Date:         Mon, 4 Sep 1995 11:22:46 -0500 (CDT)
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From:         "Joseph F. Fournier II" <jfourni@comp.uark.edu>
Subject:      Re: CHAT: VW Safety

Just thought it would be interesting; didn't really expect to see much
substance. Anyway, wasn't Nader the same guy who spoke up against the
terrors of marachino cherries? Forget those nuclear test sites and
biological weapons....it's those d*mn cherries and volkswagens that will
do us all. Probably the Germans had planned to send over transporter-loads of
marachino cherries before Nader came to the rescue...I wonder if HE ever 
inhaled? 8) Joe

On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Mark Janello wrote:

> 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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