1973 Cadillac Commercial Chassis NHTSA crash test

[Paul Steinberg]

This needs no explanation........ I wonder how well the standard 1973 Cadillac's did in this test...


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7yMXYXQvE[/ame]

 

[Nicholas Studer]

It's not an NHTSA test. Someone crashed the car on 24MAY2013 according to the video. Looks European.

 

[Keith Snyder]

Test was carried out in Switzerland

 

[John ED Renstrom]

on a S&S body. the body did will you see the top fold at the b pillar on impact and come out of it on rebound. the only oops is the failure off the right hand hood stop to keep the hood from penetrating the glass. but it did not go in farther then the dash. love that flying skirt.

notice also that the doors did not buckle or the a pillar distort. the impact damage was all front end and chassis.

 

[Wayne Krakowski]

What would be interesting assuming a driver and passenger would survive,would be to place a simulated weighted casket in the back secured with regular pins, where if anywhere it would go, my experience would say the driver and passenger could face impact from a flying object, any thoughts.

 

[Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022]

From the experience of forty years of towing and accident recovery one of two things would happen The pins would shear off or the casket would jump over the pins. The partition would not be strong enough to resist the weight of casket and customer. The front seat occupants would be crushed between casket and dash.

 

[John Royark JR]

Im not sure about those days, but the newer coaches the casket would most likely not enter the drivers compartment. The partitions are pretty much a steel safety cage. There has been several bad hearse wrecks lately, and no mention of the casket hitting the driver.

 

[NJ Dorsey]

Lesson: Cars are dangerous, don't crash them, you will die.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

don't drive you 73 S&S head on into a brick wall at 35 mph and not expect to wreck it.

 

[Brian Austin]

This isn't so much an official test as it is an artistic expression. Note the credit at the introduction of the video. European artist Pierre-Alain Münger has crashed many older vehicles to create art, such as this poor Jaguar Sovereign.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=995_1349654668

The cars are crashed into a metal plate fixed to the impact wall, and the imact is recorded on the plate as an abstract work of art.

I could have sworn this was discussed on this board a couple of years ago or so, but I can't find anything.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

you are right it was. but somethings are worth revisiting

 

[Brian Austin]

(I wasn't complaining, mind you. )