That crash test footage is from 1992. The Commodore had 300kg of ballast in the boot and wash crashed into the concreate block at 100km/h It was a commisioning test for the lab.
The VB-VC-VK-VH Commodores were horrific flexible pieces of crap. I worked extensively on them in the day and I could never understand the attraction. Horrible antiquated engines and gearboxes. The back of the front bucket seats, particularly the drivers seat would eventually drop through the floor. They had no additional plating there, and would develop stress cracks where the bucket seats were bolted to the floor. If a towbar was fitted to them without additional bracing back from the spring/shock towers to the rear of boot floor they would get nasty creases in the quarter panels as the additional weight of towing would try and pull the rear end down through the boot floor and quarter panels. The leaking fish bowl headlights was also a common problem Holden never fixed in any of those model years and made a fortune from spare headlights and lenses.
@@davesclassicgaragetours Be lucky if I saw one a week and I'm on the road extensively. How many are left on the road in Germany or England from whence the design came from? They were not anywhere as good as what preceded them here and unfit for any decent towing ability.
@@erroneouscode None over there which is why i was so astounded by their popularity when I arrived on these shores. I reckon I could pop down to Preston Market car park here in Melbourne this morning and pick off 2 or 3 right away
SKILLS and EXPERIENCE and as well as having proper tools and equipment.
That crash test footage is from 1992. The Commodore had 300kg of ballast in the boot and wash crashed into the concreate block at 100km/h It was a commisioning test for the lab.
The VB-VC-VK-VH Commodores were horrific flexible pieces of crap. I worked extensively on them in the day and I could never understand the attraction. Horrible antiquated engines and gearboxes. The back of the front bucket seats, particularly the drivers seat would eventually drop through the floor. They had no additional plating there, and would develop stress cracks where the bucket seats were bolted to the floor. If a towbar was fitted to them without additional bracing back from the spring/shock towers to the rear of boot floor they would get nasty creases in the quarter panels as the additional weight of towing would try and pull the rear end down through the boot floor and quarter panels. The leaking fish bowl headlights was also a common problem Holden never fixed in any of those model years and made a fortune from spare headlights and lenses.
yet still so many remain as dailies
@@davesclassicgaragetours Be lucky if I saw one a week and I'm on the road extensively. How many are left on the road in Germany or England from whence the design came from? They were not anywhere as good as what preceded them here and unfit for any decent towing ability.
@@erroneouscode None over there which is why i was so astounded by their popularity when I arrived on these shores. I reckon I could pop down to Preston Market car park here in Melbourne this morning and pick off 2 or 3 right away