XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:06:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
      
   > My mother had a Corvair.  Two of them, in fact.  I can't remember if the   
   > white one replaced the blue one or vice versa.   
      
   A white one, '61 I think, appeared in a neighbor's driveway. I was able to   
   confirm a vague memory of the shift being a little vertical lever on the   
   dash. My brother had a rental and that was what I mostly remember about   
   the car. He liked to rent Hertz's stranger selections.   
      
   I went to a car auction in the '80s. The sales for fat fender coupes and   
   so forth moved along rapidly until they rolled out a beautifully restored   
   Corvair. The bidding got up to $2000 and lagged. Finally the auctioneer   
   told the owner that he could withdraw the car since it hadn't reached the   
   reserve but that was was all the car was worth. Classic/antique car values   
   are fickle.   
      
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