LightBlue2222 Me, too, yes! It is so weird. When I was a kid, the seatbelts in our car tightened and stayed tight. I always tightened it as much as it would go.
I lived right by a highway as a kid. One summer day in the 70s there was a head-on in front of our house and was the first time we ever saw and heard of a life flight helicopter. I don't remember what the second car was, but in the early-seventies Corolla, the woman driver's plastic-rimmed glasses (those big 70s type) were embedded in the windshield with the ear pieces still extended in the wearing position, one of those things one never forgets. I don't know how, but she was still concious and asking about her baby. This was before people used baby seats, I had never seen one. I saw about a 10 month old in a nest of towels/blankets where she had it riding in the floor well behind her seat, most people didn't even take that much care then, which definitely saved the baby from serious injury or death. She lived in the community and I later heard she made a recovery and the baby wasn't even hurt. Glad they survived and will never ever forget those glasses.
The impact would be so fast you wouldn't feel anything. And if you survive, when you finally regained consciousness you wouldn't remember it...or who you are for that matter.
Just be glad this isn't an older car without the energy-absorbing steering column or the wheel could have jammed his head against the ceiling or penetrated his chest.
I recall as a kid (I'm 58 now) wrecked cars with the telltale head impact patterns often with a hole in the windshield. Gruesome really... Seat Belts are simple and effective.
Just binged on video crashes. I guess there is a video of hole in the windshield and the body launched 25 yards from the car. No seat belt. Driver died too. High speed racing gone wrong. Sad they were just kids.
It's not just forward impact that kills. I was driving on a freeway with tall shrubbery down the center median. A car suddenly burst through the bushes, rolling over and over. On one of the rolls a guy flew out the driver's window, straight into the air, higher than the 40-50 foot tall oak trees next to the road. His arms windmilled frantically until he reached the top of his arc; then he went limp and fell head first to the ground. The rest of the day was a blur. That was 1982, and I've never gone seatbeltless since, nor has anyone who rides with me.
So many people have been needlessly injured or killed not just because they were slack or haphazard about seat belts, but because they absolutely refused to wear a seat belt. It was 100% intentional not to buckle up.
Hmm.... top of the line high speed camera vs a Nokia phone camera. Meanwhile.. maybe compare a HD digital cine camera from 2010 to a 1970 Super 8mm film camera.
A lot of people don't know this, but it's thanks to Volvo giving away the rights to the 3-point seat belt to other manufacturers that the adoption of the seat belt became much faster and a lot more lives were saved. Think about it, they could've kept it for themselves for years and used it for marketing their own cars. Thanks Volvo!!! :)
@@r5t6y7u8 however, it's *Volvo's* patent and they brought it to automotive industry and gave the patent away *for free* to encourage other car manufacturers to install them *save lives* However, it wasn't any of the big American brands who crossed the margins and *thought outside the box* , it was swedes who did it! 😎
There's an old Spongebob episode where they used the scene with the dummy in the red shirt and they edited squidward's head onto the dummy's head when squidward crashed his boat. Never in my life would I have thought I would ever find out where they got that scene from...now I know...
@@jarofdelisauce2266 The test was actually simulating a frontal crash. Accelerating the car backwards suddenly causes the dummies to impact the interior of the car due to their inertia. It's a cheaper way of simulating the effects of a frontal crash because it doesn't harm the vehicle. The physics are the same but the car body can be used in subsequent tests. Quite useful if all you are interested in are the motions of the occupants. * Edit: if they were simulating a rear collision, the car would have accelerated forward and the occupants would have been forced into their seats.
It's amazing how hard people understand the simple physics behind a seat belt. I would send the same people on a roller coaster without protection, I would love to hear their argument.
Seat belt saved my life when I was 13 in a head on collision, it broke my collarbone clear in half, but I'm still here. It was the most violent thing I have ever experienced.
My father worked for Ford. He studied safety and car dynamics. Our 1961 Ford Country Sedan station wagon had SEAT BELTS. This was before any car had them. My dad ordered them from Delta Airlines (belt feed-through style) and securely mounted them. He INSISTED we wear them (and any other passengers). We got comments, “hey, this says ‘Delta’” but everyone wore them in OUR car.
@@robtyman4281 Volvo didn't invent seat belts first, they were the first to invent three-point seat belts. Tucker 1948, Ford 1955 or Volvo in 1959? Who is first , hm ?
I still remember when the idea of safety belts seemed idiotic. “The government trying to tell us what to do.” until one day when I was about 9 I watched my mom eat the stirring wheel of her Plymouth Duster in a low speed crash. She lived but busted 90 percent of her teeth. I’ve worn my seatbelt every since.
@@jasonpark5906 That's one of the points of conservatism, small government. But it's not about trusting the government. It's about trusting science (and history).
@@jasonpark5906 Of course! That's why you don't only listen to only one doctor or doctors from one company or country. Check multiple sources and the information that overlaps is most likely the truth. The science of vaccines and viruses and diseases like smallpox have been around for at least a century. The only new part about COVID is the innovations in mRNA vaccines. Everything else your local doctor probably learned about in Med school.
Fun fact: 3:16 was used for an SpongeBob episode in 2007, this clip will show Squidward's head replaced the dummy's head, and will keep the red shirt and black pants.
When Squidward first wears a sunglasses, he screams in danger as he crashes into a brick wall. 🧱🚙 Squidward: **giggles, then screaming in danger** (crashing, glass shattering) "Ow..." 🤕
In the 60's and early 70's GM used to use cadavers in crash tests, my dad was an Engineer for them then. When it came time to get my learners permit in 78 he brought home some of those films and made me watch them. Nothing like seeing a real dudes face (though he was a stiff) mashing up against the windshield before popping through, and the tests he showed me were at 50 mph. That was all it took to get me to wear my belts, even as an asshole teenager.
My mom had a really bad accident when I was 16...I am 58 now (she passed away 2 years ago). It was in 1977. She had a Buick Regal. She was side swiped. Did not wear seat belts. Her face hit the steering wheel...lost her front teeth, was thrown to the passenger seat and broke both her arms. She was really messed up and took a year to recover. To this day I still have a fear of a bad accident. Just glad we have safer cars now. Especially since my son started to drive a year ago. 😕. I researched so many vehicles and watched these crash tests, before buying a car. Most people probably think I’m overboard...I really don’t care.🤷♀️
That's not overboard, that's being intelligent, and the many that say you're being overboard are not. If the dead people from car accidents were given a second chance at life, would they research safer cars and wear seat belts? You have the opportunity to do what many would do if given another chance. I don't think that those people would think you're being overboard.
In the mid 70s when I turned 16 I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive. One night I decided to try out the lap and separate non-retractable shoulder belt. After finally getting the shoulder belt adjusted so it was fairly comfortable, I drove around a bit and was kind of surprised how much better I enjoyed driving the car being securely held in place. Pretty soon I was in the habit of buckling up both belts every time I drove. A couple of years later in college, a drunk driver in a Chevrolet Suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was securely buckled up, I walked away with minor cuts, scrapes and bruises from the belts. Far better that the un-belted drunk driver and his passenger. So, those earlier cars could be safe if you chose to wear the lap and shoulder belts. The problem was that very few people wore their lap belts and hardly no one wore the shoulder belts.
A collision is actually three parts. The vehicle hitting something. The passengers hitting something (dashboard, belts, airbag) and finally their internal organs hitting each other and the skeleton.
This is why we have crumple zones, airbags, and seatbelts today all working in conjunction. A seatbelt won't save you from internal organ damage if your car has no crumple zones
1948 Tucker had seatbelts; padded dash; and safety glass. The other car manufacturers claimed too expensive to add safety into the process. Tucker also designed his cars to be quick and easy to repair. even engine changes were to take only 30 minutes.
I bet a lot of people won't even know that there was a time before mandatory seatbelt laws. And like one of the titles in this film says, even when cars were required to have belts, hardly anyone ever wore them voluntarily. Fortunately for me, I always did, and survived a rollover crash in my 1971 VW Beetle in 1978 with only some scratches and aches. But even after that experience, my friends still ignored their own seatbelts. There weren't seatbelt laws till the 1980s, and that's what finally got people into them. Today, fortunately, most people wouldn't even consider driving without their belts on.
But is there really a need for seat belt laws. Most people are not wearing seat belts because the government forces them to. They are wearing them for their own safety. People wash their teeth and wash not because of law.
I think its because back in the 60s and earlier you really didn't have seat belt laws and some cars didnt even have seat belts. the 70s saw mandatory headrests due to the neck injuries and then mandatory seatbelts due to injuries sustained during a crash like the ones showed. if we didn't have laws requiring seatbelts they probably woudnt be worn but now its part of the law and a part of our lives.
hebneh I for one have always gave worn seat belts, as a child and certainly as an adult. It was something that was instilled in us by my mother, a nurse, who had seen her share of automobile accidents in the 1950's.
I started wearing my belt the year I became a pilot, 1989. Our deparmental head in my aviation program talked of how pilots always wear theirs in the cockpit, where a near miss from head on is considered coming within a half mile at cruise speed and altitude...and everyone has worked for months or years to accomplish the required training/testing/licensing. He then asked, "Why wouldn't you wear one in a car where a near miss happens every time a car comes the other way on a two lane road...and the other guy might not even be legal to drive?" Now we have airbags, ABS, better energy absorption, etc, but the seat belt is still a no brainer.
For those car enthusiasts (or the people who are grieving from the destruction), the sedan that gets demolished first against a wall is a 1975 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight
It is not just the high speed frame rates, I have read somewhere that in the 70s they had cameras capable of capturing videos in a quality which is equivalent of today's 8K resolution, yeah 8k is 4 times the resolution of 4k which itself is 4 times the resolution of full hd (1080p). I read some Japanese files had utilized that resolution in the 70s. Some kind of Samurai movie was that.
I never wore my seatbelt regularly until I took Driver’s Ed in school and then it became a habit. Twenty eight years later, I always wear my seatbelt and I make sure my son is strapped into his safety seat. Cars can be replaced. Lives cannot.
Damn, I'm coming up on 25 years of driving, and I can count the times on one hand I didn't wear my seatbelt (and once becase it broke, I remember that drive being very uncomfortable).
@@palco22 Skills got me out of a lot more crashes than I was in, so, yeah mostly skills. And luck too I guess. Not discounting seat belts - had I not worn them in September of 2005, I don't know if I'd be typing this.
@@the_kombinator Obviously all safety features built into todays vehicles are better than ever and with reason but are worthless if you consider the number one factor and that being the skills of the vehicle operator. I'm far from perfect (don't tell that to my wife) and I too was at 18 years old wild at times on the roads, granted it was another time (1960s). Honing driving skills is a never ending task. These acquired skills out perform any safety gadget found on a vehicle. Stay safe out there !
@@palco22 That's why I don't trust the nanny systems, nor do I have a car with any - my daily has ABS, I think that's it. Shoulder checks, safe braking distances, and constantly being aware of what's around you, the old fashioned way.
jan haugen it is actually better to be thrown out to safety the sitting left in the car! Many youtube videos proof this. I never use seatbealt nor my family and my children
I saw a '70 Nova at the junkyard with a bench seat. The entire seat was taco-ed in the middle. Obviously someone was in the back seat and not wearing a belt. They likely seriously injured their friends in the front. So many people think they don't need them in the back. Well, if you are the driver ask them to buckle up, it will save your life too!
In the days before seat belts were installed in cars it was believed that it was best to be thrown out through the windshield in a crash. Wouldn’t be trapped in a burning car. If you weren’t impaled on the steering wheel. People were critical of Ford in 56 when they installed seat belts, safety door locks and deep dish steering wheel.
Exactly. It was believed that a person might not have time to jump out of a burning car. Although, there were those who said: with a belt, you have a better chance of not getting seriously injured and leaving the burning car yourself.
my brother was a paramedic for 30 years and it was 1 in a million to successfully get ejected and survive. Unless you're next to a hayfield or a mattress factory, it's probably not happening. On the other hand, he never unbuckled a dead body (under 80mph crash, after that all bets are off).
@@bobd9868 I heard one of the youtubers was driving in the opposite direction on the interstate and head on crashed into another vehicle at 150mph. He was bisected by the seatbelt.
My parents had a '66 Baracuda, with me (and later my brother) in a little bucket-shaped "safety" seat that fitted over the rear bench seat. If we had been in a crash that thing would have shot me straight into the windshield like a little fleshy missile. Gotta love the engineering on that one. I've been in my fair share of accidents - always wear your seat belts!
I was 17 and was traveling between 65/70 mph my friend and I were now wearing out seat belts. I lost control of my car and hit a concrete wall. We both only had very minor injuries. One week later someone hit a wall at about the same speed and was killed instantly. I am very blessed that nobody has died. I am 1000% sure there were angels in my vehicle that day. I always wear my seat belt when I drive or I make my passenger buckle up.
0:34 - If you're in that crash in that car (70s Olds) and wear your 3 point seat belt, you're going to be hurting badly, banged about, maybe have some broken bones but you'll almost certainly survive. That car's safety design is 40+ years old, it's nowhere near as safe as modern cars, but that's a violent crash that just shows how important seat belts are. The dummies in that crash had they been people probably would have been killed, because they weren't wearing their seat belts. Today, with the modern safety features they have, you can open the door and walk away in most crashes like that one (35 mph into a wall) if you have your seat belt on, but even in a modern car, you're probably going to be killed or severely hurt in that same crash without a seat belt. Airbags can't function well without the seat belt. January 10, 2016 8:55 am
Been there, done that with a 1976 Chevy Nova. Belted in with the lap and shoulder belt. Walked away without a scratch. It only took a month to get the car back on the road.
+whattheheck1000 - You'd probably say the same about my '88 Lincoln LSC compared to some "modern and safe" car. Having flipped my airbagless car upside down into a ditch and walked away from it to tell the tale, there's not one "modern and safe" car I would rather do the same thing in. Had I been in a Corolla I'd be dead. Will never drive cheap modern plastic shit.
My first ever girlfriend died in a car crash and I was on the site before the police or any first responders. Her brother had a 71' Chrysler Newport sport. They go under a logging truck at 140km/h. No seatbelts would have saved them but driving properly surely would have. What I saw still haunt me to this day.
I still see the odd lorry over here without the "Mansfield Bar" - it wasn't actually a requirement to fit them until the 1980s, although American legislation has required them since the late 60s.
2:15 Was I the only one that thought, when he got into the car, he was going to be bad ass and drive the car into the wall himself at 35mph with his seat belt on?
0:23 For the sake of accuracy, the driver dummy in this particular car should've been wearing a fedora and plaid jacket, and the turn signal needs to be blinking (for no apparent reason).
Gotta admit When I was in my teens and driving my dad's old 1985 Chevy Van, I sometimes didn't have my seatbelt on cause it was a bit uncomfortable but that all changed when an idiot ran a Red light and almost hit me, I served so fast I ended up in a feild he in a ditch, that was a Wake up call for me so from then on I always put my seatbelt on.
Back in 1985 or 1986 my father had just brought over a grey market Range Rover/ Land Rover. The suspensions were so "springy" terrible. I was travelling probably 35 miles an hour and a girl made a left hand turn in front of me. Absolutely no time to brake I grabbed the steering wheel and through my body towards the passenger side of the vehicle. The Rover flipped rear end over, catapulted onto the roof and projected and slid probably twenty feet. I can remember the sound of all the glass exploding at once; the entire roof had bent over to towards the passenger side as my head and elbow just barely touching the ground. If not for wearing my seat belt I probably would not be here or badly injured for life. Her Mustang where I hit the passenger door basically the car was destroyed right up to the armrest; thank god no one was in that seat or that she wasn't hurt either; quite a miracle everyone walked away. Seat belts are a must use no matter what anyone says.
Car safety has come a long way since the 70s. However in the 70s seat belt use was extremely low. As a teenager I had a 1970 Buick Electra that had been my grandfather's. I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove. One night in 1982 I was coming home from college when a drunk driver hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra and the fact that I was securely buckled up with both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only bruises from the belts and minor cuts and scratches. This was far better than the unbelted drunk driver who had massive head and chest injuries from the steering wheel and the dash. You had to use the available safety devices that were in those older cars.
Just shows you how much safer today's cars are. Just a few months back, a guy I knew was driving along with his family and lost control of the car and crashed into a tree. No one was wearing a seatbelt. He and his kid died. Scary thing is, we actually owned cars like these at one point. In today's crash tests, they're no stronger than cardboard. Seatbelt or not, still never forget rule #1 - Do not crash your car and rule #2 Do not let someone else crash into your car.
+Kerry Clough Nash (American Motors) offered them in 1950. Ford Motor Company offered them in 1955. People didn't want them. It was only much hated mandatory seat belt laws that got a majority of people to wear them.
"DUR, I love my kid as well as I can but I'm in effect (though I don't know that) gonna make sure my 10 year old smashes his face against a glass wall!" People are sometimes just plain _insipid_ with stupidity, "herd mentality" goes against them there oh holy amazing grace lift us from this TAR PIT...!
And the particular car shown (1975 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight) also had as an option what was called the "Air Cushion Restraint system"? That's right,folks.....you could get Air Bags in this car!!! (Note: This car did not have that option.) 1974-76 88-98-Toronado. Have heard Buick had this in Le Sabres-Electras-Rivieras and Cadillac had it as well,and a few Fleet/Lease '73 Chevys that were R&D cars? (Which also have an Oldsmobile dash!!) But Air Bags were not a very popular option,many thought it was too expensive,and some say too unreliable? Have heard under 10,000 total sold over years offered.
Well I went right through the late 60 s and 70s sitting in the back of my Dads car without any seat belts and so I'd millions of other children . We all dodged a bullet there I think.
Yup even in the 90's we were in the back with no seatbelts, and we all used to fight over who would be the one in the back even with no seat coz it was so much fun rolling around with the car movement
This video showing you how great seat belts are. Now we have airbags all over plus seatbelts and better headrests and all of that only matters if the automatic braking system fails. Amazing how far we've come.
Yeah, road deaths and injuries are a fraction of what they were back then despite their being many times more cars now. Interestingly, up till the 1960s manufacturers focus was on survival of the vehicle rather than occupants.
You can argue older cars are built like tanks with their giant steel bumpers, and reliable as heck, but in a high speed crash there is no way I'd want to be in one.
They were safer than you think- if you wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts. As a teenager in the mid 70s I drove a 1970 Buick Electra and I was that rare kid that wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts when I drove. Of course, all of my friends thought I was completely nuts for doing so and usually I was the only one in the car with the belts buckled. Fast forward to coming home from college one weekend when a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both belts, I walked away with only minor cuts and scratches and bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted drunk driver in the suburban.
1975 Buick and Oldsmobile had optional driver side airbags. The driving public was outraged that something like that would be installed and made mandatory in future years. Took a while for public acceptance.
I've never ridden in a car that *didn't* have safety belts. And I always worn them. Never mind the law, it seems foolish to drive a car and not wear them. I've had my share of accidents where I'm glad I was wearing seat belts.
@@generalyellor8188 Yes in the US passenger cars manufactured prior to 1965 and trucks prior to 1971 do not even require a lap belt. Shoulder belts weren't common until 1968-1969. Any of these old vehicles that were not equipped can still be driven without them legally in all states, although I believe some states do ban transporting children in them.
mysock351C Which score? Americans NEVER EVER came close to making cars as safe as Europeans did, especially 30 or 40 years ago. Who the fuck cares who held a patent on what if they were not competent enough to make a safe car? As for those "first viable installations", don't make me laugh, those air bags were so badly implemented that you'd almost be better off without them. Those big boats from the 70's were like tin cans, large, but flimsy and very weak structurally. Trust me when I tell you this as a mechanical engineer, those cars had 10 or more times less structural rigidity than the worst cars of today have.
This has nothing to do with US or Euro (or japanese). Most euro cars of the 70s was pure shit safety-wise. Not many more brands than Volvo, Mercedes and Saab did more than was required by regulations. American cars was no worse than many of the euros...
I was in a head on car crash with a utility pole back in the late 1980's. I never used seat belts back then. i slid on ice and broke my jaw and knocked out 5 front teeth and was very banged up. After that i always had on a seat belt.
1:05 AAAH! A BRIDGE PIER! *swerves, crashes* AAAH! A TREE! *swerves, crashes* AAAH! A POLE! *swerves, crashes* OHH, FUCK! AN INCOMING CAR! *dives out the window with a tuck-and-roll*
@@styopaa.z I'm pretty sure he's talking about crashes probably in the 60-100kph range, or maybe even more depending on a crash, but if you go 200 kph and end up hitting a pole then nothing will be able to save ya
When I was 18 I was in a frontal crash, and had only a lap belt. I got a broken nose & a blowout fracture, but the belt kept me from eating the windshield!
I was 20 years old and driving a 1970 Buick Electra when I was in a head on collision. Fortunately the Electra had shoulder belts in addition to the lap belts and I was wearing both. I walked away with only bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted other driver who had massive head and chest injuries from the steering wheel. Seat Belts made a big difference for me, especially the shoulder belt.
They didn’t take into account once you add a shoulder belt. Now the head isn’t restrained which resulted in multiple basilar skull fractures. Airbags are a head and neck device to prevent basilar skull fractures or the brain getting ripped threw the base of the skull by the spinal cord. People think airbags are to keep you from hitting the dash or exiting the vehicle but side airbags protect from whipping the head from a side impact. The front airbag for front impact. And head rest for rear end and also for front as well to a certain point if you recoil back
Seatbelt pretensioners has been added to cars for a while to take up the slack of the seatbelt so your body doesn't accelerate for a brief period of time before coming to a stop by the loose seatbelt.
Glad they invented the lap and shoulder belt. I had a teacher tell us a story where her sister was in accident in the 1960s. A truck didn't yield the right of way at a stop sign and she hit the truck. She was cut in half by the seat belt.
I used to drive a two truck. I remember towing a crash that totaled both vehicles but they both ran. My teenage daughter never liked to wear a seatbelt so I put her in the back seat of I think a Monte Carlo and ran into another car on my lot at IDLE speed and she wound up on the rear floorboard. She was ready, cocky, and prepared to "just hold on". We were going idle speed and she never questioned me again.
It still has me absolutely confused to why some people still to this day dont wear seat belts at all ! I've actually heard people say that they're "Too uncomfortable" to "I'm too big to wear them" , Seriously ?!!
As a teen, I was driving a 1955 Chevy pick-up with no seatbelts, a metal dash, multiple sharp knobs on the dash, no air bags, a single master cylinder ... now as an "older" fellow, I have air bags, seatbelts with shoulder harnesses, a collapsible steering column, crumple zones, dual master, anti lock brakes ... I probably needed the technology as a dumb kid and didn't have it; now as a mature, seasoned, careful driver, I have all that technology. Seems backward =:-0 PS: don't forget, my '55 Chevy pick-up had 20 gallons of gasoline sitting right behind the driver's seat !!
A colleague of mine still today refuses to wear seatbelts. He claims that he feels restricted in his movement by them (I never wished to do any movement while driving that would be restricted by belts) and he also feels unsafe because he cannot escape the car quickly if it is burning. The arguments that cars almost never burn after accidents, but even if it would by some freak situation he will not even survive the accident to the moment the fire might get close to him without a belt were made to him, but he does not care. He uses a clothespin at the belt to keep it extended and places it over his chest without fastening it, so that police officers from the outside would think he was buckled in correctly and then he drives like that. All the time the car is beeping at him of course. He does not care, he just ignores the beeping. Even taking the safety considerations out of the loop, the beeping over hundreds of kilometers is so annoying, that I would fasten my seat belt after minutes. He drove like that from Germany all the way through France to southern Spain.
Hit my head against a 1960 NSU Prinz II windshield as a passenger when the brakes failed at maybe 5 mph. No injury. Years later, saw a Prinz II in a lot behind a 7-Eleven with a circular smash in the windshield. No doubt the driver was killed. The Prinz didn't have seatbelts.
Growing up in the 70s - 80s hardly anyone wore a seatbelt. But moving forward to 2023 hardly anyone drives without buckling up. What a change in culture.
My 73 Chrysler Newport and I came to a crushing stop. I was like most teenagers not bothering with my seatbelt. I whapped the windshield with my head. But I survived obviously. Oddly, the car was drivable enough that I drove it to a repair facility about 2 weeks later but the repair shop looked at it and said "hey, this is totaled". My car was about 15 years old and I didn't get what "totaled" meant. I thought it meant the car was smashed flat. He was obviously meaning what an insurance company would do. I just wanted a damn estimate but he wouldn't write me one. This is why I married a mechanic. He can do all this stuff himself. That car just got towed away by the city. I loved that car. Big land yacht with an awesome surround-sound quadraphonic stereo system.
I knew a girl from high school who was ejected from the car as a passenger and one of the wheels actually ran over her head and crushed it like a watermelon. It was a fairly minor accident, but her window was all the way down and she was very thin. I never used to wear my seatbelt until my late 20s, but now I always do.
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I have some 60s-70s auto magazines and in one of them, from 1972, there was an article on a Volvo experimental safety vehicule in which they said that "someday, in the future, you may walk away from a 80kph accident".
As far as damage to the car it is a lot less than on most modern cars, so I would disagree that the old cars are weaker. But they don't protect the occupants as well in a crash and that's what really matters.
Thankfully we now have so many more layers of protection today in the forms of airbags, pre collision, crumple zones etc. Looking at this video, even with the lap and shoulder belts, escaping injury seemed impossible.
When I was a kid in the 80's Belt was not necessary There was no traffic violation at that time Therefore, traffic accidents were fatal at that time American cars are very luxurious and comfortable But in terms of safety zero percent The best cars of the 80s Mercedes-Benz
Nobody wore seatbelts when I was growing up. I didn't start wearing them until 85 when I bought a car with t-tops. I remember watching a movie and the bad guy jumped in the passenger seat with a gun. He told the driver to start driving. The driver put on his seatbelt then drove the car into a stone wall. Of course the bad guy went though the windshield. The driver made a smart remark about wearing your seatbelt. Lol
there is another crash video somewhere of an old car where the seat breaks away, the door opens, and the occupants are thrown out - almost an ejector seat!
The problem with GM, Ford, and Chrysler back then was they relied too much on safety belts and not designing their land yachts with crumple zones. Huge long fenders with open space underneath offer zero protection in a crash. Mercedes and Volvo were decades ahead of the USA in crash testing and crumple zones and safety.
People got serious about wearing seatbelts in the 1980s and so did state laws. It is a good habit. Many people resisted being told to wear them with a threat of a fine. No telling how many lives have been saved.
Cars have made incredible leaps in frontal crashes since the 70's. Back then the whole cab caved, cars these days throw the energy around and out and the cab stays fully intact usually.
The cabin seemed to hold integrity fairly well especially considering that it was a pillar less 4 door hardtop. I don’t even want to imagine how badly it would have done on a side impact test
@@twoeightythreez It held well because it's a full frontal crash. If you take the same car and test with today's 25% small overlap test at much higher speed, the A pillar will probbaly end up touching the b pillar and the dash and steering wheel will be in your chest.
Christmas eve, driving back from Tampa. I told my morbidly obese bil, "buckle-up." slim replied "I'm in the back." My Mother ran a stop sign and put us in between the cab and the trailer doin about 60mph. We hit, got spit out and spun like a top. 02 Stratus in 3pcs. Thank god no one was seriously hurt. I will say this, fat man crashed into me and with the centrifugal force, we pushed the door out... Wear the belt...
I was driving a semi, at 3 am in Montana, came over a hill and ran into a herd of cattle. The truck rolled, and I was ejected. Somehow, I survived with a lot of internal injuries. 10 years later I fell asleep and rear ended a parked rig at 72 mph (the speedometer was stuck on 72) and crushed the steering column with my chest and stuck my head through the windshield. 15 years later, still picking glass out of my head, but I’m wearing a belt.
It's so hard to believe I never wore a seatbelt until I was maybe 14. My father never wore them. He said it was his right to never wear one and was mad as hell when it became law and then refused to, just to prove a point. I never really understood that. He still doesn't wear them.
My Brother in law worked at a volunteer rescue squad mainly for experience and my sister worked to get experience for her eventual nursing degree and career. Almost 40 years later he tole me something that rings true and I remember to this day. “I never unbuckled a dead person”. I think if that every time I buckle up. My first accident by physics should have been my last....(Fatal). Black Ice inexperience and bad luck. Black ice and slid into a telephone pole. Impact point was drivers B pillar in which the windshield popped out fell on the snow, windshield wipers fell to the dashboard and the peg that the linemen used to climb the pole pierced the drivers door. Another degree or two of slide or another couple of MPH Impact speed the peg could have pierced my kidneys. I shut engine off, assessed situation, did the ground evacuation and went across the street to call the Police. I was safe but of course vehicle was Totaled. This accident was in late 86 and the car was a mid 70’s Peugeot with probably state of the art safety for 70’s but probably wouldn’t have met mid 80’s Safety Standards. Safe but the part I felt real bd about is we had just picked the vehicle up from the mechanic the day before to get it winterized, water pump, coolant flush, oil change, etc..... My first car while I was out in California for the Navy was a 1979 Volvo. I believe 7 or nine series but a real nice one. Volvo has lost some of the safety competitive edge but I still think they are the safest overall vehicle design.
Back in 2001 we ran into a big electric pole in a Civic. The road was wet and apparently we lost control because the car didn't have ABS then. I wasn't wearing my seat belts and I was on the front passenger seat. The car also didn't have airbags and I lunged forward and hit the windshield with my head. I realized I was bleeding but it was only in the hospital that I knew that there's a piece of glass sticking in my forehead and they had to pull it out. Makes me cringe today when I think about it but I didn't feel anything back then when they pulled it out. My head was already numb, I guess.
Shows how important seat belts are. But this is different from a modern car with air bags, because yes, the seats belts will save your life in a classic car that has them, but that stiff metal body makes you take the force far more, especially in a body on frame, and you most likely still get internal injuries. It's scary. For me, because I once drive an '89 Crown Vic, I'll NEVER ride without the belts, as that's the only safety I got. But it's so sad so many people don't take seat belts so seriously, even with the laws.
Backing college in 1982, I drove a 1970 Buick Electra. It had the separate lap and shoulder belts- a total of four belts and two buckles and I wore both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove. One night a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size of the car and the fact that I was wearing both belts I walked away with only bruises from the belts.
Actually, newer cars are much stronger than older cars. If you watch a new car crashing into an old car, the new car will hold it's cabin way better than the older cars.
@@LITTLE1994 Especially if the driver and passengers were smart enough to wear their lap and shoulder belts. I am certainly glad that I was one of only a few that did buckle up both belts back then. They probably saved my life in that head on collision.
This, along with real footage of real crashes and real pictures of the real aftermath of those real crashes should be shown to every person who has ever been, and ever will be in a car.
All that cramped interior only makes for your body to crash into something that really should not be there anyway. I remember the interior of the Lincoln Mark V. The outside was indeed a large car, though not excessively large for the time. But the inside seemed to be bigger than the outside by the way it was arranged. Eight people could sit comfortably without having to ride around in an embarrassing minivan. I really do not know what possess people to buy those ugly things. They do not do good on crash tests.
Except that this beautiful car would have spent most of it's time at the mechanics (that is if you could get it started to drive it there). American cars from the 70s looked nice, but they were mostly crap.
I don't need all that leg room. I had a 2000 ford taurus with no cockpit and it felt weird having all the unnecessary free space. But i do wish they still use colomn shifters. (Only cop cars and most Trucks still use thoes)
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I feel weird without a seat belt. I like being held in all comfy instead of loose and sloshing around.
LightBlue2222 Me, too, yes! It is so weird. When I was a kid, the seatbelts in our car tightened and stayed tight. I always tightened it as much as it would go.
I ride the bus alot when I sit down i keep looking for the seat belt
thats the reason i never understand why that would make you look cool,the seatbelt makes your feel the car so much better.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
no seatbelt = fly
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I lived right by a highway as a kid. One summer day in the 70s there was a head-on in front of our house and was the first time we ever saw and heard of a life flight helicopter. I don't remember what the second car was, but in the early-seventies Corolla, the woman driver's plastic-rimmed glasses (those big 70s type) were embedded in the windshield with the ear pieces still extended in the wearing position, one of those things one never forgets. I don't know how, but she was still concious and asking about her baby. This was before people used baby seats, I had never seen one. I saw about a 10 month old in a nest of towels/blankets where she had it riding in the floor well behind her seat, most people didn't even take that much care then, which definitely saved the baby from serious injury or death. She lived in the community and I later heard she made a recovery and the baby wasn't even hurt. Glad they survived and will never ever forget those glasses.
Seat belts are for smart people. Don't be a dummy.
Mamo oh i get it
Mamo Yes, and that dummy Princess Diana has taught me that.
Seat Belts are required to kill warning beeps and lights. They take a split second to buckle up and your life is in good hands.
@@MrBakatsas good straps*
So funny!
I laughed as hard as a rock.
Faceplant into the windshield, how nice that must feel.
And he also hit the steering wheel so hard that he actually bent it.
The impact would be so fast you wouldn't feel anything. And if you survive, when you finally regained consciousness you wouldn't remember it...or who you are for that matter.
lol fuckin roasted
LIke washing your face with a cheese grater.
Just be glad this isn't an older car without the energy-absorbing steering column or the wheel could have jammed his head against the ceiling or penetrated his chest.
I recall as a kid (I'm 58 now) wrecked cars with the telltale head impact patterns often with a hole in the windshield. Gruesome really... Seat Belts are simple and effective.
Just binged on video crashes. I guess there is a video of hole in the windshield and the body launched 25 yards from the car. No seat belt. Driver died too. High speed racing gone wrong. Sad they were just kids.
It's not just forward impact that kills. I was driving on a freeway with tall shrubbery down the center median. A car suddenly burst through the bushes, rolling over and over. On one of the rolls a guy flew out the driver's window, straight into the air, higher than the 40-50 foot tall oak trees next to the road. His arms windmilled frantically until he reached the top of his arc; then he went limp and fell head first to the ground. The rest of the day was a blur. That was 1982, and I've never gone seatbeltless since, nor has anyone who rides with me.
So many people have been needlessly injured or killed not just because they were slack or haphazard about seat belts, but because they absolutely refused to wear a seat belt. It was 100% intentional not to buckle up.
Saw that on a 2000s Ford Focus in a junkyard a few years ago 😬
Still has better screen resolution than most videos from 2010.
Hmm.... top of the line high speed camera vs a Nokia phone camera.
Meanwhile.. maybe compare a HD digital cine camera from 2010 to a 1970 Super 8mm film camera.
It was a joke.
@@nikobellic5655 you sound like me. Lot of people get real uptight about these comments but they need to lighten up.
@@nikobellic5655 you want go bowling 🎳
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A lot of people don't know this, but it's thanks to Volvo giving away the rights to the 3-point seat belt to other manufacturers that the adoption of the seat belt became much faster and a lot more lives were saved. Think about it, they could've kept it for themselves for years and used it for marketing their own cars.
Thanks Volvo!!! :)
(In fairness, that wasn't Volvo's idea. They borrowed it from airplane pilots)
And it wouldn’t have been a big money maker for them anyway. How much money does the average consumer spend on safety?
@@r5t6y7u8 however, it's *Volvo's* patent and they brought it to automotive industry and gave the patent away *for free* to encourage other car manufacturers to install them *save lives*
However, it wasn't any of the big American brands who crossed the margins and *thought outside the box* , it was swedes who did it! 😎
А то без них бы не подглядели и начали ставить
Appreciated by Volvo driver. 😊
There's an old Spongebob episode where they used the scene with the dummy in the red shirt and they edited squidward's head onto the dummy's head when squidward crashed his boat. Never in my life would I have thought I would ever find out where they got that scene from...now I know...
ua-cam.com/video/4oHFpZDwvkU/v-deo.html "ow"
I find it ironic how Squidward suffered a full frontal collision, but the footage was actually showing a rear collision test...
@@jarofdelisauce2266 The test was actually simulating a frontal crash. Accelerating the car backwards suddenly causes the dummies to impact the interior of the car due to their inertia. It's a cheaper way of simulating the effects of a frontal crash because it doesn't harm the vehicle. The physics are the same but the car body can be used in subsequent tests. Quite useful if all you are interested in are the motions of the occupants. * Edit: if they were simulating a rear collision, the car would have accelerated forward and the occupants would have been forced into their seats.
I'll be dammed. That's hilarious!
Omg sameeeee
It's amazing how hard people understand the simple physics behind a seat belt. I would send the same people on a roller coaster without protection, I would love to hear their argument.
the argument on roller coaster: I know what I’m doin’
BRUH
How the hell did I fing YOU, Steelorse, on this video... I just wanna say, I’m a huge fan
Steelorse, keep up the amazing content on beamng and all the other things you are making!
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Seat belt saved my life when I was 13 in a head on collision, it broke my collarbone clear in half, but I'm still here. It was the most violent thing I have ever experienced.
My father worked for Ford. He studied safety and car dynamics. Our 1961 Ford Country Sedan station wagon had SEAT BELTS. This was before any car had them. My dad ordered them from Delta Airlines (belt feed-through style) and securely mounted them. He INSISTED we wear them (and any other passengers). We got comments, “hey, this says ‘Delta’” but everyone wore them in OUR car.
smart man!
They were optional since the 50s on all cars of the big 3. Ford advertised with them in 1955
Wrong. Volvo were the first car manufacturer in the world to have them in its cars. They beat Ford, and everyone else.
@@robtyman4281 Volvo didn't invent seat belts first, they were the first to invent three-point seat belts. Tucker 1948, Ford 1955 or Volvo in 1959? Who is first , hm ?
@@kamilkolmer5787 Volvo were first. Period. Don't even know who Tucker are???! They've certainly never sold any cars outside the US.
I still remember when the idea of safety belts seemed idiotic. “The government trying to tell us what to do.” until one day when I was about 9 I watched my mom eat the stirring wheel of her Plymouth Duster in a low speed crash. She lived but busted 90 percent of her teeth. I’ve worn my seatbelt every since.
A worldwide safety feature that is being misconstrued as a way to control humanity. Sound
familiar?
@@danieltakawi9919 I don’t think Americans like being told what to do. Most of us have been conditioned not to trust the Government.
@@jasonpark5906 That's one of the points of conservatism, small government. But it's not about trusting the government. It's about trusting science (and history).
@@danieltakawi9919 I can agree with that. Of course sometimes it depends on who is teaching the science and history. LOL
@@jasonpark5906 Of course! That's why you don't only listen to only one doctor or doctors from one company or country. Check multiple sources and the information that overlaps is most likely the truth. The science of vaccines and viruses and diseases like smallpox have been around for at least a century. The only new part about COVID is the innovations in mRNA vaccines. Everything else your local doctor probably learned about in Med school.
This is a brutal reminder of why its important to wear seatbelts. I dont even back out of my parking space until everyone has their seatbelts on.
CarbonCrossroads same or if I find out someone doesn't have their seat belt on , stop somewhere until they do
I don't even put the key in the ignition.
Same.
In the backseat a seatbelt is optional in my opinion, seatbelts are a must in the front
My family does the same. The car doesn't move till everyone's buckled up.
Fun fact: 3:16 was used for an SpongeBob episode in 2007, this clip will show Squidward's head replaced the dummy's head, and will keep the red shirt and black pants.
When Squidward first wears a sunglasses, he screams in danger as he crashes into a brick wall. 🧱🚙
Squidward: **giggles, then screaming in danger** (crashing, glass shattering) "Ow..." 🤕
Neat fact.
i came here because of that episode HAHAH
In the 60's and early 70's GM used to use cadavers in crash tests, my dad was an Engineer for them then. When it came time to get my learners permit in 78 he brought home some of those films and made me watch them. Nothing like seeing a real dudes face (though he was a stiff) mashing up against the windshield before popping through, and the tests he showed me were at 50 mph. That was all it took to get me to wear my belts, even as an asshole teenager.
Your dad cared about your safety. Hopefully you thanked him.
My mom had a really bad accident when I was 16...I am 58 now (she passed away 2 years ago). It was in 1977. She had a Buick Regal. She was side swiped. Did not wear seat belts. Her face hit the steering wheel...lost her front teeth, was thrown to the passenger seat and broke both her arms. She was really messed up and took a year to recover. To this day I still have a fear of a bad accident. Just glad we have safer cars now. Especially since my son started to drive a year ago. 😕. I researched so many vehicles and watched these crash tests, before buying a car. Most people probably think I’m overboard...I really don’t care.🤷♀️
That's not overboard, that's being intelligent, and the many that say you're being overboard are not. If the dead people from car accidents were given a second chance at life, would they research safer cars and wear seat belts? You have the opportunity to do what many would do if given another chance. I don't think that those people would think you're being overboard.
Look at volvo or subaru, safest cars on the road
Literally all u need is a seatbelt and car built past 1975
In the mid 70s when I turned 16 I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive. One night I decided to try out the lap and separate non-retractable shoulder belt. After finally getting the shoulder belt adjusted so it was fairly comfortable, I drove around a bit and was kind of surprised how much better I enjoyed driving the car being securely held in place. Pretty soon I was in the habit of buckling up both belts every time I drove. A couple of years later in college, a drunk driver in a Chevrolet Suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was securely buckled up, I walked away with minor cuts, scrapes and bruises from the belts. Far better that the un-belted drunk driver and his passenger. So, those earlier cars could be safe if you chose to wear the lap and shoulder belts. The problem was that very few people wore their lap belts and hardly no one wore the shoulder belts.
@@bldontmatter5319 That’s very much not true…
A collision is actually three parts. The vehicle hitting something. The passengers hitting something (dashboard, belts, airbag) and finally their internal organs hitting each other and the skeleton.
And the final collision is the tissues from the organs splattering all over the inside of your body.
So many people die days later if not properly checked out due to internal bleeding
That's actually excellent. I love this.
Correct.
This is why we have crumple zones, airbags, and seatbelts today all working in conjunction. A seatbelt won't save you from internal organ damage if your car has no crumple zones
1948 Tucker had seatbelts; padded dash; and safety glass.
The other car manufacturers claimed too expensive to add safety into the process.
Tucker also designed his cars to be quick and easy to repair.
even engine changes were to take only 30 minutes.
I bet a lot of people won't even know that there was a time before mandatory seatbelt laws. And like one of the titles in this film says, even when cars were required to have belts, hardly anyone ever wore them voluntarily. Fortunately for me, I always did, and survived a rollover crash in my 1971 VW Beetle in 1978 with only some scratches and aches. But even after that experience, my friends still ignored their own seatbelts. There weren't seatbelt laws till the 1980s, and that's what finally got people into them. Today, fortunately, most people wouldn't even consider driving without their belts on.
But is there really a need for seat belt laws. Most people are not wearing seat belts because the government forces them to. They are wearing them for their own safety.
People wash their teeth and wash not because of law.
I still don't wear them
I think its because back in the 60s and earlier you really didn't have seat belt laws and some cars didnt even have seat belts. the 70s saw mandatory headrests due to the neck injuries and then mandatory seatbelts due to injuries sustained during a crash like the ones showed. if we didn't have laws requiring seatbelts they probably woudnt be worn but now its part of the law and a part of our lives.
hebneh I for one have always gave worn seat belts, as a child and certainly as an adult. It was something that was instilled in us by my mother, a nurse, who had seen her share of automobile accidents in the 1950's.
+bighands69 Only a minority of people don't wear it in rebellion, seatbelt laws have been proven to dramatically increase seatbelt use.
I started wearing my belt the year I became a pilot, 1989. Our deparmental head in my aviation program talked of how pilots always wear theirs in the cockpit, where a near miss from head on is considered coming within a half mile at cruise speed and altitude...and everyone has worked for months or years to accomplish the required training/testing/licensing. He then asked, "Why wouldn't you wear one in a car where a near miss happens every time a car comes the other way on a two lane road...and the other guy might not even be legal to drive?" Now we have airbags, ABS, better energy absorption, etc, but the seat belt is still a no brainer.
Even better without the seal belts all the other safety features are useless and in the worst case even hazards.
For those car enthusiasts (or the people who are grieving from the destruction), the sedan that gets demolished first against a wall is a 1975 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight
interesting, they have good slow motion cameras in the past
the old high speed film cameras were better than the Digitals until pretty recently.
They had high speed cameras in the forties-fifties that were used to view nuclear explosions.
Jesus, kids today think nothing decent was invented before they were born.
It is not just the high speed frame rates, I have read somewhere that in the 70s they had cameras capable of capturing videos in a quality which is equivalent of today's 8K resolution, yeah 8k is 4 times the resolution of 4k which itself is 4 times the resolution of full hd (1080p). I read some Japanese files had utilized that resolution in the 70s. Some kind of Samurai movie was that.
Yeah, in the 70s, we also had electric lights, and indoor plumbing!! 😏
Got to admit. The film & production for 1970's standards were impressive.
I know..it's not like film and production hadn't been around for 60 yrs before that. LOL
The world before CGI.
Looks like a typical 70s film to me
I never wore my seatbelt regularly until I took Driver’s Ed in school and then it became a habit. Twenty eight years later, I always wear my seatbelt and I make sure my son is strapped into his safety seat. Cars can be replaced. Lives cannot.
Damn, I'm coming up on 25 years of driving, and I can count the times on one hand I didn't wear my seatbelt (and once becase it broke, I remember that drive being very uncomfortable).
Commendable but do you rely on your driving skills or rely on the car's safety features ?
@@palco22 Skills got me out of a lot more crashes than I was in, so, yeah mostly skills. And luck too I guess. Not discounting seat belts - had I not worn them in September of 2005, I don't know if I'd be typing this.
@@the_kombinator Obviously all safety features built into todays vehicles are better than ever and with reason but are worthless if you consider the number one factor and that being the skills of the vehicle operator. I'm far from perfect (don't tell that to my wife) and I too was at 18 years old wild at times on the roads, granted it was another time (1960s).
Honing driving skills is a never ending task. These acquired skills out perform any safety gadget found on a vehicle. Stay safe out there !
@@palco22 That's why I don't trust the nanny systems, nor do I have a car with any - my daily has ABS, I think that's it. Shoulder checks, safe braking distances, and constantly being aware of what's around you, the old fashioned way.
and people still dont use seat belts
jan haugen oh well, whataya gonna do
They're a minority anymore (or so I read.)
jan haugen it is actually better to be thrown out to safety the sitting left in the car! Many youtube videos proof this. I never use seatbealt nor my family and my children
szili76 Good keep doing that, let natural selection nail ya
Human Being doesn't sound natural to be killed by something man made whether indirectly or directly soo whats a better choice of words?
I saw a '70 Nova at the junkyard with a bench seat. The entire seat was taco-ed in the middle. Obviously someone was in the back seat and not wearing a belt. They likely seriously injured their friends in the front. So many people think they don't need them in the back. Well, if you are the driver ask them to buckle up, it will save your life too!
In the days before seat belts were installed in cars it was believed that it was best to be thrown out through the windshield in a crash. Wouldn’t be trapped in a burning car. If you weren’t impaled on the steering wheel. People were critical of Ford in 56 when they installed seat belts, safety door locks and deep dish steering wheel.
Exactly. It was believed that a person might not have time to jump out of a burning car. Although, there were those who said: with a belt, you have a better chance of not getting seriously injured and leaving the burning car yourself.
my brother was a paramedic for 30 years and it was 1 in a million to successfully get ejected and survive. Unless you're next to a hayfield or a mattress factory, it's probably not happening. On the other hand, he never unbuckled a dead body (under 80mph crash, after that all bets are off).
@@bobd9868 I heard one of the youtubers was driving in the opposite direction on the interstate and head on crashed into another vehicle at 150mph. He was bisected by the seatbelt.
@@jasonsong86 At 150 mph, you'd be dead without a belt, too.
@@jasonsong86 Youre probably gonna die either way at 150 if you hit a solid object
My parents had a '66 Baracuda, with me (and later my brother) in a little bucket-shaped "safety" seat that fitted over the rear bench seat. If we had been in a crash that thing would have shot me straight into the windshield like a little fleshy missile. Gotta love the engineering on that one.
I've been in my fair share of accidents - always wear your seat belts!
I was 17 and was traveling between 65/70 mph my friend and I were now wearing out seat belts. I lost control of my car and hit a concrete wall. We both only had very minor injuries. One week later someone hit a wall at about the same speed and was killed instantly. I am very blessed that nobody has died. I am 1000% sure there were angels in my vehicle that day. I always wear my seat belt when I drive or I make my passenger buckle up.
3:16. Squidward: "Haha." *(screaming)* 😱
*(crashing, glass shattering)*
Squidward: "Ow..." 🤕
0:34 - If you're in that crash in that car (70s Olds) and wear your 3 point seat belt, you're going to be hurting badly, banged about, maybe have some broken bones but you'll almost certainly survive. That car's safety design is 40+ years old, it's nowhere near as safe as modern cars, but that's a violent crash that just shows how important seat belts are. The dummies in that crash had they been people probably would have been killed, because they weren't wearing their seat belts. Today, with the modern safety features they have, you can open the door and walk away in most crashes like that one (35 mph into a wall) if you have your seat belt on, but even in a modern car, you're probably going to be killed or severely hurt in that same crash without a seat belt. Airbags can't function well without the seat belt.
January 10, 2016 8:55 am
whattheheck1000 my dad has a car from 1970 and good info for 70s cars bro!!!!
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A bit surprised to see the damage the '75 Olds 98 sustained but it WAS a stationary object that was struck.
Been there, done that with a 1976 Chevy Nova. Belted in with the lap and shoulder belt. Walked away without a scratch.
It only took a month to get the car back on the road.
+whattheheck1000 - You'd probably say the same about my '88 Lincoln LSC compared to some "modern and safe" car. Having flipped my airbagless car upside down into a ditch and walked away from it to tell the tale, there's not one "modern and safe" car I would rather do the same thing in. Had I been in a Corolla I'd be dead. Will never drive cheap modern plastic shit.
My first ever girlfriend died in a car crash and I was on the site before the police or any first responders. Her brother had a 71' Chrysler Newport sport. They go under a logging truck at 140km/h. No seatbelts would have saved them but driving properly surely would have. What I saw still haunt me to this day.
I still see the odd lorry over here without the "Mansfield Bar" - it wasn't actually a requirement to fit them until the 1980s, although American legislation has required them since the late 60s.
@@newforestroadwarrior ...and of course, named that after Jayne Mansfield's horrific car crash in June of 1967
2:15 Was I the only one that thought, when he got into the car, he was going to be bad ass and drive the car into the wall himself at 35mph with his seat belt on?
David Maiolo Yeah, I was like “No! Don’t do it!”
Yeah same lmao. I was like please don’t 😂
Imagine the guy got in the car and the old car started moving forwards, if i was him and that happened i would just jump off the car
0:23 For the sake of accuracy, the driver dummy in this particular car should've been wearing a fedora and plaid jacket, and the turn signal needs to be blinking (for no apparent reason).
Gotta admit When I was in my teens and driving my dad's old 1985 Chevy Van, I sometimes didn't have my seatbelt on cause it was a bit uncomfortable but that all changed when an idiot ran a Red light and almost hit me, I served so fast I ended up in a feild he in a ditch, that was a Wake up call for me so from then on I always put my seatbelt on.
Back in 1985 or 1986 my father had just brought over a grey market Range Rover/ Land Rover. The suspensions were so "springy" terrible. I was travelling probably 35 miles an hour and a girl made a left hand turn in front of me. Absolutely no time to brake I grabbed the steering wheel and through my body towards the passenger side of the vehicle. The Rover flipped rear end over, catapulted onto the roof and projected and slid probably twenty feet. I can remember the sound of all the glass exploding at once; the entire roof had bent over to towards the passenger side as my head and elbow just barely touching the ground. If not for wearing my seat belt I probably would not be here or badly injured for life. Her Mustang where I hit the passenger door basically the car was destroyed right up to the armrest; thank god no one was in that seat or that she wasn't hurt either; quite a miracle everyone walked away. Seat belts are a must use no matter what anyone says.
Amazing to see how far cars and safety features have come since the 70's!
But it's the same dummy driving on public roads so what's the point ?
Whilst driving standards have drastically worsened.
Car safety has come a long way since the 70s. However in the 70s seat belt use was extremely low. As a teenager I had a 1970 Buick Electra that had been my grandfather's. I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove. One night in 1982 I was coming home from college when a drunk driver hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra and the fact that I was securely buckled up with both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only bruises from the belts and minor cuts and scratches. This was far better than the unbelted drunk driver who had massive head and chest injuries from the steering wheel and the dash. You had to use the available safety devices that were in those older cars.
Just shows you how much safer today's cars are. Just a few months back, a guy I knew was driving along with his family and lost control of the car and crashed into a tree. No one was wearing a seatbelt. He and his kid died.
Scary thing is, we actually owned cars like these at one point. In today's crash tests, they're no stronger than cardboard.
Seatbelt or not, still never forget rule #1 - Do not crash your car and rule #2 Do not let someone else crash into your car.
Yeah, but they could still be a lot safer, there is a lot more that should be done, but then prices would be even more ridiculous
And it took the car companies only 40 years to put in seat belts. They fought them tooth and nail.
+Kerry Clough That's all rich Republicans do....resist any type of change that doesn't put cash in their pockets.
+Justa Hondafan thank you for your stupid political commentary
+Kerry Clough Nash (American Motors) offered them in 1950. Ford Motor Company offered them in 1955. People didn't want them. It was only much hated mandatory seat belt laws that got a majority of people to wear them.
"DUR, I love my kid as well as I can but I'm in effect (though I don't know that) gonna make sure my 10 year old smashes his face against a glass wall!" People are sometimes just plain _insipid_ with stupidity, "herd mentality" goes against them there oh holy amazing grace lift us from this TAR PIT...!
And the particular car shown (1975 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight) also had as an option what was called the "Air Cushion Restraint system"? That's right,folks.....you could get Air Bags in this car!!! (Note: This car did not have that option.) 1974-76 88-98-Toronado. Have heard Buick had this in Le Sabres-Electras-Rivieras and Cadillac had it as well,and a few Fleet/Lease '73 Chevys that were R&D cars? (Which also have an Oldsmobile dash!!) But Air Bags were not a very popular option,many thought it was too expensive,and some say too unreliable? Have heard under 10,000 total sold over years offered.
Well I went right through the late 60 s and 70s sitting in the back of my Dads car without any seat belts and so I'd millions of other children . We all dodged a bullet there I think.
Yup even in the 90's we were in the back with no seatbelts, and we all used to fight over who would be the one in the back even with no seat coz it was so much fun rolling around with the car movement
I feel like if my dad gets into a crash and im in the back seat, my head and face would hit the front seat and it would hurt
We dodge bullets everyday, reality is when it's time to go you have no say. So fuck it, the map is charted but you don't get a copy.
As kids my dad had a big buick,or mercury in the 60s where the rear window would roll down i used to lay up there on trips
This video showing you how great seat belts are. Now we have airbags all over plus seatbelts and better headrests and all of that only matters if the automatic braking system fails. Amazing how far we've come.
Yeah, road deaths and injuries are a fraction of what they were back then despite their being many times more cars now. Interestingly, up till the 1960s manufacturers focus was on survival of the vehicle rather than occupants.
A LOT of cars still don't have automatic brakes...
1:45 The windshield doesn't break from the crash, it breaks because of the peoples heads smashing into it!
The damage done to the dashboard by the dummy's head is scary AF! Imagine a human skull instead. No doubt he'd be DEAD.
funnily enough, your more likely without any seatbelt in that vehicle to survive than you are with the bottom seatbelt only.
@@StreetDrilla 3:14
You can argue older cars are built like tanks with their giant steel bumpers, and reliable as heck, but in a high speed crash there is no way I'd want to be in one.
They were safer than you think- if you wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts. As a teenager in the mid 70s I drove a 1970 Buick Electra and I was that rare kid that wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts when I drove. Of course, all of my friends thought I was completely nuts for doing so and usually I was the only one in the car with the belts buckled. Fast forward to coming home from college one weekend when a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both belts, I walked away with only minor cuts and scratches and bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted drunk driver in the suburban.
1975 Buick and Oldsmobile had optional driver side airbags. The driving public was outraged that something like that would be installed and made mandatory in future years. Took a while for public acceptance.
I've never ridden in a car that *didn't* have safety belts. And I always worn them. Never mind the law, it seems foolish to drive a car and not wear them. I've had my share of accidents where I'm glad I was wearing seat belts.
@Ben Beasley I agree. Same here. I don't even think about it. I just do it.
Is there even such a thing as a car without a seat belt these days? I mean one legal for the road?
@@generalyellor8188 Exactly! I've never driven or ridden as a passenger in a car that *didn't* have seat belts. :)
@@generalyellor8188 Yes in the US passenger cars manufactured prior to 1965 and trucks prior to 1971 do not even require a lap belt. Shoulder belts weren't common until 1968-1969. Any of these old vehicles that were not equipped can still be driven without them legally in all states, although I believe some states do ban transporting children in them.
Lol nice way to crack dashboard in half with your head. They must have been laughing their asses off at volvo back in the days.
Never mind the US held the first commercial patents on airbags and also had the first viable installations in vehicles, but hey whos keeping score?
mysock351C Which score? Americans NEVER EVER came close to making cars as safe as Europeans did, especially 30 or 40 years ago. Who the fuck cares who held a patent on what if they were not competent enough to make a safe car? As for those "first viable installations", don't make me laugh, those air bags were so badly implemented that you'd almost be better off without them. Those big boats from the 70's were like tin cans, large, but flimsy and very weak structurally. Trust me when I tell you this as a mechanical engineer, those cars had 10 or more times less structural rigidity than the worst cars of today have.
US cars weren't and aren't as safe now.
This has nothing to do with US or Euro (or japanese). Most euro cars of the 70s was pure shit safety-wise. Not many more brands than Volvo, Mercedes and Saab did more than was required by regulations. American cars was no worse than many of the euros...
Ross Gambino explain
I was in a head on car crash with a utility pole back in the late 1980's. I never used seat belts back then. i slid on ice and broke my jaw and knocked out 5 front teeth and was very banged up. After that i always had on a seat belt.
1:05 AAAH! A BRIDGE PIER! *swerves, crashes*
AAAH! A TREE! *swerves, crashes*
AAAH! A POLE! *swerves, crashes*
OHH, FUCK! AN INCOMING CAR! *dives out the window with a tuck-and-roll*
"seat belts can do the job, but only if they are worn" ... Well, Arnie Cunningham, mine are in mint condition. What to do? What to do?
Ronald van Kemenade Apparently Princess Diana never thought of that, and look what happened to her.
@@styopaa.z I'm pretty sure he's talking about crashes probably in the 60-100kph range, or maybe even more depending on a crash, but if you go 200 kph and end up hitting a pole then nothing will be able to save ya
Ronald van Kemenade is that you Cunningham? you’re not still mad, are ya?
"Well don't think about it too long I'll throw you out your ass"
@@unknownunknowns You actually know the speed the car was?
When I was 18 I was in a frontal crash, and had only a lap belt. I got a broken nose & a blowout fracture, but the belt kept me from eating the windshield!
I was 20 years old and driving a 1970 Buick Electra when I was in a head on collision. Fortunately the Electra had shoulder belts in addition to the lap belts and I was wearing both. I walked away with only bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted other driver who had massive head and chest injuries from the steering wheel. Seat Belts made a big difference for me, especially the shoulder belt.
3:16.
Squidward: **giggling, then screaming in danger** (crashing into a brick wall, glass shattering)
Squidward: "Ow..."
They didn’t take into account once you add a shoulder belt. Now the head isn’t restrained which resulted in multiple basilar skull fractures. Airbags are a head and neck device to prevent basilar skull fractures or the brain getting ripped threw the base of the skull by the spinal cord. People think airbags are to keep you from hitting the dash or exiting the vehicle but side airbags protect from whipping the head from a side impact. The front airbag for front impact. And head rest for rear end and also for front as well to a certain point if you recoil back
Seatbelt pretensioners has been added to cars for a while to take up the slack of the seatbelt so your body doesn't accelerate for a brief period of time before coming to a stop by the loose seatbelt.
Glad they invented the lap and shoulder belt. I had a teacher tell us a story where her sister was in accident in the 1960s. A truck didn't yield the right of way at a stop sign and she hit the truck. She was cut in half by the seat belt.
Damn, what was she driving, a rocket-car?
@@drewlovelyhell4892 I think any speed above 60 it's pretty much unknown.
I used to drive a two truck. I remember towing a crash that totaled both vehicles but they both ran. My teenage daughter never liked to wear a seatbelt so I put her in the back seat of I think a Monte Carlo and ran into another car on my lot at IDLE speed and she wound up on the rear floorboard. She was ready, cocky, and prepared to "just hold on". We were going idle speed and she never questioned me again.
What people don't understand is in a crash, it's the same force as dumping from 3rd floor, you can't simply "hold on".
It still has me absolutely confused to why some people still to this day dont wear seat belts at all ! I've actually heard people say that they're "Too uncomfortable" to "I'm too big to wear them" , Seriously ?!!
As a teen, I was driving a 1955 Chevy pick-up with no seatbelts, a metal dash, multiple sharp knobs on the dash, no air bags, a single master cylinder ... now as an "older" fellow, I have air bags, seatbelts with shoulder harnesses, a collapsible steering column, crumple zones, dual master, anti lock brakes ...
I probably needed the technology as a dumb kid and didn't have it; now as a mature, seasoned, careful driver, I have all that technology. Seems backward =:-0
PS: don't forget, my '55 Chevy pick-up had 20 gallons of gasoline sitting right behind the driver's seat !!
The dual bowl master cylinder is a really underrated safety improvement, that's the only safety upgrade I made to my 1966 Ford F250.
A colleague of mine still today refuses to wear seatbelts. He claims that he feels restricted in his movement by them (I never wished to do any movement while driving that would be restricted by belts) and he also feels unsafe because he cannot escape the car quickly if it is burning.
The arguments that cars almost never burn after accidents, but even if it would by some freak situation he will not even survive the accident to the moment the fire might get close to him without a belt were made to him, but he does not care.
He uses a clothespin at the belt to keep it extended and places it over his chest without fastening it, so that police officers from the outside would think he was buckled in correctly and then he drives like that. All the time the car is beeping at him of course. He does not care, he just ignores the beeping. Even taking the safety considerations out of the loop, the beeping over hundreds of kilometers is so annoying, that I would fasten my seat belt after minutes. He drove like that from Germany all the way through France to southern Spain.
seatbelts life saver, also headrest prevent long term injuries to the neck
Hit my head against a 1960 NSU Prinz II windshield as a passenger when the brakes failed at maybe 5 mph. No injury. Years later, saw a Prinz II in a lot behind a 7-Eleven with a circular smash in the windshield. No doubt the driver was killed. The Prinz didn't have seatbelts.
I owned a olds delta just like that great car,,,
Thanks for supporting GM's mediocrity.
Growing up in the 70s - 80s hardly anyone wore a seatbelt. But moving forward to 2023 hardly anyone drives without buckling up. What a change in culture.
omg, I laughed HARD when the dummy's face single-handedly smashed the passenger side of that dashboard like a pancake. 😂
😂😂😂
Squidward: **giggles, then screaming at the brick wall**
(crashing, glass shattering)
Squidward: "Ow..."
Amazing what that does. That's with a force of possibly several tons.
**cough** that was 35?! My gosh... Our safety was terible back then..
My 1956 Ford F-100 came with a lap belt for the driver. Us kids just rode in the back.
3:13 Squidward as a crash test dummy
*(Screaming)* 😱
*(crashing, glass shattering)*
Squidward: "Ow..." 🤕
I DEFINITELY WILL show this video to my Mom, THANKS!
She probably saw it in Driver's Ed already.
My 73 Chrysler Newport and I came to a crushing stop. I was like most teenagers not bothering with my seatbelt. I whapped the windshield with my head. But I survived obviously. Oddly, the car was drivable enough that I drove it to a repair facility about 2 weeks later but the repair shop looked at it and said "hey, this is totaled". My car was about 15 years old and I didn't get what "totaled" meant. I thought it meant the car was smashed flat. He was obviously meaning what an insurance company would do. I just wanted a damn estimate but he wouldn't write me one. This is why I married a mechanic. He can do all this stuff himself. That car just got towed away by the city. I loved that car. Big land yacht with an awesome surround-sound quadraphonic stereo system.
I knew a girl from high school who was ejected from the car as a passenger and one of the wheels actually ran over her head and crushed it like a watermelon. It was a fairly minor accident, but her window was all the way down and she was very thin. I never used to wear my seatbelt until my late 20s, but now I always do.
I have some 60s-70s auto magazines and in one of them, from 1972, there was an article on a Volvo experimental safety vehicule in which they said that "someday, in the future, you may walk away from a 80kph accident".
Based on the damage at 35, clearly the " They don't make them like they used to" myth is whole heartedly busted.
They don’t make them like they used to.........
.......thank god!
yep, people think older cars with thicker body panels will protect better than modern cars with stronger chassis.
As far as damage to the car it is a lot less than on most modern cars, so I would disagree that the old cars are weaker. But they don't protect the occupants as well in a crash and that's what really matters.
0:35 "the car is erect. And the occupants are erect too" my misheard
Thankfully we now have so many more layers of protection today in the forms of airbags, pre collision, crumple zones etc. Looking at this video, even with the lap and shoulder belts, escaping injury seemed impossible.
When I was a kid in the 80's
Belt was not necessary
There was no traffic violation at that time
Therefore, traffic accidents were fatal at that time
American cars are very luxurious and comfortable
But in terms of safety zero percent
The best cars of the 80s Mercedes-Benz
Nobody wore seatbelts when I was growing up. I didn't start wearing them until 85 when I bought a car with t-tops.
I remember watching a movie and the bad guy jumped in the passenger seat with a gun. He told the driver to start driving. The driver put on his seatbelt then drove the car into a stone wall. Of course the bad guy went though the windshield. The driver made a smart remark about wearing your seatbelt. Lol
I love how the glove box just flies away. That's much better than an airbag! Manufacturers should take note.
Yes and also add ejector seats like in air planes
The owners manual, maps, and piles of receipts should act as a cushion. :D
there is another crash video somewhere of an old car where the seat breaks away, the door opens, and the occupants are thrown out - almost an ejector seat!
I can see your path through several videos. Are we going the same way? Which is the last?
The glove box and the clock both fly away. The glove box is on top of the passengers side test dummy
The problem with GM, Ford, and Chrysler back then was they relied too much on safety belts and not designing their land yachts with crumple zones. Huge long fenders with open space underneath offer zero protection in a crash. Mercedes and Volvo were decades ahead of the USA in crash testing and crumple zones and safety.
3:17 this looks like that one scene from spongebob where squidward is the dummy
Lel yeah
Saki Farah This is actually that scene!
(crashing, glass shattering)
Squidward: "Ow..."
This is what happens when Squidward screams at the brick wall that his boat is about to get crashed.
People got serious about wearing seatbelts in the 1980s and so did state laws. It is a good habit. Many people resisted being told to wear them with a threat of a fine. No telling how many lives have been saved.
Cars have made incredible leaps in frontal crashes since the 70's. Back then the whole cab caved, cars these days throw the energy around and out and the cab stays fully intact usually.
The cabin seemed to hold integrity fairly well especially considering that it was a pillar less 4 door hardtop.
I don’t even want to imagine how badly it would have done on a side impact test
@@twoeightythreez It held well because it's a full frontal crash. If you take the same car and test with today's 25% small overlap test at much higher speed, the A pillar will probbaly end up touching the b pillar and the dash and steering wheel will be in your chest.
Fun fact: Volvo invented the 3 point seatbelt in 1959, added it to their cars and deliberately didn't patent it.
Christmas eve, driving back from Tampa. I told my morbidly obese bil, "buckle-up." slim replied "I'm in the back." My Mother ran a stop sign and put us in between the cab and the trailer doin about 60mph. We hit, got spit out and spun like a top. 02 Stratus in 3pcs.
Thank god no one was seriously hurt. I will say this, fat man crashed into me and with the centrifugal force, we pushed the door out...
Wear the belt...
3:14 Who saw this in Spongebob series? (But in the Spongebob Series, that dummy replaced by Squidward)
at 1:55... just eats the dashboard...
😂😂😂
Dashboard du jour,Vince under glass....
Nowadays, we have seatbelts, airbags and 5 star crash results, so you don't have to worry how you drive!
3:21: Squidward: Ow.
(crashing, glass shattering)
And in those days, in many cases the glass was *proper* glass like you got in your house. Not the modern shatterables and safety glass.
And who gave us the 3 point seat belt - VOLVO -- for life.
I was driving a semi, at 3 am in Montana, came over a hill and ran into a herd of cattle. The truck rolled, and I was ejected.
Somehow, I survived with a lot of internal injuries. 10 years later I fell asleep and rear ended a parked rig at 72 mph (the speedometer was stuck on 72) and crushed the steering column with my chest and stuck my head through the windshield. 15 years later, still picking glass out of my head, but I’m wearing a belt.
Consider you lucky. Some didn't survive.
It's so hard to believe I never wore a seatbelt until I was maybe 14. My father never wore them. He said it was his right to never wear one and was mad as hell when it became law and then refused to, just to prove a point. I never really understood that. He still doesn't wear them.
You should take him sky-diving, see if he's too stubborn to wear a parachute.
Smart people learn from experiences. Dumb people learn from mistakes.
Then injuries caused by people NOT WEARING seatbelts should not be covered by insurance.
« Fastened seat belts, save lives ». It was true then and it’s still applies, especially for today’s smaller imported cars.
I've always wondered why in many american movies including modern, they don't wear seat belts. Interviews, documentaries even. Had me gobsmacked.
My Brother in law worked at a volunteer rescue squad mainly for experience and my sister worked to get experience for her eventual nursing degree and career. Almost 40 years later he tole me something that rings true and I remember to this day.
“I never unbuckled a dead person”. I think if that every time I buckle up. My first accident by physics should have been my last....(Fatal). Black Ice inexperience and bad luck. Black ice and slid into a telephone pole. Impact point was drivers B pillar in which the windshield popped out fell on the snow, windshield wipers fell to the dashboard and the peg that the linemen used to climb the pole pierced the drivers door. Another degree or two of slide or another couple of MPH Impact speed the peg could have pierced my kidneys. I shut engine off, assessed situation, did the ground evacuation and went across the street to call the Police. I was safe but of course vehicle was Totaled. This accident was in late 86 and the car was a mid 70’s Peugeot with probably state of the art safety for 70’s but probably wouldn’t have met mid 80’s Safety Standards. Safe but the part I felt real bd about is we had just picked the vehicle up from the mechanic the day before to get it winterized, water pump, coolant flush, oil change, etc..... My first car while I was out in California for the Navy was a 1979 Volvo. I believe 7 or nine series but a real nice one.
Volvo has lost some of the safety competitive edge but I still think they are the safest overall vehicle design.
Back in 2001 we ran into a big electric pole in a Civic. The road was wet and apparently we lost control because the car didn't have ABS then. I wasn't wearing my seat belts and I was on the front passenger seat. The car also didn't have airbags and I lunged forward and hit the windshield with my head. I realized I was bleeding but it was only in the hospital that I knew that there's a piece of glass sticking in my forehead and they had to pull it out. Makes me cringe today when I think about it but I didn't feel anything back then when they pulled it out. My head was already numb, I guess.
You don't need ABS if your car is in good working order and you know how to drive.
@@damonlemasters3424 That's not true, you can always be surprised by a loss of grip.
@@damonlemasters3424 No human can brake better than ABS.
Damn that must have hurted a lot
It’s simple, straight to the point and gets the point across without being condescending
Shows how important seat belts are. But this is different from a modern car with air bags, because yes, the seats belts will save your life in a classic car that has them, but that stiff metal body makes you take the force far more, especially in a body on frame, and you most likely still get internal injuries. It's scary. For me, because I once drive an '89 Crown Vic, I'll NEVER ride without the belts, as that's the only safety I got. But it's so sad so many people don't take seat belts so seriously, even with the laws.
Backing college in 1982, I drove a 1970 Buick Electra. It had the separate lap and shoulder belts- a total of four belts and two buckles and I wore both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove. One night a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size of the car and the fact that I was wearing both belts I walked away with only bruises from the belts.
Actually, newer cars are much stronger than older cars. If you watch a new car crashing into an old car, the new car will hold it's cabin way better than the older cars.
@@bradparris99Yeah, the biggest cars back in the day do help a lot due to their mass alone.
@@LITTLE1994 Especially if the driver and passengers were smart enough to wear their lap and shoulder belts. I am certainly glad that I was one of only a few that did buckle up both belts back then. They probably saved my life in that head on collision.
This, along with real footage of real crashes and real pictures of the real aftermath of those real crashes should be shown to every person who has ever been, and ever will be in a car.
Look how roomy and beautiful that car looks! Today's cars are upside down soap bowls that look as ugly as they are cramped and uncomfortable.
All that cramped interior only makes for your body to crash into something that really should not be there anyway. I remember the interior of the Lincoln Mark V. The outside was indeed a large car, though not excessively large for the time. But the inside seemed to be bigger than the outside by the way it was arranged. Eight people could sit comfortably without having to ride around in an embarrassing minivan. I really do not know what possess people to buy those ugly things. They do not do good on crash tests.
Indrid Cold yes sir leg room like crazy.
Except that this beautiful car would have spent most of it's time at the mechanics (that is if you could get it started to drive it there). American cars from the 70s looked nice, but they were mostly crap.
Indrid Cold I know man a lot modern vehicles are nothing but overpriced plastic eggshells that'll never outlast my 96 F150 with 5.0L (302) Windsor V8.
I don't need all that leg room. I had a 2000 ford taurus with no cockpit and it felt weird having all the unnecessary free space. But i do wish they still use colomn shifters. (Only cop cars and most Trucks still use thoes)
I wish I had that big old cool Oldsmobile. They were good cars. Thumbs up on thumbs up on your video.
If they wore seatbelts, the passenger's head would be ripped off milliseconds later by the glove box, at 1:40...
Well its either a bang to the forehead from a flying glovebox or chestbumping the dashboard at 35 mph. Not too great either way.
Not true. The lap and shoulder belt would have kept the passenger from hitting the dashboard.