Replying to a message of Ross Sauer to Bob Ackley:

 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."

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

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

I suspect that is the case.

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