Changing Architecture of the Motor Car - the History
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- General Motors wanted to join the bandwagon of nostalgia for early automobiles but show how much progress has been made since those early contraptions hit the streets.
The film primarily concentrates on the styling changes in body designs, height, seating arrangements, etc. But also talks about independent springing of the front wheels that allowed the engine to be moved forward where the axle had been. This opened up a new field of options for the stylists for body design, location of seats and many other changes.
We see many of the classic cars of yesterday and get an insider look at how they were made and what changes have happened since those pioneers roared down the road.
This film was first produced in 1967 and updated a decade later.
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haha, well a facebook friend had posted this as a neat and nostalgic look back to Automotive Styling and Engineering, and imagine my total surprise when at 16:40 I see my late uncle, Stanley Anderson, who was team leader at the GM Tech Center, in the Fuels and Lubricants Dept. He was one of the first on the team there at GM to design and perfect the Catalytic Converter, still used to day in exhaust systems of every automobile manufactured. This was very cool to see him in this film!! (^_~)
"Catalytic converter" and "gov't regulations." Curses! Ya, ya, I know, gotta save the earth but I covet the pre '71 cars of which we car nuts drive sparingly so please you enviros, don't knock it.
Bet it was great seeing your uncle being part of a General Motors design team
I checked the records for the film and it was initially produced in 1967 but I think you two are right -- those are '77 vehicles at the end. My guess is the film was update -- freshened up -- with new footage a decade later. Thank you for commenting and helping me with this. Much appreciated.
I think they should bring back the "Mother-in-Law" seats lol
Jordan Bauman Bing back the mother in law seat ? I thought that was what the trunk was for mother in law LOl 😂😂😂 LOl 😆
It was called the Rumble seat because M-I-L said; You put me in there, Theys gonna be a effin RUMBLE!!! ; ) I never said I was good at jokes, but I try. ; )
The little beetle got a good konk at 15:00
BASH!
+Travis Olson There are so manny definitions i don't know what you mean.They didn't hit the car.You mean swinged ?
@motanelustelistu The Beetle was moving up and down front to back while on that cable and they lowered it so fast that it looked to hit the ground pretty hard.
That concept Cadillac at 17:29 is unspeakably awesome. Foreshadowing the '80 Seville in the tail, but so much better executed and proportioned than the Seville turned out to be.
That is how we were raised. A nicely 'ordered' world, we didn't know better, back in the seventies... good times.
I had to ask what do you mean by "ordered" world? No judgment I'm just interested
It's fascinating to see the major advancement of cars over a short period of time. Great video!
Thank you.
What an adventure. Thanks King Rose.
The cars of the 1930's had Real Style unlike today's appliances on wheels and three boxes tack welded together USA made around the 1980's ( the only thing round on them was the road wheels ) the vintage car i would most like to own is a Ford Model A, you can still buy most parts for them today!!
GREAT use of music, I see lots of people complain about it , but i loved it, it follows the history of the cars with music from the 20s 30s, 50s, 60s etc
This is gold. Thank you!
Wonderful documentary!
The picture of the La Salle grabs me. my grpa owned a 1932 model as pictured. i recall borrowing it in 1946 to take my date to a ball held at the armory in Minneapolis. In '47 he sold it for $50, to a guy who convertedthe rumble seat to a crane to tow cars. Too soon oldt, and too late schmardt!!!
Thanks for sharing your memories.
Thank you!
Thank you 💕
When car's where car's a fantastic video
Omg. I was waiting for today's modern car.
this is awesome
A very balanced and informative presentation. I've learnt a lot and thank you for your efforts.
thank you King Rose 👍👍👍 C😎😎L
Could be. I'll check the description again. Thank you.
The no Center Post between the front and rear doors is an idea they should bring back.
Cool video.
I enjoy taking rides in Ford model A’s, I think they were some of the best cars of the time
Not even remotely, they were good alone, but compared to other companies of the same merit and year, they were at the bottom in both elegance + size, and handling + performing ability. Packard went 130 miles per hour from 1938 to 1940, while people were crying over the passenger car hitting 60, which was achieved in 1902 with a Winston sedan.
Just like the Ford Crown Victoria of the 1980s -2000s .
5:13. Reeves Octo-Auto. Built in Columbus, Indiana.
Left out the first aerodynamic designed auto; the Chrysler Airflow.
@Another view Early cars were purposely made for front drag in attempt to compressed air in the cylinders but after such thing was debunked the car company just shrugged and pretended to invent something. Since the 70eds the car industry has been in power struggle with hippies and invirmental laws. Truth is electric cars will not replace gas in this century because it's not affordable and impractical. The only replacement for gas is to speed up the process of fossil fuel.
14:24 what sweet car is that! Looks amazing!
1955 Chevy Bel Air. It and it's 1957 iteration are iconic. (The next one is the 1957 Nomad station wagon.)
this is vehicle history
The 70s are as far away from today as the 20s were when this video was recorded.
Listen to The narrator's Voice. This guy must have done 8,337,000 different documentaries. I've always wondered who he was. I remember him as a kid in school in the sixties.
That is all.
Sounds like Peter Graves of Mission: Impossible fame.
Actually like the music. Video is great.
wow this is useful
The Tucker most certainly became a reality.
+Frank Dunbar Yeah, I own 27 of them. My neighbor has 19 Tuckers and the guy a block over from my home has 35. Those things are everywhere!
@@lbullis66 not even close.
@@lbullis66 Yeah, we used hundreds of them in demolition derbys in the 70s! Haha!
nice soundtrack..
So Tucker never became a reality ?
The Tucker 48, commonly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan and produced in Chicago, Illinois in 1948. The was designed with an unusual rear-mounted engine and numerous safety and performance , including a padded dash, pop-out windshield, disc brakes, and a “cyclops eye” center headlight that turned with the wheels. With a zero-to-60-mph time of 10 seconds and top speed of , the Tucker was one of the fastest cars around. A four-speed manual gearbox or optional three-speed Tuckermatic (automatic) transmission completed the
The Tucker Torpedo was a reality. Mr. Preston Tucker made fifty (50) of them. This documentary should get its facts straight, man!!
well, it's a GM produced film. they couldn't very well say "our executives at the time convinced the government to prosecute a potential competitor for fraud and destroy their business so we don't have to make a better product."
@@chieftp Notice, also, no mention of the Chrysler Airflow which was scuttled in a different way by the greater powers that be (were], but for similar reasons. Many concepts used in the Airflow are still in use today.
fascinating! But i think the year in your title may be incorrect!
nostalgia isn't what it use to be...
How reliable were cars back in the 20's and 30's?
They weren’t
@@nandernugget you own one?
@@chrisxaf1237 nope. But these cars weren't as finely designed and sound as cars today. It's easy to assume that they didn't last as long as recent cars.
@@nandernugget They were very basic without the modern electronic crap. Also they did not use cheap plastic parts like today and the build quality is higher than today
Reliable is a relative term. They were built to last a lifetime. But they also required more maintenance and attention. But, people also didn’t need a car to travel more than 200-300 miles because there were trains that made more sense for long trips. Cars were more of a luxury (want versus need) until the 50’s. Modern cars are very dependable but aren’t made to last more than 10yrs (check engine light). The computer has killed the longevity of the car.
Oh the engineering teams just loved having to squeeze power out of the two handed choke hold that was imposed by the government.
Like a 455 olds with 225 bhp when with 9/1 compression, and full flow breathing would easily proide 400+ bhp.
And imagine just graduating college, and being forced to put a sock in the latest engine designs, and making the overall car butt ugly after starting out with such glorifying beauty to only have it shit on!!!!
Air pollution
It's obvious to me that America will never be proudest country on earth again unless they can get back to building the kind of cars they used to, the kind which guys want to restore , preserve and hot rod. Automotive pride equals national pride.
I guess you don;t have grandchildren Jim. But if you have, ask them, you will learn that they don;t give a damn about your mechanic nostalgia, they live in a different world .
Duesenberg SJ was the first factory muscle car.
The Hudson Motto was "Step Down to Step Up to a Hudson".
17:29 what is the name of the Cadillac design study? Too bad did not make it to production!
cool
Yeah the cars of today? More like the cars of 45 years ago.
Yes, they should have made a video about the cars of 2023 in 1967.😃
About 1978?
Q: Anyone know the make/model of the two-tone brown car w/ the wavy bumper @8:49?
Duesenberg J type phaeton. One of the best darn American cars ever made. Mechanically, it was decades ahead of its time in many, many ways.
With its solid axles?
Surely the big wheel bike has got to be the biggest fck up in the progression of the wheel 😂
Many early versions, in this case the penny farthing, rather than a fuckup, was a step in the progression of the bicycle, until someone made a better version. According to your criteria, just about everything shown in this video was a fuckup when compared to today's cars, which last hundreds of thousands of almost maintenance free miles without wearing or rusting out, except in extreme conditions.
How did that aluminum block work out for the Vega?
Not so well. Actually to try and mitigate the heat issues the whole engine ended up being heavier than an all iron engine. Which also required heavier suspension etc. The whole Vega was a bust. A great idea to build a small car but they took it out of the Chevrolet engineers hands and it became Ed Cole's pet project that he rammed through the board. A disaster. That set back GM's interest in small cars and left them without viable challengers when the gas shortages of the 70s made Japanese cars popular.
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The Vega had a high-tectate silica aluminum block that could be die cast, but a steel head. Overheat it even a little bit, and the head warped due to differential thermal expansion. It had a long stoke and idled rough (the thing rocked in the engine bay like a cradle). It was taller and heavier than the Pinto engine, or even the old Iron Duke (which later replaced it). My parent's '73 lasted about 68,000 miles (which was typical) until my stoner brother overheated it. The fenders rusted through (no fender liners, removed to save costs). We were unaware of the "hidden warranty" to replace the fenders. DeLorean's book pretty well tells he story. It was de-contented to keep cost down after the '72 strike. Sad, too.
They were all shipped nose down in special rail cars. Typical of GM's attempts to use esoteric technology to save costs (as opposed to confronting the union labor costs).
The high-tectate technology did not go away. BMW uses it today, with some success. The only problem they had was in the 1990's when high sulfur gas in America caused some 5-series to have extreme cylinder wall wear and lose compression before 70K. BMW repaired these under hidden warranty (replaced the blocks!). Today, the sulfur isn't an issue in our gas, and the technology works pretty well.
Not so much that the block was made out of aluminum, as it was the funky design of the block, and an ignorant public where some got lucky with the result of abusing cast iron block engines.
It was a fatal failure and everyone died😣 the end.
+Stig Nasty My brother worked in the parts department of a Chevrolet dealership at the time that the Vega was introduced. They had something euphemistically referred to as a VEGA TUNE UP KIT. This consisted of a new short block engine and two new front fenders. This "kit" was usually required before the one year new car warranty was up, because the engines died and the front fenders rusted out very quickly. True story! :)
That's coo
The Vega - America's Yugo
Actually, the Yugo was Yugoslavia's Vega.
When was this made? Who is the Narrator?
razorgg, at least 1977, based on the B-Body 2-Dr Olds coupe the woman is assembling. Though could have been last half of ‘76.
Sounds like Peter Graves.
haha....GM took a swipe at Ford "contrary to popular belief, Ford didn't invent the assembly line"....
+amartinjoe actually, it was Eli Whitney who invented standardization, and the assembly line for military guns in the 1700`s..
Actually, that's not what it said. @ 1:56 "Contrary to popular belief, neither Olds nor Ford were first with mass production. Duryea produced 13 identical automobiles in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1896." It didn't say anything about an assembly line. People (like you) just assume that assembly line = mass production.
Ford takes credit for having the first *moving* assembly line in 1913. Oldsmobile produced 425 of the curved dash Oldsmobile on an assembly line in 1901, but the workers pushed the cars from station to station by hand. (Electric car manufacturers such as Columbia Electric and steam powered car manufacturers such as Locomobile had higher volumes a few years earlier). Oldsmobile definitely had the first gas-powered car produced on an assembly line. Of course, assembly line production techniques were already well-known from other industries, such as gun manufacture.
Personally, I think 13 is a bit too low to be considered "mass" production, and they certainly weren't identical in the same sense that we would use that term. It wasn't until Cadillac bought Johansson gauge blocks in 1908 that the auto industry could produce parts identical enough to be truly interchangeable.
@ 4:46 By the way, women were driving cars long before the electric starter was invented by Cadillac. They were driving electric cars, of course. The electric starter brought an end to the popularity of the electric car.
dlwatib - - additionally,
When Daimler and friends built the first motorcycle with training wheels, with a whopping 1/2 HP engine, a WOMAN took it off to the countryside for a pic-nic lunch without permission or assistance.
amartinjoe Neither did Henry Ford Ransom E. Olds used the assembly line to build his cars Ford just kept lowering the price of his cars and in 1913 he doubled his workers pay
Ford invented the MOVING assembly line.
13 is memorable but not mass production, GM just wont admit Ford had the upperhand.
Olds had the first assembly line in 1901, but Ford perfected it by incorporating moving conveyer belts, in 1913, an idea that one of his employees got from seeing conveyor belts used in slaughterhouse dis-assemblings of animal carcases.
The curved-dash Oldsmobile was the first mass-produced car, selling 5,000 units in 1904.
+R Long Wrong.The first "mass" produced cars was the German opel or mercedes as said in the video.
+R Long Actually,none "invented" the asembly line.The asembly line was invented by a manufacturer of canned food if i remember well
this is USA auto history
Wahrscheinlich namenlos HaHa man USA come from England descend which mean founder of Great British
Wahrscheinlich namenlos Ok what is your point ?
Americans have a mouse and a training wheel in there heads instead of having a brain!!
+md80 captain But you forget, the Europeans and Asians were selling cars here at the same those regulations were imposed. The government owns much of the blame for what has happened to the US auto industry, but so do the unions and the companies themselves.
twana baiz....of course it is, it's the only history that matters, so why wouldn't it be?
A Buick Skyhawk.
Just how different would America be if we had the car in 1860's
7:35 Did anyone hear that?? Which car is that??
From the radiator I would say a Packard.
People were more environmentally conscious back in the 60s and 70s than they are today. Sad
Nonsense
Now the center of the automobile industry is Japan.
At the e and of this present station
They show the 1977 GMC full size
Cars that were downsized that year not many realize the risk gm
Took with those cars what happened a and why did gm
Go bankrupt in 2008. Anyone got two hours to explain it all to me
The Pinto and th eVga where Ford's and cheverolet's respectively testing the waters for disosable automobile. Buy one and when you you itt all up buy another new one; rise and repeat.
The Packards of the early 1930s (1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934) were gorgeous. Most of the car models during the late 1940s were boring in my opinion. I wish I could afford a 1931 Packard. After 1940, Packard cars lost their good looks.
ill take the buggatti royale.
Imagine that. Bumpers that actually protected the body of the car. What won't they think of next...LOLOL. Now days, the entire front your car is nothing but a plastic bumper that protects nothing. But, of course, if bumpers today protected your car, the repair shops would loose millions and we can't have that happening.
+J kK Such a skeptic.
+J kK That's funny, just last weekend the rear of a police car hit the front bumper of my Jeep (REALLY!), didn't do a bit of damage to the Jeep and only left a big black mark on his bumper.
Modern bumpers are designed to absorb impact energy by crumpling. They're usually made of plastics because plastics are a lot cheaper than metals, but provide basically the same protection. And both would be rendered useless in an accident.
Tuppoo94 Not quite. For minor impacts (such as the incident with the sheriff, they have something like shock absorbers to take the impact with little or no damage to the vehicle. For harder impacts then yes, things start crumbling or collapsing to protect the people in the car.
+Jeff DeWitt One other benefit of the broad, flexible plastic bumper, is the increased survivability for the pedestrian, if struck. This, with the curved, collapsible hood and sloped, safety glass windshield, will likely decelerate him to a painful but less injurious landing in the hood pocket he will create.
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I agree, the cars of 2014 are the same as 40 years ago, with the un-needed addition of distractive, useless computer crap.
Can't consider microcontrollers as unneeded when it's unlikely that reduced fuel and the reduction of emissions would have happened nearly simultaneously without the use of microcontrollers. The odds of surviving an accident are higher in a 2014 vehicle then they where when the 1974 vehicle where new. Anyway I'm at a loss how microcontrollers in a car could distractive, unless you are texting while driving.
If only cars had changed in no other way than adding computer things.
I appreciate ABS, ASR, FDR (aka ESP), navigation systems, and ability to connect cell phone associated devices.
I don't appreciate so many other things like the change in the looks. Or fwd, unibody, separated footspace so that the driver can no longer get in from the passenger side. Downsizing where you have to buy an SUV to get size and rwd. SUV don't have the hood in the back in the optic.
Audi once introduced the Quattro. It had AWD. But later Audi went on to sell "Allrad" cars that have only 4wd based on fwd. The engine is oriented for fwd with its axle from left to right. Lately in a mall I encountered a presentation of the new Landrover of the day. I looked under the hood on the engine was oriented for fwd. But the young female presenter told me it has "permanenter Allrad" which would mean AWD. It certainly didn't have. The orientation limits the amplitude of steering.
Some great inventions were never incorporated by the industry:
- sleeve valve engines, rotary engines, especially the DKM version. They only built the KKM version
- all the inventions that are found in the DS
- the automatic roof for the convertible brought out by Ford in 1958. They envisioned it would be in all cars in the future
- In Europe: automatic transmission remained the exception rather than the rule. The gear shifter was moved to the steering column for a while then moved back again, even for fwd cars.
Ah, and I forgot to mention:
The bumpers shown in 17:17 - 17:26 were removed. Modern cars no longer have external bumpers that protect the car. It was called here "Stoßfänger, in Wagenfarbe lackiert". I don't know the terminology but would be "Bumpers, painted in body color". They are not real bumpers if they are painted.
+Rainer67059 Sure they are, the actual bumpers are behind a flexible plastic cover and they do work... just ask the Wake County Sheriff who backed into my Jeep recently.
+Rainer67059 Rotary engines were and are produced.It was mostly on the 1970's Japanese cars and are stil today.
Also,there are automatic convertibles today.
Why would you have the automatic transmission as the rule ? It's silly,stupid and uneconomical.Besides,it takes away the pleasure of driving.
Also,mainly in car makers from European COUNTRIES (Europe isn't a country) the vans and mpv's have center dash mounted shifter so manny have 3 seats front row.
I am sorry, but the terms Vega and innovative do not belong in the same sentence. The engine was, well, a PIS and the body was made of a G M innovation called Compressed Rust.
Comparing the classics to how modern cars look is just so disappointing.
There's no flash, no energy, no soul. They're all just painted blobs on wheels.
Most are white or black too...with grey interiors. So boring. I miss the large choice of colors outside and colors and patterns inside. Two tones were also awesome.
LMAO = nova turned caddy
Very interesting but the crappy music is mighty distracting and irritating and because of that i was not able to watch till the end.
Sorry about that but it came that way. Can't really change it.
LOL GM should stick to making cars instead of making video productions....they're not very good at it :-)
or making cars either now that you mention it.
good video apart from the over-done music...I guess that was cool music in those days...but YT video makers still make the same mistakes - by drowning out the narrator...and these days it is with some second rate electro-rock noise....
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GM Propaganda ! Studebaker was the #1 Car after WWII
For a short period while GM was still shifting gears from war production. But when they did, they were unbeatable. No other company in the history of the world was as profitable as what GM became in the '50s. Its competitors fell by the wayside. GM throttled back enough to keep Chrysler and Ford alive so that the US Government wouldn't break them up as they'd done to Standard Oil. We definitely lost something when Studebaker and the others went under.
most american cars are......
America went to hell when they took the fins off the Cadillac...lol, actually seems true.
Volks comments are the best why do we have stupid nonsense in our sick world society simple is best
I want to see real bumpers on cars as we use to have our lives are mucho important not millions of inero in our pockets get real plastic crap wastes mucho oil petroleum products bring back simplicity and simple dating life should be more than just millions $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$in our pockets
That's a little inside out. Energy absorbing front ends slow deceleration which saves lives. According to your logic the car will be better off, but the sudden stop of the vehicle results in the occupants' brains crashing into the skull resulting in irreversible trauma.
I will say it again. Music under a narration IS ANNOYING AND TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. Thank you.
i have two friends in their 50's who never learned to drive at all. i didn't learn until i was 25. i never understood people's love of cars and driving. i don't even like riding in cars and drive as little as possible. anything with an engine makes me uncomfortable. wish i could walk and bike everywhere. the world was so much better off, so much cleaner and safer and less expensive before engines and fuel were invented. driving and cars are way overrated!
What?! Can’t hear your tree hugger bitching over the sound of my hearty, sweet, V8 ‘merican muscle!
obviously you're over compensating for a shortcoming
cars are very useful, you can't walk long distances. you need to find a balance and not only drive or only walk, both are (in opposite ways) bad for you or your possibilities
@@Blackadder75 they can be useful, but the negatives of motor vehicles far outweigh the positives
Why to go ! Good for you being yet another trying to re-write history. Very misleading as kids will believe anything they see or hear if it's on the internet.
What a way to go. Cookie cutter, present day body 'architecture' - somehow lost the plot.