Re: [FWDLK] Crash Test: 1959 vs. 2009
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Re: [FWDLK] Crash Test: 1959 vs. 2009



Even with an X frame, the front rails (where the impact was) and sheet metal are fair superior to the beer can thick crap we use today. The only advantage that the Malibu has (other than safety features) is Unibody cars are designed to absorb the impact throughout the body, not just at the point of impact, but I've seen cars hit at low speeds crumple like that Malibu. Break out the old driver's ed crash movies, the 60 MPH crashes (with 50's cars) never disintegrated like that Chevy did.
Adam Lindenbaum
 
In a message dated 10/19/2009 6:20:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rwhelansr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I think our Forwardlook cars would fare much better. Note
that GM went to a perimeter frame in "65 after the ill fated experiment with the X frame.
                                                            Dick W.
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Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Crash Test: 1959 vs. 2009

I work on new cars everyday and yes the safety equipment is definitely a plus, crumple zones, seat belts (which all of my old cars have installed), collapsible steering columns, air bags, ect. but there is noooo way in hell that new Malibu (which by the way I'm a Body Shop manager in a Chevy dealership, I've had them apart), could rip thru a full frame car like that. I'd put that '59 up against two new Malibus and throw an Aveo in just for the hell of it.It's a "Look how safe we make you, now give us your money" ad. Next thing you know the cry-baby a$$holes will use that video to push their clunker bills. What a bunch of B.S.
Adam Lindenbaum
An eye-opener of a test, but couldn't they have proven their point just as well by destroying an UGLY old car instead, like a '59 Lincoln?   : ^)

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On Oct 19, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Fr. Ray Ball wrote:

On the 50th Anniversary of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.
 
1959 vs. 2009 in a crash test:
 
 
Would a Forward Look car fare any better? 
 
 
Ray from NH
'58 Belvedere
'59 Star Chief

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