So Ralph Nader Was Right

Three decades after Ralph Nader portrayed the Corvair as a casket on wheels in his book “Unsafe at Any Speed,” 84-year-old Rose Martin was laid to rest in her beloved 1962 model. The widow and mother of three, who died Saturday, drove the flat-looking rear-engine white car around the town of Tiverton, R.I., population 14,000, for 36 years. Auto mechanic George Murray prepared the car for burial last week, removing the rear engine, the steering wheel and seats to make room for a casket. The car was lowered into the ground with a crane, and took up four burial plots. Rose Martin was laid to rest next to her husband. Her headstone showed a picture of her and the car.