When I looked at this image for the first time - my mind snapped back to summer 1958.

I was stationed in the Southern California high desert around a place called Victorville in the USAF. Four buddies drove a black 1950 Mercury to San Francisco for a long weekend. On the way back everyone went to sleep including the driver. After a short while (or so they said!) they woke up to the clicking sound of posts being snapped by the front grille and the car bouncing over them as they drove on.
The driver (a good friend) said " I woke up with a start - and saw the road had forked and the Merc' went through and along the fence in the middle of the fork in the road."
After they stopped and got out - now all "wide awake", the front bumper only suffered some smears of white paint from the six-inch diameter posts and wasn't bent at all. Yep - they don't build 'em like they used too!

Love the image!!!

Wayne D