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.
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.
January 18th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Why would they waste such a nice Bel-Air?
January 19th, 2010 at 9:49 am
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.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:13 am
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.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:32 am
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.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:54 am
It’s definitely the whole “crumple zone” cage that protects the front end of the Malibu.