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

Mark Durham 62vair at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 23:52:46 EST 2012


Was -15F, now warm weahter antics-

One time, when college age, I went to a $2.00 a car load outdoor movie with
10 other college gauys and gals. Minus a few arms and legs sticking out, we
all layered into my 62 coupe and drove to the theater! My girfriend had to
shift for me, ........ Mark Durham

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Tom Berg <thesuperscribe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> ________________________________
>  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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