From: George Ryan <quad4fiero@webzone.net>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
>John Matthews wrote:
>
>>I can tell you
>>definitively.....
>>
>>Any car roof can and will collapse if you roll it!
>
>Phil Ethier answered:
>>
>> Never rolled a SAAB 96, have you?
>
>Or a Fiero?
Have you rolled Fiero cars on several occasions?
I have rolled SAAB 96 cars in ice races on three occasions. Once was the
second occasion for the same car, and it was dandy. In each case, the car
had a roll bar. In none of the cases did the roof collapse enough to touch
the roll bar. The only reason I brought it up (Team.Net veterans will
groan, "Yet again!") is that Johns "definite" statement that any car roof
will collapse if the car is rolled is simply untrue. There are many
different car designs out there. Some of them are capable of taking a
serious hit without collapsing. And they are not all new cars. The first
SAAB I had, which I rolled violently on two occasions, was a 1963 car.
SAAB once took a 99, turned it upside-down and dropped it from a height of
seven feet onto a concrete slab. It didn't even break any glass. Then they
did the same thing to an Opel Manta. It flattened to the door handles.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
Lotus Europa, VW Quantum Syncro, Chev Suburban
LOON, TCVWC, MAC
pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
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