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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: new Flame topic: door locking
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 10:55:36 EST
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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