<VV> Re: Exploding tanks

[J R Read_HML]

It was side impacts which would grab the filler neck and pull it back, 
rupturing the tank.  Not front end collisions.
At least that is what I recall.  Perhaps it was mentioned in "Unsafe"?  I 
don't recall now where I got that bit of information or even if it was the 
Corvair that had the problem - but I think it was.

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Later, JR


> drivers chest.    The car had hit a bridge abutment at speed.   It crushed
> the front of the car and wadded up the frame member where the steer gear
> was mounted (adding insult to injury, no pun,  to the collapsed steering
> wheel) and distorted the car enough to jam the doors but in spite of the
> massive damage to the front end, the tank remained undamaged and in fact 
> it
> was removed and used for something else.


>
> tony..