<VV> Absolutely amazing photo website (no Corvair but there must be some in there somewhere!)

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

Hi everyone

This isn't directly Corvair linked, but it is an incredible photo gallery, 
and I haven't looked through all the pix, so there might be some in there 
somewhere (in fact if Nader is right there will definitely be some - read 
on!).

It is the photo archives from Monroe County Police Dept in upstate New York, 
and it primarily comprises several hundred very high definition photos of 
road traffic accidents (they call them MVAs, which I assume to be motor 
vehicle accidents), running from about 1935 till about 1970.

The pictures are absolutely incredible - very gruesome, but they show the 
amazing strides that have been made in car safety (all these wonderful 30s 
cars totally crunched, no crumple zones and little chance of getting out 
alive). A lot of the accidents are car/train or car/truck, with predictable 
consequences! And quite a few of the cars are on their roofs or their sides, 
with the usually completely bald tyres visible, having slid on the slick and 
greasy, or icy and ungritted, road surface.

They are the most amazing photos I have ever seen - and, as I said, if Nader 
isn't a total shyster there must be some Corvairs in there somewhere - 
because, as he has told us and we all know, Corvairs are death traps that 
are involved in a high proportion of accidents - right? (;-)))

Here are the links - there are 4 galleries. Sorry if you've seen them 
before:

http://www.monroecountysheriff.info/about/history_gallery1.html

http://www.monroecountysheriff.info/about/history_gallery2.html

http://www.monroecountysheriff.info/about/history_gallery3.html

http://www.monroecountysheriff.info/about/history_gallery4.html

Finally, an apology to all the people (you know who you are!) who have sent 
me nice friendly emails to which I have not replied yet! It's not personal, 
but I am incredibly busy, and I will get to them in the end - possibly later 
this evening or tomorrow. There are about 10 of them, and I am finishing 
assembling a customer's car following a paint job, and I really must get it 
back to him by the weekend if I can (there are about 20-30 hours work left 
in it). So please bear with me - I will get back to you soon!

Best wishes

Alan

P.S. A friend of mine found the site because he collects Fiat 130s (big 
Italian luxury sedan from the 70s), and for some reason this came up near 
the top in a Google image search. Goodness knows why, because Fiat 130s were 
never imported into the USA, and there don't seem to be any in the archive. 
Interestingly and very oddly, though, one of the cars in Gallery 1 has a 
Brit license plate as well as a US one!