Coming from someone who forgot the greasey side down rule, slipped up
an enbankment, about 6 feet, up and over on the roof and both doors
opened, the roof was pretty much dead but this was well above safe
autocross speeds, this was an old BMW 325.
Some cars are safe, others... well.
Jeff
>
>
>Have you rolled Fiero cars on several occasions?
>
>I have rolled SAAB 96 cars in ice races on three occasions. Once
was the
>second occasion for the same car, and it was dandy. In each case,
the car
>had a roll bar. In none of the cases did the roof collapse enough
to touch
>the roll bar. The only reason I brought it up (Team.Net veterans
will
>groan, "Yet again!") is that Johns "definite" statement that any car
roof
>will collapse if the car is rolled is simply untrue. There are many
>different car designs out there. Some of them are capable of taking
a
>serious hit without collapsing. And they are not all new cars. The
first
>SAAB I had, which I rolled violently on two occasions, was a 1963
car.
>
>SAAB once took a 99, turned it upside-down and dropped it from a
height of
>seven feet onto a concrete slab. It didn't even break any glass.
Then they
>did the same thing to an Opel Manta. It flattened to the door
handles.
>
>Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
>Lotus Europa, VW Quantum Syncro, Chev Suburban
>LOON, TCVWC, MAC
>pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
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