<VV> RE: Holiday posts (formerly No-Corvair) HAS Corvair content to sooth the irritated masses

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:23 PM 7/5/2007, mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:


>If I'm in the minority in wanting to keep Virtual Vairs a Corvair 
>list then I'll unsubscribe and stick with the forum at Corvair 
>Center.  If the majority want to keep this a Corvair specific mail 
>list, then speak up and say so.  I'm no bully, I'm not going to 
>force my opinion on the majority.  If you guys want a chit-chat mail 
>list, so be it.  If not, then don't give me a ration when I politely 
>remind our most habitual offender of the rules.


C'mon Mike, *I* dump more off-topic posts here than Hank does, by a 
wide margin.    I can mention a half-dozen others who are almost as 
prolific as I am without pausing to take a breath.    Hank actually 
seldom posts off-topic stuff without marking it as such and when he 
does it's usually holiday stuff involving the military which *I* 
don't mind, being a veteran myself.



By the way:   In order to remain topical...

Last weekend I spent some time in Forest VA with saws and other power 
tools slicing a rear fender off a derelict '60 4-door that had seen 
better days.   This was done so that I could conveniently use it to 
repair a spot on my '60 4-door which is taking a siesta for a while, 
as I gather up other cosmetic repair parts to finally start looking 
into doing something about its obscene appearance which has been the 
cause of much discussion among my local associates.


Some of those in here who do occasionally pay enough attention to my 
spouting-off to actually care about what I blabber about may not know 
that a couple weeks ago my '60 4-door suffered a bit of an accident, 
when a friend who was to take possession of the '92 Thunderbird 
Supercoupe I'd been trying to rid myself of did in fact come over 
with his rollback to pick the car up.

After the T-Bird was winched up onto the rollback by my associate 
(who did this during the day while I was at work so I got to see a 
surprise customization when I got home), something slipped and the 
car detached itself from the winch cable, rolled off the rollback and 
down the hill backwards, straight as an arrow and into the side of my 
'60 4-door, knocking it sideways a foot or so, and cramming the rear 
fender into and around the RR tire.    The T-Bird just missed the 
rear door and C pillar... I suppose I can be happy for that, but the 
car was not movable, fender wadded up into the wheel well and around 
the tire.     I don't think it bent the axle or hopefully the wheel 
either, and it didn't cut up the *new* tire, but I won't know if 
anything is bent until I can get the car out on the streets or at 
least jack up the rear and spin the wheel, to see if it 
wobbles...  after I cut the fender off to free the rear wheel/tire.

Anyway, I have another fender.   Now, all I have to do is wait out 
the weather and catch a day that doesn't include rain storms.   It 
has rained here, nearly every day for the last 15 days...  usually 
waiting until it's almost time to leave work when the thunderstorms show.


...I'd rather not have needed to replace a rear fender on an early 
4-door.      I'd rather have had to wade through a few off-topic 
patriotic holiday posts which actually didn't bother me a bit.




tony..