<VV> Getting the car on jack stands right?

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:26 hours 08/30/2005, Bill Hubbell wrote:
>I have not made an attempt to contact him.  It was just a car that 
>he owned for a couple of years.  Why would he want some person he 
>doesn't even know bothering him 40 years later about a car he has 
>long since disposed of?
>
>Bill Hubbell
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun" <shaun_mcgarvey at shaw.ca>
>Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:59 PM
>Subject: Re: <VV> Getting the car on jack stands right?
>
>
>>Hey Mr. Hobble, have you attempted to contact John Glenn to ask him about
>>your (his) car? There might be some stories attached to it...
>>
>>yea, Vairily ... Shaun



I bought a car ('66 Plymouth Satellite) in Sept '73 which still had 
the communiplate in it, with the original purchasers name, address 
etc. which happened to be a local address.   On a lark, I checked the 
phone book, addy was still valid so called him up and told him I had 
the car and that I'd like to know if he had bought it as-is off a lot 
or what, since it had options not usually seen in a musclecar.    The 
fellow was pleased to hear about the car, told me how it had been a 
special order vehicle he'd hand-picked out of a catalog in Sept of 
'65...  the sales guy showed him the options, so he picked out how he 
wanted it and had to wait a month to get it etc.   He'd kept it for 
several years and traded it in  on a GMC pickup at a dealer ran by a 
fellow he know personally who told him that a young fellow from 
Christiansburg (30 miles up the road) bought it a week later and then 
later on went to 'Nam and never came back.   His parents kept the car 
for nearly two years "around back" before finally bringing it back to 
town and selling it to the first used car lot they came to that 
looked promising, which happened to be run by the guy I bought it 
from after I came back home from overseas.

Similar Vair story...   we got the red '60 Monza from Curt 
shortly  before he passed, talked about it a time or two to some 
CORSA sorts at a national convention, had a fellow tell me he knew 
the car and the people who had owned it Back When, even turned up and 
sent me an old photo of the car with its original owner posing beside 
it when the car was about one year old.    Small world...



You might well learn a thing or two, one never knows.



tony..