Chevrolet Crash Testing: A Spectator Sport?

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Peter Orosz
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Spectacular newsreel footage from the 1930s reveals an era when destructive testing was a spectator sport instead of laboratory science.

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Presented in a Hungarian catalog of prewar newsreels, this is what the copy on the title card says:

HOW MUCH CAN A CAR TAKE?

American carmakers test the endurance of their new products with difficult and peculiar tasks.

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Peculiar indeed, when you consider the effects of hitting a wall of fire at speed.