<VV> Corvair truck and camper ???

[burkhard at rochester.rr.com]

> We think the Corvair met with an untimely demise, well
> the Tucker was way ahead of it's time, and a rear
> engine as well, quashed after only 50 were made in
> 1948. 

Tuckers were indeed pretty cool, but I think the folklore surrounding 
Detroit's role in squashing them is way overstated.  Tucker the car was 
done in by Tucker the poor businessman.

> I guess, in the USA at least, rear engine cars have
> nearly all been attached to some stigmata. 

Stigmata?  They have holes in them?  Usually that only happens after 
some years of exposure to salt, but it affects front-engined cars as 
well.

> Why??? I am
> not sure, but seemingly every effort to produce an
> American Porsche have been trampled with false media,
> bullcrap and lies. Even the 'so-called' mid-engine
> Fiero was called unsafe, and maybe it was or maybe it
> was not, 

The Fiero was fine, safety-wise.  Why is it a "so-called mid-engine", 
though? It pretty well fits the deifnition of a mid-engine car.  Who's 
quibbling with that?

Jim Burkhard
65 Corsavertible
Rustchester, NY