[tcb] Re: Friday Vid
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
Your right. Somehow I must have clicked on the wrong link when I watched it.
It is the very same one.
"Gerald V. Livingston II" <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: That's the same
commercial clip that Will posted below on YouTube.
G2
sammie smith wrote:
> I have a very old video clip of an early crash test of a split window
> bug. Probably made in the late 40s, and it shows a split VW driven by a
> test driver off of a cliff probably 20 ft high. It goes end over end a
> couple of times and lands upside down on the roof. Several helpers run
> out, right the car, and the test driver drives off. Only apparent
> damage was slight dents to front and rear and the roof. That's an old
> factory film and it's probably out there on the net somewhere.
>
> */"Gerald V. Livingston II" /* wrote:
>
> I've done an end-over-end (not a side-roll) in a Beetle, on a freeway,
> at 70MPH, backwards. Changed the tire that popped off the rim, started
> the car, drove (most of the way) back home. Made it about 200 miles
> before all the tranny oil leaked out and the tranny seized up, motor
> still worked.
>
> Try that in a U.S. or Jap car.
>
> G2
>
> Will Wood wrote:
> > Do you think the guy got paid enough?
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl8x2qFPrc
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