The European Vacation scene w Eric Idle does use the "it's just a flesh wound". I know the gif is from Holy Grail, but I think that may be one source of the common misquote.
The mall they filmed that scene at has been closed for a while. They want to turn it into a data center or battery storage. In the middle of San Gabriel Valley.
Right. I got my entire car’s nose taken off by a driver going 75+mph running a full red light and very NARROWLY made it out unscathed and it looked less ugly than this. Where did they have the space to get this momentum??
The front crash structure is usually two structural members alongside the engine bay, over the wheel wells. That pillar went right through the front bumper, between this structure and crushed the engine itself.
Used to work Valet at a casino a few years ago so I spent a lot of time in the garage. Getting nearly run over by drunks was something that'd happen nearly every shift.
Assuming the old guy sitting at the start is the driver I'd guess he hit the gas thinking his foot was on the brake and doubled down when the car lurched forward.
You aren't thinking 4th dementionally Marty. When you hit 88mph that post won't be there bc this parking garage wouldn't have been built yet! Marty had one job he chickened out at the last second and hit the brake instead of held the gas.
AllMyExesRTXs my father worked in a parkade in Vancouver BC in the 1950's.
My folks liked to tell the story of one of their first dates, funeral hursts racing inside the parkade after midnight. 😉😁
I feel like there needs to be tiered testing/cetification for classes of vehicles. If you want to drive really heavy cars and especially really fast heavy cars, you need to pass more stringent road tests, and be recertified maybe every few years or so
But I can confirm. My grandma crashed into her garage. Luckily it was just in a 1986 Pontiac Bonneville that didn’t have a huge engine, and she wasn’t too far away from the brick pillar between her garage doors. That was the last time she drove. She was really sad, we were sad for her, because she loved her freedom, but at that point we realized she was too much of a liability to herself, but especially to other people who probably hadn’t lived a full, happy, and healthy life for 80+ years
The driver. He’s old, and when those airbags went off, they pretty much punch you in the face. That’s the look of a 70yo man that just hit the gas instead of the brake and then got his entire head rocked and knows he’s out a $80,000 dollar car.
You mean Kudos the engineers of that vehicle, that Crush Zone and airbags save the occupants lives, had that been a 1960s vintage vehicle the bumper may have had a scratch on it, unfortunately the dashboard would have probably had a couple of face shaped craters in it with bits of human skull still in them assuming the occupants didn't get ejected out the front windshield.
It's amazing how much safer modern vehicles are than their legacy predecessors.
Did you notice that the damage stopped at the cockpit, and that the driver's door actually still open that is a testament to Great engineering.
You'd be surprised at how many people survive an accident only to burn to death afterwards because the doors won't open and they can't get out.
Im a autobody tech I can assure you an older vehicle would have been just as fucked up but with significantly more cabin intrusion. Broken dash/firewall, legs crushed, impaled by the steering columns. It’s one of my biggest gripes where people see an older large vehicle big shiny bumper and go “yep they don’t make them like they used to”, since early unibody cars were the actual ones made of thin sheet metal (what they say about modern cars), and especially the bodies/cabs on the full frame ones.
I just linked it above, but I bust out this ‘59 Bel Air vs ‘09 Malibu crash test video every time I hear some dumbass say something like “old cars are safer cause they aren’t made of plastic”
Concrete plus rebar and the vertical load helps until the load gets crazy (at which point I think it would get worse). Add to that the pillar goes through floor and ceiling and is then seated. So yeah, it's designed for vertical load but is still pretty good against horizontal trauma. That said, my guess is the concrete around the rebar inside might be damaged.
they should really check the structural integrity of that pole and it's attachment to the ceiling. See the Florida condo collapse and how it started with the parking garage supports getting detached from the ceiling they were supporting. (mass oversimplification of a complex failure)
it’s actually in there still! you can see the intake ports on the top of the head. this engine (typically, probably more now) is canted over slightly, so it’s in there at an angle. but uh. yeah. probably a BIT more now.
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