On Sat, 11 Nov 1995 10:08:21 -0400 (EDT), Erik W. Burtis wrote:

> There is a junk yard that near me that has a 73 that was involved in a 
> head on, don't know the speeds but it held up well.  There was still 
> enoungh room for legs down by the petals.  i was also in a bus that was 
> hit head on by a person doing 40-50 mph, we were doing about 5-10 mph and 
> the frame was only crimpled slighly, of course the sheet metal was 
> damaged badly.  they seem to do well farely well, at these speeds anyway.
> Erik Burtis
> 71 Westy

I have this Dutch EV Brochure on safety, it covers the safety-aspect-evolution
back to '68. There are some action pictures on baywindow crashtests, there is
one that shows a baywindow, airborne, bouncing back of a frontal collision
with something, dono what the speed was, but imagine a Bus coming off the ground...
The cabine of the car was entirely intact, the frontbumper support (post '72)
seemed to have done what it's supposed to, the entire front became flat.
Seeing this picture gives me a safer feel driving a Bus.

Brian.