1964 Cadillac Service Department the private eye
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2020
- 1964 Cadillac Service Department (round table program) training for the guide-matic and twilight sentinel. © Cadillac Motor Company, General Motors
Digitized from vinyl and film. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Love these service department films, thanks!
Those strings really sold me
Let's all go to the Cadillac dealer service department. Back to 1962 please......
Today I bought a Cadi 64 coupe I am very happy
So, how do you like it so far? I'm about to see one tomorrow
I love the 1950s announcer voice ! I wonder if any of those guys can still be hired today for modern projects?
I'd say they've all been dead for quite some time
Unfortunately, that style of speaking and vocal expression has been lost with time.
Agreed. People don’t annunciate properly anymore. Smoking is not as common either. That’s where a lot of the voice quality came from. Not advocating smoking, but you can definitely hear it.
3:30 With the system first introduced for 1952, it's no surprise that it was still made with tubes this late, despite most GM car radios being all-transistor starting in 1964. I wonder when the GuideMatic was finally converted to a solid state design; I had one in my '68 Fleetwood, but I never had to work on it. This one must have used space-charge tubes to work directly on 12 volts.
Awesome, I have a 64 Cadillac fleetwood sixty special and I need lots of info due to restoring, THANKS A LOT, I just subscribed
Hi... I owned a 64 Coupe DeVille...years ago.....I have the original owners manual and accessory book with Cadillac Pouch for them.....would you like them ?
Felicidades Pablo, yo compre un 64 coupe el día de hoy en México saludos
@@MrTitan225 thank you for your offer. But I already have almost every ad, manual etc. you can get of the 1964 Cadillacs :)
Now I know why the 'early / late' knob always felt strange to me. It's just a shade for the photocell, built into the knob; not an electric switch or rheostat. I always wondered how the knob was working on my 64 ! It felt broken, because I could detect no mechanical switch action in the twisting of the knob. But the sentinel and auto dimming always worked properly. (which was happy since they usually broke on my later cadillacs). The 64 is the last metal dash car with all metal switches. My dad's first new cad was a 65 convert, because there was a shortage of used cars in NJ at the time. But the 65 made people respect him, as a 23 year old guy, with the most modern new cad ever seen. a 64 would have looked very old within a year, at a time when styling changed every 12 months. We are not used to that now.
Yup, back when car model years actually mattered haha. Now cars only refresh every 4 years or so, and then a new model usually 2 years following. Makes buying the newest model year not necessary if you're only worried about updates. My 89 Deville had this exact tech package, but it had the cheap 80s plastic dash. But it did still have a metal switchgear for the twilight sentinel sensitivity
Wow thank you
Thanks for this !!!!! I've wanted this for years.
I bet the labor on that photo cell diagnostic job was expensive!
I didn't think the photo electric cell was around until the 70's.
The Autronic Eye photocell high beam control was first offered as an option on 1952 Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles.
Please post more vids
Pablo Vasquez give me more of these and I’ll digitize it. Really hard to get. I have a Fleetwood, too.
That's a lot of claptrap just to avoid having to turn the lights on or off. A lot to go wrong. I'd bet if customers had been shown this clip they'd have avoided these options.
It would be cool to build a modern version of this system using modern parts. Get longer reliability in a smaller, cheaper package and replacement parts would be easier to get when it does fail
Reliable technology? In this 21st century? Dream on, Arrow Smith....
My 18 Chevy truck has it.