<VV> Fwd: Old Drivers NO CORVAIR

[Mel Francis]

I'm sure most of us have seen this video by now, but it just underscores the 
discussion.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000000895665&playerType=embed
Some of us WILL live to a very ripe old age and still possess all our 
faculties!
I don't envy this lady's car as much as her vitality, at 101!
Go Barbara!!

Mel Francis,
Oconomowoc, WI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Pepke" <kenpepke at juno.com>
To: "Vair Views" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 7:39 AM
Subject: <VV> Fwd: Old Drivers NO CORVAIR


>
>
>> From: Ulli Dittmar <info at california-camping.de>
>> Date: November 6, 2011 2:31:39 PM EST
>> To: "henry kaczmarek" <kaczmarek at charter.net>
>> Cc: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Old Drivers NO CORVAIR
>>
>> my mom turns 88 next August and has bought a Mini Cooper S convertible 
>> last month - if she would live in the US she for sure would join your 
>> parade ,-) - even with a Mini and she is a true WWII member - o.k. form 
>> the opposite site ,-)
>>
>> Regards form Munich
>> Ulli
>>
>>
>
>
> Ulli:
> My German relatives had scattered after WWII.  My brother went to Germany 
> several years ago trying to trace our family tree but did not get far.  A 
> couple of 'uncles' visited from the 'father land' [Argentina] in '46 but 
> they left quickly after going to the movies with my parents.  They saw one 
> of them on the podium during one of Hitler's hate speeches on the 
> newsreel.  Back at our house all they could say to my dad was "But Adolph 
> [dad], that was not what he said ..."   The words had been dubbed into the 
> film of the opening of a new water treatment plant.
>
> On the other side of the family there was a senior aged driver, one Sir 
> Archibald Smirden.  Great, Great, uncle Arch drove his Austin 8 [4 
> cylinders, 8hp] up until the last but, common to the English, he walked 
> almost everywhere.  On the last day of his life he walked the 2 miles to 
> the pub to play billiards with his friends, then walked home to a nice 
> dinner in front of a 'smashing' fire in the fireplace then retired ... and 
> passed in his sleep.  He was one hundred six years old and the first 
> Corvair was still 3 years from being built.
>
>
> Ken P
> Wyandotte, MI
> Worry looks around; Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.
>
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