Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 28, 2007, at 8:31 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: >> >>>> Love those first generation Corvairs! Air cooled, rear engine, but >>>> large >>>> enough for the yankee posterior. >> >> Ah yes - but "unsafe at any speed." >> >> I remember it well. > > That is BS and you know it better, probably, than > do I. Well, Stirling Moss said that the Corvair WAS safe at any speed. At the time I raced a Porsche 356 in SCCA races in Michigan and I felt unsafe at any speed. Now I drive sedately in my turbocharged Saabaru and reminisce about the bad old unsafe days. Second childhoods are wonderful. Larry Z