1960 Plymouth Fury Commercial with Don Knotts and Steve Allen
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- This is from an episode of the Steve Allen Show. Using the Man on the Street skit to introduce the commercial. I love the way Don Knotts says so serious "Solid for 60" lol
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R.I.P. Steve Allen and Don Notts and Plymouth😪.
God bless Don Knotts. What a great man actor & comedian.
Same for Steve Allen!
Don knott brilliant actor & comedian
The Reluctant Astronaut was on tv other day. I was busy in kitchen but these funny old movies just make you smile giggle listening to them. When Don says while drunk wearing cowboy hat.." put er on the pad boys..I'll take her up"..meaning the space module😅🤣😂. I wld pay to see many old gem movies in theatre vs new movies. Can't remember last time I saw a funny side splitting comedy. Likely when our beloved John Candy was still alive.
All of Steve Allen's comedienne's were great!
Those live commercials were really great, especially in living color, on NBC. RIP Don Knotts, Steve Allen and Plymouth, miss them all. 😢🦚
This reminded me of how tall Steve Allen was, about 6'2" or 3"!
Don Knotts. Rest in peace...
And Steve Allen, too.
And Plymouth, also.
Don knotts was a great human being,, and a classy guy,, he was a great actor & top notch comedian,, we miss you Don...
Back when cars were advertised on their claimed merits, not on how jealous other people would feel when they saw you driving one.
That is one very beautiful car. Anybody agree?.
I was driving my son's Fury III a few years ago, light blue, in excellent condition. I am in New Hampshire. It was like a dream. So much room. I stopped behind a school bus, and some 6 year old boys got off the bus and stood staring at the car. They loved it. I drove to the gas station and old men came around to admire it.
We owned a 1967 Fury3 red convertible white leather seats
@@tarnsand440 Nice! You could live in that car. Or be buried in it. I love old cars. Another car that is welded together to form a unibody construction is the Karmann Ghia. It makes repair and restoration a little trickier than the VW Bug, which is like a toy.
@@pattysherwood7091 Lol..you are right! We were able to load all our wedding gifts( 1973) in the trunk. We got rid of it because used so much gas. It was 6 yrs old looked brand new. Guy that bought it...someone vandalized slashed roof top 3 mths later. We felt so bad for him.
@@tarnsand440 thank you for the story. I graduated high school in 1973 and ran away from home with a wonderful hippie/conservative Catholic car lover. 🤣🤣🤣 . Well, now I have to join zoom church. 🤣🤣🤣have a great day. PS . That is too bad about the car being vandalized.
@@pattysherwood7091 We must be same age😃. Love your story! You have a wonderful day😊 I hope you are enjoying spring- like weather in NH. I'm in Alberta Canada...we've had lovely warm temps past week. Song birds returning.
Classic late 50's comedy "schtick" Both steve and Don were national treasures.
Fife is nipping car breakdowns in the bud!
Sir you've sold me, I'll take one in blue...... with white-wall's please !!!!!
walls...plural is not possessive.
I didn't know they had unibody that far back, I thought it was from the 70's, beautiful car.
American Motors used it on Nash cars in 1948, Hudson too. All AMC products thru the 50's were unit body. Chrysler introduced it to their product line in 1959 for 1960. Ford and GM would us it to but never on the Full Sized cars like AMC or Chrysler. That's why AMC and Chrysler Full Sized cars were the favorites of Police Departments. Handling characteristics were always better. More like a unit body Mercedes or BMW sedan.
With big fins like that?
Obviously late 50s to mid 60s.
However, body on frame versus unibody had NOTHING to do with how many miles you would get out of he car. If you know about these cars, they were rust buckets. It was the actual design of the body itself. If you watch Jay Leno's Garage, whenever he reviews cars from the late 50's through the 60's he always talks about how few there are around because they all rusted out within a couple of years.
I remember a Seinfeld episode where they are at a car lot and the salesman mentions "Unibody construction"! So they were talking about it for over 30 years! :)
Citroen was uni-body in the 1930's and my Morris Minor uni-body car dates from 1948.
Remember this beast...
Was 10 years old when neighbor bought one...
Damn tank...😉
Were all gonna wish we had a tank...
How long did it take before it started to rust? 2 years? LOL
@@retroguy9494 haha, get it because your a modernist and a constant asshole!
Cars back in those days were a pure joy to drive. My first car was a 1960 Oldsmobile Cutlass. It had a HUGE V8 motor and was as comfortable as a Cadillac. What a great machine.
1960 Cutlass? Now that would be a rare car since there is no such thing? The first Cutlass was also based on the F-85 and was a Compact car, not a big car....it's engine wasn't big either, it had a very small V8, 3.5 litre but that was May of 1961 when it was launched, as an 1961 half year entry.
Osborn...My bad. I bought the Oldsmobile 50 years ago so I goofed. I looked it up this time and it was a 1961 Olds, but I can't remember the model. Maybe an 88. It was a huge car and had one hell of a powerful V8 engine. Drove like a dream. I still dream about driving that amazing car.
My family had a big black 88 back when I was a kid (revealing my age there), and that sucker was HUGE! What a boat! I still have fond memories of that car. :-)
My first car was a worm brown 1964 Plymouth Fury with a 318 V8 and pushbutton automatic. That thing would move. 130-135+. Had metal moths so bad you could hear the rust blow out the sides under the doors. Around 200,000 miles on it or more.
@@OsbornTramain thank you Mr know it all.
Absolutely one of the best comedians produced. This commercial was a good example of that.
Miss you Don knotts you were one of a kind God bless and rest in peace!
Oh how I wish I could go back in time
The Valiant with the slant 6 was almost invincible. A friend has one with just over 175000 original miles and the powertrain is original, save gaskets, seals,etc. It fires right up and drives beautifully. I wish I had one.
Agreed, those Slant 6's with a minimum of maintenance will soldier on forever
Even with a carb on it (no fuel injection) you could get 300,000 if your driving distance wasn't real short.
The slant 6 was the base engine in the '60 Fury. That probably would have had the best shot at hitting 200,000 miles if you weren't in a hurry to get there.
Plymouth: Solid for Sixty. They don't make 'em solid like Allen anymore either. He lamented the cynical coarsening of so much of today's humor.
I spent the last 4 years watching a great Canadian man,and friends, rebuild a 2-door with the same colors.You could put them beside that and Mr.Knotts and Allen would be amazed.
Seeing the 'uni-body' example was eye opening as it really has No creaks going down a dirt driveway,or across a farm field.They are great cars.Thank you for sharing this.
you mean Scott at Coldwarmotors, he's a member here, i've been following him since the beginning of time on youtube.
You don’t hear the expression motor trip anymore.
Now it's Road Trip -
@@rsstrazz6261 Yep.
So many rest areas with picnic tables and camping permitted if you wished, in the 50's and 60's, family vacations by car were a standard part of life.
The same with Sunday drives it seems now everyone has a destination and wants to get there as soon as possible I still go out and drive with no where to go and see where serendipity will take me, I'm a amateur photographer and some of my best shots came from going up a road just to see where it goes
mine has way over 300k miles, still drives like new.
Yours is a lot newer than 1960 I bet!
@@guyfawkesuThe1 Actually it is from September 1959. Early production.
Check out Cold War Motors 1960 Fury.
My dad had the NHRA national record in the D/stock automatic class with a 1960 Plymouth Belvedere.
Wow, so they weren’t lying :) was the engine ever rebuilt..?
I really like that car!
They made some beauties in those days, didn't they? Not like the cookie-cutter models they trot out today.
Early color television.
The part where the bolts work loose is funny to a northerner who knows they would have rusted so badly they would have fused together with the body in a rust-weld of its own after one good winter.
I want one..it's 1000x better than the crap that's built today.
1960: we build cars like this, so they last this long.
2021: Fun fun fun... easy forever payments if you qualify.. and if you don't lease lease lease.. a cheap cheap car that falls apart.
That's exactly what I was thinking, not to mention their never ending odd ball electrical issues
Except now, cars on average, last longer. Better engine and transmission tolerances, better oil and materials technology, bodies much more resistant to rust....and MUCH safer and cleaner; no comparison, actually.
That said, I still love those classic cars and would love to own/rebuild one!
A 1960 Plymouth Fury was my first car. 4 doors with room enough for up to 10 passengers going to a drive in., it was red and silver, with a rectangular steering wheel, push button transmission and a dash mounted rear view mirror. Oh yeah the driver’s seat rotated for easy exiting. The fins were quite exaggerated, in keeping with the times. Had to sell it when I got drafted. My now wife and I had fun times driving it around
Love that car!!! Those were the days!
I miss you, Mr. Furley. Rest in peace.
- I remember driving through Mayberry & doing over the speed limit and deputy sheriff Fife gave me a speeding ticket and rightfully so. No hard feelings. He was a great person & deputy.
My first car was a 1966 Plymouth Sport Fury III with a 383 under the hood!
I'll be uploading some 66 Fury Commercials in the next six months, I found a collection and will be restoring the film. Four commercials I'd never seen before. Soon to come.
== Same here. Bought it from a widow in Dallas, Texas, in 1985. She'd put 34,000 miles on it. Sold it to me for 800 bucks. As I was about to drive away, she said: "You take good care of her." Put 125,000 more miles on it, then gave it to my nephew who put on another 50,000. Sits in his garage now, up on blocks. He drives a Prius.
@@rerite2 that is quite a story about the car!
The '66 Fury was one of the best looking full size Plymouths of the 1960's....
When cars were magnificent & men were men!!! Lol
what were women?
I love to plan trips also but I take them! LOL old car commercials are funny by today's standard...
My folks put 415 , 000 miles on one with a 318 poly block in it still.ran good when dad traded it in on a dodge Monaco in 1975 with a 440 in it . sucked gas bad but it would lay rubber for 1/2 a city block. So it seemed any way
What a cool clip ! Thanx so much for sharing ! I'm surprised it's in color (in 1960 almost all telecasts were still in black & white). Watching this bodacious "blast from the past" has made my day & my week ! :-)
"life expectancy of 200,000 miles!!!"
wonder why company's don't make promises like that these days...
Moe Szyslak It was a long way from a promise, or a guarantee. A few years later Chrysler would be the first of the big three offer a 5 year 50,000 mile Powertrain warranty.
Because we lawyers would hold them too it. Actually, I've got 270,000 miles on my '08 Charger. Your average 60 Plymouth (or pretty much any car from that vintage) would be rusting out within five or six years.
I bet not 1 percent of those lead sleds made it to 200k.
Most of them were rusted into the ground in 5 years
I have a '66 Ford pickup with over 200K but the engine has been rebuilt once
Bar Harbor, Maine! Love the shout out, Don, we would’ve loved for you to come!
If you can’t wait a minute, I won’t go with you!
I wonder if Scott and the Cold War Motors agents have seen this.
As soon as I saw the video, I thought of posting a link on CWM
@@pashakdescilly7517 Do it, I think Scott would have a great reaction to seeing that brand new, bare 2 door hardtop body and thinking about just how much work that could have saved him.
@@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus already done.
He is a subscriber here, one of my first subscribers and he does comment occasionally. I'm guessing he's seen this
@@pashakdescilly7517 Same color as Scott's two door.
Thanks for posting this.
The great American cars ran forever.
They still are.
Cars now go more miles than ever before. We now have the very best oils ever made.
Yea the engines ran forever. Its just that the body rusted out long before the you ever had engine issues!
Plymouth....solid as a rock....!
The classic land yacht, that one.
Great to see Steve Allen again. Gee, if my Dad had bought one of those Plymouths in 1960, I might have taken it to college in 1980! 10,000 mi X 20 years = 200,000! Unibody!
In the next few weeks, I'll be uploading a couple of TV commercials with his other side kick, Louie Nye!
The one my dad had didn't go 200, 000 miles but with a 413 max wedge it did go nearly
200 mph.
Imagine if you knew what you were buying now
We had a convertible had the crazy steering wheel ours had a 45 record player and driver seat would turn to get out
if someone hit a bump would the record skip? if it only played 45's did you have to keep stopping to change the records? seems like that was a stupid option, it didn't catch on very well.
The original "Staycation".
Ryan Soltess Who knew, Don was light years ahead of his time.
200K mile potential seemed based solely on body construction and not the engine/drivetrain. I found that interesting.
I would like to see today's car commercials like this.
Now THAT'S how you sell a car.
I always thought Chrysler made the most unique and interesting cars.
I am a big dodge fan
DeSoto had the best cars, I think. Priced higher than Plymouth and Dodge and often with similar amenities to higher priced Chrysler and Imperial models.
I think if I had been around in the 1950's I would have owned DeSoto.
Sadly, we lost DeSoto in the recession of 1958 that killed off many great brands like Hudson and Packard.
But, starting with a 1978 Pontiac Bonneville, I have never owned anything but GM cars and have been very happy with all of them. My current vehicle is a 2003 Buick that I have owned since new and is now on it's 19th year -- the longest I have ever had a vehicle last.
@@zz449944 I have an 03 Malibu 50,400 miles runs good and still looks good.
@@zz449944 - Desoto lasted until the 1961 model year. Hudson merged with Nash to create American Motors. There was no money for a redesigned full size Nash or Hudson. In any case, AMC concentrated on the compact Rambler. Also, Hudson sales were declining well before 1958. From a peak post war sales year in 1949 of 144,685, sales declined every year till the end came in 1957 with a mere 1,345 cars sold. source, "The Cars That Hudson Built" by John A Conde
The last true Packard was built in 1956. In 1957 and 1958, the "Packard" was based upon Studebaker cars.
Got my driver's license in my dad's 1951 Desoto. One tough hombre. Rode like on a cloud. Huge inline 6 cylinder. 75 mph all day long! Washed it in a creek once! Beautiful, dark blue. Smoooth!
What a huge car!
I have a 56 Chrysler Windsor very little rust,came from Minnesota,now lives in California drives beautifully, everything works only problem no power steering.
Gives your arm muscles a workout!
You mean it has Armstrong power steering
Change it over to power steering.
1960 Mopars were the first cars to be designed with the aid of a computer, according to my 1960 Consumer Reports auto issue.
Which Computing Machine did they use? The "Invent-A-Gimmick 2000" ?
Were they referring to designing the unibody?
@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 It was an IBM mainframe, I don't know the exact model.
Another thing they did to analyse the unibody structure was to make a 3/8 scale model in clear plastic and photograph it under polarized light while bending and twisting, to locate stress points. High stress areas were reinforced or redesigned to eliminate them. The finished bodies were twice as strong and rigid as previous models, and free from squeaks ratlles and vibrations. Which was more than you could say of certain rival makes, even ones made much later.
I miss things like this.
My dad was a Chrysler Plymouth man
Cars back then were All used up by 100,000 miles. They were usually rusting out by then also.
In the North East yes that would be true
Correct, a Plymouth in Texas or LA or Vegas or the Pacific North West wouldn't rust out any more than any other car of the day.
I never heard that before 200,000 miles
Fantastic car!! would love to have that and a '60 Imperial!
my dad had to have the engine rebuilt at 90000 miles on his 55 studebaker champion.
That’s because he never changed the oil.
When cars gave great white sharks fin envy , and din t mention one word about fuel mileage .
@Nick Gurr what’s that all about? Did you misunderstand his comment?
Fuel was cheap and comfort was king 👑. A big V8 highway bomber to Advance as Jay Leno would say.
Even nowadays with high gas prices I still don't care about my fuel mileage. It's worth paying extra to drive fun classic vehicles.
Or rustproofing in 3 years rust at seams and by nixon election they are teash
How very informative, enjoyable watch
Few baby boomers weren't fans of Don Knotts.
Bill Taylor I am a boomer. Even my dad would crack up to Don Knotts or Don Adams!
Don knott& Don adams both brilliant actor& comedians
@@lloydkline6946 I can't think of any others, that brought my father more joy!
@@kevinmontgomery1383 burt Reynolds the late actor said don knott was the funniest man he ever met, that saying alot
@@lloydkline6946 Say no more! Thanks for sharing.
Seems this would have been a popular car in Fin-Land. ; )
That’s Plymouth, Charlie
That was a beautiful car.
We had a 1960 Plymouth wagon . Push button transmission and HUGE tail fins
Back when even the commercials were part of the show...and entertaining.
Ah, yes. Carburetor engine with manual choke, point type ignition, bias ply tires, drum brakes, single brake master cylinder, no remote start system, ABS braking system, traction control, all wheel drive, etc.
In other words, the good old days.
Ah yes to that - and a ton more ancient car hardware. Got my license in '62 in my Dad's '62 3-speed 327/250 Impala. Back then when you drove a car, you drove a car. We've come a long way baby.
I would still take the 60 over today's crap Chevelle for 1964 a Beautiful car And Woody wagons of the late 1920's 1930's 1940's early 1950's Works of art......
fast forward about 50 years and 2 of my Toyota Corollas went well over 200 thousand miles with no major repairs.
my 60 fury has 330+ k miles on the clock, heads never been off, still runs like new but had a transmission failure once at around 250k but these cars put out lots of power and torque. front wheel bearings are still OE, so ist the front propshaft U-joint and some suspension parts like upper ball joints and inner tie rod ends, rear/front springs, rear axle never been touched, except wheel bearings and a seal. these were low price quality cars.
Anybody driving a Toyota in the US should hang their head in shame.
I want one of those new models. Looks great!
My dad had a beautiful 2 door, hot red Plymouth Sports Fury. It had black leather interior with bucket seats and could climb like a cat. Dad got it up an icy rural road after watching a line of other drivers attempt, slide and give up.
What a great car!
Peter Hansen played Lee Baldwin, Scotty's (Kin Shriner) father on the ABC-TV daytime drama, "General Hospital", starting in the late 1970s and continuing for several years.
Wow! My mom loved her 'Plymouths'! She wouldn't drive anything else. This takes me back to a time when they really cared about the product that they sold. I miss those good old cars! Yet in reality, they weren't as near as safe as the aluminum foiled computerized 2by4's we drive today. And ya, I miss Steve Allen and good ol' 'Barney Fife' too.👍
I remember a steve allen LP, with a promotion for record-playing chrysler on the back jacket. If my memory is correct, said car wouldn't play LP -- only singles, and one year it was specialized discs.
Family had one! Great car.
Was this video at 1.15 where Scott at coldwarmotors got his splice idea ?! 😎
Warranties did not mean nothing. Cars had heavier steel in them but they would start rusting out in 3 years. PS thats in the snow belt areas, to much salt in the winter time.
Ya, unibody rust out in all cars after a few years in the salted areas, bad idea.
i know many people with classics that have over 200,000 miles, just do your maintenence and wash the salt off. many people can't do those two things
In other words, “please buy one. We don’t build the instant degrading bone shaker 57s any more”
With those rare wings tale the user can go to the moon. XD
No 1960s American made car could get 200k miles without MAJOR repairs, engine rebuild, transmission rebuild, rear differential, etc. And the floor pan and rockers would rust out if you lived in the north.
thats plymouth, charlie...
. Still funny after all these years.
I have a 1998 Toyota Camry coming up on 500,000 miles. I bought the car brand-new, so it's 500K original miles. Still all original parts, too.
Take care of your car, and your car will take care of you.
Funny stuff!
thanks
A uni-body in 1960! Who knew?, I thought it a relatively new innovation.
Chrysler and American Motors were building unibodies in the late 1950s. General Motors didn't give up body on frame until 1996. Ford gave them up in 2011.
Looks like the Fury on Coldwarmotors.
Agreed!
I'd love to go back in time and not go with him. Sweet ride.
That means this car will last around 16.6. years using Don Knotts mileage example. Who knows maybe they did
My 51 Studebaker Champion was 14 years old when I bought it. Ran for another 7 years and then parked it in barn in 1979 my father asked me if I was to sell it . He said it still runs good. I said yes and someone is a new owner of that automobile. ( yep! That’s what we called them ) not cars.
He was hilarious with Andy Griffith
Love to have the demo body shell.
Uma pérola!
He'd be travelling virtually via Google street view today.
Those fins! :)
What a silly commercial. Seriously though these were some badass cars! I once saw one at a car show with just over 300,000 on it! It was owned by an old guy that bought it new when he was young, and he babied that thing and drove it all over the country.
Don Draper definitely did NOT work on this ad!
Love this but Medicine Hat is in southern Alberta Canada (my brother used to live there!), not in Wisconsin.