pic of the charger crash test?

[miller]

does anybody have that old pic of the 69 charger into the wall? and does anyone have the GTX that was ran over by the train?

[69_se_ron]

I've got it at work...I'll post it tomorrow.

[Ghoste]

Here's the Charger.

[Wakko]

   Anyone know how fast this crash was?

[69_se_ron]

I think it was 70 or 75 mph.   I remember thinking that it was slow to cause that much damage, but straight into a brick wall...
the whole car is the crumple zone.

[Drache]

I think it was 70 or 75 mph.   I remember thinking that it was slow to cause that much damage, but straight into a brick wall...
the whole car is the crumple zone.

That's unibody construction for ya! I think in the other post where this picture showed up I stated that a driver could have taken the wing nut off the air cleaner with his teeth from the front seat!

[clausoe]

Scary stuff.

[mustanghater]

this pic was in cars in barns it said it was a hemi

[Ghoste]

To be fair to the GTX though, there aren't many vehicles short of a tank that could survive a train wreck.

[hemigeno]

this pic was in cars in barns it said it was a hemi

Doesn't look like the K-frame has a skid-plate on it though.  Probably a 440 car.  Made a mess of it, no matter what it had in it though!

[Drache]

For the record the Charger was going 100 mph when it hit that brick wall! 

[Lightning]

For the record the Charger was going 100 mph when it hit that brick wall! 

well then ANY car would look like that after hitting a wall at that speed.

[RT DAVE]

For the record the Charger was going 100 mph when it hit that brick wall!  

That makes me feel better. 

[kikgas01]

 

[Charger_Croatia]

For the record the Charger was going 100 mph when it hit that brick wall! 

well then ANY car would look like that after hitting a wall at that speed.

Or even worse....Could be only parts around the wall   

[RD]

i would like to see what a honda looks like after hitting a brick wall at 100 mph

[Ghoste]

Are you sure?  I've read a few different speeds relating to that pic now.  Most have them claim it to be 75mph which is still plenty fast enough to accordianize a car but a lot slower than 100.

[jmanscharger]

Here's the article from TDC that puts the speed at 60. (not a clear copy, sorry, too big to attach)
http://www.geocities.com/dodge_charger_68rt/Crashtest.html?1008276905583

[Ghoste]

It makes more sense to test at that speed.  It's pretty much a given that any vehicle is going to be completely destroyed at 100 so why test at that speed?  If 60 is the maximum you are "supposed" to be driving, then why not see how the car performs there?

[RT DAVE]

The article was written in 1999 and the author doesn't reveal the source of his information.  Although it is an interesting story, I think that's all we can call this article. 

[RD]

"apparently the big three engineers were able to convice the federal government that to build a car to survive an impact at this speed was impractical"

ya think that could have been a good reason to MAKE the car turn out worse than what it normally would?  Maybe there was a little reverse engineering to make the crash a little more climactic than what it should have been to stop the Feds from interfering with the bottom dollar profit margin.

[Ghoste]

Well, don't forget that safety was their big opposition to Tucker and his car.  The thought at the time was that by featuring safety items, it'd be an admission that the cars were inherantly unsafe to begin with thus killing sales or worse, leaving themselves open to lawsuits.

[andy74]

 , i have been a fan of the tucker 48 since i was a little kid,and that was exactly why he got put out of buisness,the safety and technology he had would have cost the big 3 millions just to catch up-its only the last 10 years or so that the real safety qualities of vehicles has been true and shown to the public-thanks to new media,although i remember the scandal with the gm trucks and a flame thrower or something like that?

[kikgas01]

wakko that sig looks familiar.

[Silver R/T]

its sad no matter 75 or 100

[2fast4u]

                   

[Ghoste]

What did that one hit?  I notice it's sitting low in the back too.

[kikgas01]

sompthing really hard.

[Drache]

sompthing really hard.

How about something really solid?

[440 Fanatic]

I was at a local salvage yard back in the mid eighties and happened across a wrecked car that I had trouble identifying. I got curious and went from one end to the other(a very, very short distance) several times and by the way I don't figure that it hit a train, or a brickwall at 100 mph. But, it was in really bad shape. But, I did end up identifying it by 2 ways, what I could see of the engine, which was demolished, and fairly covered, I spotted part of a rotor, for you guys not familiar with rotary engines, it is triangular shaped and has curved sides and in a strange way does what a piston does,,at any rate it was a mazda ,,then I looked for what few body curves it had left,,it was an RX-7.
That's how bad it was mangled.  At least in the pics posted on the crash tests, you can't only tell what they were, you can tell the year models.

[kikgas01]

sompthing really hard.

How about something really solid?

That too.

[LeeBoy]

Back in 1986 a guy I was in high school with hit a tractor trailor head on while passing a car at about 75 MPH with a 1973 charger . The front end was completely ripped off along with the right hand cylinder head and part of the block. He lived and only got a few cuts and bruises. He was at school the next day.

[JimShine]

Back in the 80's my dad brought me to a junkyard in Watertown Connecticut and there was a '69 Charger there that had the entire nose ripped off when it was hit by a truck. The whole front was gone from the firewall up. The remnants of the nose was laying next to the car and didn't even resemble a Charger nose anymore.

[694spdRT]

I heard of a '69 Hemi 500 that was totalled in Dodgeville, WI back in the early 80's....he apparently ran a red light and a semi took the front end completely off.  A guy I work with said he came up on the wreck and the hemi was nearly ripped out of the car.

We were talking about if and he did not know what kind of Charger it was at the time. All he said was it looked like all the other '69 Charger's around but, it didn't have flip up headlights. 

[LeeBoy]

A wrecked superbird sat behind a local garage for 20 years until about five years ago. The story was that he was drunk and missed his driveway and hit a telephone pole. He did the pretty much the same to a first year viper. He sold his two superbirds and a Daytona about five years ago as well as the viper. He has a 69 b body convertible out back under a tarp now and a 69 charger as well. A 70 R/T Challenger is in his garage now that he is restoring.

[Cncguy]

Recreate that with an AMD Charger.

[Ghoste]

Wouldn't it be great to know the VIN of the 500?  Could match the engine on the aero forum.

[375instroke]

At :20 there's video of the Charger crashing, and it had resonators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuGlVXwwPc

[6bblgt]

& torque boxes - is that the same guy that does the "turbo encabulator" bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

[hemigeno]

it had resonators.

I wonder if Chrysler's Engineers chose their victims/test subjects thinking that the additional mass and slightly stronger ridgidity of the chassis would show more favorable results... or maybe they figured a Hemicar was more likely to encounter something really solid while traveling at a high rate of fuel consumption?

[Nacho-RT74]

Recreate that with an AMD Charger.

now THAT would be interesting! LOL

[chargerman69]

this pic was in cars in barns it said it was a hemi

Time to send it to mark at graveyard carz could go with the cuda they have