<VV> bad press could be good

[J R Read_HML]

OK, here is my take (and last words) on that article.

It seems to have been at least partially instigated by the prior Hagerty 
and/or Business Week articles, but this time they did not refer to all the 
cars as ugly.  Instead, they referred to them as "Tagged" and then put them 
into several categories.  I understood the use of the word tagged to mean 
that they were referring to the perception of these cars in the eyes of the 
general public.  There was a short blurb on each and they were not trying to 
write the entire history of every vehicle mentioned as it unfolded 30, 40, 
50+ years ago.

Categories used in the article are Nerdy, Unreliable, Dangerous, Ugly, 
Boring, and Pathetic.  They did NOT put Corvair in the Ugly category (like 
BW), but in the Dangerous category (along with Pinto).  Keep in mind that 
they are talking about what they feel (or Mr. Hagerty feels) is the public 
perception of those cars.  Concerning the Corvair, for the "unbaptized - 
never been in one", they are probably right saying that it was tagged as 
dangerous.  Don't we hear comments that Nader had them outlawed?

So, put things in the article in perspective and don't be looking at 
portions of sentences in order to take things out of context since that just 
leads to another subjective point of view.

It is all opinion (including this email) and not fact.  Get over it.  Oh, 
keep in mind that it helps to keep the cost of the Corvair hobby down. 
<GRIN>

Later, JR

CCE CORVANANTICS CORSA member
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
'66 beater 500 Coupe "icemobile" 4/140 (50%)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu at roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:59 AM
Subject: <VV> MORE bad press


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> DAMNED if they're not at it AGAIN.    >:-o
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> This time it's CNN.     Doesn't ANYBODY ever check their "sources"?
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> http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/autos/0708/gallery.questionable_cars/
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> I'm off to write yet *another* letter.
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> tony..
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