Well seeing this is...well just wrong.
So Sad.
Jeff
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That's beautiful. It's possible to import a non-conforming car into the U.S., and have it upgraded to meet FMVSS by a registered importer, but they can't do it with a domestic Viper?? Come on.
Plus, if those are early cars, they're probably what, 1991? So they're 23 years old now? And EVERY vehicle older than 25 years old is exempted from FMVSS? Which means that in about 2 more years these vehicles are exempted!
Not just wrong, just friggin' stupid, IMHO.
Plus, if those are early cars, they're probably what, 1991? So they're 23 years old now? And EVERY vehicle older than 25 years old is exempted from FMVSS? Which means that in about 2 more years these vehicles are exempted!
Not just wrong, just friggin' stupid, IMHO.
In college the automotive department was constantly able to get brand new cars including Corvettes to work on. When the time was up they were required to video tape them being crushed. These cars were not allowed to get on the road.
The mechanics in the flight department used to get old aircraft from the military. They would fly them in, then crawl underneath and cut the wing spar with a torch so they could not be flown. Quite often these aircraft were required to be destroyed. In fact in an airport in Illinois I know where a group of good AT-6's engines and all were buried.
Bill Lear created the Learjet. Everyone knows that. Toward the end of his career he created the LearFan; a composite airplane which was suppose to change the world.
I would not say it was a failure but it the learning from the project made the airplane obsolete before it was done. After he died his wife convinced foreign Kings and dignitaries to sink several more billion in it and it collapsed. No surprise.
In the airplane industry designers go from company to company. The information gained form the Learfan went into the Beach/Raytheon Starship program. The Beach Starship was better equipped to be marketable but was still behind the curve and the support and liability exceeded the sales of the aircraft so Raytheon bought up all the starship they produced so they would not have to support them. I think 2 or 3 are still flying.
These airplanes were gathered up to part out, die.
This technology then into the Raytheon Premier with an all composite fuselage. It was still heaver then anticipated but it has become a marketable and serviceable aircraft.
You may remember Jack Roush coming in too slow and losing control of his in a landing at Oshkosh and walking away with a bloody nose:
The mechanics in the flight department used to get old aircraft from the military. They would fly them in, then crawl underneath and cut the wing spar with a torch so they could not be flown. Quite often these aircraft were required to be destroyed. In fact in an airport in Illinois I know where a group of good AT-6's engines and all were buried.
Bill Lear created the Learjet. Everyone knows that. Toward the end of his career he created the LearFan; a composite airplane which was suppose to change the world.
I would not say it was a failure but it the learning from the project made the airplane obsolete before it was done. After he died his wife convinced foreign Kings and dignitaries to sink several more billion in it and it collapsed. No surprise.
In the airplane industry designers go from company to company. The information gained form the Learfan went into the Beach/Raytheon Starship program. The Beach Starship was better equipped to be marketable but was still behind the curve and the support and liability exceeded the sales of the aircraft so Raytheon bought up all the starship they produced so they would not have to support them. I think 2 or 3 are still flying.
These airplanes were gathered up to part out, die.
This technology then into the Raytheon Premier with an all composite fuselage. It was still heaver then anticipated but it has become a marketable and serviceable aircraft.
You may remember Jack Roush coming in too slow and losing control of his in a landing at Oshkosh and walking away with a bloody nose:
After seeing how much money is being wasted on failed projects etc. it makes me think the money I wasted on that holley street avenger wasn't so much after all.
when I was in college, there was a starship based in KASH. man that was a cool aircraft. Kinda sad seeing them sit there rotting
The car pictured is a GTS coup which was introduced in 1996. The First vipers were roadsters introduced in 1992, so really, what is the fuss? I think the internet is overreacting. 
I helped a guy deliver stuff during the 80's in his 18 wheeler. We went to the F150 truck plant in Norfolk, Va once and they were off loading efi 302's that were involved in a derailment. But Ford were crushing the engines, because they did not want the liability for them since they were involved in a accident. There were two boxcar loads of em.
Jeff
Jeff
i think Chrysler made the right decision to crush the cars. if the cars are unsafe Chrysler needs to protect them self and the public