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30-06 till i die, the greatest round ever! I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy! CEO of a Turdlike People: Turds & Tats Division... (per Ingwe  )
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It is an impressive video but I hated to watch the classic destroyed.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
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Never would have guessed the old tank would take the worst of it.
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Yeah. Would have figured that they could have hosed the driver off the dashboard and sold it to the next guy.
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Very impressive. Thanks for posting it Steve. We hear all the time how the old cars were the best, but this is proof. Proof otherwise.
Last edited by ColeYounger; 09/26/09.
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I would still rather have the 59 dammit, It looks like a car! And you are not supposed to wreck.
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I would have hated to do the body extraction after that much metal folded up and around it....
And, I hated to see the '59 destroyed.
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what a waste of a perfectly good old Chevy
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I would not have expected that result.
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To me it does not look like the Bel Air has an engine which certainly would fold up that large hollow area. Could just be my crappy eyes.
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Never would have guessed the old tank would take the worst of it. I had the same thought. Impressive.
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To me it does not look like the Bel Air has an engine which certainly would fold up that large hollow area. Could just be my crappy eyes. A text box at the start says that the cars are intact, no parts are missing.
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I would still rather have the 59 dammit, It looks like a car! And you are not supposed to wreck. Yup,..... +1 GTC
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To me it does not look like the Bel Air has an engine which certainly would fold up that large hollow area. Could just be my crappy eyes. Spoken like a true "Right Wing Extremist" No engine dittos,....... .........can Kool-Aid replace an engine block ? GTC
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I wonder if things would have been somewhat different had the collision been directly head on. The old Chevy had a body on frame construction. Catching it on the corner like it did in this test meant much of the force missed the most massive structures in the old Chevy, concentrating it in the sheet metal fender. The Malibu is a modern Unibody construction. I kind of wonder if the Bel Air would have wound up on top of the Malibu in a direct head on hit.
No question that modern cars do handle better and are safer than old. Also no question that a quartering/head on collision is possible in the real world.
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Hokay,......
drive around looking for wrecks?
what a life, that.
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I don't see to many quarter fender head ons. All the ones I see are straight head ons. I wonder how the tank would fair than.
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If the older car fared better in a true head-on crash......you'll never know (and you can bet they DID test that). Remember, the people making this video already KNEW the results they wanted to "prove" the newer "cars" they sell are better. Do you think it's possible someone might "massage" the test to show what they wanted???
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