[Tony Hunt]

There are two things that worry me about a GT40 crash:
1. What happens when you hit something designed to withstand impact from a taller vehicle. ie the possibility of taking the car off at about windscreen level against something really solid like the side of a truck. . . .
2. The amount of front crushing that takes place. I wouldn't have liked to have had my feet and legs anywhere near front wheel area of that car. GT40s don't have crumple zones!
The lesson here, as with all high performance cars, is to do everything possible to use the agility of the car, its superlative acceleration, roadholding, cornering ability and braking, to stay out of trouble in the first place.
I don't think crash survivability is that high, and I am aware of driving much more defensively in my 40 than when hammering around in the family Sludgemobile.
Should cars be crash-protection boxes, like Volvos, brick-built s***houses, like 4WDs, or crash-avoiders? I think the two former categories give a false sense of security, and have always personally opted for the latter, so far, with no major accidents.
OK, some Jeremiah is going to flame me for being irresponsible, not wanting to take elementary precautions to protect the car's occupants and so on, but that's not the point of this present discussion. I'm all in favour of crash survivability being built in, but if you did that to a GT40 it would look like a Volvo!