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@TheOfficialCaseMade 20 күн бұрын
What a car... back when America knew how to build things the right way!
@Stevenimich 3 ай бұрын
Sounds like pre-rap music😂
@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we 5 ай бұрын
Was this guy Shadoe Stevens father ? What a voice
@hondasuzuki17t 5 ай бұрын
I found one at my grandparents properties on a hill full of abandoned cars. It looks so cool but is wayyyy too bad of shape to get running. It's a shame it wasn't in a better place. They are some cool cars!
@MarkSwitzer-h1n 6 ай бұрын
Those full sized Oldsmobiles , Pontiacs were " huge cars " by today's standards . The General Motors products were well designed , and well styled ! I truly miss these vintage autos that you seldom see anymore . They had real character unlike the cars of today ! So many foreign makes on our American highways . Let's preserve these vintage autos for future generations !! Happy Motoring Mark E. Switzer
@fob1xxl 8 ай бұрын
THIS WAS GM'S YEAR. PONTIAC WAS "MOTOR TREND'S" CAR OF THE YEAR. It was beautiful ! So was the Buick. The Cadillac was the epitome of futuristic car design. A little over the top, but a real classic !
@michaelfutch5634 11 ай бұрын
Girth has a lot of appeal
@tommywatterson5276 Жыл бұрын
Not a fan of this commercial. It's silly to me. Not a way to present the Oldsmobile brand of car.
@noviranger88 Жыл бұрын
Inaugural Daytona 500 winner!
@67marlins Жыл бұрын
I'll take a brand new Olds Station Wagon, fully optioned, red paint.
@douglasburskey6411 Жыл бұрын
I would mind having one myself or any 59 Olds for matter.
@noviranger88 Жыл бұрын
I’ll have a white super 88 Scenicoupe. Maybe put a red number 42 on each side.
@Toddlerterminator Жыл бұрын
Beethoven been real quiet since this dropped
@here_we_go_again2571 Жыл бұрын
Packard made good cars (even the "Jr."/low end, 200 series were reliable) That straight 8 was efficient and durable. Believe me you needed eight cylinders to haul that steel tank around!
@johnchandler1687 Жыл бұрын
I've always liked Packards, but my late father-in-law, a life long Studebaker mechanic, said they were great cars but couldn't pass a gas station. Gas hogs on steroids.
@jerryfacts9749 Жыл бұрын
The way these two actors are talking in this commercial, they sound like they are doing a predecessor to rapping! They go well together in this commercial. If I was able to time travel to be able to live back in the 50's this is the type of car I would certainly go for. The cars back then were terrific design, works of engineering art, and of high quality. For servicing they were not extremely complicated as like today's cars that are technically rolling computers.
@johnmaki3046 Жыл бұрын
Driving or BEING STUCK OWNING a Nash was CLOSE to a NIGHTMARE! The paint (especially "Robin's-egg blue") was NICE! The cars were CRAP, though!
@peterdaniel66 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, lets talk about a "rocket"
@noviranger88 Жыл бұрын
I mean a Rocket engined inaugural Daytona 500 winner!
@danielestrada1850 2 жыл бұрын
40 mph average speed? That sounds painstakingly slow even by 50s standards.
@operator91210 Жыл бұрын
This is 1952 don't forget big interstates haven't been built yet. They were twisting through valleys, climbing canyons and driving through towns. Lower speed limits etc.
@narrowistheway77 2 жыл бұрын
This commercial is a parody of the Music Man hahaha
@narrowistheway77 2 жыл бұрын
This commercial is a parody of the Music Man hahaha
@TheTruthResearchers 2 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT!!!! LOVE & MISS THIS ERA! BEST Days of our BabyBoomer Lives!! REAL AMERICAN!!! REAL TALENT!!! REAL QUALITY!!! REAL INTEGRITY!!! AND....... ALL MADE TO LAST!!!!! TIME MACHINE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!🌠 Thank you so much! Just subscribed to your fab nostalgia channel!!!
@keithdukes5990 9 ай бұрын
I'll second that100%👍🤗
@jvarela965 2 жыл бұрын
Packard survived the depression by mass-producing a cheaper line of cars 110, 115, 120, 160, 180. These cars put Packard trying to compete with Cadillac and Lincoln's price ranges which had rich larger parent companies GM and Ford as cash sugar daddies. Packard being independent could not compete in this price range and it fell from grace at the end of the 40s. Another problem Packard was a conservative car. It was a car for Bank Presidents, High Society old money people, etc. Cadillac was the flashy glitz mobile for the nouveau riche who were legion in the prosperous 50s. That was the era where flash and gaudiness were in style. Packard never had a prayer. It got involved in a disaster of a merger with Studebaker and was gone by 1959.
@timx3680 2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother here in Australia owned a Hupmobile from new. It was, I think, from the earlier 1930s to replaced her first Hupp, which was her Mother’s hand-me-down present, also purchased new. Among her many later cars, Nanna always spoke most affectionately to me of her reliable Hupps; they were indeed a “good car” as befitting the Company slogan. After WW2 she moved on to the Humber cars from Britain, another well-engineered quality machine. For trivia, the other cars of Nanna and her well-to-do father from early last century were a smaller pre-war Buick from the early ‘teens’ then a big new Crossley shipped directly from WW1 England. Subsequent vehicles included her father’s enormous 1934 Buick Series 90 (this very car pictured in George Damman’s “History Of Buick” hardcover book). Then followed three Humbers - a post-WW2 Snipe, then the 1950s Hawk, with Nanna’s final car being a cute little ‘63 Vogue. But from our many talks of machines and early motoring, I gather that second Hupp (her first new car) remained her all-time favourite :-)
@edwardmathews9546 2 жыл бұрын
I want it !!
@jimmycricket5366 2 жыл бұрын
Nice Packerd advert!
@timmitzlaff8960 2 жыл бұрын
My Dad had a Nash when I was 3 or 4. Even then I thought what an ugly thing. I wanted to ride in my Uncle Paul’s 53 Cadillac. Then one day my Dad came home in a 53 Ford. Right away I liked riding with Dad again.
@builddude-1 2 жыл бұрын
This is the car of my dreams!
@olgadelgado3988 2 жыл бұрын
El mejor....
@beenbeatenbybishops5845 2 жыл бұрын
My word. What a tedious commercial. Who would buy one of those after being put through that garbage. I know it is a cheap rip off of part of the Music Man, and it is sickening.
@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 2 жыл бұрын
Slipknot would do a sick cover of this.
@Hazztech 2 жыл бұрын
Good Lord. No wonder the Soviets wanted to nuke us.
@wwolfdogs 2 жыл бұрын
The first and only automobile modeled after a potato.
@desertbob6835 2 жыл бұрын
This was ripoff of the opening scene of The Music Man, 1957. Pretty clever. I didn't care much for whole '59 GM line when it came out (you literally sat on the floor in ALL cars!), but I liked the Olds' workaround of Bill Mitchell's "Buick door" dictum to all divisions. Worst GM mess that year was Cadillac, cleanest '59 GM car was the Buick, with Olds as a close second. The Chevy's rear end was laughable, and the Pontiacs introduced the rear "skegs" that proliferated in the '61 model year on Olds and Cadillac, another Bill Mitchell weirdness. Mitchell was Harley Earl's protege.
@keithdukes5990 2 жыл бұрын
You're obviously a very self opinionated p**** calling The 59's, GM'S mess!!!🤔🤨🧐 in millions of people's opinion All the 59's IMHO were fabulously styled in an era when America was at it's Zenith with its Economy booming, cars, clothes, music & culture(drive in resturants, movie theatres etc) which the rest of the World admired & Envied!!! Absolutely The polar opposite of today's mess which the Country is in and rapidly descending into a laughing stock in the eyes of the rest of the World!!!🤨🧐🤬How can a Country fall so far in just a little over Sixty years!!!😢😞
@dennisschell5543 2 жыл бұрын
Superior car...Nash!!! 😎
@audieconrad8995 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty mean right out the door. Didn't take much to shake out even more ponies on these bad-boys...
@glennso47 2 жыл бұрын
But a Tesla does drive itself. 😐
@truckerman8301 3 жыл бұрын
Packard made some great automobiles in its time. Too bad they went out of business.
@jonnycarcano 3 жыл бұрын
I ain't gonna lie. The sheer width of the Pacer coupled with the exaggerated reactions of the dancers makes for great meme potential. I can't right tell how I'm going to harness its potential though.
@billywilliams6853 3 жыл бұрын
We need Studebaker Automobiles.
@jfv65 3 жыл бұрын
The results were not to bad for such behemoths of cars. At the same time Europe had cars like the Morris Minor, the Austin A35, the Citroën 2CV, the VW Beetle, the Renault 4CV and Fiat 500. All those lightweight small cars would have outperformed the numbers mentioned in this video with ease.
@bloqk16 3 жыл бұрын
And considering the American cars in this economy run was at 40 mph (64 Kph) those European cars could have kept up with ease. I had a 1967 Beetle in the 1970s when the US highway speed limit was at 55 mph (89 Kph), and that speed was very agreeable with that flat-four air-cooled engine.
@franktatom1837 28 күн бұрын
@bloqk16 40 miles per hour AVERAGE speed. A VW at that time, which then had less horsepower than 35 years later, likely could not have traveled on the open road fast enough to meet that average.
@gregorymalchuk272 25 күн бұрын
These mileage ratings were extrapolated with a formula that factored in ton-miles and was designed to take away the advantage of the smaller cars. I doubt if the Lincoln got better than 16 to 18 actual mpg without the formula adjustment.
@plunkervillerr1529 3 жыл бұрын
Bully bully for stude .
@MrMechanicandy 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting now adays they should do More like this testing electric cars
@timkis64 3 жыл бұрын
dad had a 51 champion.flathead 6, 3 speed on column, but had a factory direct/overdrive box behind the 3 speed.thats probably what helped the studebaker win.a wider spread of available gear ratio's with a small cid engine.
@gregorymalchuk272 25 күн бұрын
What fuel economy did he see in the Champion?
@mycamera_lens 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video, Greetings from India
@falcon664 3 жыл бұрын
A friend went from CT to FL in a 59 Olds when he was a kid. Four doors, four adults, 5 kids, plenty of room.
@falcon664 3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised they didn't show a three seat wagon with the side opening rear door with all those kids. Most wagons still had drop down tailgated with the rear facing third seat.
@turbinexman 3 жыл бұрын
It's "Carol Brady"!! RIP Florence Henderson!!
@michaelrube9881 3 жыл бұрын
I'll take a '53 Caribbean thank you 😁
@metalox88 3 жыл бұрын
The first RAPPER in the USA. 😆
@ckryses3962 3 жыл бұрын
Poor thing was Nash was introduced and recognized as economy-family touring car, got this stupid name from stupid people ""Bathing Tub"".. i think Nash were the most beautiful cars of that era!! a min before i was watching Hudson video but i said nahh Nash is more gorgeous!
@moyomongoose1980 3 жыл бұрын
Ramblers built during the 1950s might have been tough. However, AMC went to building flimsy pieces of shit in the 1960s. As a teenager, I had a 1967 2 door Rambler, which was in cream yellow...Not a bad looking car. Other guys my age I knew who had Chevys, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, Oldsmobiles, etc. would do show off driving: spinning wheels, doing doughnuts, hard acceleration, downshifting to slow down, racing and speeding, and despite their rough driving, their cars held up okay. I did only a fraction of the show off driving they did...Tried to spin the wheels a few times, but because my Rambler had only a 232 cubic inch inline 6, it would only chirp the wheels. I did do a few accelerations which was quick for a 6 cylinder, and downshifted a few times, and that's all it took to tear up the transmission. When the transmission was being rebuilt, the mechanic showed me the stripped gears...The gears were no thicker than a slice of bread...I kid you not...No thicker than a slice of bread...And the shaft the gears were on was barely the size of a broomstick, which incidentally was snapped in two. When I told someone at work how thin those gears were, he asked me, "Are you sure you weren't looking at the scyncronizers?" Those weren't the scyncronizers...I know what scyncronizers look like. I remember the mechanic lecturing me that a Rambler can't hold up to hard driving. He even advised me not to drive it over 45 mph. And to shift from 1st to 2nd at 12 mph, and shift into 3rd at 17 mph. No wonder AMC went out of business, and Chrysler later bought out their Jeep division
@Viewer19 3 жыл бұрын
This is a load of crap you just never learned how to use a manual transmission. You had the car but did you buy it new?
@moyomongoose1980 3 жыл бұрын
@@Viewer19 I had the opportunity to actually see the transmission gears in that car. They were made no thicker than a slice of bread. That in itself says enough. Years later, my cousin was doing manual transmission work on Chevy Camaro he owned. The gears in it were somewhere about an inch and a half thick...a lot thicker than the thickness of a slice of bread. And in later years, I had vehicles I hot rodded and dogged the hell out of way more than I ever did that Rambler, and never had a transmission tear up, and that included towing heavy trailers. Those vehicles were: 1976 Malibu station wagon 1977 Dodge pickup 1974 Ford van I bought a 1978 Pontiac Lemans that already had an automatic transmission that would not go into 3rd gear. I got a Turbo 350 short shaft from a junkyard and replaced that Metric 200...By then I already knew how to repair a car. That Turbo 350 held up well under the trailer towing and driving demands I put on the car. I knew good and well what I was talking about.
@bari1348 2 жыл бұрын
I drove one of those transmissions 200,000 miles with never a failure. I also had an overdrive and my mid sixties Rambler American did 30 mpg on the highway. It also did 100 mph in overdrive. It had superior synchronization to my friends' Chevys and really you size the transmission to the engine. The Chevy 3 speed was designed to handle everything from the tiny Chevy six to a big V-8. That Rambler 3 speed was designed just after WWII and used only on their sixes. Now, where AMC did have a problem was when they used their Bendix 3 speed automatic on their new 300 hp 343 and even bigger 390 engines. That automatic just could not handle the power and the clutches were stripped. I owned a 67 Ambassador with the big 343 (bought used like new in 1970 for only $500.00!) and it was truly a hot car for its time. Hit the accelerator and you could barely keep the car lined up for the spinning. But make a habit of driving that way and you got to buy a transmission overhaul. It was far weaker than the Chrysler 700 or the GM turbo 400.
@danbasta3677 2 жыл бұрын
I dispute this. First off, Ramblers are a very well built car, however they were made for the the economy minded people who used these cars for great gasoline Savings which they were, and trouble free engine poblems, which with the straight six cylinder engines they had in them were very reliable engines. These cars, Ramblers, weren't ment to be fancy or fast, they were ment for point A to point B transportation purposes, and with decent moderate care of them, they would last you a good long time, life time ownership. My family has a 1963 Chevy Impala, and a 1962 Rambler Classic. All of us kids learned how to drive a manual transmission on that Rambler except my oldest sister who only knew how to drive a automatic drive transmission. That Ranbler, would start up in the coldest winter, never failed out family, had overdrive in it, climbed hills like a cat, out performed that Chevy in every way possible. The chevy never ran right. All it did was stall all the time, even when your driving it down the road it would stall, and you had to try and start it back up again. Sitting at a red light, it did nothing but, stall. That Chevy was nothing but a piece of junk, while the Rambler ran circles around it so many times, it was pathetic. The Rambler out ran the Chevy, last much longer than the Chevy, was a very good, very reliable car and was the best thing we ever had was the Rambler.
@arise2945 2 ай бұрын
As a teenager I had a 1967 Rambler American 220 4 door with a 199 cubic inch six and a three speed manual. It was yellow too, but mine stood up to quite a bit of abuse. Got it in high school around 1980 for $275 and had it through most of college. Mine was very tough mechanically. You must have been giving it hell - as teenagers have been known to do!