Date:         Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:44:24 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon crash safety - Final Answer!
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>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