I remember going to the "thrill show" as a kid with my dad and brother! When the drivers needed a break, motorcyclists came out and put on a show too! Very cool!
I recall seeing the show too. I saw it sometime around 1978, maybe 1979ish. I want to say it was the Tim and Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. lol It made me want to learn how to drive on 2 wheels. I did end up racing a class 10 desert car for a while but never learned to drive on 2 wheels. Gotta add that to my bucket list. Never mind, my back says "no way" lol
They have giant sweepers that rake the beach and collect anything much bigger than a grain of sand. And glass particles that are sand-sized would be indistinguishable from sand to a beachgoer.
My father bought one brand new in Levittown, PA. It was a two-tone green post coupe. Silent color home movies survive to this day, as he drove it in a parade with his fire company.
4:45, the exact frame the glass shatters is when they decided to make the cut for some odd reason. but when it's "rolled over perfectly fine" it has no glass at all.
I cringed at frame 8:08 when they wreaked that model T or A car that is now worth a mint. back then it was seen as junk..sorta how i see all modern cars in 5 years.
Kind of like how cars like the 2000 Honda civic or Toyota corolla from the same year are treated. They're seen as junk now, but one day they'll be seen as classics.
@@dumdum7786 lol...yeah...that is hard to imagine...I know i get it, at the time it was a considered a cheep pile of junk, but I was talking about my own feelings around it. I would love to own an old model t,,
HERPY, The US Interstate Highway system was built in the late 50's, the normal speed limit was 70 mph.. It was way back in the 20's and early 30's when 70mph was super fast. mainly because there were very few paved roads and still a lot of Horses on the road.. If you speed by a Horse drawn wagon, You got your ass kicked,, Inner city roads were cobble stone or sometimes, Concrete, outside of cities , just packed dirt.. Cars in this Video were very capable of much more than 70mph.. 70 was normal, if the road was worthy.. These cars did NOT even have seat belts, it wasn't until the late 60's that seat belts were mandatory.. People were much Braver back then,, No Whiners or Cry babies.. Nobody sued the Car Company, If you died in a car crash,, it was your fault for driving stupid..
..good times great cars ..but boy did they ever rust! ..had a 57 Chevy 4 door sedan ..was fun to drive that's for sure ..had lots of holes in it ..mud flicked up from the passenger side rear wheel well and came through rust holes in it and got the passenger in the back of the head who was sitting in the front seat! ..had a lot of laughs at the time ..not so much from the unlucky passenger sitting in the front seat though ..hahaha! ..I sure do miss those simple times!
"Robust" doesn't begin to describe a 1950s Chevy from the looks of it, darn. Though at the same time they're a lot easier to die in if you mess up. Key word "if", you can of course choose to not mess up.
Do you really expect a car to roll over and not have a single mark on it? The point was you can roll over and not crush the whole top it. Go roll a modern car and see if all you get in a couple small bends.
Chevrolet stopped building cars like this at the end of the 1950's, By the 1960's unibody construction was the name of production. No ABS braking, no seat belts, no restraints, an all steel dashboard, some with no AC depending on where customers lived. AC was only available as an "Option" at your Dealer's pricing. And, the only radio in the 1950's was A.M. FM did not come until much later. Think about this. Be thankful we live today.
Roads like 6:47 were pretty common back then when you left the cities. There were no interstate highways back then. Yeah, we were starved for entertainment too.
Didn't you study history at school? The whole world was black and white back then! And for decades before this, people didn't even speak, they communicated with captions over a musical score. The world looked grainy and moved in a jerky fashion. Evolution made everything colourful in the 1950s, and the human race finally evolved in to colour. Just ask your grandparents. They probably remember waking up one morning to find they'd changed to colour overnight! Don't they teach this stuff in schools anymore? 😁
And the other 2 major corporations were stubborn. The dangerous "I beam" suspension continued on until 1963. The tradeoff was the unibody design that some GM vehicles went to that Ford and Dodge used first.. Now, almost everything is unibody and still has the control arms and coils, in the form of Ford & dodge's strut design. Still , THIS chevy influence can be seen on all makes. And Chevy trucks are still using this 1950s tried and true design. Just disc brakes have been standard since the late 1960s. William C. Durrant was a genius that doesn't get talked about very much anymore. Of course, this is a dealership hub bub video. William C. Durrant was "The man."
Nash pioneered Unibodys in the US in 1941. Citroën in France pioneered them in Europe, in 1934. GM first used them on the Corvair in 1960. I- beam front suspension was only used on trucks, after 1949, and it was dangerous only on cars with transverse leaf springs ( Ford/Mercury, through 1948). However, Chevrolet did pioneer the MacPherson strut suspension, on a compact car that they decided not to produce, in the forties. And W.C. Durant (only one r) wasn't a genius, only thing he pioneered was combining companies to form a multi tier sales company to provide a wide price range of vehicles, under one corporation, but failed miserably in managing the result, resulting in his investors taking it away from him (twice), leaving him broke. Later management finally achieved, what he wanted to accomplish. Your Chevy bias is not based on real facts.
3:57 I don't know what car that is but that "jalopy", heh heh... It doesn't look so bad from a distance but at the same time with the oil they had then it may have had a heavily worn engine even if it got to 50,000 miles. What would a person have needed to do then, to keep a car in good shape with the oils they had available? Change the oil every 500 miles? (especially with straight grade oils, oh my...) I know the idea for a toilet paper oil filter would have been not so far away then, people did use them and they were really amazing filtration for the 1950s; perhaps do that? But it looks like the jalopy in subject is from the 1940s, maybe 1951/52 at latest? It wouldn't have seen a T.P. filter very early if my understanding of history is right; T.P. filters were used when again?
My first Chevy had 500,000 km on it before the body rot made it unsafe.(Never rebuilt) I sold the engine for what I paid for the entire car 15 years before. I believe it is still pushing low 11's in the quarter mile.
Well, I'm guessing they wouldn't bounce uncontrollably like a logo stick on steroids, they would stay on two wheels for more than 2 seconds after leaving the ramp and you wouldn't have a turning circle of 100 feet. Oh, and you'd use 1/50th of the fuel. And the Kia wouldn't need a suspension rebuild after every show. The crowd might have been entertained too, instead of thinking if watching paint dry might have been more fun. Other than that? 😁
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@@another3997 The kia would stall as soon as it came off the ramp. the inertia and attitude info would shut the fuel off.Not to mention the panel adhesive would probably tear free with an overage of body torsion.
modern cars would be just as reliable if people would actually take care of them instead of just drive them and have jiffy lube change their oil 2k miles after its due
god damn that body roll was actually the best they had at the time that sways more than my homie's shitbox Cavalier and I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure a hard hat ain't gonna do much for you in a rollover, or really any collision for that matter
Riding around in the middle of nowhere at my job for years, I sure do see a hell of a lot more Fords than Chevys in the pickup category for old stuff, 80s and earlier.
@@Noval01rd You're welcome. Those were the "Big Three" Automakers. Ford Motor Company is Ford, Lincoln, Mercury. Chrysler Corporation was Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler. General Motors(GM) was Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac and GMC.(GMC just made trucks)
