[Camarodriver]

Gents/ladies,

I had a car accident with my Camaro, there is a full thread on that if you go see my post history. I still await my car back next week. I was really interested in this post of the new cutaway shots to see how my accident actually missed all the "major" stuff. In the end under the panels, it was only the front driver suspension that required full replacement as the wheel took most of energy from the crash. This is such good news as you can see my front steel bumper was untouched, therefor no frame/fork damage. There was a need to pull jut the front upper under panel area above the light pod, but I assume this did nothing to the long term driveability of the car.

Check out the hardened, low allow steel in the cutaway and compare it to my car. Untouched, WHEW! Thanks again It's also nice to know that the lower side impact beams are composed of Martensitic steel. I was unaware of this interesting metal, but here is a link I found about it on Wikipedia:

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Martensite, named after the German metallurgist Adolf Martens (1850–1914), most commonly refers to a very hard form of steel crystalline structure, but it can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by displacive transformation. It includes a class of hard minerals occurring as lath- or plate-shaped crystal grains. When viewed in cross-section, the lenticular (lens-shaped) crystal grains appear acicular (needle-shaped), which is how they are sometimes incorrectly described.[vague]

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eB