That was a nice video demonstrating how the hood of modern cars are designed to crumple upon impact to save the driver.

It could be worse, you know. The car colliding with the modern day Chevy could be European car of that era. Here, see Citroen 2CV (the first car in that queue to be hit) to disappear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0LRSLCN2I It is like magic, but scary.

After seeing that clip I've been somewhat scared to drive my 2CV around..

Great illustration of the modern safety engineering we read so much about.

I defy anybody not to cringe hard at that first cut of the Bel Air's cabin disintegrating on impact. Scary stuff.

Exactly, the new cars fail gracefully- for the old cars things are much more all, or nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone