<VV> Steering Shaft - Human Spear -- Safety

[Arthur Rollins]

The FIAT/Bertone X1/9 (rear, mid-engine format) has a front structure that 
reminds me of the Corvair. Between the passenger compartment and the front 
of the car is a deep, completely-open cargo well. Bertone designed the X1/9 
to meet crash worthiness standards that the U.S. government (a.k.a. Bunch 
of third-rate lawyers and other incompetents who can't get or don't want 
real jobs) was considering. The standards were to withstand a 50 mph 
head-on collision and an 80 mph rollover. These standards were not enacted 
at the time, but the X1/9 met them.

This doesn't mean the Corvair would meet the same levels of crash 
worthiness that the X1/9 does, but at least the frontal crush zone seems 
validated.

Paul