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Wow, glad you're okay Marde. Remind you husband that he's a lucky guy. He has a cruiser chick with a good head on her shoulders.
I will remind him!!! Of course, I am pretty sure he won't forget it for quite a while!
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Wow, glad you're okay Marde. Remind you husband that he's a lucky guy. He has a cruiser chick with a good head on her shoulders.
Wow, glad you're okay Marde. Remind you husband that he's a lucky guy. He has a cruiser chick with a good head on her shoulders.
Marde,
The side glass is made of tempered safety glass in conformance with a Federal safety standard. The glass is under tension, which is why sometimes it makes a "pop" or bang sound when it is broken in a quiet setting. The glass is designed to break into small, roughly square fracture lines to avoid the long pointy shards that do so much damage with traditional glass. This type of glass is used in the LandCruiser's side windows, rear hatch glass, outside mirrors, sunroof and interior mirror.
The windshield is a type of glass known as laminated. It is a sandwich of outer safety glass, a stretchy clear plastic, and an inner safety glass. In a collision, it is designed to remain in place and help stop or slow down road objects. The plastic layer distorts and stretches, absorbing energy and slowing stuff down. That's one of the reasons you'll hear myself and others reminding people who have windshields replaced in their 80s to be sure the installer correctly glues the glass to the rubber seal, AND the rubber seal to the body. Glass installers like to skip this step and hop off to their next appointment. People die because of that laziness.
I'm glad to hear you came through this intact, and yes the 80 is a structural beast that figured heavily in that result. The $300 in extra fuel you pay for each year just came home to roost in preventing some serious and perhaps permanently debilitating injuries. What a great investment!
Regards,
DougM
Hey Marde, here's your new theme song!
She's Tough - Fabulous Thunderbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-_Fxb4lhw
Glad to hear your OK.
Hope you get all better.
glad you're ok.
any pictures of the honda?
And this is the very reason my wife only drives an FZJ80 / FJ62 / or her 3/4 ton truck. I myself was in a head on a couple years ago in a 87 FJ60 and i walked away with a bruised knee. Glad to hear you should be good as new here one day soon. Hopefully your next one will be another 80.