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On Dec 11, 10:58 pm, wrote:





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

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Eisboch wrote:
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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/

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Me dear auntie 'ad one of those Corvairs, had push button shifter on
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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
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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 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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Eisboch wrote:
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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..

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.

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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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..

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.


Corvairs were fun cars but handled horribly in snow, even light snow. You
couldn't steer it. It was so light in the front end that turning the wheel
accomplished nothing ... the car just kept going straight and usually into
something.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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wrote:
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.


Corvairs were fun cars but handled horribly in snow, even light snow. You
couldn't steer it. It was so light in the front end that turning the wheel
accomplished nothing ... the car just kept going straight and usually into
something.

Eisboch



When you drove them fast, the front end also wanted to jump up.

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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wrote:
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.


Corvairs were fun cars but handled horribly in snow, even light snow.
You couldn't steer it. It was so light in the front end that turning the
wheel accomplished nothing ... the car just kept going straight and
usually into something.

Eisboch

When you drove them fast, the front end also wanted to jump up.

My brothers 46 Ford at about 65 mile per hour and a little headwind wanted
to lift the front end off the ground. Got hard to make a turn on the
freeway.

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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

On Dec 12, 9:42 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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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

Richard, you beet me to the draw. I just posted about this....

Early overdrive transmissions often had a
switch to engage or disengage the overdrive gear. "

When I was in grades chool, my folks had a Hudson Wasp, and it had
what seemed to be a dimmer swith under the accellorator pedal, which
kicked it out of ED.

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:15:43 -0800 (PST), Tim
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Early overdrive transmissions often had a
switch to engage or disengage the overdrive gear. "

When I was in grades chool, my folks had a Hudson Wasp, and it had
what seemed to be a dimmer swith under the accellorator pedal, which
kicked it out of ED.

I learned on a Hudson Hornet.

When I lived on the family farm, my cousin and I used to see how many
rollovers we could get out of it. :)

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:15:43 -0800 (PST), Tim
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Early overdrive transmissions often had a
switch to engage or disengage the overdrive gear. "

When I was in grades chool, my folks had a Hudson Wasp, and it had
what seemed to be a dimmer swith under the accellorator pedal, which
kicked it out of ED.

I learned on a Hudson Hornet.

When I lived on the family farm, my cousin and I used to see how many
rollovers we could get out of it. :)

They were hard to roll over normally. Was the first car to have the
passengers sit between the frame rails. Held the most NASCAR wins until
MoPar factroy entered racing. My dad had a 49, 51 and 53 Hornet with the
Twin H power. They were fast. My brother wrecked the 53 when he was using
it after his Navy basic training.