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Old 06-10-2014, 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by P.C. View Post
Typical bourgeois American sports car; dripping with Wurlitzer/Eisenhower vulgarity and possessing a swing-arm rear suspension overripe with the bombastic imperialistic overtones of the Republican Party of the day.
Its not a swing arm suspension on the corvette. Early corvairs yes but the corvette went from live axle to fully independent suspension with a transverse leaf spring as the upper a arm....similar to a cobra.

I have never noticed anything about it that suggests anything about the R party.
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