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Recreational Mechanic
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Northern Colorado, USA
Posts: 3,326
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Corvairs are awesome cars and probably the most under appreciated classics out there. Most people don't realize Nader's claims about the Corvair were proven to be false in NHTSA studies. But it took until 1970 to get those studies done and by then the industry had moved on. Very interesting history when you start reading about Ed Cole and the Corvairs development.
Corvairs were the:
World's first turbocharged production car
America's first all aluminum engine
One of America's first four wheel independent suspension production cars
The list goes on.
In the words of Jay Leno: "What Ralph Nader really did was to set the US auto industry twenty years behind".
That said $40k is cheap for a real Yenko Stinger. I think the one Leno bought was closer to six figures.
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Last edited by Nickshu; 02-07-2015 at 03:39 PM..
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