1953 Burnside Special

So the above didnt answer?

Cars are almost exclusively sheet steel.

Rarely in more modern vehicles you begin to get aluminium, magnesium (already fallen out of favour due to safety concerns, now mostly limited to wheels) and some alloys but all of these are more recent than 1953.

The burnside will be steel, or maybe, just maybe, steel. It will be in stamped sheet form with the exception of a few driveline components which will indeed be machined from castings.

Casting is the process of melting metal and pouring it into a mould. Unsuitable for making body panels and usually too heavy for the frames and suspension components. Instead you take a thin sheet of metal and you stamp it into shape. The castings also have a rough finish to them, car owners dont want that. Castings are usually machined with various tools in order to be usable, to do that for a body panel would just cost too much and for such a thin piece would be liable to break during machining anyway. The engine, gearbox casing and differential casing are much heavier duty parts which require the extra material so the cost of casting the components and then machining them to their final shape makes more sense.

 

we have the 1949 cadillac series 62 convertible from mythbuster idk if it still works due to recent updates to beamng

http://www.beamng.com/threads/437-1949-Cadillac-Series-62-Convertible?highlight=1949+cadillac

 

No official vehicles have an ETA, they happen when they happen.

 

This is probably wrong, but I heard either this or the LeGran (plus the German wagon) is the next one on the list after the SBR4.

 

This one's my favorite cause it looks like a Hudson Hornet which is basically what started NASCAR

 

Hows the progress? I really have an urge to drive this car on east coast map

 

Unfortunately for you, we don't have a proper answer to that question, since the devs rather keep car design progress top secret.

 

Will there be a gasser version

 

Can't wait for this. It looks like it'll be great! Can't wait.

 

I hope it has realistic 1950s-like crash deformation, considering this was the era before safety features like crumple zones, seatbelts, airbags, ABS, TC, ESC, and a whole shitload of other modern safety features.

For a reference, take this picture:

Note the serious deformation of the occupant compartment, which left very little "survival space" for the driver, as seen in this picture:

Will look forward to seeing this car ingame soon.

 

Isn't that the Impala Chevy used in the crash test video showing an old impala hitting a new one? If it is it wasn't very accurate if I recall. I believe they removed the engine from the car, or it was made for the clip and it was built out of less dense metal or something. Cars from the 50s were very large and made with thick steel, so I can't see them crumpling that easily. When you look at car accident photos from the 50s most of the cars didn't damage like that either.

 

Alongside the test's scrutiny as was said above, this year of Impala was also infamous for its x-frame design, which was known to cause excessive crumpling and the extreme likelyhood of driver injury, by 1959's standards. Old cars aren't safe, and I expect the Burnside to live up to this, but rating every pre-1975 car for safety as based on the '59 Impala is like rating the entire Die Hard series based on #'s 2 and 5. And maybe 4. Depends on who you ask.

Actually, there was quite a talk about this in Myth's '49 Caddy thread:1949-Cadillac-Series-62-Convertible/page12
Just take care not to reply to it, that'd be quite a bump.

 

About 2 years ago there an accident down the road from my house between a 56 Dodge Lancer and a later model Camry.
The Camry pulled out onto a blind corner and the Dodge broadsided it at 60.

The Dodge carried the Toyota about 400 ft down the road until it came to a gaurdrail, when it pushed the Toyota up and over it.

The guy in the Camry was ok, for the most part, I don't remember exactly, I do remember though that his car was basically still car shaped.

The Dodge was fine from the windshield back, the whole front end bent upwards, though I think the driver was pretty beat up.


Basically it comes down to what an old auto shop teacher mine said once, "with the old cars, they didn't give, you did."
That being said I though he was a bit of a kook, but he did seem to know what he was talking about.

 

1965 Thunderbird vs Crown Victoria. Driver of the T-Bird died (90 year old woman) but the officer in the Crown Vic was critically injured. Nasty looking accident.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/64062842.html

 

Here video.

 

Here's the more thorough version of the video, complete with narration by Consumer Reports:

 

Wow, what a waste of a classic car ;-;

 

I agree with you vmlinuz, but the IIHS had to do it to show how far car safety has come in last 56 years.

 

It won't be missed. It was a junkyard wreck, just look at how it ends up as a pile of ash after the crash. The frame was for sure cracked and many of the inner panels were greatly weakened by the rust. That crash test is just for show, don't take anything from it.