<VV>re: Corvair a should-be classic? - Milestone Car Society

[Ron]

"After all it was these mainstream
cars, bought and owned by the average person, that made the automobile
industry the giant it is today."

Very true, but these average cars don't have the quality that defines a fine 
classic motor car.  Certainly the Corvair was unique in both design and 
style but it's only a cheap econocar and that's why we can afford them.  If 
you check the fine body work and interior of a classic, you'll note the 
difference.  Also, look at the awful casting quality of the heads and it's 
more obvious that it's no classic.

RonH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Moorhouse" <corvair65 at verizon.net>
To: "VV" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:36 AM
Subject: <VV>re: Corvair a should-be classic? - Milestone Car Society


> I'm not sure I would want to belong to the Classic Car Club of America. 
> They appear to be a very select, snobby group, intent on keeping anyone 
> else out, who can't afford 100 grand plus cars of certain vintage, year, 
> model and manufacturers.
>
> However, we Corvair owners, are able to belong to the "Milestone Car 
> Society", which is more open minded than CCCA.  They have 5 Criteria for 
> acceptance of a car as a Certified Milestone Car. The model should be 
> distinctive because of Styling, Engineering, Performance, Innovation, 
> and/or Craftsmanship-relative to their contemporaries.  Corvair met all of 
> these and is considered a Milestone car by the society.  To see what their 
> thoughts are and what cars they consider milestone go to their website:
> http://www.milestonecarsociety.org/
>
> On another note for those of us who subscribe to Hemmings Classic Car, is 
> anyone besides me getting tired of reading David Schultz's column?  He 
> just goes on and on about the CCCA considers a classic. until I'm sick of 
> hearing it.  It's as if nobody else is entitled to call their car a 
> classic, because it hasn't been mandated a classic by CCCA.
>
> I wrote the magazine a letter for them to consider for their Recap column, 
> but it got canned.  My suggestion was that since Mr. Schultz refers to 
> these classics as "automobiles" or "motor cars" more often than cars, then 
> it might be more appropriate for CCCA to change their name from Classic 
> Car Club of America to the Classic Automobile or Motor Car Club of 
> America, and let the rest of call our more common cars, that the average 
> person drove, rather than the wealthy, "Classics".  After all it was these 
> mainstream cars, bought and owned by the average person, that made the 
> automobile industry the giant it is today.
>
>
> Russ Moorhouse
> '65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
> Group Corvair Member
> Corsa Member
> Kent Island, MD
>
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> I continue to read the October 2007 Hemmings Classic Car that arrived in 
> my
> mailbox on Monday and I have spotted another Corvair mention--a really 
> nice
> one!  Jim Donnelly, in his monthly column, (page 39 this issue) takes 
> exception
> with the policy of the Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) to exclude any 
> car
> after 1948 from consideration as a classic.  He proposes seven post-'48 
> cars he
> believes should be "Full Classics" and includes the 1960 Corvair!  He 
> explains
> his choice thusly:
>
> "Bar none, the most radical, unconventionally packaged, breakaway American
> car built since World War II.  The Corvair took themes that were 
> ostensibly the
> protected turf of outlanders and made them its own.  Where to start?
> Rear-oriented powertrain, horizontally opposed engine, air cooling, fully 
> independent
> suspension:  It was light years ahead of every other American car.  Given 
> the
> committee-driven product planning at General Motors, it's remarkable that 
> the
> Corvair was produced at all."
>
> ~Bill Stanley
>
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