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On Dec 12, 9:02 am, wrote:
On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:





On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"


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On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...


Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap and are
not particularly "fast".


To each their own, I suppose.


Eisboch


There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.


http://www.corvair.org/


Check out some of those beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...quoted text -


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Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -


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I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!- Hide quoted text -

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Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..
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On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:
On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"





wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
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On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...


Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination
with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really
aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap
and are
not particularly "fast".


To each their own, I suppose.


Eisboch


There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.


http://www.corvair.org/


Check out some of those
beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...Hide
quoted text -


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Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!


Sure brings back memories for me.
A slightly 'off' neighbourhood character came over to us one day as we hung
around an inner city street corner. Said he had a Corvair and wanted to know
if anyone wanted to go for a ride. This was a big deal since hardly anyones
father owned a car at that time.
Took us over to a rough parking area in a backyard and proudly showed off a
Corvair. A half dozen of us piled in for a trip to a local popular beach
but broke down on the highway. We tried for an hour to get it going.. but
then gave up and left him with the car as we hitch-hiked back to the city.
Next day, the police were at the door looking for me. Turns out the car
belonged to a professor at a local technical university, but because our
'buddy' accidently found a key that started the car...decided it was his.
Cops didn't prosecute me or the other innocents but the loony guy had to
repair the damage.
(nice guy.. he steals the car and gives the cops our names)


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wrote:
On Dec 12, 9:02 am, wrote:
On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:





On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...
Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap and are
not particularly "fast".
To each their own, I suppose.
Eisboch
There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.
http://www.corvair.org/
Check out some of those beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -

I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..


Nadar screwed with the Corvair. While Bassy was correct that the car
was very screwy at high speeds, on most Corvairs it would not show the
problem till you got over 80 mph. The Monza Spider would top out at
about 100 mph, it was turbo charged with 4 separate carburators.
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:21:03 GMT, wrote:

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
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Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..


Corvair had a little lever on the dash. Push button automatics were a
Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth (and probably Desoto) feature.

I think Nash had one too. A friend's dad had a Metropolitan, but I
never went near it. Everybody sort of looked at it with a sense of
revulsion. Go figure. Well, it was about 1962.
My dad had a '57 Imperial, fist push-button I saw.
Hey, wait. I think a buddy's dad had a Nash that we stole a couple
times late at night. Fat Phil was his name. We would push it around
the corner before starting it. Fat Phil showed us how smart the car
was, and how indestructible, by getting it up to about 30, then
pushing the reverse button. It would suddenly slow down, make a few
harsh noises, then stop. Personally, I didn't care for those sounds.
I preferred the noise made by cutting the ignition on a big block at
speed, letting it suck some gas into the exhaust, then turning the key
back on. BLAAMM! Yeah, my friends were real punks. Me too.
In the Navy, while hitchhiking home to Chicago or to NYC from Norfolk
I caught some interesting rides. One in a Studebaker Lark with a V8,
another in an Avanti. Both were being currently produced. I never
was a car fanatic, but the Army guy going home with his wife was
really proud of his Lark, and my NYC buddy was tickled when we got a
ride in the Avanti, even more so when the owner let him drive it for a
spell.
A cabin mate of mine in the Merchant Marine had the same year/model
Aston-Martin as the one used in one of the James Bond movies, and
I drove it for a while on a Toledo-Detroit excursion. Very "touchy"
steering, but of course my normal ride then was a '64 Olds 88.
Moneywise, he had about 4 of those in the Aston-Martin engine alone.

--Vic
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Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..


More likely a Chrysler product. Others may have had pushbutton shifting....
I think the Edsel had them in the center of the steering wheel or something,
but I don't remember any others. Early overdrive transmissions often had a
switch to engage or disengage the overdrive gear.

Eisboch




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On Dec 12, 9:16 am, wrote:
On Dec 12, 9:02 am, wrote:





On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:


On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"


wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...


Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap and are
not particularly "fast".


To each their own, I suppose.


Eisboch


There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.


http://www.corvair.org/


Check out some of those beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...text -


- Show quoted text -


Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Nadar screwed with the Corvair. He should have, it was a piece of
crap! A lot of Dodge/Chrysler products had the push buttons. I've
owned to Valiants with slant sixes and push button trannys in my life.
Bullet proof cars! I had a "63 that when I bought it was clapped out,
but I ran that thing all over the place, always full tilt!
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On Dec 12, 9:16 am, wrote:
On Dec 12, 9:02 am, wrote:





On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:
On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...
Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap and are
not particularly "fast".
To each their own, I suppose.
Eisboch
There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.
http://www.corvair.org/
Check out some of those beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...text -
- Show quoted text -
Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -

Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Nadar screwed with the Corvair. He should have, it was a piece of
crap! A lot of Dodge/Chrysler products had the push buttons. I've
owned to Valiants with slant sixes and push button trannys in my life.
Bullet proof cars! I had a "63 that when I bought it was clapped out,
but I ran that thing all over the place, always full tilt!


They were pieces of crap, but the flipping over he complained about
really wasn't their problem.

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On Dec 12, 11:44 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 12, 9:16 am, wrote:
On Dec 12, 9:02 am, wrote:


On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:
On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Dec 10, 2:42 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEIumBf2Rg&NR
There is a sweet 1970 Malibu for sale out near the stables. Maroon,
looks like a stock, garaged car, soooooooo pretty...
Not to be a party pooper, but I've never understood the fascination with
these cars.
First of all, they are a dime a dozen. As a collectible, they really aren't
worth much.
Second, having driven several, they handle like crap, ride like crap and are
not particularly "fast".
To each their own, I suppose.
Eisboch
There is a car for everyone. Look at this Auto Group.
http://www.corvair.org/
Check out some of those beautieshttp://images.google.com/images?q=corvair&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=...-
- Show quoted text -
Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
the dash iirc...- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
I may be mistaken but I think the shifter you are thinking about was a
lever on the dash. Had a friend that had a Corvair Spider, the high
performance one!!!! Hell, I think it went 75 miles an hour or so, if
you could hold it on the road! That thing was horrible. You'd go down
the road 55 miles an our or so and it was all you could do to keep it
in your lane!- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


Nadar screwed with the Corvair. He should have, it was a piece of
crap! A lot of Dodge/Chrysler products had the push buttons. I've
owned to Valiants with slant sixes and push button trannys in my life.
Bullet proof cars! I had a "63 that when I bought it was clapped out,
but I ran that thing all over the place, always full tilt!


They were pieces of crap, but the flipping over he complained about
really wasn't their problem.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


As a kid, I worked on my own stuff, always have. But, having never
owned a Corvair, I never knew why the front end of that thing did what
it did. I think it was just too cheaply built to handle highway
speeds. My buddy would be going along at 50 or above, and I mean you
had to be very careful how you tweeked the wheel, or it would take off
into the field. I don't know how many farmer's fences he took down
with that thing.
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