[njsteve]

Its not staged. That is the reality of old versus new construction methods.

The 59 was built like a tank, and since it was built like a tank there were no predesigned crumple zones that would take the impact and redistribute it away from the passenger compartment. In essence, the only crumple zone is the driver's body. Once the car hits and reaches its structural limits, it folds up into a ball of metal with no regard for the integrity of the passenger compartment.

Remember, the 59 was a body-on-frame design. All it takes to defeat that design is a hard enough hit to shear those front body-to-frame mounting bolts and then the shell takes the rest of the impact while the frame underrides the impacting vehicle. That is exactly what you are observing in the video.