[Dealer Film] 1959 Dodge full features and tour... Why we chose Dodge!

A pretty in depth interior and features of the 1959 Dodge and goes over some add on options.
1959 Why We Chose Dodge.
Swivel Seats...

[@RivetGardener]

Beautiful Dodge car, happy wife and love those rocket exhaust taillights. Let's buy one! In 1959 the average US car price was $2200. The Dodge Coronet Lancer (seen) was $3000. This well dressed couple, and he looks like an executive manager type with a good paying job could very well afford the upgrade. Super nice tu-tone car by the way. I like it!

[@autochronicles8667]

He said it was a custom royal 4dr HT with the v8... with swivel seats/rear view mirror.. Thats a pretty loaded car back in the day...

[@jdollinter]

My Dad would take us on all day Sunday drives in the NW and Canada in the early ‘60’s. All that 1950’s brightwork and front grill would accumulate smashed buds hard to remove. WE would get home and our car would be ticking from the heat coming off the engine cooking the smashed bugs.

[@DavidBugea]

Bill needs to do his brother-in-law Frank a favor, and see if the aftermarket can supply those bonded brake shoes for his “other make!” 😂

[@autochronicles8667]

thats 300$ a brake job... every 10k miles... that GM brake job wasn't cheap

[@nlpnt]

Not that he'd have kept it. Three years and 30k miles was about as long as a man in Frank's position would keep a car in the '50s.

[@autochronicles8667]

yep off to the trade in lot!!! gotta get a nice new shiny car for the driveway :)

[@asteverino8569]

Ah yes, Frank Ferder and Helen Blazes. Our Dodge is like a lodge.

[@maxr4448]

Dodge for '59 Bodacious

[@billolsen4360]

They musta looked pretty mean coming up behind you on the road.

[@davidtosh7200]

Dual power radio antennas mounted at the tail fins is available for 1959 Dodge Royal Lancer. V-8 is standard and this feature is available on convertibles, 2 door hardtop, and even 4 door hardtop.

[@autochronicles8667]

those are about 1 million dollars a set :)

[@msb7113]

Wonderfull car.....

[@raylocke282]

That little honey is giving me good ideas about that back sest.

[@dwightdau6563]

Helen knew that speck of dust would turn to rust in no time at all 😂

[@autochronicles8667]

FOUL!!! Timeout! :)

[@chrisgermo1956]

.....It seems totally ridiculous that an official Dodge film could contain a upper medium-price car whose appearance seems very nice until you see the grossly misaligned drivers door and LR door....that driver's door stick out like a sore thumb and makes you wonder what other assembly deficencies were simply ignored and car shipped out....

[@autochronicles8667]

these films were "dealer" only, not for general consumption. So the salesman could sell the "fine" points :) I also think they probably used very early builds or even prototype cars because these were usually filmed a year ahead of the car release(for example pre nov 1958). That front drivers door is pretty far gapped at the bottom... sticks pretty far out!

[@kennethanway7979]

I saw that too! Bottom stuck out badly!

[@ronwaters478]

Does everything need to be (badly) colorized ?

[@autochronicles8667]

I think i can find a better colorizer. These videos don't get so many hits it's worth it to do in BW and Color.

[@wiiambarnarx8485]

Oh my gosh, this guy was upset because his tab was over 30 dollars. Looking at these just reminds us of a much better time in the world. I didnt come along until 1961 so I got to see a little bit of it but I just said to myself, I wish I would have lived in the fifties. People were raised to have manners and not so aggressive. They were taught common sense. Much kinder because most of us had christian values. Where is all this today. If this video would have been done today, Bill would have been upset because his tab was over 3000.00.

[@autochronicles8667]

Actually, those brake jobs in today's money would be 300$ a piece! so 1000$ in 2024 money... that is crazy expensive, and those rivets did cut into the brake lining life... not sure about how much but they did. I think they exaggerate a bit though...

[@billolsen4360]

You live in a house like that and you're concerned about $30 to reline your brakes?

[@autochronicles8667]

thats 300$ every 10k miles in todays money... :) that adds up

[@MikeV-t7o]

The '58 Chrysler's were ahead of the Game back then DeSoto with tasteful elegant tail fins So the '59s must have been spectacular

[@MikeV-t7o]

Yeah I remember thinking 🤔 whatever that car was (now I know it was a DeSoto) was one of the nicest cars from the 50s

[@larrymcclain8874]

Our next-door neighbors had a '59 DeSoto. My parents had a '58 Oldsmobile. I remember as a little boy back then going for a ride in their DeSoto and thinking how much more advanced their car was over ours. It looked like a jet.

[@Greatdome99]

My old man had a '60 Plymouth. Couldn't see out the back 3/4 view when parking due to those huge tail fins. Whatta bummer.

[@T-41]

Fun, thanks.

[@jimzone8153]

@@Greatdome99: You mean “stabilizers”. 😂😂😂

[@davidcampbell1899]

Don't kid yourself, Fred couldn't afford that DODGE! Truth be told, he had to keep his old clunker with the bad brakes. As for Helen, well all she got to do was sit in the Dodge and day dream about things that will never be! I think Fred eventually traded his old clunker for a Used Rambler! (was all the old popper could afford)

[@keithdukes5990]

You sound like a complete t*****🤔🧐🤨🙄

[@XYZXYZ-me8dp]

A reliable Chevrolet.