Yeah. In regards to "old floppers" post. The Vette was a chick magnet. After my brother purchased it he had his drivers license taken away for having WAY to many tickets, within one year. In the mean time I chauffeured him around and became familiar with "His" ride. Had some good and bad experiences. First car I got up to 120 MPH on the freeway. First car I did a 360 on a residential street. (banged a shift and lost traction). Scary as hell. First car I dated my then girl friend. Nothing happened. Car was too damn small. First car that I ruined a transmission. No lie! I just casually shifted from 1st to 2nd and the Trans locked up in 2nd only. Don't know what happened but warranty covered it. Good car otherwise.
@swi66 Hello, It is remarkable that this is the second photo of a blue Corvair on the Hollywood Freeway going through downtown Los Angeles. This one is showing a blue Corvair heading East toward the big OC after we got our Corvair fixed in Los Angeles. My wife got stuck driving the Corvair coming from a meeting in East Los Angeles. It was stuck on another freeway near the hospital in East Los Angeles, in the fast lane narrow divider area. It was not the best place to get stuck late at night. We had to have the car towed to a repair shop in downtown Los Angeles. Our friend was an expert mechanic and his place was closed, but we just dropped it off and I called him the next day. He had it running the following day and we had to go pick it up via the freeway system in the OC and downtown Los Angeles. Afterwards, the fastest route home was to go back on the freeway heading East and to Orange County, all the way to the coastal route of Highway 1 in Seal Beach. Jnaki That Corvair was usually reliable, but it just stopped as my wife was heading back to the Long Beach Freeway to head home a different way. But, just as she was in the fast lane, yes, I know, a Corvair in the fast lane, ha! The car conked out and she pulled over in the very narrow center divider area. Luckily, a Cal Trans orange pickup was coming up behind and pulled over to rescue her. She called me to come and pick her up. Since this was the second time it conked out for unknown reasons, within a couple of weeks, we gave it to her uncle who said it is a car and I can get it to work, right. $100.00 was a fair price. Ha!
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