Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: new Flame topic: door locking Message-ID: <532@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 10:55:36 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.532 Posted: Tue Jan 31 10:55:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 04:35:44 EST References: <307@clyde.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 23 I don't know if this answers your questions, but I had a 1962 Avanti that had Mercedes "dead bolt" door locks. The locks connected directly to the roll bar over the center of the roof. The windshield was set to pop out if you came to a stop of some (I don't remember) certain amount of G forces. It could be kicked out easily also. Other features included the engine being mounted on a track system that shoved the engine under the car in case of a head-on and the steering column collapsed into the dash so it wouldn't stick you in the chest. I have always thought it was perhaps the safest car on the road. Oh yeah, they also introduced disk brakes for the first time on an American built car. My first try at using them almost threw me through the windshield. It was quite a change from mechanical stomp ons. The locks on the Avanti were designed to hold the door shut in an accident. It seems that in those days, quite a few people were being terminated by being thrown from the car in accidents. Studebaker went to Mercedes to get help on their designs. Bet you didn't know that Studebaker dealers also sold Mercedes in those days. T. C. Wheeler