Bob Hubbard
Dedicated LVC Member
The thread on this theme was kind of long so I wanted to add to it in a new post.
I won't describe the two worst accident I have ever seen except to say, they both ended in be-headings.
The point I want to make here is this.
I looked at the pictures posted in that thread and, one thought comes to mind.
What is wrong with the design of these vehicles that they would be completely split in half in an accident?
These are not the first time I have seen one of these small cars splt in half as the result of an accident.
Take a look at my 59 Continental.
I don't think any thing short of a bomb could split my car into seperate halves like the car shown in the thread.
These cars built(and I use that term loosely) today, are nothing more than rolling death traps.
The metals and plastics offer no protection for complete structural failure in an accident.
I remember a few years ago, there was a horrible accident on the SanBernadino freeway in Los Angeles involving a semi trailer truck and a Continental MKV and a car carrier, travelling east , just outside the downtown area.
The Mark v hit the car carrier in the rear, causing the rear car on the carrier, loaded on the top rails, to roll of the top and land on the mark v.
The mark v sustained damage to the front from the windshield forward but the driver was still able to escape from the vehicle by crawling up through the moon roof.
It was a herific accident but, the mark v being of heavy metal was more than likley the determining factor why the driver lived and sustained only minor injuries.
From the windshield to the rear, the mark v wasan't touched.
I can only imagine what the resutls would have been if the car were a product of the last ten years of manufacture.
It would have to have been scraped off the freeway with a bulldozer.
Give me the heavy metal cars of the past any day.
I would much rather have 3 tons of steel protecting me front and rear as oppossed to 2 lbs of rubber and plastic on todays cars.
I won't describe the two worst accident I have ever seen except to say, they both ended in be-headings.
The point I want to make here is this.
I looked at the pictures posted in that thread and, one thought comes to mind.
What is wrong with the design of these vehicles that they would be completely split in half in an accident?
These are not the first time I have seen one of these small cars splt in half as the result of an accident.
Take a look at my 59 Continental.
I don't think any thing short of a bomb could split my car into seperate halves like the car shown in the thread.
These cars built(and I use that term loosely) today, are nothing more than rolling death traps.
The metals and plastics offer no protection for complete structural failure in an accident.
I remember a few years ago, there was a horrible accident on the SanBernadino freeway in Los Angeles involving a semi trailer truck and a Continental MKV and a car carrier, travelling east , just outside the downtown area.
The Mark v hit the car carrier in the rear, causing the rear car on the carrier, loaded on the top rails, to roll of the top and land on the mark v.
The mark v sustained damage to the front from the windshield forward but the driver was still able to escape from the vehicle by crawling up through the moon roof.
It was a herific accident but, the mark v being of heavy metal was more than likley the determining factor why the driver lived and sustained only minor injuries.
From the windshield to the rear, the mark v wasan't touched.
I can only imagine what the resutls would have been if the car were a product of the last ten years of manufacture.
It would have to have been scraped off the freeway with a bulldozer.
Give me the heavy metal cars of the past any day.
I would much rather have 3 tons of steel protecting me front and rear as oppossed to 2 lbs of rubber and plastic on todays cars.
