Spanking a 59'

In an effort to show how dramatically automobile safety has improved in the past fifty years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently crash-tested a 2009 Malibu with a 1959 Bel Air. Let's just say I would never want to be driving a Bel Air (or any other late fifties era automobile for that matter) and be involved in a head-on collision. You can read more at the New York Times auto blog.