<VV> Ludvigsen article

[Tony Underwood]

At 08:38 AM 11/10/2006, Spencer Shepard wrote:
>My appologies to anyone who tried to reply to me about my post about 
>the Ludvigsen article. My email mysteriously started giving the 
>wrong return address when someone replied to one of my emails. I was 
>on a chat with an Earthlink rep (thanks Steve K) for 2 and a half 
>hours last night to get that fixed. Someone snail mailed me and 
>asked that I scan and post the article. That may be a tad illegal, 
>but I'm sure Hemmings or Carl won't mind and I'll try to do it.


I believe that if the author and source are credited and the article 
is verbatim, you can post it to a news letter or mail list without 
enraging the copy rights gods.


Myself, I'd like to see it... already have a couple other Ludvigsen 
Corvair articles that I appreciated.    The guy is a straight shooter.


>It talks about the Nader investigations and how GM dedicated lots of 
>money and facilities to fighting it. Karl was associated with GM at 
>that time and was worried that someone would realize that he had 
>criticized the handling in that '59 article. Somehow that never 
>happened. He says that one of the good things that came from the 
>investigation was the giagantic skid pad that was built and was very 
>helpful in the developement of race cars like the Chaparal and 
>future production cars.


It was on that skidpad that the '65 Corvair was tested and found that 
it generated more cornering force than the Corvette, according to (I 
*think) a Motor Trend article.   Someone correct me if I'm wrong 
about the article source...    :)



tony..