[Spridgets] Ralph Nader. . Corvair

[Kitterer Bob]

Nader was on a revenge crusade because his favorite law professor was seriously injured or killed, I do not remember which, in an accident driving a Corvair.  Among other things the professor seems to have ignored the tire pressure.  The front and rear tire pressures on Corvairs were significantly different and many people like today put the same pressure in all of the tires if they checked them at all.  That coupled with the rear engine resulted in the rear end going some where other than where one might want.  Nader's argument in his book claiming the rear suspension was the problem was totally idiotic.

Road & Track to Nader to task on the VW bus, just do not remember the year.  

Bob Kitterer

1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage

On Jul 2, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Bud Osbourne wrote:

> Actually, VW caught the sonofabitch using bogus information to make his case.  Bogus as in "fabricated" to suit his purpose.  VW had the balls to confront the lyin' weasel whereas GM just kind of stuck their head in the sand and hoped it would all blow over/go away.  Nader just kind of "dropped" the subject of the VW, for which VW didn't press the matter.  Too bad VW didn't follow through and crush that miserable creep.  Instead, Nader was allowed to spread more of his crap around and further the cause of "I'm not responsible for my own stupidity" and all that goes along with that mentality, including an out of control tort law situation and the acceptance of the idea that it is the government's responsibility to protect us from ourselves.
> Bud Osbourne
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>>> Same as the older VW Beetle as I recall?  And it never came under fire. . .
>> It should have. Maybe it was because a Corvair could go fast enough to get
>> into trouble. More likely, Nader didn't dislike Germany.
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