Comment Re:Disheartening (Score 1) 520
Bullshit. To all the conspiracy theorists out there, why is the destruction of the car like, in Joan Claybrook's words, book burning? The value of a prototype would only be in tearing it apart to see how it was built.
Much more valuable would be the blueprints and mechanical drawings, the design documents. Most of all, how about all the footage of all those crash tests which show how the car performed in the frontal, front offset, rollover, etc. I'm sure citizen advocate Joan made all that government funded information public and shared copies of it all with the auto makers, the press and the public in general.
Joan was the NHTSA administrator under the Carter administration and had control of all this information. Where are all those fruits of my tax dollars? Someone needs to perform a FOIA request to get all this precious research in the public. Are you listening out there Consumer Reports? Perhaps a grand jury investigation into Joan and her cohorts is in order here.