Cosmic Charlie

1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test
car safety design has really come a long way
the 59 dash nearly hit the car roof - OMG
Ugh that beautiful 59 gave it life for science

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joe_padavano

leftlaneonly

Must of had the LS swap

rocketraider

Any fool should have been able to deduce a 50 year old car would lose that battle, and what appeared to be a decent 59 Chevrolet was lost in the process.

I always thought that video was propaganda for the anti-old car agenda, being as it was on the heels of that cash for clunkers obamanation along with the government bailouts and the 2008 financial meltdown. More than anything it was part of an effort to get people to buy new vehicles so GM and Chrysler wouldn't go under. Maybe if they hadn't been peddling overpriced **** in the first place...

There were rumblings of another cash for clunkers program last year, to jump-start new vehicle sales. DK if it ever got any traction; I really hope it didn't and doesn't.

I also don't believe carmakers made intentionally unsafe vehicles, as the Naders and other neeners and manic preachers of the world would have you believe. Safety design and engineering are an evolutionary process. Sure, government standards pushed them and that's a good thing, but you cannot discount human tendency and propensity to get the job done any way that works at the time.