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Subject:Re: Vanagon crash safety - Final Answer!
From:Craig Rogers
Date:Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:18:49 -0400

LOL!
Sincerely,

Craig Rogers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Vanagon crash safety - Final Answer!

> One of the reasons for a "safe" rating on the Vanagon is the type of
driver
> they generally have.  Folks like you and me! ;-)
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DaveC" <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Vanagon crash safety - Final Answer!
>
>
> > >I'm sitting here with the images on-screen (clearer than in a 600dpi
> > >b&w printout).
> > >
> > >What Dave saw as the Volvo's hood is a reflection on the wet concrete
> > >beyond the car. The hood can be seen as a vertical remnant folded up
> > >against what was once the firewall. The entire front-end has failed
> > >and is an unrecognizable tangle of wreckage.
> >
> > Still not convinced re. the photos. No backside view, limited view
> > from where we can see.
> >
> > But I'm astounded to find this information on Folksam's (the Swedish
> > insurance company) web site: it rates the 80-91 Caravelle (that's the
> > same as our flat-four, right?) in the highest safety category.
> >
> > < http://www.folksam.se/forskning/trafik/sakra_bilar/bilListaengelsk.htm
>
> >
> > Right up there with the Chrysler Voyager!  :-#
> >
> > While it's only a mark on a chart, I am quite encouraged.
> >
> > Dave (I still ain't speedin' in a box like this, thank God)
> > --
> > Dave Carpenter
> >
> > Whatever you wish for me,
> > May you have twice as much.
> >
> > "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think
> > we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C.
> > Clarke
> >
>