1959 ”AMERICA - THE AUTOMOBILE AGE” AMERICAN MOTORS CORP. RAMBLER PROMO FILM 88814

[@Modeltnick]

My parents bought a brand new Rambler in 1960! I was nine at the time. I remember how tight that car was. The doors closed like a refrigerator. We drove it on long trips and never had a problem. It had push button automatic transmission! I miss those days and that wonderful car!

[@erwinrommel2055]

I just bought a 64 Plymouth valiant same unabody. It's so cool

[@Modeltnick]

@@erwinrommel2055 Thanks for your response! That’s a wonderful car! That Slant-6 coupled to a TorqueFlite transmission was bulletproof. Last year for the push button transmission control.

[@rolux4853]

What an amazing childhood memory!

[@rolux4853]

@@erwinrommel2055 dude why did you choose the name of a fascist massmurderer? I’m from Germany and using that name leads to imprisonment over here..

[@Hogger280]

Same here - 1960 Station Wagon, OHV I-6, wasn't a hot rod but very efficient ! Twenty years later I bought and restored a 58 American(this was rambler's cheapest car and was a throw-back using an I-6 L-head and 3 sp. with overdrive - very comfortable ride and got over 25 mpg. The overdrive was almost as good as having an automatic. The people that feared the overdrives didn't understand them and know how to use them.

[@substance1]

Wow, "Single Unit Construction" (@16:05) now called "Unibody," right down to the struts, is what we use today. It took a looooonnnng time for the automotive industry to switch to this engineering design. These engineers do a great job of describing unibody construction.

[@rolux4853]

Only in the United States, European and especially German cars of that time already used nothing else

[@fairfaxcat1312]

I prefer unibody. Yet some have said unibodies are noisier and more likely to be un-repairable.

[@dorothydromgoole8040]

My mom and dad had a Rambler station wagon and even though I was not old enough to drive, I got a chance to when I was 12 years old. Gee, I miss that car.

[@michaelcerza871]

What a forward thinking film covering the views and practices of the American Motors Corporation that was predicting the future. The gas guzzler was not part of their marketing implementation, and the development of unitized construction is now the standard of the car industry. They were the first of the big 4 to go out of business, but their engineering principles were the winners in the marketplace and in use today. For that, they should be proud and we should be forever thankful.

[@senorkaboom]

michael cerza Yep. And that forward thinking gave us the Gremlin, Hornet, Marlin and, before we forget, the Pacer. Then that wonderful merger with Renault and the LeCar. Yep, great forward thinking.

[@hotrodder62]

gremlin OUTSOLD its competitor , vega and pinto by 2 to 1 COMBINED. Marlin was a GREAT car and the hornet platform served for years in many models. The forward thinking of he frames and chassis hasnt A THING to do with any merger?? UAW strikes at the time hurt more than anything else. As usual.. Unions doing what they do best.... destroy.

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

michael cerza My first car was a 1963 Rambler Ambassador 990. It was Motor Trend Car of the Year in part for being the first to have a unit-body construction. 327 V8 with Holley 4-bbl carb, Torqueflite 3-speed Auto, , Bendix Brakes, and Positraction. I beat the hell out of that car for 150K miles and it ran great.

[@neildickson5394]

"1st of the big four to go out of business ". AMC was an independent, never part of a big four, much less the big three. With the stuff they built, they were extremely lucky they survived past the 50's, then the 60's. With a very few exceptions, there isn't a decent design in the 30 odd years AMC existed.

[@hotrodder62]

Really .. you dont know history very well do you? .. "survived past the 50's"?? they WERNT even FORMED until the 50's!!! What mgfr was the FIRST with ac as STANDARD? the FIRST with rack and pinion? the FIRST with shaved drip rails? The FIRST with flush door handles? WHo BEAT plymouth in 1963 a s NUMBER THREE mfgr?? Want to go on? ALWAYS FIRST in fuel economy, the UNIONS are what was the demise of AMC not its designs... FIRST "suv?? AMC EAGLE!

[@DSGNflorian]

Terrific upload, thanks for that! Nice quality, too. This item is a treasure. It walks along both sides of the line between really corny and really entertaining and informative, with production values and acting way above the usual standards for industrial films. Quite an effort! Unitized construction, of which such a big deal is made here, was already in mass production by that time in Europe. In the mid-1930s, Citroën in France and Opel in Germany (then part of GM) began mass-producing all-steel unitized bodies for their most popular cars (Citroën 4 CV and Opel Olympia, Kadett and Kapitän). Lancia in Italy made the first unitized car (Lancia Lambda) in 1922, but that was a hand-built car for a few wealthy customers, not a car for the masses built on an assembly line. In the US, Chrysler and Ford experimented before WW2 with some early forms of unitized bodies in the Desoto/Chrysler Airflow and Lincoln Zephyr, which used major elements of unit construction while still retaining some conventional methods. Ford introduced fully unitized bodies with the 1958 Thunderbirds and Lincolns, made at the then brand new Wixom, Michigan plant, to be followed in1960 by the Falcon. Chrysler switched over to "Unibody" in 1960 for all cars lines except Imperial and GM also introduced their first North American unit body model in 1960 with the debut of the Chevy Corvair.

[@postal_the_clown]

my grandma had a '63 American and I had an '81 Eagle. Used, yes but we had them less than 2 years each. However, the Kelvinator fridge lasted some 33 years.

[@Hogger280]

I would take the American to the Eagle any day.

[@arajoaina]

Our first car was a Japaneses 1967 Hino. Hino stop making cars later but we loved that small car. My dad went to Japan from Korea to buy it and brought it back to Korea when he used to work for USFK and lived in Korea. But I loved the 1964 ford galaxy 500 convertible my dad bought a used one in 1968. The interior was luxurious and better than anything that’s around nowadays. They don’t make them like that anymore

[@Alx2672]

I drive one of the last manufactured AMC vehicles , the 2001 jeep Cherokee and I love it. unit body SUV, creators of the SUV. AMC was so far ahead of everyone, all the cool stuff that has happened at Chrysler is from ex AMC engineers.

[@dmcnamara9859]

Alx2672: The XJ and VJ (Grand Cherokee under Chrysler ownership)Jeeps were the result of French money and Engineering of an existing Platform..........Renault that is. And if one looks at the XJ/VJ.....you can see remnants of the Hornet Platform.

[@Alx2672]

@jason9022by manufactured I meant designed and engineered. That jeep is the same (about 80%) as a Cherokee from AMC. I know the history of AMC Renault Chrysler and Daimler. The Cherokee is uniquely AMC. I have only driven Chrysler products my whole life (48) and that vehicle is AMC . I've had a 96 grand Cherokee that is nothing like it, but I've also had a 1984 Cherokee chief that is why I bought the 2001. Sorry I used the wrong word.

[@Alx2672]

@@dmcnamara9859 zj? The vj is listed as a 48 jeepster. I've owned a 96 zj and by 96 it was more "Chrysler" then the 01 xj. I think while factually correct you missed the point. AMC thought outside the box and made great stuff that has lasted (design) until 01.

[@Hogger280]

Well, Chryslers are now Fiats, and I wouldn't own one.

[@thomasbeaver3828]

At 16:50 I like how they are touting safety from a front end collision yet the steering box is way up front by the bumper with a solid metal steering shaft aimed at your chest. I own a 66' rambler classic and I always hated that one detail.

[@miltonhill6187]

I drove a Rambler test car around Daytona International speedway for eight hours a day, seven days a week for approximately three months in 1959. They were testing good-year firestone and other company tires, Aluminum heads one barrel carburetor different transmissions. Bill France Jr ran the program. Fireball Roberts brother was one of test drivers. They started with fifteen drivers per shift. The goal was to put a million miles on the block. Does any have a copy of the films?

[@autobug2]

Sure sounds like tedious work!

[@ragulomas]

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[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@geoben1810]

Yeah, I had a '63 Rambler wagon. Great little car. I wish I had kept it.

[@honestone490]

AMAZING to see a promo advertising a car bought for a man's wife as a wedding anniversary gift. Back In the 1950s, only about half of adult women had driver's licenses . In fact, jokes about women drivers were often a main staple in TV comedies and stand up comic routines. However, by the year 2010 the tables had indeed turned dramatically. In 2010 we saw 105.7 million women having drivers licenses compared with 104.3 million men. Today that number just continues to grow. AMC was indeed ahead of it's time in promoting advertising to women back then as well. I miss AMC today and it's vision toward advancements in the automobile industry.

[@johnkoval1898]

These old films make me all goose pimply.

[@rickmcdonald1557]

As a teenager in the 50's and 60's I really enjoyed this video and takes me back to better simpler times when living was easy and much fun was had by all. I think we have lost so much with our current High Tech World and we are on a down hill slide to hard times where work and worry cause all the stress and strife we see on a daily basis.

[@grampy2014]

My great grand son wishes he lived in those days. He’s 15.

[@rexjolles]

Yeah if we could have those days (with the race and gender relations of today, i.e., no segregation+ women in the workforce) then it would be fantastic

[@phade2blaq]

Living indeed was simpler but that wasn't true for most people and we all know that. This country needs to stop glossing over the parts of the history that isn't all peachy keen.

[@rickmcdonald1557]

@@phade2blaq Yes I suppose you are correct on a World Wide Basis.

[@JamLeGull]

“He assured me it isn’t dangerous, and it won’t explode” damn, Elmer is full of it.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

Elmer was right that it wouldn’t explode, though.

[@alwenke212]

@@unconventionalideas5683 Ford Pinto; watch this !

[@anothercitizen4867]

"The automobile is America."

[@caleblane7619]

Are you making a statement or Being Sarcastic to Mock because I believe it's the latter.

[@rallycobra5738]

@@caleblane7619 i mean it's true tho cars are very much part of America

[@caleblane7619]

@@rallycobra5738 I was asking this question because I know how Europeans who supposedly "Invented the Car" love to mock Amerocans for Being Passionate About Automobiles. Europe might have invented the car but the USA was the place that Truly put the Car on the Map Globally.

[@rallycobra5738]

@@caleblane7619 i agree wholeheartedly im half Greek half Romanian myself so i don't understand why the European union is pushing such a anti car campaign. i find honestly moronic cars are good and we should treat them with more respect people in general nowadays, people seem to have lost respect for many things. I think the USA was smart in making more car centered inferstructure but what i hate about the usa and and Europe is that both are extremes. i want to be able to own a car and drive wherever i want and i was car ownership to be something supported by the government so in turn making it easier and better to own a car but i also want to be able to walk and sometimes maybe take the metro i think a mix is the best possible solution something to please both groups not one discriminating against the other because that's just not fair.

[@caleblane7619]

@@rallycobra5738 I can Agree that an equal Mixiture of both Cars and Public Transport is Good because while Rural Wide Open Less Populated Places like where I'm from need Cars; Big City Metros Need Public Transport because for them that's more efficient. The need for Public Transportation explains the early Invention of Trains and Buses.

[@jamessawyer8889]

Looking at the houses in the video, that's on the backlot of Universal Studios!!

[@RickB1792]

America was something to be proud of in those days. People were hard working, industrious and optimistic. Times have changed, and not for the better.

[@CT-vm4gf]

Now we’re stuck with the consequences of all those cars and infrastructure.

[@tadonplane8265]

When I was a young guy I bought a used 1971 (the last year for the little original one) International Scout. It had an inline six cylinder engine that none of my car loving buddies could identify. The Chevy guys said it had a Chevy starter, distributor and alternator but it wasn’t a Chevy engine. The Ford guys said it wasn’t a 190 and it obviously wasn’t a slant six. It turned out to be a 232 cid AMC engine, like what you’d find in a Gremlin, a Hornet or a Rambler. Yup…International Harvester bought AMC engines. There was an EPA sticker under the hood listing all the engines available in that Scout to include the AMC 304 V8. That would’ve made for a very fast Scout!

[@fredwucher4045]

I miss the AMC/Rambler marque. Seems like the the ceo's of Nash and Hudson knew what they were doing when the joined forces to become American Motors in 1954. The may have been the black sheep of the industry, but they did give the Big Three (Chrysler/Ford/General Motors) a run for the money.

[@walterweddle7644]

I like AMC better than GM.

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

AMC was never a strong competitor to the Big Three, especially after the Big Three began building smaller cars. The mistake was that both Packard and Studebaker should have joined forces with Nash and Hudson to create a multiple division manufacturing giant.

[@RivetGardener]

They made a few real nice, attractive and good cars. The Ambassador comes to mind, rode like a lincoln with the power of a thunderbird.

[@Hogger280]

I would much rather that AMC had survived instead of Chrysler!! They were better cars but Chrysler had better marketing - Iacocca did us no favors with his overblown K-Cars - junk!

[@charlesphilhower1452]

@@RivetGardener The Javelin was a fun car.

[@blautens]

That's a really impressive production. Quite a difference between having MGM produce something rather than Jam Handy (not criticizing Jam...different soft of thing).

[@ragincajun7625]

Did MGM produce many car manufacturing documentaries?

[@trevoncowen9198]

when the men were men and the women were proud of it

[@miguelexim]

TRUE!!!

[@20alphabet]

Amen!

[@naturelvr123]

MY 1ST was a 1961 Rambler American converable. Ah, it was great! :)

[@tsf5-productions]

1959...1964...1966 American Motors "Rambler" models that were the "Classic" models, my folks had. I learned how to drive some (after high school's Driver's Training class of Autumn 1967) on that '66 model. Had my first car date with it in June, 1968. Good show with plenty of good high morals in living. Wish the same themes of this documentary were still in practice!

[@Edward-bd8iy]

My neighbor across the street from us had a 1964 American. He drove that car until he died in the late seventies.

[@bencarling3]

Excellent film they really took pride in the quality of the production. This was how america was built. Hard working men and women, constantly evolving desgns and techniques. True pioneers that never complained after a hard days work. Key word being worked. Because now a days everyone wants money but they dont want to work for it. Young People have no idea how good they have it. Our laziness in America will be our demise. So sad

[@stephenholland5930]

Quality job by MGM.

[@almondsnackbar4969]

Most AMC owners still have their cars. Sitting in the backyard waiting for parts.

[@norm2923]

Is that any different from any other cars of the era?

[@jcm78]

Xx

[@scotthughes8672]

Can you imagine riding in the first car and a storm comes in? And you show up at someone's house. Thinking maybe in the future they will find a way to keep us dry while riding in this buggy

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

That mid century modern table lamp is very cool.

[@jeffking4176]

My grandmother had a 1961 Rambler American. Neat little car, but the only options she got: heater, backup lights, metallic [blue ] paint. NOTHING else. There was a set of trolley tracks set at an angle, at a turn. In the middle of the turn we’d cross the tracks, and the door lock would unlock and the passenger door would swing open. Every time - it would open, I’d grab the door, grandma would grab me. She’d pull me back in and I’d close the door. It became so automatic , it was like it all happened in one movement - the whole thing. 🤣

[@ericwilleke6613]

Ahhh....AMC, with Saginaw gear steering, Ford starters, and torqueflite transmissions. Loved the Dealer's Choice parts that kept the same box with a Mopar sticker added later.

[@Hogger280]

Yeah, but Nash/Rambler was using over head valves while everyone else still used flatheads.

[@turbo8454]

@@Hogger280 Chevy and Buick always had overhead valves. AMC kept their flathead longer than anyone.

[@Hogger280]

@@turbo8454 Buick did have OHV since 1903 but Chevy didn't transition to OHV until the late 40's. Nash started using OHV engines in 1929(278 cu.in. I-6 and other other displacements as well a their own OHV V-8's later) AMC made a 196 cu.in. I-6 in both OHV and L-head keeping the L-head for their lowest model because they were cheaper. In 1958 when virtually all AMC's were OHV they had the Rambler American which was their cheap car which still used the L-Head. AMC even came out with an over head cam I-6 - The Jeep Tornado engine was the first post-World War II U.S.-designed mass-produced overhead cam car engine.

[@turbo8454]

@@Hogger280 Chevy didn't transition to OHV until the late 40's? LOL! Before you start looking like you don't know what you are talking about, you better get researching. I'll leave it at that......for now.

[@tadonplane8265]

@@Hogger280 the OHV pushrod Chevy Stovebolt six came out in 1929 and stayed in production through it’s second version until 1962 in North America. Production continued in Brazil until 1979.

[@dementedweasel1]

Our grade school principal Mr Allred drove a 59 Rambler station wagon. It was all red. And in my opinion, butt ugly. I never told him that as my own butt was sore from too many applications from the board of education. I didn't need to fan the flames.

[@davids6533]

Ramblers we're rather basic, but I still like some of them. I appreciate the video also.

[@chrisphoenix77]

Love how the 1900s/1910s people talk like 1960s Americans.

[@ManiaMusicChannel]

What an educational video from a car company; history, automotive tech and it's origins and uses, good acting, educational ad. Like older people say, the good old days, where optimism was shown and felt

[@gavmansworkshop5624]

Car adverts really went on back then. "what were we watching again?" lol

[@brianjohnston9822]

Reminds of a Leave It To Beaver style movie.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

They were good car's!!!!!#!#!##

[@tommissouri4871]

34:13 and 35:10 - my grandpa had one of these Rambler wagons. He bought it about 3 years old and used it for the service car for his TV shop. I learned to drive on it at 11. How times have changed. At 22:00 he picks out the car for his wife. At 36:45, Chris does the same. And he got her a station wagon, meaning a utilitarian vehicle for the mother to do chores around the house. My wife would shoot me if I decided what car she was going to drive. Strange how they manage to make a big life decision just as something in the world turns upside down. Gets family rolling just in time to leave for WWI. Married a few days before the stock market crash. Birthday and new car on the day of Pearl Harbor.

[@raymondsmith5653]

I wish they had shown more of the AMC Metropolitan than it driving in the center of the line of models at the end. I have a 1958 Metropolitan great little car for getting around town and gets 42 MPG.

[@stephenholland5930]

Great little American designed British-made car.

[@raymondsmith5653]

@@stephenholland5930 It might be the first international car. Now all cars are built with parts made all over the world. The metropolitan was from an Amercian auto maker with a body designed by an Italian designer and built in a Great Britan factory. Then shipped to the USA to be sold in 3 different dealerships. First Nash, Hudson and lastly AMC.

[@fk4515]

I thought the Chrysler Airflow was the first mass produced uni-body construction automobile? As far as AMC cars, when they were good they were very good, when they were bad they were very bad. With the lower production to amortize development and fixed costs over they were often a few dollars short of excellence. A few dollars more spent on corrosion control and a few dollars more on transmission and 3rd member making them a tad stronger would of paid dividends. The terminal issues for AMC was the Pacer, they spent a lot of money on it and it didn't pay out. It was heavy it was designed for a power plant that never existed and it's design was a little avant-guarde for the conservative AMC buyer. AMC's efforts to innovation was a little mis-placed had they stayed true to their economy car roots and developed a new front drive platform instead of the Pacer or developed the mini van they may of had the ability to last a little longer or maybe start adsorbing OTHER manufacturers and regaining economies of scale.

[@trevoncowen9198]

S Baker the pacer actually sold pretty good when i came out but the design got old fast the downfall of amc was their merger with Renault

[@fk4515]

Yes but they spent a lot of money developing it and it was gone before some of the cars it was suppose t replace. The money might of been better spent developing a new front drive platform or a smaller Jeep utility vehicle or small pickup. Remember at that time all the small pick-ups were Japanese even those from the big three and 4WD wasn't common on them. Had AMC used the resources they had on the Cherokee that came out in 1985 instead of the Pacer they would of had a jump on the market for the smaller SUV and the midi-truck. Had they developed, even jointly a front drive platform that was more durable than what Renault eventually brought to the table it would of poised them to get into the mini-van market earlier. They say the K car saved Chrysler, well the mini-vans had a lot to do with it too. The merger with Renault wasn't the cause of the downfall but rather a result of the downfall, they didn't have a marketable new product or the money to develop one. .

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

OK, Dare I say it...... The Ford Model T!!!!!

[@tadonplane8265]

You got it. They described Henry Ford…without saying his name…to a “T”!

[@whatsamattayu3257]

"Elmer" was the spokesman voice in the Pontiac commercials in the late 60's.

[@davidcarroll8735]

32:26 the day that “was long past”, came back in the 1980s and reigns daily today 😀

[@600322]

Even in 1959 the great US of america tells us something.

[@JJJBRICE]

The late Frank Blair was the long time news reader on the Today Show .

[@irish89055]

A delicate condition...😁 I thought it was Mike Connors for a minute

[@nephi5059]

That compact Rambler would be considered full size car today. Bigger than most Cadillacs.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

Not bigger than a Corolla outside, if you bought the two door.

[@thetreblerebel]

What if AMC was around today? They should of tried to engineer a DOHC I4 or V6 or V8. Maybe go the way of Japan. Could you imagine a turbo AMX with a screaming V6? Cool

[@GrocksMedia]

I miss my AMC

[@johnnyhawkins43]

I can dig it!

[@RivetGardener]

American Motors / Nash / Rambler always made good solid nice looking cars until the late 1970's. Remember the Pacer? Not bad, but uneven doors? How about the Matador with those huge ugly bubbly looking headlights atop a SLAB of 5 MPH bumper without even an attempt to hide the 2 shock absorbers for the bumper. CHEAP. And the Matador coupe, that looooong sloping rear and the shocking eye opened taillamps to match the front. Geez. Too bad, they rode like a dream, though. I would love to own one today.

[@kdkatz-ef2us]

The 70s Ambassador offered free a/c!

[@friendofdorothy9376]

I know that A/C was standard by then but surely its cost was figured into the car’s price.

[@johnwow2646]

I would love to have an old Rambler or Nash Metropolitan

[@jamesmtl04]

Does anyone know where I could find the names of the cast for this film? The (later) wife looks like Eve Brent, but the daughter-in-law looks extremely familiar at the end. I'd appreciate this information! Thank you.

[@miketschetter7189]

James I

[@mikespaziano1225]

The host is Frank Blair, one time host of NBC's Today Show. The Music Composer is none other than the man that composed the music for Hanna-Barbera. He wrote the timeless themes for The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

[@gojoe2833]

Frank Blair was also a host for NBC's Monitor program during the 1960s

[@isfeldt34]

From what I read there's a film in a work, not sure if it's made it to completion. Called the last independent automaker, the story of American motors corporation.

[@TheGbeecher]

AMC would fight the 'Big Three', for another 27 years anyhow...My first car was a '73 gremlin x - a good vehicle 😊❤

[@misterwhipple2870]

The Gremlin was uglier than sh*t, but it was underrated, like most AMC cars. It actually had a very good drive-train, and if treated properly was a very dependable car. But MAN was it uggggggggggly! The AMC Spirit, which replaced it, was a darned good little car.

[@dearbrad1996]

AMC takes on the big three. With a brand new POS. They had no idea land yachts were just around the corner.

[@PressedSteel1919]

Sir, you have sold me, I'll take one in silver & dark red.......

[@stephenvelden295]

The problem with AMC was that they lacked style. Most of them were stodgy looking. If they paid more attention to style they would have sold more cars! Practicality is fine but most people want others to admire their car!

[@ebogar42]

I had an Eagle. lol Was ugly as shit on the outside and inside. Had some ugly fake wood grain shit with the ugliest red carpeting.

[@walterweddle7644]

@Winning Grinn I always loved the 67 Rebel. Also would like a 67 Rebel wagon.

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

Yeah, they look and sound like they're straight out of 1902.....

[@kobra6660]

I've always wanted an AMC I've thought of them as the number four behind the big three and how long they held in against the competition and itll attract more attention than a mustang or comaro because not many people remember the brand

[@ebogar42]

I had an Eagle. I'm sure people do remember me. They were like, "whats that ugly piece of shit he's driving? I was so embarrassed of that car. lol

[@michaelweizer7794]

I do I had 1966 AMC Ambassador DPL hardtop solid, stylish and lots of torque. I'm probably more into types of cars and trucks than into individual makes It seems to be more fun to be a car junkie than to say I like Imports better than domestic or I'm a. Ford guy and wouldn't be caught dead in anything else. I could go on about this subject but I'll leave it at that.

[@michaelweizer7794]

Btw you said ugly piece of shit, as opposed to what?what people drive today, If you want ugly any Toyota poopieass (Prius)will do!, Frankly an AMC Eagle would look pretty good to me right now!.

[@norm2923]

@@ebogar42 Maybe because it was about 20 years ahead of its time.

[@ebogar42]

@@norm2923 I had a problem with the color the most, and it was slow as hell. It was a brown and burgundy color. The interior was burgundy too. I actually like how the cars look if they have some cool tires on them.

[@jhonsiders6077]

We left for Frisco in your Rambler - the radiator running dry .

[@urbanurchin5930]

.......engine was thumping' like a disco - maybe we should dump her in the bay !.....ha ha ha.....one of my favorite songs from the early 80's.......Sausalito Summer Nights !

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"You said forget about the airline, Let's take the car and save the fare, We blew a gasket on the Grapevine And eighty dollars on repairs... All aboard...(Sausalito summer nights) Repeat 3 more times

[@Edward-bd8iy]

​@@urbanurchin5930Two hundred gallons from LA... Diesel. Summer 1981. ALL over your radio. Good times...

[@fromthesidelines]

Hoyt Curtin, who wrote the film's score, was also writing themes and cues for Hanna-Barbera Productions at the time.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

I was just thinking of how similar some of the music was to Flintstones and Jetsons music themes

[@gregorydahl]

That mono mail plane was so tiny . Like a skinny pigeon .

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

American Motors made a huge mistake in trying to build full-size cars and dumping the Rambler line of compacts

[@ebogar42]

I had an Eagle. It was ugly as shit. Fake wood grain panels and an ugly red color for the carpet. I actually liked the smaller 83 style hatchbacks. It was probably ugly in the inside too though. The 4x4 Worked pretty good. I never got stuck in snow, and use to pull a huge steep hill with turns that most people got stuck near the bottom. That was the only thing good about the one I had.

[@gojoe2833]

The Eagle wagon was the old Hornet Sportabout built on a 4 wheel drive system. The Hornet certainly wasn't as attractive or as well built as the Rambler American it replaced. Growing up we had both a Rambler American and a Hornet, and the American was a far better car....

[@nlpnt]

Wanna bet the kid on the hobbyhorse at the end winds up with the keys to a Gremlin in his pocket before the end of the '70s?

[@stevenhoman2253]

The unit construction methods used are excellent, however the styling is awkward and led to lack of sales success. The improvement in, and the utilisation of, internal space is shown to great advantage. Had Exner, for example, designed the vehicle, he would have garnered far greater interest from the buying public.

[@chrisskinner6291]

These Automobiles have been around way longer.

[@rexjolles]

My great uncle was driving on the highway with his friends, and there was a car transport truck with cars with covers on them, and he could see the hubcap had a big "r" on it, and his friend wondered what it meant and he said "radillac" Ha hs

[@pumasgoya]

My pops bought a 1964 Rambler station wagon in 1969. Out first car. He sold it for $50 in 1975. Sad.

[@vinnydaq13]

28:30 Time for Ward Cleaver to have a man to man talk with Wally!

[@woxyroxme]

More like Jim Anderson needs to have a talk with Bud Anderson, this was part of the plot of a Father Knows Best episode about “dollar down, dollar a day” keep up with the Joneses spending of the time.

[@misterwhipple2870]

With a nude picture of Barbara Billingsley as a visual aid. "See, Wally, this little part down here? Well, you start rubbing it, and . . . "

[@tedwalker1370]

Edward Barker was right but it didn't stop the growth of bigger and and bigger cars and now trucks in the USA. Will we ever learn?

[@johnnyb4187]

But also right that for no other reason that trend would reverse due to necessity. His reasoning was that the country was becoming too populated and roads too crowded to support bigger cars, but the real driver has been fuel consumption. You're right though, that hasn't stopped it all together. As long as people are willing to spend, 'big' will be around.

[@LuckyPotatoKat]

This needs to be riffed on the new MST3k

[@mikeysplaytime]

Why present these gems and put a HUGE time stamp on it to block the view? Ugh. 😑

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[@penskepc2374]

That oldest kid was in his late thirties.

[@600322]

The tv -show does not show the actual powerty from the USA.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"We can't make a film that's true to life, baby/We can't show a man divorce his wife, baby/Filthy slums, drunken bums, they don't exist/Cops and Feds, busting heads/Aren't the stuff that dreams are made of...." From a satire of "That's Entertainment" published in MAD Mazagine, late 70's

[@cindylawrence1515]

The history of "American Motor...and no mention of the Hudson? No Hornet?, No Wasp, Commodore?, Super Six? No Essex? No Terraplane? No history and HUGE Contribution of the Hudson motorcars company? Wow. Disgraceful!!....... V

[@sambone8194]

Nash was the dominant force in the American Motors mash-up. Nash was prudently managed, had a loyal cadre of customers, and hit a home run with the Rambler and Metropolitan. By the time Hudson merged with Nash to form AMC in 1954, Hudson was in serious financial straits due to blowing their money on the porky and awkward Jet compact while allowing their 1948 vintage Step-Down design to grow old and stale. Couple that with the fact that the Step-Down design could not be easily facelifted, and the merger was more a Nash absorption of Hudson. As the weak sister, they got slighted.

[@beenbeatenbybishops5845]

Typical of George Romney. The only thing that existed was what was in front of him.

[@thekekronomicon590]

All the kids and teens in this are disrespectful af I would have got smacked

[@kenschmidt6522]

"Sound as the dollar." oops.

[@MBSLC]

My first car was an AMC Gremlin-you could hear it rust. Didn’t learn my lesson and bought a 67 Rambler-good engine and transmission but otherwise didn’t inspire confidence on the road. Cheap cars for poor people. This market niche worked for a while I guess.

[@spannaspinna]

That’s how Henry ford got his start

[@randybock82]

Now we have electric jelly bean looking cars on wheels 😢

[@Hiltibold]

The attack on Pearl Harbor was unprovoked? I'm laughing my ass off. 😂 But this is still an interesting peace of automotiveve history.

[@charliesgrumma5388]

*If you're lucky, real lucky, the POS you buy today may last the 72 months you'll need to make the payments but don't count on it.*

[@darylhood5832]

They say if you can't afford a Ford, dodge a Dodge!

[@terrymeadows1827]

Nash (Rambler) made the crucial error of telling the automobile consumer what they needed and should buy and expected them to follow suit. Didn't work then. Won't work now with electric cars.

[@wendellb36]

In1968 every 58 Rambler was a rusty pile

[@johnnyb4187]

Tell your Dad he should get a new car and instead he gives you a TED talk.

[@sciencedavedunning3415]

Personally, I think American car industry took a nosedive at the end of the 60s, when they touted front wheel drive and transverse mounted engines. I'd rather drive a 65 VW than anything built since. But more than that, I'd rather see everyone driving steam powered cars with no clutch or transmission, 40 moving parts in the entire drive train, 10% of the carbon monoxide, and no sulfurics or carcinogens. The steam car burns fuel cleanly, completely, and well away from engine lube oil. Change your oil once every 3 years, and burn whatever fuel was selling cheapest that week.

[@derekcrymble9085]

"Bang !....You little dickins".........HAHAHAHAHAH !!!

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-1983]

Rambler! Heck this guy just rambled on. Take the end off of Nash and you got a pile of Ash and there's not even that much of the company left! Lifetime customer. Interesting cars they just didn't last that long as a company after this commercial relatively speaking. But 1941 25 miles to the gallon and a lightweight car. Which probably weighs twice as much as a Toyota Camry that only gets 20 mi to a gallon! And that 1941 Nash which the name was a mentioned that early on in this program. It wasn't aerodynamic. Inline 6 is a workhorse but it shouldn't be that fuel efficient to get 25% more than the so-called lightweight fuel efficient cars of even 20 years ago. Remember the Chevy celebrity? A V6 3 or 400,000 MI when cars normally didn't get much more than 100,000 miles. And getting 32 miles a gallon with plenty of pep with that 300,000 miles on it. Why won't they do that today? It's not why I can't they do it. It's why won't they?!?!

[@glenbrusk4038]

she said it isnt dangerous far from the truth

[@johncasciello4123]

And NOT ONE RECALL as we hear each week in 2023 from CARS/FOOD/APPLIANCES/FOOD PRODUCTS/EXPLODING BIKE BATTERIES as manufactureers have NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF in 2023!!!! Allready as this film began the narrator mentions AMERICA!!!!

[@misterwhipple2870]

Yeah, instead of Recalls, they just stiffed you!

[@phade2blaq]

MAGA Make America Great Again!

[@jaymoore661]

America has always been great! Dump Trump you losers!!

[@phade2blaq]

@@jaymoore661 America has certainly been great for some people no doubt but for the most part for most people especially non Whites, that hasn't always been the case.

[@minbannister3625]

i can't watch this Nash was ruined by unit body construction, and now all we get is egg shaped cars with four doors. shit!

[@Louis-kk3to]

California politics will ruin your business and car's ,facts,

[@JohnS-il1dr]

"Just like a woman" lolol

[@laboniakter9629]

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[@clarkgriswold5903]

Too bad that deep-dipped rust-proofing didn't work, AMC products rusted away to nothing!