"Alan Baker" wrote

The situation is more complicated than you make it sound.

Not much. Yes, I could have talked about parallelagram suspension, and
mentioned sway bars, but the basic idea got across with the "straight up and
down" comment, I think.

Or are you talking about the fact that the owner had to be smart enough to
look at the inflation chart on the inside of the glove compartment lid, if
big print, and follow the differential air pressure for front vs. rear.

Or the fact that the pushrod tube O-rings had to be replaced once in a
while, to keep oil from leaking on the cooling fins and making carbon
monoxide. Duh? If your heater smells like burned oil, does anyone think it
would be a good idea to fix it?

There were many other cars of the period, and since then, that were far
worse machines than the Corvair. How about the rolling over Ford SUV's, or
exploding Pinto's? Nader got the consumer movement going, by abusing a
target, and sensationalizing it. Period.

Then there has been the Chevy truck gas tanks that they had to rig to catch
fire for the sake of filmed TV crash tests. Don't tell me that the consumer
movement and the media are always correct, and just. Nader was the first.

I gotta let this go. I feel my blood pressure going up, far too high! g
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Jim in NC