There’s a reason antique cars usually spend their days in parades and museums rather than mixing with morning traffic, and a wreck in eastern North Carolina on Monday offered a hard reminder of why.
A 1926 Ford Model T — a car that turns 100 next year and predates seat belts, crumple zones and just about every safety feature drivers now take for granted — collided with a Chevrolet pickup truck in Goldsboro on Monday morning, according to police. Three people were hurt badly enough to be taken to a hospital.
Related Articles
- This $22,000 eBay ‘Cuda Calls Itself a Hemi Clone Because Chrysler Never Built the Real Thing
- How a Turbocharger Actually Works — No Engineering Degree Required
Officials said the extent of the injuries was not immediately available, and the crash remained under investigation as of this writing. But the basic picture is sobering enough on its own. On one side of the collision sat a modern pickup, built to absorb impact and shield the people inside. On the other sat a machine assembled during the Calvin Coolidge administration, back when a car’s frame was little more than wood, thin steel and optimism.
The Model T is a genuine piece of automotive history, the vehicle that put America on wheels and made driving affordable for ordinary families. That legacy is worth celebrating. Whether a vehicle from that era belongs in the same lane as a full-size truck moving at modern speeds is a far harder question, and Monday’s crash lands squarely in the middle of it.
Related Articles
- How to Buy a Collector Car at Auction Without Getting Burned
- Lift Kit, Leveling Kit, or Body Lift? Here’s How to Actually Choose
A car built for the roads of 1926 was never designed to survive a meeting with the roads of today. When something a hundred years old shares pavement with something engineered for the present, the machine from the past is almost always the one that loses — and, too often, so are the people riding in it.
Police had not released additional details about the circumstances of the crash by the time this account was published.
Source
Images Via: Goldsboro Fire Department
About the Author
