"Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in news:20586
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 RS>> "Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS>> news:20580$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>>> I remember reading about a 59 Caddy that killed someone
 RS>>>> standing still, a kid ran into that huge fin and it killed
 RS>>>> him.

 BA>>> I find that hard to believe.  I could believe the kid was
 BA>>> riding a bicycle (or motorcycle), hit the car, went
 BA>>> sailing and broke his neck on landing. BTW one couldn't
 BA>>> run into the fin without running into the side of the car,
 BA>>> the fins on Cadillacs just weren't that big; IIRC the
 BA>>> biggest fins were on the '57 through '61 Chrysler products
 BA>>> (Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Imperial, deSoto).

 RS>> I remembered reading it somewhere, but couldn't remember
 RS>> where.

 RS>> Did some research last night, found it again. It was
 RS>> mentioned in Ralph Nader's book, "Unsafe At Any Speed."

 BA> That book was fiction back when Nader wrote it back in the early
 BA> 1960s - IIRC I was in HS at the time.  'course, Nader was able to
 BA> build a very nice career from it.

The problem is Nader's book wasn't entirely fiction.
Cars in the late 50's and early 60's could be really junk.

And GM could have just ignored Nader, thus ending the problem.
Instead they put a private investigator onto Nader to dig up dirt.
Very dumb mistake.

 RS>> So that tells me it most likely is an urban legend, or
 RS>> something Nader made up.

 BA> I suspect that is the case.

Nader nowadays is nearly all ego.

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