<VV> Happy Birthday Ralph

[Smitty]

Smitty says;  Trey I read your post several times trying to understand if 
you were writing tongue in cheek, or speaking second person for Nader, or 
really meant what you wrote.  I recognize how the nuance of wording can 
sometimes be misleading.  BUT  Any Corvair lover that believes the Early 
models doomed the entire fleet needs to dig deeper into the history of the 
perceived safety of the Early models, the ultimate resolution of the 
charges, and the general economics involved in the demise of the Late 
models.
In my opinion Ralph was nothing more than a lawyer who hired a bunch of 
people to find what he wanted to find whether it was totally true or not, 
and then took it to court.  By doing so he changed tort law to make somebody 
else responsible for all we do to ourselves, much to the satisfaction of 
money grubbers.
Yes it is cold outside and I am staying in as much as possible too.

saw no posting of our poster boy ralph nader. i see yesterday was his 80th 
birthday. congratulations, many dont live that long,probably me included. 
but any way. ralph in my opinion is a great american on many levels. yes he 
wrote about our beloved corvair and pointed out some of its flaws, but what 
new radical automobile doesnt. seemed the 65 and on corvairs were wonderful 
cars and too bad the early models doomed the entire fleet. i have owned 3 
vairs myself ?a 64 monza 110 4 speed ...a 64 turbo spyder 150 4 speed and my 
current 1960 700 hardtop coupe w/ 1966 olds toronado 425 drivetrain. ?the 64 
monza was my favorite ?original, fast and really a neat car. happy birthday 
ralph wherever you are and thanks for writing about our car.. the mustang 
and the camaro probably killed the corvair more than unsafe at any speed, 
most any car is safe at low speeds but at high speeds hardly any are ? trey 
bosson ?wellsville ny