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To: laney

1962 Corvair - 2 speed automatic on the dash! Unsafe at ANY speed! Kept a sandbag in the trunk because the front end would lift up at speeds over 50 mph.


30 posted on 12/13/2005 11:36:38 AM PST by Ol' Sox
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To: Ol' Sox

I drove one of those! That automatic on the dash was quite the "bomb".


44 posted on 12/13/2005 11:41:02 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Ol' Sox

We had a Corvair when I was a child.
All I can ever remember about that car was that it broke down ALL THE TIME!!!


98 posted on 12/13/2005 12:16:52 PM PST by Muzzle_em ("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
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To: Ol' Sox

Mine was a 1960 Corvair 4-door, turquoise. Engine in the rear. Push-button automatic, but I think I had 4 gears instead of 2. Would that have been called a "Monza"? I don't remember for sure.

There was a hole in the rear floorboard and you could see the pavement whizzing by! Friends teased about the "Fred Flintstone braking system" if the real ones went out. "Somebody in back, put your feet down!" It was also voted the beer-drinking car by my friends because of the built-in potty in back, lol.

I had learned to drive in the previous "family 2nd car," a 1958 Renault Dauphine. Looked just like a miniature "Untouchables" car - like those old-timey cars in the TV show of the same name at the time.


170 posted on 12/13/2005 10:37:13 PM PST by Rte66
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