The History of American Vehicles
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- Around the time Henry Ford was building his first car, so was Ransom Olds, father of the famous American Oldsmobile.
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But it was Ford who would establish the forty hour working week within his factories and introduce mass production via his moving assembly lines, heralding a new era for industry. The United States embraced the motor car in a big way, and by the mid nineteen sixties, no one walked anywhere anymore. The country that gave us the shopping mall also gave us the parking lot, and drive-through convenience. It seemed like just about
anything could be done in a car, from watching movies to dining to traveling long distance, as with the popularity of the motor car came Motor Inns, also called Motels! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I wish they bring back this beautiful American cars.
My grandpa, mom, and I all had Impalas for our first cars. 1958, 1970, and 2003 Impala. Kinda cool how that happened
That’s dope. I’ve had 3 generations of the impala myself, the 94 SS, the ‘05, and the ‘11. My moms use to ask me all the time why love that model so much lol. I want a ‘70 so bad
That 58 worth more than the 2020 now. ❤ impalas
@@trelljones7857 Those modern cars aren't really Impalas. They just a generic GM hunk of crap with an Impala script on it to make delusionals think it's as good as the real thing was! Male cow.
Beautiful impalas!
@@jimmycricket5366 Those are not real Impalas. They are "retro-churns", cars that are marketed with traditional names, but with none of the traditional quality or features of the originals. If you want to enjoy The Real McCoy, drive a 1958-1964 Chevrolet Impala. The rest are just cars, and the modern ones toothpaste.
Few people in the world understand the genius of Henry Ford. He proved the most important relationship necessary for prosperity. Instead of the business simply producing products, by paying his employees well, he also produced consumers for his product. It doesn't matter what you produce if there aren't enough consumers to buy it.
He also funded Hitler
That's a failing business model. If you're the one who gives your employees the money to buy your products, you're always going to lose out. You won't even break even because they've got to spend their money on other products.
I'm South American and I say, My God, you Americans produced the greatest cars of all time without comparison with anywhere else in the world. While many want an atomic Japanese car, I look back in the past and fall in love with American cars with the old recipe Big and Durable V8 and Plenty of Space for the Family Simply Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic
Fantastic and stunning 🇺🇸💪❤
Detroit Iron is the best iron.
V8matic car r the best
I love old cars 😍
I sat in a yellow/black 1965 Impala SS sedan as a kid...We got a 1965 new blue Impala wagon that night. Served our family on countless family vacations to Yosemite , Mammoth , beaches , etc. for 20 yrs.
As an American male, born in the 1950's I have a good understanding of why cars are such a big deal in the USA. When automobiles were introduced only the wealthier nations even had cars and roads to drive them on. The USA was about as wealthy as the West European nations but our Country is geographically HUGE compared to England, France, Germany or Italy. Many of our States are as large as many European Countries. Mobility in the USA covered huge distances and therefore made cars and trucks much more necessary. American form of Capitalism thrives on pride of ownership so in this area cars became important Status Symbols. This meant that the Evolution of American Automobiles led to bigger, more powerful cars. The USA holds a unique place in auto development even though West European cars are usually better and faster. Production numbers of Ford or Chrysler are many times the production numbers of BMW, Ferrari or Porsche. We build cars by the Millions while they build them in the tens of thousands. Automobiles changed the World as few innovations have.
well said!
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Actually, dollar per dollar, American sports cars are MUCH faster than European. We have Camaros, Mustangs and Corvettes putting down track times better than Porsche, BMW and Ferrari, for a fraction of the price.
I don’t know about Europeans being faster I mean no Ferrari could beat a 69 charger in a straight line back in its day lmao
Well that's all over now ... time for bullet trains. As is the shopping mall is over , and retail space in general.
Since there is no way it can compete with virtual shopping coupled with ware house outlets.
Which means the future of jobs in america will be reclaiming concrete jungle back into nature .
60s were the coolest best year ever!!!
Ford was more than offering $5 a day. He also provided housing, medical aid, schools, and a concept of using even the shipping crates from equipment for floor boards, which was specified of its dimension so it could be dropped into the cars' body without modification for use. That's ingenuity!
Oh the good old days when businessman cares about getting people employed in his community rather than modern "GLOBALIST" companies outsourcing their manufacturing to China.
Ford had everything down right, which is how they got to be number one the world over.
And financing Adolf Hitler in WW2. FDR had to threaten Henry and his pals with arrest if they didn't stop helping the Nazis.
Employees paid a big personal price for that 5 dollars.
Ah, cars. Near & dear to the American heart.
Can’t remember whether it was in the book, Brave New World or 1984, BF & AF, Before Ford & After Ford terms were used.
God gave us this planet to enjoy, but Ford, as a manifestation of God, gave the common man transport to experience it.
Incredible people like Ford, put us on the Moon.
Only the beginning folks.
Only the beginning.
Sure. Like all great men, he was as notable for his flaws …
Micromanaging, union busting, etc.
Didn’t like Jews, but worshipped one as God.
Strange, as a farmer’s son he didn’t seem to understand Nature at all. Including human nature.
That rubber plantation in Brazil was an epic failure.
Despite all that, glad to hear the Old American Car Tradition lives on in Brazil.
There hopefully will always be a place where you can drive & care for a mechanically simple car …
Non polluting & recyclable, of course.
In the 50s and 60s, used station wagons were cheap, with virtually no trade-in value, but usually low mileage, they were a good buy. They were used by Moms for their intended purpose.
The interiors were usually dirty and needed seat covers. The engines always needed an oil change and servicing.
The brakes were invariably worn out and they needed tires. Husbands usually did not maintain these vehicles, dismissing it as "Oh the wife only drives the kids to school and to the super-market." No matter that the vehicle was unsafe to drive.
We used them as work vehicles, fishing or hunting, for anything where larger loads than an ordinary trunk would carry.
They provided more comfort than a pick-up. Pick-ups were still just work trucks.
Hmmm. I spent a lot of childhood time at the 1960s supermarket. Then I remember every aisle of Treasure Island. Dad had the wagon, Mom took the Impala convertible. We were taught to take care of what we owned.
I MISS THE 60S AND 70S IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. EVEN SO LORD COME.
Try the '60s and the '50s. The 1973-forward cars were government-built toothpaste.
My favorite car of all time has to be the 1970 AMC Javelin. Mine was equipped with a 390cid V8, close ratio Borg Warner 4-speed manual trans and LS rear end. Stock, it had 390hp and 425ft/lb of torque. I once spun a manhole cover right off the street. Thought I'd broken a leaf when the rear dipped 4". It sparked for a block before stopping. LOL. What a ride that old beast was. My only muscle car.
They were very good cars. When I was in the Service, I was lucky enough to 'care' for a 1968 AMC AMX with 390, 4-Speed. It was their dark green in color with a nice tan interior. I had it for 2 weeks and loved driving it all around Las Vegas (he actually insisted I drive it). After driving that car, my opinions changed dramatically about AMC cars -- I appreciated them even more. Even today, I think they had very good designs and interiors during the late '60s and early '70s.
Even though I've never owned this car, my favorite would definitely be a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee with the 426 Hemi producing 425 HP and with 490 ft-lb of torque with a 4-speed manual transmission.
That automobile would be worth a mint now...😮
I had a 1974 AMC Javelin. Such a cool looking car and fun to drive.
Its a shamed that us dosent make cars like that anymore
I miss my '57 Chev. 150 four door.
Coral Canyon Iridescent with white roof and rear panels.
Beautiful.
Most kids today don't even know that Iridescent had been a choice in the 1950's. I'd say that it had been a choice since the 1920's with Packards 1920 Royal red iridescent sedan at the show room but this is specifically for the 1950's since most people understand it being a Model T, then straight to a 1955 Chevrolet. That's the average modern America's mindset when remembering automobile history in-between the most forgotten years ever.
Never been into cars but this was pretty cool
I can't believe the Studebaker co. isn't even given a nod for their massive contribution in both World Wars. The US6 was stupendous in Russia, many still driving today. And had Studebaker co. survived past 1963 is would have been the second oldest car company in the world after Daimler Benz.
Francesca Studebakers were actually produced thru 1966. And you're right: if ever a traditional American company, that contributed so much to the development of this nation was entitled a complete bailout, it was Studebaker.
My Uncle's father owned a 1950 Studebaker coupe, Fought in the Navy in the PTO during WWII
it was never the number of cars that caused us to build highways. It was the distances involved from going from one town to another. We are WAY larger than say the UK.
Sorry, but it WAS the anticipated number of cars and drivers that drove American postwar prosperity!
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Who the fuck said anything about "Prosperity"? Does anyone read anymore??? It's almost like a disease that is so virulent that just seeing it gives it to you. How about reading again.... Damn.
@@davidmiller9485 YOU did, Doophys, when you brought up the number of cars that caused us to build highways..." And you don't think that's caused by prosperity? What are you, just in from Pluto for the weekend?
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Yep, you didn't even both to find out. Here you go: "On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.” At the same time, highway advocates argued, “in case of atomic attack on our key cities, the road net [would] permit quick evacuation of target areas.” For all of these reasons, the 1956 law declared that the construction of an elaborate expressway system was “essential to the national interest.”
@@davidmiller9485 Thank you for the amplification. You're right, I omitted that fact, but I was not enumerating the reasons so much as I was referring to the overall benefit of all efforts to promote prosperity.
I was amazed that the narrator knew about the 1957 Chevrolet headlight vent system.It was a hidden fact that's not known by many.Great Job, Mate !
Jeff Mayo Considering this dolt never heard of AMC or Chrysler, it makes me wonder how he ever found out about those headlight vent systems?
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Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut
@@jefferyepstein9210good one ☝️
Packard Studebaker…… the fact that the Cadillac company of today was the original Ford company. It’s a very incomplete and distorted history of the American automotive history and it also skips out of sequence.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,today [ 2024 ] a vent system to vent tremendous heat is necessary....In 57..none was necessary,,,,,my first buy was a 55 belair in 1969 for 350..... .what the hell are ya talking about........
In 50 years watching automobile documentaries, this one tops them out by a one light year.
To everyone who was involved in that commendable production, Chapeau!
(That’s French for Bravo)
America from the year 1900 to 1980 was very iconic and nostalgic. All in terms of stylish transportation designs, architecture, military, economic growth, affluent middle class wealth, urban planning, cosmic dreams, and experimentation with so many new technical concepts! Amazing!
This is the best video I have ever seen Been a FORD men it brings me a lot of memories from the past. Thank you very much for this brilliant video from Sydney Australia.😊😊😊😊
Those old cars look like works of art now. I'm driving a cool older Lincoln town car because it was neglected and cheap, a family deal. I've polished it up, fixed a few minor things, tuned it up, got tires and named her Sybil. Pickups, vans and small cars are what I've always driven. Sybil is a whole new attitude in driving
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75….77…79 Lincoln continentals…..65….70 250 pickups…
I am 81 and i started working full time in autobody from 1960 when i graduated High School in 1960 and retired in 2011 put 51 years in autobody, and do not miss it my hands have a nasty habit of locking up from hammering sheet metal.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,at 73....a street mechanic that became an auto machinist.....Back in 1979,,,I needed transportation , and a friend said , a guy had a 1960 falcon for 70 dollars with no papers,,,,but it ran........Lucky for me I still have one good photo of my blue car,,,,which took me to Englishtown NJ ,,,from Bklyn ,,,my driving outlaw style kept me from jail,,,as many did,,,,,, and back,,,,no cops........................
58 Impala 348 ,62 Chevy SS 327 and 67 Riviera 430 wildcat were some of the best stylish and fast cars ever.
I'm with you on the first two! The only thing uglier than the '67-'70 Riviera was the awful Thunderbird "vacuum cleaners" of the same time frame.
I nearly spit my drink when I heard the Le Mans was Pontiac’s “new intermediate compact”. Then I remembered my dad’s Falcon was considered a subcompact.
In the 60s and 70s, what were then "intermediates" or "medium-size" are today's "full size." The size of the Pontiac Le Mans/GTO is the same size as today's Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. We really don't have any equivalent to those "full-size" cars like the Impala, Galaxy, or New Yorker in today's cars unless you order the most expensive and nearly "custom-built" autos.
@@penboyasgod6103 The closest thing I can think of to modern fullsize vehicles are Rolls Royces and Bentleys. I miss when Cadillacs were 2 lanes wide (exagerration).
In 1960 "compact" was the buzz word for a fresh generation of small cars. The Falcon was simply a compact. Sub-compacts didn't evolve until the arrival of the Pinto (1971).
@@LasVegasDashie Sadly, the Ford Crown Victoria marked the end of an era, the "family sedan". Look for Lincoln to take a quiet dive in the next few years. And if GM can kill Pontiac and Oldsmobile, they can surely do away with that awkward monstrosity they call a Cadillac.
(Try "exaggeration".)
Going down Memory Lane Thanks 😊
Love the closing shot on the Mark III silhouetted in the sunset, classic
Im english and i recently drove a dodge from Yosemite to LA. Thanks for the upload.
Dodge a tremendous automobile. And then you have those who owned Toyota and Honda they do that because of a Chinese firm called General Motors the best advertisement to own something else
@@Kramer63 I think they are gypsies
I'm sorry you had to put up with being in LA. You should really pick a better place to visit than bum piss and shit lined streets.
Very interesting and well documented, thank you.
Our pleasure!
Oh dang it opened right with my 1960 Ford galaxy wasn't expecting that
Exceptional coverage, easy to follow history lesson. Well done.👏👍💯
I don't know how people can laugh and be happy. I've tried my hardest, all my life to build something I could genuinely be happy about. And this has all taught me that their is no way for people like me to succeed. No matter how hard I struggle, no matter what I achieve, no matter who I help along the way, I will never receive any type of advancement, or recognition for anything. I can't laugh and pretend everything is alright, because I know from experience that everything is not alright. There is no hope. I'm gonna die isolated, penniless, and alone.
I’m sorry you’re having that experience. I hope
It gets better for you
Those were T TOTALLY AWESOME concept cars.....been great of some of them made it to the production line and to the public........
In the 40s and the 50s and the 60s the cars were beautiful,even in the late 30s some models were gorgeous.
Well I for one thought this was very interesting, very informative & very enjoyable. Well done you Americans, I salute you all. Best wishes from Alan, in England.
Jolly good old chap!
Alan, you probably did not notice the English accent. I believe this was produced by one of your networks.
Before 1929 there were over TWO HUNDRED car companies in the United States...not a single mention of ANY of them
I read that each state had at least one car company. It seems most did not last long.
Most of the car companies mentioned,did not make it long.
@@scottclute7443 true, but the history of the automobile in this country during that time in history shouldn't be brushed aside. Telling half of a story is bad when you want to be taken seriously..
@@filthbomb True words. But anyone who would pick a 1968 Chevrolet Impala (with mag wheels) to represent 125 years of automobiles can't have too deep of an education on cars.
I owned a 68 Chevy just like the one on the display in this video,It was a great car.It had a 307 engine.There are 2 different roofs on them the slanted one like this video and one like Caprice had.I had one with that roof as well.Both good cars.
I'll bet yours didn't have those stupid shit-for-brains wheels like the one in his picture.
PS: Put the proper space between your sentences or CZcams thinks you're running a website. Football fool.
That beautiful Chevy on the video preview makes you feel good just looking at the lines
My father was a mechanic for a ford dealership all of my growing up years. The intro of the 1960 ford cars, was great since 1) that was the year I was born & 2) my brother in law owns a 1960 t-bird convertible! My father never owned any other car except Ford/Mercury brands (couldn't afford a Lincoln) till the day he died (car wreck). My 1st car was a Ford Maverick (2nd owner) from the dealership dad worked at.
this doc definitely has good intentions, a bit of post production quality control would have made it much less arguable with the mistakes it has but regardless I enjoyed it, putting everyone's complaints aside. I did enjoy it.
Chrysler was the make guided by engineers. Amazing any of that remained after the Airflow landing in the marketplace with a dull thud through little fault of it's own. A car before it's time yet tardy to graduation. Much like Studebakers last gasp, the Avanti.
Oldsmobile had the assembly line before Ford, I never understood why Ford got the credit for that.
Lots of production figures sprinkled throughout, but no mention of the one million plus Chevrolet Impalas that were produced for the1965 model year., still the record for a single nameplate in a single year.
I love cars and this is one of the best video I ever seen about cars 🚗
Starting in approximately the late 1980's, with the onslaught of "aerodynamics" and front-wheel drive, cars started becoming styleless appliances, which they most definitely have evolved into today.
Unfortunately, the "Style-less Appliances" meet the need of a large portion of the population who couldn't care less about the style or unique performance of a note-worthy, well engineered automobile. There is a very large part of the buying public who care for nothing more than an efficient "transportation appliance!" The companies that survive and the products they produce are dictated by what sells. Many of the features that make a car distinctive, in either it's appearance or it's performance, get lost along the way due to a dis-interested buying public. They tend to be the majority of the buyers. Many of the most enjoyable cars to drive have been lost to the ever-popular SUV (the latest recurrence of the 1950's station wagon.). That leaves those who most enjoy the art of driving, with but one choice. We keep our favorite older cars and work to keep them running well. My newest car was built in 2001. I can find very few cars built after that era that I would want to buy. Too much computer controlled plastic has taken over the industry.
you think rear wheel drive are better? why?
There's definitely something to be said for the superior traction and handling of a front wheel drive vehicle. Having your power wheels as your steering wheels, with the majority of the weight on top of them to boot, makes that configuring untouchable by a rear drive setup. In terms of maintenance, however, a rear drive configuration is by far simpler with greater ease of access. It all really depends on what a person wants or needs and both still have a place even in today's market. Computers have added increased complexity, making it almost impossible for the average vehicle owner to do much maintenance, and yet, those same systems have made vehicles more efficient and more powerful than they've ever been. As we can see, it's all a give and take.
I think the early 90s cars still remain stylish but then they become styleless like you said.
@@alexm566 no torque steer!!! Also, transverse mount engines are terrible to work on (skinned knuckles), especially if you have a v-6 or a rubber band engine (timing belt). Rear wheel drive simply perform better in handling. FWD is nice for climbing hills in the winter with engine weight above drive wheels, but going downhill, if your front wheels break loose, your back end will want to meet your front end! I drive both, each have their purpose, but performance cars are always rear wheel drive. I personally like 4WD or AWD. With winter tires I can push through bumper deep snow and make it to work even if I'm the only one who does!
I was lucky to have grown up in the USA 1960s. My first car was a 1955 Chevy BelAir. Lotz of good memories were made in that car.
As a retired UAW member this is a nice video you can’t talk about making cars without mentioning the BUDD Company and Edward G.Budd and his influence on the car industry sad it was not mentioned or investigated more before doing this video.
Can you believe that in 1965 and 1966 the Chevrolet fullsize Impala, Belair, Biscayne and Caprice sales exceeded over 1 million cars. These were the best years ever for the Chevrolet fullsize model and a sales record that has never been broken.. In 1965 a Mustang v-8 cost around $2,750 and at the same time a Cadilac coupe cost double at $5,419..
Of all the classic 60s cars I owned (and a 70s Ford Van), my absolute favorite of what I owned was a 1964 Buick Special Deluxe 2-Dr Hardtop -- Autumn gold with white roof and their beige-ish-tan-ish interior; 300-2v V8, automatic. Of what I owned, nothing could compare. Even though it was technically a "Special Deluxe", it was actually equipped more like a Skylark. For 1964 models, Buick made the best looking medium sized car, in my opinion.
42:59 The Mustang, Camero, and Firebird were not muscle cars. They along with the Plymouth 'Cuda, Mercury Cougar, Dodge Challenger, AMC Javelin, and AMX were considered Pony cars.
Pony Car: An American class of automobile launched and inspired by the Ford Mustang in 1964. The term describes an affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image.” ... A Pony Car is small, and a Muscle Car is somewhere between mid-size and full size. Some examples of muscle cars would be something like a Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger, Cevy Chevelle, Ford Gran Torino.
Today the pony car is considered a subset of the muscle car.
@@duradim1I guess that's true in the same sense that grunge is a subset of punk, is a subset heavy metal, it's different but it's still rock and roll (to me).
Sorry for the Billy Joel pun sometimes that kind of shit sneaks in.
Everyone considers them all muscle cars if they had a big block.
Dodge challenger is pure muscle
CamEro...lol it's Camaro.
I love how that guy is is installing the door handles with a hammer bang bang bang!!! Haha wow they're tough like a tank! Even though if it's rubber but it doesn't look like it he's hitting and hitting it damn try that with today's plastic or even aluminum ones
. I'm surprised the major American Car flops weren't mentioned in this documentary like the Chevy Vega and Chevette, the exploding Pinto, the Cadillac Cimarron and the Unholy alliances with Asian built cars like the Korean built Ford Festiva Kama Japanese built Chevrolet Sprint / Geo Metro Geo Prizm Geo Tracker / Geo Storm Chevy Nova Pontiac LeMans
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Packard was a very important car brand in the early days
True! Yet completely overlooked and invisible to this phony british crap! Packard 1899, Studebaker 1852!!!!
@@neildickson5394 they hate Packard in the UK
@@southjerseysound7340 That is utter nonsense!
Packard plant where they were made 2020 USA...
Yet they were fine cars then and now
Don't forget the Huston hornet
What a video best ever I love fords BRILLIANT 😊great show thank you very much from Sydney Australia 😊
So sad that this is a bygone era. The new cars were exciting to see and quite simply amazing to look at. Now all cars pretty much follow the same boring design. Just pods to travel within. Even into the mid 70's there was some originality left, but that's apparently gone now too. Since the kids now have their faces buried in their phones now, it's not likely that it will be soon where some archaeologist make a film where these cars are appreciated again.
Ron Schwab,
Cars nowadays are safer and more fuel-efficient than
those big cars of the 1950's--1970's.
Safety, fuel efficiency and the loss of the manufacturing
middle class (factory managers, designers, etc.) has hurt
the mid-to-moderate luxury niche market for vehicles.
The afore-mentioned group as well as the loss of the
retail ("comfortable" middle class) owners of the Main
(High) Street has killed the market for the Mercury,
Oldsmobile, and Pontiac marques.
36:57 "Big changes were made to the 1960 Buick.... Given that the car in the photo was a Chevy not a Buick, that certainly was a big change.
a few years ago in 2015 i was 7 and i got into cars from this video my fav car is a 1957 chevy bel air cnady apple red
U must have really cool parents. ....I have a son your age, I don't think he knows what a 57 chevy is......I taught him about muscle cars and he wants my ls3 swapped 72 nova.....lol, fat chance kid....one day he will get it, when I'm dead and he inherents it, I also have a ctsv exactly like the one shown towards the end of this video
Automobiles changed America
loving the 58 Plymouth furys
Steven King's Christine was a 59 Fury.
general motors did more to build the middle class,than any other american corporation.bowtie have made more units than any other label on earth.the small block v8 chevy,the greatest engine ever built.
timothy lines olds has more horsepower at lower rpm than shity i mean chevy and why is chevy always being rebuilt? Because it cheaper metal than olds pluse a church mouse can aford a chevy. Punch out an olds and chevy cant compare.
My 72 Malibu small block 350 runs perfectly.
Sooo very little about the real "muscle cars" As a 1970 SS Chevelle owner, I couldn't believe not a single mention of Chevelle's in there... not to mention other greats Super Bird, Daytona, Mustang GT350 etc...
I myself own quite a few chevelle. 2 70 ss like u and a 64, 66, 67 all ss cars. imma chevelle addict. my basement is full of chevelle parts my yard is full of parts cars, bodies and all that.
36:57 Correction; It's a 1960 Impala not 1960 Buick but they did share a similar 4 dr h.t. bodystyle.
Directly before 36:29 the narrator tells about the 1960 Cadillacs while we still see the 1956.
This video is full of confusing matching-failures about what we see and what is talken about.
(45:15 SUV / not mentioned Saturn; 46:23 Chevy SS / Cadillac CTS Wagon...)
Exceptional quality information, opens a view in the past.👏👍💯
In the very late 60s, I owned a blue/blue 1959 Chevy Impala Convertible with auto-everything, including power windows and power seats. In today's world [size-wise], that would be something like a Bentley if they make the Bentleys today as large as those back then. The size of the "regular full-size" cars literally exploded for the 1958 model year.
Penboy And most American cars turned ghastly ugly in 1958! You forgot that part.
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Not at all. Maybe too much chrome trim? Sure, but the car designs were actually very good looking for the most part. *It was 1959-60 that they turned more ugly.*
@@penboyasgod6103 1959-1960 was the climax, especially for GM. But considering all the dreadful car designs that defecated on the very definition of art, you have to encompass 1957-1962. 1957 gave us the cruelly disfigured Lincoln facelift, and the ugliest Mercurys and Imperials ever. 1958 dug deeper and brought us the Lincoln, Mercury, Buick, Oldsmobile and Imperial. 1959 Gave us Mercury, Lincoln, Imperial and everything GM except Corvette. 1960 gave us the same GM diet, Lincoln, Edsel, Mercury, Plymouth, Dodge and Imperial. 1961 gave us Plymouth, Dodge, Imperial and 1962 finished the era with Oldsmobile, Buick, Plymouth, Dodge and Imperial.
There were certainly plenty of offensive designs between 1957-1962, but many weren't so over the top as to induce public vomiting in the streets, as did the ones exposed here.
Is there one that would beat out all the rest? I'd have to nominate the 1960 Imperial and the 1961 Plymouth as tied for the award of The Ugliest American Car Ever Built. It would be several years before Chrysler would fully recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Virgil.
i thought i was gonna scream when he kept saying "Cumaro"!!
More beautyful cars never built before and afterwards.
Interesting video
At 38:04 it says the 1964 Mustang used a GERMAN engine. I believe the 260 Cu. In. was a Ford produced engine.
1974 mustang2 had the german engine.
Look it up the original 2 seater Mustang 1 was 4 cylinder mid engine vehicle. check this out silodrome.com/the-1962-ford-mustang-i-prototype/
13:57 great commercial! Makes me want a 40 Ford!
GREAT VIDEO I LOVE IT
7:00 mark, I would love to see someone treat their luxury truck to that today.
my dad worked for general motors for 37 years in euclid oho and lordstown ohio ending his automotive carrer in 1987
Dwayne Woods
My dad worked for PepsiCo for nearly 40 years and we always drank coke? What's your point?
Dwayne Woods did you guys vote Trump to keep those jobs here?
Hey......uh what ever your name is screw you
@@Ar938 anybody but hillary. bet u voted for her
billy smith Nope
More goofs: for some strange reason there is a closeup of Mercury headlamps being washed in the middle of the '69 CamAH-ro (lolz) footage. The Chevy SS show car discussion shows mostly footage of a Cadillac wagon. Mustangs are NOT by def. muscle cars, they are Pony Cars. If optioned correctly, they become Muscle Cars.
The 1960 Foolcan, and Chunder Turd, ....What a Choice !!
That made me laugh!
You need to read the machine that changed the world. The best book for anyone who has a flare for, or interest in manufacturing. It's the car that revolutionized manufacturing.
So he goes through all that trouble going in detail about each and every decade..only to skip two entire decades at the very end. The 1980s and the 1990s were a very troubling time for the American manufacturers full of catastrophic failures and production mistakes yet he just skipped all over that...
Production failures started in the 70s only now is production coming up to par and that was, after its own production snafus, Tesla has brought production standards back to where they were in the 60s
The original Quadricycle was not lost, Ford bought it back, its still in Dearborn
GREAT VIDEO HOPE YOU HAVE MORE
HAN SCHENK---ONLY IF THEIR 400% BETTER WRITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very odd that they would talk about the 1960 Cadillac while showing the 1955 model. The entire documentary was very poorly edited.
What do expect from the British, when it come to anything that has to do with cars.
@@rgbigdog After all, they worship the devil: Lucas, Prince of Darkness. ;)
Horrible video, always blaming the American people for our loss of our industries and jobs due to a our complacent attitude, high wages, and internal stagnation. When the real reason for our loss has been from Financial/Banking Institutions, Corporations, and Government who are controlled by a world wide by a cult religion who serve the "Eye of Providence" as seen on the U.S. Dollar Bill above the pyramid. The “All Seeing Eye.” or Eye of Providence, aka Satan, the old dragon, the Devil and the fallen angels who are 33% of the heavenly host. The term “God” inferred here is the god of this world, the principalities, spiritual lords of darkness and wickedness in this world.
Below the All Seeing Eye are the New World Order leaders that run the world political, banking, religious, commercial and etc institutions. Aleister Crowley said: “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” which is in effect the same as Darwin's law, “survival of the fittest,” because people will do anything to survive.
@@rgbigdog Sad but true.
The British screw everything up but music
They show a 1960 Chevrolet and describe a 1960 Buick, still I enjoyed it.
And a Cadillac CTS during describing the Chevrolet SS. And a 1956 Cadillac Sixty Special while describing a 1938 Sixty Special and a 1959 Cadillac Sixty Special
New technology is great, I guess. But cars today are just to get you from A to B. Even when they have 900 horsepower and they can drive themselves. I think any one who has driven a 1963 corvette, Or a modified or non- modified 57 Chevy or 1967 or 69 Camaro knows the difference. Its also true the new cars handle better and have improved the engine with fuel injection and electronic timing, agreed. But to me all the new cars even the new corvettes all look alike in body styles. None really seem to have their own dynamic personality like they used to. Such as a 1964 Chevelle or The 1966/67 G T O. These cars were very special. With things like the radio's speaker grill cut into the back seat which looked beautiful. And the many option colored interiors. I suppose it boils down to when something is really great and moves people emotionally, You can bet its time here on earth will be very limited. I also agree, lots of miss- information on these cars and photos. Still these cars will always a pleasure to look at and drive.
I’ve had a few of those models you mentioned
Wish I still had them
Richard the 57 chevy is a poor handling machine even back then, other that "what were they smoking in designing dept "it's kind of messed up design
Bartolo You need to get off this kick that modified vintage cars are somehow better that a correctly restored car. Termites like you have destroyed the availability of original cars and parts to restore them with. Pwak on you and your fucked-up hot rods.
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Your blaming Me because wealthy greedy people make money on classic cars ? I love old cars modified or not. I dont deal in old cars in any way, I cant aford them, So dont blame me for something I now and never had any part in. Just because I admire something your blaming me for the way this race has gotten so greedy ? Calling people names tells me your intelligence level is rather low. You dont know me but your going to show every one on the comment board your a tough guy. pathetic, My condolances to your family for having produced you.
@@richardbartolo2890 If you really love the old car hobby, then do your part to help clean it up. Educate yourself on what "restored" means and what "fixed up" means. Go to bonafide shows where the right cars are held up with pride of workmanship. Learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff. Try to educate retards who destroy cars by modifying them up and turning them into gilded rubbish trucks.
Hot rod and low-rider termites have been invading this hobby for several decades and their damage is extensive. Young people today think '55 Chevys were sold new with mag wheels and 1950 Fords came with optional Chevrolet 350 engines. This is irresponsible as well as destructive.
All I'm saying is, don't become a part of the problem, try to become a part of the reparation. Sorry I was hard on you, but I get riled as hell when people who don't know any better go around endorsing loused-up junk that once had potential. The goal of any hobby involving antiquities is to record history, not rewrite it.
Nice cars love old school
Can't talk history of American cars without starting at the beginning with Elwood Haynes.
Enjoyed the video and was rather amused by how it was so obviously done by someone for whom the American automobile was literally a completely foreign concept! Thanks for posting!
The Dodge Brothers made most of the parts for the Modal T If it was not for the Dodge Brothers Henry Ford might not of made the Modal T when he did because he was broke
79tazman so Ford really is a "Fucked Up Rebuilt Dodge!"
79tazman
Lol
Slight correction: Ford outsourced the assembly of engine/chassis/transmissions to several different plants, Dodge Brothers being the largest, and later the exclusive assembly plant. But Dodge did not manufacture these parts; Ford had a global supply chain that would ship those parts to the assembly plant, who would then assemble it and send it over to the Ford plant for body fitment. General Motors had the same strategy in place, in that the frames/motors/trannies were built in different plants, sent to the Fisher plant for body fitment. Hence the "Body by Fisher" tag that all Chevrolets used to have.
@ 79tazman That is true and the Dodge brothers were first paid in Ford stock and earned enough to begin building their own cars.
GM did have some components built by outside companies (frames come to mind), but engines / transmissions were built in GM-owned plants adjacent to the Fisher assembly plants and typically conveyor'd over for final assembly. All GM Divisions used Fisher Body plants (wholy owned) with the exception of Cadillac, which also used Fleetwood (later wholy owned also).
Marvellous!
Great American 🇺🇸 History. 😎
"The History of American Vehicles" (from a European perspective)
Yes I must say it so soothing
English voice was a dead giveaway
Another screwup, the "1960 Buick" shown here, is actually a Chevy!
If I'm not mistaken an Imapala correct? I Just saw that myself.
Yes, Impala at 36:58 . Dad bought us a new '60 Ford Sunliner convertible when I was 8. Horizontal fins galore!
It was an Impala , I had one.
I fast-forwarded to the 1960s section, saw the 1960 Impala identified as a 1960 Buick, and immediately decided not to waste my time except for this post . . . UGH!!!
@@GIMMETHELOOT94 YOU would have to get GOOD & DRUNK to be 1/2 as mistaken as the JACK-OFF that WROTE this ABORTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting!
Well done
2019: still waiting for those fuel cell cars...
The Us Military did not want a reconnaissance vehicle. They wanted a General Purpose vehicle. Which is where the name Jeep comes from. General Purpose, GP the sound of the letters = Jeep.
dano r who gives a fuck
I read that too, general purpose vehicle. It is one theory of where the Jeep came from.
Wrong. "G" stands for Government contract, "p" stands for 80" wheelbase recon car.
@@TheBandit7613 "p stands for 80" makes no sense. Eighty starts with an E.
@@someguy2135 It's the government. It's not going to make sense. I know, been a government worker my whole life. If you only knew...
enjoyed the vidieo.wish they would bring back
the 50,s body styles i loved the 55 crown vic from ford
I wish I had my dad's 1960 Buick Invicta - it looks just like Brad's Cruising Vessel from "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". : )
Chevy's "get up and go" got up and went!
those days looked awesome😂🏌🏌✌✌✌✌🍻🍻nice
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica.
Great 👍 Video. 😊