The front end of these Fords for 61 reminded me of Cadillac of the same year.

My first car Was a 1954 0lds Rocket 🚀 98 My first love😊

Here again engineering is the reason. Buick has soft coils in its rear suspension. Chrysler has long wide leaf springs. Well past the bump now and just look at that Chrysler level out. Buick is still dipping in front as you can see.

A great film. Buicks were only a couple of hundred dollars more and a value but 200.00 was a LOT of money in 1956!

Its called punching above your weight!

Great car❤😊

The only thing that Plymouth needs to say in this comparison is ... The Edsel has a female organ on the front grille. Our car doesn't. Visit your local Plymouth dealer today. Our cars look manly...... Thank you

For hooking up a modern 12V stereo, you need to put 2 Plijmooten in series.

Jackie Kennedy preferred Imperial to Lincoln. Go figure.🙄

The Ford is undoubtedly a better looking automobile. Although Plymouth did make some very good vehicles back then. And even though the horsepower of both engines is fairly the same the Ford Flathead V8 is a far more torquier and speedier engine. By 53 Ford had gotten quite a few of the overheating and vapor locking issues worked out by that time. I will also add that I found both the Plymouth and the Ford to be better looking cars than what Chevy was turning out during that time. That body design was getting pretty long in the tooth by the early 50's.

I was floored when the narrator claimed that the dowdy Chrysler looked like a 63 Riv. I seriously doubt any salesman went there.

I would choose the Lincoln. This has to be their best year and car ever made.

I love these slide shows.I don't know how you may have aquired all these but thank you for sharing them.Everytime I get glued to watching these.

I was so surprised that it was still 6 V

Beautiful trucks ❤❤❤❤❤

The '53 Ford Crestliner was good. It ran nicely. Loved the rounded tail lights. I give the two a time limit draw.

I really hated those damn horn rings on steering wheel -

I think those numbers in the $30 range are the *total* monthly payments, not the difference you'd have to pay to get a Cadillac.

The beautiful Lincoln would have sold so many more vehicles if the car had been designed with a longer wheelbase and more interior room.

Excellent. I will take the Lincoln please. 👍

I have a 61 Ford. Cool car. I like your reviews. I assume AI? Definitely want plenty more please 👍👍👍👍

I am yawning, not buying.

Was It Automatic Transmission Only? Or Could It Be Ordered With A 4 Speed Manual Transmission Bucket Seats Console?

I like the approach. A tangent, but this (including period test impressions) was one of the things that made old SIA magazine worth keeping - that, and the fact that the writers recorded their own genuine driving impressions of the test vehicles as usable cars, not collectors objects. Hemmings later messed it all up with HCC, skewing everything toward a restorer and collector perspective - and thus its passing in 2025 isn't a great loss

For all of you complainers, those old magazines had few pictures, often fuzzy and black and white. Would you rather he showed those and only those in a 10 minute video? Then you'd have something else to complain about. Keep doing these original road test videos. It's interesting to know what they had to say about the cars when new.

Of the early 60s fords…61 is my favorite

The 54,55,56 Buicks and Oldsmobiles blew DeSoto right off the map.

I love the way when they're showing these suitcases in the trunk they are standing on their sides in the Chevy while laying flat in the other two vehicles so naturally it appears that you have a lot more space available in the trunk of the Chevy. When in reality they were probably all pretty close to the same size. I once drove a 63 Chevy Biscayne 4 door sedan. Ember red with a red interior God it was ugly. With a 230 ci 6 cylinder and a two speed power glide. It was a gutless dog of a car and stodgy as can be. Handed down to me from my mom. The most uncool car for a 16 year old kid to be driving. It was a solid but totally pedestrian vehicle.

Beautiful Dashboard Styling 😊

Trim Is Done Tasteful 😊

A brand new car with rust on the front bumper? Please.

Nobody was using a crossover H pipe in their dual exhaust systems back then.

In 1961, Grandma did indeed know how to use a manual transmission. Maybe even knew how to drive a Model T.

This is a HARDTOP, not a sedan. Are you sure this is really a film from 1961 and not a creation of AI?

Love these all original un -modified cars and tests;

Let me first say that I really enjoy these type of videos and I hope you produce more of them. I've always felt it the 61 Ford was a pretty nice looking car rhat had very clean and smooth lines . That said, I've always felt it was overlooked during its time. I just remember as a 10-year-old boy hearing my father and grandfather who were both Ford guys talking about the 61 Ford. Saying that they thought The styling was too plain and GM looking compared to how the 59 and 60 Ford's looked. My grandfather was the bigger of the two when it came to being a Ford fan. But I remember him clearly saying that while he thought the '61 Ford looked pretty sleek. In his opinion it was hard to beat the looks of a '61 Chevy bubble top. He may have liked the looks of them but I know for a fact he would never would have bought a Chevy. He was a Ford guy his whole life.

My favorite color on the '61 Galaxie is Corinthian White. Interior color: the trendy red and white. And make it a Sunliner! Mercury that year had styling adapted from the Galaxie, but more generic Buick inspired lines. Both Ford and Mercury shared a lot in '61, but Mercury didn't have the bulbous quarter panels of the Ford. From an objective standpoint, with both cars being similar, bold is what best describes the new Galaxie. Conservative, if in innocuous taste was Mercury, save for the far more aggressive grille. On the Mercury, I have a similar choice of Sultana White, and of course, the contemporary red and white interior. Ford for '61 and a good many will agree, has it all over the overly dimensioned and conservative this time to an underwhelming standard of styling referred to as Extreme Streamlined, which not a lot, again, warmed up to. Even the new Mercury with Its' own degree of conservatism, could look as sporty as a Pontiac, as highway muscular particularly the Monterey convertibles. It all depended on taste, and your wallet being your guide on both of Ford's offerings that year. I don't care somehow for the ultra rare Starliner, though. I'll take the Galaxie 500 Standard Hardtop, after the Sunliner, and then either the Country Squire or Colony Park. All in white, please. The rear of the Galaxie is my favorite part of the car. The Monterey a toss up between bow and stern. Ford did better indeed in '61 than any other makes that year. Why don't we see many preserved is anyone's guess.

I really love all of your videos. Thanks for all the posts!

One of Ford's best styled cars

yes lets see more

Charlie England of Central Iowa liked Dodge trucks. He had a winner. They were better then. Power Wagon lived up to its name. Not cheap.

The "salesman's" voice sounds like that of Popeye's nemesis Bluto. 😅

That was a good era for Chevy and all of the GM full size cars overall

We always had a couple of Ford's Plymouth and Dodges 1 to drive the rest for parts!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

In 1975 I had a Chevrolet 64 , That car was my best car.....

This was not a contest. The Lincoln easily won, and set the stage for automotive design for some time to come after that.

Why didn't they talk about the GM energy-absorbing steering column? It was a very important safety item, ahead of everyone else.

Oh sure buy a Desoto back then and watch it rust a way in no time.

When they were introduced in the fall of '63, I thought the '64 had gone backwards in design. A plain, squared up '63, which was a handsome car. The '64 is a dog shoehorned between the pretty '63 and the stellar '65.

Needless to say, I am shocked to see GM v8 engines in blue??? GM engines were known for orange-red ones