Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:14:03 -0700
Reply-To: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Recent Car Talk Shows
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I searched the archives using the google "site:vanagon.com" technique and found the photos of the vanagon-volvo crash test, and sent that to Car Talk.....telling them that the international vanagon community was here to "help" them sort out the truth of vanagon crash worthiness.
I also searched YouTube and found crash tests....including the "fill-the-van-with-concrete-and-wonder-why-it-folds" crash test, but never did find video of the one with the volvo.
Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Neil2 <vidublu@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Neil2 <vidublu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Recent Car Talk Shows
To: regnsuzanne@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 11:40 AM
I found the thread on the T3 crash tests. Is that the one to which you referred?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:
I thought I had the vanagon-volvo head-on collision video, but apparently I didn't save it. If someone has it and can send it to me, or maybe a link to the video on YouTube....I'll send it to Car Talk.
Thanks, Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Recent Car Talk Shows
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:00 PM
I perked up when I heard Click & Cluck knocking our beloveds because,
according to them, they're unsafe w/o airbags. Unsafe? I know seat belts
and airbags are great things to have. I never drive w/o me belt but I
don't
consider an airbag as
crucial to survival as a belt. Anyone disagree, with
data?
I was highly offended by some entertainer on the airwaves insinuating me
SaVannah is unsafe. One of yous gearheads need to send them the crash
videos we recently had going around here so they understand we're as safe
as
can be expected in a van of that era. I'll take a bald mid lifer in a
Vanagon any day over a young turk in a red coupe high on testosterone!
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ryan Alfonso <vangina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if you guys have been listening, but last week a woman called
> click
> and clack to check whether a guy who lives in his '86 westfalia is
"dating
> material" or maybe just a whacko. Pretty funny stuff. Well, that
same guy
> called in THIS week to discuss his van and what it's like living in
it.
> His
> question was, "can you retrofit an airbag into a vanagon?".
Great stuff.
> Seems those guys get a lot of calls about old VWs, eh?
>
--
Neil2
'82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
'86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
Nunquam Pendite Divendium
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Neil2
'82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
'86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
Nunquam Pendite Divendium
