Cars are actually being made more destructible because they found that protects the driver better. It absorbs the impact rather than transferring it to the people in the car.
I once actually got “rear-ended in the front.” It was back during the 1974 oil crisis when, if you heard a rumor that a station within 20 miles of you had gasoline, you would drive there wait in miles-long lines to get some of it, sometimes needing to push your car for those final few blocks.
I was very lucky to have a 1963 SAAB 96 with a little 850cc two-cycle engine that got about 50 mpg, an unheard-of mileage back then, and mileage was everything. The only drawback was that I had to run its 8-gallon tank nearly empty to make the mix right after I filled it to the brim and then poured a quart of oil in the tank like you used to do with old boat motors and lawnmowers.
Anyhow, I was waiting in line at a Key Biscayne Shell when the guy in front of me, in one of those old perfectly rectangular Lincoln Continentals (you remember, the ones with the suicide rear doors), suddenly slammed his car in reverse and plowed into my front end, denting my bumper and the clamshell hood.
This eventually killed my cool little car, because the resulting dent made it so that, when I lifted the hood (which I occasionally had to do to add water to the radiator — pretty much all cars leaked back then), it would rub against the flywheel and stop the engine. To add water to a hot engine, you have to do it while it is running, but I could no longer do so, and a couple of months later, on a trip through the Virginia countryside, I was in a hurry and had to turn it off to add water before it cooled down, and I cracked the block.
PoodleGroomer about 6 years ago
Pave the streets with steel, run electrified nets down all of the roads, and have everybody drive bumper cars.
Display about 6 years ago
I like his attitude. He doesn’t get too bent out of shape. We could hit it off.
DM2860 about 6 years ago
Cars are actually being made more destructible because they found that protects the driver better. It absorbs the impact rather than transferring it to the people in the car.
Flatworm about 6 years ago
I once actually got “rear-ended in the front.” It was back during the 1974 oil crisis when, if you heard a rumor that a station within 20 miles of you had gasoline, you would drive there wait in miles-long lines to get some of it, sometimes needing to push your car for those final few blocks.
I was very lucky to have a 1963 SAAB 96 with a little 850cc two-cycle engine that got about 50 mpg, an unheard-of mileage back then, and mileage was everything. The only drawback was that I had to run its 8-gallon tank nearly empty to make the mix right after I filled it to the brim and then poured a quart of oil in the tank like you used to do with old boat motors and lawnmowers.
Anyhow, I was waiting in line at a Key Biscayne Shell when the guy in front of me, in one of those old perfectly rectangular Lincoln Continentals (you remember, the ones with the suicide rear doors), suddenly slammed his car in reverse and plowed into my front end, denting my bumper and the clamshell hood.
This eventually killed my cool little car, because the resulting dent made it so that, when I lifted the hood (which I occasionally had to do to add water to the radiator — pretty much all cars leaked back then), it would rub against the flywheel and stop the engine. To add water to a hot engine, you have to do it while it is running, but I could no longer do so, and a couple of months later, on a trip through the Virginia countryside, I was in a hurry and had to turn it off to add water before it cooled down, and I cracked the block.
That was a nice little car. Very weird, but nice.
Coyoty Premium Member about 6 years ago
Practice.
LOLBeth about 6 years ago
Gee, you keep getting rear-ended. But it’s always the fault of the other driver. Funny about that.