Those cars are very strong. And then you be in pain the next minute or the the next day.

cool

Ah yes, the 1950s Fords - solid metal dashboards for your face to slam into on impact. Lose your teeth, break your nose, have your entire skull caved in.

How can they test without doors?the effect body flex

Yes it’s 1986 right now

Kudos to Ford for their Life-Guard program back in the 50s! It didn't sell and customers hated it, but they did try in a day and age when no other automaker cared.

I bet in 30 years, nobody is going to watch this and think, "Dang! I wish I had an Escort like that"!

I own a 89 escort

Interestings observations. Good video.

The Ford Escort ran a red. Light lol that much damage,,at what speed? Cars of the 30-40 we're built like Sherman's

Unsafe since the 1950s ahaha

Then and now? Now is not 1986 weirdo!

Uh... no they aren’t.

Because like guns... you have no control over the other wackjobs that use them.

Look at all of the mass shootings in Texas... TEXAS of all places where gun-wielding good Samaritans didn’t do jack shit.

@Screenpiece Studios Cars are like guns they are as safe as the person using them. :-)

Taunter Atwill, right? not to mention cars were, have and are getting safer and safer everyday

Real steel

no airbags because not invented

You could order a 1974 oldsmobile or cadillac with airbags.
Nobody wanted them then.

Some cars in the 70's had them

Funny how people think stronger chassis and body is better!!!!
Don't you ever heard about inertia? Do you know anything about it?
Today's cars are more elastic so body and chassis can absorb more of impact energy and for this reason a person who sit behind the wheel does not move staright forward at the same speed before the crash!
If that happens,then airbag could kill person because it acts just like double impact,one from accident itself and the other one from inflation of airbag!
Today's car are much safer than old ones

You keep believing those lies. If that was true then rally drivers would be dead. The cars are purposely made to NOT CRUMPLE so the energy from the impact is transferred out of the car and to the ground and not into it. Why do you think larger vehicles are safer in a crash? Cars today are designed to be disposable. If they made cars to be reused, it would end up like Cuba and nobody would have to buy a car again. They do not want that to happen, so they make cars to be irreparable with even the smallest impact.

Calm down

Shocking how many people do not grasp the most basic concepts of physics even after being explained a million times.

Ironically, Robert McNamara was an early advocate of car safety.

The guy who came up with the idea of lowering US Army IQ requirements so they could win Vietnam Lol.

There was also a supreme Court Justice with the same last name "McNamara". I wonder if they were related

If those dummies from 55 could see what cars became in 1986 they'd be praying for the sweet release of death.

Ha!

That’s when cars started.

Sorry, but most of us are pretty sick of Winga Dinga Dinga Dinga boomermobiles.

How dafak is a joke







**look at the date**

Those cars are very, very strong.

@Nathaniel Schaffer Metal dashboards.

They were badly designed the chance of injury was worse back then

Watch my video on crumble zones on my channel

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Its actually bad for that because back then they didnt have crumble zones

them cars were safer then todays cars . just go look at the crash test of 2000 cars

Nope. Newer cars are way safer

Them brain is not what it used to be!

@ajlaurenjunjo Exactly, the best you could hope for back then, is that you were launched through the windscreen and 'thrown clear' of the crash as you'd sustain far less injury than being hurled into a metal dashboard, spear-like steering column, or just crushed by the engine as it flew directly backward into the firewall.

Garrett Smith that’s what I always thought too

ymxctrails and if we take dump trucks out of the equation, newer cars look more damaged in the crash not only because of crumple zones, but also because they channel the energy away from the occupants of the vehicle. Older cars may be stronger than newer cars but they are not safer. Older cars could still work after a crash but the people inside would take the full force of the crash. Not to mention cars of this age rarely had seatbelts and airbags.

it's called the song name used in the Escort?

On the '86 Ford Escort,the onlooker said to his pal,did they die ?,No you dummy,lol