Now on the long list of mistakes I have made and tried to blame on team member and sub-editor Mark Southcott, continually telling you the Corvair was made by Ford ranks pretty high.
For those of you in the psycho caper I believe it's a Freudian slip; for the rest of you it's probably just my usual sloppy writing caused by too many middle-class fantasies, like trying too hard to be Paul Newman (he won the 24 Heures de Daytona at 70 and drove his last race at 81) and believing my Ford Falcon BA Ute is the reincarnation of the 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight racer used as the camera car in Steve McQueen's 1971 meditation film, Le Mans, and sold by RM Auctions for $14.6 million in 2012, making it the most expensive American made car shifted at auction.
Back to the Chevy Corvair. Despite the bad rap that Ralph Nader gave it, the Corvair was a really good car. Motor Trend called it the "car of the year", Time magazine called it "the forerunner of a new age" and went on to name it one of the 50 worst cars of all time.
Now let's move back to one of my other obsessions: Newman. You have to see Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman. This documentary traces Newman's absolute passion about racing. He didn't start until 47 (in a Datsun) and he was a ferocious competitor.