The November issue of Classic & Sports Car magazine has an article about the front impact test facility of the Motor Industry Research Association.
MIRA Engineer Roy Aston talks about the first crash test in 1964 (a Humber Super Snipe towed behind another car); the Rolls Royce Camargue prototype that the R-R people pleaded with them to get right; and the day in 1974 when they crash tested a Lamborghini Countach...
"I remember it well," smiles Aston. "It was quite exotic in its day but, though it may be hard to believe now, to us it was just another car. Nobody seemed concerned about the loss of a special car – in fact the only car I remember anyone thinking it was a shame to crash was a Morgan!"
I can appreciate that.
~iw
