<VV> Traitor in our midst - Board action requested

[Rob Landers]

Mark, are you serious?  Or did you just forget to mark it with "humor" in
the subject line?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of airvair
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 7:57 AM
> To: Virtual Vairs
> Cc: Sarah Jones; Harry Jensen; Mike McGowan; Rich Thompson; Tony Vizyak;
> Seth Emerson; Kent Sullivan
> Subject: <VV> Traitor in our midst - Board action requested
>
>
> For some time now, I've been wondering what a guy named Bill in Florida
> has been up to with an ad running month after month in the CC wanting to
> buy telescopic columns. My suspicions were confirmed this weekend when a
> friend who has had contact with the guy told me what he found out. Seems
> the guy is scavengerizing Corvairs for parts to sell to Corvette people.
> While I have no particular objection to selling common, plentiful
> Corvair parts to outsiders, I despise the selling of rare, desirable
> parts (particularly options) for non-Corvair uses. I know about the
> telescopic columns in particular, as I have a Corvette friend who's been
> wanting to buy a '67 tele column that I have. I have refused to sell it,
> but have sold a common, standard column to him so that he could repair
> the damage on one of his own rare columns.
>
> For those of you who don't just how rare the '67-9 tele column is, they
> made 299 in '67, 199 in '68, and '299 in '69, a total of less than 800,
> which is around 1% of the run.
>
> I feel that the Board should permanently ban this guy and post a
> permanent notice in the CC and CORSA webpage classifieds saying that the
> ads are for use by Corvair people only, and that any other uses will
> result in the advertiser being permanently banned.
>
> -Mark