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Re: Thinking about death
Posted by spiv (more from spiv) on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:59:08
In Reply to: Re: Thinking about buying a Sonett, zingZACH, Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:24:17
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Don't think of it as an unsafe car, think of it as a really safe motorcycle!
Actually, the body of a Sonett isn't exactly "all fiberglass." On the III, at least, there's a heavy steel tube bonded into the windshield header for rollover protection, along with steel blade reinforcements bonded into the door arches. On late '73s and '74s, the doors have square tube steel side-impact beams built into the doors; these attach on the bottom of each door to a flat hook that ties into a crossways reinforcement point in the steel floor.
No, it still doesn't have the crash resistance of a current-model car, but it's still a lot better than most small sports cars of the same era.
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