Replying to a message of Ross Sauer to Bob Ackley:

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

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

Nader's book was specifically about the rear engined Chevrolet Corvair.
The early Corvair models *did* have a tendency to spin on slick
pavements, but that problem was fixed by the time Nader published
his book.

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

GM had already addressed and fixed the problem with Corvairs by the
time Nader's book came out.  IIRC it was a weight distribution problem -
too much weight behind the rear wheels.

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