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Re: [Shop-talk] Nova - PBS show

To: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>,shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Nova - PBS show
From: Bill Engle Sr <whesr@iglou.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:29:57 -0400
   No  that  is not correct.  Carbon fiber breaks it does not bend.  That
   whole  thing  was a publicity stunt including the wreck.  Rest assured
   that  it has been repaired and is driving around.  Fixing it would not
   be cheap, but not $1 million.
   Bill
   At 02:19 PM 7/31/2008, John T. Blair wrote:

     Speaking of that show, anyone know much about carbon fiber?
     There was a company in CO that was designing a very strong light
     car  with  something  like  14  body  panels  that were to be glued
     together.
     They are using carbon fiber for the panels.
     There was a movie out, within the last year or so, that feature the
     private
     collection  of  the  film maker.  They were all exotics.  After the
     movie was
     finished,  as  some  sort  of  a  promotion  for it, they sponcered
     something like
     an autocross.  One of the actors in the movie was driving a Ferrari
     owned
     by  the  file  maker.  Coming into a turn, the driver looses it and
     hits a jersey
     wall.   It  didn't  look  like too bad a crash and if it had been a
     regular car, it
     looked  like  it  should  have  been  repairable.  But they said it
     totaled the
     Ferarri - supposedly a $1,000,000 car!
     My  understand  was that the car was carbon fiber, and the shock of
     the
     impact  was  transfered  through  the  body and trashed most of the
     strucutral
     pats of the car.
     Now  my  question  is  this:   Is this correct?  If so, I don't see
     carbon fiber as
     a  material for the main body/structural components of a car.  This
     would
     mean  that most wrecks were then totals for ther cars.  This should
     make
     insurance  go  through  the  ceiling, as if they aren't high enough
     already.
     John
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