<VV> fishtailing?? 99% of "drivers" make the rest look bad ...

[Lonny Clark]

Funny, they didn't say anything about the Corvette who wrecked at the exact
same spot being prone to "fishtailing". Or all those trucks they described
either. I remember when I was 16, I fishtailed my Spyder after a sudden
swerve and almost wrecked it on a gravel mountain road. I was driving it as
fast as it would handle those turns, I did not take into account that there
might be another car coming around one of those blind left turns, and they
needed their half of the road.

Had nothing to to with the car, and everything to do with being 16.


On 10/11/06, Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per <chaz at properproper.com> wrote:
>
> The way I see it, the car mfgr's designed FWD because understeer is far
> "safer" for the great masses of people to whom there is no discernible
> difference between operating and driving a car.
>
> The Corvair is "responsive" which, to anyone who knows the aforementioned
> difference, is a distinct advantage in controlling car.
>
> To the other 99%, understeer at least keeps them traveling in the same
> general direction after they lose control, and the worst that happens is
> that they careen off the outside of the curve, instead on the inside.
>
> Unfortunately, in my opinion, the hardest part of "defensive driving" is
> simply being aware that the other 99% are out there.  And they will blame
> the car, of course.  People don't have accidents; cars do ...
>
> Chaz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mhicks130 at cox.net>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:37 PM
> Subject: <VV> fishtailing??
>
>
> > Check out this story:
> >
> > http://www.theunion.com/article/20061010/NEWS/110100165
> >
> > "She said Corvairs, which carry their engines in the back, are prone to
> > fishtailing, and her son was too inexperienced a driver to correct it."
> >
> > Oh really?
> >
> > They're still blaiming the car, not the loose nut behinde the wheel.
> >
> > sheesh.
> >
>