<VV> Exploding tanks

[J R Read_HML]

I seem to recall reading that the Corvair tank was changed after (during?) 
the '60 model year run.  The EARLY Earlies had a filler neck (metal) 
integral with the tank.  It was redesigned with the rubber "coupler" so that 
the filler neck would pull loose rather than the tank rupture (in a 
collision) which occurred with the metal neck.  Anyone else that can verify 
this?  Perhaps I'm confusing some other car, but I'm pretty sure it was 
Corvair which had this problem.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu@roava.net>
>
> More people have been burned to death in Mustangs than in Pintos.    The
> Pinto "explosion" story was an over-reaction based on staged tests which
> were rigged to cause the Pinto gas tanks to ignite after the cars were

>
> The result was a reputation of exploding bombs on wheels and a huge recall
> which left a stigma on the Pinto that was undeserved.
>
>
> The worst case scenario footage is what gets shown to the committees...
> who see these catastrophic events and assume them to  be the norm rather
> than fringe extreme that they actually were.    Oh well...
>
>
> tony..