What shocked me most was the use of Jay Leno as a thumbnail, and then not including him or the thumbnail car in your overly long presentation. Truly a waste of my 34:40 minutes!
There was NO 1957 Edsel. Although it was introduced in Sept 1957 it was a 1958 model. The Henry J was also marketed by Sears-Roebuck as an Allstate. Some of the Henry J models shown are in fact NOT HENRY Js. They are Kaisers.The black "1959" Cadillac shown at the beginning of that segment, is NOT a 1959! FIRE THE EDITOR!!!
The video is a mess. I was hoping to see something about the 2 piece "safety car" on the thumbnail, but it was only clickbait . Although the car at 29:35 is a '59; the Eldorado Brougham had lines different from the other '59s and more like those of the '60 Cadillacs. The problem is that the white convertible shown after that is NOT an Eldorado Brougham.
I'm also beginning to suspect that this type of videos (clearly junk) might be fully automated AI, with no human intervention whatsoever, lone purpose being the monetization.
Yeah, I thought at first “well, these are all old videos” .. but they aren’t all old! Even recently taken ones are worse than my Grandfather used to take with his 8mm camera 60 years ago
The Yeoman...by far is the coolest of the bunch in my opinion....seems like it would have been perfect for delivering, plumbers, and handyman types. I honestly liked all of the vehicles in this video and would take ANY one of them over a prius, or most other modern cars. I'd rather have a stripped no frills car that the windows always roll down (because you are the power source) chrome don't get ya home vs fancy crap that breaks 3 days after the warranty expires.
@@bungasujatmo1439 AI doesn't do the recording. It modifies it later to make it look like vintage video even though it's obviously not. I doubt the more recent original recordings were shaky.
Every interruption by advertisements makes me boycot the advertiser 100%. Shame on you YT for shoving this crap into the middle of the video and it is corporate greed to the max.
I wouldn't mind the ads so much if it were not for the delays in switching over from the content feed to the add feed. Lately, I've also noticed that the adds are too choppy to understand and take forever to get to the point at which the "Skip Ad" button appears.
Oh, a toilet seat. Is *that* what the front of the Edsel looked like? I was thinking of something else... anatomical. But then my mind is regrettable... 8-)
actually he did miss that point completely the tin stamp steel engine rotted out from the inside out warped and was terrible it was replaced with a cast iron option in late 1950 and 51 and 52 and the 51 and 52 actually had a minor body change and included full doors
I thought the same thing. My uncle, had one of these Caddy Convertibles when I was a small child. It looked identical to the one in the video. I loved that car, mainly because it has a kick ass speaker, built in the middle of the back seat, which i thought was totally cool. (I was 5 at the time). He'd put the top down, crank up the radio, and take me out for a spin. Sadly, he died when I was six years old. He was crocked, and drove under the back of a semi truck trailer. He was driving some old Chevy POS that night, but he died at the scene of the wreck. That was 1964. He was my COOL uncle.
my dad bought an Edsel new, and told the dealership that it the only he ever had that junked itself as the engine fell out as he was leaving the dealership.
29:35 The car pictured here IS the Eldorado Brougham, built by Pinanfarina in Italy and costing about $13,000. The Brougham was fully equipped, and it featured body lines that were much more restrained than those of the other 1959 models, lines that would spread to the other models in 1960 and 1961. But the white convertible at 29:45 is NOT an Eldorado Brougham, it's an ordinary convertible from that year, and the "striking" tail fins and lights pictured at 30:21 were NOT a feature of the Eldorado Brougham. As far as I know, the Brougham, of which only 99 copies were made, did not come as a convertible.
Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out how Cadillac made a stainless steel roof fold like a rag top and how a two-door got classified as a brougham.
Yeah, I too got "suckered in" by the Jay Leno thumbnail. That said, as a Hudson owner myself, I have to say that the history provided on the 1954 Hudson Jet was pretty accurate. Though, I don't think it was underpowered as it had a 202 c.i.d., flat head 6 engine powering it.
It seems for the Yeoman the camera handling was meant to SCAN the car to generate a 3D-model, therefore as close as possible in vertical strips covering every square inch of the surface.
geesssussss get someone that can edit and holde camera still with out jerking it all over and do a little more research on your vehicles to get all the facts correct
You mention that the Crosley had no power for highway driving. Well in 1951, there were no highways. There were only back roads and secondary roads so a car didn't need much power. You also said that the car was made of steel which was prone to rusting. All cars in those days were made of steel and they were all prone to rusting. Again you got your information wrong. The Ford Edsel didn't come about until 1958, not 1957. You're describing the Kaiser Henry J and showing the full car Kaiser Manhattan. You need to do a better job in your research. The 1958 Chevrolet Yoeman Wagon was the same as the 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood Wagon. The difference is the trim. Other than that, they were the same car. You're comparing the Yoeman Wagon with the Impala which came in only a 2Dr Hardtop and a Convertible and the BelAir which come only as the 2 and 4Dr Nomad Wagon. But as far as the body style, they all looked the same. We had the 1958 Chevrolet 4Dr Brookwood Wagon and it was a beautiful car.You need to get your facts straight.
"7 DUMBEST of the WORST Cars in America in the 1950s". Did you ask a third grader to compose this sentence for you? Is English your second language? We live in an era of no-subscriber "car channels", by people who know nothing about cars, all recycling the same stock footage and using idiotic voice-bots making mistakes that no human being could possibly make. A lazy, forgettable piece of clickbait.
Packard failed to modify engineering and still used babbitted main bearing, a process where molten bronze around the bearing making it a major headache to do an overhaul.
What a worthless pile of nonsense, none of the points here make any sense and are mostly just made up BS buy someone who doesn't now cars or automotive history.
The Henry J had an aluminum 4 cylinder block that was die cast. The top did not have a "Deck" but open top cylinders that relied on the head to seal the water cooling.
This commentator knows nothing about the cars he’s reviewing….he’s talking about a Henry J Corsair while showing a full sized Kaiser…c'mon guy get with it.
1:58 ... with a top speed of 70 mph ... FWIW, my '55 Chevy Pickup would only go about 55, and the engine was _screaming_ at that speed ... 45 mph was more comfortable. As a teen, I would have _LOVED_ to be able to go 70.
Not NEARLY as dumb as the HUGE houses on wheels which we call large pickup trucks and SUV's of today! Count the little children run down and killed by these vehicles because the vehicles sit so high over the road and the driver cannot see small items (or small people) right in front of the vehicle!! THIS is a disgrace. Those vehicles of the 1950's you rail about, at least had driver visibility in front. America has lost it's heart and empathy and these deaths, like the countless deaths from easy-to-obtain firearms run amok, don't seem to other my fellow Americans. Shame on you.
In the UK, we see a similar situation with vehicles like range rovers and other suvs. They are usually either too big for parking spaces or driven by people who can barely see over the steering wheel and have no clue about what's going on directly in front of the car. I dread seeing moms dropping kids at school in those things because there's little space to park and they need more room to manoeuvre than some delivery vans.
Tho mildly interesting, I was not "shocked" by any of it. 1950's automotive efforts both good and bad were but a decade of transition in the overall automotive history of America. P.S. Where's Jay Leno??
I'm not so sure the Crosley was "innovative" - in the UK there was the Crossley Motor Company who built small-engined lightweight cars, similar in concept but they did it between 1904 and 1938 . . .
The Hotshot is obviously inspired by the small british roadsters, like the MG Midget. It also reminds me of the german Goggomobil, which was quite a success. But there the market was better suited for a tiny car - in a country that was recovering, where an own car was a novelty for the masses, (the "people's car" (Volkswagen) Beetle was developed in the late 1930s, but built in volume and for private people only way after 1945), you were lucky if you could afford a car at all. In the US a car was a "natural asset" (no english word for the german "Selbstverständlichkeit" - sad), so a minimalistic toy car was nothing people craved for. The Goggo had just a 250-400 cc engine, 14-18 hp, so just 1/3 - 1/2 of the Hotshot. It was available in numerous variants, as 4-seater limousine, as station wagon, as van, as pickup, as Coupe, as Cabrio. Great in 1955, but in 1966 the german "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle) had progressed so much that its time was over. People wanted a bigger, more luxurious, more prestigious car to show off. But I heard even though the performance was mediocre, hardly exceeded 60 mph, because the car was so small, you just sat inches above the road, it FELT way faster than in a bigger car.
In my opinion, the Chevrolet Yeoman has a very indistinct and subtle appearance. Many people like that, but probably not at that price tag and gas mileage.
I wonder how much of a "failure" the Yoman really was. It was the lowest of 4 series, determined by the trim levels, so one might expect the volume (between 10% and 20% of Chevrolet's full sized sales) to be on the low side, but it wasn't really a distinct model, so that was hardly a big problem. The lowest trim level, which tended to attract fleet buyers, was simply folded into the next-up Brockwood series the next year.
I had to stop watching after the segment on the Chevy Yeoman. Dude doesn't need to show us every square millimeter of the paint job. I get that he's proud of the details but damn how do you get a sense of the overall car?
Edsels were Ford Fairlanes which were fantastic cars. They ran forever and were dependable. A deliberate killing of their market appeal doesn't make them a bad car.
This is terrible! The AI voice starts to eat into your brain after just a few moments, the actual content seems AI generated with a multitude of occasionally relevant images. This why I really hate AI. The dumbing of America!
Is this an AI written script? The same generic comments over and over again. Just show us the cars, and reserve the comments for what's unique about each one.
I didn't know that Ford made a 1960 Edsel. This video was the first time I'd heard that. I looked it up and, sure enough, there was a 1960 model. It looked a LOT different; it was missing the horse collar grill, for example, so if I ever saw one on the road, I would never have recognized it. If I were buying a car in the early 50s, I would have been drawn to the Kaiser-Fraser Henry J. The video didn't mention that you could also buy one of these cars from Sears, which sold it under the Sears Allstate name. Also, Kaiser-Fraser eventually merged with Nash, Hudson, Willys, and maybe one or two others, to create the American Motors Corporation. Another reason Packard failed was their acquisition of Studebaker. Both were doing poorly at the time, and the cost of the acquisition put too much of a strain on Packard's finances. They went under together.
The Manager of the Allman Brothers Band built a Henry "J" Funny Car with a Chrysler V8 that had so much "Get-up & Go" he had to put wheely bars on it to keep it down! It was Orange with the name "Speed Freak" in silver lettering on the rear quarter panels. He worked at Knaus Continental Motors in Lake Forest Illinois & it was at his parent's house in Iowa & I got to ride (shotgun) with him driving it back to Illinois & Man, Was it Fast! The cars he was passing on the highway, looked like they were standing still!
You had some very interesting information on these vehicles. However, your constant repetition of the same information, in some cases up to 4 times in each segment, plus the AI voice made it drag on to the point of being boring. Too bad.
the major problem with the Edsel was bringing out a car in the middle of a recession. TheEdsel was not a bad car, just a good car that was broought out at the wrong time. Yes the "horseshoe" grill was controversial, but it was not as bad as prople make it seem today. I really liked it when it came out. Please learn something about cars before you post again. These were noit bad cars, they were sbrought out by companies that didn't have the money that GM, Ford and Chrysler had.
The presentation went to great lengths to avoid mentioning the real reason for the Edsel's lack of appeal. Never mind "horse collars" or "toilet seats" - be honest! The front grille looked like a lady's naughty bits. There. I've said it. No man wanted to be seen driving a car with a gaping you-know-what (🐈) on the front. It's not exactly rocket science. Coming up to date, Rivian's unfortunate 'dilated' headlight design is also a gynaecologist's dream. "Just lie back and try to relax, Ms Peterson... Now, nurse, would you pass me the No.3 speculum, please?"😲
