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Old 03-25-2010, 02:02 AM
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Your welcome. This is really off-topic, but....

Also many do not know that GM was the first car company to offer airbags in their cars. From 1974-76 it was optional on the full-size Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs and it was not a driver-only system... it was dual airbags. Only about 10,000 were optioned with it though. My grandmother had a 1974 Oldsmobile Toronado with the option and I almost bought a 1974 Buick Electra once with the option. They also placed these in 1000 1973 Chevrolet Impalas as "test" cars. Then again in 1986, Ford offered it as an option in the Tempo / Mercury Topaz. Not sure why they picked Tempo/Topaz, but they did.

Of course MB offered it (driver airbag) as optional starting in 1984 on the 190 and S-Class models, standard on all starting in 1986. I think in some countries they had them as early as 1981?

Anyway, this is from the 1974 Oldsmobile book... at the bottom it mentions the airbags.... then, it was called, "air cushion restraint".

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/olds/74olds/36.html
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