<VV> "Unsafe At Any Speed"/Group Corvair Comments

[Chuck Kubin]

Hey Bob and group,

About two years ago I saw a piece on car-oriented
cable show talking about the problem with the Mustang
gas tank. In a rear-end collision, there was a
distinct possibility the especially vulnerable tank
could explode. Since there was no steel forward of the
trunk, exploding fuel had nowhere to go but forward,
into the  passenger compartment.
While many cars allowed you to push the rear seat
forward from in the trunk, there's very little
structure aft of the Mustangh tank.  The films
surprised me--the Pinto had nothing on the Mustang.

Chuck Kubin

--- HallGrenn at aol.com wrote:


> 
> The infamous "drop in" gas tank on Ford's of the
> period is also cited (Fords 
> had a trunk with a stamped depression into which the
> gas tank was dropped with 
> a flammable fiber board covering to protect the
> sending unit connections from 
> luggage.  In a rear end collision (especially with
> the short rear deck of a 
> Mustang) if the Ford gas tank ruptured and was
> ignited, the gasoline quickly 
> burned through the open back of the upholstered rear
> seat into the passenger 
> compartment.

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