Crash Test 59 Chevy vs New Malibu

[Tommy]

one reason the safety tests speak so much of the door lock holding is probably because of the roll bar material in the door. It is just one more thing to keep the car or truck intact. If the door of the malibu had opened, the front end may have been forced back further. They total alot more cars these days but they don't total as many of us these days...


Tommy

[njsteve]

Its not staged. That is the reality of old versus new construction methods.

The 59 was built like a tank, and since it was built like a tank there were no predesigned crumple zones that would take the impact and redistribute it away from the passenger compartment. In essence, the only crumple zone is the driver's body. Once the car hits and reaches its structural limits, it folds up into a ball of metal with no regard for the integrity of the passenger compartment.

Remember, the 59 was a body-on-frame design. All it takes to defeat that design is a hard enough hit to shear those front body-to-frame mounting bolts and then the shell takes the rest of the impact while the frame underrides the impacting vehicle. That is exactly what you are observing in the video.

[njsteve]

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I'm not buying any of it!! Looks like 100% staged to me. There is no way that a "Sherman Tank" like that 59 is going to crumble like that by being hit by that new Chevy.. I see lots of accidents in my job and this is just not going to happen!! Somebody "made up" this video....

Rich

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And by the way, the M4 Sherman tank wasn't such a great design for its day. It was known by those that crewed them, as "The Ronson" after the famous Ronson cigarette lighter who's advertising motto was "Lights the first time, every time." That was because the ammunition was stored in the hull section right up against the thin vertical slab-sided armor, right underneath the giant white star painted on the side of the hull, which made for a great aiming point. One hit and they blew up, killing the entire crew. Compare that to 50 years later, and the M1 Abrams which was designed for crew survivability with its extremely sloped active armor that deflects and destroys incoming rounds.

Fifty years of "crew survivability" design refinement makes a whole lot of difference in both tanks and cars.

-Cliff Calvin

[The Dude]

The 59 Impala was built with tank like materials, but not like a tank. Like I said before that front end is held on with maybe 10 bolts, thats the hood/core support/fenders. 10 bolts! Four for the bumper. You doubters think 14 bolts are going to stop that Malibu? That Malibu has welds for days on that front end, crumple zones, side impact bars in the doors, etc.

[m22mike]

This is gettin good...

[ktownkid]

How about the frame design on the 59??? "X" marks the spot.

ktownkid

[njsteve]

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The 59 Impala was built with tank like materials, but not like a tank. Like I said before that front end is held on with maybe 10 bolts, thats the hood/core support/fenders. 10 bolts! Four for the bumper. You doubters think 14 bolts are going to stop that Malibu? That Malibu has welds for days on that front end, crumple zones, side impact bars in the doors, etc.

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Quite correct!

[442w30]

Sometimes the facts don't get in the way of the naysayers.

[njsteve]

Right, you are Sir!

Next, they'll be saying there were preset explosives planted in the '59 Chevy by the leftover Roswell aliens that got freed by Bigfoots in late 1958, who knew, in advance, through the use of their Bermuda Triangle Magnetic Anomoly Generator that this particular '59 Chevy would one day be used in a crash test.

...or michael moor-on will do another fake documentary and just blame George Bush.

[x Baldwin Motion]

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Right, you are Sir!

Next, they'll be saying there were preset explosives planted in the '59 Chevy by the leftover Roswell aliens that got freed by Bigfoots in late 1958, who knew, in advance, through the use of their Bermuda Triangle Magnetic Anomoly Generator that this particular '59 Chevy would one day be used in a crash test.

...or michael moor-on will do another fake documentary and just blame George Bush.

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Please pass the fork, this one's done!