Ha. Sorry about that.
Thing is, unless someone can prove that this test was rigged, the point I took away from this seems moot: 50 years of safety engineering has paid off, resulting in cars that are exponentially safer in the event of a crash. In 1961, with the choices available, my car would have been fine. Now that I have better choices, I feel it is foolish to risk my life (not to mention that of my daughter) unnecessarily. The insinuations about paranoia or cowardice (no one who knows me would take either as anything but a joke) seem indicative of a certain attitude of denial: "I don't like this, so it cannot possibly be true." Unfortunately, nobody has provided any actual information to discredit either the test or the notion that modern cars are safer than our classics. And believe me, I would love it if they did, uncovering evidence that a team of gremlins went in with tiny hacksaws and turned the '59 into a house of cards. Someone, please do.