Saw the aftermath of 56 Chevy vs 5 year old Mazda3

"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo) 09/22/2020 at 18:56 • Filed to: None

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Go with the Mazda if given the choice.

Looked like the 56 t boned the Mazda. Mazda was crunched and side airbags went off, Chevy looked about 2 feet shorter than it’s supposed to be. Just got home from the ensuing hour and 10 minute traffic jam. If pictures pop up, and no one was seriously hurt I’ll post them. I was driving, so rubbernecking/picture taking was not cool.

Be careful in your old jalopies out there,  Thank jeebus they don’t make them like that anymore. 

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 09/22/2020 at 19:07

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Hope everyone comes out of it alive, sucks, the '56 is my favorite of the Tri-5s

sony1492 > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 09/22/2020 at 19:08

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“I only trust real steel they were using back then, not this Chinsy plastic"

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > sony1492 09/22/2020 at 19:15

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And that’s a small but still contributi ng factor in the old farts dying off.

SiennaMan > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 09/22/2020 at 19:15

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The video does highlight the problem with the more beautiful cars of yester year, in a small overlap crash like that even a Mitsu Mirage would be better that the 50s car.

It makes me wonder how the mid 90s cars I pine after would fair.  They've not got as much safety gear, but the idea of airbags, crumple zones and passenger cages was starting to be accepted..

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > SiennaMan 09/22/2020 at 19:17

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Exactly, ever sat in VW bus?  you can see the back of the headlights from the driver’s seat.  They’re cute but no thank you.  (Yes I’ve crashed a rear engine car) 

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > SiennaMan 09/22/2020 at 19:28

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After pulling the door cards on my 99 Civic and seeing what was really between me and the outside world I had more faith in my Volvo 240, which isn’t really saying a lot 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ranwhenparked 09/22/2020 at 19:31

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I’m more worried about the C hevy driver,  the cooler a car is, the less safe.

facw > SiennaMan 09/22/2020 at 19:35

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Here’s a Nissan Tsuru (basically a 1991-1994 Sentra that was produced for the Mexican market until 2017) against a modern Versa:

And a standard crash test on it:

Long_Voyager94 > SiennaMan 09/22/2020 at 20:11

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I’ve seen the aftermath of a couple terrible crashes of 90s Mopar minivans.

After seeing the aftermath, I feel plenty confident in the worthiness of them in a crash regardless of what “tests” show.

SiennaMan > facw 09/22/2020 at 20:31

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Yeah , that’s not encouraging..

zipfuel > sony1492 09/22/2020 at 20:37

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Gramps should see the utterly mental steels we’re cooking with nowad ays: standard A36 mild steel yields at about 250MPa but the meanest advanced high strength stuff they’re putting into vehicle structures now is DP1180 which has a yield in the 1000MPa range (it breaks at 1180 hence the name). It’s literally four times as strong, old cars were made of tin pot metal by comparison.

WilliamsSW > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 09/22/2020 at 21:06

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Not good. No matter what gramps says, old cars are death traps. I love them anyways, but you gotta be real careful in them.

Hope they had belts in it. 

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Long_Voyager94 09/22/2020 at 21:14

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Chrysler really was ahead of the curve in the 90s whe it came to their vans. The were the first to engineer crumple zones into their vans and engineer the engine to drop under the van instead pushing into the passenger compartment 

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Long_Voyager94 09/22/2020 at 21:18

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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > WilliamsSW 09/22/2020 at 21:25

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I’m posting the new article right now.  Wasn’t kidding about the 2 feet shorter. 

Long_Voyager94 > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 09/22/2020 at 21:59

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That is utterly sad to see all those crashed vans.

Being 4 years ahead on crash standards is pretty impressive though.

fintail > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 09/22/2020 at 23:53

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The non-collapsible steering columns and metal dashboards might scare me most. Old cars might fare well in low speed incidents, but at higher speeds, no thanks.

At least fintails have crumple zones and some other advancements.