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General Banter => The Circular File => Car Talk => Topic started by: MasterBlaster on February 05, 2014, 09:09:45 PM

Title: 59 Bel Air vs. 09 Malibu crash test
Post by: MasterBlaster on February 05, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
Why trash that classic?
1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck#ws)
Title: Re: 59 Bel Air vs. 09 Malibu crash test
Post by: schwarcw on February 05, 2014, 09:35:05 PM
The crash dummy in the '59 Chevy gets effed up.  No seat belt or air bag, just a real bad time. 
Title: Re: 59 Bel Air vs. 09 Malibu crash test
Post by: schwarcw on February 05, 2014, 09:37:35 PM
Quote from: Rest lame brats on February 05, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
Why trash that classic?
1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck#ws)

This was probably a car from the "cash for clunkers" bail out.  Obama made sure nobody drove the cars traded in.  They were all smashed.  The Automobile Unions wanted potential used cars off the market!
Title: Re: 59 Bel Air vs. 09 Malibu crash test
Post by: MasterBlaster on February 05, 2014, 10:30:29 PM
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Why trash that classic?
1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck#ws)
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This was probably a car from the "cash for clunkers" bail out.  Obama made sure nobody drove the cars traded in.  They were all smashed.  The Automobile Unions wanted potential used cars off the market!
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Its an awful way to prove a point. This was a classic piece of Americana.
Shameful






Title: Re: 59 Bel Air vs. 09 Malibu crash test
Post by: RuralTom on February 06, 2014, 07:07:32 AM
Very interesting... after hearing for years about how much safer those big steel behemoths of the dark ages were turns out engineering and technology trump the big heavy steel bodies.