<VV> LM Corvair on Mythbusters

[Tom Berg]

Can Reverse in a Powerglide really stop a Corvair or other GM car that used it? If so, that might be good for someone who has such a car. Not many motorists these days do, so the knowledge is of limited interest to Myth Busters' viewers.  
 
--Tom in Ohio
 

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Wade,

On occasion, the myth busters repeat one of their tests if  they get enough 
responses telling them that they did something wrong or missed  something 
truly significant.  Of course, they are looking for ratings and  only 
consider do-overs if the segment is entertaining in a different way from  the 
original episode.  If they do a segment on our Corvairs, they might do  an "Oh, 
by the way." thing on the transmission but I doubt it.  That's  show biz.

Someone mentioned that one of the principal players on  Mythbusters may 
have a soft spot for the Corvair.  I agree and think maybe  one of the guys is 
the owner of the Vair.  Because of this and because  debunking myths .... 
like the myth dogging our cars .... is what the show is all  about, we may be 
able to influence them if enough of us send email to their web  site.  Here 
is the link to the Discovery/Mythbusters website where they  discuss this 
episode, for now.  Click on "DISCUSS" to submit a myth for  them to bust.

_MythBusters : Discovery  Channel_ 
(http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters)  

Doc
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They have a lot of fun with their  experiments and most of them are fun to 
watch.

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 to 
reverse.

I never  heard a word back and decided that they didn't want   their 
previous  experiment proved wrong. Maybe enough time has passed that they would 
repeat  the PG reverse experiment along with repeating the 1973 NHTSA study. 
THAT  would be an episode worth recording!

Wade  Halsey

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