<VV> Frank Responds Re: dust busted, (some Corvair) ...

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Mark,
    The term "Dustbuster" was a common reference to  GM's plastic minivans of 
that era.  Just do a Google search on "GM  Dustbuster" and you'll find over 
100 entries that refer to those GM Minivans as  "Dustbusters".  One entry even 
says:  "Like GM's other orphans,  Corvair, Vega, Fiero, Allante, and Reatta, 
GM stopped production of the APV just  when they were getting it right." 
 
    So I didn't invent the term, Mark.  I'm just  using what is the generally 
accepted nickname for them.  I'm sorry  that you don't like it.  But it 
doesn't detract from the usability and  reliability of these excellent vehicles.
    Frank "already has glasses" Burkhard
    
 
In a message dated 9/23/2007 9:28:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
airvair at earthlink.net writes:

It may  be just me, but having owned a '95 TransSport since new, the  term
"dustbuster" really grates against me. If there was anything on the  road
that looked like a "dustbuster" it was the first gen F**D Aerostar  minivan.
A guy around here has a tan one, and the lines and front grille  make it
look for all the world like a giant dustbuster. Just look at its  lines.
Seriously. Not so any of the "All Plastic Vans" from GM. The lines  aren't
EVEN close.

Now maybe it has an "anteater" look to it, as  someone once said. And I
could live with that term.

But the A.P.V.  resembling a dustbuster?? NO WAY, JOSE! You seriously need
glasses,  man.

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From:  <FrankCB at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> converting a 2nd gen  corvair to 3.8 buick engine
>  
> Scotty,
>   The 3.8 Buick engine is a V6 and fairly recent   vintage.  It was used
in 
> the Turbo Buicks and I have a later  version in my  1995 Pontiac Trans
Sport 
> "Dustbuster".  
>
>     Frank "good memory for some things"  Burkhard







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