<VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather (tangentially off-topic)

[chuck mckinley]

A former boss of mine at NASA Langley had a jaundiced opinion of
Corvairs; a favorite quote of his was that in the late '50s "GM set out
to design a cheap P.O.S. and were eminently successful with the
Corvair." However, he also told a suspiciously prideful story of a
relative assigned to Eielson AFB in central Alaska. This relative had a
Corvair up there, and one December he went out to purchase a Christmas
tree. After he bought the tree, he realized that it was too big to fit
in the car, but no problem - he had a convertible! He dropped the top
and drove home with the tree riding shotgun - the temp was about -40F.
(Being a steely-eyed USAF warrior, he apparently had no more problem
with the environment than the Vair did.)

Chuck McKinley