[geeks] RE: Old car parts...

[Ken Hansen]

Jon,

When I got my first Mustang (1967, straight 6) I got it becuause:

    a) Price was right
    b) Parts were easy to get
    c) Mechanic nearby  the *only* works on older Mustangs
    d) The car was in great shape

I considered getting a Thunderbird convertible (I really like the 1964
"square bird" design), but I couldn't find a good mechanic nor were
there any *great* examples available at the time.

The Corvette market is *huge*, the Corvair market is *tiny* (thank you
Ralph Nader! - "Unsafe at any speed"), so I would never have assumed
that Corvair parts would be easy to come by. I bet, if I wanted to, I
could buy *any* part for a Corvette or Mustang, to the point of nearly
building a car from parts...

Ken

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:14:37 -0400
From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Clerks and Cars
Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org

I once said:
> > obClerksReference
> > 37. In a row?

And Bill quipped:
> Try not to do any more on your way out to the parking lot.

LOL! I'm such a busy dude today, too. *sigh* My house is
turning into a parking lot. Soon I'll have a car on blocks
on the lawn. I wonder what the homeowners association will
say about it.

ObScaryStuff
Did you know it's harder to get parts for a '63 Corvair than
it is for a '58 Corvette?

-Jon