<VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

I'm beginning to get worried about driving my delicate little Corvair up 
I-81 in three weeks' time! I had already been feeling a bit vulnerable since 
they raised the speed limits, because I cruise at 60ish and a lot of the 
semis now overtake me, but the UAV plague is going to make things even 
worse! Perhaps I should try to avoid the interstate!

Cheers

Alan

P.S. It would be terrifying in a Lotus 7!!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Lee" <chaz@ivic.net>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs@corvair.org>; "Geoffrey Albert Clarke 
Johnson" <geoffj@unm.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles


> Every time a Hummer gets blown up on the news, their sales go up. The war 
> in Iraq has made everyone feel like GI Joe, and so they need to drive 
> military vehicles on city streets.
>
> Did you know that you can buy spray on mud to make it look like you went 
> offroading without having to get you pretty truck dirty ?
>
> Remember when the Corvair was a SMALL car ?  Then it was the size of an 
> Impala (because the big cars got small - remember that ?), and now it's 
> small again.
>
> Up against Urban Attack Vehicles in the 6000-8000 lb range, everything is 
> small - except something even bigger !  Saw a Navigator get cut in half 
> length-wise by a semi on CA-I5 - bet he thought he was safe until that 
> happened.
>
> Those drivers don't buy them for safety, at least not YOUR safety, just to 
> survive whatever havoc they raise while wandering around this country's 
> roadways without a care in the world !
>
> Why should they care - they are safe in their tanks - it's why they buy 
> them for their wives and girlfriends - so they'll survive their own bad 
> driving.
>
> In a Corvair, you can avoid the accident (sometimes), instead of simply 
> surviving it.
>
> If you're driving a nimble little thing like a Corvair, it's possible not 
> to have the accident in the first place !
>
> Just my 2 cents' worth.
>
> Thanks for listening !
>
> Chaz
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Geoffrey Albert Clarke Johnson" <geoffj@unm.edu>
> To: <UltraMonzaWest@aol.com>; <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks
>
>
>> S-10 C-10 Wahtever ... it was the full size... whatever it is called now! 
>> I don't know I got rid of my full size chevy truck to get a corvair! Big 
>> truck hit small car BAD!
>>
>> -Geoff
>>
>> --On Thursday, September 9, 2004 12:57 AM -0400 UltraMonzaWest@aol.com 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In a message dated 9/8/2004 9:49:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>> geoffj@unm.edu  writes:
>>>
>>>> Tehehehe was  not an 18 wheeler... just a big chevy s-10 full size...
>>>> beat  up piece of junk driven by a jerk!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> *************************************************************************
>>> ***** ***
>>>
>>> Geoff...S-10's are MID  size....but then when driving around in a
>>> bathtub.........every is UP!!! LOL!!
>>>
>>> wcuh
>>>  _______________________________________________
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