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

Wed Aug 11 08:52:36 EDT 2010

Been there, done that back when I was stationed at Suffolk County AFB on 
Long Island NY.
I had my 64 Monza at the time and was attending a "picnic" for our shop. It 
impressed the Sgt. and my cohorts. I just put cans of beer in the trunk and 
covered it with crushed ice. Removed the plug in the bottom too.
You can see the car (no pics of the trunk cooler) on my web page. That is 
the only time I remember doing that.
Mighta been more...

Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com

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

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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
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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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