Chevrolet Lakewood Years produced: 1961-1963 Original starting price: $2,331 Do you like going really slow in a dangerous automobile? Well, this wagon version of the Chevrolet Corvair not only ran on a sluggish 80-horsepower engine, but tossed that engine in the back of the vehicle like a Volkswagen Beetle. When consumer advocate Ralph Nader's book “Unsafe at Any Speed” pointed out that the vehicle's swing axle rear suspension made the Corvair unstable, it and its counterpart wagon were doomed.
