<VV> Parent Drivers - Some Corvairs

[Charles Lee]

A lot more fun than my father, who never wanted to pay for anything he 
didn't want - "Why'd they put all that chrome crap on it ?  I don't want 
that."

He was an aircraft inspector, and could care les about anything that was 
"stuck to the ground" and wouldn't
 fall out the sky with a minor or even a major failure.

He felt that aircraft were less forgiving, and made sure they were in top 
shape, but his cars would be run into the ground, since "what's the worst 
that could happen ?

He worked on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module), I have the "Certificate of 
Appreciation" for that here somewhere.

I learned, too late, that you should take car of cars even if they can't fly 
(and especially since mine often did, like going over a popular RR X-ing 
where I lost an axle shaft ! Now that was fun !!!!)

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Nall" <patiomatt at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Parent Drivers - No Corvairs


> Interesting thinking about this....
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> My father, a postman...never did anything but maintain  /   light repairs 
> on our cars....never even watched an auto race..not even the Indy 500.
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> ALWAYS  had to know HOW FAST  each would go...whether it was a '37 Chevy 
> work car  or even his last car , a '78  Olds Omega v6...
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> At  77 yrs... by the time he got to my house he reported what the top 
> speed was....car was about 1 week old...
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> He always loved it when  I would trade my '63 Vette for our '71 Monte 
> Carlo, which he drove regularly, while I went on vacation, etc...
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> It had 4.11's  and topped out at approx. 115 mph....."so easy to hit top 
> end," he said..
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> He rode with me in '88  after I purchased an '87 Supra Turbo....we went to 
> Laughlin, NV  for the day...600 miles RT.
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> He only Flew one time... the Grand Canyon flight...
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> Thought I was stupid to ride motorcycles..and Dune Buggies...  GGG
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> So he was typical!! LOL!
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> Matt Nall
> Charleston, Oregon
> http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/reswr0kp/
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