Re: I wonder if....

hank Wrote:
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> Mike Stillwell Wrote:
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> > They were wrong about the Corvair too!
> >
> Nah, Nadar was right that the suspension flaw
> existed, BUT, it was well known long before his
> book came out and an after-market fix (kit) had
> appeared about 6 months after the Corvair was
> first released.
> So it was not such a big deal as he made it out to
> be.
> hank

Overall the Corvairs were pretty good economy cars, but they had a nasty habit of the pushrod tube seals leaking after 60,000 miles coating the rear end in oil. I worked at a gas station in highschool and had a customer who would hand me a quart of SAE40 oil to put in every time he got gas. (And he needed it).

One thing old Ralph did was get himself attention and kill Corvair sales, Chevy dropped the line after 69 because sales were in the toilet.