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Originally Posted by LandQuail
With the backbone chassis, and almost no other steel structure, you'd probably be a goner. But Chapman never really much cared to think about that. His Gran Prix cars were built with such a mind toward weight savings that the fuel tanks were stressed members running on either side of the driver. Sir Stirling Moss crashed one at Silverstone (I think) and it "folded in half," according to Moss.
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Well who the hell cares about safety when you're driving a car like that?
At that time nobody gave a damn about safety. Dan Gurney's All American Racer didn't have seatbelts because he wanted to be thrown out of the car if anything happened because it had a magnesium chassis.
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