[1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test] (Viewer #1,895,922)
Don’t quit this one early. There are lots of different camera angles, and they save the over-the-shoulder cam for last.
[1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test] (Viewer #1,895,922)
Don’t quit this one early. There are lots of different camera angles, and they save the over-the-shoulder cam for last.
That was impressive and a bit surprising. The difference in damage to the two driver compartments shows how far engineering and design has come in fifty years! The Bel Air driver probably has a broken neck. The Malibu driver probable has broken eye glasses – if he wears eye glasses.
I used to teach drivers ed and used this clip, however the difference in curb weight is only like 200 pounds.
There must be an economic or political metaphor here somewhere. All the parts are there, I just can’t seem to put it together.
I was thinking the same thing. Eisenhower’s America (the man who warned against the “scientific-technological elite”) collides with Obama’s America.
That ’59 was my first car…..
*snifff
A little bit unfair (and fairness is all that matters) the ’59 has 50 years worth of rust that you can see in the big cloud when they hit. I’ve seen old cars that look like that on the outside but underneath you could put your hand through the frame, I took my driving test in one! ’66 Ford Fairlane. Looked perfect but it was literally broken in the middle. When you hit the brakes, it would flex where the engine compartment met the body. It did it so much that the brake line (there was only one)broke on the very day I got my license and I rear ended a ’65 Fairlane. Boy did that suck. Very little damage but I was only doing about 15, not 65.
PS: the dummy driving the ’09 was texting right before the crash, that’s why he was on the wrong side of the road, the guy in the ’59 being 97 had nothing to do with it.
Sigh, 1979, the good old days……who’d have ever thought that would be possible.
This is very disturbing. Why in the world would you sacrifice a 1959 Bel Air for what? Old cars weren’t a safe? I’m half a mind to contact PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Automobiles).