Ralph Nader, the nation’s consumer protection nag, is opening
in Connecticut a museum that will memorialize his continuing effort to bring
Big Business to its knees by means of suits and moral agitation.
The museum, the American Museum of Tort Law, will be located in Mr. Nader’s hometown of Winsted, an inoffensive, small, New
England town located at the junction of the Mad and Still Rivers. One of the
first mill towns in Connecticut, Winsted was established in 1750. Mill towns
are themselves becoming museum pieces in New England, manufacturing having fled
to greener pastures elsewhere.
It was from Winsted in times past that Mr. Nader set out to
do battle with Chevrolet, the producer of the Corvair. The car’s swing axle suspension
was prone to “tuck under” in certain circumstances, rendering it “Unsafe At Any
Speed,” the title of Mr. Nader’s first book.
Mr. Nader’s museum will house an ancient Corvair, last
produced in the early 1960s, Mr. Nader's out-sized ego, and some tasty torts.
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