From: Jim Webster (jimweb@simonides.prestel.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 01:25:32 PST
Cav43rdBn@aol.com wrote:
> I'm sure that everybody on the list has probably heard of the old
> VW Bugs having the magnesium engine blocks. They switched
> them to another metal (I'm not a VW buff....) a few years later
> into production, but the first couple years are potential fireballs
> awaiting.
Russian BMP-1 have the same problem - very comforting to the crew and
infantry I suspect :-)
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