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RE: Lightest Car?

To: "'Chuck Pedretti'" <chuckp@magenic.com>,
Subject: RE: Lightest Car?
From: "Mitchell, Doug (D.B.)" <dmitchel@ford.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:44:10 -0400
Actually, the federally mandated crash tests were brought in by 
degrees starting with the 1974 model year. First were 5 mph front
and then 5 mph rear. Prior to that the EPA/CARB/??? implemented
emission tests (for the manufacturers). The US ceased to see some
interesting cars after the end of 1967 because of these requirements.

Doug

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Doug Mitchell
mailto:dbmitch@peoplepc.com
'73 Spitfire 1500

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Pedretti [mailto:chuckp@magenic.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:07 PM
To: David A. Templeton; Triumphs@Autox Net (E-mail)
Cc: 'spitfires'
Subject: RE: Lightest Car? 



NTSA didn't start most of those rules until 1971 - year sound familiar?
It's when all the imports got those huge ugly rubber bumpers to pass the new
standards, or disappeared completely because they couldn't comply.

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Chuck Pedretti 
46 Willys CJ2a
70 Triumph Spitfire - last of the MK3's
http://www.oldjeep.com - Personal website
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-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Templeton [mailto:davidt@opentext.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:43 AM
To: Triumphs@Autox Net (E-mail)
Cc: 'spitfires'
Subject: RE: Lightest Car?



As I thought, the Mini was light ( forwarded from a friend on another
list ).  Was the mini not sold in the U.S.?  didn't it pass the "National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration" tests??

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The mini was around 1,400 pounds. The two key words from below are "CNN" and
"story".

See the mini spec for yourself .... http://www.dataphone.se/~fixer/info.htm
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David A. Templeton

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