<VV> Unexpected non-technical Corvair benefit

[Mark Durham]

Chuck, I really enjoyed the story and its great that your daughter likes the
car. She makes a great hood ornament.
I got my first Corvair at age 17, and my girlfriend learned to drive in that
car. Se she loved that 4 speed as much as I did, sat in the middle on both
buckets and shifted it for me. We sold it after getting married with 220K
miles on it but recently found an identical 62 2 door coupe, red, 67K miles
with the 4 speed, and bought it. I don't have a picture of my wife laying
across the hood but one time on the way home from College the generator
broke its aft mount and threw the belt, so she stopped, poped the lid to see
what had happened, closed it, then sat on the hood with her legs crossed
(this was the 70's and skirts were short then, waiting for the next college
guy to drive by. It didn't take long. She got home, told me what had broke,
and I got the car working the next day.  Oh, I used to take the Corvair to
$2 a car load outdoor movies (with another girlfriend), used to have, ten,
maybe 12 college age kids in it going thru the gate with arms and legs
sticking out the side windows. Great fun! Mark Durham
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:47 AM, <lonzovair at aol.com> wrote:

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> Chuck,
> Beautiful car, and lovely daughter!
> So, it's a 63 with a 64 hood, huh? Interesting...
> Again, great picture.
> Lonzo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McKinley <cmckinley313 at cox.net>
> To: Charles McKinley <cmckinley313 at cox.net>
> Cc: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
> Sent: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 6:46 pm
> Subject: Re: <VV> Unexpected non-technical Corvair benefit
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> Well, nobody really objected to my original post on this story, so I'm
> ropping the other shoe. Here's a pic of said daughter and said car,
> aken when she just turned 17 and had been driving  it for ~6 months.
> y the way, it's a 3-speed manual, and the non-synchro doesn't bother
> er a bit. Pretty cool little hood ornament. (And this pic MIGHT have
> ade it into a GM advertising brochure.)
> Cheers,
> huck
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> n Apr 2, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Charles McKinley wrote:
> > I might be skirting trouble posting this story, but I thought most
>  of you would identify with it, so, as they say, better to ask
>  forgiveness after the fact than ask permission and be squelched.
>
>  When my daughter was about 12 she insisted that I save my '63 Monza
>  900 for her when she was road-legal, and she commuted with it for
>  her last two years of high school, to the admiration of many and the
>  curiosity of all. It remains her prize possession and her vehicle of
>  choice.
>   She is now 18 and in a music theater program at a prominent
>  conservatory for performing arts in a major northeastern city, which
>  I will not name to avoid libel suits.     Show business being what it
>  is, almost all the male members of the class are, shall we say,
>  light in the loafers, and while she admires them all as performing
>  associates, they leave a bit to be desired as weekend companions.
>   She was recently home for spring break and drove the Vair at every
>  opportunity. I asked her if she appreciated various improvements I'd
>  made since the last time she drove it. Her answer struck me as
>  provocative and completely unexpected - she said, "Yes! It makes
>  straight guys stare at me!"
>
>  I doubt if that would ever make it into a GM advertising brochure.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Chuck McKinley
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