Hi from Sydney, Australia. From mid 1973 to end production of the full size 1976 cars from all 5 GM divisions any coupe, sedan, or wagon (but not a convertible, nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousines) all could be had with GM's patented Air Cushion Restraint System. ARCS was hideously expensive for the time, out of 19.4 million sold big full size GM cars over a 3.5-year period a mere 10,231 cars were fitted with them and near 7,000 were California government cars. So very , very , rare indeed. I have a right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman (a special model) , it had been ordered from an aussie, Sydney GM Holden dealership, sent out as a CKD kit (completely knocked down) to be built as a factory RHD car. It has ARCS, also the equally rare GM MAXTRAC traction control & ABS combined unit. Back then from 1971 to 1974 we Aussies could only order either a Buick Riviera, or a Caddy Fleetwood as RHD cars. I've been the second owner of my black '74 Talisman now for 42 years. Your US NTSB in 2018 found in junkyards near 80 GM cars with ACRS, they crash tested ALL of them & after fitting a new battery. EVERY car's airbag went off AND, all the crash test dummies fared better than in any modern car recently tested due to their massive strength and the Air Cushion Restraint System.
Hi from Sydney, Australia. from mid 1973 to end production of the full size 1976 cars from all 5 GM divisions any coupe, sedan or wagon (but not a convertible, nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Limousines) all could be ordered with GM's patented Air Cushion Restraint System. ARCS was hideously expensive for the time, out of 19.4 million sold big full size GM cars over a 3.5 year period a mere 10,231 cars were fitted with them and near 7,000 were Californian government cars. So very , very , rare indeed. I have a right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman (a special model) , it had been ordered from an aussie, Sydney GM Holden dealership, sent out as a CKD kit (completely knocked down) to be built as a factory RHD car. If has ARCS, also the equally rare GM MAXTRAC traction control & ABS combined unit. Back then from 1971 to 1974 we Aussies could only order either a Buick Riviera, or a Caddy Fleetwood as RHD cars. I've been the second owner of my black'74 Talisman now for 42 years. Your US NTSB in 2018 found in junkyards near 80 GM cars with ACRS, they crash tested ALL of them & after fitting a new battery, EVERY car's airbag went off AND all the crash test dummies fared better than in any modern car recently tested due to their massive strength and the Air Cushion Restraint System.
Nice car .had a Oldsmobile omega , same as Ventura, put a 455 Pontiac big block in it .Never got beat in that car and had many races mid 80's to mid 90's when it finally blew up .sure miss it ..should have kept it and fixed it back up.
Country hick car chase. Too bad almoat all the shots are undecranked, i.e. the camera is cranked at 22 or 20 or 18 or even lower frame rates instead of 24 fps, to speed things up.
That was my grandma's Ventura they stole. She bought it on her 65th birthday and they stole it. She was crying when she got home, groceries were ruined, ice cream and butter melted . Luckily the insurance paid her out and she bought her a new one - same color and everything. She also bought new groceries.
eric zerkle, they cut the top of the 4 door sedan, but it is illegal to drive a 4 door open model car, including 1951 Kaiser and Frazier, and 1961-67 Lincoln Continental 4 door convertibles.
+LincolnTek it was an option for Oldsmobiles but they had larger steering wheels if the option was ordered on a car. There are pictures of this larger steering wheel in the Oldsmobile sales brochures.
In a pre airbag era car no less. I'm perplexed, maybe I should be paying more attention to Biden or Turdwater or Klaus or Macaroni in France. Cuz Im jes not gettin it yall.
The old drive a cop car under a semi and chop the roof off trick.The epitome of a cheesy car chase movie.Well at least they were wrecking mostly AMC cop cars, rather than Mopars. I'll give them that.
Hi from Sydney, Australia. Watch the clip again , slow motion it, and you will see the bigger 2 person one does deploy but down lower WHY well in a GM Air Cushion Restraint System car there are sensors in the front seats, 3for a bench seat and 2 for a split bench, if the sensors detect occupants sitting there it will deploy higher up whether kids or adults. Very expensive option available for just 3.5 years, mid '73 until end '76. Out of 19.4 million big full size GM cars made in that period just 10,231 were ACRS equipped, and 7,000 were Californian government cars , so a very rare option indeed. I have owned a GM Holden, Australia built right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman, it has ACRS, plus GM's MAXTRAC (abs& traction control)
Sorry, you are mistaken. This was the optional grille for the Ventura Custom with the exterior decor package. I have owned two, both hatchbacks; one Canadian with a SBC 307 and the other, ironically, an American cop car with a Pontiac 350 and heavy duty everything. Most Ventura Customs that I have seen have this type of grille in '73.
I saw it.It was 1990 when Camaros and Trans Ams got them.I had no idea they were around back then.Had to be rare.Hell most cars only had lap belts until the late 60s and nobody I knew wore them.
From Sydney, Australia, yes it was, GM invented them, patented as ACRS (air cushion restraint system), also available via GM was MAXTRAC a joint abs & traction control system. Both were ultra-advanced for the time, and mercury switch G-force sensors around the car measured / detected when there was an issue and deployed whatever was necessary. I have a right hand drive '74 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman, sent here to GM Holden's Pagewood, Sydney factory as a CKD Kit car to be built factory RHD, (completely knocked down, i.e. shipped out as parts to build a car with) it also has GM's pre-tensioning seat belts that lock in place around your stomach so you cannot slide down under the dash, also when the g-force sensors detect an issue the upper half winds you back into your seat secured like in a racing car harness. All of these items were hideously expensive and rarely ordered, I've owned my black '74 Talisman now for 42 years, its first owner ordered EVERY option except two, a thermometre on the driver's exterior mirror, and a sunroof. New this elaborate car was the price of a basic suburban home.
There is clear trick..... The interior of the airbags car ...is fully white........ While the chasing one was showing dark blue .... How come..... plus..... mercedes launched the first airbag car in the world in 1981 with S-Class ... the movie was produced in 1976 ... how come ....???? Please any mental explanation....????
From Sydney, Australia. GM, no not Mercedes, invented and patented the airbag in 1972, offered to the buying public in mid 1973, shown and described in all the 1974, 1975,1976 GM car brochures for the full-size cars, not the mid-size. Available in any coupe, sedan or wagon, but not in convertibles nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousines. Patented as ACRS air cushion restraint system. More advanced than any other makers unit, then or NOW, as multiple mercury switch G-force sensors around the car measured / detected what was happening and deployed the airbags at lower pressure for a low-speed impact and higher pressure for a high-speed impact, there are occupant detector sensors, 3 on a front bench seat , and 1 each on a bucket seat , or split bench seat. If there are no detected occupants on the passenger side , the airbag will deploy at a lower pressure and lower down, watch the film again and in slow speed and you will see the bigger passenger side one deploy and lower down as the "bum" detectors did not register any occupants sitting there. GM at the same time also had MAXTRAC, a combined abs & traction control system, also pre-tensioning anti dive seat belts too. Hideously expensive, out 0f 19.4million cars sold in the US over the 3-year period, just a mere 10,231 GM ACRS equipped cars were made/sold. 7,000 of them were Californian government vehicles. There are a number of documentaries now on you tube that are from the time interviewing people who had been in GM ACRS cars that crashed. More recently in 2018 the US NTSB hunted down almost 80 1970's GM ACRS equipped cars to see if the system still worked, as there have been a growing number of fatalities and terrible injuries from more modern airbag equipped cars where the airbags did not deploy, Mercedes Benz was near the top of the list of cars where airbags did not deploy. So, after the hunt for the rare GM ACRS cars, NTSB fitted them with new batteries to make the circuit operate they started smash testing them with crash test dummies. Using multiple mercury switches meant few electronics to ever fail after near 5 decades, every one of the old dead beat cars airbags deployed, and did the job very well indeed coupled with the car's massive construction the outcome was better than any modern car test results. The NTSB decided to then send the cars into the crash barriers at way higher speeds than normal to see if there was an upper limit, this is when NTSB engineers found that the cars inner controls deployed the airbags at higher pressure if the speed/impact was to occur at a higher speed, this exceeds any modern vehicle no matter what the brand or its purchase price. Furthermore, the old GM cars that were equipped with the pre-tensioning seatbelts will pull your upper torso back into the seat, plus the automatically locking lap half stops under dash porpoising restrained the crash test dummies better than any modern vehicles seat belts. When studying the old GM cars after the tests, the NTSB engineers found that the front 1 foot crumple zone did its job perfectly, and it had been helped by the 6" travel on the massive hydraulic shock/impact absorbing rams that allowed that would leave the body panels damage free at the US federally mandated 5 mph. Using remaining cars, the NTSB engineers found that this GM bumper system would basically leave the cars damage free at between 15 and 20 mph, they massively exceeded their required 5 mph, but this helped in real-world high-speed impacts as it wiped off energy better than any other vehicles recently tested and leaving the passenger area as if there had been no accident at all. Same as in this movie. I have been the second owner now for 42 years of a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman which is a special model also only offered for '74, '75, '76. My black one was ordered by its first owner from a Sydney GM Holden dealer as a CKD Kit car (completely knocked down i.e. parts) to built as a factory right hand drive car at GM Holdens Aust Sydney plant at Pagewood near the airport. My top-of-the-line car has all THREE of these GM systems, ACRS, MAXTRAC & pre-tensioning seat belts. At car shows people are amazed, but the Aussie RHD glove box manual has photos & describes all 3 of these systems, additionally the big 18" x 15" multi page deluxe brochure spends 6 pages to describe and depict ACRS, a further 4 pages for each of Maxtrac and the seat belts. For 1974 Cadillacs equipped with ACRS came with lovely leather steering wheels, which had 4 "arms" to join it to the central airbag hub and on the 4 arms there were 4 brushed aluminium horn press buttons and the central hub is nicely made. However, for 1975 and 1976 this wheel disappeared and a soft feel plastic version appeared for its hon press buttons small raised plastic rectangles appeared in roughly the same spots as the alloy ones of its '74 leather faced predecessor, additionally the full leather interior of the '74 Talisman was not available for the 2 final years of the Talisman and other internals had been de-contented also for the 2 final years, I know why, to lower the purchase price. My '74 Cadillac Talisman's first owner bought this for himself, and a "cheaper" standard wheelbase w100 Mercedes 600 for his wife. He showed me the new car purchase invoices from Sanderson's Mercedes Benz dealership in Rose Bay, Sydney, and the Cadillac Talisman's invoice from Vern Pott's GM Holden dealership in Rose Bay, Sydney, and yes, a 1974 Cadillac Talisman with 'the lot" exceeds the purchase price of a new 1974 w100 Merc' swb 600.
Lmao, weak add post 71 shit boxes. From 72-86 you can probably count every production American car that could run a 14 second 1/4 mile time on one hand. Shits just sad. My 1989 formula firebird with a tpi 305 got down to a 14.2 and people were impressed with that. My box stock 2002 ws6 6speed Trans Am ran a 12.8 and that was with Cooper street tires and a 2.0 60ft. I got it in 2012 with 33k miles on it. The lt1 was pretty good and the LS family is great. The TPI was pretty good but the TPI intake was designed for a 305 not a 350. GM designed the TPI to go in the corvette but the GM higher ups didn't want a 305 in a corvette (though some were built and sent to California). The 350 tries to suck a tip flat at 4000rpm while the 305 will keep on pulling to right at 5k rpm. I race a formul a 350 that was exactly like mine, same rear gears and even same tires, but he had better exhaust and alot better condition car and I beat him every time we raced. I only won because we both had TPI cars and his fell on its face because it was a 350 while mine kept pulling because it was a 305. I'm damn sure glad the HP wars are back. My 89 now has a fully race built stroker 383 with forged internals and dart heads and has been converted to a 6 speed manual from a Lt1 car and has a 2001 SS rear axle. The 02 has a few mods, it just passed 57k miles and traps 129mph in the 1/4.
Ill be damned, 3:25 did not know a 74 Delta 88 had airbags.
Very nice this movie, specially with best scenes pursuit Pontiac Ventura vs cops idiots
Hi from Sydney, Australia. From mid 1973 to end production of the full size 1976 cars from all 5 GM divisions any coupe, sedan, or wagon (but not a convertible, nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousines) all could be had with GM's patented Air Cushion Restraint System. ARCS was hideously expensive for the time, out of 19.4 million sold big full size GM cars over a 3.5-year period a mere 10,231 cars were fitted with them and near 7,000 were California government cars. So very , very , rare indeed.
I have a right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman (a special model) , it had been ordered from an aussie, Sydney GM Holden dealership, sent out as a CKD kit (completely knocked down) to be built as a factory RHD car. It has ARCS, also the equally rare GM MAXTRAC traction control & ABS combined unit. Back then from 1971 to 1974 we Aussies could only order either a Buick Riviera, or a Caddy Fleetwood as RHD cars. I've been the second owner of my black '74 Talisman now for 42 years.
Your US NTSB in 2018 found in junkyards near 80 GM cars with ACRS, they crash tested ALL of them & after fitting a new battery. EVERY car's airbag went off AND, all the crash test dummies fared better than in any modern car recently tested due to their massive strength and the Air Cushion Restraint System.
Very nice movie
3:35 since when does a 73' have airbags?!
Hi from Sydney, Australia. from mid 1973 to end production of the full size 1976 cars from all 5 GM divisions any coupe, sedan or wagon (but not a convertible, nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Limousines) all could be ordered with GM's patented Air Cushion Restraint System. ARCS was hideously expensive for the time, out of 19.4 million sold big full size GM cars over a 3.5 year period a mere 10,231 cars were fitted with them and near 7,000 were Californian government cars. So very , very , rare indeed.
I have a right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman (a special model) , it had been ordered from an aussie, Sydney GM Holden dealership, sent out as a CKD kit (completely knocked down) to be built as a factory RHD car. If has ARCS, also the equally rare GM MAXTRAC traction control & ABS combined unit. Back then from 1971 to 1974 we Aussies could only order either a Buick Riviera, or a Caddy Fleetwood as RHD cars. I've been the second owner of my black'74 Talisman now for 42 years.
Your US NTSB in 2018 found in junkyards near 80 GM cars with ACRS, they crash tested ALL of them & after fitting a new battery, EVERY car's airbag went off AND all the crash test dummies fared better than in any modern car recently tested due to their massive strength and the Air Cushion Restraint System.
Cadillac first had air bag in 1968 El Dorado
Nice car .had a Oldsmobile omega , same as Ventura, put a 455 Pontiac big block in it .Never got beat in that car and had many races mid 80's to mid 90's when it finally blew up .sure miss it ..should have kept it and fixed it back up.
In the 70s a friend of mine bought a 74 GTO. In the Ventura body. Piece of crap. He didn't keep it very long
Country hick car chase. Too bad almoat all the shots are undecranked, i.e. the camera is cranked at 22 or 20 or 18 or even lower frame rates instead of 24 fps, to speed things up.
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The second one is very stupid
What a pity for the nice cars!
To serve and protect -cap is shutting the window at the garbage truck WoW what a hero
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Very good very nice very good
Wish my car would fix it self while driveing after hitting a pole or something lol
Ha'ha' there must of been an earl shiebs near by
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I can't believe I didn't remember to recommend this film to you. I've only seen it two times though myself.
Look at all the classic muscle cars ..
That was my grandma's Ventura they stole. She bought it on her 65th birthday and they stole it. She was crying when she got home, groceries were ruined, ice cream and butter melted . Luckily the insurance paid her out and she bought her a new one - same color and everything. She also bought new groceries.
The lady just happens to drive a hot car for groceries and that is the one they can steal.
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Its funny when they speed up the car chases like the old 1920's movies.
Don Ruوسسسسلب
Lol probably because they weren't allowed to really speed where they filmed just a guess tho
john wilson or safety reasons to who knows
Cars losing their tops from a semi trailer sure was a big thing back then!!!!
eric zerkle, they cut the top of the 4 door sedan, but it is illegal to drive a 4 door open model car, including 1951 Kaiser and Frazier, and 1961-67 Lincoln Continental 4 door convertibles.
that poor Tempest they rolled!
3:30 Airbags? This is earliest movie I've ever seen airbags featured in.
I know right. The steering wheel in a 1974 Olds Delta 88 is not big enough for a airbag and they were never made with airbags.
+LincolnTek it was an option for Oldsmobiles but they had larger steering wheels if the option was ordered on a car. There are pictures of this larger steering wheel in the Oldsmobile sales brochures.
+LincolnTek It was called the "Air Cushion Restraint System".
Not true!Olds and Buick had an early air bag system for a couple of years in the mid '70's.Look it up.
Cicero Araujo um outro brasileiro aqui! Que milagre! =P
This is the only car chase I have ever seen where an airbag deploys
I noticed it'
In a pre airbag era car no less. I'm perplexed, maybe I should be paying more attention to Biden or Turdwater or Klaus or Macaroni in France. Cuz Im jes not gettin it yall.
never seen this movie, GLAD
Okay the crash where the officer goes under the trailer and shaves off his roof reminds me of Smokey and the bandit
The scens is from smokin bites the dust.
they didnt have air bags back in the 70s!
Yes they did it wasn't standard on cars til the 80s.
Great !
The old drive a cop car under a semi and chop the roof off trick.The epitome of a cheesy car chase movie.Well at least they were wrecking mostly AMC cop cars, rather than Mopars. I'll give them that.
4:45 its also a scene in the intro of the series "The Fall Guy"
Lol 😂 call me
Stephen mchattie... So young!
AMC must have donated lots of cars for this movie
Probably ex police cars sold for pennies on the dollar.
i know a guy who has one just like it down the st just sits outside, its complete but ran when parked
CHEVY NOVA!!!!
Not as good as the getaway with Steve McQueen, but it was a good chase movie...
I've noticed in a lot of old car movies where they speed the footage up to make it look like they're going faster. Man that effect has not aged well.
How ironic in the movie The Seven-Ups it was the Ventura that got ruined
How did He get it started so quickly?
4:45 Smokey and the Bandit ripped off this scene 4 years later
One year later.
Oh I looked up the wrong Moving Violation movie.
ロイ・シャイダー『ザ・セブンアップス』にも登場したポンティアック・ベンチュラと同じだ
Air bags???? I didn’t see a passenger go off beside him 😂😂😂
Wrong to see an air bag in an old car
Hi from Sydney, Australia. Watch the clip again , slow motion it, and you will see the bigger 2 person one does deploy but down lower WHY well in a GM Air Cushion Restraint System car there are sensors in the front seats, 3for a bench seat and 2 for a split bench, if the sensors detect occupants sitting there it will deploy higher up whether kids or adults. Very expensive option available for just 3.5 years, mid '73 until end '76. Out of 19.4 million big full size GM cars made in that period just 10,231 were ACRS equipped, and 7,000 were Californian government cars , so a very rare option indeed. I have owned a GM Holden, Australia built right hand drive 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman, it has ACRS, plus GM's MAXTRAC (abs& traction control)
Lol their gonna blow the sudd out of that car for that old woman
Matador, matador.....
Got the shit in fast motion
8:20 poor Fury
Front ends damaged...front end isn’t damaged...
It's a '74. The '73 had a different grille. The '73 grilled had four honeycombs instead of two.
Sorry, you are mistaken. This was the optional grille for the Ventura Custom with the exterior decor package. I have owned two, both hatchbacks; one Canadian with a SBC 307 and the other, ironically, an American cop car with a Pontiac 350 and heavy duty everything. Most Ventura Customs that I have seen have this type of grille in '73.
Why would grandma's Ventura have a high performance exhaust on it?Also,it couldn't have been that fast with either a 250 or 307 2bbl engine.
Chief 1 probably a 350, but yea, still would be dog slow
Did any body notice the airbag in that one squad car. I didn't know they had those back then.
I saw it.It was 1990 when Camaros and Trans Ams got them.I had no idea they were around back then.Had to be rare.Hell most cars only had lap belts until the late 60s and nobody I knew wore them.
Exactly!
8:29 Oils well that ends well
Was that a bolt of static electricity at 1:54 ? ( on the ground, just in front of cop car ) Or just a glitch in the film?
That caught my eye, it looks like static electricity for sure.
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350 pointiac
this was pontiacs version of the nova, you could interchange alot of parts between the nova and the ventura, interior, suspension, etc..
I knew a guy that had a GTO like that.It had a Trans Am hoodscoop and a 4spd.
i bet it ran good
GTA5 vintage city DLC looks great
Very nice this car chase, Pontiac Ventura, Cadillac and wagon and destroyed police cars
I know that girl in the green coat she's the one that always has the wide looking mouth
Where's this at? Laurel canyen?
laural c.porn star saw this movie
From ?
1:24 guardabarros chocado...después sigue la trompa sin roturas...
Jimi Hendrix had the same one. Worth $1.300.000 today. 10:40
I noticed the airbag too, maybe this was when they were developed ???
From Sydney, Australia, yes it was, GM invented them, patented as ACRS (air cushion restraint system), also available via GM was MAXTRAC a joint abs & traction control system. Both were ultra-advanced for the time, and mercury switch G-force sensors around the car measured / detected when there was an issue and deployed whatever was necessary. I have a right hand drive '74 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman, sent here to GM Holden's Pagewood, Sydney factory as a CKD Kit car to be built factory RHD, (completely knocked down, i.e. shipped out as parts to build a car with) it also has GM's pre-tensioning seat belts that lock in place around your stomach so you cannot slide down under the dash, also when the g-force sensors detect an issue the upper half winds you back into your seat secured like in a racing car harness. All of these items were hideously expensive and rarely ordered, I've owned my black '74 Talisman now for 42 years, its first owner ordered EVERY option except two, a thermometre on the driver's exterior mirror, and a sunroof. New this elaborate car was the price of a basic suburban home.
I saw Farm Truck at 2:40
I see the poncho witch crashed earlier into a pole smashed the left frt now seen later good as new!!! WTF!
Is that albonde from the tv show if aint almost do
There is clear trick.....
The interior of the airbags car ...is fully white........
While the chasing one was showing dark blue ....
How come..... plus..... mercedes launched the first airbag car in the world in 1981 with S-Class ... the movie was produced in 1976 ... how come ....????
Please any mental explanation....????
From Sydney, Australia. GM, no not Mercedes, invented and patented the airbag in 1972, offered to the buying public in mid 1973, shown and described in all the 1974, 1975,1976 GM car brochures for the full-size cars, not the mid-size. Available in any coupe, sedan or wagon, but not in convertibles nor the giant Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousines. Patented as ACRS air cushion restraint system. More advanced than any other makers unit, then or NOW, as multiple mercury switch G-force sensors around the car measured / detected what was happening and deployed the airbags at lower pressure for a low-speed impact and higher pressure for a high-speed impact, there are occupant detector sensors, 3 on a front bench seat , and 1 each on a bucket seat , or split bench seat. If there are no detected occupants on the passenger side , the airbag will deploy at a lower pressure and lower down, watch the film again and in slow speed and you will see the bigger passenger side one deploy and lower down as the "bum" detectors did not register any occupants sitting there. GM at the same time also had MAXTRAC, a combined abs & traction control system, also pre-tensioning anti dive seat belts too.
Hideously expensive, out 0f 19.4million cars sold in the US over the 3-year period, just a mere 10,231 GM ACRS equipped cars were made/sold. 7,000 of them were Californian government vehicles. There are a number of documentaries now on you tube that are from the time interviewing people who had been in GM ACRS cars that crashed. More recently in 2018 the US NTSB hunted down almost 80 1970's GM ACRS equipped cars to see if the system still worked, as there have been a growing number of fatalities and terrible injuries from more modern airbag equipped cars where the airbags did not deploy, Mercedes Benz was near the top of the list of cars where airbags did not deploy. So, after the hunt for the rare GM ACRS cars, NTSB fitted them with new batteries to make the circuit operate they started smash testing them with crash test dummies. Using multiple mercury switches meant few electronics to ever fail after near 5 decades, every one of the old dead beat cars airbags deployed, and did the job very well indeed coupled with the car's massive construction the outcome was better than any modern car test results. The NTSB decided to then send the cars into the crash barriers at way higher speeds than normal to see if there was an upper limit, this is when NTSB engineers found that the cars inner controls deployed the airbags at higher pressure if the speed/impact was to occur at a higher speed, this exceeds any modern vehicle no matter what the brand or its purchase price. Furthermore, the old GM cars that were equipped with the pre-tensioning seatbelts will pull your upper torso back into the seat, plus the automatically locking lap half stops under dash porpoising restrained the crash test dummies better than any modern vehicles seat belts. When studying the old GM cars after the tests, the NTSB engineers found that the front 1 foot crumple zone did its job perfectly, and it had been helped by the 6" travel on the massive hydraulic shock/impact absorbing rams that allowed that would leave the body panels damage free at the US federally mandated 5 mph. Using remaining cars, the NTSB engineers found that this GM bumper system would basically leave the cars damage free at between 15 and 20 mph, they massively exceeded their required 5 mph, but this helped in real-world high-speed impacts as it wiped off energy better than any other vehicles recently tested and leaving the passenger area as if there had been no accident at all.
Same as in this movie.
I have been the second owner now for 42 years of a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Talisman which is a special model also only offered for '74, '75, '76. My black one was ordered by its first owner from a Sydney GM Holden dealer as a CKD Kit car (completely knocked down i.e. parts) to built as a factory right hand drive car at GM Holdens Aust Sydney plant at Pagewood near the airport. My top-of-the-line car has all THREE of these GM systems, ACRS, MAXTRAC & pre-tensioning seat belts. At car shows people are amazed, but the Aussie RHD glove box manual has photos & describes all 3 of these systems, additionally the big 18" x 15" multi page deluxe brochure spends 6 pages to describe and depict ACRS, a further 4 pages for each of Maxtrac and the seat belts. For 1974 Cadillacs equipped with ACRS came with lovely leather steering wheels, which had 4 "arms" to join it to the central airbag hub and on the 4 arms there were 4 brushed aluminium horn press buttons and the central hub is nicely made. However, for 1975 and 1976 this wheel disappeared and a soft feel plastic version appeared for its hon press buttons small raised plastic rectangles appeared in roughly the same spots as the alloy ones of its '74 leather faced predecessor, additionally the full leather interior of the '74 Talisman was not available for the 2 final years of the Talisman and other internals had been de-contented also for the 2 final years, I know why, to lower the purchase price. My '74 Cadillac Talisman's first owner bought this for himself, and a "cheaper" standard wheelbase w100 Mercedes 600 for his wife. He showed me the new car purchase invoices from Sanderson's Mercedes Benz dealership in Rose Bay, Sydney, and the Cadillac Talisman's invoice from Vern Pott's GM Holden dealership in Rose Bay, Sydney, and yes, a 1974 Cadillac Talisman with 'the lot" exceeds the purchase price of a new 1974 w100 Merc' swb 600.
車が途中で変わってる 最初に電柱当てたのに途中ではフロント壊れていない順番が逆だったのかも知れんが
He crashed by the liquor store
Dukes of Hazzard background music,, hahaha I would have got their tires if I woulda had a deer rifle. HAhaha
Poor cardboard boxes!!
I can't believe they use a 6 cyl Ventura, how lame.
75 (?) Olds 88 with an airbag?? Doubtful.
Eric E i know right!! Lol
They first offered them in 1974
twoeightythreez thanks man i just learned something. 4real
actually they first put them in the 1973 Caprice 4 door
Yes you dumass they have em since 1974
1973 airbags lol 😂😂😂
This is too painful to watch.
Its nice to see them driving these now semi classics.
8:40 XD
Lmao, weak add post 71 shit boxes. From 72-86 you can probably count every production American car that could run a 14 second 1/4 mile time on one hand. Shits just sad. My 1989 formula firebird with a tpi 305 got down to a 14.2 and people were impressed with that. My box stock 2002 ws6 6speed Trans Am ran a 12.8 and that was with Cooper street tires and a 2.0 60ft. I got it in 2012 with 33k miles on it. The lt1 was pretty good and the LS family is great. The TPI was pretty good but the TPI intake was designed for a 305 not a 350. GM designed the TPI to go in the corvette but the GM higher ups didn't want a 305 in a corvette (though some were built and sent to California). The 350 tries to suck a tip flat at 4000rpm while the 305 will keep on pulling to right at 5k rpm. I race a formul a 350 that was exactly like mine, same rear gears and even same tires, but he had better exhaust and alot better condition car and I beat him every time we raced. I only won because we both had TPI cars and his fell on its face because it was a 350 while mine kept pulling because it was a 305. I'm damn sure glad the HP wars are back. My 89 now has a fully race built stroker 383 with forged internals and dart heads and has been converted to a 6 speed manual from a Lt1 car and has a 2001 SS rear axle. The 02 has a few mods, it just passed 57k miles and traps 129mph in the 1/4.
Did anyone ask?