Chevy Test Crash: ‘59 Bel Air Into ‘09 Malibu

The results of this test crash performed by Chevy last years is simply mind blowing. See with your own eyes how far auto safety has come…

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5 Comments For This Post

  1. brian b Says:

    Why would they waste such a nice Bel-Air?

  2. kegger55 Says:

    Pretty incredible… especially when you think that the driver of the Malibu probably would have also been wearing a seat belt and that if there had been a kid in the cars, he would have been killed in the Bel Air because he wouldn’t have been in a car seat.

    Gotta admit it hurts to see a classic car meet it’s demise like this but probably no better way to demonstrate their point. Now, if it had been a ‘66 GTO, that would have been a different story.

  3. Overworked Says:

    The real surprise is that you can do that with a lighter weight car. The gas mileage on the new Chevy is wildly better than on the old one, primarily because the old one was supposedly much heavier.

    Dang, not EVERYTHING was better in the old days, despite the classic beauty of the land yachts.

  4. Roadlizard7 Says:

    I always thought the ’59’s were particularly ugly with those curved horizontal fins, especially compared to the classic styling of the ‘55-’57 models.

  5. tommyzman Says:

    It’s definitely the whole “crumple zone” cage that protects the front end of the Malibu.

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