Barrie,
The writing referred to, I believe, is the Ralph Nader book "Unsafe at Any
Speed". You should be able to find a copy at your local library.
Cheers,
Lew Palmer
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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Barrie Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:44 PM
To: Rocky Frisco; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MG's and Skis
So who has a copy of the article ? I, for one , would love to read it!
At 03:30 PM 12/17/2003, Rocky Frisco wrote:
>Bob Howard wrote:
>
>> Ralph Nader always seemed a bit sanctimonious to me, yet it wasn't he
>>who can take exclusive credit for killing the 'vair. General Motors'
>>unsavory activities, once they came to light, may well have had
>>significant bearing on its demise. The text in his book about the
>>Corvair filled only about 1/3 of the book, with the remainder about
>>things we don't even consider today. He worked up tire weight
>>capacities for a number of cars, then found
>>that their standard tires were too small to carry the car and passenger
>>weight, for one thing.
>> He wrote about hostile dashboards, the graceful toggle switches that
>>we all admire, that are pretty damaging to passengers in sudden stops.
>> Another topic was insecure doors that burst open easily.
>> We like to think that Ralph Nader will not be happy until everyone is
>>driving a black, four-door sedan. If that's true, then he must be a sad
>>fellow these days. But I suggest that we are all driving stronger, safer
>>vehicles today, to some extent encouraged by people like Ralph Nader.
>>BTW, his mother, wrote cookbooks with some assistance from Joan
>>Claybrook.
>
>Nader was (is) a liar, plain and simple. Road and Track magazine
>documented it. He falsified the engineering drawings used in his books,
>"air-brushed" out the standard factory safety parts. The damned fools at
>GM, instead of asking their own engineers if the book was accurate, set
>private spooks on Nader, to try to get something incriminating on him.
>Those assh*les must have been in training for Watergate, since they were
>so inept they got caught. Then Ralphie sued GM and won millions of
>dollars, which he then used to promulgate even more lies, making himself
>famous. I despise the sorry piece of sh*t.
>
>-Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
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