<VV> Turbo Packaging

[David S Malcolm]

Of course if you've got a Pertronix installed--another argument to carry 
a spare points plate.

David



On 3/30/20 4:29 AM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Is that right? In all the old sci-fi movies, whenever tha alien 
> spaceships appeared overhead, all the cars would suddenly stop working ;)
>
> On 2020-03-30 08:05, jim bannister wrote:
>> And just think, I we are ever subject to an electromagnetic pulse,
>> your 'Vair will still start and run.  Anything with a computer becomes
>> a brick.
>> Jim  '66 turbovert
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On
>> Behalf Of Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
>> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:10 AM
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Turbo Packaging
>>
>> "> Lots of times they settled for what they could sell to the
>> accountants and get produced, regardless of what would have been
>> 'best'."
>> That is a very important point. It is easy to build a good car if money
>> is no object (Bristol, RR, in England). The real skill lies in designing
>> and building a 'cheap' car that actually does its job properly. And of
>> course GM churned out inexpensive mass-produced cars. Considering the
>> compromises this entails, and despite engineering which is sometimes
>> 'agricultural' in contrast to the elegance of the Europeans, these cars
>> do their job very well indeed, as the number of 50- and 60-year-old cars
>> still on the road bears testimony..
>> My '64 Corvair convertible PG is now my daily driver in Florida, and it
>> does its job every bit as well as any modern car, only without all the
>> electronic complications and unneccessary gizmos and distractions. The
>> only thing it doesn't do is depreciate.
>>
>>
>
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