On Feb 27, 5:52*pm, Harryk wrote:
On 2/27/11 6:30 PM, Wayne.B wrote:



On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:51:42 -0500, John
wrote:

We had a '59 Chevy when I was in high school. I'm sure glad I didn't have a head
on with the 2009 Malibu.

Damn, I thought those old cars were tanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

A lot of us thought that both we and the cars were indestructible.
:-)

I knew a young lady who hit a tree with a Chevy of about that vintage.
Both she and the car were badly messed up. * The column of the
steering wheel pushed right back into the driver's compartment and
kind of wrapped the steering wheel around her head. *She survived
fortunately but was badly hurt.

I have a college friend who had a '59 Chevy and lived out past Garden
City, Kansas. Traveling home on one college break, he hit a steer. The
car was totaled and he nearly was, too. He spent months and months in
the hospital and in plastic surgery reconstruction. When he returned the
following fall, he was unrecognizable to all of us. The surgeons did OK
by him, but he was a totally different looking guy.

Oh, the steer was totaled, too.

I doubt any car would survive a direct frontal hit at speed with a
mature feedlot steer.

Harry, white tails are bad enough, but get this. The ILLinois Dept. of
Conservation is thinking on turning Elk lose in my state. Can you
imagine hitting one of those? The car would whack it's legs out from
under it and all that venison (usually over 500 lb. for a mature one)
comes right through the windshield....

not a pretty thought.