<VV> Re: Deadly Vairs

[thegeek2@juno.com]

As I tell people who beat me on the safety issue.  Give me the keys to
your new __whatever__ and let me simulate poor maintenance (take air out
of a tire), and take it for a spirited spin and see if I can really
_____K up the car.  No takers.

The most dangerous thing RI has done in a while is changed the inspection
interval from 1 year to 2 (they added emissions).  Inspection laws are to
try to keep honest the person who would willingly drive a car with bad
brakes, tires, groaning supension components because the inspection isn't
due yet. 


On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:21:40 -0500 "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc@sbcglobal.net>
writes:
> Smitty, I quite agree... and had a first hand experience (in the 
> '60s)
> coming upon a single car accident - car in the ditch 90degrees to 
> the
> roadway.  Front end burned and still smoldering when I arrived.  Two 
> burned
> bodies in the front seat.  I knew the passenger.  It was an image 
> that will
> never leave me.
> 
> Attachments are scanned with anti-virus software.
> 
> Later, JR
> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140
> '66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <vairologist@juno.com>
> To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:14 PM
> Subject: <VV> Re: Deadly Vairs
> 
> 
> > > From: "slmizel@juno.com" <slmizel@juno.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:58:51 GMT
> > > To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
> > > Subject: <VV> Engine falling out
> > >
> > --------------big smit------------------- 
> > > Well, I am counting myself lucky...I have been driving this 
> death
> > > trap for a couple months and am still alive!  Good thing I am a 
> risk
> > > taker!
> > > Steve Mizel, St. Louis
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Smitty says:  Don't take those rumors lightly.  Corvairs do kill 
> people.
> >  I had to go down and identify my Shop Petty Officer's body at 
> 02:00 one
> > morning in Whidbey Island.  He was drunk on his a-- and driving a 
> Vair at
> > an estimated 100mph.  Missed a 90 degree turn and went out into a 
> field
> > of freshly cut tree stumps about a foot high.  None of them 
> stopped him
> > but a whole bunch of them tried over a few hunderd feet.  Darn 
> cheap
> > a--ed car came all to pieces and didn't protect him at all.  So 
> they are
> > dangerous.
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