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@danr19208 ай бұрын
Parents had '57 two door Belvidere. It had rust issues, but all cars in the rust belt did. They liked it, lots of style. My Dad said the brakes were very good.
@brucepowell79868 ай бұрын
and they had b other body issues like leaky winshields and doors that sagged the chevy is exceptuionaly good at at both
@plymouthdie-castreplicas8 ай бұрын
Back then, nothing compared to Fury '57. Virgil Exner's masterpiece. Suddenly it's 1960. Without exaggeration. Great Promo!
@THROTTLEPOWER8 ай бұрын
So true!
@HowardJrFord8 ай бұрын
All of the 57 Mopars looked stunning .
@christolbert46288 ай бұрын
Did Mopar have fuel injection in 57?
@plymouthdie-castreplicas8 ай бұрын
Hello @@christolbert4628 In 1958. Fuel injected Golden Commando pumped out 315 hp and Fury clocked 0-60 mph in 7.5 s. Not bad😎
@plymouthdie-castreplicas8 ай бұрын
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Thank you for the comment. Loyalty to one of the brands always decides.
@KingHarvestHSC8 ай бұрын
I'll take the Plymouth any day. I was never a 57 Chevy guy - I always preferred the top selling 57 Ford followed by the Plymouth. There are lots of technical advantages to the Plymouth but the 57 Chevy has captured the hearts of car collectors.
@KingHarvestHSC8 ай бұрын
No, I would disagree, torsion bars did a great job in the 60s. They did their job well and lasted forever. I have a 1966 Dodge Coronet with original torsion bars in fine shape today.
@lvsqcsl8 ай бұрын
@@KingHarvestHSC My dad worked at the local Chrysler dealership. The first year they came out they broke while the customer was waiting to get the things fixed.
@TofersCarTales8 ай бұрын
Clicked the minute I got the notification. Thanks for sharing these amazing vintage promos.
@sharksport018 ай бұрын
My dad always had a 57 Chevy, from the one he bought brand new as a teen-ager until the one he had 3 months ago when he died. I love those Plymouths too, though. Some of the color combo's were beautiful.
@timx36808 ай бұрын
Make mine Mopar
@bobt57788 ай бұрын
I just went down to my local Plymouth dealer looking for one of these left-over. They couldn't help me, it's a Walgreens now.
@1983jblack8 ай бұрын
Did you ask the clerk at the counter if they had any in the back?
@nlpnt8 ай бұрын
@@1983jblack "I'm sorry, a vendor stocks the diecast toy cars so if it's not on the rack we don't have it. We do have a new Lamborghini Urus at the same price as a mid-'00s Toyota Corolla, all the 1/32 scale ones are $3.99.
@nlpnt8 ай бұрын
They were asking the same money for a new Lamborghini Urus as a mid-'00s Toyota Corolla. Both $3.99, from the diecast rack.
@gerardotrejo27688 ай бұрын
The Plymouth looks more muscular
@brucepowell79868 ай бұрын
and more like junk this salesman is full of sh,,,,,,,,
@pooddescrewch87188 ай бұрын
Yes but the Chevy was better quality and out performed
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@pooddescrewch8718 It was way better quality, but I don't think it outperformed the Plymouth.
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
@@michaelbenardo5695 - That 283 was a potent little engine.
@fordmuscleluis97108 ай бұрын
Long time no see on KZbin glad you are back to KZbin on classic cars
@Camopar878 ай бұрын
The Plymouth is one of my top favourite cars. Hard to beat the styling
@deeohgee45748 ай бұрын
We had the station wagon 57 Plymouth. Rear facing seat about a mile away from dad and mom..loved that!
@ClassicChrome868 ай бұрын
This is a great piece of history. Thanks for sharing.
@KingHarvestHSC8 ай бұрын
Once again, thank you for keeping this channel alive with new content!!
@raylocke2828 ай бұрын
For every Plymounth you see nowadays I see thousands of 57 Chevies.
@davidmckibbin44408 ай бұрын
i was watching a video on you tube on a junk yard in central calif. full of mopars. 1940s thru 1960s , they had i would say they had at least 20 57 and 58 plymouths not wrecked but complete one had the dual 4bbl set up, the only time you see a tri5 chevy is if its wrecked. my dad bought a 57 plymouth new, i remember one time on the hwy. he had it going 115mph, it sounded like it was going to fall apart, i loved that car. ive had a 57 chevy 2 door wagon and a 55 bel air 2 door hardtop, now a 61 vette.
@benpluta61878 ай бұрын
You talked me into a new Plymouth. I'll take mine in black and gold😊
@thomasauslander37578 ай бұрын
It's going to set you back for about $2,000 or $100 payments.
b s there is no comprison who won the most races in nascar history and who won 4 or5 ?
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
Yes, but the cars were so poorly built, that people only remembered how bad they were. The 58s were better, but still far short of 51 and older Chrysler products.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
This is a Belvedere, not a Fury. The Fury was available only as a hardtop in 57.
@wintersbattleofbands11448 ай бұрын
Even deteriorated, it still had some life left in it. Thanks for the preservation.
@loveisall55202 ай бұрын
As long as there is automotive history, it will remain a tragedy how Chrysler managed to run there forward look for 1957 with poor quality control And likelihood to rest prematurely. I had no problem seeing this compromised filmstrip. I appreciate your effort in sharing it with us!
@autobug28 ай бұрын
Great comparison, but the Plymouth is a Belvedere, not a Fury (which was a 2dr. only).
@petestaint83128 ай бұрын
Love the Plymouth! Sharp. 👍
@sterlinsilver8 ай бұрын
The Plymouth wins all over in terms of styling...
@captaindew31068 ай бұрын
my dad said he had a 57 Bel-Air once 3 on the tree manual trans the 55-57 Chevy were like a concept to the Muscle Car ERA before the 64 GTO became the Market Muscle Car and the 49 Olds were the Prototype Muscle Car with the Rocket 88 V8 engine. Now the Plymouth from the 50s never had the Gen 1 Hemi engine cause Plymouth had it own V8 engine like the Poly 318 A-Series from 1957, Belvedere and Savoy were sedans, Surburban were wagons, and Fury were performance and Sport Fury were hot performance either hardtop and Convertible with duel rear antenna on the tailfins. 1958 is the first year all U.S cars and trucks equip with duel headlamps the 2 on each side.
@johneckert13658 ай бұрын
In 58 Plymouth got the new big block available (350) and Chevy's got the 348 big block available.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@johneckert1365 And Ford got the new 332 and 352, 361 for the smaller Edsel.
@bobbyheffley49558 ай бұрын
Plymouth (Powerflow) and Dodge (Getaway) still used a flathead straight 6 in 1957. Chevy and Ford had overhead valve straight 6 engines.
@keeganandersson42818 ай бұрын
Nobody cared because 6 cylinder engines were considered cheap throwaways back then. V8’s were what mattered
@barrycuda37698 ай бұрын
I'm mostly a Chrysler enthusiast, but while the 57 Plymouth has a lot of features that probably makes it a better car, who doesn't love a '57 Chevrolet, way better looking than the Plymouth IMO. It's interesting that Plymouth had a 2 four barrel version of the 318 poly , I've been told that there was also a 3 two barrel setup on some 318 poly's, but I havent been able to find anything on the internet to confirm it.
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
‘57 was a banner year for Ford, Chevy and Plymouth in the looks department. For me, Plymouth was the winner. Ford was still using that raggedy all-popping-and-cracking Y-block junk in ‘57, so that basically eliminated them as my favorite.
@barrycuda37698 ай бұрын
I've heard that Ford's vastly outsold Chevrolet in '57 , I cant understand that ,apart from the Chevs having a better engine, the Ford is not as pretty IMO , the '58 Ford is an improvement.
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
@@barrycuda3769 - Yeah, I was surprised that Ford sold so many cars in ‘57. My main issue with them was that Y-block engine - by ‘56, I already considered them junk. When the valve trains crapped out, which many of them did very quickly, they would pop, crack and hiss - they made a very distinctive sound. You could hear them clattering their way up the street from a quarter mile away, and you knew exactly what was coming …
@barrycuda37698 ай бұрын
@@Clyde-2055 They probably would have been ok if they didnt have the insufficient oiling of the valve train ? ? The later FE's are a vast improvement. The 290HP out of the Plymouths 318 is quite impressive.
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
@@barrycuda3769 - In one way, the Y-block was good for Ford - it was SO BAD, that it forced them to get on the stick and design a better engine. And that was the FE, which was a good engine for Ford. If Ford had stayed with that Y-block, it would have ruined them.
@hambone23358 ай бұрын
Chrysler had the engineering but people thought they were ugly.
@bobjohnson2058 ай бұрын
Fugly! lol
@MisterMikeTexas8 ай бұрын
Chevy must have done something right with that 57. Cause to this day, everybody wants one! As for the 57 - 58 Plymouths, it took "Christine" to make people remember them!
@johneckert13658 ай бұрын
True
@johneckert13658 ай бұрын
They really don't look much different, other than the Plymouth was already preparing for the 4 headlight rule to change for 58
@fubarmodelyard13928 ай бұрын
Not everybody
@robjaimes88308 ай бұрын
The Chevy didn’t dissolve into a pile of corrosion like the Plymouth did after a few winters. The Plymouth’s engineering was good; the workmanship blew goats.
@rudyflores93958 ай бұрын
Sorry but Chevy out did any other car still today.
@nlpnt8 ай бұрын
The '57 Chrysler products set the dimensional mold for the full-size American car that was the standard until the early '80s and didn't go away entirely until the last of the Panther-platform Fords left the line in 2011. A little too long, low and wide for most people - the dimensional profile of a '49 Ford through '57 Chevy analog reasserted itself in the first generation of midsize cars from 1962-4, a resurgence of by-then-traditional Detroit compacts (led by the Dart-Valiant) in the mid '70s when the midsizers got too big, and the present RAV4, CR-V, Escape etc are all remarkably close to that size including circa-1950 sedan height.
@pmcclaren17 ай бұрын
remember also the '57 Ford Thunderbird, great car
@mikewall94868 ай бұрын
The dads 57 plymouth had severe rust problems using recycled metal for body parts. Bench seat fell thru the floorboard.
@bobjohnson2058 ай бұрын
Hopefully, he wasn't sitting on it at the time! lol
@devonvictor32108 ай бұрын
I think I will visit my local Plymouth dealer and buy one.
@christolbert46288 ай бұрын
How many 57 Plymouth's do you see nowadays versus 57 Chevy's?
@nicholasmagcamit82338 ай бұрын
Nice film
@THROTTLEPOWER8 ай бұрын
Enjoyed!!!! 🤜🤛
@arminklar36138 ай бұрын
As German that Kind of commercial is funny for me. In Germany it is not allowed to comparing Spots of competitor😂
@cynthiawylie35848 ай бұрын
I was born in 1957, my father was a Chevy salesman. The Chevrolet’s were hard to sell and the mopars kicked ass selling as fast as they could build them. In the sixties I heard all this and asked my father if this was true, why do we see 57 chevys everywhere and no Dodge’s or Plymouth’s?. He told me on quiet winter nights you could HEAR them rust.
@franksanfilippo51488 ай бұрын
My father had a green '57 2-door Plymouth Savoy, which was a basically downsized Belvedere. I got into big trouble when, as an 8 year old, I fiddled with the pushbutton transmission while he was running an errand, and I was sitting in the passenger seat. Well, when he returned, he discovered the result of my fooling around, which is that one of the buttons (drive, perhaps?) was jammed. He had to get a screwdriver and release it. Well, he wasn't happy!
@bobbyz19648 ай бұрын
The old slide shows are great! Any chance you've got some old tech series stuff for trucks laying around?
@jimmycarter90998 ай бұрын
I got one of these cars a 58 savoy 😊 she needs restoring but did rig it up and took a ride in her😊
@genehunsinger39818 ай бұрын
GOLLY Wally,I wonder why there aint no Plymouths runin round NOW.After all that runing of gums ya'd think we'd see tons of em.We do see lots of those swell 57 Chevy's tho,and thats neato!!!
@brucepowell79868 ай бұрын
did the plymouth win any nascar races in 57 or 58 ? the chevy won the most in nascar history for any one year also all three convertible titles 57 58 59 theres no comparrison
@volks-jager8 ай бұрын
alway thought the 57 Chevy was overrated AF. the Plymouth is a light years better looking car
@dennisheadley44088 ай бұрын
For me the 57 Chevy was nicer looking, and the small block V8 is legendary. But I like the Plymouth too.
@trainglen228 ай бұрын
Plymouth is something from another era, very interesting looking. That being said, I would rather have a 1957 Chevrolet Belair.
@scrambler69-xk3kv8 ай бұрын
I always thought the 1957 Dodge looked much better than the Plymouth. I also liked the push button transmission on the Plymouth.
@billhershkowitz57593 ай бұрын
Before the movie Christine, the Chevy was more collectible. But thanks to the movie, the Plymouth finally gets the respect it deserves
@matthrivnak65728 ай бұрын
You never hear about a 57 Plymouth today, it's always about a' 57 Chevy!
@rameshbhattacharjee43748 ай бұрын
It's America's National Car, The Others Are The Best Of The Rest
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
If only the 57 Chrysler products had been well built. Chrysler would have moved up ahead of Ford, and stayed there. Not widely known, those 57s were originally supposed to have been 58s, but somebody at Chrysler must have seen Ford's proposed 57s and rushed those 58 Chrysler cars into production for 57. The result? Mass-produced prototypes. Chrysler never truly recovered.
@rudyflores93958 ай бұрын
Just ask how many 57 Chevy's do see out on the road today ? How many 57 Plymouth's do you see out on the road today ? Chevy wins !!
@UmmYeahOk8 ай бұрын
@retrocars5847 posted this exact film 5 years ago and doesn’t seem to have the “vinegar syndrome” issue that this one has. Just thought other enthusiasts should know.
@jw770198 ай бұрын
I understand the 57 plymouths were among the worst-built, most rust prone cars ever made. There was one put in a time capsule and when it was opened it was almost completely disintegrated from rust.
@shaggydogg6308 ай бұрын
To be fair it was underwater for years.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
You are correct about the 57 Plymouths, but that time-capsule Plymouth was in much better shape that people thought it would be, considering that it was under water for many years.
@duelenigma77328 ай бұрын
My Dad had a 57 turquoise and white Plymouth station wagon . I don’t recall any negative issues including rust issues
@clembob80048 ай бұрын
Put a Chevy underground in 3 feet of water for 50 years and see how that works out.
@daryllynhutchins84596 ай бұрын
@@clembob8004and what 😅
@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting22 күн бұрын
The 57 Plymouth is a great car. I own one. It's just a shame Plymouth engineers rushed the cars into production and as a result they we're rust buckets. Luckily for me I have a rust free original. But that being said the 57 Chev was also a rust bucket and they weren't rushed into production, they had a 3 year old body.
@60tbird18 ай бұрын
Interesting video but what's wrong with the picture ?
@DavidWilliams-ol3vp8 ай бұрын
If only had they put better quality into the bodies and upholestry of the Plymouth,there would have been more of them around today.By 1960 you would be shovelling the Plymouth up off the driveway.
@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv8 ай бұрын
The Plymouth looks more on par with a 58 Buick or 58 Chevrolet or 58😙Ford
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
That's why Chrysler's "Suddenly, its 1960!" and "Plymouth - 3 years ahead!" advertisements. They were that modern.
@andybecker26937 ай бұрын
The Fury was a lot more advanced and had a lot more features than the Chevy. The problem was that it was rushed to the market. The fit and finish was subpar with numerous issues that cropped up almost from day one. They also rusted horribly. Most were parked or sold in under 5 years. I like the styling but it doesn’t compare to a ‘57 Chevy in any way. There’s a reason why the tri-fives are the most popular cars ever.
@smellsuperb18 ай бұрын
That's a Belvedere. No '57 fury 4-door yet.
@fathermetalASMR8 ай бұрын
The Chevy is bland and boring. They played it safe, Plymouth went all-out.
@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv8 ай бұрын
Chevrolet looks old fashioned
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv It is. Its a face-lifted 55. All of the 57 GM cars suffered this way, except for the 57 Cad. The 57 Buick looks like a warmed over 55 with 54 grille teeth, the 57 Olds looks like a warmed over 56 with 54 side trim and new taillights. The 57 Pontiac is just OK, but compared to a 57 Dodge or 57 Merc, looks rather old fashioned. Of course, I would gladly take one over any of today's ugly tin cans. They are GORGEOUS by comparison, and they are probably the best quality 57s out there.
@rudyflores93958 ай бұрын
They ended up going out of Business
@jimbailey79978 ай бұрын
👍
@dondimonte86908 ай бұрын
I am pretty sure the 57 Chevy won the war.
@richardcampbell58668 ай бұрын
How much does each one cost?
@pierredecine19368 ай бұрын
Ha-Ha Ha - - I had 1960 4 door Dodge - bought for 175.00 $ running , metal to metal brakes ...
@meltondaniels28258 ай бұрын
I’ll take one of each 😂
@DreamHachi8 ай бұрын
And yet the Bel Air is the one everyone loves and knows 66 years later. Despite fords Skyline outselling either cars
@mikedrown27218 ай бұрын
Not everyone
@brucepowell79868 ай бұрын
and the best handling car is it aint plymoth or even the corvette
@johnp10408 ай бұрын
Those “stick selectors” have done out of style…….. never…..even on Plymouth’s a few years later.
@rameshbhattacharjee43748 ай бұрын
Chevy Always Wins, American Women Love It, They Love Making Love Making Love In The Backseat Of The Chevrolet, Then They Can Tell They Have Been Chevrolaid
@rudyflores93958 ай бұрын
awesome very well said LOL chevy ROCKS
@clembob80048 ай бұрын
Chevies had too small of back seats for that. Only Mopar was big enough for some real action.
@rudyflores93958 ай бұрын
well I never had any problems until she came out PG but that's another Jerry Springer story @@clembob8004
@waynejohnson13047 ай бұрын
Chrysler ruined its cars with the overly stiff suspension known as "torsion-aire". Most people at the time wanted their cars to float down the road. G.M. and Ford offered such rides but, Chrysler did not. My mother owned a 1957 Dodge Coronet 500. It rode like a school bus compared to her 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air. We never owned another Chrysler product after that.
@matthrivnak65728 ай бұрын
The Chevy is still the best selling car, even today!
@justina32214 ай бұрын
That Plymouth is much better!!
@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER25258 ай бұрын
57 Chevy obviously outclassed this car. That's why they're working so hard against it! But when it all comes down to it the 57 Ford bug I sold better than either one of these two. At least in 1957. But ever since then take a look at the 57 Chevy it's always reigned supreme
@T-Rex-nm1se3 ай бұрын
I rather have the Plymouth, i would have a red one and name her Christine
@djbryanladd7 ай бұрын
The only Chevrolet I'd take is the 1955 Chevy.
@malcolmhamilton52008 ай бұрын
When these were new the 55-57 Chevies were running behind in the styling department. The catch up fins on the 58-61 Chevies got really ugly. Younger people don't realize it was over ten years later that the shoeboxes became popular with street machiners. Up until then the stovebolt straight six equipped shoeboxes were a dime a dozen on used car lots. They were plagued with tons of problems like frame and body to frame sheet metal fatigue cracks, etc. Fortunately nostalgic, misty eyed, balding baseball cap wearing boomers choking down apple pie made them popular much later in life.....that and the fact they were so cheap initially they made hundreds of thousands of them. Then as now, the power pack dual quad 283 was sucking hind tittie to a 392 dual quad Hemi.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
58 Chevys didn't have fins. I have never been much of a Chevy freak, but I never heard of 57 Chevys being known for metal fatigue problems. I thought they were good cars.
@nlpnt8 ай бұрын
@@michaelbenardo5695 FWIU they were, the '57 Chevy was a "Good Used Car" where that years Mopars never outlived their initial build quality issues and the '57 Ford showed its' rustbuckety ways a couple years in.
@davidmckibbin44408 ай бұрын
maybe so but the 1957 rambler rebel was the fastest sedan in the usa and only about a half a second slower that the 57 FI corvette. nothing could touch it not even the hemi. the first muscle car.
@smolville8 ай бұрын
They made a movie staring the Plymouth. The Chevy did better on the circle track. Nothing of the original car remained.
@Reggin-hl7dd8 ай бұрын
Yes but the Chevrolet does not attack people
@tonycolca22418 ай бұрын
If somebody can't see the difference in quality between the two cars they wouldn't know quality if it walked up and bit them in the ass.
@user-pl3mf8wy6u8 ай бұрын
I bought a used '58 Plymouth in 1964. Worst car I've ever owned, and I've owned quite a few. It was a 2 door hardtop but not the most expensive--I think it was a Savoy. In the first couple of weeks it blew a head gasket, putting water in the old. Build quality was substandard. The paint was all faded flat and nothing I could do would make it shine again. The interior headliner was made of pressed material, not cloth, and it had dried out and flaked little pieces down onto the seats. Again, no way to fix it. Same with the aluminum side molding that faded to spotted and dull and nothing would bring it back. I could pull a tail light lens off with my bare hands due to shoddy workmanship. Do you wonder why today a '57 Chevy is worth twice what a 57 Plymouth is? Cause it's worth it, that's why. Does it sound like I'm a dedicated GM guy? Well, I'm not. After dumping the turkey Plymouth I bought a 4 cylinder Pontiac Tempest from 1963. Second worst car ever owned.
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
Those Pontiac half-engines shook the cars to pieces … 😂
@paulsheehan50108 ай бұрын
Canadian Dodges, were rebadged Plymouths.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
Only the low-priced Dodges. The "full-size" Dodges were the same as the US Dodges.
@kaitlynhelton44804 ай бұрын
Lol there's a lot of Chevy guys be like it's the greatest car of the fifties, king of the classic cars, well, by all means they did sell a hole lot better, but they always did, still do, why? Because in almost all cases they are cheaper, most people are gonna go for the less expensive product which is understandable money has always been tight for most, but then you have people running around telling everyone stuff ( not just car related) that even though it cost less it's a better product all together, well in 95% of any product that's just not true at all. Kinda like the harbor freight vs snap on war, anyway the very next year the gm line in a hole started styling there cars very similarly to this Plymouth, or Like the proformance, always Heard about how fast those where in the late fifties, well yes the where quick for the time, but a lot of people don't know of forget that the baddest setup the chevy had in 57, was a 283 making between 180-220hp, that's cool, and maybe some of these guys never got the chance to race one on one back in the day they were very rare, but the power Chrysler offered in those years was far superior, i mean Chrysler itself being the most powerful and again rare as blue chickens, but they offered a dang 375hp duel 4bbl carb setup vie the options available on the 392 v8 first gen Hemi. So don't confuse fact with fiction lady's and gens, yes one sold better than the other but that being said there is a lot more people going hell than heaven too, just a thought.
@randyhoward70697 ай бұрын
57 chevy was a way nicer looking and better car. And I'm a mopar guy.
@lloydc37428 ай бұрын
I was a kid in the 1960s and these cars were common. I was interested in cars as a pre-teen and everyone in neighborhood worked on cars so I would peek into the engine bays. I thought the Mopars were very well engineered. The engine compartment and wiring were very neat and organized. Many early advances like breakaway rear view mirrors. But the late 1950s and early 1960s Mopar body styling was horrible. Big ugly fins and ugly front ends. The Chevys 1955-1957 were beautiful. No comparison. Plymouth in late 1950s were hideous and laughable to me as a kid. The first truly attractive Mopar to me was the early 1970s Challengers and Cudas. The 1967 Satellite wasn't bad but could not compare to same period Chevelle or Camaro for looks. I appreciate the Mopars like the Charger, Roadrunner, GTX they were powerful muscle cars. But for beauty they do not match the Chevy Nova / Chevelle / Impala / Camaros of the day. And they cost a lot more at the time so they sold a lot less. Mopar people were a special breed who were willing to pay more for all out performance versus looks. Not until the 1970s did they get both in my opinion.
@daryllynhutchins84596 ай бұрын
Yeah mate,fins are horrible. Cut the fins off ,lose some of the weight and bingo a nice car or a Chevy/ ford
@MisterMikeTexas8 ай бұрын
"Best-built car of all"? History seems to have kinda disputed that claim, so has the tin-worm.
@christopherconard28318 ай бұрын
Unfortunately from an era when it was considered normal to need a new car at around 4 years. Especially in the salty areas. All those styling points didn't help by trapping water and road sludge. You had to keep on top of body maintenance if you wanted to keep it together.
@MisterMikeTexas8 ай бұрын
@@christopherconard2831 According to historians, FoMoCo and Mopar were the worst rusters of the 50s and 60s (and I've been a Ford guy most of my life), GMs rusted also, but not as bad, according to the historians.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
They were mass-produced prototypes. They originally were supposed to have come out for 58.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@christopherconard2831 Still, even the rather rust-prone 57 Fords were better. WAY better. The 57 ChryCo cars were originally supposed to have come out for 58, so they were mass-produced prototypes.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas The GM cars were probably far and away the best quality 57s, even if they looked "old". They were well-made.
@mychannel-gp6nd8 ай бұрын
No contest here. History tells the story of this comparison. Needless to say, Chevrolet easily won this one.
@kingelvis70358 ай бұрын
'57 Chevy lost the sales race that year to Ford.
@shanewilson92508 ай бұрын
I've always hated the way the older cars had a rake like that. Front end higher than the rear end.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
They didn't have a rake at all. Their styling just emphasized the front end until the era of the Tail Fin. Then, the rear end came into it's own.
@fubarmodelyard13928 ай бұрын
I'll never understand how the 57 Chevy became the icon of the 50's when the Plymouth and Ford are better in every way
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
Because the 57 Plymouth, as great as it looks, was notoriously poorly built. The 57 Ford was OK, but the 57 Chevy, despite being rather old-fashioned, was and still is an excellent car in original un-restored trim.
@user-fh1yt1xo4h8 ай бұрын
See the u s a in a Chevrolet
@rameshbhattacharjee43748 ай бұрын
The Best Car For A Lay, The Chevrolet
@clembob80048 ай бұрын
Nope. Too small.
@rameshbhattacharjee43748 ай бұрын
If I Was An American Woman In 1957, I Rather Be Chevrolaid Than Plymouthed By A Man, Being Laid Is Better Than Having A Mouthful Of Dick's Dick
@nicholasmagcamit82338 ай бұрын
Plymouth beats Chevy . Dodge will beat Chevy
@thomasauslander37578 ай бұрын
Why is the Chevrolet a classic and the Plymouth is not... 🚫
@Clyde-20558 ай бұрын
If the movie “Christine” had been released in 1960, perhaps those Plymouths would have been classics … Look what The Bandit and Michael Knight did for the Firebird - and keep in mind those Firebirds were so choked up with emissions equipment that their performance was downright pitiful. As for the Chevys, it’s my opinion that we liked them so much because of that engine. They were deep-breathers (powerful), LIGHT, compact, easy to work on, and that made them a rodder’s favorite. And those box-Chevys were all over the place, cheap, and that was all it took. (And 1957 was the first year for the 283.)
@k.stultz92558 ай бұрын
Wow is Bill Kurtis 's dad !
@RandysFiftySevenChevy8 ай бұрын
These are all lies.. Calibrating my 50th year of ownership in 2024
@edwardbratko99478 ай бұрын
57 chevy rule . Plymouths suck you can hear try to start a mile away.
@timothyortiz22228 ай бұрын
I still like the Chevy better. Not the ones now but back then, oh yeah.
@alanmerritt8608 ай бұрын
Ill take the chevy please
@mikedrown27218 ай бұрын
The Chevrolet is ugly
@MisterMikeTexas8 ай бұрын
Come on, man! It's better looking than the Plymouth!
@kmyre8 ай бұрын
Neither aged particularly well. It would take 4-5 more years for the timeless classics to start pouring out of detroit
@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv8 ай бұрын
I think the Chevrolet is good looking but totally out of fashion compared to the Plymouth which looks two generations later.
@redtra2368 ай бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas I prefer the Plymouth personally, but they had rust issues.
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas I don't know if it looks as good as the Plymouth, but it is in no way ugly. To me, no 54 or later 50s car is ugly.
@bruceliggett80368 ай бұрын
The Plymouth is boring as hell. 57 Chevy is King!!
@bigdon22418 ай бұрын
chevrolet had the 283 small block the best v8 ever made
@MisterMikeTexas8 ай бұрын
At least until its derivative, the 327, came along, and the 350 after that.
@mikedrown27218 ай бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexasThe 318 was a semi hemi and the big block Chevrolet is a semi hemi
@michaelbenardo56958 ай бұрын
That big block is Chevrolet's second big block. First, they had the 348/409.
@johneckert13658 ай бұрын
@michaelbenardo5695 Introduced 1 year later! Funny how the big 3 all introduced thier "big blocks" in 1958. Chrysler B350, Chevy W348, Ford FE352
@chrisbrown39258 ай бұрын
Nah, that's the LS!
@wlong38688 ай бұрын
The 57 Chevy is an iconic vehicle the Plymouth isn’t