Geez..The way the pics are presented, is like "Oh my Gawd, can you BELIEVE that they crushed this car??" Well, yeah, I can...It was a wreck.
I don't think this is a case of someone carelessly crushing a good, repairable car....even if it was 1975.
Notice the pic on the upper right, the front wheel is still on the car, in the other pic (in the claw, up in the air) the wheels and it looks like most of the suspension /drivetrain are already gone. It looks like the pic in the upper right is not crusher-in-progress/claw damage, but rather, one taken as the car was, as it arrived after the accident. The bottom pic as well.
That amount of damage, to that part of the body and likely the frame would definately be a total insurance loss. Looks like it was put into a pole right at the A-pillar...ouch.
Hopefully, the drivetrain lived to fight another day in another bad Buick!
A much more painful thing to watch on video was that mopar (a 340 Challenger, I think it was?) that went into the crusher whole and completely undamaged in the original "gone in 60 seconds" movie. Now, THAT was a shame. The whole agonizing crush, from start to finish, is in the film...
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