Pulled from another forum I frequent, pretty amazing....
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was 50 years old in 2009. As part of their commemoration of the event, they staged an offset crash test between a 1959 Chevy Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu. If you are a classic car fan, you might not want to watch this video of the crash demonstration. They have many different camera angles covering the crash, including cameras in the vehicles..
http://www.iihs.org/video.aspx/info/50thcrash
Both cars were going 40 MPH. I was surprised that the cars weighed nearly the same: The Bel Air weighed 3620 lbs and the Malibu weighed 3514 lbs. The Bel Air was 211 inches long and the Malibu was 192 inches--almost 20 inches shorter.