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Hello Tom - 

TW>>> driving one. It decidedly did not drive "Like your Fathers
TW>>>  Oldsmobile" as they say. :-) :-) 

->> Odd as it seems the Corvair behaved as though it was
->> _overpowered_ for the weight of the car. All of the
->> 'feedback' you got while driving it was identical to what
->> most overpowered vehicles feel like with the exception of
->> the Charger 440s. They just felt like one solid chunk of
->> iron gone insane. ;-) 

TW> That is right. ITF you have yuor wits about you it did give
TW> you sings that it was going to Hurt you if you got a little
TW> more foolish. But dull your brain even a little bit and you
TW> were getting into very dangerious territory. 

The Corvair was the only car I ever witnessed a driver running
headon into a telephone pole in the rain. He wasn't injured (he
was young) but it sure embarassed him, it was his grandmother's
car. :-\ 

TW> Of 

TW> course the same is true of ALL rear engined cars evcept for
TW> possabibly the pittifully underpowered Fiats of many years
TW> ago. I know I had a little Renault Daulphine over in Hawaii
TW> and you counld get you into a heap of trouble and find
TW> yuorself going off the road backwards. 

My rollover was the result of a sharp turn, oil on the turn,
and rain. I just couldn't get the car turned back forwards and
we slid into a ditch and rolled up on the side. No one was
injured beyond bruises and the car suffered only minor body
damage. By the time we rolled it had slowed down considerably
from sliding sideways for some distance. :-\ 

The Pontiac Tempest did not seem to have these same handling
problems. Friends who had them had no real problems and they
were quite fast too. Pre-cursors of the GTO which were, of
course, front engine rear wheel drive 'normal' design
automobiles. 

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