<VV> Reminiscing Re: EM Monza PG Idle Problem (humor?)

[FrankCB]

     Reminds me of long ago (in the 70s) when my late wife Milly encountered a pesky salesman who was trying insistently to sell her some cooling system antifreeze.  She told him she didn't think she needed any, but he still insisted.  She came back with "I'll buy it if you show me where it goes in my car that's parked right out front."  Now my wife well knew that her Corvair was air-cooled, but wanted to teach this guy a lesson.  Sure of an easy sale, he followed her out of the store, took one look at the Corvair, uttered an expletive and beat a hasty retreat back inside the store.
     Thanks for bringing back the memory!
     Frank Burkhard 

In a message dated 09/13/09 03:40:40 Eastern Daylight Time, dave.thompson at verizon.net writes:
Corvair Coolant?!? That's air. I burn a lot of Corvair coolant all the time. 
Air -Fuel mixture. Sorry, I couldn't resist 
Dave Thompson 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ray Rodriguez III [mailto:grymm at echoes.net] 
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 7:36 PM 
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Subject: Re: <VV> EM Monza PG Idle Problem (humor?) 

White smoke!!!  White smoke out the exhaust means you've got coolant making 
its way into the cumbustion chamber,  my understanding is that corvair 
engine "coolant" winds up in the cumbustion chambers pretty 
frequently....... 

One of the few things daddy taught me that I remember-  White smoke = water, 

Black smoke = excess fuel,  Blue smoke = oil.