<VV> I am back to Virtual Vairs!

[Ron F Hinz]

You went to college and you hit a dear???  It's happened before.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Counterman" <vairking@hotmail.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:31 AM
Subject: <VV> I am back to Virtual Vairs!


> Hi Gang:  Some of you may remember me from a few years ago, I was fairly
> active on the list.  Then I started college.  I soon found myself
searching
> for free time, and the email box was pileing up.  I had to make the
> unfortunate choice to unsubscribe to VV until I had more time to sit down
> and go through it all.  Well its been a few years, but I have finally been
> able to have a little free time, and my mailbox isnt getting much traffic,
> so I figured I would subscribe and get to know you guys once again.  A few
> things have happend since I left, in June of 2003 I hit a dear with my
> decently restored '65 Monza Convert, nearly totalling the car.  I have put
> it in storage until I have the time to come up with a new front clip and
all
> the other things that went out with it.  Twas a sad day indeed.  On a
> brighter note, in that same month, I went down to Warsaw, IN, and picked
up
> my latest project, a '65 Corsa Coupe, with a 350 SBC and Kelmark
Conversion
> kit!  As some of you may know, I had a lot of plans and dreams on turning
my
> convert into a V8 beast, and I thought that the Corsa would have all the
> hardware needed.  Upon bringing the car home, and closly
inspecting/cleaning
> it up, we found that the car was in excelent shape, considering it had
> probably been sitting in that barn for 25 years or so.  The motor was
shot,
> probably overheated, and the interior was junk.  But the floorboards were
> like new, and there was minimal rust.  I stored the car over the summer,
> because of lack of time and a place to work on it, but brought it to my
home
> in Kalamazoo, MI this fall and have been working on it whenever possible
> since then.  A lot of progress has been made on it, as I am mainly doing a
> mechanical restoration right now, and will then do the body/interior over
> the summer/fall comming up.  Hopefully I will be able to start driving it
> and work all the bugs (or most of them) out of it by the end of April.  I
> have some online photo albums you guys can look at, I will try to update
it
> as much as humanly possible.  Looking foward to talking to you all again!
>
> Regards
>
> Ryan Counterman
> VairKing@hotmail.com
> VP~WMCC
> '65 Corsa Coupe V8 Kelmark car
> '65 Monza Convert 110/PG crashed stocker
>
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