Bomb proof Audi

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <199702152323.SAA25821@coimbra.ans.net> Daniel Hussey writes:

>        I was watching a cool show this morning called "Beyond 2000" and they ha
> d a segment on it about how this place armor plates cars and makes them safe fo
> r people who have a price on thier head or something.  Anyways, they showed the
> process of how they made a MB 600SEL bullet-proof.

The chairman of the Deutsche Bank was killed by the Red Army Faction on his way 
to work one morning.  He drove past what he thought was an innocent bicycle but 
it turned out the frame had been packed with plastic explosive.  These 
armoured 600SELs became quite popular after that.
 
You may remember, in the very early 1980s, the US garrison commander's car was 
hit by a rocket near Wiesbaden.  It penetrated the car just behind the rear 
door and exploded in the trunk - he survived without major injury because the 
car had been armoured.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club