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  • pdub
    Colonel Turd Nugget
    • Oct 2009
    • 24542
    #1

    Crash

    Got this in the mail today, hadn't seen it before. Pretty stunning to me, really. I mean I'd never thought about it in these terms, but, ...wow.

    http://www.weeville.com/crash.wmv
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    • JOES66FURY
      Deputy Director Procrastination & Incompetence Dept.
      • Jun 2009
      • 12184
      #2
      Re: Crash

      they spent 100's of thousnds on that video, wasted a nice car and a classic car to prove what we already know...lets ask ourselves again why our auto companies are in the situation they are in....hmmmmmm...nope it escapes me ... but I will figure it out......
      If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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        • IRONHEAD
          #3
          Re: Crash

          wonder if they swiss cheezed the 59's frame first

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            • 67prostreet
              Superhero BangShifter
              • Jun 2008
              • 1971
              #4
              Re: Crash

              Hate to do this to you peewee, but that's been on here a couple times already.

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                • Brian Lohnes
                  Administrator
                  • Jan 2008
                  • 18784
                  #5
                  Re: Crash

                  Originally posted by IRONHEAD
                  wonder if they swiss cheezed the 59's frame first
                  Those are X-framed cars and an off-set impact like that stresses just how weak they are. That being said, I'm not going to argue that old cars are better or safer than new stuff.

                  Brian
                  That which you manifest is before you.

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                    • pdub
                      Colonel Turd Nugget
                      • Oct 2009
                      • 24542
                      #6
                      Re: Crash

                      Originally posted by 67prostreet
                      Hate to do this to you peewee, but that's been on here a couple times already.
                      What amazes me is that's the first time I've done that today. So far, at least.
                      Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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                        • 38P
                          Banned
                          • Jun 2009
                          • 5738
                          #7
                          Re: Crash

                          Originally posted by Brian Lohnes
                          Originally posted by IRONHEAD
                          wonder if they swiss cheezed the 59's frame first
                          Those are X-framed cars and an off-set impact like that stresses just how weak they are. That being said, I'm not going to argue that old cars are better or safer than new stuff.

                          Brian
                          Certainly not from a blanket standpoint.

                          But, excluding the beneficial effects of airbags, stability control, anti-lock brakes ('Yodas excepted, of course ;D), interior crash padding, recessed knobs, advanced restraint systems, and controlled crush zones, some larger and heavier older vehicles performed quite well in collisions "back in the day." For example, I recall my uncle was involved in a head-on crash at highway speeds in a massive 1960s Lincoln and escaped with only minor cuts and bruises.

                          Although the Chapter One pummeling of Chevolet's swing-axle Corvair got most of the press from Ralph Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed," GM's weak X-frame cars received some Naderite "love" in a later chapter. Nader's trial lawyer buds apparently supplied him with information about cases involving early production X-frame cars that reportedly broke in half in severe "T-bone" crashes. Thus the modern crash test results were hardly surprising.

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