<VV> Survivor cars, beaters, and ... MI

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>Unfortunately, here in Michigan, the Salt won :-( and there are virtually no 'beaters' left.
>

The summer of 1968 I spent in Detroit, and, as a native left coaster, 
was dismayed to find current model year new cars driving on the street 
where one could quit litereally see through them. All the way out the 
other side.  No, not the glass!

Seemed Detroit was under the Frito-Lay illusion -- eat (use) them up, 
we'll make more -- I thought of it at the time as job security for the 
locals (who at that time seemed primarily from Mexico and Tennesee).

I was rowing for Ecorse Boat Club that summer, and working at Great 
Lakes Steel (the rusty looking plant that made a spectacular cover photo 
for National Geographic for a polution article).  Some of the steel  
rolled there perhaps made it's way into Corvairs (content).

Bill "I'm a Survivor" Strickland