<VV> What have you found in your Corvair?

[Steven]

A small zippered vinyl pouch under the driver's seat.  $16.50 USD in change, 
another couple of $ Canadian, and a ring of miscellaneous keys.  I contacted 
the P.O. but he said "toss the keys, keep the change, it's Irish luck".

- Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cfm" <cfmann at yahoo.com>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:49 PM
Subject: <VV> What have you found in your Corvair?


> Every since I bought this Corvair of mine (last July), I pretty much took 
> on a bastard without knowing; an "ad-hoc", 
> "been-around-the-block-a-few-times" kind of a car. All kinds of gremlins, 
> needs this, needs that, one particular annoyance is that I was given a 
> pile of keys without really knowing what key opens what. So naturally I 
> tossed most all except the ones that "worked". You know the kind, they fit 
> but don't feel right. Only to discover I never had the right keys in the 
> 1st place (GM changes the cylinder type in 69 or so and forgoes the 
> Hexagon key style, like I had been using).
> And I had power washed the engine bay last fall and saw this little metal 
> box in the air cowl at the top of the engine bay towards the front. On the 
> metal "shelf", a air turbulence thing, I imagine, was this peculiar little 
> metal box and didn't think anything of it at the time. Yesterday or so, I 
> scanned the engine bay for no apparent reason and "rediscovered" this 
> little box again. Is was magnetized, kind of rusty. I picked it off the 
> shelf and set it aside. Today, I picked it up again, to study it closer 
> and low and behold, it slides upon and bear two shiny GM keys.
> My Corvair bears gifts, I like it. Its started to yield presents, I have 
> bought this car to many, many already.
> And so it continues, this love hate relationship with my car.
>
> So this prompted me to call out to all of you and ask, "What have you 
> found in your Corvair (that you didn't know about) that either made you 
> happy, sad, shreak, etc?? Like a skeleton of an alien, or as mundane as a 
> birds nest.
>
> maybe a series of short stories could be adapted to the Communique on this 
> topic?
>
> Chris
> 69 monza coupe 140/4
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