They are fun to drive
my oldest sister Lori had one, a 67 (?) Turbo Monza Spyder
Metallic turquoise of some sort, white top & interior 4 speed
that car was a freaken' blast, she's 5 years older than I am
she'd give us kids rides all over the place, circa 1970-71-ish
they're called the Poormans Porsche
the early & uglier
Corvair cars had a problem
(so does Ralph Nader, he's an asshole still today)
IMVHFO a simple mandatory recall & limiters would have fixed it
Most
people didn't know how to drive a rear engine rwd swing-arm cars
if you get off the gas too quick
or not braking into a corner properly
&/or not accelerating out
they get all "light in the ***"
swing arms tuck in *** goes up & get on the side walls of the tires
almost all the weight is in the rear (rear engine rwd)
a lot of earlier Porches & VW's were plagued with the same problems
just had a far lower center of gravity, they didn't tip over
VW vans were horrid (Ralph Nader didn't do **** about the hippies vans)
you have to use a different driving style,
with a rear engine rwd swing-arm car
Corvair's issues
with the swing-axles coming inward, especially under deceleration in corners
upsets the car, the rear lifts up, easy tip over,
getting up on the edge/sidewalls of them old stiff *** bias-ply
shitty skinny *** tires, didn't help any either
when just a simple swing arm suspension "lift" limiter
or even a sway bar, with substantial outboard links
could solved the problem easily
Cheap fucks/bean counters at GM were the real problem
rushed the car out before enough testing & fixing it
all in trying to stave off "the Japanese invasion" of compact/economy cars
for people too cheap to pay for $0.25 cent gas, back then
then GM denying they even had a problem, because of lawsuits
if they admitted the error they were gonna' pay way earlier