Easy Does It - Chevrolet Gear Shift (1940)

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  • @poolejakefit
    @poolejakefit Před 4 lety +250

    I almost forgot I clicked on a Chevy video lol

  • @LloydLynx
    @LloydLynx Před 4 lety +201

    This video has been the only one to successfully teach me how a sewing machine works.

    • @rustybritches6747
      @rustybritches6747 Před 2 lety +5

      me too! always wondered!

    • @otdosa
      @otdosa Před rokem +1

      always wondered.

    • @ChaseHeeler
      @ChaseHeeler Před rokem +2

      And the main focus of the video isn’t even about sewing machines. 😂😂😂😂 it’s wonderful.

  • @sully676
    @sully676 Před 6 lety +590

    save all that energy in 1940, because the next few years the girls were in factories building tanks and planes

    • @haendel2004
      @haendel2004 Před 5 lety +27

      While receiving child support and taking all property of tge man she threw away when he got sick or unemployed. Or if she hasn't done that, she can, anytime she wants.
      That's why good men are going mgtow and only bad men remain for women.

    • @dom3827
      @dom3827 Před 5 lety +7

      @@haendel2004 yes. That is what killed chivarly. Now they got the bill.

    • @redrackham6812
      @redrackham6812 Před 5 lety +8

      It is strange to watch this knowing that the cars that rolled off the assembly lines in 1940 would be some of the last civilian cars produced in the United States--or anywhere, really--until 1946. Other than that line about a "blitzmeal" at around 2:08, you would never know that there was a world war on at the time or at the US would be in it in less than two years--or that Chevrolet would be making tanks and planes, not cars.

    • @haendel2004
      @haendel2004 Před 5 lety +7

      Since the day you started worrying about internet comments at such time of the night..lol
      I'm also addicted to reading law suits from family courts...lol

    • @GoldenGrenadier
      @GoldenGrenadier Před 4 lety +4

      @@JamesTTierce I dunno, birth control makes a lot more sense or, you know, not leaving your partner until the child is an adult.

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman Před 11 lety +167

    "Hurry-up Picture"

    • @maxattack1684
      @maxattack1684 Před 4 lety +6

      Come on you damn picture. You need to hurry up picture

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 Před 4 lety

      lekoman Time lapsed picture

  • @PilotAwe
    @PilotAwe Před 7 lety +227

    Hurry-up-picture

    • @dinosoarskill17
      @dinosoarskill17 Před 7 lety

      Lol yep

    • @finndahuman57
      @finndahuman57 Před 4 lety

      And it look Betters then Most of them Today

    • @tmounidharan
      @tmounidharan Před 4 lety

      There now you got a round number of likes

    • @PilotAwe
      @PilotAwe Před 4 lety +1

      @@tmounidharan Ty, I didnt even remember this comment, no wonder since its been 3 years

    • @tmounidharan
      @tmounidharan Před 4 lety +1

      @@PilotAwe yeah those good ole days when people walk around streets without masks

  • @cowerdnerddespacito9518
    @cowerdnerddespacito9518 Před 3 lety +12

    Thanks Chevrolet for explaining women’s work is just as hard as men’s work. And making
    Driving a car Easier and more enjoyable

  • @CynicalBreed
    @CynicalBreed Před 6 lety +117

    That woman starting that propeller on the airplane is my type of lady. Brave and knowing what has to be done.

    • @atis5607
      @atis5607 Před 2 lety +2

      My dad once saw an accident caused by hand starting an airplane, doing that takes quite the skill and courage!

    • @michaeldeloatch7461
      @michaeldeloatch7461 Před rokem

      Had I been alive and of age in 1940 and not married, of course (lots of counterfactuals) she could have started my engine whenever she wanted! Contact!!! ;-)

    • @michaeldeloatch7461
      @michaeldeloatch7461 Před rokem

      @@atis5607 My friend used to fly a cessna in/out of a small little airfield out in the country, and it was owned by a guy named Stumpy or something like that who had lost an arm in a prop. Ouch.

    • @KillianZippel
      @KillianZippel Před rokem

      But this girl is dead now

  • @hunterfisher1294
    @hunterfisher1294 Před 4 lety +86

    God bless the women in our lives including my wife of thirty-seven years.

    • @05cr125rider
      @05cr125rider Před 4 lety +1

      You musta gotten her an automatic.

    • @JrgProductionsRSA
      @JrgProductionsRSA Před 4 lety

      37 years , wow congrats :)

    • @babydriver8134
      @babydriver8134 Před 4 lety +1

      32 years here. But our kind of woman is getting rare.

    • @MrSafer
      @MrSafer Před 4 lety +4

      ok boomer. the clock is ticking till you arent a drag on our economy anymore. have a good day.

    • @babydriver8134
      @babydriver8134 Před 4 lety +2

      @@MrSafer Please seek Jesus. The clock is indeed ticking.

  • @gojoe283
    @gojoe283 Před 10 lety +163

    Exactly 10 years later...Chevrolet came out with Powerglide. No gear shifting and that same vacuum was now used to automatically shift gears. Those old vacuum shift Chevys had a big problem if the engine stalled...the level was almost impossible to move.

    • @sabeth17
      @sabeth17 Před 10 lety +13

      Powerglide... More commonly known as the slip and slide!!! ;)

    • @MrTheMiguelox
      @MrTheMiguelox Před 7 lety +25

      Powerglide, and all other automatic transmissions were operatad by hydraulic pressure of the ATF, not vacuum.

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota Před 6 lety +4

      Powerslide, was what I heard.

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad Před 6 lety +14

      Until very recently,a lot of drag racers used a derivative of the power glide. A pretty capable trans even if it only had two gears .A mate had a 1939 Chev with vacuum shift. When the car was commandeered by the US army in 1941, they took the vacuum shift out and fitted a top shift lever on the floor.

    • @pauldunneska
      @pauldunneska Před 6 lety +15

      Joe Oldsmobile had the first automatic transmission in 1940 the same year as this film.

  • @agustindetlefsen6944
    @agustindetlefsen6944 Před 2 lety +23

    A sewing machine is really a amazing invention, especially when you stop to think a man invented it

    • @MC-mh2ju
      @MC-mh2ju Před rokem +2

      Obviously, no woman is smart enough to conceive such an idea.

    • @Kaneanite
      @Kaneanite Před rokem +3

      @@MC-mh2ju Given the context of all the praise of "women's work" i took 'A sewing machine is really a amazing invention, especially when you stop to think a man invented it' as the announcer being surprised that a man was smart of enough to have invented the sewing machine.

  • @bruce92106
    @bruce92106 Před 3 lety +19

    I'll say this much, one of the first old 3 speed cars I drove as a kid was an old 3 on the tree Chevy Biscayne and I can safely say that old thing had no vacuum hose assistance! The only assistance that shifter got was muscle!
    Btw .. THANKS for uploading this. I just sent to a friend saying if not for CZcamsrs this stuff would be forgotten and lost. Hopefully a whole new generation gets to see what proud real America was all about once upon a better time.

    • @Texassince1836
      @Texassince1836 Před 3 lety

      By the time the biscayne came out they had done away with vaccum assist shift.
      It was a failed 1940s experiment, most cars with it eventually had it removed

    • @fredfiftyfour2183
      @fredfiftyfour2183 Před rokem

      We had a 1963 Belair, shifted just fine the olde fashioned way...

  • @jonass1285
    @jonass1285 Před 6 lety +31

    These old cars were the most beautiful ever built.

  • @bobjacobson858
    @bobjacobson858 Před rokem +3

    My father told me that when he was in his late teens, his family bought a new 1940 Chevrolet, and he said that vacuum-assisted shift was wonderful and fun to drive.

  • @adventure_F0x
    @adventure_F0x Před 5 lety +574

    I love how this is extremely sexist yet also complimentary of women feminists are gonna be so triggered that the past existed

    • @adventure_F0x
      @adventure_F0x Před 5 lety +5

      Ambrosine Girardi depends where you look, sure some countries aren’t there yet but your main countries most definitely are ...

    • @DMNssms
      @DMNssms Před 4 lety +38

      Who cares they’ve ruined society

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 Před 4 lety +11

      They were making it easier for women by adding this feature actually. This is far from sexist.

    • @mickdavis2385
      @mickdavis2385 Před 4 lety +11

      Don't show this to women in Iran. Their husband will beat them with a chain for trying to learn how to drive.

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 Před 4 lety +4

      @@mickdavis2385 Couldn't have said it better myself! Western countries are the least sexist and have been for a long time!

  • @lipsach
    @lipsach Před 10 lety +69

    Like the ergometer gadget.

  • @lloydwagner3709
    @lloydwagner3709 Před 5 lety +19

    I had a '40 Chevy. That vacuum shift was nice, unless you had to change gears without the motor running when it was -40 degrees (like for a pull-start when the battery was dead). Then you needed just about all your strength to move all that mechanism. lol
    But with the motor running, yes, you could shift gears with your little finger.

  • @dnsmithnc
    @dnsmithnc Před 4 lety +21

    "A stitch in time saves 9" After more than 1/2 century, I finally realize what that means.

    • @mandochavez7457
      @mandochavez7457 Před 4 lety +3

      dnsmithnc whats it mean bro

    • @BrickSaturn
      @BrickSaturn Před 2 lety +3

      @@mandochavez7457 Basically means fix a problem now before it becomes a bigger one.

  • @neil6958
    @neil6958 Před 6 lety +26

    There's a lot to learn from these old films.

  • @MrTexaspete30
    @MrTexaspete30 Před 5 lety +4

    Oh my god I love these old videos my new favorites for sure

  • @DeLorean4
    @DeLorean4 Před 13 lety +108

    Thanks to this video I now understand women completely. In my eyes they are no longer the weaker sex. They do so much hard work in the kitchen.
    ////
    In all seriousness, I find it interesting how this video employs a balanced, seemingly liberal 1940s perspective that today would be considered nothing but.

    • @fujifrontier
      @fujifrontier Před rokem +1

      Yeah there’d be nothing but heart attacks across the country if they even tried it today lol

  • @zieo8218
    @zieo8218 Před 4 lety +6

    'Hurry-Up Picture' is 1000% better than 'timelapse'

  • @ThemUkuleles
    @ThemUkuleles Před 6 lety +5

    The Hand That Rock The Cradle Rules The Word.

    • @dnsmithnc
      @dnsmithnc Před 4 lety +1

      Now, they don't even have to do that.

    • @34Packardphaeton
      @34Packardphaeton Před 4 lety

      "Word"? Yes. .... "World".. that's a different question.

  • @keithstudly6071
    @keithstudly6071 Před 2 lety +2

    My father had a 1940 Chevy. In 1950 he got a new Chevy with Powerglide. That was when my Mother learned to drive.

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      In the early '60s, my mom tried driving my dad's '49 Pontiac with 3 speed column shift. She told me that she had to stop on an incline , stalled the car 4 times & told my dad to move the car as she pulled the E-brake & jumped to the passenger side. She never tried manual transmission again!!

  • @dnsmithnc
    @dnsmithnc Před 4 lety +10

    This is how men were able to quit "oppressing" women. Seriously, during times of struggle, men and women naturally fell into the jobs they could do best. It wasn't like the woman says to the man, "Look, I've been cleaning the house long enough. Let me have a swing of that ax to clear that patch of land and you go wash dishes." What really happened, as far of division of labor and who was head of the family, wasn't oppression. It was the necessity of survival.

    • @RandomNumber141
      @RandomNumber141 Před 4 lety +1

      Except men and women were told which jobs they should do based on gender roles and cultural norms. If women had the same education and upbringing as men I doubt as many would have stayed home with the kids. Sure, men were better suited to working in the coal mines, steel mill etc. because of their strength but there were still plenty of white-collar jobs that could've just as easily been filled by a woman.

    • @jeffvader811
      @jeffvader811 Před 3 lety

      @@RandomNumber141
      Obviously, men and women can work in whatever roles they want and be equally as competent. But I do think there is a general biological inclination for women to be more domestic. Especially in the past where people had a lot more kids (out of necessity, because of higher mortality rates) a mother would have to spend a lot more time with the children for essential tasks such as breast-feeding which are gender specific. This is probably how this divergence in roles started, but there was definitely a societal/cultural element of sexism as well.

  • @sasansasani669
    @sasansasani669 Před 5 lety +34

    I wish I could go back 100 years. I don't want this new time.

    • @Siegmund564
      @Siegmund564 Před 5 lety +2

      yeah because fuck the internet your phone literally everything you have and be in a economic hell hole because the war just ended

    • @flyingskyward2153
      @flyingskyward2153 Před 5 lety +4

      Written in 2018, so you want to go back to 1918 experience the end of WW1, followed by a global flu pandemic that killed huge numbers of people?

    • @AbhinavS.R.
      @AbhinavS.R. Před 2 lety

      Definitely. Me too.

  • @booring2
    @booring2 Před 6 lety +53

    wow that slow motion in 1940 is so good quality

    • @I33nc3
      @I33nc3 Před 5 lety +6

      sure, because it is not slow motion...

    • @punker4Real
      @punker4Real Před 5 lety

      speed up da video Just like those fast worker videos where they "speed up the video"

    • @0raffie0
      @0raffie0 Před 5 lety +6

      I love when people don't realize that slow-motion is nothing more than speeding up the camera motor while filming, and then playing back at normal speed. As if it is some kind of rocket science.

    • @Riptor1998
      @Riptor1998 Před 4 lety +3

      @@0raffie0 r/iamverysmart

    • @MrMazda-yw1cr
      @MrMazda-yw1cr Před 4 lety +2

      raffie but for the sewing machine she was only turning the wheel by hand making it work slower... they never slowed down the footage here

  • @inkey2
    @inkey2 Před 8 lety +287

    I just loved this era......people smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank tumblers of straight 100 proof "bonded" whisky, banged their girlfriend bareback. Back when people were called "a regular guy"......"yeah Joe....he's alright....he's a regular guy"....when a cup of Java, a plain donut and a Lucky Strike were heaven. You would go to your good paying union job with a steel domed lunchbox in hand...the whistles blows at 5:00pm you head for home but not before you stopped off at Kelly's bar for a quick shot of Old Crow and some fast conversation. Wednesday night was bowling night with your factory team. When you get home you sit down and relax on the "davenport" with you feet up on a "hassock" while you light up a White Owl and listen to the hit parade on your 5 foot tall Philco radio.

    • @jonyvonne
      @jonyvonne Před 8 lety +17

      +inkey2 Bareback's the only way, man!

    • @inkey2
      @inkey2 Před 8 lety +1

      +Morro BayCoast (MBCoast) .............TOTALLY...........

    • @boleynali
      @boleynali Před 8 lety +34

      +inkey2 Yes, good ol` times indeed, trouble is they were all dead by 50.

    • @inkey2
      @inkey2 Před 8 lety +24

      +upton parka I don't know "anyone" who died back in that era at fifty years old. My father died at 83, his sister died at 83 as well,,,,,,,,my great aunt died at 95 years old and another aunt at 102. AND on my mothers side they all died in their 70s............infant mortality rate may average in to make it look like a young death rate

    • @boleynali
      @boleynali Před 8 lety +3

      +inkey2 ...Well in that case what with today,s knowledge of keeping fit and eating the right foods you should live forever...happy days.

  • @prasaddhokale3256
    @prasaddhokale3256 Před 2 lety +1

    Most useful series on CZcams

  • @bigfella4845
    @bigfella4845 Před 5 lety +9

    Ah yes the 40s back when TVs were surprisingly expensive and the average family just had a radio

  • @nlpnt
    @nlpnt Před 2 lety +3

    8:16 Pre-production '41 Chevy with side moldings on the hood only. On production cars they extended the full length of the car and '42 and '46 models had the same moldings. They were deleted for '47-48 which made a cheap and effective styling change at a time when all resources were devoted to getting an all-new postwar model to market for '49.

  • @jragas08
    @jragas08 Před rokem +1

    this video is so entertaining that i even forgot that this video was about gear shifting

  • @gamemoments8702
    @gamemoments8702 Před 4 lety +5

    Wow, i learned how a sewing machine works

  • @alanstrong3295
    @alanstrong3295 Před 4 lety +28

    I am proud of any female who can drive a stick shift. 5 speed overdrive!

    • @matthewdemaster2045
      @matthewdemaster2045 Před 4 lety +12

      Alan Strong nowadays, I'm proud of anyone who can drive a stick shift.

    • @666dynomax
      @666dynomax Před 4 lety

      matthew demaster can you

    • @lukasnovotny2408
      @lukasnovotny2408 Před 4 lety +4

      You aren´t from Europe I guess. :D In my country - Czech republic almost everyone is driving stick shift.

    • @veronicalake4140
      @veronicalake4140 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lukasnovotny2408 Ahhhh fuckkk

    • @hagenl.2975
      @hagenl.2975 Před 3 lety +1

      Completely common in Germany across men and women.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před 2 lety +2

    The sewing machine is one bad ass invention!😁

  • @mendonesiac
    @mendonesiac Před 5 lety +71

    I wonder what they would have to say about the modern clothes washing, diaper changing, dishwashing, 40 hour working Modern Man.

    • @DarkKitarist
      @DarkKitarist Před 5 lety +4

      Amen! Also dont forget about cooking! I love cooking.

    • @johnnyblair6034
      @johnnyblair6034 Před 5 lety +11

      They would call him a pussy for doing housework and only working 40 hours a week

    • @Test-tz8pg
      @Test-tz8pg Před 4 lety +10

      @@johnnyblair6034 My grandpa helped with the housework. If something was broken, he fixed it. If the lawn needed mowing, he did it. If the wood stove needed restocking, he refilled it. If the car wasn't working, he made it work. He also worked on a welding crew, doing hard work 8-12 hours a day. If anyone had an excuse to not help out around the house, it would of been him.
      I don't know a single man over 70 that would call you a pussy for doing housework. Many men supported and helped their woman back then, not the same anymore.

    • @egalf
      @egalf Před 4 lety +1

      @@Test-tz8pg Many men supported and helped their woman back then, not the same anymore.
      Why should a man nowadays help a feminazi that calls him "toxic" and a "rapist" at all. They can rot in hell.

    • @Test-tz8pg
      @Test-tz8pg Před 4 lety +5

      @@egalf My guy, where are you meeting these people that just call men rapists for no reason? I have never met one of these people in my whole life. 99% of the time I've heard a man called a rapist, it was because they were. I've heard 1 news story ever where the woman lied. All of y'all need to find some new friends if these are the people you know.
      Also, why the hell would you be in a relationship with someone that calls you a rapist? Have people not heard the saying "Don't stick your dick in crazy", or do they just disregard timeless bit of advice? High definition p0rn in any fetish you desire has become so prevalent there ain't any reason to put yo dick in crazy XD

  • @man_on_wheelz
    @man_on_wheelz Před 9 lety +17

    Oh my God!!! this commercials has me in tears of laughter!!!! I knew women used to be looked down upon as the "weaker sex" etc etc but damn did they go to the extreme with this video!!! And you can tell it was actually meant to show that women are more capable than we think! Making all those trips from the fridge to the stove, for shame of us not to recognize! tisk tisk lmfao!!!

    • @Keaze
      @Keaze Před 6 lety +3

      Jee, a guy who thinks overt sexism is totally not a big deal and the only sexism that counts is the one where men literally call women retarded like cartoon villains. How unexpected. Must be nice to be able to delude yourself into thinking that this shit isn't sexist just because your self-centered ass isn't on the line.
      Also, defining women as "the weaker sex" just because they're not as strong as men is insulting, you really don't need much of a brain to realize why. No-one called men "The criminal sex" or "the violent sex" because they weren't trying to define men in negative terms or according to things they worse at. It's truly amazing what idiotic shit deluded misogynists can think of to pretend that insulting women was and is a-ok.

    • @machineshopworkantiquemach6370
      @machineshopworkantiquemach6370 Před 5 lety +4

      Nobody calls women the "cheating sex" but they still do it my friend.

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      How about "Rosie the Riveter" during WWII?
      "That little frail can do
      More than a male can do,
      Rosie the Riveter"

  • @brianallen9810
    @brianallen9810 Před 9 lety +40

    Ahhhhh....another JAM HANDY ! blast from the past, where men were men and women new where their place was ;) I just love these.

    • @accaliamurraymusic
      @accaliamurraymusic Před 7 lety +7

      Why does each gender have to have a place? Isn't that a bit restrictive and limiting to general production and progression of society?

    • @SuperMadmax10000
      @SuperMadmax10000 Před 7 lety +8

      Brian Allen Im no feminest by any means... but man thats sexiest

    • @eschel2155
      @eschel2155 Před 6 lety +2

      Brian Allen aaaah... another SMART ONE. It was a blast in the past, where men were men, and even women knew how to spell "knew" :) I just love correcting others.

    • @claireh9086
      @claireh9086 Před 6 lety

      E Schel sending you a virtual high five ✋

    • @williejohnson3866
      @williejohnson3866 Před 5 lety

      New?

  • @dyer2cycle
    @dyer2cycle Před 4 lety +2

    ...that 1941 Chevrolet is a thing of beauty.... :)

  • @jenniferstine8567
    @jenniferstine8567 Před 3 lety +3

    Okay the only thing I didn't know already is how a sewing machine works. Mainly because I only know how to sew by hand. Before my mum got hurt she liked manual transmission. It wasn't pleasant when she tried to teach my older sister. I wish a family friend would switch to an automatic transmission. Every shift is jerky, loud and uncomfortable. Maybe it's because it's an old car, but it feels like he's destroying the transmission. I hate having to ride in it.

  • @eduardofernandez5217
    @eduardofernandez5217 Před 5 lety +1

    My favorite CZcams channel

  • @metroperson
    @metroperson Před 12 lety

    This was a great film....I really like watching it.

  • @auggiedoggie21
    @auggiedoggie21 Před 14 lety +3

    Oldsmobile introduced the first fully automatic transmission, the Hydra-Matic for 1939. It would be 1950 and 1951 before Chevrolet and Ford, respectively, came out with their own automatics (Chrysler held on to their semi-automatics until 1952 and Lincoln offered their Cruise-Matic the same year). My '40 Chevrolet was the first year of the "Vacuum-Shift" feature that used a vacuum cylinder to ease the effort of operating the shift lever, and it worked perfectly. Wish I had it back!

    • @50zcarsman
      @50zcarsman Před 5 lety

      Hydra-Matic kicked ass. Buick's Dynaflow had a couple of advantages, but accelerated only slowly and did NOT multiply torque -- unlike Hydra-Matic. It was only a fluid coupling.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz Před 4 lety

      @@50zcarsman Both, HydraMatic and Dynaflush had fluid coupling, the HydraMatic just had MORE (higher pressure) fluid coupling because of the torque converter. Your comment makes it sound as though there was some "mechanical" besides fluid coupling in the HydraMatic....

  • @BFaluup
    @BFaluup Před 5 lety +26

    To be fair back then women got a free house to live in and free food and clothes i would say from my point since all my problems have been financial that that would be a freedom i could only dream of. My grandfather knew how to use tools and built his own house and poured the foundation and he could troubleshoot and fix any problems with his or anyone elses vehicles....i asked him how he knew all that since he was just a truck driver his whole life and he said back in the day men were expected to know all that and it was basically mandatory to learn it.. i think we all have too much free time now.

    • @50zcarsman
      @50zcarsman Před 5 lety +5

      Women of that era were by no means free, nor did they consider anything they received as a result of their husband's work his "gift" to them. Women who did not work outside the home -- and some who did -- lived entirely at the financial sufferance of their men, and had virtually no legal claim to a living share of his wages. Tradition alone dictated what she was entitled to. No woman could get credit in her own name until the early 1970s (!) -- a husband or other relative had to co-sign. In large areas of the country -- especially the deeply conservative South and the farming Midwest -- women's physical freedom to move about, visit distant places, or re-locate was quite constrained, causing them to forfeit many opportunities that men enjoyed. Divorce for any cause was considered a scandal by society, and was rare until the late 1960s. In-marriage physical and sexual abuse by a man were generally not recognized, and women's official complaints along these lines were ignored -- frequently until after she had been killed. There's "women's freedom" for you. And that's just for white women, the most privileged of all.

    • @thepatriarch6144
      @thepatriarch6144 Před 5 lety +2

      @@50zcarsman I would choose that over today's 'equality' anytime. Hell, I would choose the way Saudis treat women over the way they are treated in the modern West.

    • @Vgp-rp4iu
      @Vgp-rp4iu Před 5 lety +1

      @@50zcarsman too bad it can't go back to being that way.

    • @wonderfulwaldo4451
      @wonderfulwaldo4451 Před 4 lety +2

      trucker V bitter because your wife left you?

    • @RandomNumber141
      @RandomNumber141 Před 4 lety

      @@Vgp-rp4iu Would you choose that because you're a man who'd benefit from such an arrangement?

  • @smartman123
    @smartman123 Před 5 lety +4

    i born 1980 and i love old 1940 era golden ages not like nowadays stress and low quality of life life backthen much better than now

    • @flyingskyward2153
      @flyingskyward2153 Před 5 lety +2

      You know 1940 was right at the start of WW2 right? Not sure I'd consider it a stress free period.

    • @RandomNumber141
      @RandomNumber141 Před 4 lety +1

      You're seeing only the good parts (Rose colored glasses much?). Not everyone was a white-collar white male.

  • @joelgeorgeable
    @joelgeorgeable Před 3 lety +1

    really wanted to live in that decade

  • @JohnBarringercopper101
    @JohnBarringercopper101 Před 11 lety +5

    I had a 1928 Rolls Royce and that had servo assisted brakes worked by a mechanical servo!

  • @NikkyElso
    @NikkyElso Před 10 lety +302

    this video would be so politically incorrect now a days

    • @Blueshirt38
      @Blueshirt38 Před 6 lety +36

      I don't see it as patronizing. It wasn't as if anybody was forced to live in these roles. You were still just as free to live your life as a lazy, cheating housewife, or as a transgender man who paints "modern art", there just wasn't all the political correctness that would get you fired from your job if you didn't pretend like you liked those people. Sure, women probably didn't care for spending an hour in the morning getting pretty for their man, but I'm sure there were also days that the man didn't like being a bridge builder- standing on a steel girder 100ft over a river, hammering hot rivets for 12 hours.

    • @Blueshirt38
      @Blueshirt38 Před 6 lety +23

      You sound pretty offended, Kamikaze.

    • @Blueshirt38
      @Blueshirt38 Před 6 lety +18

      I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about at this point.

    • @applesnoates
      @applesnoates Před 6 lety +1

      ahh but so true

    • @polygondwanaland8390
      @polygondwanaland8390 Před 6 lety +17

      Kamikaze you sound like a bitch tbh, probably a cat lady in the making

  • @kw9849
    @kw9849 Před 4 lety +6

    5:37 George's going to get his wrist and arm broken by that hand crank, using his right arm like that!

  • @pcno2832
    @pcno2832 Před 4 lety +29

    Seems like a cool invention, but the shift lever was not the most onerous factor in manual shifting, at least not once synchromesh transmissions were common; it was the clutch. I think most people would rather have a manual shift lever and an automatic clutch than the other way around.

    • @tacomas9602
      @tacomas9602 Před 2 lety

      It's 1900s technology trickled together in a hydraulic oil box behind a car built in 1940. What can you expect lol. They did quickly figure out a manual gear shift that's easy all the time is better than the early vacuum.

  • @shelliecarlson7015
    @shelliecarlson7015 Před rokem +1

    And, before that, the transmission was non-synchronized. You had to double clutch. Step on the clutch pedal, shift from 1st to neutral, let out the clutch, push it back in, and slide into 2nd. Do it again to go from 2nd to 3rd. Then, to down shift, you pushed in the clutch, slid into neutral, let out the clutch, rev the engine a bit, push in the clutch, slide into 2nd, let out the clutch.

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem +1

      I got my license in 1975. My 1st car was a 1949 Chrysler Royal "fluid drive". My girlfriend, at the time, also wanted an "old" car. Her father traded a Caterpillar backhoe & got her a 1929 Model A Ford rumble seat 3 window coupe. Was wondering why I couldn't get the shift into gear. At 18 years old, I learned 1st hand what was meant by 'double clutching'. Probably should have stayed with that girl- I lost a beautiful old car. LOL

    • @shelliecarlson7015
      @shelliecarlson7015 Před rokem

      @@trainsntile We all have regrets.

  • @saintmichael1779
    @saintmichael1779 Před 4 lety +2

    "Pep and ginger." I love it!

  • @esechucote52
    @esechucote52 Před 6 lety +3

    My chuco52 Chevy Bel Aire hard top deluxe power glide transmission second owner since 1980

  • @Meinstein
    @Meinstein Před 3 lety

    Legend has it, that woman is still cranking her plane backwards trying to get it started.

  • @phillipanderson2607
    @phillipanderson2607 Před rokem

    This generation worked hard for a living. Honest and trustworthy . No microwave oven , no remote control TV, ,no cell phones . When you went on vacation ,you were left alone with no distractions because they could not reach you on the phone. Less stress for you.

  • @jackmcdonald8355
    @jackmcdonald8355 Před 4 lety +6

    I love this, things like this just couldnt exist today.

  • @BigEightiesNewWave
    @BigEightiesNewWave Před 4 lety +2

    Hey lady , get me a sammich !😁

  • @breakerbreakeronenine_
    @breakerbreakeronenine_ Před 9 lety +40

    I can't stop laughing at these comments below...

  • @Kagaines
    @Kagaines Před 3 lety

    Did it all dressed to the T rocking heels. Respect.

  • @paulcheek5711
    @paulcheek5711 Před 4 lety +1

    modern tech is amazing, like magic

  • @hunkydoryize1
    @hunkydoryize1 Před 9 lety +56

    and now what do they do

    • @mrsauce9307
      @mrsauce9307 Před 6 lety +14

      stephen buckland nothing lol

    • @gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef
      @gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef Před 5 lety +12

      Talk about being strong and hard working and doing absolutely nothing to show it :/

    • @smore1g
      @smore1g Před 5 lety +6

      most women have jobs now, gotta have a rich partner to be a stay at home spouse nowadays

    • @TheTdw2000
      @TheTdw2000 Před 4 lety +13

      Make PowerPoint presentations and get abortions

    • @JD-gx3ms
      @JD-gx3ms Před 4 lety +10

      Twerk and post it on Instagram

  • @RonJohn63
    @RonJohn63 Před 8 lety +7

    5:03 Ah, that's interesting!

  • @codydonahue1177
    @codydonahue1177 Před rokem

    that was beautiful

  • @fairfaxcat1312
    @fairfaxcat1312 Před 4 lety +1

    Chevrolet, often called Chevy, is a trademark of General Motors. GM is the largest traditionally US based automobile manufacturer into which the Buick, Cadillac, GMC, and Chevy divisions are subsumed. At one time two other makes which have recently been eliminated, Pontiac and Oldsmobile, were also divisions of GM.

  • @lelboy
    @lelboy Před 10 lety +6

    Nice vid - but a little curious as to why the speedometer never changes, when the car is "apparently" being driven!

  • @TheEgg185
    @TheEgg185 Před 7 lety +20

    Oh man. Those were the days. Thumbs up if you want to go back to 1950.

    • @50zcarsman
      @50zcarsman Před 5 lety

      No black thumbs are up.

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst Před 5 lety +1

      TheEgg185 I think your comment encapsulates exactly the thinking behind the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’, but there’s not going back. The 60’s changed everything and then Reagan really screwed us over.

    • @AbhinavS.R.
      @AbhinavS.R. Před 2 lety

      I'd go at the drop of a hat. Looking at old videos of different countries, it's clear that every single place was much more superior in the past.

  • @justasimpleguy9089
    @justasimpleguy9089 Před 2 lety +1

    This Video Perfectly Shows That A House Woman/Wife's Job Around The House Is About The Same Men Have To Do At Their Jobs

  • @blackburn7733
    @blackburn7733 Před 2 lety +5

    Woman of those times were the one who actually deserved respect!

  • @leesonneville1817
    @leesonneville1817 Před 4 lety +3

    "Now that the muscle-savers are busy, cutting down the work for men and women, we'll all have more energy for play time"
    as I lay slumped over the armrest of my couch barely able to move under my own weight. So tired, think I'll take a nap. "Alexa, pause CZcams".

  • @williamthegreat9632
    @williamthegreat9632 Před 5 lety +6

    I do love women and yes they are amazing but when do the get to the cars? ;-;

  • @JoshBrinson
    @JoshBrinson Před 2 měsíci

    Hurry-Up picture... I'll use this from now on.

  • @Ken-lp9qt
    @Ken-lp9qt Před 4 lety +6

    They should show this clip to those obnoxious women on the View.

  • @nunyabizness6270
    @nunyabizness6270 Před 3 lety +3

    Getting them ready for 'Rosie the Riveter ' role in WW2

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      Rosie has a boyfriend, Charlie,
      Charlie, he's a marine.
      Rosie's protecting Charlie,
      Working overtime on the riveting machine...

  • @rollingstopp
    @rollingstopp Před 9 lety +47

    So much energy and time saving that the lil wife takes the car out and has an (extra) marital affair ..... OHH MY LOL

    • @firebird9711
      @firebird9711 Před 2 lety

      For some reason this made me laugh alot. Thanks buddy I needed that. Now, where is my wife right now??

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt Před 3 lety +3

    It's interesting how consumer tastes change back and fourth. In the late 30's and early 40's moving the gear shift lever from the floor to the steering column was considered modern progress, but in the 60's and 70's we looked down on the "old fashion" column shift. We would pay extra for "four on the floor", rather than settle for "three on the tree".

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      Of course- it was considered a 'hot rod' with a 4 speed & of course you paid more!!

  • @metroperson
    @metroperson Před 12 lety +1

    yes you could still shift when the vacuum was not working....we had a 41 Chevrolet with it and you could still move the shift lever when it was not running

  • @thomasjefferson4492
    @thomasjefferson4492 Před 5 lety +45

    GLORIE GLORIE, and NOW with all those energy saving things the women weigh 300 lbs,...OH you scientists did good,I hope your ol'e lady is 350 lbs........

    • @34Packardphaeton
      @34Packardphaeton Před 4 lety +1

      .... mine finally just passed me.. in weight! UGH!!

  • @4gauge10
    @4gauge10 Před 4 lety +2

    Rosie-the-rivitor during WW-2 welded,built engines,machined parts,made bullets,bombs,guns,etc..
    The men were fighting for American freedom,so the women keep the men fighting on the front lines with their skilled work.
    This isn't sexist,it's called reality of life.

    • @j311ycaa5
      @j311ycaa5 Před 2 lety

      It's sexist to think that men and women are inherently suited for different tasks.

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      All the day long weather the rain or shine,
      She's a part of the assembly line,
      She's making history, working for victory,
      Rosie the riveter...

  • @red666A
    @red666A Před 4 lety

    I wish i could go back into time.

  • @FunSizeSpamberguesa
    @FunSizeSpamberguesa Před 2 lety

    This is refreshingly not-patronizing, especially for 1940, but the woman doing housework in heels cracks me up. According to my mom (who grew up in the 50s and 60s), women saved their heels for going out (so they wouldn't wear out as fast), and mostly wore cheaper soft flats around the house.

  • @EbolaSquirrel
    @EbolaSquirrel Před 4 lety +4

    8:13 wait WHAT

  • @sahibkalsi7209
    @sahibkalsi7209 Před 3 lety

    Knowledge with little humour ......😍😍

  • @gojoe283
    @gojoe283 Před 13 lety +15

    Heaven help you if the engine died and you needed to move that vacuum gearshift...if the engine wasn't running, the gearshift wouldn't budge!!

    • @zachmikko3249
      @zachmikko3249 Před 4 lety +2

      How many gears you shifting through when the engines not running?

    • @Evan_Case
      @Evan_Case Před 3 lety

      @@zachmikko3249 None. That's kind of their point.

    • @johnbrooks633
      @johnbrooks633 Před 3 lety

      Not true. I learned to drive on a 1940 chevvy with "vacumatic gear shift" and without the vacuum assist it just took a little more effort.

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads Před měsícem

    Did vacuum shifts also have automatic (or power assisted) clutches? If not, then there doesn't seem much to be gained by making the gearshift 80% lighter.

  • @datsoon9236
    @datsoon9236 Před 4 lety +8

    Thanks a lot chevy, you made it so now everyone is driving automatics 😒

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      YEAH- I wanted to get a new 1 ton pick-up truck with a 4 or 5 speed manual. Ford, NOPE, GM NO WAY. The only offering was from Dodge, but you had to buy a $3000.00 diesel to get it!!!

  • @klfjoat
    @klfjoat Před 2 lety

    So THIS is where the show "The Secret Life of Machines" got some of their old video clips from!

  • @meekbaylake4771
    @meekbaylake4771 Před 2 lety

    Well explained

  • @dunzek943
    @dunzek943 Před 3 lety

    you don't mess with grandma when she was younger

  • @raywalz4952
    @raywalz4952 Před 4 lety +13

    Just before the Men went off to WWII
    Women took over all the "Men" jobs during WWII
    When Men returned they went back to work and Women went back to traditional roles.
    Women never forgot the independence of running and financing their lives and instilled this sense of independence in their Boomer daughters. Thus the Women's liberation movement was born.
    Returning men had to..along with the women..deal with undiagnosed PTSD. Much of post-war hidden family violence can be attributed to this.
    Boomer children were saddled with a huge gender role shift that continues today.

  • @joeguzman3558
    @joeguzman3558 Před 5 lety +17

    My grandma was a house wife all her life and she was the greatest mom in the world ,she loved that my grandpa was the man in the house .and in charge . being femenine it's not weakness it's a beautiful God creation .

  • @user-bn5df6hl1d
    @user-bn5df6hl1d Před rokem

    Holy fuck they sure took their time getting to the ad part lol

  • @henryreusch6313
    @henryreusch6313 Před 4 lety +3

    I love manual shifting, I'm glad it's still a big thing in Germany

    • @jashugg
      @jashugg Před 2 lety

      Mercedes dropped the manual gearbox option from the E class in 2018 sadly

    • @YasinVanDoorsen
      @YasinVanDoorsen Před rokem

      Yep in America those are so rare that having one is a theft prevention

  • @twoeightythreez
    @twoeightythreez Před 4 lety +1

    The crazy thing is the "little women" featured in this video are likely far physically stronger than the majority of today's Men.

    •  Před 4 lety +1

      Soy boy, lefty men, you mean.

  • @lukefletch2008
    @lukefletch2008 Před 2 lety

    Loved it so funni

  • @WDCallahan
    @WDCallahan Před 5 lety

    What units is this meter using?

  • @HarborGuy
    @HarborGuy Před 14 lety +1

    The Oldsmobile came out with auto-shifting in the late l930's...

  • @yan5471
    @yan5471 Před 3 lety

    At least they gave the women credit for their work being hard

  • @LearnAboutFlow
    @LearnAboutFlow Před rokem

    This video was a big hit at the 2022 CPAC convention

  • @milo9942
    @milo9942 Před 5 lety +5

    5:40 the guy started the engine incorrectly. You use your left hand so you dont break your arm when the engine takes

    • @Milnoc
      @Milnoc Před 2 lety

      That's why the woman was smarter in this scene. Let him break his own arm! 😂

    • @trainsntile
      @trainsntile Před rokem

      My father always told me NEVER to wrap my thumb around the crank, unless I wanted it broken!!!

  • @alanstrong3295
    @alanstrong3295 Před 4 lety

    Yes, I drove one for 38 years.

  • @buba4267
    @buba4267 Před 6 lety +3

    4:23 is that James Dean????