<VV> Quote : "most cars begin life as a ..."

[Charles Lee]

Maybe Corvairs are, to some degree, but OBD has put an end to the shade-tree 
mechanic, for the most part. although it's still cheaper to screw it up 
yourself, instead of paying someone else to screw it up.

And what do you learn paying someone else, except to be more and more 
dependent on them, because you haven't learned anything !
The Flat-Rate Manual is the best fiction I ever read !

My favorite "restoration" article was by a guy (CORSA member in CQ) who was 
restoring a Corvair, and it was full of "find a good upholstery shop for the 
interior" and "find a good engine rebuilder" and "find a good body shop" and 
he did nothing himself !!!!

It's always easier to buy this or that, but fixing it yourself just plain 
feels better, never mind putting another $100 dollar bill in your wallet for 
each hour you don't pay someone else !

Sure, there are some things we can't do but I'm sure there are some guys 
(and gals) here who would disagree even with that ?

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shortle" <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
To: "Jim Houston" <jhouston001 at cfl.rr.com>; "Charles Lee" 
<Chaz at ProperProper.com>
Cc: "vv" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Quote : "most cars begin life as a ..."


> Lately in my auto repair shop I'm seeing more and more "Saturday 
> mechanics" coming out of the shadows. They seem to be mostly underemployed 
> construction workers but also students, hippies, and even the clergy! 
> Thank God cars are so easy to work on that even a caveman can do it.
> Timothy Shortle in (beautiful) Durango Colorado
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Jim Houston <jhouston001 at cfl.rr.com>
>>Sent: Aug 6, 2010 8:38 PM
>>To: Charles Lee <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
>>Cc: vv <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Quote  : "most cars begin life as a ..."
>>
>>Having just spent 6 hours yesterday trying to remove the center AC duct
>>on my wife's Explorer to fix a broken PLASTIC actuator arm, I have to
>>agree with Charlie on this one!!
>>
>>Jim Houston
>>
>>On 8/6/2010 9:29 PM, Charles Lee wrote:
>>> This just struck me as interesting..
>>>
>>> On http://www.corvair.ca/ he says that :
>>>
>>> I've come to believe that most cars begin life as a heater core hanging 
>>> from
>>> a conveyor belt and are then assembled around it.
>>>
>>> However, I think this could be said about what part is is that you are
>>> currently trying to remove ?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
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