From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The covair underground website dispels some of the myths of the Covair and Nader

http://www.corvairunderground.com/myths.htm
When Nader's book came out in early 66 Chevrolet had already (2 years
before) made the decision to quit making the Corvair after 1966. Because of
the controversy Chevrolet made the decision to make 3 more production years
(til 69) just to prove that Nader had no effect on them!

The 1960-64 Corvair body was deemed "the most structurally sound"
car ever built by the SAE. The 65-69 is in the top 5 of all time. While the
cars are rear engine and handle differently than front engine cars that
doesn't equate to dangerous. Keep in mind that 65-69 Corvairs are still
winning autocross races - that's against 2001 cars and everything in
between!


"Mark Hessey"  wrote in message
news:40305077$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
 give Nader a undeserved aura of trustworthiness>
>
> Well, they were pretty crappy cars :-) I remember riding in one where the
> driver would turn the steering wheel at least a quarter-turn (probably
more
> like a half-turn) before the car started changing direction :-)  how much Karl is paying him to run again?>
>
>

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