Wagons in vintage Street scenes

I just can't see the station wagon, and I don't care

 

Some of these pics are just begging for captions or notes.

 

To caption the bottom one, "The Blue Camel Toe" would be stepping over the line of decency, Sir

 

That's a bad crash. Pre-impact absorbing design. '59 Chevy wagon and a '58 Studebaker President hardtop.

 

I guess this one proves that General Motors video about what happens when the 59 crashes into the Malibu. That X frame just does not absorb offset crashes well at all! I am betting we are looking at a multiple fatality here, too. I doubt anyone in the Chev survived, and pretty much for sure the driver of the Studebaker did not. The others MAY have, but without seatbelts, it is doubtful indeed.

 

What a SAD end for a glorious old wagon!

 

Most of those attrocities weren't commited by kids, but by those old enough to know better. Makes me think about the '66 Olds Starfire I used to own of which I stored in a garage in Detroit just across the street from Dearborn. As I went to pay the monthly rent, the people in that house moved out and the garage was boarded up with my ride still in there. When I came back with a towing line and a friend, the car was gone. The neighbor came out and tipped me off as to which company hauled it away. When I went to the junkyard to where my car was allegedly towed, the owner came out and had a long revolver in his holster and told me he wasn't letting me into his yard to verify that my vehicle wasn't there.
I don't need to tell you what this car would be worth today, rare as it was. If it was something more common like a Delta 88 or Bel-Air, it wouldn't have been so bad.
The ignoramus was only interested in the scrap price which wasn't that much back in 1978, anyway.
I then went to file a stolen car report by the Detroit police and had my title with me. They never answered and I doubt they even bothered with it

Not only that. Those Bubble Tops were extroardinarilly flimsy, starting at the A-support. They used one of those, in fact, to run a head-on crashtest between that and a new Malibu. Even though, the '59 Chevy looked heavier, it lost. Generally, if the impact took place on the body itself, instead of the frame, this was often disastrous. The video, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPAVJdBAhgA