunk's bottom to improve steering stability at 
highway speeds (anyone else do that?), I eyeballed the trunk's all-steel 
structure and decided that it would probably hold water -- ice water -- which 
would make it a good cooler.

One of the things you learn in college is how to tap a keg of beer (OK, you can 
learn that elsewhere, but that's where I did), and it occurred to me that a pony 
or maybe even a half-barrel would sit right on the truck's bottom and there'd be 
enough vertical room for the tap. Then flood the trunk with ice water and off 
we'd go to the picnic. I could just see my friends gathered 'round, puttin' 'em 
down.

Say, why not run the plastic line right through the dashboard into the 
front-seat area? Wouldn't the spiggot look neat mounted on the dash in there? 
But that Logic course I took as a freshman, or maybe just common sense, took 
hold: Beer got me blitzed; I'd be drinking a lot of beer with that spiggot so 
conveniently placed; a blitzed brain at first enhances, then degrades driving 
ability; a policeman might reach the same conclusion if he saw it; ergo, maybe 
the spiggot wasn't such a good idea. 


So I never installed the spiggot on the dash, or equipped the truck with a keg, 
or used it as a cooler. Anyone else ever try it, though?

--Tom Berg
Westerville, Ohio
'64 Monza convertible


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From: "vair140 at aol.com" <vair140 at aol.com>
To: whubbell at umich.edu; VirtualVairs at corvair.org
Sent: Tue, August 10, 2010 6:30:13 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Getting in the trunk

I suspect at our advanced age most of  us couldn't get in the trunk if we wanted 
to.

Regards,

Guy Brandes

65 VAIR 140


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hubbell <whubbell at umich.edu>
To: Seth Emerson <Sethracer at aol.com>; virtualvairs-bounces 
<virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org>; dziegler3 <dziegler3 at comcast.net>
Cc: Virtual Vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; Hubert Smith <vairologist at cox.net>
Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 3:21 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Getting in the trunk


According to CORSA, I would "improve" my car even if my dead, rotting, stinking 
ody was locked in the trunk. 
Bill
----Original Message-----
rom: Sethracer at aol.com
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ate: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:14:49 
o: <whubbell at cox.net>; <dziegler3 at comcast.net>
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ubject: Re: <VV> Getting in the trunk

n a message dated 8/10/2010 11:41:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
hubbell at cox.net writes:
My  Corvair has been certified Factory Stock Restored by CORSA.  However,  
orvairs did not come from the factory with a person in the trunk.  
herefore, according to current CORSA Concours classification rules, whenever  I 
sit in the trunk of my car, I "Improve" it.
Bill  Hubbell

So, Bill, you are asking for opinions on whether you  would improve your 
ar by being locked in the trunk? 

nybody with an opinion?  Anybody?  Bueller?

eth Emerson
C's the Day! - Corvair, Camaro,  Corvette
an Jose, CA

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