<VV> Corvair Myths and Facts -- Pintos, no Corvair

[J R Read_HML]

All that I can say is that this was apparently in the days before CLASS 
ACTION lawsuits.  You know - the ones designed to make the lawyers 
wealthy(er).  Otherwise, the estimates may have been calculated in a 
different manner.

But, since my response begins to look like something for VV-Talk I'll have 
nothing more to say on this.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Secular" <rusecular at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair Myths and Facts -- Pintos, no Corvair


>
>  ...the costs for fixing the Pinto was $121 million, while settling cases 
> where
>  injuries occur was only $50 million. With such a difference in costs, 
> Ford
>  decided to manufacture and market the Pinto without fuel tank 
> modifications...
>
>  Source:
>
>  http://www.calbaptist.edu/dskubik/pinto.htm
>
>  Regards,
>
>
>  Tony I.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair Myths and Facts -- Pintos, no Corvair
>
>
>> Locally, a number of years ago, we had a bad accident in front of a
>> shopping center, with a Pinto wagon, fire, and fatalities -- it was very
>> bad.
>>
>> Just a few weeks later, I was working an accident scene not far from my
>> house in the same local area with a State Trooper.  A Pinto wagon that
>> had slowed for the accident was rear-ended and knocked down and off the
>> roadway.  I've never seen a Stater move so fast, actually running, to
>> get to that Pinto and get the folks out quickly.  There was no fire,
>> although the scenario was correct, and similar to the the previous
>> accident cited.
>>
>> My conclusion is that not *all* Pintos burn when rear ended.
>>
>> Fires happen at accident scenes and the risk should not be lightly,
>> whether it is a Pinto, Corvair, GM saddle tank pick-up, Corvette, Fiero,
>> or anything else, but my experience is they do not happen at the rate
>> shown on TV, or in the movies, or in popular imagination.  Check your
>> local wrecking yard -- how many burn jobs in there were the result of an
>> accident?
>>
>> May you never see a fatal vehicle fire,
>>
>> Bill Strickland
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