About 1963 or so I bought a Corvair Monza. My first long distance trip with it was to meet Gordon Chappell in Colorado and chase the ng. We drove it into Osier, although it was pretty oxygen starved trying to climb the hill out of there. But we made it up the hill in low, with a lot of jack rabbit starts after near stalls. The next day I decided to wash it under the water column at Cumbres, only to have the volume of water not only wash the exterior but fill up the interior as well. It was well and truly baptized on the ng.
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