1958 Plymouth, Christine LEADS the way!, ultimate finned 50's car? Dealer Film Part 1 of 2 

I just wanted to say that I love your content. These adds are so much fun. I was born in 1957 so I do remember some of the newer ones. Keep em' coming. Thank You for posting. 👍👍

My Dad bought a 57 Belvedere the year I was born. I'll never forget that "Atomic Frown" speedometer! lol

Not mentioned of the station wagon was that Chrysler Corp only had one 1957-59 wagon body, so you got the same loadspace in the most basic Plymouth wagon as in the fanciest Chrysler Town & Country.

I love those refrigerator-style door handles! 💋

For 1958, all Dodge and Plymouth cars, along with DeSoto Firesweep does equipped with 4 headlights as standard and legalized in all 48 Continental States.

I really like the rear end on this model...and the one on the car isn't bad either.

At 2:15 all I could think of is Moochie saying, “Hey you ain’t mad are you?”

That old rotary lawnmower is cool!!

Thanks for sharing. The reason there aren't many of these around anymore is they all rusted away.

guy: Here's my new. Plymouth. Isn't it a beauty? Smarter girl: I was expecting a DeSoto.......Adventuer!

I'm sold... I'll take a red one!

IMHO the 58 Plymouth is the best looking car for that period, given a choice btw that and 57 Chevy.

Thanks, I had not seen this interesting sales training program. Typically the second year styling facelift wasn’t as attractive as the first year cars, but the 1958 Plymouth was an exception. The stylists really cleaned up a fundamentally very good design. As nice looking as these cars were, the popularity of the tail fin era had already started to fade. Sales dropped about 40% from 1957, and the fin style never again achieved a lot of sales success.

Yup, it looks much like the 57, but it was a better car, something I knew even as a kid. Shame though that most people wouldn't spring for the undercoating, even as late as the 70s.

Chrysler Corporation did make some quality improvements to their 1958 models after all of the glitches in their 1957 models. However, their former quality reputation was shattered in the public's mind. Despite the Big Three automakers suffering a sales decline in the 1958 Recession, Chrysler Corporation also lost significant market share. Plymouth sales were now even further behind both Chevrolet and Ford. The 1958 Plymouth Fury had incredible styling... but I would have chosen a 1958 Impala for its better quality at that time.

Bring back Plymouth

Built to last.

Note the fit and finish in the close ups!

Is that George Fennamen speaking in this?

"what a car to park infront of your girlfriends house" Yeah, it even gets jealous of her too.

Christine was a Fury not a Belvedere!

I admit that I have never been a fan of Virgil Exner's Forward look designs. IMO The 58 Plymouth is probably the nicest looking vehicle that he designed. I don't know what happened after that but some of those early '60s mopar's were pretty hideous looking. The full size Dodge was a disaster that couldn't decide how it wanted to look. The Dart wasn't much better. The Plymouth Valiant was OK But anything would look okay sitting next to the monstrosity that was the dodge Dart in the early '60s. I often have a mental picture of Virgil Exner sitting at his desk and telling his helpers "Hey, remember all those weird front ends and rear ends that we considered too ugly and couldn't ever use on anything. So we just tossed them in the warehouse. Go get all that stuff and bring it to me I have some ideas on how we can use it". That's how his designs always seem to me. You could look at the front and it looked really nice and you could look at the rear and it looked pretty nice but when you put them together in one vehicle it was just fugly. I don't know any other way to put it.

I'm first! What do I win?

Do us all a favour and NOT colourize the footage - instead ENHANCE the existing BW film - this AI colourization is far from perfected and only ruins the video.