<VV> PG discusion (was "A good day in my little Vair' shop")

[chaz at properproper.com]

If you're looking for "easy cruising" you can't beat an automatic, but I
gues we've have to define what "no problem" means ?

I once had a computer program that I wrote that had "no problems" for a
few months until I asked "How often do you use it?" and she said, "Oh, I
don't~so-and-so uses it" as though it was not relevant.

Fortunately, so-and-so had no problems either, but "no problems" had a
different definition at that point !

I prefer to avoid the "lurch" and abrupt RPM change from "to low" to
"too high" to get the power to climb the hill.

A 3-spped auto is beeter, but I also like to shift when **I** want to
shift, and not have it bounce from "to low" to "too high" and back, whne
I find myself shifting a PG to low, to keep it from doing that annoying
little habit!

But that's just me ~ at the GWFBT, I heard a story of someone spending
big buck to convert a Corsa to a PG ?!?!?!?!?
That was wrong on so-o-o-o many levels !  
It was for a girl who couldn't drive a stick (not my kind of girl !)

My girlfriend didn't know how to drive a stick, and she solved that by
buying a nwe 4-speed car, figuring she'd have to learn just to get it
home !
She got 120,000 on her clutch when it was "recommended" to replace it
(because of a 'clinking' noise, but theplate and disc still looked so
new that the dealer fixed it under warranty (which had expired at 20K)
!!!!  

My kind of girl, but she smoked, whereas my Corvair didn't !

~Cz


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: <VV> A good day in my little Vair' shop
> From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
> Date: Fri, October 28, 2011 10:44 am
> To: "Charles Lee" <chaz at properproper.com>, <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> 
> 
> There's absolutely no problem in driving a PG Corvair over the 3 and 4 
> thousand foot passes in the Cascades when going to the coast, I've done it 
> many times and you'll never need to shift once!
> RonH
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Lee" <chaz at properproper.com>
> To: "'Ron'" <ronh at owt.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Cc: <Sethracer at aol.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:51 PM
> Subject: RE: <VV> A good day in my little Vair' shop
> 
> 
> > On a level road, until you get to some hills, or some interesting driving 
> > ?
> >
> > ~Cz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> > [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Ron
> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:15 PM
> > To: Charles Lee; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> > Cc: Sethracer at aol.com
> > Subject: Re: <VV> A good day in my little Vair' shop
> >
> > Nope!  Two speeds and both of them just right.
> > RonH
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Charles Lee" <chaz at properproper.com>
> > To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > Cc: <Sethracer at aol.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:04 PM
> > Subject: <VV> A good day in my little Vair' shop
> >
> >
> >> Right !
> >>
> >> Drive it and you'll find out that the PG has "2 speeds" : " too low and
> >> too
> >> high" ;>})~ ggg, LMAO, he he etc ...
> >>
> >> ~Cz
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> >> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Sethracer at aol.com
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:13 PM
> >> To: corvairgrymm at gmail.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> >> Subject: Re: <VV> A good day in my little Vair' shop
> >>
> >> In a message dated 10/27/2011 4:49:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> >> corvairgrymm at gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >> Last,  since the 62 is a
> >> powerglide car it was the first time I've had a  Powerglide out of a
> >> car....
> >> sure is kinda weird looking compared to my four  speeds!
> >>
> >> Ray - If you think it LOOKS weird compared to a four speed, wait till 
> >> you
> >> DRIVE it!
> >>
> >>
> >> (Just kidding folks - its a joke!) -Seth
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