<VV> Corvair truck and camper ???

[Roger Atkinson]

His place isn't a museum per se but certainly could be.  Bob seemed like a nice enough guy but he was also fairly private.  He told me that most folks had no idea about his collection so I got the impression that he was pretty selective as to who got to see it.  I met him through a mutual friend so he pretty much let me roam freely around his place and let me sit in several of the cars including the Tucker.

One thing I found odd - at least to me - was that he didn't live near his collection.  His place where his cars are is a nice farm - for the lack of a better term - with a huge house and several climate controlled buildings that stored his collection.  He lives about 100 miles away in a modest home .    I thought at first this might have been his parent's home but he said his dad lived just a few miles from him so not sure why he has a home 100 miles away. He didn't offer and I didn't ask.

Roger

> 
> From: LastHamlet <lasthamlet at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2006/12/11 Mon AM 09:06:37 EST
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Corvair truck and camper ???
> 
> Wow, I would love to see this collection, and would be
> happy to pay admission for such the honor. If nothing
> but to see a real Tucker, it would be a tremendous
> honor.
> We think the Corvair met with an untimely demise, well
> the Tucker was way ahead of it's time, and a rear
> engine as well, quashed after only 50 were made in
> 1948. (I think 48 still exist... Amazing track record)
> I guess, in the USA at least, rear engine cars have
> nearly all been attached to some stigmata. Why??? I am
> not sure, but seemingly every effort to produce an
> American Porsche have been trampled with false media,
> bullcrap and lies. Even the 'so-called' mid-engine
> Fiero was called unsafe, and maybe it was or maybe it
> was not, but in my opinion there were a lot more cars
> that were front engine, that should have never been
> made, for various reasons... Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega,
> Chevy Chevette, and nearly every Chrysler product made
> in the last 35 years. Opinions vary, but Tucker,
> Corvair, Fiero, were all better than the
> aforementioned.
> 
> Now, anybody got tickets to Bob's Museum???
> 
> Best Regards,
> Danny Barber
> 67 Vert
> 
> 
> When I was picking up my Corvair and looking at some
> of Bob's 
> collection, -Snip-
>  classic antiques 
> including a Tucker and a Duesenberg - all in prisitne
> condition.  
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
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