Comments on: Epic Classic

By: t.c.

t.c. — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:27:40 +0000

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By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:30:31 +0000

Dude, I watched that guy park! In a spot vacated by a little Hyundai. Took literally 10 minutes of inching back and forth. Impressive.

By: dean13

dean13 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:06:21 +0000

Damn, at first I thought you were referencing the sweet ’92 GMC 12-passenger van. My one and only band van, now the proud owner of a group of Mariachis. I hope Unique Care is treating you guys as well as it did us, fellas.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:38:51 +0000

For the record, however? Despite the design flaws of the early Corvair? It was a damn, DAMN sexy car.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:38:01 +0000

Well… No. First of all, the Corvair was only one chapter of _Unsafe At Any Speed_. And Nader didn’t come out of nowhere with this, Chevy engineers had blown the whistle about it, and years later former GM execs came out and admitted it had been a bad, even dangerous design.

All of this AFTER GM’s campaign of dirty tricks against Nader in an attempt to discredit him. Seriously, we’re talking Exploding-Cigar-against-Castro level of covert buffoonery.

The whole “THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CORVAIR!” meme is nothing but historical revisionism.

By: Reisling

Reisling — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:15:16 +0000

Mark Wahlberg drove one in Fear with Reese Witherspoon.

Indie? No. Low-key? No.

Awesome? Yes.

By: SFer

SFer — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:54:45 +0000

You’re totally right. So much fun to drive, and the sound the engine makes when backing up is awesome.

By: SFer

SFer — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:52:45 +0000

That was manipulated BS. Those cars are awesome. From wiki: A 1972 safety commission report conducted by Texas A&M University concluded that the 1960-1963 Corvair possessed no greater potential for loss of control than its contemporaries in extreme situations. In the same year, NHTSA concluded that “the 1960-63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests…the handling and stability performance of the 1960-63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.” Unfortunately the car was already three years out of production at that point. Nader had tanked the company for no good reason.

By: CetiAlphaFive

CetiAlphaFive — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:18:36 +0000

Such a great, under rated classic. Rear-engined, rear-wheel drive, solid construction. People will scoff at me for saying this, but it’s every bit as good as Porsche’s from the same era.

By: Ferocious Foot Odor

Ferocious Foot Odor — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:08:48 +0000

So your grandmother was a Cougar that drove a Corvair!?!

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:38:31 +0000

That’s the one.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:40:46 +0000

Unsafe at any speed?

By: SCUM

SCUM — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:38:46 +0000

My grandma used to have a Corvair Monza Spyder convertible.

By: someJuan

someJuan — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:35:05 +0000

get to know your SF cars at http://www.flickr.com/groups/sfcars/

plus, here’s a list of films which have included the Corvair in a scene http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Chevrolet_model-Corvair.html

By: Ferocious Foot Odor

Ferocious Foot Odor — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:04:12 +0000

Corvair for god’s sake. What deserted island did you blog up on?