<VV> My Wife the Corvair spotter

[Russ Moorhouse]

This past weekend my wife's sewing/embroidery machine was out of sorts and 
needed some work done to it.  Since we live so far away from the sewing 
machine store, the owner is kind enough to work on it while we find 
something else to do for 4 hours.

On our way up to the store, we're riding through a little community of 
houses along MD ST Route 97 and my wife blurts out that she thought she saw 
the back end of a Corvair in one of the house's car port.  Then she said it 
had one taillight on each side that looked like a Corvairs.  I replied that 
I thought all Corvairs had at least two or at least one and a cap where the 
other would be.  Later, while her machine was being repaired in Westminster, 
MD, we rode around the countryside near Gettysburg to kill time, even 
thought about going to the Corvair Ranch to kill some time, but didn't get 
around to it.  We chose a different route going back to Westminster that 
took us through Taneytown, former home of Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster) 
before his death.  Riding east on route 140 just as we're getting into the 
town, my wife said there's a Corvair on the building, you've got to go back 
and see it.  I did and sure enough there was one side of an early dark green 
Monza Coupe pasted to the outside of this building which housed a muffler 
shop.  I wished then I had my camera with me.

On our way back home with her sewing machine in hand, we went by her first 
spotting.  She informed me beforehand that we were close to where she saw it 
and to look for a house with a yellow bulldozer in the yard and in the 
carport was the car.  She was right again.  Another early coupe, buried 
under a ton of stuff piled on it, but with enough of the rear end sticking 
out to know it was a Corvair.  It had two lights on both sides, however some 
were busted up.

Earlier this year she spotted an early dark green Monza Convertible with a 
white top, a way across a crowded parking lot at Wal-mart while we weren't 
anywhere near it.

I don't understand it.  She doesn't particular like "Stinky" ( the name she 
gave my Corvair), but she can spot these earlies while she's never been 
around them.  It may have to do with the color dark green.  It's one of her 
favorite and two of her spotting have been dark green and Stinky is dark 
green, but not an early.  Maybe I need to find her a dark green early.

Russ Moorhouse
'65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
Group Corvair Member
Corsa Member
Kent Island, MD