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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...

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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

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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




You would have loved my tangerine and cream 1953 Aero-Willys.

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On Dec 10, 4:45 pm, "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

I dunno either, my wife loves them. I have always been a bike or truck
guy myself, and I am not into custom ****, just buy the right tool in
the first place. Anyway, there is just something about that Malibu, I
could drive it... it is just plain pretty in my eye, beautiful curves,
good balance, and all stock.. I bet it has less than 50K on it too,
looking at it from the street...

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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 beauties
http://images.google.com/images?q=co...=1&sa=N&tab=wi

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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


The low riders really like those malibu's. The Chevelle SS was a good
straight line car. And sounded great. Sort of another Goat.

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"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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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 beauties
http://images.google.com/images?q=co...=1&sa=N&tab=wi



Was a safer car than the Beetle and faster. Just that Nader could not
attack the VW as was a cult favorite. Yenko Stinger was a really nice
Corvair. And after they dumped the VW swing axles and went to IRS, was a
good handling car. At least Corvair came with "Camber Compensators".

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:24:22 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

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

http://www.corvair.org/

It seems that I remember that there was a turbo Corvair.

Had a friend in high school who was given one on her birthday. She
loved it.

Unfortunately, her boyfriend was a Ford guy. :)

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:24:22 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

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

http://www.corvair.org/

It seems that I remember that there was a turbo Corvair.

Had a friend in high school who was given one on her birthday. She
loved it.

Unfortunately, her boyfriend was a Ford guy. :)

Yup, the Corvair Monza Spider.

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I would say that the attraction is the "boomers" that had them when
they were a kind in high school. Of course they were a "Dime-a-dozen"
and were "disposable. If you wadded one up, you got another etc.

But now the "kids" of the day have the big bucks and will want to find
one "just like they used to have"

And are willing to pay for it.

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

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:56:58 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:24:22 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

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

http://www.corvair.org/

It seems that I remember that there was a turbo Corvair.

Had a friend in high school who was given one on her birthday. She
loved it.

Unfortunately, her boyfriend was a Ford guy. :)

Yup, the Corvair Monza Spider.

That's it - I just asked the person who owned it. :)

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"Tim" wrote in message
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I would say that the attraction is the "boomers" that had them when
they were a kind in high school. Of course they were a "Dime-a-dozen"
and were "disposable. If you wadded one up, you got another etc.

But now the "kids" of the day have the big bucks and will want to find
one "just like they used to have"

And are willing to pay for it.

I still like the old Chevelle SS 396. Brings back great memories. I
may buy one some day.


Pre-1970 is good.

Eisboch

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On Dec 10, 6:43 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in messagenews:4JOdnW6CXpQEIcDanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@comca st.com...





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 beauties
http://images.google.com/images?q=co...soft:en-us&ie=...

Was a safer car than the Beetle and faster.
you sure about that, Bill?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7mT...eature=related

?:

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:19:04 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:09:52 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

I would say that the attraction is the "boomers" that had them when
they were a kind in high school. Of course they were a "Dime-a-dozen"
and were "disposable. If you wadded one up, you got another etc.

But now the "kids" of the day have the big bucks and will want to find
one "just like they used to have"

Yup that is a special interest car. My brother in law has a 70 sumpin
Mustang the same way. It is like the one he had when he was young.
He has about $25,000 $30,000 in it and the only way he will ever get
it back is to find another guy who first got laid in a 70 sumpin
Mustang. ;-)

You don't know how true that is.

I had been thinking of selling my '70 440 GTX, all original, 18,000
some odd miles, but never pulled the trigger on it for one reason or
another.

Just for yuks, I took it to the Spring Norwich Car Show instead of the
'Vette. I wandered around the car show looking at the pickups (I
still had the '50 International L-110 at the time) then wandered back
over to where the GTX was. There was a couple standing there, going
around the car - I kept looking at the cars. Came back about a half
hour later and the same couple was standing and walking around the
car.

Walked up to them, introduced myself and heard the whole story - guy
had one in college, met his wife, married and they had to give their
GTX up when the family started arriving. My car was identical to
theirs. Didn't say a word about buying it though. I gave them a
business card and said if they wanted pictures, I'd be glad to send
them some.

Two weeks later, guy calls and asks me if I would be interested in
selling the car. I hemmed and hawed, yeah maybe.

The guy offered me three times what the car was worth - even at
auction. And it was all original - as in original.

Bye bye GTX. :) Never formed the same level of attachment to it as
I had with the 'Vette. Turns out the guy is some silicone valley type
high mucky muck and had just sold his business for umpteen zillion
dollars.

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There was a guy coming around here occasionally who was buy up any old
Opel GT (poor mans vette) and was paying pretty good for them
regardless of shape. he was even offering finders fees for anyone who
could spot them. He was taking them and sending them right back to
Germany and you know he was making good money!

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:19:04 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:09:52 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

I would say that the attraction is the "boomers" that had them when
they were a kind in high school. Of course they were a "Dime-a-dozen"
and were "disposable. If you wadded one up, you got another etc.

But now the "kids" of the day have the big bucks and will want to find
one "just like they used to have"

Yup that is a special interest car. My brother in law has a 70 sumpin
Mustang the same way. It is like the one he had when he was young.
He has about $25,000 $30,000 in it and the only way he will ever get
it back is to find another guy who first got laid in a 70 sumpin
Mustang. ;-)

You don't know how true that is.

I had been thinking of selling my '70 440 GTX, all original, 18,000
some odd miles, but never pulled the trigger on it for one reason or
another.

Just for yuks, I took it to the Spring Norwich Car Show instead of the
'Vette. I wandered around the car show looking at the pickups (I
still had the '50 International L-110 at the time) then wandered back
over to where the GTX was. There was a couple standing there, going
around the car - I kept looking at the cars. Came back about a half
hour later and the same couple was standing and walking around the
car.

Walked up to them, introduced myself and heard the whole story - guy
had one in college, met his wife, married and they had to give their
GTX up when the family started arriving. My car was identical to
theirs. Didn't say a word about buying it though. I gave them a
business card and said if they wanted pictures, I'd be glad to send
them some.

Two weeks later, guy calls and asks me if I would be interested in
selling the car. I hemmed and hawed, yeah maybe.

The guy offered me three times what the car was worth - even at
auction. And it was all original - as in original.

Bye bye GTX. :) Never formed the same level of attachment to it as
I had with the 'Vette. Turns out the guy is some silicone valley type
high mucky muck and had just sold his business for umpteen zillion
dollars.

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On Dec 10, 6:43 pm, "Calif Bill" 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 beauties
http://images.google.com/images?q=co...soft:en-us&ie=...

Was a safer car than the Beetle and faster.
you sure about that, Bill?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7mT...eature=related

?:



You could trick out the Corvair engine also. Lots of the sand rails used to
use them. When I first moved into this house, young guy down the street had
a beetle that he had a 350 Chevy in the back seat. Mid engined. Only
problem was getting enough cooling air to the radiator in the VW's belly
pan.

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On Dec 10, 5:24 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
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=...- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

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

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On Dec 11, 9:27�pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Dec 10, 6:43 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in
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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 beauties
http://images.google.com/images?q=co...soft:en-us&ie=...

Was a safer car than the Beetle and faster.
you sure about that, Bill?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7mT...eature=related

?:

You could trick out the Corvair engine also. �Lots of the sand rails used to
use them. �When I first moved into this house, young guy down the street had
a beetle that he had a 350 Chevy in the back seat. �Mid engined. �Only
problem was getting enough cooling air to the radiator in the VW's belly
pan.- Hide quoted text -

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I've seen that done on a corvair, where a guy had to redo the whole
thing. in the "back seat" was actually a front wheel drive 455 enging
and trans. from a 71 Olds Toronado.

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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 -

- 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!

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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"

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=...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..

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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 -

- 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!

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
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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 -
- 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),
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..

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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"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

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

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.

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

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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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
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..

The push button trans were Chrysler TorqFlites and the Edsel (in the
steering wheel hub), as I recall.

I think my mothers 53 Desoto had pushbuttons in the steering wheel.

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Calif Bill wrote:
wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
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..
The push button trans were Chrysler TorqFlites and the Edsel (in the
steering wheel hub), as I recall.

I think my mothers 53 Desoto had pushbuttons in the steering wheel.


I recall the buttons first appearing in the 57' DeSoto.

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"HK" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
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..
The push button trans were Chrysler TorqFlites and the Edsel (in the
steering wheel hub), as I recall.

I think my mothers 53 Desoto had pushbuttons in the steering wheel.
I recall the buttons first appearing in the 57' DeSoto.

Maybe. Just seem to remember them on her car. By the time I got to drive
her car was a 1959 Chevy Impala bat mobile.

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On Dec 12, 9:42 am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:21:03 GMT, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
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..

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

Didn't a certian model of Edsel have pus-hutton trans located in the
middle of the steering wheel? i know, somebody did...

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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....

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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.

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On Dec 12, 10:44 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 -

His book, "Unsafe at any Speed"....

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On Dec 12, 3:58 pm, HK wrote:

I think my mothers 53 Desoto had pushbuttons in the steering wheel.

I recall the buttons first appearing in the 57' DeSoto.

Didn't the '53 (like most Chrysler products) have a "cluthflite"
transmission, where you could use it as an automatic OR push a clutch
pedal to disengage it?

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:15:43 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


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. :)