idrivejunk
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Full frame vehicles are apples where unibodies are oranges. No fair comparing the two. (I have fixed wrecks for over a decade) Believe me, that front 3/4 angle hit is a death bringer in a classic. There is almost NEVER blood in a late model wreck, but blood cleanup used to be common on collision repair estimates. Hitting something with a full frame is like throwing a ladder at a wall, you better hold on tight. Hitting something with a unibody is like being inside a big wad of crumpled up paper and is MUCH safer for the occupants. Vehicles that are still full frame have size on their side though. One thing people don't think much about ... when that 59 was new, over half the roads were dirt. Consider what that means. It was built for a different world, where everyone had more space and could know more about how things they depend on work. The new Impala wouldn't last fifty thousand miles in a 1959 world, the roads would beat it all to hell.
