<VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles

[Charles Lee]

80 MPH, that is...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Lee" <chaz@ivic.net>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs@corvair.org>; "Alan and Clare Wesson" 
<alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles


> In California, the school busses and cops pass you if you're under 80 !
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
> To: "Charles Lee" <chaz@ivic.net>; "Virtual Vairs"
> <VirtualVairs@corvair.org>; "Geoffrey Albert Clarke Johnson"
> <geoffj@unm.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Jerks and Big Trucks - Urban Assault Vehicles
>
>
>> 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!!
>>
>> www.xtraspecialsevens.co.uk
>> Lotus 7 S2 and S3 spares and restoration specialists
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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