<VV> Playing nice

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Bill
Not my job to defend anything Mark says.  Just found your message interesting. 
---- Bill Hubbell <whubbell at cox.net> wrote: 
> 
> I challenge Mark to tell me my 1964 4-door Monza is somehow less of a car
> because it is a "sedan".   

I wouldn't think it's any less of a car than any other Corvair, or any other car for that matter.   I like the look of the LM pillarless cars, 2dr and 4dr, and prefer them highly to the EM 4dr car.   Just a preference. 


> I challenge Mark to tell me why I should be "insulted" by my car's Concours
> or Autocross scores (Gold medal and highest scoring 4-door 5 times running -
> 3 national Autocross first place finishes)

If Concours and Autocross gets your knickers in a wad, go for it.  I see trophies as things that gather dust.  Some people LIVE for a trophy, for a wide variety of reasons, which I won't mention because  I think you do these things because you  enjoy the competition, not the unmentionable reasons---and I don't want to offend you. 

 I challenge Mark to tell me why I should be "insulted" that my lowly "sedan"
> won the "Best of Show" award against a field of 100 some cars of all years,
> makes, and models (including showroom new cars).  

I don't think he would.  I wouldn't. 


> 
> I challenge Mark to tell me why I should be "insulted" that my "sedan" was
> placed in the Corvette museum for these past 3 months. 

All these things you mention above don't mean a hill of beans to me.  But neither can I find a reason why you should feel insulted. 


> 
> Finally, I ask for a vote of the VV membership to the following question -
> Whose car would you rather own?
> - my "insulting" 1964 "sedan" or Mark's "nothing cheap about it" 1967
> "Hardtop 4-door Sports Sedan"?


You know I saw your car before you started on it, while you were working on it, and since it was finished.  Nothing certainly to be ashamed or insulted about , a great restoration job that we both know didn't come cheap. 

I'd rather have the LM.   That's just me. 
> 
> The winner gets to call his car whatever he wants.

I call mine a Corvair---How about you? 


Hank
> 
> Bill Hubbell
> View my car here: http://rides.webshots.com/album/549666966nvLuBJ
> 
> View Mark's car here: http://rides.webshots.com/album/560121201jsrsyz
> (first 78 photos, plus # 106
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:49 AM
> To: jvhroberts at aol.com; mvjacobi at comcast.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Playing nice
> 
> John,
> 
> Personally I feel a bit insulted when someone calls my '67 Monza 4door a
> mere "sedan". It sounds cheap, and with every option on it possible,
> there's nothing cheap about the car. 
> 
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