brightspark
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you hear people say. they don't build them like that anymore THANK CHRIST
Doesn't look to bad apart from the headlight alignment.you hear people say. they don't build them like that anymore THANK CHRIST
Of course, folks were tougher back then........................
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No side impact bars or bags then, but then again getting hit by a locomotive it wouldn't make much difference.
Where any of those British?
I fell across a book in an American second hand book store late one night - pictures of car crashes from the early 20ths century. Timber frames, plate glass windows, no belts, no padded dash, etc - rather gory in places!
Where any of those British?
I fell across a book in an American second hand book store late one night - pictures of car crashes from the early 20th century. Timber frames, plate glass windows, no belts, no padded dash, etc - rather gory in places!
Would echo the sentiments above, cars, radiator badges, buildings all suggest American cars. That being said English cars would have faired no better, wooden coach work made them no more crash resistant than a kids bogie. One of the main injuries sustained by drivers of old cars was being impaled on the rigid, unforgiving steering column.Where any of those British?
I fell across a book in an American second hand book store late one night - pictures of car crashes from the early 20ths century. Timber frames, plate glass windows, no belts, no padded dash, etc - rather gory in places!
When waiting for my Stratos replica to be SVAed 20 yrs ago, there was a bloke importing Hindustani cars (Indian built Morris Oxford) and they were failing due to the "greenhouse glass" in the windows, as the tester put it . .