Just got these, thought I’d share them with all of you… Tomorrow I take delivery of the Town Car’s replacement. The new monstrous “Britax Pinnacle 90” child seat showed up today. So after tomorrow, no more looking back. But for tonight, let’s take a look.
Look at the way the entire dash beam called it a day, huh? Now let’s take a gander at what happened on my side.
Easy to see how my spleen got KIA and I fractured nine bones, all but one on the right side of my body. That bench seat completely exploded. I wonder what would have happened in a bucket-seat Panther like a Vic LX?
Here’s the most important shot:
John’s child seat, undamaged. Thank God. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t buy him twice as big and safety-feature-filled this time!
Always interesting when applied kinetic energy deforms a vehicle. Fascinating, really, if your not the brunt of it.
Keep the shiny side up on your new ride, Jack, and that child safety seat, unblemished.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. The roof and the floor/frame in the third picture are horrifying.
That does not bear contemplating.
Return that thing and rock a Recaro. I really want to put a test dummy in our’s just to see what it’ll take. Plus it says Recaro on the side to make it feel racier - it makes Daddy happy when Daddy doesn’t have a race car.
“I wonder what would have happened in a bucket-seat Panther like a Vic LX?”
probably wouldn’t have been much different; it looks like the cross-car floor beams buckled. since the mounting points of the seats bolt there, where the beam goes, so go the seats.
Whew ;
Scary sh*t that is Jack .
I’m *so* glad you , SWMBO and John made it through O.K. .
-Nate
The dash look like the ones in the YouTube crash test videos… which I checked over the last couple of weeks.
Did that car have curtain airbags?
Wow, hard to believe a body-on-frame car could fold up like that. I’ve had my 2000 Cartier four months now, but am glad I kept the V50 for commuting and winter driving.
I didn’t like the 2008-12 Accords very much, but the 2013-up versions look pretty good to me-and I’ve never owned a Japanese car, but a new Accord EX in pearl white would be a nice set of wheels.
Your gunmetal gray coupe looks pretty good. Hope you enjoy it!
These pictures are chilling; there isn’t any room for the people in the front with how the dashboard and seat collapsed. Yesterday I saw another gruesome accident involving a Town Car, this one a mid to late 1990’s boxy Willow Green one that took a nasty offset front end hit, and neither it nor the people inside fared too well based on the ambulance activity at the scene. A Town Car was on my short list of cheap cars for when my son needs his own car but I’m really starting to rethink that. I bought my other son a Volvo 850 that he’s already wrecked once and as cool as showing up to high school in a huge old luxury car like a 1990’s Lincoln or a Cadillac sounds to my younger son he’s probably going to end up with something boring but safe like a Volvo. I’m glad that you’re continuing to improve and I hope that’s the case for your passenger as well.
That is a scary sight, very glad everyone made it through!
Thanks for sharing the pics. I couldn’t help but notice how the passenger-side frame rail looks exactly like the one in the IIHS’ side impact test on an ’09 Grand Marquis: straight as an arrow (that “sturdy” frame rail just sat there and watched while the side of the car caved in.) And the lesson is that B-O-F land barges have passed on for a good reason - they do a poor job of protecting the occupants. So now, with this evidence in front of us, we can officially relegate the B-O-F fanboys (e.g. Panther and GM B-Body) to “Studebaker” status. Interesting, quirky rides that make for interesting conversation on cruise nights, but not something consumers would like to see in the market again.