Who needs an SUV when you have the 1960 Corvair?

TheMightyFavog

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Mon Jan-24-05 02:37 PM
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Who needs an SUV when you have the 1960 Corvair?

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=05922

What a cool film!

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flamingyouth

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Mon Jan-24-05 02:46 PM
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1. That film is totally cool!

My babysitter had a lavender one when I was a kid - I always loved that car.

And, hey, you can't beat it for the next time you have to drive 20 miles through a stream. :D

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TheMightyFavog

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Mon Jan-24-05 02:54 PM
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2. Saw a beautiful Burgundy '66 at a dealership in Crivitz, WI when I was 19.

They wanted $3500. It was in wonderful condition. Had I informed this one Corvair club and one of their members had purchased it, I would have been awarded a $100 finder's fee by that club.

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flamingyouth

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:42 PM
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3. My father of my best friend from high school restored one

Lovingly ... it took him years to get it back to almost-mint condition. One night he was driving, didn't see a scrap of metal in the road and ended up totalling it. The insurance co. had it valued at $1000 or so. It was very sad. :(

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ImpeachBush

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:45 PM
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4. I had a 1967 Plymouth Fury Delux ..

What a sweet, gas-guzzling vehicle it was too! Like driving a yacht around on the streets. Wish I still had it, though.

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flamingyouth

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:50 PM
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6. My grandfather had a 1966 Fury!!

I loved that car too. You're so right, it was like being in a yacht. Man, I miss those old cars.

Reminds me of that Norma Desmond line in Sunset Boulevard ... "not like these new cars that are all made of chromium and spit." :D

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Historic NY

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Mon Jan-24-05 05:56 PM
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11. I've got 2 1973 Fury's....one guzzles and the other sips...........n/t

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5thGenDemocrat

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:49 PM
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5. A guy about eight blocks from here has two Corvairs

A so-so 1962 coupe and a BEAUTIFUL white '64 Monza droptop. We still like our old GM iron here in Saginaw.
John
If you drive a GM vehicle, your car's steering column was more than likely built in Saginaw. Good chance the engine block was poured here, too.

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AVID

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:52 PM
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7. My aunt died in a Corvair flip-over in 1968

She was 16 - A very sad family tragedy

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flamingyouth

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Mon Jan-24-05 05:02 PM
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9. I'm sorry

That's horrible. :cry:

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Ivan Sputnik

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Mon Jan-24-05 04:57 PM
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8. It was a beautiful car

Sorry, Ralph.

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Ernesto

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Mon Jan-24-05 05:42 PM
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10. The only thing Raph Nader ever got right! n-t

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TheMightyFavog

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Mon Jan-24-05 07:18 PM
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12. Bullshit.

By the time that that ass huckleberry Nader's book got published, Chevy had fixed the most serious hnadling problems that had plagued the early Corvairs.

Thanks, you douchebag, first for killing one of the most ingenious car designs in American History and for stealing votes from Gore in 2000.

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Ernesto

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Tue Jan-25-05 12:43 PM
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13. "ingenious" blatant copy of the VW, that is

I owned one. It was not wonderful, but it got me around (when the fan belt was in place) until I picked up a VW convertible (a step up IMHO).

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