Posted by Pops1532 on December 22, 2012 at 07:11:09 from (98.227.131.18):
In Reply to: The Good Old Days posted by S2710 on December 22, 2012 at 04:21:42:
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I doubt the rust had much to do with it though.
Don't be mislead by that video into thinking those results would be typical of all old cars. The '59 Bel Air was chosen for the demonstration because it had an X frame. Google images of 1959 Chevy frames and it's easy to see why the car was so badly damaged. Clearly the '59 Chevy wasn't the safest car around. Not even in it's day. The makers of the video clearly had an agenda or they would have used a safer vintage car like a Ford that had a perimeter frame. It's a shame they destroyed such a nice car to further their agenda.
Reminds me of an old saying. Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.
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