

| Subject: | Re: CHAT: VW Safety |
| From: | Joseph F. Fournier II |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Sep 1995 11:22:46 -0500 (CDT) |
Just thought it would be interesting; didn't really expect to see much substance. Anyway, wasn't Nader the same guy who spoke up against the terrors of marachino cherries? Forget those nuclear test sites and biological weapons....it's those d*mn cherries and volkswagens that will do us all. Probably the Germans had planned to send over transporter-loads of marachino cherries before Nader came to the rescue...I wonder if HE ever inhaled? 8) Joe On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Mark Janello wrote: > Ah yes, the Small on Safety Thread again. This was one of Nader's > diatribes against autos. It includes such scientific tests > as ramming a Ford Galaxie 500 into the back of a '56 beetle and > being amazed at the results. It also refers to buses as by > far the most unsafe vehicle of any kind on the road, based on > statistics that show it involved in more single-car accidents > than any other. The theory being they get blown off the road > or the swing axles were unsafe. My counter theory is that there > is just a small chance (in 1971) that maybe some of those people > driving buses had been, uh, stoned or something. > > Probably also didn't have the first ed. of Muir to tell them > to replace their swing lever pin bushing (which I'll be > doing this month :( I'll make sure to keep off drugs until then). > > Mark > mjanello@umich.edu > '62 Kombi (not in an accident in '71) > ---------------------------------------------------------- Try the BASIS Web! - - > URL=http://cavern.uark.edu/BASIS/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Joseph F. Fournier II <jfourni@comp.uark.edu> 501.575.7353 <a href="http://comp.uark.edu/~jfourni/"> Joe Fournier</a> ----------------------------------------------------------
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