1965 Corvair Corsa

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by JB5pro

He he... even 0mph?

I was jokingly quoting someone from the past.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by MadMan

I was jokingly quoting someone from the past.

Yeah, Ralph Nader who was famously quoted as saying that the Chrysler 300s were too dangerous because of their "sharp" tailfins...

Yeah, lets just say that Nader's book "Dangerous at any Speed" did NOT make the New York Times Best selling list, in fact I believe that book was an absolute flop for him, I wonder why?

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Yeah, lets just say that Nader's book "Dangerous at any Speed" did NOT make the New York Times Best selling list, in fact I believe that book was an absolute flop for him, I wonder why?

"Dangerous...?" Actually "Unsafe At Any Speed" was a non-fiction best seller in 1966.

As a reminder and why I am still tracking this thread, my 1st car I paid for was a '65 Corvair Corsa I bought in '68 for $450 off a used car lot. Drove it for a year and a half and lived to tell about it!

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

"Dangerous...?" Actually "Unsafe At Any Speed" was a non-fiction best seller in 1966.

As a reminder and why I am still tracking this thread, my 1st car I paid for was a '65 Corvair Corsa I bought in '68 for $450 off a used car lot. Drove it for a year and a half and lived to tell about it!

Well either way that book didn't make the New York Times Best Selling List, which is what makes a book a true best selling book, so technically its still a flop because if I remember right the book never broke the 10 million copies mark which is what makes a book a true "best seller" besides the aforementioned New York Times List, which is also the reason why you're hard pressed to find any copies of that book anymore because it was a load of crap that was written by someone that the U.S. government actually considered a communist sympathizer under the McCarthy Act.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Well either way that book didn't make the New York Times Best Selling List...

Au contraire The book made it to NYT bestsellers #8 for two weeks in July '66...

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Au contraire The book made it to NYT bestsellers #8 for two weeks in July '66...

Yes, but notice it barely made the top ten list. which still in my opinion that book was a bunch of made-up bs just to scare the kitties so to speak, if you've ever actually read the book (which I've read bits and pieces and excerpts from it) if there would of been such a thing as fake news back then, Ralph Nader's book would of been it, because all of the statistics in his book were made up and untruthful and didn't actually reflect any actual attempt at research.

Like I said his book was sensationalist at most and like I said, add to the fact that Ralph Nader was investigated by the government multiple times under the McCarthy Act because of his anti-American leanings in his writings.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Well either way that book didn't make the New York Times Best Selling List, which is what makes a book a true best selling book, so technically its still a flop because if I remember right the book never broke the 10 million copies mark which is what makes a book a true "best seller" besides the aforementioned New York Times List, which is also the reason why you're hard pressed to find any copies of that book anymore because it was a load of crap that was written by someone that the U.S. government actually considered a communist sympathizer under the McCarthy Act.

Back then the Time's best sellers list may have been a good ranking of best sellers, but it has not been recently...They've taken to ignoring best selling books that don't jibe with their political leanings...
Fair and accurate news reporting is hard to come by. They all lean hard in some direction, and don't do the leg work of confirming their sources information...As soon as one finds some juicy 'hear say' BS they all 're-tweet it' over their news feeds as fact, like trained parrots. Disgraceful.

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Fair and accurate news reporting is hard to come by. They all lean hard in some direction, and don't do the leg work of confirming their sources information...As soon as one finds some juicy 'hear say' BS they all 're-tweet it' over their news feeds as fact, like trained parrots. Disgraceful.

But fake news made up by 4chan and fed to the media is the best!