Date:         Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:51:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Vanagon crash tests and spare tires
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
Comments: cc: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com
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Wow, good stuff, and it does end up on it's feet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_AfCFQR2M  Here is an old one from
Vanagon.com in case you've missed it where a Volvo loses the contest:
http://www.vanagon.com/info/safety/volvo-crash/index.htm

Note that the fully inflated spare tire is part of the front crumple zone.
Don't leave home without it and check the pressure once in a while!

I feel better about having my kids and grandkids using it now.  They are so
spoiled by their ABS, ESC, 72 air bags or some such thing they look askance
at my old Westy, even though they grew up with one just like it.
Unfortunately for them they are used to borrowing my previous EVC.

Stuart
'85 Westy (exceeds federal crash standards for 1985)


At 12:25 AM 6/28/2012, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>one.  It's just there to keep gas from being sucked into the engine if
>you end up upside down, and if that happens I'd be dead anyway.  Anyone
>figured

Not if you've got your belts on.  Take a look on YouTube for the factory T3
tests including the Westy rolling over seven times - you can see it flex
above the beltline every turn, but it still ends up looking pretty similar
to how it started.  I think it may even have ended up on its feet, can't
remember.

Yours,
David