Unless I'm mistaken, the Ponton was the first chassis with crumple
zones and a rigid passenger compartment. the Adenauer was the last car
built with a separate chassis with body bolted on.
Makes Detroit's refusal to do anything to make cars safer look pretty
shabby.
Peter
Peter Frederick wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken, the Ponton was the first chassis with crumple
zones and a rigid passenger compartment. the Adenauer was the last car
built with a separate chassis with body bolted on.
Makes Detroit's refusal to do anything to make cars safer look pretty
shabby.
The Corvair had two lethal problems, one by design and one by pure
idiocy, I think --
to whit: the swing axle rear end was not protected against jacking, so
at very high side loads the outside rear wheel could aquire so much
camber that the rim would dig into the pavement. The resultant
Actually, I think it was 1953, along with unibody construction. They
have improved each rendition
55mph headon in ANY car you are lucky to be alive!
Peter
BillR wrote:
Steve MacSween wrote:
As to Mercedes, I assume you had tongue in cheek? Mercedes was the first
company to actually crash test vehicles (in the late 1950s or early 60s),
and it was a Mercedes engineer who patented the concept of automotive
crumple zones.
I was told that the '62
