<VV> Need some rebuttal

[corvairduval at cox.net]

And don't forget, most of these crash stories also have alcohol content.

Frank DuVal

Original Message:
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From: Smitty Smith vairologist at verizon.net
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Need some rebuttal


Smitty Says:  I don't feel so kindly toward this gent as some of you.  I
have been driving Vairs for 40 years and used to listen to this kind of
misguided drivel.  I don't any more.  Yes you can force a Corvair into
wheel tuck if you do stupid things, either in your driving or in car
maintenance, just as you can with a front engine car with a low tire on the
outside of a curve.  Just the "other" end beats you off the road.  I had a
friend go off the road in a Corvair into a field of fresh cut tree stumps
at over 100 mph.  Damn Corvair killed him.  In every case I know of where a
Corvair wrecked from being driven, someone was doing something they
shouldn't.  Either driving an unsafely prepared car or driving beyond the
envelope of control of the car.  Corvair wrecks where the Corvair was
struck by another car have shown that they are very durable and no more
prone to kill their occupants than a conventional car.
Sorry about his friends.  Obviously the two were driving beyond the limits
of the car and spun it out.  Maybe exploring the limits.  And the others
were pushing the envelope some other way.  It was their driving that killed
them.
I put Spike into the wall at Summit Point.  Why?  Because I got in over my
head.  If I had been driving at 35 mph it would have never happened.
Please spare me the crap.  I am tired of it.
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