The '70s were a great decade. But...

... we drove death traps.

http://www.motor-talk.de/forum/aktion/Attachment.html?attachmentId=423585

This article is a real PITA because it's all German and I can't figure out how to copy and translate it. But there are pictures. And I do know that the driver HIC was 1481, indicative of likely severe to critical injury, and the passenger HIC was 2085, which is likely fatal. I couldn't decipher out any chest or leg loads (don't know if they're in the article). The car was a 1974 Cadillac DeVille moving at 35 mph into a flat wall, like the 1979-present NHTSA crash test.

In conclusion... bad.

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