<VV> Darien Journeys
Sethracer at aol.com
Sethracer at aol.com
Tue Dec 2 12:28:23 EST 2008
In a message dated 12/1/2008 11:11:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, p
koehler01 at atlanticbb.net writes:
I have heard previously that they were left behind
in the jungle even though they had less than a couple of
thousand miles on each of them. There was a report a while
back that someone on an expedition in the area where the
trip ended found some of the remains still rotting away.
Like several other folks, I pay close attention to the Automotive press and
keep an eye on references to the Corvair. I never hesitate to jump in to
defend the Corvair. As a decades long reader of Autoweek, (since Competition Press
times) I have seen the Darien Corvairs pop-up at least twice. In the early
70's Autoweek reported on a team of Land Rovers in a British military
expedition traversed the Darien gap. They were reported baffled to winch themselves
past at least one Corvair wondering WTF it was doing there. I, of course
informed them by a letter to the editor. Some time in the 90's a group of
American Jeep enthusiasts barged their cars up to the northern most points in
Alaska with an eye toward traversing the full Northern and Southern American
continents. They completed the trip to the tip end of South America (Not sure if
you would want to attempt that today, politics and drug-culture being how they
are) The Autoweek story proclaimed them as only the second group to traverse
the "Infamous" Darien Gap. My letter to that editor offered a copy of
"Daring the Darien" video to prove that not only were they following the British
Military Rovers, but a group of Corvairs that had passed through more than 30
years before. In 2000, at the Daytona Convention, I listened to Deac Hundley
(sp?) tell his account of the trip. I recall hearing that at least one of the
cars was shipped back to the US for promotional use, but I could be wrong. -
Seth Emerson
Seth Emerson
C's the Day! - Corvair, Camaro, Corvette
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