Changing the subject slightly, and keeping this "defeat" by the Germans away from Richard's great the D-Day thread from yesterday, I had wanted an early Corvair for the layout for some time. I found this old Franklin Mint model used for a fair price. The gaps in the doors are monstrous so I decided to pose it with them open, etc.
So here is a first-gen Corvair - America's attempt to build a compact car powered by a horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine, like the . . . well you know, doing what too many of them did, sitting by the side of the road with a thrown fan belt. The lady is seriously P.O.'d, the men are feeling inadequate since any real man would know how to whip out his pants belt, twist it just so, and fix the engine until the next gas station.
My wife had a '60 Corvair before I met her, and says this little vignette has truly captured the joy of owning one.
