It's the major selling point of SUVs!! LOL! The SUV saftey argument is easily debunked. According to the National Highway traffic Saftey Administration (http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov) the majority of acc
So you would rather be in a small modern car with .032 steel and crumple zones as the 49 Packard proceeds to drive right over/thru you thinking he must have just hit a pothole? Example... My son just
that's the ticket! chuck. -- Original Message -- From "Rick Fisk" <rickfisk at concentric.net> To: "Charles F. Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>; <type79@ix.netcom.com> Cc: "Spridgets" <spridgets@auto
pan american carerra? spelling may be wrong(but what's new with that where i'm concerned) chuck. -- Original Message -- From "Paul A. Asgeirsson" <Pasgeirsson at worldnet.att.net> To: "Charles Christ
A 49 Packard is a tank, same for my 52 Plymouth Cambridge Club Coupe. The Physics that cover this is F=MA (force=mass times acceleration). Or for you engineering challanged folks "crumple this you li
<<Or for you engineering challanged folks "crumple this you little airbag zone.">> AGREED, Crash!!! Favorite vehicle I own to be driving in "traffic"??? '70 Camino !!!! A] It AIN't gonna "bend"!! B]
Actually, momentum - P = M*V (1st derivative of kinetic energy - 1/2 M*V^2). If the car is not accelerating, meaning velocity is constant (even 150MPH), mathematically the force is zero. The momentu
Don't tilt your head back so much when you knock those 'lites' back there, ED, and you won't get neck pain. Might not stop your fingers from going numb or keep you from falling out of the car, but mi
No, no, I want a '50 Studebaker Starlite coupe. That bullet nose is just too Jim K. --Original Message-- From Kent J. Miller <Bushwacker4 at prodigy.net>
Why do people seem to forget that people ride on the inside of the car? All this proves is that the vehicle is a better WEAPON than a smaller car. If I was going to put you in a box and chuck you dow
Trevor is right. A motorcycle helmet would be useless if made of iron rather than engineered from a material designed to break BEFORE the skull does. I remember a motorcycle dealer telling me that a
Ahhhh, I'm pretty sure it was Pan American Road Race. Lotsa of famous racers running then, McGriff, Vukovich, etc. There were also Healy 100's in the line up. Hudson won in the NASCAR circuit with Ma
Nope, sorry Frank, according to Toby, if you are in a tank and hit by a styrofoam Miata, you are toast and Ken and Barbie walk away unscathed. RH...still trying to figure out...yet Iwant to be in the