Very similar picture to the damage my wife's car suffered, here is the link:


Now, this was a car without airbag, 99K miles, her injury was a hangman's fracture to the neck due to the massive whiplash associated with the impact, one vertebrae (C2 if I recall correctly broke in half). According to her Neurosurgeon, if the car had been a 90 with an air bag (rather than an 89 without airbag),she would have walked away with a dime sized bruise on her knee... the only other injury she had. The doors still opened and closed, but when I started pulling the interior out, I found that the floor boards had little wrinkle waves in them from where they absorbed impact. Only two pieces of sheetmetal were saved off the car, the rear deck lid and the gas cover lid, everything else was wrinkled or trashed beyond use, even the rear quarters.

Now I don't mean to specifically pick on Chevrolet/GMC, as I've helped a friend of mine pull fully functional drivetrains out of "death F-150 Fords". It is pathetic that their cabin area is the crumple zone. We pulled an engine out of one where the fenders and hood were not damaged at all after a front end impact with a low concrete barrier that snagged the frame rails. Dare to guess what part of the truck crumpled? Yes, the undertaker made money on that one as well.


jorrell

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92 245 250K miles, IPD'd to the hilt, 06 XC70, 00 Eclipse custom Turbo setup...currently taking names and kicking reputations!