<VV> "thrill-handling Corvair"

Dave Keillor dkeillor at tconcepts.com
Wed Jan 23 11:40:33 EST 2013


I should add that this was when my '69 Corvair was fairly new, muscle cars
were fairly common, and I was a thrill-seeking young man (now a
thrill-seeking old man).

Dave

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Sethracer at aol.com <sethracer at aol.com>wrote:

> Like Ol "Doc Hudson" said: "Turn left to go wrong!"
>
> -Seth
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Dave Keillor <dkeillor at tconcepts.com> wrote:
>
> > Like every Corvair I've driven, mine oversteers at the limit.  Back in
> the
> > day when go-fast-in-a-straight-line muscle cars thought they ruled the
> > roads, I enjoyed putting them in the weeds (literally).  There were a
> > number of curves when I knew the limits and could put my car on the edge
> of
> > a four wheel drift that took a bit of reverse-lock steering to keep it
> from
> > going around.  More than one muscle car trying to keep up understeered
> its
> > way into the weeds.
> >
> > Dave Keillor
>


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