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Originally Posted by 66olds442
This is the ONLY video I've ever seen where a modern car slices through an older car like butter. I have a strong feeling the entire engine and transmission was removed from the bel air.
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We don't build 'em the way we used to...........
THANK GOD!!!
Go watch the video again - the 59 Bel Air is a 6 cylinder........
How do I know?
Watch the last two shots - the 'right side' shot of the Bel Air - and the "overhead" shot - and note the air cleaner flying out of the engine compartment - it's a 6 cylinder air cleaner enclosure - not a V8.......... Yup - engine and trans is in the car.......
We tend to talk about the old cars being 'tanks' - part of the problem is that 'crush control' hadn't been discovered yet.
Go look at the underhood of most modern cars - notice the 'notches' built in - that's done so that the hood will 'crush' in a controlled manager - helping to dissipate the energy from the crash. Put your Camaro in the air - and you'll find that the floorpan is designed to do the same thing.........and that's part of what makes modern day cars so much safer.
Earlier today, there was an announcement that 2010 was the lowest traffic fatality rate in over 50 years! (......and that's even more remarkable when you realize that there were substantially less autos on the roads back then......)
We have no plans to do something like that......esp. with a classic Camaro!!!!
We DID - about 20 years ago - produce a short film from the Milford Proving Grounds - and in there were some old test films.....but the film starts out with a modern day crash test of a 1920 Chevrolet impacting a solid wall at a relatively low speed - the entire body comes off the frame! The driver flies out of the door opening as the door flies off!