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She was the first!

By Norm Seeley | December 5, 2007

Funny how you remember the first.  But after all these years I remember her as if it were yesterday, not some 47 years ago.

 I found her picture last Monday, and thought it would be fun for you to see what she looked like.

She was a 1960 Chevy Corvair Monza, the first year they came out, brand new and she was not red, but Honduras Maroon.  I paid extra for that.  She had a Black interior and 4 on the floor. My very first car.

Great in the snow, easy on gas, course who cared back then. 

If you look close on the driver’s side there is a second antenna barely visible.  It was for a mobile telephone.   I used my own vehicle to report news back to KIMN. 

In fact, when the University of Denver annouced that it was giving up football, the Denver Post had a picture on the front page showing me and my Corvair Monza smack dab in the middle of a “riot” of students at DU protesting about the decision.  

Wonder where that car is today.   Or even if it’s still together.  What stories it could tell. 

It was amazing, I was 6′4″ back then, with a few, (just a few) pounds less and I had no trouble at all getting in and out of her.  Wonder if that would be the case today?  

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6 Responses to “She was the first!”

  1. pb Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    Isn’t it funny how we can all remember our first cars? Little Blue was a teensy Honda Civic. Gave me 50 miles per gallon! We stomped the Eastern Seaboard together until I finally settled down and married. Sold her to a college student in Annapolis Maryland.

    I still miss her.

  2. Narniaman Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    My first car was a cream colored ‘68 Pontiac GTO. It had a 400 cubic inch engine that developed 360 hp, and could get rubber at 45 mph when shifting gears.

    I still miss that car. . . . .

  3. Norm Seeley Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    The Corvair was fun,and I loved to drive it, but it was traded for a Chevy Malibu when they first came out.

    The Malibu was an SS coupe, White, again with a black interior and 4 on the floor. I don’t remember the size of the engine, what ever it came with. But I did have two spotlights installed.

    So much fun to drive down the road and using the spotlights to light up the path infront of you even farther than the headlights.

    Gone are the days.

  4. pj Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    Oh Yes! I can remember my first as well - It was a 1938 Olds straight 8. I paid $15 for her. I filled her with oil and checked the gas, she got about 25 miles to the quart. When she got knocken too bad, I used shoe lether to tighten the rod bearings. Those were the days. She spent a lot of time on the back roads of San Diego. I almost forgot, I got $15 for her when I had to take her to the junk yard. Yep those were the good old days.

  5. Shari in Tempe Says:
    December 8th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    That is a neat looking car!

  6. Norm Seeley Says:
    December 8th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Yes it was. Of all the things to remember, it was nothing about the car itself, but the mobile telephone was in the trunk, which in the Corvair was in the front. The Box took up the entire trunk. I do remember that it had 12 VHF mobile telephone frequencies, and you had to go through an operator. Can’t tell you if there was an AM/FM radio, don’t think so, but can tell you about the MT. Important Stuff. I guess.

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