120 MPH Crash Test
- Thread starter MaxMan
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Dang....
I have seen actual crash tests. They are amazing and also very loud and abrupt.
I did have to laugh at the "disturbing image" warnings.
I have seen actual crash tests. They are amazing and also very loud and abrupt.
I did have to laugh at the "disturbing image" warnings.
Someone has to say it . . . "That'll buff right out." 
After 2-1/2 minutes of repulsive english drivel, I gave up.
Oh, you listened to it? I just FF to the good part, no sound.
coach
Hunter
Seriously, do you need to crash a car at 120 mph to know what’s going to happen. At least the myth busters guys make a show of not quite knowing.
OP
Maybe this was some kind of tolerence test.
My neighbor put a Ford Focus into a guardrail at 112mph 2 years ago. He was so drunk that the car slid along the rail into 2 small trees and a mailbox. He fell out in the road with just minor bumps and bruises and blew a .15bac.
He is a slow learner because he got busted on July 4th with a .11bac after doing a burnout in front of a cop car at 1am while leaving a bar in a Mustang that he got 3 weeks previously.
He is a slow learner because he got busted on July 4th with a .11bac after doing a burnout in front of a cop car at 1am while leaving a bar in a Mustang that he got 3 weeks previously.
bobski
Hunter
how about an f4 with afterburners?
Didn’t Princess Diana fail this test?
RugerForMe
Blackhawk
In 1981 I hit black ice and stuffed my 1970 Chevelle into the guardrails at over 100 mph, I hit them at about a 45deg angle and then proceeded to ricochet off the guardrails on both sides of the 2 lain I was on. Second hit was a rear impact that ripped the bucket seat right out of the floor, don't remember anything after that till I was stopped. One of the hits broke the motor mounts and shoved the engine and trans back into the fire wall. both side windows were blown out. I had to dukes of hazard it and climb out of the window. My guardian angel was with me, and I walked away without a scratch.
The one cop that showed up asked if I was hurt or wanted an ambulance, I said no and then asked how fast I was going "told him 55". He gave me the side eye and called for a salt truck and a tow truck and gave me a ride to my house.
The one cop that showed up asked if I was hurt or wanted an ambulance, I said no and then asked how fast I was going "told him 55". He gave me the side eye and called for a salt truck and a tow truck and gave me a ride to my house.
1973, D street overcrossing of the I-15 freeway in Victorville, Ca. Family of five in what we later found out was a Cadillac Sedan De Ville struck the overpass center support at somewhere over 100 mph. Even if the car hadn't burned it would have been almost impossible to retrieve the bodies.
Years ago, when America made all steel, not plastic cars, I lived a couple hundred feet from a 35 MPH corner at the end of a more than a mile long straight stretch on a highway leaving the mountains, popular with tourists.
It averaged about a serious crash per month. Nothing sounds quite like a vehicle crashing into large rocks that had been placed to protect a home
It averaged about a serious crash per month. Nothing sounds quite like a vehicle crashing into large rocks that had been placed to protect a home
That could have been a two minute video. Idiots acting all surprised. "OMG look at that." Well what the hell did you think was going to happen?
Smh
You can tell they're not rednecks. We would have been jumping up and down and hollering. "Let's do it again, faster!"
Smh
You can tell they're not rednecks. We would have been jumping up and down and hollering. "Let's do it again, faster!"
There is a crash video out there that compares a 50's/60's car hitting the barrier at about 40 MPH to a current build. It's amazing how well the new crumple zones work compared to all the steel we used to have around us.
*** had to go find it
https://www.iihs.org/about/50th-anniversary
*** had to go find it
https://www.iihs.org/about/50th-anniversary
Iirc nigel shiftright did one with (somebody else's) mgb; pronounced the results satisfactory since the rear flashers were still flashing.
I think Myth Busters did a couple of those "crash tests" using a rocket sled doing about 500+ mph. If I recall, one was into a solid wall, and the car just about vaporized, and the other was into a steel wedge with the goal of splitting the car down the middle. I believe they accomplished that. Myth Busters split car & Myth Busters rocket sled car crash test
Werent they basing the one on the flying impala urban legend, some guy found a jato rocket but they later found him plastered to the far side of the canyon?
Remember the 5 MPH bumper requirement?
5 mph bumpers were a federal safety requirement in the United States for passenger cars from the 1973 to 1982 model years, mandated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 215. This regulation required vehicles to withstand a 5 mph front and rear barrier impact, and a 3 mph corner impact, without damage to safety-related components like lighting and fuel systems.
5 mph bumpers were a federal safety requirement in the United States for passenger cars from the 1973 to 1982 model years, mandated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 215. This regulation required vehicles to withstand a 5 mph front and rear barrier impact, and a 3 mph corner impact, without damage to safety-related components like lighting and fuel systems.
Rust, or impact damage, could jam a 5mph shock in compressed position; urban legend has cops, and tow operators sufferring crushed leg or arm when the shock suddenly returned to pre-compression position.
Yeah, I think that was actually their first myth on this first show, and then they repeated it years later when people said they did it wrong on the first try. I think they debunked it the second time too... Myth Busters Jato Car & Myth Busters Jato Car Revisited
