<VV> GM Stories...

[Secular]

  ...The hard metal dashboard wasn't very comforting in case of a possible crash, but 
  I guess that was before automotive crash standards were mandated. The 1960 
  Corvair had a "spoon-o-matic" automatic transmission - a toggle lever to change 
  the "gears," but without a Park position. If the cable on the giant parking brake 
  lever snapped, which it sometimes did, there was no way to keep the car from rolling...

  Source:

  http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/gm-stories-the-corvairs/


  Tony I.