<VV> Corvair Trunks

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A Long Island Corvair friend of mine has two Corvairs, a Corsa and a  
Monza.  A movie shoot in Manhattan needed 60's vintage cars so he drove the  
Corsa and he asked me to drive the Monza.  Working  on a movie shoot is similar 
to the army, "..hurry up and  wait."  So we sat around for a while on a 
street  in Greenwich Village, sometimes for hours.
 
Young people would walk by and stare at the Corvairs which  were obviously 
automobiles that they had never seen.  With the  pretty girls, we offered 
their boyfriends a chance to take pictures of their  girlfriends behind the 
wheel.  No young lady refused as they were all  intrigued by what nearly all 
of them termed, "a cute little car."
 
I offered the guys a chance to look at the engine.  This never  failed.  
They immediately went to the front of the car while I walked to  the back.  
Happened every time.  The looks on their faces were  priceless.  All of the 
guys and some of the girls were fascinated with the  rear engine design of the 
Corvair.
 
Steve Sassi
Long Island Corvair (LICA)
 
 
In a message dated 2/14/2012 11:53:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
62vair at gmail.com writes:

Cliff,  your story reminds me of a trip to the grocery store last summer.  I
traditionally park way out so as to stay away from most of the  paint
chippers, and this was no exception.  However, this left me  fully in view
as I loaded groceries into the trunk. More than one passer by  made a double
take, and one old guy said, oh yeah, thats a Corvair!   Then he had to come
look and tell me about his car he had 40 years ago!  Mark Durham



On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Cliff Tibbitts  <tibbitts at qx.net> wrote:

> Tony's story about loading  groceries into the trunk to the amazement of
> on-lookers reminded me of  something that happened to me a couple of years
>  ago.
>
>
>
> In this day and age, I thought almost  everyone our age knew that the
> Corvair
> had its trunk in  front.  At the time, a group from the elementary school 
I
> was  working at bowled in a fun league.  It was in the winter and I  was
> driving my 66 Monza.  As we left the bowling alley, I moved  to the front 
of
> the car and placed the bowling ball in the  trunk.  A friend of mine, 
behind
> the car, stood there with her  mouth agape.  I knew immediately what she 
was
> thinking.  I  closed the trunk quickly before she could walk around to the
>  front.  "What did you just do?" she asked.  "In the winter, I like  to 
keep
> the ball up here with the engine to keep it warm." I replied.  She 
thought I
> had finally lost what little sense I had  left.   Friends of ours who knew
> better were laughing so  hard they were crying.  Finally, I reminded her
> that
> the  engine was in the rear and this was the trunk.  It took her about  
two
> days to forgive me but eventually she found some humor in the  moment as
> well.
>
>
>
> Cliff  Tibbitts
>
> Lexington, KY
>
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