<VV> RE: Wise Gal - A Corvette is America's Sprts Car - Corvair : "America's Cheapest Hardtop" ?!?!?!?

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

I'm not even going to get into why someone who would own a Corvette that's 
not trying to show off.   A Corvette is the very definition of an overstated 
car.  Sure, they're nice, but they are SUPPOSED to be !  You paid for that 
image.

With a Corvair, you get a car that was supposed to be a "compact, economy" 
car, and those discerning to enough know, would know, or discover when they 
inadvertently found themselves behind the wheel of a Corvair, especially in 
a corner, that their car is so much more than passersby could know.

If this very proper, elderly gent, sans midlife crisis, really wanted to 
enjoy a nice ride in a classy car, he should be driving a Corvair, with a 
knowing smile, enjoying what his little Corvair says about him, although so 
many will not know.

A Corvair says so much about it's driver that a Corvette so profoundly 
overstates.

Sorry, but I like "sleepers," cars that are much more than they appear to 
be.  That is a Corvair, not a Corvette.

A friend (the same one who "introduced" me to Corvairs, always told his 
friends that he drove a Camaro, to "impress" them, and they were 
disappointed, expecting a Camaro.  I told my friends I had a Corvair, and 
when they saw my Corsa convertible, they were impressed.  It was an 
interesting dichotomy to watch the faces of people when we were together.

"America's Cheapest Hardtop" - Aarrgghh !!!!!  What were they thinking 
?!?!?!?!?

OK, soapbox overload...<EOF>





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arjay Morgan" <n3lkz at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: <VV> RE: Wise Gal


> After being pretty much rained out at the Plant City, FL cruise-in on 
> Saturday we found ourselves homeward bound on Rt. 39 behind another early 
> model Corvair, who was behind a Sting Ray style Corvette. It was still 
> spitting rain, the sun was setting, wife, Elayne, was by my side.
>
>  After a few miles at 50-55 mph (Rt. 39 is a 60 mph, 2-lane road) the 
> Corvair ahead of us had had enough and passed the Corvette on the 
> straight. What was amazing was that the Corvette driver let him do it. 
> That left us behind the Corvette.
>
>  Curious, and wondering if the Corvette was suffering some sort of 
> malfunction, I remained behind. After another few miles Elayne piped up 
> with, "Isn't that amazing, a Corvette that's not trying to show off."
>
>  We stayed behind the Corvette for another 10 miles, both of us driving at 
> a safe and sane 50-55 miles an hour, given the wet road, the sprinkling 
> rain and the approach of darkness. Elayne continued to marvel at the 
> Corvette that refused to "show off."
>
>  When we reached a traffic light I pulled alongside in the right-turn lane 
> and saw the reason for the unusual Corvette behavior --- there sat a 
> gentleman, of an age, replete with a full head of gray hair. There was no 
> blonde chick with him, nor was there any evidence of there ever having 
> been one. Just a nice old gentleman out for a cruise in his Corvette. 
> When's the last time you saw such a thing? When's the last time you saw an 
> aged Corvette driver who was not having a mid-life crisis?
>
>  Only in Florida.
>
>  Now, a question for the manufacturing engineers in the crowd. Ford has 
> announced it is closing a half dozen plants until the end of the year. I'm 
> assuming that means they'll be "mothballing" them for a while. The 
> question is, what do you do to mothball something as huge and complicated 
> as an automobile assembly plant? Do you just turn off the power, send the 
> workers home, and let the mud daubers take over? If so, does that mean the 
> robots are just stuck at Position 38 like so many arthritic ballet 
> dancers?  What about the cars that are midway down the line, do they just 
> stay there, frozen in time? Or, are there orderly ways to shut the 
> enterprise down, complete with miles of shrink-wrap? This inquiring mind 
> would like to know.
>
>  Arjay Morgan
>  slightly damp 64 Monza convert
>
>
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