"jim beam" <spamvortex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Zeppo wrote:
>>>>> When you "park-by-touch", as many do, it matters little...
>>>> And in 1968 you could park by touch with little fear of leaving a
dent.
>>>> Even a casual brush these days can cause thousands in damage.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, 30 years ago I could parallel park my 36' motor home a lot
easier
>>>> than I can parallel park any of the 4 cars I drive today. Part of it
is
>>>> age, part of it is lack of practice. Most places I go these days have
>>>> parking slots or valets.
>>>>
>>> Back in the 60s, American car bumpers are heave duty steel, perhaps
>>> about 3/16" thick. 5 mph bumper crash, no problem. 5mph bumper crash
on
>>> new cars, maybe over $10,000 in damages.
>> I had a '71 New Yorker that had a bumper that was the entire back of
the
>> car. I was rear-ended by a '78 Buick doing about 25 mph. It left a 2"
>> dent in the center of my bumper that was not even worth fixing.
>>
>> If that same car had rear-ended my '06 Accord, it would be totaled and
>> I'd have been hurting.
>>
>> Jon
>
> i wouldn't bet on that.
>
> http://bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINICooperVsFordF150/
>
> what's im****tant is that the passenger cell doesn't collapse. 70's
> detroit may take the small knocks, but for the big stuff, it only good
at
> making hamburgers.
This only indicate crashes into immovable objects like a tree or a 1,000
ton
boulder. A train wouldn't do too well either cra****ng into a 1,000 ton
boulder as compared to a Mini Cooper but a head on crash between a Cooper
and a train, I'll take a train, or even a F-150, any time.
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