<VV> Corvairs and Deals from Hell

[Geoffrey A Johnson]

My bad car adventure-
I had wanted a convertible all my life.  MY dad has a good 65 Corsa Vert 
in his 
garage, buried.  Wont see it for years!
So in early 2002 on Ebay I got a 63 vert $300 "shell" from Texas.  Did 
not 
look bad, but 
a 
big project.  Seller had stripped most of the car before putting it up 
for sale and grossly misrepresented the item! After the item ended I 
noticed his previous auctions... for 
all the parts off of my car!
I am in Albuquerque, it is in Dallas.  How to get it back?  Well I had to 
go out of town for 3 weeks for field school.  There I fell off a mountain 
and broke my leg and had to come home.  So we figured, well now is the 
time to get the car!  A friend looking for an adventure said he would go 
with us to to get the thing, and we would use his truck, and he would pay 
for gas and trailer rental even!
So him, me with a broken leg on crutches, and my sister Sally, hop in the 
truck and take off.  Get there and wow is Dallas an unpleasant place while 
in a leg cast!   Met the dirtbag with the car, and loaded it up while I 
had the sinking 
feeling of regret!  The car was completely rotted!

  Everything had serious rust and deep 
chunks of bondo.  My first real encounter with a SALT car.  The 
previous titled owners had 
been killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, and the car had I guess been 
auctioned to this guy.  I made the mistake of wasting some time stripping 
its cheap paint before giving up on it.  Cut chunks 4 inches thick of 
bondo out of the 
doglegs!  Decided there was just no way to salvage it.


Now the positive side.  In late December of last year I found a solid 
AZ/NM shell of a vert in January, and 
using many 
pieces 
from the trash one, it is on the road, and my daily driver.  So far it at 
least has the junk cars tranny, windhsield, clutch cable, and speedo 
cable.  So some good finally came out of the ordeal!  The new one is not a 
girl like the other Vairs, which are "The Lady Corsa", and "Yellows".  It 
is a 
bird, named "Cardinal" for its color!

-Geoff Johnson
63 Vert
63 Coupe


On Wed, 11 May 2005 UltraMonzaWest at aol.com wrote:

> With all this talk of He / She / It   and the various names / reasons ......
>
> How about everyones WORST story  of Buying a Corvair.......the Deal...the Car