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Crash Test 2009 model Vs 1959 model

The X frame years.
Depending on the rocker panel to keep you safe.
 
Todays cars are designed to handle a crash. Cars of the old days weren't. I like my legs intact and my spine unbroken but I still drive old iron.
 
Whats the speed of the vehicles when crashing?
 
I was a motor cop for 16 yrs in Vegas investigating car crashes. I would take the crumpling of a modern car over the rigidness of an old car in a crash any day. Is the modern car totalled, yes. But your body isn't. By the rigid old car body not giving, the physics of "body in motion, stays in motion" gets delivered to your body.
 
diesel_lv said:
I was a motor cop for 16 yrs in Vegas investigating car crashes. I would take the crumpling of a modern car over the rigidness of an old car in a crash any day. Is the modern car totalled, yes. But your body isn't. By the rigid old car body not giving, the physics of "body in motion, stays in motion" gets delivered to your body.
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But im rather dead then a serious cripple for the rest of my life, though.
 
Ya, this has been around the block a thousand times already. What still shocks me is the amount of rust that blows out of that old car even though it is pretty clean looking.
 
crash safety has come leaps & bounds

I still love driving that old Iron, far better

I drive a newer 4x4 truck, maybe the airbags may save me
 
I was rear ended at about 5 mph in my 1971 Falcon. No damage to my car, the bumper bar and lights were wrecked on the modern car that hit me BUT geez I felt that crash, right through my body. It was like being hit by a slab of concrete.
 
Contemporary cars, and light general aircraft, have had 40+ years of research into human impact tolerance, and modulate the crash forces to the driver + pax bodies. You are MUCH safer in a crash in any modern car, regardless of size, than in our beloved MOPARS. A break point is 68, the year the Feds required some energy absorption, dual braking systems, etc. Next time you are at Pick n Pull, or your favorite parts yard, look at crashed cars: you will see intact passenger space, and completely deformed front ends...the force that formerly would fracture your sternum, bruise your heart (YES!),or contuse (fancy word for bruise) your brain has been turned into friction of bending metal. Rigid bumper, rigid steering column = max force to your body. ASAP, i shall install shoulder belts in my 63 SF vert, as we did in our Piper Commanche. Easier in the Piper though...! And, consider the "packaging" of the human race driver body: Dale E would have survived his 150 mph crash if he had a HANS, to protect his spinal cord and neck. Suddenly HANS became mandatory in NASCAR. Formula 1 cockpits are molded carbon fibre inserts, produced from a mold of the driver's body. All for survival. Our cars will be lethal in a crash, even with seat belts. But, the main protection is shoulder belts, VERY tight, no inertia reel (which allows slack and contact with the steering wheel ) Airbags add little, if any, modulation of energy to your suddenly very scared body....! Invest in shoulder belts, and drive free of worry...well, almost...
 
Dad always made us wear seat belts but then would let us ride in the back of a pickup truck. He would just say "hang on real good".:realcrazy:
 
Me and my 3 Siblings would take turns driving while Dad and the other 3 siblings sat on the trunk and smoked a cigarette, while the dog ran beside the car. "Don't tell your Mother!". I was 6 or 7 when I got to drive...
 
Next time they need to find a rust free 59.. any car will collapes with weak rusty structure.. besides that was a very poor design for GM who in there right mined would put a X frame under a car that size..
 
#41 said:
What still shocks me is the amount of rust that blows out of that old car even though it is pretty clean looking.
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It was mentioned the cloud was dirt that was unable to be extracted during cleaning, not rust.
 
Riding in the back of a pickup on the freeway returning home from the "ranch" every Saturday (1960's). Crap was always blowing in my eyes.
 
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