[El Sordo]

I like how they labeled the cars.

Just so we don’t get them mixed up.

[Vaquero]

I’ll take the ‘59 Bel Air...anyday. Its a crime to destroy a classic to let Government Motors prove their stupid little point.

I’ll let the sissy sisters worry about crumple zones, air bags, and the like.

[screaminsunshine]

Wonder how that Malibu will be doing in 2069?

[mkjessup]

I think they should have asked the Dear Comrade to drive the ‘59 Bel Air.

[Bryanw92]

I wonder if the driver of the ‘59 would have just avoided the wreck because he did not have a Nav system, satellite radio, cell phone, Blackberry, or a handful of fries to distract him while driving.

Also, back when people thought a car crash would KILL them, they tried much harder to avoid them. Now, they just figure they can walk away and sue for soft tissue injuries later.

[the anti-liberal]

In a contest between the Bel Air and a Smart Car(t), which would prevail?

Remember, just recently someone died in a simple 35mph roll-over in a Ford Focus.

[frithguild]

Bel Aire driver fared far worse than the Malibu

[Reaganez]

I will take the 09 Malibu any day.

I will let nostalgic retards drive the death trap from the 50’s.

Rebuild tranny every 30k miles. Rebuild engine every 60k miles.

Planned obsolescence. No thanks.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

 

My brother had a 59 Bel Air. Two tone green and white. Those fins! Oh, what a car!

 

(memories....) 

 

[Just another Joe]

What a terrible way for that Bel Air to die.

They could have given it to me and I would have given it a humane feath by mileage.

On another note, the only reason the guy in the Malibu would have survived is due to the air bag.
So in 50 years, they invented an air bag.

Hoorayyy </sarc>

[taildragger]

Precursor for the new Apparatchiks confiscating these clunkers without safety and emissions devices not to mention the evil Capital Gains many restorers have enjoyed by not declaring the real worth of these cars

We must redistrinbute the wealth !

Sarc off....

[Sudetenland]

Yeah but it doesn't say anything about being cool!

It's better be cool and dead than alive and uncool. :)

[HKMk23]

What really sticks out in my mind is that there are people walking on this planet who are SOOOO FRACKIN’ STOOPID that they’ll destroy a classic automobile JUST to get their rocks off about safety.

They breath our air.

They eat our food.

They vote.

They may even reproduce.

God save us all!

[onemiddleamerican]

That’s a terrible, terrible crime; killing a 59 Chevy like that.

[svcw]

The first car I bought was a ‘59 Chevy. It was a flipping tank. I am suspect of the video.

[blackminorca]

This is bogus - there is not seatbelt in the Chevy - thats why the driver would have died.

Actually, I am surprised that the Chevy came out as good as it did - I expected a lot more from the crumple zones, etc of the modern jelly bean.

PS - the Chevy’s ladder chassis might have made for a far different ending in a head on.

[OKSooner]

An old classic car like that is not a modern transportation car, but it is a CLASSIC car.

Anybody who would deliberately destroy one like that ought to be whipped.

[reagan_fanatic]

Give me the ‘59 Chevy anyday.

[mysterio]

They should have given me the ‘59 instead of destroying it.

[1010RD]

Kinda puts the lie to Detroit steel.