<VV> CORSA and Nader, footnote

[Ken Clark]

Strange that should come up about Ralph Nader.  I was on my tread mill in my basement yesterday.(too cold and snowy outside).  Anyway the video I was watching had the 1990 convention, including L Claypool's famous burnout with the Toronado powered Corvair.  Also shots from the Fox Valley show I think that one was in 1991.  The last one was the convention 1991 in Washington and included the speech by Nader.
Ken
 
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:08:28 -0500
> From: corvairduval at cox.net
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> CORSA and Nader, footnote
> 
> It was also at that convention that Ralph and his sister were joking 
> about my license plate as they walked past it toward the photo op in 
> another early convertible.
> 
> They approved!
> 
> Frank DuVal
> 
> Plate currently on Ashley's 65 2 door in Northern VA.
> 
> What plate? I leave that to your imagination, those who have not seen it 
> in person.
> 
> 
> On 3/1/2014 3:19 PM, Thompson, Ed (MKE x1231) wrote:
> > Newer CORSA and VV members may not be aware, or had forgotten, that Ralph Nader was the guest of CORSA at the 1991 Convention in suburban DC, Silver Spring MD, I believe.  He addressed us in a packed, large hotel room on Saturday afternoon, before the banquet, it was captured by a couple of TV outlets at the time.  After he spoke and signed autographs for many, he took a tour of the Vairs in the parking lots, sitting and posing in an early, dark convertible, see the cover of the September '91 Communique; he did not ride or drive in a Vair, but he told us he did have a (Virginia) drivers license.  I was one of three Milwaukee Club members who went to a Nader event here, in September of 1990, we were the catalysts in getting Ralph to come talk to the CORSA faithful the following July.
> >
> > Ed
> > Milwaukee
> 
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