Crash Chronicles 2 [Colorized]
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- čas přidán 10. 11. 2023
- Join us in this shocking exploration of vintage car wrecks, as we witness firsthand the hidden dangers lurking beneath the glossy exteriors of these automotive treasures. While these vehicles were beautiful and elegant - their mechanical quirks combined with the primitive road controls in the past led to unforeseen dangers on the road.
From the lack of safety features to engineering quirks, we'll see the consequences that stemmed from basic braking systems, rigid steering mechanisms, and structural weaknesses.
Whether you're a classic car enthusiast or simply curious about the untold stories behind these automotive gems, this video is a must-watch. Join us as we navigate the roads of nostalgia, uncovering the untold dangers that accompany the charm of classic automobiles from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Drive safe, and let's explore the past with our seatbelts on!
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If they could make modern cars, with all the safety features and technology, with the styling of the 50's and 60's, that would be awesome.
Even with cars safer than back in those days there are still more fatalities today. Too many cars on the road and too many people in this country now.
@@larryambrose2660Not true. Since 1975, the US population has increased by about 70% percent, but total traffic deaths are about 40% lower. Traffic deaths per billion vehicle miles travelled are about 90% lower. Those darn facts always ruin a good story.
Completely agree.....that’s what Hot Rodding is all about ! 😁👍🏼
not "IF" but if they "WOULD" !
I wouldnt mind a 1969 Mustang 428 SCJ with ram air, fuel injection, duel exhaust with cats made out of steel with air bags in the front and modern seat belts, i think i would absolutley love that !!! It wouldnt meet mileage requirements per federal rules, but screw them, id have what i wanted, and i think most ppl would cough up the cheaper money for it too !!! 57 chevy ppl also !!! Pontiac, Oldsmobile
More than once, Jay Leno has quipped about the older cars with the massive steel dashboards saying, "You get in a crash, and they just hose you off the dashboard and sell the car to the next guy."
You didn't want to clash with some of those rear view mirrors either.
My first car had a full metal pointy dashboard. Not something you would want to meet in a crash.
Back then the cars crumple zone was your skull...
That said...damn those cars are gorgeous.
Well said on both points.
@@TheHistoryLoungethanks, and thank you for the greT video and all your other great content!
@@daveweiss5647 You've very welcome. Thanks for your kind words - I really appreciate it!
And people's faces were sieved through the steering wheel as the one-piece steering column jutted outward and upward toward the drivers.
Not forgetting that the Air Bags were your Lungs.
It’s easy to see how some of those crashes happened. I’ve never seen so many completely bald tires like in those pics. Wow!
“The cars back then didn’t last as long?!” You’ll not find a single 2023 Ford F-150 or Nissan Altima that exists 50 years from now…
You'll be lucky if the transmission on an Altima lasts 5 years.
they're not built to. For that matter, how many 1991 Chevy Corsicas or Berettas do you see running around? Cars use a lot of planned obsolesence.
Not sure about America, but in Europe 20yr old cars quite common now, in the 60/70s they fell apart from rust
It's more related to rust. The old stuff just rusted. Manufacturers have only really got to grips with rust since roughly year 2000 or a little later. Perhaps helped further due to the fact loads of parts are now plastic.
My grandpa has an old car i think he said it was a model T or somthing he said model then a letter
What's amazing is how people gather at the scene for photos. They almost seem happy.....
They still do..except they have phone cameras now🤦♂️
Rubber neckers on the highway today are plentiful
I think it's partly because the presence of cameras would have been a novelty back then. Nowadays, cameras are everywhere but back then many people would only have their photograph taken at a special event, such as a wedding or after the birth of a baby. I also think it's because some of the older generations lived through some very tough times (eg. the world wars, the great depression etc.) and they developed a rather dark and pessimistic sense of humor. My grandfather certainly had a dark sense of humor.
After reading a lot of the comments , I watched thru the vid a second time and the comments were totally accurate...of the wrecks where the tire tread was visible , nearly all of them were completely smooth/worn down to being "slicks"...definitely a hazard !! Good observation and no exaggeration on the part of those that caught that detail while watching...and thanks for sharing !!
I was wondering on the real old pics how the heck they got in to such predicaments when the average car topped out at such low speeds, but add inertia from wet pavement and slicks and it makes a lot more sense. The one car that was caved in from the top, from a pole or tree, I couldn't help but hope the driver was grown out and not flattened inside. Thank God we have the jaws of life tools now ... and mostly plastic cars.
@@TheBackStory22add in the weight of the cares as well: they’re much heavier so inertia is working against them when stopping
no power steering, no anti-lock brakes…no stopping or swerving
None of these cars are as well built as people today seem to think they are…
Absolutely, I noticed it while watching “A Christmas Story”, when the Dad and Ralphie changed a tire.
Since you pointed it out I won't bother but even when there was visible tread, there were no lateral sipes. Any of these cars on such tires would be a handful in the wet.
I always enjoy my horrific car accident footage with some smooth lounge music and the occasional waiter dropping a tray of drinking glasses. Nice! 😉
Yeah...psychotic musical choice here...
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking It's called musical irony.
I think it's the perfect music to watch old photos like this. There used to be channel on CZcams called "Yesterday Today" that would play this song over old time photos. This takes me back and it is real relaxing too!
@@jakester455 Musical irony is clever. This is just poor taste.
(Or, more often these days, bot-generated content.)
Heartbreaking to see these rolling pieces of artwork destroyed, and even more so, knowing that a lot of the folks in these cars didn't make it 😞
STILL a ton of cars from the 50's and 60's running around and STILL looking better than anything produced today!!
That was the issue, exactly. Good looking, but more deadly.
not so,I owned a '63 caddy that I could run head long into a wall and survive..try that with ANY newer car!!@@jeanneparisot237
I've enjoyed driving vintage cars for 40 years now, but the lunacy I see on the roads today has me thinking about selling my collection. It's time for a national conversation about the horrible drivers ubiquitous on America's roads. Tonight most of the drivers I encountered were distracted, running illegal lights and/or wheels, failing to observe basic rules of the road, etc. It's just as easy to drive legally and correctly as it is to drive like an idiot. Time for major fines for the little infractions.
Sadly, not in the upper midwest and east coast.
And you know what? A lot of these cars got repaired by dads in their own backyards. Like my dad, he could repair bodywork and engine repairs. Christ, you can’t even change your oil on cars today. Too much computerized engines and plastic body work.
As a paramedic who started responding to MVCs in 1976, I witnessed the morbidity/fatality rates decrease over the years. No comparison. The older classic cars were cooler but much more dangerous/deadly.
Agreed - those old heaps were sturdier, had graceful lines, and were powerful, but you didn't fare well at all in a crash. The sudden shock & energy produced typically took lives outright as people couldn't absorb it w/out massive, often fatal injury(s).
Today, crumple zones and shock absorbing materials afford people the ability to walk away - even after catastrophic damage occurs.
I will say we've traded beauty and grace for.... ugly cookie cutter styles. Blagh...
@@759NPR Agree with you 100%... again.
the people whining about looks and ruining cars by being safer either never were involved in an actual accident that injured them or never had a loved one in an accident that injured them or killed them
style is all well and good, but i would rather live if i’m in an accident!
@@759NPRthe complaints ignore that the reason cars are “totaled” is insurance companies refusing to pay for repairs to fix the cars back to working order…it’s cheaper to pay for a replacement used car instead of paying mechanics
Autonomous vehicles will allow style to return to transportation. No injuries and no need for expensive insurance, will help bring the cost to 10X less than current.
Wow did anyone notice how many of those vehicles had totally bald tires? No wonder they crashed!
Brake failure was a common thing back in the old days
Mostly were from the 1930's. Depression Era time
Rubber was scarce in the 40s, the war machines needed it.
Ya that right I noticed that too...
Balloons. A lot of balloons.
My '66 Galaxie has lasted longer than most of my newer vehicles I've owned. I also don't just park my Galaxie, I drive it almost everyday.
It was original until I got a hold of it. I've since updated some things on it but it was factory the day I bought it some odd years ago.
Dual reservoir brake master cylinder and discs on the front, and a bigger, newer engine along with a new trans.
Still cheaper than repairing a newer vehicle.
I'm an auto body repairer that started out 45 years ago in the early days of my career it wasn't uncommon to repair cars that people had died in the damage to them wasn't that great you just had to smack your head on the hard dashboard or go thru the windscreen now the cars will literary destroy themselves and leave the cabin area intact to save your life just wear a seat belt and you have a very good chance of surviving
I attended the three-week class at my driver's school during the early 1980s. Some of us loved Thursday because it was the day the school showed us the vintage news reels from the 1950s that were put together by the police departments and state troopers. Those reels showed everything, including the dead and mangled bodies, screaming drivers and passengers trapped in the wrecked cars, and such. The instructors hoped that those news reels would instil the stronger driving discipline in us prior to obtaining the driver's licence.
One memorable part that jumped out at me was a female driver who got submarined under the dashboard as the body crumpled up from the frontal collision. She was screaming and crying while the police officers, fire fighters, and mechanics were trying to figure out how to extract her. Her upper legs were visibly snapped in half and bent in wrong way.
It would be awesome to see the old reels today but unfortunately our stupid censors won't let us see them I think if the millennials saw them films they would drive better today
There is nothing, repeat; NOTHING that will make "young people" behave with maturity and responsibility. Sorry, sad fact!!@@shawnaburns5158
The kids of today are far too soft to see such things. The parents would freak out and sue the school or some other stupid thing like that!! I have one last child at home, turning 18 next year and I can tell you I didn't raise my kids to be totally soft. I told them the truth from day one! Never lied to them, showed them life as it is in all its gruesome glory. End result???????? My kids have a very healthy respect for life and death and are very upstanding citizens. As bad as things are, we cannot coddle our kids from it!! If you pull a butterfly out of its cocoon it will shrivel up and die. If you let it struggle out of its cocoon it becomes strong and flies away into the world. Kids are the same. If you raise them weak and defenseless they won't know how to survive if something bad happens!! And no, I'm not trying to say I'm a perfect parent because I am not. No parent is perfect!! However, my kids are ready for anything life throws their way, good or bad and that is peace of mind plain and simple!! People, just stop coddling your kids!! You are ruining their lives!!!!!!!
The earlier Mechanized Death and other vids are available on youtube.
@@erroneousbatchAnd Red Asphalt.
Beautiful, haunting, and brilliantly done. I'm very proud of your work. My emotions went from deep sadness--to laughter (the "nothing to see here" one) to deep sadness again. I don't have the words.
My high school driver ed teacher in 1972 told us we'd be seeing a movie called signal 30 and we'd never forget it. He was right!
1:13 Reminds me of the fatal Jayne Mansfield crash of 1967, but I don't think that's a wig in this photo!
same thought here.
Beautiful hair those ...right...
That's a mannnn baby
These vintage cars looked like they were built like a tank but absolutely fell apart when wrecked. I grew up witnessing how these rigidly built behemoths ended up and so many occupants were seriously injured along the way.
They certainly were built like a tank, but how will we want to define that? The engineering was never for collision in mind. It's clear as day when you look under the cars- no crosswebbing, just frame rails connected by a weak floorboard.
You could get these cars to '70s level with a little additional strengthening in sections.
2:14 is a perfect example. A shell on two rails...
And I was led to believe you couldn't wreck those cars when I was younger.
That's what my dad would say.
In low mph crashes it didn't cause much damage besides maybe a small dent. Once you get above 20-30 mph that's when the classic cars would begin to break apart.
@@Calc_Ulator It's not all about strength, at least when it comes to occupant safety. A sturdy car that holds up in a wreck can be a death trap. The reason new cars are totaled so easily is because they are designed to crumple and bend so that the people inside are subjected to a less sudden amount of G-forces in a wreck. Think about it like this, you can build a car like a tank, but there's a reason people who drive tanks wear helmets, its because a tank doesn't give in a collision.
Many of these cars were still around in the 1970's and by then very affordable. They were greatly improved with a little tinkering and adding an 8-track tape deck and a pair of speakers.
Oh joy, cassette tapes AND a pair of speakers, what a time to be alive!
@@13Gangland If you're gonna be sarcastic, at least get the facts right...he wrote "8-track tape deck". Have you ever tried sticking a cassette into an 8-track deck? Do you even know the DIFFERENCE between an 8-track and a cassette? Times change. AM. Then AM/FM. Then 8-track, cassette, CD, MP3, then a chip in your head so you don't even need all that tech in your vehicle. Yep! Future's lookin' rosy. Enjoy!
@@13Ganglandit was a wonderful time no need to go to auto electrician and so little to go wrong, I had a beautiful hill man hunter english car 30yrs ago made in 70s ran like a dream and I could work on every part of that car, unlike today's car where break discs and oil change is all you can do at home
@leewilliams9904 I don't care about modern cars. I care about fast cars. I have a 2006 Dodge Viper SRT10. I despise modern cars.
I was only making fun of the op sounding thrilled talking about 8-tracks and adding speakers to a car. All cars old or modern deserve a Bluetooth stereo, no need for the "nostalgia" goggles to be kept on forever.
The thing about old 70s muscle cars, or all 70s cars in general, where very clunky, super heavy, and motors were V8s, but only output at max 360-380Hp. We have surpassed what engines are capable of, even without modern technology.
@brucestaples4510 Hahahah what a stupid response. You can keep that old vintage crap right as it as. Me personally, I need the Bluetooth Sony stereo with some 10"-12" subs in the back being blared by two 500 watt amps. We have surpassed wagon speakers.
People so well-dressed and clean streets (aside from the wreckage).
No one in yoga pants or pajamas in the middle of the day
Lots of white people in those "historically" black cities back then.
We didn't have the strength of diversity yet
In many of the pictures, the car tires are quite smooth and bald. With the added fact that these were bias ply tires with old rubber technology, it is possible that this is a contributing factor to the crashes.
Yup, I noticed that too.
You can thank WW2 for bald tires because most rubber went to support the war.
My Grandmother was a nurse in the 1930's and she told me about a woman she took care of that had been in an auto accident and her face was was really messed up because she had gone through the windshield. She didn't tell me any more about it. So one thing we can all be grateful for is something as "simple" as safety glass.
With all due respect to the narrator said these cars didn't last very long. I have been to shows where I have seen cars from the 19teens and the 1920's and beyond. Another words cars that are a hundred years old or slightly younger, see if any these modern cars will be around in a hundred years I very highly doubt it. I drive a 1965 Ford Mustang and I can tell you she has been a darn durable car. I can say that also because I was rear ended once and my car had minor damage the car that hit me was totaled. My car fared better than I did. I LOVE vintage and classic cars. Anyway interesting vid and also sad knowing many lives were lost and some wonderful cars. One thing I don't understand is why people had to pose around these wrecks, it's rather on the macabre side. I hope you will keep posting images from the past in color.
So tragic to see all those beautiful 1930s cars destroyed! Especially the Duesenberg? Hudson? on its roof😢. My father restored vintage cars & so I got to see a lot of these cars featured in the video in person in various stages of restoration. The Vintage Car Club members had such beautiful cars.
Just remember, they were not vintage classics back then.
Many of these classic cars and trucks are very coveted and preserved. They will outlast almost all of the vehicles of today.
All things being equal, modern cars will outlast the older cars. But, more effort is put into preserving those older cars because they're more stylish and have a lot more character.
@@jreagins1,
Modern cars are designed with obsolescence in mind. Plastic bumpers that are barely attached don't protect the vehicle. Endless electronic components that easily fail. The classic and vintage vehicles will easily survive being submerged in water. Not so with modern vehicles.
You can pretend all you want but modern cars are overpriced junk compared to classic and vintage vehicles.
@@freedomforever6718
"Plastic bumpers that are barely attached don't protect the vehicle."
Correct and they never were designed to protect the car ..they are designing to protect the DRIVER not the car by absorbing some of the impact..
In fact the current plastic bumper is only a cover there is a steel beam behind it and behind that 2 shock absorbers...
too true !!
@@MickeyMousePark ,
You don't have a problem with designed obsolescence. Got it. Cars don't last as long as they used to on purpose.
But just like Mickey Mouse you are all make-believe.
Fashion passes quick, but style lasts for every generation ❤️
Right?
Notice the lack of morbid obesity of the people as well.
Great old Pictures and I find it interesting that some of the wrecks look like they were traveling at very high speeds yet the cars shown aren't capable of them and the bent and torn metal is horrendous and there seems to always be many people present at the filming of the wrecks and are enjoying themselves. It's an education about how people were back then and I enjoy these videos very much and appreciate all the work that goes into them.
Yeah really, people mugging for the camera with big ol smiles. Sort of reminds me of people of today with their damn cell phones...
I knew a guy that had 4 or 5 shoe boxes of just Black and white DWI accidents and racing fatalities. That should explain a lot.
They didn't have the likes of CZcams to gawp at like us lol
At 2:17, those slick tires on all fours couldn't possibly have contributed to this!
brother you ain't kiddin - those are some genuine maypops if ever there were some !!!
There are a LOT of bald tires in this clip.
Guessing this may have been during the war a lot of wrecks were caused by people being unable to maintain their vehicles due to supply shortages
Looking at these pictures makes me wonder how many of these accidents were fatal. I’m so glad we have so many safety features now.
The picture shown at 1:19 is of the leading lady in law and order's mom. The red hair in photo is a wig, though the mother, her boyfriend, and the driver all died in the accident. Lady from law and order and her two siblings were lying down, asleep, in the back seat. They believe that's why they survived bc they were lying down. That's why she has that scar on her face. She was an actress or singer, if I'm remembering correctly. That's why big rigs have that one lower bar of metal with the reflectors on them. They're called Mansfield bars, I think, after the mother. I'm honestly too lazy and sleepy to go get the names. This is by memory. But you can look up why rigs have that lower bar now. It's to prevent people from being decapitated. Which is what happened to those in the front seat, or at least the mother. There's a few videos on CZcams on that accident. It's really sad anytime there's an accident and death.
@@brandicox1857the Mansfield crash occurred in a mid 1960s Chrysler and half the roof was torn off, this is an early 1950s Hudson. Don’t know if that’s a wig in the photo, a scalp or an entire corpse but it’s unpleasant.
@@CycolacFan Pretty sure its a wig or there would be quite an amount of blood present.
They’re great if you enjoy getting impaled by the steering column, or getting knees sheared-off by the dash. Practically nil occupant protection. I’d still love a 1957 De-Soto or Dodge. 👍🏻
I had 57 De Soto convertible. White with red interior.
Either a '56 Bel-Air (my birth year) or a '58 Impala.
Newer cars are so much better!
I mean yeah like the 1991 Ford Sierra where the steering wheel would decapitate the head?
Or 1997 Citroen Saxo that preferred to pulverize your legs like a bad piece of beef?
Or 1986 Volkswagen Santana (and T3!) that likes to collapse the front end past all the way past the rear passenger doors?
Or the early '80s Holden Commodore that played accordion the length of the vehicle?
@@Calc_Ulator true enough! I was referring to modern cars though. Generally the survivability is far greater than stuff that was around 25-30 years ago.
I’m a retired embalmer. Here is what killed 90% of the people: Look at the steering column and steering wheel! Blunt Force Trauma ! Never EVER failed! There were no seatbelts back then. Some luxury brands had a simple lap belt so your mortician could find you without having to crawl around in the mud and the blood 🩸 and the beer! #2. Rear view mirrors were not up high and out of the line of travel when the body slammed forward. They were on the dash or roofline to catch your flying noggin as it went forward into that greyhound bus sized steering wheel 🛞 and open your cranium and scull. Because no Super adhesive was invented back then, that could mount your mirror to the windshield and out of the way These cars were so heavy because the steel was not an alloy. It was pure 100% steel 1/7 inch thick! so when two of these cars would hit, there was no crumple zones! A softer Toyota can absorb a big hit! These cars were BEAUTIFUL in some cases! But only in the 1950’s because the 1940’s produced so many tanks and planes etc for the war.
YOU lucked out being born in THIS time! Back then there was no oversight for the poor bastards that got behind the wheel. Air pollution was belching out of the cars.
Apparently many people alive today are still affected by LEADED gasoline fumes.. and entire generations of people are “slightly” stupider..
Great as usual. That score you have playing over this is a real ear worm. When I hear it, I know it's your video.
Thanks, @iflick7235 - The music is a little odd, but it does seem to fit with this topic and photo selection. (I agree that it gets into your head!)
I really like the backing music to this video. I would like to know who it is
@@douglasolomon5191 Intractable by Kevin MacLeod
@@douglasolomon5191 Hi Douglas - The song from this video is called, "Intractable," by artist, Kevin MacLeod. (I'm glad you like it.)
as for your opening comment. Not just cars but everything was classier 100 years ago. Things were more handmade. Things were built to last. Today we have disposable junk that is all 'the same'as all the other disposable crap. If you don't like disposable crap you pretty much have to be wealthy
the cars looked wonderful, but had no crumple zones the whole car would crush like a slinky and because they were so heavy the damage was horrible. Head on's and t-bones were brutal back then, our cars are cheap plastic computers now but they do protect the cab much better and distribute the energy around the frame not through it.
I had forgotten just how purple the cars were back then.
No seat belts. No break away glass. Once you see the windshield broken you know they were badly injured.
The photo of the wrecked Duesenberg really made me groan…😮
I appreciate the "elevator music" if you will while looking at mangled metal. Kind of like the elevator scene in the blues brothers movie while evading the cops. Unsettling situations can be consumed if the music is gentle.
Amazing photographs. I know the photographs are not all the best quality, but in some, it's quite clear to see the tyres are totally bald ! Great video - thanks. Take care 🙂
Remember the scare movies in Drivers Ed??
Red Asphalt.
@@ZombiedustXXX Mechanized Death, Signal 30
The sad irony is that these cars look so substantial from the outside
For all who are nostalgic an hour behind the wheel of one of these old cars would cure that. No power steering, stiff shocks, poor tires, yeah fun.
Cars built before the early 70's back had class, rolling artwork. Post WWII they just keep getting better.
You can easily tell from looking at most of them which ones were fatal.
4:36
Does not look like many people survived.
Yep, a shelf life of maybe 100 years, max.
Don't know what the music is, but on these videos it's very period calming. I like it.
All those cracked and broken windshields were tell-tale signs of serious head trauma...many, long before seat belts were a thing.
It’s sad to see all those beautiful old cars wreck
No seat belts, no crumple zones, no airbags, no ABS, no way to survive many of these accidents. My modern car might be boring but it will hopefully save my life in the event of any accident.
What if a meteorite hit it..😅
Wow. Seeing the jagged glass in that 54 car made me think. Rode in a 53 Buick as a little kid. No safety glass or seatbelts.
The Capitol Cab vehicle had no tread left on the tires.
take a look @0:46 seconds,that's a taxi with bald tyres,no way you'd get away with that now.
I'll take the styling of these cars and ease of maintenance over the new cars any day. No electronics or charging ports are needed. Just give me seatbelts and AM-FM Radio.
Never knew Purple was such a popular color back then. LOL !
Love the soundtrack, nothing like death and destruction to a nice jazzy beat!
6:01 If I saw a huge black rectangle in the middle of the road, I'd probably have crashed trying to avoid it, too.
Yeah, I was wondering what that was.
so i'm not the only one who noticed -- and wondered about -- that item.
Might of been a blackout to cover up a wreck victim
Everyone so well dressed. Even n jeans n work clothes people look presentable.
Collapsible steering columns, seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, even disc brakes, are all improvements that have been made to cars the last 60 years.
Also power brakes and steering.
One thing holds true from then to now. The "How the hell did You manage that factor" still exists ! Love the old.
To those who say “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” I say good!
Enjoy being cooked by your lithium batts boy.
Oh and GPS tracked by the government and/or killed as they can control your car {NSA program- thanks Edward Snowden for exposing! True American} or which if they do not approve of your driving habits, now will also have the capacity to disable your vehicle [coming 2026 for the US].
I am averse to 1984 style of totalitarian living.
The boston 1938 wreck has Goodyear Kojaks fitted. Not surprising it crashed.
Old school 💯%. I went to Cuba in 2019 😍🥰 All those awesome old cars!💓
The juxtaposition of the snappy jazz with people's misery is interesting.
Accidents back in the day were social events. Everyone including the kids came out and based on the looks on their faces had a good time !
Yes, I was gonna say...today if there is a wreck, "caution tape" is strung across the road 300 feet away and local news crews are zooming in with their cameras from behind the "tape". I understand this practice. We don't need a lot of people getting in the way of first responders doing their job.
Wait until you learn about public executions in the 19th century & before
My dad and his college friends happened upon the crash scene of James Dean after the police arrived.
Wow!
Whats crazy is Dean died but his passenger got launched out of the vehicle and ended up surviving(then got killed in another car crash around 25 years later).
@@redtra236 That's awful. I didn't know that.
@0:52 - There's my nana's popcorn popper in the window.
at least five from Massachusetts…so glad our bad driving reputation is being shown as true even 90-100 years ago
Some of those crashes were for sure fatalities.... The imagery though is on most here exquisite, superb photojournalism.
Some of those crashes were for sure head scratchers on how they occurred.
Finally excellent trip down photography memory lane even if some the images look morbid.
Two things struck me. So many of the vehicles has totally bald tyres and nearly all of the people in the pictures were slim.
Fake Junk food didn't exist & people used to walk more back then.
These photos help you understand the need for design improvements to provide a safer automobile.
Also, check out the tires. Most are slick. That’s probably why inspections became mandatory. (we do t I directions any longer but we did for decades.)
Did anyone see the photo of decapitated redhead at the 1:11 mark....Jesus Christ...
2:16 Four BALD tires! Look at those rear ones!
It said that it was 1938, and the Depression was still going on. Nobody could afford new tires.
I learned how to drive in a 1956 Chevrolet Bel-Air. No power steering, no power brakes. I'll take that vehicle any day. 👍
What a great car that would've been.
@@TheHistoryLounge It was monumental in my life. And I was fortunate to be a teenager in the '60s. Perfect muscle car timing ! 👍
I grew up in the 70s and remember people saying that doors would open by themselves rounding turns
I love cars from the 30s, 40s and 50s. They have class.
Class but very little safety features.
Did anybody else notice that many of these vehicles had bald tires? Would having decent tires avoided these mishaps? 🤔 Love the styling of them old cars, opposed to all today that look so much alike.
The death rate per miles traveled was appallingly high then
Exactly! Inertia & internal injuries often meant occupants never made it to a hospital!
@@stevie-ray2020 You say hospital like it was actually a meaningful thing to go get staff infection and MRSA.
Those doctors will hold your hand until you quit paying them. Once you stop paying them, they turn and walk the other way; where were they taking you?
Gotta love the tire treads (or the lack of) on some of these
The color of these photos is Beautiful
I love the line and style of the older cars plus the ease to repair them and modify them. That said most was not even close to safe compared today. Of course to be fair they was not made to go as fast or be in heavy traffic like today. I love to see people do what I have done to my 53 Chevy 5 window truck. It had a top speed of 55mph, shitty drum brakes, single master cylinder meaning if one brake line failed you had zero brakes, crap suspension, no turn signals and only one brake light with no seat belts and more. Now it has 4 wheel power disk brakes with a split master, a modern suspension, seat belts, power steering and every thing a more modern car would have minus the airbag and all the emissions computer crap no one wants. Plus AC is a big bonus too. Every part on my truck down to every bolt is mass produced today as people love restoring them. Resto Mods are the best. It drive as good as a new truck and it is 70 years old.
You know it’s not hard to repair or modify new cars right?
@@flight2k5 way to much shit on them not needed and to many plastic parts. They will never be around 100 years from now like the old ones made of steel.
@@jvmiller1995 😂🤣 like old cars aren’t around without maintenance.
@@flight2k5 sun rotted plastic parts need more than little love. Also I am mot referring to maintaining a nice car. I am talking cutting the tree down growing out the engine bay drag one out of a field and make it drive and look good. It is just a different era. I do not need a computer to tell why it has no fuel or spark. Very easy to figure out.
I am not against new cars but I certainly prefer the classics
@@flight2k5 Justas i suspect you are nothing nut a damn troll. Be gone you DA.
2:15, severely bald tires, wet road = Crash!
That one had the lady’s hair hanging out of the car and looked like her head blurred 😳
Incredible photography!
No seat belts, metal dashboards, steering wheels that were a wheel on a shaft pointing at your chest, suspension and steering was terrible, many cars had no tempered/safety glass windshields until the 50’s. But they were built like tanks.
bigredfred, you're right about them being built like tanks but it's all relative. You may be driving a tank but that car you crash with is also a tank.
Back then all cars didn't try to look like Toyotas
Strange that I check the tread of the tires on these accidents , least half of the vehicles have bald tires.
very relaxing, nice scenery.
good video thank you i love the old cars seems to me thy just needed better stopping power😉👍
I agree!
So sad, most of the people in these photographs are no longer with us.
Amazed at how close the rubber neckers are
GREAT, Thanks for your video.
6:00, a fatality?
😂that's the acme street hole from the roadrunner 😂😂
Like polio, the old days were not all good. I heard that the annual death rate nowadays from car crashes is similar to what it was decades earlier, though the population is much greater. I'm 74, and remember riding in cars with no seatbelts, much less airbags, and hard dashes with lots of protruding knobs. Modern cars are super safe, at least as compared to the oldies.
The Fashion & Clothing was just as interesting if not even more fascinating than the wrecked vehicles.
Watching Mechanized Death in highschool freaked me out for awhile...
I grew up in the 60’s on a very deadly section of 305w in Paducah Ky.
I recall that no one wore seatbelts, drove way too fast and when those steel tanks crashed it was incredibly loud.
Many times we would find one person in the car and several dead passengers 100-200 feet or more from the car.
People romanticize the cars but they were unforgiving death traps.
If you crash at high speed in a modern car you're likely to die too though so regardless of what you drive being careful and not speeding/making unsafe maneuvers is the best way to keep yourself safe.
Just like today, it only takes 1idiot...
The sheer number of bald and/or mismatched tyres on these cars is telling...
Oh you watch 'Just Rolled In' too?
I don't think you have *any* how bad shape most cars on the road are in. MIND boggling.
Also, cross-ply tyres didn't exactly have the same grip as modern radials either!
@@stevie-ray2020 True, but we can excuse that on the basis that they weren't invented then.
@@Calc_Ulator Yes I do watch "Just Rolled In" too, but I need to cut down due to RSI in my neck from constantly shaking my head! 😆 The scary thing for me is that even though I wouldn't drive any of the shitheaps on that channel, I am in many ways beholden to them because they share the road with me...
This was a hard one to watch...Thank you.
I guess back in 40's and 50's every wreck was an opportunity for a neighborhood photo shoot.
6:58
What was that?!!! Why is there an old lady’s head in the bushes????
minute 7:17 - 1933 Chrysler Imperial Lebaron Dual Cowl Phaeton - somebody's insurance company paid thru the nose for that one !!!
It depends. A lot of states didn't require insurance back then. I believe Connecticut didn't require it until the late '60's, early '70's.
I'm not talking about liability coverage - the Imperial most assuredly had property insurance - the owner had it insured against loss or damage - each one of those was hand made to customer spec and it looks to be totaled. What is interesting is the quality of the street light that was knocked down - look at the base and the lenses on the shade - a real work of art. @@tamer1773