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Lakota
10-30-2022, 3:36am
:)
Lakota
10-30-2022, 3:40am
It's falsely believed that Jayne Mansfield died when she was beheaded in a fatal June 1967 car accident, but the truth is even grislier — and much sadder.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jayne-mansfield-death

picture of crashed car
GTOguy
10-30-2022, 10:53am
Yep. Not beheaded, but scalped. And only 34. By all accounts a sweet lady who was trying to hold onto her career. Her daughter, CSU's star Mariska Hargitay, was in the car at the time. The car still exists.
Bill
10-30-2022, 11:05am
:)

A woman her size would crumple the sheet metal of a modern car trunk if she sat on it. I get we want more fuel efficient cars, but I don't know that razor thin sheet metal is actually an improvement in automotive engineering.
GTOguy
10-30-2022, 11:10am
A woman her size would crumple the sheet metal of a modern car trunk if she sat on it. I get we want more fuel efficient cars, but I don't know that razor thin sheet metal is actually an improvement in automotive engineering.

Actually, it is. Mainly for fuel economy, but also because nowadays, and since the late '70's, cars are designed to crumple in a crash to absorb energy to save the passengers in the 'torque box' area. Thick metal that doesn't crumple simply transmits shock and impact energy directly to the occupants. :seasix:
Lakota
10-31-2022, 4:11am
A woman her size would crumple the sheet metal of a modern car trunk if she sat on it. I get we want more fuel efficient cars, but I don't know that razor thin sheet metal is actually an improvement in automotive engineering.

She was 5 ft 5 inches, weight 128 lbs, Body Measurements, 40-21-36 inches.
Lakota
10-31-2022, 4:22am
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Actually, it is. Mainly for fuel economy, but also because nowadays, and since the late '70's, cars are designed to crumple in a crash to absorb energy to save the passengers in the 'torque box' area. Thick metal that doesn't crumple simply transmits shock and impact energy directly to the occupants. :seasix:

I remember in the late 80's or early 90's , read an article that claimed Mercedes Benz had a high death rate in crashes since they didn't crumble.

In the area Calspan had the government 35 mph crash test program. They would auction the vehicles with a salvage title. I attended an action and notice a Mercedes Benz 190. It looked like it only needed a new radiator and could be driven away. The other vehicles were a front end mess.

Years after my first car, a 55 Chevy, learned the steering wheel was called a cookie cutter. The end of the wheel was shaped like a drill bit. In a crash it would impale in the drivers chest.