This video was posted in 2016, and I can’t help but notice the lack of political comments. We Americans seemed to get along just fine, and it wasn’t that long ago. Let’s try to get back to that, shall we? 🙏🏻
Ha, the film starts by indirectly bashing public transit. I mean, I guess it’s no surprise for a car company, but still, I didn’t expect them to be so obvious about it.
Well they might have a lap belt. Pretty much zero cars had shoulder belts back then. Most people did not use seat belts back then at all though, and some cars didn't even have lap belts.
I don’t mean to be crude, or rude, but I do believe @5:05 he was getting a handy, and that’s why he was distracted. This was way before I was born, so don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Note how back then, it was obviously completely normal for cars to leak A LOT of oil while driving. The black streaks in the middle of the lanes. Clearly before the Japanese "invasion" of the US auto market.
It wasn't that they leaked oil back then, and it had nothing to do with cars being Japanese or American. It was that the cars then did not have PCV systems. That is an emissions control system that pulls oil fumes back into the engine and burns them. It is one of the earliest emissions control systems to be introduced on cars. All engines, even now, create oil fumes as they operate - it is just that in cars produced since 1968, they are burned by the engine. Back then, at least until the mid-1960s, all cars had down draft tubes - a tube from the engine that went down to the street. The oil fumes simply went down the tube and out into the air - but since the exit was just above the road, the roads had areas in the middle of the lanes where they were darkened with a thin coating of oil. The coating of roads with oil is exactly the reason this system was introduced. It also reduces air pollution (a.k.a. smog).
Not much has changed today. These safety tips are still applicable. Notice the black stripe in the center of most lanes from cars and trucks leaking oil; something you don't see much of nowadays.
