Procon-TEN/'88 5kcstq

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Wed Apr 24 00:38:47 EDT 2002


At 11:35 PM -0400 4/23/02, Huw Powell wrote:
>  > The real danger in type44 cars is side impacts; the ONLY side impact
>>  protection is a strip of metal in the outer trim piece(yeah, you read
>>  right.  Body trim piece.)  Side impact protection is a total joke in
>>  our cars.
>
>Strange, I thought I remembered removing a pretty impressive aluminum
>I-beam sort of thing from the drivers door in an '87 5k I once was
>disassembling...

Really?  I don't think I've ever seen this...I guess I stand corrected.

   Hmm...well, I'll know soon enough when I finally get around to
fixing the door lock.  Whole door has to come apart, practically...

Brett
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