On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Joseph F. Fournier II wrote: > Saw the book below the on-line card catolog for our library. Wonder if > someone was getting a little nervous about VW sales around '72? > > TITLE Small--on safety : the designed-in dangers of the Volkswagen / > Project editors: Lowell Dodge [and others] > AUTHOR Center for Auto Safety. Ah yes, the Small on Safety Thread again. This was one of Nader's diatribes against autos. It includes such scientific tests as ramming a Ford Galaxie 500 into the back of a '56 beetle and being amazed at the results. It also refers to buses as by far the most unsafe vehicle of any kind on the road, based on statistics that show it involved in more single-car accidents than any other. The theory being they get blown off the road or the swing axles were unsafe. My counter theory is that there is just a small chance (in 1971) that maybe some of those people driving buses had been, uh, stoned or something. Probably also didn't have the first ed. of Muir to tell them to replace their swing lever pin bushing (which I'll be doing this month :( I'll make sure to keep off drugs until then). Mark mjanello@umich.edu '62 Kombi (not in an accident in '71)
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