<VV> My Plans for Monday

[lonzovair at aol.com]

Wow, I was all of 2 and a half... and I was probably tormenting my 1 year old?baby sister... that was the summer I took the grass clippers and gave her a haircut.
It wasn't until 3 years later that Dad got his first and only Corvair... a baby blue EM convertible... had it only one summer, and when he brought it home?Mom yelled "Whats a middle aged father of 4 need with a convertible sports car?" (he was almost 47 or 48, and she was 17 years younger)... maybe cruising for chicks???
;-)
I still laugh when I think of that day... I was in the front seat...
But no, I have no clear memories of the first moon landing, but I do remember the lunar rover a little later, and we ALWAYS watched the news and whenever NASA had something going up.
Thanks for sharing everyone... I'm enjoying this thread.
Later,
Lonzo



-----Original Message-----
From: mike hicks <mhicks130 at cox.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:42 pm
Subject: <VV> My Plans for Monday



I was 10 and living on Guam (dad was in the Air Force).  I had to listen
to it on the radio because the one TV station on Guam didn't come on
until later in the day.  I had my ears right up against the speakers and
my eyes closed so I could better imagine it.  Man. 

No Corvairs in my life at the time but I was bopping around in my dad's
'63 VW bus. 



> / On July 20, 1969, I was riding shotgun in my father's 1964
> Greenbrier,
/>/ on a highway in New Jersey known as the Garden State Parkway.  At 4:18
/>/ PM that day, we heard on the car's radio:
/>/
/>/ "Houston, Tranquility Base here.  The Eagle has landed."
/>/
/>/ How big a moment was that?  To this day, every time -- and I mean every
/>/ time -- that I drive past the point on the highway where we were when
/>/ this happened, I think of it.  Every time.
/>/
/>/ Monday will mark 40 years to the day.
/>/
/>/ Dad's been gone over ten years now.  But I still have his Greenbrier.
/>/ On Monday, at 4:18 PM, with the radio on, I will be driving past -- or
/>/ stopped at -- that very location.
/>/
/>/ Where you in a Corvair when man first landed on the Moon?
/>/
/>/ --Bob
/