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First Mid-Engine Corvair?

 can say for sure that the 1962 Chevrolet Corvair that he once owned was the most dangerous car he ever drove. Not because of the swing-axle rear suspension that Ralph Nader found fault. small-block Chevrolet V-8 that he replaced the rear seats with, quite possibly making it the first mid-engine, SBC-powered Corvair.

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