if anyone ever believed that bigger cars are automatically safer and that older cars are more stable than new ones, i suggest replacing the crash test dummy in that 1959 car and try yourself ;)
the only point i can see is that from the outside it cannot be judged how rotten that old car was underneath and therefore the structure may have been already weakened. but even if it was brandnew the result would not have been much different - 50 years of research make a difference.
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