<VV> Corvairs and snow

[Rick Norris]

Having grown up and lived in West Virginia most of my life snow was a fact 
of life. You learned how to drive in it and there are lots of hills. We 
lived on one. I learned from watching my dad who was a milk truck driver and 
often took me with him. He never had an accident and never failed to get 
where he was going in bad weather.

When I got my first Corvair, a 1964 Monza 110 four speed (pics on my site 
www.corvairalley.com ) I was in the Air Force and stationed on Long Island, 
NY. This was back in the mid sixties and we had some big snows. I remember 
going to the base early one morning from Westhampton Beach where we lived 
and the snow plow had made several passes down the main street but left a 
wall of snow in the middle. I had to cross it. I backed up and took a run at 
it, not really knowing what was on the other side. I crashed through okay 
and continued on toward the base. The road was flat but no one else had been 
on it so I was plowing new ground as it were. I was actually pushing snow in 
front until it stopped me. I simply backed up and drove around the pile I 
had created. I did this several times before reaching the base. I did had 
snow chains on the car and it would go anywhere. I would look for deep snow 
to play in. They really didn't like me driving around the ball field! The 
Air Policeman on the gate chewed me out for it. Damn good fun that!

In the early days all I had was Corvairs (a 64 & 65) and I always got to 
work. Often I was driving around other folks or passing them going up a snow 
covered hill. I always politely waved to them as I went by....GGG!
Some of them indicated I was number 1!

Rick Norris