Well crap! Wife in a Car Accident.

[CSFJ]

Hold on I have a better on I just gotta find it.

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Found it

isn't his math wrong? wouldn't 120 into a stationary object be like two cars going head on into each other at 60mph?

 

[Honky Kong jr]

isn't his math wrong? wouldn't 120 into a stationary object be like two cars going head on into each other at 60mph?

Probably it’s still cool how it smooshed. You know how them Brits like to exaggerate

 

[CSFJ]

Probably it’s still cool how it smooshed. You know how them Brits like to exaggerate

lol, true. I could watch fords do this all day.

 

[Honky Kong jr]

lol, true. I could watch fords do this all day.

I have to see if I can find the Vanagon one. Hard to believe they even left them in the country.

 

[Honky Kong jr]

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Not sure if this was a prototype or what because other vanagon tests at 50 kmph werent this bad. I know the spare up under the front was integral to crash safety though.

 

[bucket]

Iirc, that was a show winning car prior to that too. All to prove that the older cars aren't safer than the new ones just because there was more metal in them. Pretty sad.

It's not a very fair comparison. It's an x-frame car and has vertical a-pillars too. A '65 or newer probably would have held up much better. Actually, I know for sure it would have.

 

[Honky Kong jr]

It's not a very fair comparison. It's an x-frame car and has vertical a-pillars too. A '65 or newer probably would have held up much better. Actually, I know for sure it would have.

I’m sure that’s why they used an X frame car. The general sheep society don’t know that so they get all goo goo eyed over the lifeless drivel on dealership lots.

 

[roundhouse]

I wanna see a 67-68 or a 74 caprice do a header with a new one


I’d pick the 74 as a winner

I will take real metal and mass over plastic crumple zones any day

Part of the problem with watching the crash tests are that they don’t crash the cars into other cars
Watch the video of the F-150 hitting an escort

If you smashed a 79 Chevy pickup into a brand new impala I think the pickup would win

If your vehicle needs airbags to be safe , you need a bigger vehicle ,
I will take Good steel, lots of weight , and quality seatbelts I’ve plastic anyday

I’ve seen lots of people lose arms and even get killed when the airbags blew in a low speed crash

To honk the horn , you mash ON the airbag

What’s going to happen to your hand when you are pressing against the airbag honking the horn at some tard pulling out in front of you , and you hit them and the bag blows ?

It’s going to amputate your hand .

 

[RetroC10Sport]

What did I do now????? I did this though....

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While that video pisses me off. They also used a rusted out '59.

 

[CSFJ]

While that video pisses me off. They also used a rusted out '59.

I have never heard that before. The car looks pretty good before the impact. I see the rust colored dust clouds coming out, now that I watch it again, but even when the renders pull away from the body it still looks new underneath them?

 

[Honky Kong jr]

I wonder if you crash 2 59s together does the frame still cut threw like a pencil threw paper?

 

[Snoots]

That was done by the Insurance Institute , not an independent and unbiased organization. There's no telling what they may have done to orchestrate that damage to the '59.

 

[Honky Kong jr]

That was done by the Insurance Institute , not an independent and unbiased organization. There's no telling what they may have done to orchestrate that damage to the '59.

What like setting off a small explosive charge on the Squarebody side impact test????????

 

[Southcoast85]

now you get to argue with the insurance companies

 

[Big Chip]

That was done by the Insurance Institute , not an independent and unbiased organization. There's no telling what they may have done to orchestrate that damage to the '59.

I have a book floating around somewhere and it is all photos of old cars that have been in accidents. I want to say it starts in the teens and the newest one was probably late 50's. Those cars didn't always fare well. The worst thing I saw was the plate glass they used to use. I don't know how you would keep from getting your face cut off on your way through it! Very dangerous stuff. The cars up to the 60's seemed to just spit the windshield out when you crashed. I guess that was so you could get a good launch toward your new life in a wheelchair?

I don't think the older cars are as safe as some people do but there is some satisfaction having a lot of metal around you.