1920 Dodge

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nq2jY1trxqg?rel=0

I'm not sure my TRD could keep up with this thing.

 

Yeah, they weighed next to nothing, and back then there was no open differential, so the rear differential was essentially locked. Hardy and tough as hell, but that thing would never make it above 45 MPH! lol.

 

Tall skinny tires FTW!

 

Yep, those pizza cutters slice right through the muck and down to the firm pack.

 

Brutal to ride in. Very little room and no seat belts.

 

You got that right!
Awesome clip, though it was funny how they seemed to hide the fact that another truck was resposible for the tipping / righting excersize - if you look you can see the rope / cable.

 

If only they had the quality those vehicles had in today's vehicles. And by that I mean thick enough metal to resist damage easily

 

that made my back hurt just watching it

Great vid though

 

If they did that our trucks would weigh 10k pounds and get 10MPG because of the weight. lol.

 

You old enough to remember?

Or... they'd be like the old 70's and 80's pickups that we've pretty much established were built much hardier than today's vehicles.

 

Until a crash..

 

Ever been in a crash in an 80's full sized pickup? They plow through anything they hit. Put air bags in them and they'd be perfect and wouldn't fold up like today's vehicles do. Yes, I realize today's vehicles build in crumble zones but I think they fold up a little too easily in minor accidents.

 

Damage to the vehicle not much. To you and passengers that could be another story. Physics.

 

They rolled it, no seat belts, air bags, crumble zones, nothing. They all got out, flipped it, got back in and continued their journey. New technology FTW!

 

I didn't mean weight wise I meant just put some thicker gauge metal on the trucks and make them more damage resistant

 

Yes, I have.

I pull bodies out of tangled wreckage for a living. The only difference these days? I pull a lot less dead ones out.

Look at some old crash test footage, and tell me those old trucks could plow through anything. I don't want to appear to be knocking old trucks. I love 'em.. hell look at my sig, those are current trucks I own, not past trucks. But, soft or not, you'll live through more in a new truck. Now, for day to day bumping and banging around ... you could knock stuff out of the way with little more than some paint scuffs in the old ones. But in a bad crash, they'll kill you.

 

Against another truck, with new sheet metal, it would probably fair well. I'm a firm believer in using as much of the "other guys" crumple zone as possible. But against something immovable like a concrete barrier etc, even that extra thickness translates into reduced crumple zone for you. That sudden stop plays hell on structure and bodies every single time.

 

x2

If you really thinking plowing through things ends well for the people inside you would need to prove the entire crash test safety industry wrong.

 

Cool video.

 

Is it just me, or did they take the hard way to roll the car back over? Good bit of smoke comin out of that dodge as expected, as was the give oil leak it sprung at the end too. pretty impressive for a 30hp motor in a car that weighed 4000lbs tho.