<VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather, or, convertibles as pickups

[Tom Berg]

About 10 years ago I volunteered to pick up litter along a road in northern San Diego County. At the time I had no truck, so one day I used the Monza convertible to collect the bagged trash. With the top down, it held a lot of bags. This was before I had the interior reupholstered and the exterior painted, so nothing was being harmed. But I looked at it and thought, "That's terrible!" And I didn't do it again. 

--Tom in Ohio  

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 From: chuck mckinley <cmckinley313 at verizon.net>
To: VirtualVairs AA <virtualvairs at corvair.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather (tangentially off-topic)
  
A former boss of mine at NASA Langley had a jaundiced opinion of
Corvairs; a favorite quote of his was that in the late '50s "GM set out
to design a cheap P.O.S. and were eminently successful with the
Corvair." However, he also told a suspiciously prideful story of a
relative assigned to Eielson AFB in central Alaska. This relative had a
Corvair up there, and one December he went out to purchase a Christmas
tree. After he bought the tree, he realized that it was too big to fit
in the car, but no problem - he had a convertible! He dropped the top
and drove home with the tree riding shotgun - the temp was about -40F.
(Being a steely-eyed USAF warrior, he apparently had no more problem
with the environment than the Vair did.)

Chuck McKinley

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