• dhork@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    the “saucer car” was “designed and built… from a cut down 1991 Geo Metro”.

    Maybe not…

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      3 hours ago

      At least the geo has a driver’s airbag, crumple zones, disk breaks, shoulder belts, and dash and steering wheel that won’t turn your face into ground chuck, and a rear gas tank that only a Pinto would love.

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        3 hours ago

        Drums in the rear, if I remember right. And power nothing. Old friend of a friend had one and I got to drive it for curiosity’s sake.

        A family member who did fatal accident reconstruction would quip that ‘technically yes, but the crumple zone involves you’.

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          2 hours ago

          Oh yeah, I’m not saying they’re safe, I’m just saying the my classic car is a really cool looking death trap.

          I ended up totally updating the breaks with disks because I was tired of starting a block away to stop at a red light.