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Thread ID: 142213	2016-05-19 22:42:00	New Rego fees	Tony (4941)	PC World Chat

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1420744	2016-05-21 21:57:00	Well that's your preference and you are welcome to it. If I had the Choice between the Cambridge, an actual tank, and a modern car, and had to crash it into an unbreakable wall at say 70KM/H I'd take the modern car, because the other two are going to kill their occupants. The science is simple, the quicker you stop the more damage your body takes. A solid Vehicle that bounces of the wall means you stop basically instantly. You might as well be flying at the wall without a vehicle.	dugimodo (138)
1420745	2016-05-21 23:31:00	Have to agree with you Dugi. A head on crash in an Austin where the strength is only as good as the thickness of its rusty bits is a no no! Not picking on Austin particularly, most of the cheap pommie cars were the same. Ken	kenj (9738)
1420746	2016-05-22 00:16:00	Have to agree with you Dugi. A head on crash in an Austin where the strength is only as good as the thickness of its rusty bits is a no no! Not picking on Austin particularly, most of the cheap pommie cars were the same. Ken You seem to miss Dugi's point completely Ken :) He is saying if you run into a solid wall in a rigid vehicle like a tank or a Cambridge, you will be stopped pretty smartly and killed, ie you don't want strength, you want controlled crumple. Now if you had a rusty old Austin only held together with bog, then in a crash it would decelerate more slowly as the rusty panels crumpled and the forces on you would be smaller :banana :clap However, my 1953 Austin Somerset (in the UK) was built like a tank, no rust at all when I sold it in 1977. And to boot, that had been driven through winters when salt was freely spread over icy roads. When I drilled through the floor to fit seat belts, the swarf curled up as the twist drill 9/16" or 5/8" I think, drilled through the relatively soft steel, showing how thick the metal was.	Terry Porritt (14)
1420747	2016-05-22 01:52:00	I think the NZ cars were made using old baked bean and spaghetti tins. A mate and I started the first muffler business in Hawkes Bay in the '60s and we were constantly drilling holes in car floors to put new mountings as the old mounts were rusted out. God knows how some of them got a WOF :) A big industry here in the Bay was a local sheet metal working place that used to fold "Chassis weld on" bits out of flat panel steel. We used to do quite a few of them for WOF's. Another moneymaker was repairing where the rubberised underseal had been stone damaged and water had got inside and rusted out the floors. Bugger of a job though as it was a sod of a job getting off the rubber around where we were going to patch. Always a two man job, one to weld and one holding on to the fire extinguisher, :) Not all cars were rubbish, but a lot of the ones we worked on were. ;) Ken	kenj (9738)
1420748	2016-05-22 02:33:00	If I had the Choice between the Cambridge, an actual tank, and a modern car, and had to crash it into an unbreakable wall at say 70KM/H I'd take the modern car, because the other two are going to kill their occupants. Sigh. It's because of the accidents I've been I came to that conclusion. Did hit a wall at 70kph, well the pointy end of a side of motorway barrier thingy. The one that used to be on the SE Highway, it's been changed now. In friends old solid car. Neither of us hurt, big sword hole in front of car and split radiator. The one time I was ever injured was in a 1991 Corolla, at 35kph, hit another car in the side. Broke bone in my foot, friend had whiplash and her daughter had a broken sternum. The Corolla was ****ed.	pctek (84)
1420749	2016-05-22 05:16:00	I think the NZ cars were made using old baked bean and spaghetti tins. A mate and I started the first muffler business in Hawkes Bay in the '60s and we were constantly drilling holes in car floors to put new mountings as the old mounts were rusted out. God knows how some of them got a WOF :) A big industry here in the Bay was a local sheet metal working place that used to fold "Chassis weld on" bits out of flat panel steel. We used to do quite a few of them for WOF's. Another moneymaker was repairing where the rubberised underseal had been stone damaged and water had got inside and rusted out the floors. Bugger of a job though as it was a sod of a job getting off the rubber around where we were going to patch. Always a two man job, one to weld and one holding on to the fire extinguisher, :) Not all cars were rubbish, but a lot of the ones we worked on were. ;) Ken Yep I remember in quite a few of mates cars looking at the road go by when you lifted the floor mat. The trick was get it sorted before going for WOF ie bogging up stuff and spraying underseal over the bog. At least bog does not rust. Oh for a mig welder those years ago.I find rust repairs a doddle now days with a mig almost fun to do but not as much fun as sex.	prefect (6291)
1420750	2016-05-22 06:51:00	At nearly 74 years and for me, sex is the next number after five Pre, can you lend me your mig welder? Might be just what I need to spice up my life. :) Ken ;)	kenj (9738)
1420751	2016-05-22 22:24:00	Interesting... I seem to have stopped getting notifications for this thread although PF1 says I am still subscribed. Maybe I missed one and didn't check the post so it forgot about me - or maybe PF1 is clever enough to see that the thread has gone waaaaay off topic so decided I would no longer be interested. :)	Tony (4941)
1420752	2016-05-23 00:42:00	Aww Tony, just because it has gone on to two of man's greatest desires, sex and MIG welders. Hang in there man, beer hasn't even been mentioned yet. :) Ken	kenj (9738)
1420753	2016-05-23 03:39:00	I remember seeing a Mercedes 220SB which had a collision with an Army truck. The motor had gone under the car, the two front wings had folded inwards in front of the radiator. The amazing thing was that there was no broken glass & the doors still opened and close as they should. No one was seriously injured. I bought one of these a few years ago. It had a steel plate at an angle behind the motor to prevent it from hitting the firewall. The car also had a steel plate behind the back seat.	mzee (3324)
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