Hi Jim,
Nice story....but are Volvo's basically Tanks????
And they float???
Charles.
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> Nothing about politics to follow, here… Just my personal experience with weight.
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> Might be hard to follow, because of the European brand cars mentioned, but being who I am, I just thought it might add up to the subject.
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> My first car was a 20 y.o. (then) Volvo 144, back in the early eighties. Tough car, they’re still driving around, here. It weighs a lot, I don’t know exactly how much, and that doesn’t matter so much, here,
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> Once I came back from an exercise with the Marine Corps in Northern Scotland. I had to drive a lot there and it so happens that they’re driving on the left side of the road. Takes some time to adjust to that, and safely take a roundabout, but then you’re fine.
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> I’ll beat the crap. When back in The Netherlands, my friends took me for a night out. In my own car, and I was driving, of course. Having a busy conversation with my four passengers – maybe politics? LOL! – I didn’t pay enough attention, and at a roundabout I took a left turn, as I was accustomed to do in Scotland. There came this brand new Zastava (Yugoslavian Fiat). With it’s left front fender, the Volvo hit it right in it’s radiator. The Zastava was totalled. After we bended the fender back off from the wheel, we could continue our night out.
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> Maybe the weight of me and my friends added in, with us all wearing “The Fonz” leather jackets, but definitely the Volvo weighing more then twice the Zastava counted! We hardly noticed the impact and neither of us was wearing seat belts. No injuries at both sides.
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> Still feel very guilty for having caused this accident. Luckily, my insurance paid for everything.
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> Whenever driving one of my Doggies around, I’m always aware of the risks and take extra precautions in my driving style.
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> I do have the seat belts with gold forward look logo on them, but still haven’t installed them…
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> Jim, The Netherlands.
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> 1957 Dodge Lancer D500 x2
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