Had one, or officially, my ex husband did, cos I didn’t drive it.
We were very young, and hadn’t heard about Ralph Nader, till people started telling us about his book after we bought the car.
We knew nothing about cars. We only knew it was the cheapest car we found, even though it was only about 6 years old .. and we had very little money.
We started to understand what he meant.
Things broke. I’ve never seen another car that just constantly broke.
Wind up a window, the handle broke off in your hand. Windshield wiper broke off in motion.
According to our mechanic, the engine was too powerful for the flimsy body. If you went fast, say, like, not 90 but 65 miles an hour, the whole car shook.
It had a chrome spoiler sticking up through the hood… It broke off on the freeway from the vibration. The whole car had metal fatigue.
Driving through town one day, a plume of oil started shooting up from under the hood. The engine was in back so we didn’t see it at first. Turned out a metal part that attached to a hose had cracked… And Chevy didn’t make the part for sale, it had to be machined.
We finally sold it for $100 to someone who needed parts. I bet he needed parts all right, if he drove a Corvair.
My parents had a Corvair for about 5 years. I don’t recall any of the issues you mention. The back seat had a small storage space behind it instead of a shelf. The seat back could be folded down for more storage. We got in a fender-bender and the seat back folded down on me and I somehow ended up with a black-eye. That’s all I remember; I was somewhere between 5 and 9 years old.
I just realized I said spoiler when I meant a supercharger…. I think. Whatever, it was chrome, and stuck up out of the hood.
It may have been added by the young guy we bought it from. (A friend of my husband’s younger brother. He’d had an accident in it and one side was dented, with a door from a junked car.)
But you could see how it had cracked the metal and broken off.
I don’t know the how’s or whys… but all that stuff totally happened. I don’t like to admit it, but it was 1970.
….
When the part that held the oil hose broke, we had to leave the car in a gas station for days.
I said driving through town but it was actually in San Rafael, CA and we lived in a tiny town about 45 miles North.
It was out of oil; we were very lucky to neither blow up the engine nor get a ticket.
I think we hitchhiked (!!) home. That’s what young people did back then. Yikes.
It cost us almost half as much to get the part made, I think $200, as we’d paid for the car, which was about $500… and a few months later we sold it for $100 with other problems that I don’t remember.
Hi, Susan, it might not be so nice to live in the boondocks… German word is “Pampa”, or “in Hinter-Pfui-Teufel”, or “am Arsch der Welt” and that is not a got region to be there. Maybe you will re-translate the german words – I dare not to do, because some are dirty words. 😉
If you’ve been puzzled by today’s puzzle, it’s ok… So was I, for a bit.
I was afraid i wouldn’t be able to solve it, and i’d have to get help from Stel.
But gradually, my eyes acclimated, and differences began to form themselves out of the mist … till I had all 10!
So you can do it!
.. ..
Enjoy all the funny kitties and pups while you find ten differences… and just think about what a scene of devastation we’d be seeing if one of the dogs were Cleo, and she’d brought some of her usual firepower!
Then when you’re ready….
Click HERE for the solution!
BTW if you happen to see “Sept 9th” in the link, don’t worry about it being the wrong week’s puzzle. I made a typo when I named it.
I didn’t notice till I’d uploaded it to PostImage.
I renamed it Sept 2nd and tried to re-upload it… But PostImage refuses to change the name of a file it has already saved. Sigh….
Airshow Day! It’s an evening show. Flying starts at 5, and as the sun goes down the planes swap their smoke for sparklers and the show continues until 9pm.
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Moss piglet.
And water bear.
Officially tardigrade, of course…
And he or she, or both of them with several babies, would easily fit inside this superscript zero: ⁰.
Yup!
NOSE?
Cute little guys! I used to love watching them walk. How can something that tiny be so coordinated?
,
Long day dude?
Same expression as the tardigrade.
NOSE!!
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10 NOSES!
aka daleandkristen
At least we can see BAXTER in our dreams……
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I wouldn’t be able to cut him up.
NOSE!
aka daleandkristen
Now that’s what I call a Cheesecake! Too beautiful to slice.
Love them! I still find them amazing.
Me too.
We moved from New England to Colorado – far more varieties here and the Broad-Tails are the best – great fun to hear their whirring as they fly by.
,..
I got my driver’s license in a 1960 corvair.
Ralph Nader’s favorite,
Had one, or officially, my ex husband did, cos I didn’t drive it.
We were very young, and hadn’t heard about Ralph Nader, till people started telling us about his book after we bought the car.
We knew nothing about cars. We only knew it was the cheapest car we found, even though it was only about 6 years old .. and we had very little money.
We started to understand what he meant.
Things broke. I’ve never seen another car that just constantly broke.
Wind up a window, the handle broke off in your hand. Windshield wiper broke off in motion.
According to our mechanic, the engine was too powerful for the flimsy body. If you went fast, say, like, not 90 but 65 miles an hour, the whole car shook.
It had a chrome spoiler sticking up through the hood… It broke off on the freeway from the vibration. The whole car had metal fatigue.
Driving through town one day, a plume of oil started shooting up from under the hood. The engine was in back so we didn’t see it at first. Turned out a metal part that attached to a hose had cracked… And Chevy didn’t make the part for sale, it had to be machined.
We finally sold it for $100 to someone who needed parts. I bet he needed parts all right, if he drove a Corvair.
My parents had a Corvair for about 5 years. I don’t recall any of the issues you mention. The back seat had a small storage space behind it instead of a shelf. The seat back could be folded down for more storage. We got in a fender-bender and the seat back folded down on me and I somehow ended up with a black-eye. That’s all I remember; I was somewhere between 5 and 9 years old.
Maybe ours had a bigger engine?
I just realized I said spoiler when I meant a supercharger…. I think. Whatever, it was chrome, and stuck up out of the hood.
It may have been added by the young guy we bought it from. (A friend of my husband’s younger brother. He’d had an accident in it and one side was dented, with a door from a junked car.)
But you could see how it had cracked the metal and broken off.
I don’t know the how’s or whys… but all that stuff totally happened. I don’t like to admit it, but it was 1970.
….
When the part that held the oil hose broke, we had to leave the car in a gas station for days.
I said driving through town but it was actually in San Rafael, CA and we lived in a tiny town about 45 miles North.
It was out of oil; we were very lucky to neither blow up the engine nor get a ticket.
I think we hitchhiked (!!) home. That’s what young people did back then. Yikes.
It cost us almost half as much to get the part made, I think $200, as we’d paid for the car, which was about $500… and a few months later we sold it for $100 with other problems that I don’t remember.
Meanwhile, this reads like an American ad.
Doesn’t talk about driving the car in France, and mentions cubic feet.
Were they actually trying to sell Corvairs in France, or was this a magazine for ex-pats… or for French speaking Americans?
I once read that the Corvair “greenhouse” was the inspiration for the visual design of the BMW 1600-02 automobiles.
1 was a ford gal until we got our first honda touring car in the mid-10’s
I could see that.
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OZ? 🙂
Looks like ’02’ to me.
NOSE!
I got four tonight. I’ll try for more tomorrow.
I found seven on a quick run through. I’ll try again later.
So my six isn’t too bad?
NOSES!
I don’t remember Martin Denny. Down in the Boondocks made a big impression on me.
I remember I liked the song, but I’d never be able to tell you who sang it.
And even back then, it was confusing, cos “down in” the boondocks made no sense. They seem to be using it for the bad part of town.
My dad used that word a lot, as criticism. It means way out in the country, far from a city, especially someplace rural or primitive.
He was proudly a city boy and hated to stay anywhere he called “out in the boondocks”, or “in the boonies”.
Hi, Susan, it might not be so nice to live in the boondocks… German word is “Pampa”, or “in Hinter-Pfui-Teufel”, or “am Arsch der Welt” and that is not a got region to be there. Maybe you will re-translate the german words – I dare not to do, because some are dirty words. 😉
“jwd” – “janz weit draußen”.
“Datasibirsk” – Siemens Neuperlach (Munich)…
Is that Owl Kitty? And Snow’s kittens?
Good evening, Cleopals and Puzzlefans!
If you’ve been puzzled by today’s puzzle, it’s ok… So was I, for a bit.
I was afraid i wouldn’t be able to solve it, and i’d have to get help from Stel.
But gradually, my eyes acclimated, and differences began to form themselves out of the mist … till I had all 10!
So you can do it!
.. ..
Enjoy all the funny kitties and pups while you find ten differences… and just think about what a scene of devastation we’d be seeing if one of the dogs were Cleo, and she’d brought some of her usual firepower!
Then when you’re ready….
BTW if you happen to see “Sept 9th” in the link, don’t worry about it being the wrong week’s puzzle. I made a typo when I named it.
I didn’t notice till I’d uploaded it to PostImage.
I renamed it Sept 2nd and tried to re-upload it… But PostImage refuses to change the name of a file it has already saved. Sigh….
Oh – got all ten. Nice!
Ten here as well, though I sure I wasn’t going to be successful!
That’s how I felt, then it somehow came together.
Aw well, got 8. The big question though, is where did that kitty at the top get the fish?
I found all ten last night through the course of three or four observances.
bacon and eggs
we call them ”grandma’s legs”.
Eggs or bacon… or bacon and eggs?
Airshow Day! It’s an evening show. Flying starts at 5, and as the sun goes down the planes swap their smoke for sparklers and the show continues until 9pm.
will there be WW2 warbirds?…..always my favorite
aka daleandkristen
Lord have mercy for a boy Down in the Boondocks!!!!!
What a treat!
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