1972 Hitch Up To Chevrolet Dealership Sales Training Promotional Film on Towing Vehicles

This 1972 Chevrolet promotional film, titled " Hitch Up To Chevrolet ", was sent to the Chevrolet car dealerships to be used as an in-house Sales and customer training film. The film highlights technical aspects and features of the new model year. If you look up a different film I posted, titled "1974 Chevy Selling Monte Carlo ", you can see a rare glimpse of the film cartridge viewer that was used at the dealership where the customers and personnel were to view these films. The machine was made by Technicolor and called the " Chevrolet Mini Theater System "
This film came from my personal collection. This film was not downloaded from any website and is not reused content. This restoration is my work. The restoration process started with removing the super8 film from the Technicolor Cartridge. After removal the film was cleaned, repaired, and spooled onto a standard film reel. Next the scanning to digital process was performed on the Lasergraphics Scanstation motion picture film scanner in 2k resolution. This film was very red without almost no color left. The extensive color correction was performed in Davinci Resolve. Finally, the film was converted to MP4 format for uploading to KZbin.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

Ahhhhh!!!! -Vintage Towing! Dad towed a 1400 Lb. Pop-Up camper with 4 wheel non-boosted drum brakes! The leg muscles that man must have had!

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

bet it didn't have power steering too. we are so spoiled today

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

His first trailering car didn't, but his second did. Power front disk was available on either, but with everybody else having drums, there was a lot more room to stop back then. We tow a 980Lb. camper with 4wheel anti-lock disks (Where's the challenge in that?)

[@V8Power5300]

It's great that the films are being uploaded and conserved in a different place too. I remember watching this and a few other films about a year ago on a different channel. Keep up the great work

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

Thanks a lot. they are out there. unfortunately, due to their age and the fact that these were never intended to live past the next year, most are in very poor condition. Most the color is almost completely faded away to nothing. that is why some look better than others after restoration. I was lucky enough to pick up about 50 1973 Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Cadillac films that came from a dealership in Washington state. Due to the cold climate, they have almost no color loss. Hope to start getting those up within the next few months.

[@flat6fever680]

Man, these were the days.

[@michaelwitas9482]

The 1972 Chevrolet sales training films are among the best I've ever seen. Really upbeat, good pace, good music and well written. Of course, they were primarily intended for salesman's training purposes but could be shown to prospective customers too. All are worth watching.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

yes exactly, I have plenty more to post from the 1970's. t think they are a hoot

[@CarsandCats]

Life was really good then. I remember it.

[@nageorgiou2]

Crazy that back then a car was all you needed to tow. Nowadays you're lucky to find a car that can tow over 2k lbs

[@Waderizer]

Such a great video, thanks for the upload

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

Thanks for watching. I can’t stop watching these myself and had to share them.

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

Different era when passenger cars instead of SUVs or pickups were used to pull larger trailers. Airstream models then and now are the status symbol of trailering. An optional big-block 454 V-8 with trailering package was necessary in that 1972 Caprice. By the early 1980s the Caprice only had low powered 5.0 Liter V-8 and was unsuitable for a trailer that big.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

one of my favorite films is the long, long, trailer . there really were people towing trailers that big with their cars. thats crazy in my opinion

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

@@theemulsionalchemist5688 The big block V-8s of that era had a lot of horsepower and torque....so it doesn't matter whether the trailer was towed by a car or truck. However, the 1972 Caprice in that film is sitting low in the rear..unsure if that particular car had stiffer rear springs. My Grandfather's 1972 Chrysler Newport rode high in the rear because it had a tow package installed.

[@flight2k5]

@@SpockvsMcCoy no they didn’t

[@sooverit5529]

Very nice film. I thought it strange that the Kingswood Estate was not shown except in some of the literature stats. The 73 Olds film shows the Custom Cruiser as a tow vehicle.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

these films were made quickly and not everything was available. they had to be shot, edited, reproduced, and shipped to the dealerships usually withing a month and some before the new vehicles release.

[@wilbur9416]

Almost a long-lost era.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

You don’t see cars pulling trailers anymore.

[@ytcsgmike2]

love the airstream. need a big heavy tow car, wagon, suburban, pickup, big block engines

[@CarsandCats]

I remember seeing a Volkswagen Beetle with a 5th wheel on the roof pulling a trailer!

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

there were some crazy ideas put to the road then

[@debrastarke3996]

Because when I think tow vehicle, I think Nova

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

why not? only problem towing with a Nova i think would be the limited brakes of their times

[@jamesdean9943]

They don’t give grandpa 400hp anymore.

[@MidwestOptimist]

Hauling a 4000lb trailer at 72mph with a 3400lb unibody nova??? White knuckle ride.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

yes, a bit of a push

[@stephaneracicot791]

when a car could pull the load of a one tone truck....crome glasses cigeratte and 454 under the hood....

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

Chevelle/Malibu with a 350 V-8 rather than a Nova would be a better choice for a medium-size 4,000 lbs trailer.

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

the nova was really to small to tow anything over 2000lbs but now i see people towing 5000 pound trailers with jeeps .

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

@@theemulsionalchemist5688 The 1972 Nova had an optional 350 V-8 which is probably why ...but a 4,000 lbs trailer would still put a lot of strain on its smaller unitized body.

[@johnnydodge]

She's pretty

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

I am secretly attracted to trailers too

[@stevemino142]

Back when cars would turn the new piles of plastic and tinfoil sideways when you actually tow something with a car properly not having to resort to a truck right away good video your channel is awesome

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

thanks, glad you are enjoying these films. more to come

[@steves9905]

the nova seems dominated by that trailer...a little of the tail wagging the dog...prob a Chevelle would have been better. But I'll take the BBC Caprice, pls

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

I laugh at people in my area, they seem to think a jeep is a tow vehicle. you should see the size of some of the boats being towed. diesel trucks are for towing

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

That caprice is a truck in a cars body. Don’t build cars like that anymore

[@theemulsionalchemist5688]

full frame cars are a thing of the past