<VV> Missed opportunity to malign

George Jones 65crownv8 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 18:39:45 EDT 2011


????

Is this in response to my post about CBS missing an opportunity to beat up
on the Corvair?

I guess I miss the point.

George Jones
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Eastern Division Director,
Corvair Society of America (CORSA)
Performance Corvair Group
Central Florida Corvair Club (Since 2009)
Tidewater Corvair Club (since 1987)
Central Virginia Corvair Club (since 2006)
CORSA (since 1987)
'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
'66 Monza Coupe Custom


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Bill H. <gojoe283 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>                                             B"H
>
> Are you folks aware that the same people did the same thing to the original
> Jeep?
>
> They reported that the CJ series was prone to tipovers and that forced AMC
> to cancel the CJ5 and CJ7 in 1976.  They replaced it with the less reliable
> XJ series Wrangler.  Later it was proven that the servos used to tip the
> vehicles were duplicating forces no human could ever generate (from
> Collectible Automobile 1986).
>
> I think it was Wallace who later said it was "sacriligious" to malign the
> vehicle that won World War II, but the damage was done.
>
> Any vehicle in the wrong hands becomes a weapon.  I can drive the same car
> for 30 years and not have a problem, whereas someone else trashes it in a
> day because they don't know how to drive it...Bill Hershkowitz 66 Monza 110
> PG
>
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