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From: Al Falfa on 13 Feb 2010 10:10 "Ed Maier" <evmaiertakethisout(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hl5fd0$osp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 2/12/2010 8:24 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:49:35 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >> >>> On 2/12/2010 6:30 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:09:30 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >>>> >>>>> Same here. My wife and I have owned a '52 Plymouth, '60 VW Bug, '62 >>>>> Corvair Monza, >>>> >>>> You, uh, don't still have this, do you...? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> God no. >>> >>> Ed Maier >> >> Why?!? Those were cool little cars. I had a '66, three on >> the...er...yeah. >> >> It's problems were more than my technical capabilities at the time. >> >> However, if I had it now, I would have one cool Corvair. >> (I live about 10 miles from the place in Mass that remanufactures Corvair >> parts...) >> >> >> > My '62 Monza had a tendency to "float" at speeds above 65 MPH. Seemed like > there was a lag in steering response at that speed, too. Never did find > out what caused it. Not sure anyone else had the same problem, but it was > very disconcerting. > > Ed Maier > How effective could the steering be when the car is floating?
From: AMuzi on 13 Feb 2010 11:12 >>>> Ed Maier wrote: >>>>> Same here. My wife and I have owned a '52 Plymouth, '60 VW Bug, '62 >>>>> Corvair Monza, >>> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >>>> You, uh, don't still have this, do you...? >> Ed Maier wrote: >>> God no. > Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >> Why?!? Those were cool little cars. I had a '66, three on >> the...er...yeah. >> It's problems were more than my technical capabilities at the time. >> However, if I had it now, I would have one cool Corvair. >> (I live about 10 miles from the place in Mass that remanufactures Corvair >> parts...) Ed Maier wrote: > My '62 Monza had a tendency to "float" at speeds above 65 MPH. Seemed > like there was a lag in steering response at that speed, too. Never did > find out what caused it. Not sure anyone else had the same problem, but > it was very disconcerting. Add the air dam in the front. Dramatically improves handling at speed. The '65~69 style will fit. -- Andrew Muzi <www.yellowjersey.org/> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
From: Jeff Strickland on 13 Feb 2010 14:44 "Ed Maier" <evmaiertakethisout(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hl5fd0$osp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 2/12/2010 8:24 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:49:35 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >> >>> On 2/12/2010 6:30 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:09:30 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >>>> >>>>> Same here. My wife and I have owned a '52 Plymouth, '60 VW Bug, '62 >>>>> Corvair Monza, >>>> >>>> You, uh, don't still have this, do you...? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> God no. >>> >>> Ed Maier >> >> Why?!? Those were cool little cars. I had a '66, three on >> the...er...yeah. >> >> It's problems were more than my technical capabilities at the time. >> >> However, if I had it now, I would have one cool Corvair. >> (I live about 10 miles from the place in Mass that remanufactures Corvair >> parts...) >> >> >> > My '62 Monza had a tendency to "float" at speeds above 65 MPH. Seemed like > there was a lag in steering response at that speed, too. Never did find > out what caused it. Not sure anyone else had the same problem, but it was > very disconcerting. > You have to wait for the car to land before the steering works again ...
From: Ed Maier on 13 Feb 2010 18:52 On 2/13/2010 1:44 PM, Jeff Strickland wrote: > "Ed Maier"<evmaiertakethisout(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:hl5fd0$osp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 2/12/2010 8:24 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:49:35 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >>> >>>> On 2/12/2010 6:30 PM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >>>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:09:30 -0600, Ed Maier wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Same here. My wife and I have owned a '52 Plymouth, '60 VW Bug, '62 >>>>>> Corvair Monza, >>>>> >>>>> You, uh, don't still have this, do you...? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> God no. >>>> >>>> Ed Maier >>> >>> Why?!? Those were cool little cars. I had a '66, three on >>> the...er...yeah. >>> >>> It's problems were more than my technical capabilities at the time. >>> >>> However, if I had it now, I would have one cool Corvair. >>> (I live about 10 miles from the place in Mass that remanufactures Corvair >>> parts...) >>> >>> >>> >> My '62 Monza had a tendency to "float" at speeds above 65 MPH. Seemed like >> there was a lag in steering response at that speed, too. Never did find >> out what caused it. Not sure anyone else had the same problem, but it was >> very disconcerting. >> > > You have to wait for the car to land before the steering works again ... > > Well obviously that was the steering lag thing, but the "float" had me mystified. Munzi in an earlier post mentioned an air dam install fix, but I traded it in on a Mustang to get it out of my hair. I had tentatively written it off because I was using tires from different manufacturers on front and rear. (In any event, I was just guessing, and I was ready for a new car anyhow.) Ed Maier
From: Ashton Crusher on 13 Feb 2010 19:21
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:04:22 -0600, dbu'' <nospam(a)nobama.com.invalid> wrote: >In article ><b11522a6-0228-4f0e-b59d-a22b55130eb3(a)k36g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, > john <johngdole(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Yoshi Inaba sounds like a clairvoyant. ;) I wonder if there will be >> charges and arrests in the Toyota case as the Japanese government did >> in the Mitsubishi case. >> >> "For years, warning signs have clashed with its touted high standards >> >> Five years ago, Yoshi Inaba, then president of Toyota Motor Corp.'s >> U.S. sales operations, disclosed his biggest fear. It was that >> someday, some flaw in Toyota vehicles might go undetected and cause >> injuries, or worse, to the company's customers. >> >> Inaba was perhaps thinking of a huge scandal that had just engulfed >> Mitsubishi Motors Corp., a smaller Japanese carmaker accused of >> covering up defects for years. Top Mitsubishi executives, including >> its former president, had been arrested and charged." >> >> From The Detroit News: >> http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100211/OPINION01/2110340/1148/auto01/Toyo >> ta-loses-its-way#ixzz0fHiJSPza > >My two Toyota's were the best cars I've ever owned and I've owned quite >a few big three plus VW in my 67 years. I will buy another another >Toyota without question. I had one Toyota and one datun and they were both junk. My sister in law had a Datsun and it was junk. They just don't hold up under hard driving. They are made for little old ladies who will never push them. |