RE <VV> Stupidology & Vair Content

[Western Canada CORSA]

Whatever happened to getting that onto DVD?

Heck, even Dave Barry, the humourist with some US Newspaper wrote about the
Vacuum Cleaner Blowup Videos.

Regards,
Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org]On Behalf Of J R Read_HML
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:18 PM
To: John MacDonald; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: RE <VV> Stupidology & Vair Content


What, we have a whole new (unbaptised?) group who never heard of CCE's 4th
of July antics?

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Later, JR

----- Original Message -----
From: "John MacDonald" <i_am_magundy at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: RE <VV> Stupidology & Vair Content


>
>>   On the last page of the book there's a column headlined Stupidology and
>> written by one Jim
>> Richardson. In it he chronicles some stupid auto tricks of the past, like
>> turning off the
>> ignition whilst descending a hill, only to turn it back on and blow the
>> muffler off with the
>> collected fuel in the exhaust system (been there, done that, liked the
>> sound).
>
> I tried that in my mom's 68 Rover a couple of times in the city.
> It would give a nice little bang.
> That last time was on the highway, driving at 65 mph.
> There was nothing left of the muffler, and scared the hell out of me.
>
>
>>   He recounts the activity he once saw at a Corvair show  whereinthe
>> wives served dinner from
>> the tailgate of a Greenbrier while their menfolks took old vacuum
>> cleaners, placed their hoses
>> in a pan of gasoline, plugged them in and ran away.. Richardson admits,
>> "seeing an old
>> Electrolux explode was pretty entertaining. However please don't try this
>> at home because such
>> behavior is not only truly stupid, but very dangerous"
>
> Cool,
> haven't heard this one before.
> Might just try this at work.
>
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