History Antique Car Crashes

I saw these pictures on a site from over the ocean, and I thought yall might like to see them as well. The original site is located here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lls--spills-golden-age-American-motoring.html

 

Wear your seat belts.

 

cool picks

 

great thread. I have to agree with hotrod40 wear your seat belts i know first hand that they save lives ( mine )
I really like to post office one (retired mailaman). If that was done today the driver would be fired!

 

Don't think a seat belt woulda saved many of those. But I sense your being facetious anyway.

 

Nope flipped my pathfinder bumper over bumper on my way to work on black ice( 70 mph 5am sober) St Paddy's Day a year ago

 

Notice how many on-lookers are staring at the camera?

 

"They don't build them like that any more!" There is a reason. Bob

 

Here's a Model T Ford town car that could use a little straightening...

 

And to think that these were at about only 30 to 40 MPH!

Glad they don't make them like they use to.

 

Very cool pics...thanks for posting!

 

Doesn't anyone read Ryans blogs?

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=15442

 

Modern rig, sure. In those wrecks the driver would have had a better chance being thrown clear.

 

SOme of those "hangin off the side of a bridge by a rail" pics probably reulted in a hefty bill at the cleaners. Wow!

 

Thanks for sharing, I bet there were a lot of "packed underwear" in those situations.

 

Shame about the cars but.

 

From Frank Mack's cigar box of pictures,.......

 

How the hell did this model T break off that telephone pole without even bending the fender or breaking the headlight.

Oh yeah and I really want those wheels.

 

It's hard too believe some of those cars could go fast enough to do that kind of damage.

 

Lots of blown out windshields in these wrecks.

My great grandfather (the dad to the guy in my avatar) was killed in a highway wreck near Baytown, TX, in 1934 driving a 29 Model A.

When you hit a 28/29 Model A head on, the rear hood hinge pin snaps, driving the hood up over the cowl at an upward angle (following the cowl's contour) and then through the windshield, acting like a guillotine.

Not to be gruesome, but it removed the top half of his head.

Yeah....they don't build 'em like the used to.....there's a reason for that. We all need to be REALLY careful driving this old iron out on the roads in the midst of modern cars. Ours are at a distinct disadvantage.

 

The cars that we drive from the late 20's thru the early 60's, ranged from death traps to dangerous when new and are the same today as our mods ordinarily do not address crash worthiness to any great extent. Of course there were improvements over those years, but it is very sobering to see how flimsy those 20's and 30's era bodies were/are when directly impacted.

Ray

 

yeah...some of those bodies look like they just crumbled under stresses.