Unsafe At Any Speed

While at the local used bookstore this afternoon I found a copy of "Unsafe At Any Speed." It's not a first-edition, but still an early copy judging by its 1966 publication date. Condition is okay. Price: $3.

Did you burn it? :twisted:

Snort! :nice: Too funny.

I read that book many, many years ago. Knowing what I know about cars, I found it to be built on speculation as much as fact. Other than the chapter on the Corvair, it's actually pretty tedious and boring IIRC.

A book by Nader boring? Unpossible!

I figured it's part of automotive history and should at least have a copy. I also picked up "Sports Car Rallies, Trials and Gymkhanas." It's a how-to book from 1956. The book includes TSD rally tables, too. That one cost me 10 bucks.

Nader pummelled the Corvair to make his name. A Corvair is "unsafe at any speed?" Come on, be real. They were run on race tracks but too unsafe for consumers?

He still doesn't know when to stop. Nader is running for preseident again... for what purpose? He cost Gore the election in 2000. I am sick of his holier-than-thou attitude.

Ralph Nader can kiss my turbo charged Spyder.

"He still doesn't know when to stop. Nader is running for preseident again... for what purpose? He cost Gore the election in 2000."

And this was a bad thing? :grin: Gore's global warming movie is about as realistic as Nader's book was. Some facts, lots of speculation and hysteria. Either would have been an equally lousy leader (as was the one we wound up with, to be fair to all).

I voted for Gore, and I honestly believe he would have done a pretty decent job, but -- without sparking a poliitical debate -- if he couldn't show that he was clearly a better choice than Bush, he didn't deserve to win. That goes double for John Kerry.

Also won't start a debate, but.... the last 8 years have been pretty miserable.

I hope you bought the book. I've been told the mention of the Corvair in the book is minor.

I, too, have a 1966 copy, bought new by my dad back then. It was also marked as "originally $5.95" with a line through the price, and "now $1.00" printed on the cover.