Uno de esos árboles llegó justo en un Volkswagen Kombi, golpeándolo justo en el medio, el resultado parecido a lo que sucedería si usted dejó caer una pequeña barra sobre una barra de pan.
La diferencia, sin embargo, es que una barra de pan no seguirá conduciendo como lo hace este autobús determinado y roto.
Resulta, sin embargo, que hay algunas ventajas de ser esencialmente una caja vacía, con todos sus bits mecánicos empujados en la parte posteriora de nuevo: a pesar de que este autobús tipo 2 refrigerado por agua después de 2005 fue destruido de manera efectiva, todavía es manejable:
Not just drivable, but it’s burning some rubber, too! Though that may be from partially-crimped clutch cables or what must be a very weird driving position now that the bus has been all origami’d.
If we look at a cutaway of a VW Type 2, we can see why this works:
This diagram is of an air-cooled one, but aside from some plumbing to get the water from that front-mounted radiator to the engine, it’s the same. The fuel tank and engine are all in a little unit back there, so the only things in the middle are control cables for clutch, accelerator, hydraulic brake lines, some wires, and, in the Kombi’s case here, those water lines. All pretty flexible, mostly.
So, a little bend in everything isn’t going to stop a determined driver, really.
I sort of hope they just make sure everything is safe, put in some new window glass, maybe rotate the seat, and drive this thing around just like it is.
It’ll be a big hit at car shows, I’m sure, and still useful for carrying, um, maybe oversized novelty boomerangs.
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