Dare to Corvair?

Mashup of the 1960 General Motors promotional film "The Corvair in Action." Having never owned, driven, ridden in, or rigorously tested a 1960 Corvair, I cannot accurately comment on the safety of said vehicle; all I can say is that Chevrolet may have shot themselves in the foot to some degree by including crash test footage in a promotional film.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• corvair
• 1960
• chevrolet
• general
• motors
• mashup
• crash
• test

[compukenny]

@fiddlerpin Ralph Nader is Unsafe,,,The corvair was a great car

[3619Country]

That footage of pushing the brake pedal, but the car not stopping. Be honest, that is really Toyota safety testing!

[asssface2000]

ralph nader is a cum gargleing feltch goblin

[crossfireplaya]

@TheMadDooby so what put it in the back With the engine heat? That can happen in any car, but either way, I'm sure that's an urban legend, becaus there's nothing to ignite the fuel at the front. The pintos exploded because the fuel would spill onto the exhaust. There's nothing up there AT ALL for the gas to ignite.

[cmmolthr]

@compukenny As time is starting to tell....Ralph was *wrong* about the Corvair

[TheMadDooby]

I think I read in a car magazine of a family involved in a head on collision while in their corvair. Apparently the car burst into flames and killed them all because of the front mounted gas tank, Great saftey pick

[IstvanN1961]

lol

[MrBrassboy]

That was a compact car? I didn't know that they actually used the term compact car back then.

[robertplattbell1]

You might be interested in Ralph Nader's _other_ book, "Small on Safety, the story of the Volkswagen". Not many people read it at the time, because hippies drove old VWs and hated GM. But if the Corvair was "unsafe" it was only because it copied the unsafe design features of the VW - such as the swing axles. The Ford MUTT suffered from the same problem. Of course, all three vehicles were redesigned to eliminate swing axles and the rollover rates plummeted after that.

[allusernamestaken01]

Marketing FAIL

[speedsville]

@CorrosionAcres Right they had to change it. It was just awful as introduced in 60.

The redesign took care of many of the problems. I drove a Greenbrrier for a summer.

It took a lot of attention to not get in trouble, and keeping the fan belt on took keeping the rpm low. And the throttle cable, OMG.

[MrMarianoAlberti]

jeje volcadas. y mas