people your freaking me out with videos like this.. did not see the crash dummy
whats up? LOL

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
>Sent: Jul 5, 2006 5:01 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Vanagon (DoubleCab) Crash Test Video
>
>I saw that crash  test a couple of months ago when it was posted on The
>Samba.
> It was posted after a series of photos depicting a 45 + 45mph offset
>frontal crash between a Westy and a Chrysler minivan. The Westy driver
>walked away, the Chrysler people went away in an ambulance.
>
>Don't get me wrong, I don't think the VW was repairable, but it wasn't
>flattened either.
>See it here:
>
>http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175672
>
>It cheered me up tremendously!
>
>Jake
>
>On 7/5/06, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> At 03:38 PM 7/5/2006 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote:
>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8&search=vw%20bus
>>
>> Woof!  So there is a crush space after all.  Too bad we're sitting in it.
>>
>> This certainly shows the limitations of the "hard front"
>> philosophy.  Do you know the test conditions?  Instructive to compare
>> this with the photos of the Folksam offset-headon test against the Volvo
>> wagon.
>>
>> It's always made me a bit queasy to know that the design philosophy
>> in effect was to turn the other vehicle's crush space into a shared
>> resource, trying to save my life at the expense of the other
>> guy's.  This really brings it home in a wrenching way.
>>
>> These vehicles -- seriously -- need airbags.  Big ones, facing
>> out.  With a thiotimiline trigger.
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>>
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>--
>Jake
>1984 Vanagon GL
>1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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