SO I often dine at the Fleetwood Diner. After 10PM there are not many sit-down restaurant options in the hood. The DIner open all night, Applebees open til about midnight, the Steak n Shake all night if I really want a dumb burger with those tiny shoestring french fries that get cold insife of two minutes.
Diner is cool, the cook knows me and asks what I'm going to get as I enter. By the time the waitress gets to me to take my order, it's almost ready.
Parked across the street is an old Chevrolet Corvair. The car that launched the career of Ralph Nader. Unsafe at Any Speed. Don't see Corvairs very often. Nor Ralph NAder for that matter. Just a little piece of history, just sitting there.
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by Enzo » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:25 am
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by Heid the Ba » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:46 pm
I had to google it, not a car I had heard of. It didn't look like a bad idea but if it isn't what people are use dto they won't buy it.
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by Enzo » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:41 am
Sorry, I thought the Corvair was world famous, precisely because of Nader's book.
The thing had the engine behind the cab - good enough for Formula 1 - and it was interesting. But it got a reputation, not entirely unearned but certainly in large part to Ralph Nader, for becoming uncontrollable in quick manouvers. A flick of the steering to avoid some obstacle could cause a steering oscillation to start that was unrecoverable.
Or something.
Very rare to see nowdays.
The thing had the engine behind the cab - good enough for Formula 1 - and it was interesting. But it got a reputation, not entirely unearned but certainly in large part to Ralph Nader, for becoming uncontrollable in quick manouvers. A flick of the steering to avoid some obstacle could cause a steering oscillation to start that was unrecoverable.
Or something.
Very rare to see nowdays.
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by Heid the Ba » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:08 am
What I meant was that rear engined cars handle differently not worse, you just can't drive them like front engined cars. Same as rear wheel drive versus front.
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by Lance » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:54 am
There's a blue one around here I will see once in a while in the Summer. The license plate reads "UNSAFE".
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by troubleagain » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:44 pm
My parents had one when I was born. They liked it a lot. However, it just wasn't worth it to them to ship it to the states from Japan, when they came home.
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by KLA2 » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:17 am
Enzo, wonderful as always.
You should get paid for these observations. Talk to a paper, get syndicated. (Not as painful as it sounds.) :P
Seriously. Of course, your contract must allow you to continue to post here, for free. :wink:
You should get paid for these observations. Talk to a paper, get syndicated. (Not as painful as it sounds.) :P
Seriously. Of course, your contract must allow you to continue to post here, for free. :wink:
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