Early vs late, again, was: <VV> Engine falling out

[airvair]

Leave it to an early model. Only one bolt, while lates have two. Lates
are better than earlies! Nay, nay.

-Mark (G)

Harry Yarnell wrote:
> 
> Yup; engines did fall out. Or at least the ass end would drop to the street.
> Saw one with my very own eyes back in the '60s before I got into corvairs.
> It was an EARLY model, and all I remember was this vehicle sitting in the
> middle of the street, with a bunch of people looking at it trying to figure
> it out. Thought it weird. Obviously left an impression to this day.
> 
> Harry Yarnell
> perryman garage and orphanage
> perryman, MD
> hyarnell1@earthlink.net
> 
> > One of the guys
> chirped up and said "That's the car that the engine falls out the back!"  I
> politely let him know that he really had no idea what he was talking about,
> but he insisted that his father had one and the engine fell out...I then
> politely implied that his father must not have been a very good mechanic and
> had probably forgetten to reinstall a few important bolts after removing the
> engine to replace the muffler bearings and to change the upper radiator
> hose.
> >
> > Steve Mizel, St. Louis
> > CORSA
> > 65 Corsa Vert 140 4 sp. (patiently waiting in my garage for a clutch
> cable, harmonic balancer, and new clutch kit as I gather necessary funds)