[DGthe3]

This has been re-posted a couple times. Later tonight I'll see if I can find an older one to merge it with.

Anyway ... to those that say they ruined a great car: do you know what the condition of the '59 was before the test? Because odds are, the car was worth next to nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if the only decent thing about it was the body (because if the body wasn't, the test would be invalidated). Instead of a 50,000 classic getting destroyed, it was probably a lot closer to a $500 mess.

And while on the subject of classics getting destroyed ... most movie cars that are wrecked are junk as well. They buy up a dozen cars, and maybe 1 of them is ever worth anything. The rest of the cars that get shot up, blown up, flipped, bashed, banged, crushed, etc are usually only decent from one angle. The ones that run undergo a powertrain conversion. Most commonly, their inline 6 (probably) is removed & replaced with a Chevy small block crate engine (regardless of who built the car in the first place). Behind the small block is usually a GM 4 speed auto, followed by a Ford 9".