<VV> 4WD Twin Engine Rampside

[Vairtec Corporation]

This story reminds me immediately of the time I was transporting a 
fully-dressed 1966 140 engine in the back of my 1977 Honda Civic 
station wagon.  All shrouds in place, complete right up the to stock 
air cleaner.

Somewhere in Maryland, I stopped at a convenience store.  When I came 
out of the store, I found two guys staring in the windows of my 
Civic.  As I approached, one of them asked, in a drawl, "That 
bee-itch hooked up?"



At 08:36 PM 11/20/2011, wfcc at mediacombb.net wrote:
>Back in the early '90's a friend had two Rampsides in Virginia Beach 
>that he said I could have if I came and got them, so we loaded up 
>the trailer with a spare powertrain and various spare parts and took 
>off from Pensacola, Florida to bring them back. To make a long story 
>short, we swapped out the powertrain in one (In the parking lot of a 
>closed Petting Zoo) put the removed engine in the bed of the 
>Rampside with the Bellhousing up against the back of the cab, put on 
>some sorta good tires on it,  loaded the other (Ex Allen Bristow) 
>Rampside on the trailer and headed back south.  Very early in the 
>morning we stopped at a Waffle House somewhere in South Carolina to 
>reload on Caffine. When we came out there were three slightly 
>inebriated good old boys looking at the Rampside, They had never 
>seen one and were asking all sorts of questions about it, one of 
>them asked about the Spare engine in the bed and I told him that was 
>for the front wheel drive, that the truck was a twin Engi
>  ne four wheel drive pickup...... Somewhere in South Carolina the 
> story is still going around about the Twin Engined, Four Wheel 
> Drive Corvair Pickup...They knows it's true cuz they seen it with 
> their own eyes !
>
>
>                                    Ed Lindsay
>                                    West Florida Corvair Club