<VV> LM Corvair on Mythbusters

hihal6 at gmail.com hihal6 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 16:29:16 EDT 2013


Yeah, I'll yield a little on this one--------------On the other hand, read
this:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UltraVan/message/5203


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:59 PM, harryyarnell <harryyarnell at verizon.net>wrote:

> I concur with Matt's understanding of the test.
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> Some years ago they "proved" that you cannot stop a car from highway speed
> by shifting an auto transmission into reverse. I wrote to them with the
> story about the GM executive who demanded that the Corvair be able to
> repeatedly stop the car from 60 MPH by shifting the Powerglide from drive
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> I don't believe GM's test were with the car being driven.... Just "Full
> Throttle"  shifts between DRIVE  and REVERSE  100 times without failure..
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> Matt Nall
> Charleston, Oregon
> http://tinyurl.com/The-Corvair-Patio
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> http://tinyurl.com/Matts-Tech-Pages
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