<VV> Turbo Packaging

[Hugo Miller]

Is that right? In all the old sci-fi movies, whenever tha alien 
spaceships appeared overhead, all the cars would suddenly stop working 
;)

On 2020-03-30 08:05, jim bannister wrote:
> And just think, I we are ever subject to an electromagnetic pulse,
> your 'Vair will still start and run.  Anything with a computer 
> becomes
> a brick.
> Jim  '66 turbovert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On
> Behalf Of Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:10 AM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Turbo Packaging
>
> "> Lots of times they settled for what they could sell to the
> accountants and get produced, regardless of what would have been
> 'best'."
> That is a very important point. It is easy to build a good car if 
> money
> is no object (Bristol, RR, in England). The real skill lies in 
> designing
> and building a 'cheap' car that actually does its job properly. And 
> of
> course GM churned out inexpensive mass-produced cars. Considering the
> compromises this entails, and despite engineering which is sometimes
> 'agricultural' in contrast to the elegance of the Europeans, these 
> cars
> do their job very well indeed, as the number of 50- and 60-year-old 
> cars
> still on the road bears testimony..
> My '64 Corvair convertible PG is now my daily driver in Florida, and 
> it
> does its job every bit as well as any modern car, only without all 
> the
> electronic complications and unneccessary gizmos and distractions. 
> The
> only thing it doesn't do is depreciate.
>
>