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Exploding Airbags - Push Trucks

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Exploding Airbags - Push Trucks
From: ardunbill@webtv.net
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Folks, somebody alluded to this possibility, that your airbag "might"
deploy in your pickup if you nerf a racecar too hard with it!

Now this had not occurred to me, but it definitely opens new vistas.  I
suppose it's finally a way to get the push truck driver not to hit the
racecar too hard, when pushing it.  Just a word to the wise, is all that
would be needed.  I put a couple layers of radiator hose on the uprights
on #124's pushbar, to reduce the bump.  Didn't want to hurt that repro
'32 frame.  

Anybody know if there is a universal standard for how much of a hit (say
5 mph, 10mph into a stone wall) it is supposed to take to deploy an
airbag?  Ardun Bill



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