Easy Does It - Chevrolet Gear Shift (1940)

Measuring the effort involved in women's work around the home.

[@poolejakefit]

I almost forgot I clicked on a Chevy video lol

[@joelgeorgeable]

truee🤣🤣

[@bruce92106]

Yeah I don't know why it's called Chevrolet gear shift cuz they don't mention Chevrolet.

[@martinmbuthia1965]

Almost? I had no clue!

[@KevisSquatchin]

Same 😂🙋🏽‍♂️

[@LloydLynx]

This video has been the only one to successfully teach me how a sewing machine works.

[@rustybritches6747]

me too! always wondered!

[@otdosa]

always wondered.

[@ChaseHeeler]

And the main focus of the video isn’t even about sewing machines. 😂😂😂😂 it’s wonderful.

[@sully676]

save all that energy in 1940, because the next few years the girls were in factories building tanks and planes

[@haendel2004]

While receiving child support and taking all property of tge man she threw away when he got sick or unemployed. Or if she hasn't done that, she can, anytime she wants. That's why good men are going mgtow and only bad men remain for women.

[@dom3827]

@@haendel2004 yes. That is what killed chivarly. Now they got the bill.

[@redrackham6812]

It is strange to watch this knowing that the cars that rolled off the assembly lines in 1940 would be some of the last civilian cars produced in the United States--or anywhere, really--until 1946. Other than that line about a "blitzmeal" at around 2:08, you would never know that there was a world war on at the time or at the US would be in it in less than two years--or that Chevrolet would be making tanks and planes, not cars.

[@haendel2004]

Since the day you started worrying about internet comments at such time of the night..lol I'm also addicted to reading law suits from family courts...lol

[@GoldenGrenadier]

@@JamesTTierce I dunno, birth control makes a lot more sense or, you know, not leaving your partner until the child is an adult.

[@lekoman]

"Hurry-up Picture"

[@maxattack1684]

Come on you damn picture. You need to hurry up picture

[@glennso47]

lekoman Time lapsed picture

[@cowerdnerddespacito9518]

Thanks Chevrolet for explaining women’s work is just as hard as men’s work. And making Driving a car Easier and more enjoyable

[@agustindetlefsen6944]

A sewing machine is really a amazing invention, especially when you stop to think a man invented it

[@MC-mh2ju]

Obviously, no woman is smart enough to conceive such an idea.

[@Kaneanite]

@@MC-mh2ju Given the context of all the praise of "women's work" i took 'A sewing machine is really a amazing invention, especially when you stop to think a man invented it' as the announcer being surprised that a man was smart of enough to have invented the sewing machine.

[@gojoe283]

Exactly 10 years later...Chevrolet came out with Powerglide. No gear shifting and that same vacuum was now used to automatically shift gears. Those old vacuum shift Chevys had a big problem if the engine stalled...the level was almost impossible to move.

[@sabeth17]

Powerglide... More commonly known as the slip and slide!!! ;)

[@MrTheMiguelox]

Powerglide, and all other automatic transmissions were operatad by hydraulic pressure of the ATF, not vacuum.

[@josephgaviota]

Powerslide, was what I heard.

[@Mercmad]

Until very recently,a lot of drag racers used a derivative of the power glide. A pretty capable trans even if it only had two gears .A mate had a 1939 Chev with vacuum shift. When the car was commandeered by the US army in 1941, they took the vacuum shift out and fitted a top shift lever on the floor.

[@pauldunneska]

Joe Oldsmobile had the first automatic transmission in 1940 the same year as this film.

[@CynicalBreed]

That woman starting that propeller on the airplane is my type of lady. Brave and knowing what has to be done.

[@atis5607]

My dad once saw an accident caused by hand starting an airplane, doing that takes quite the skill and courage!

[@michaeldeloatch7461]

Had I been alive and of age in 1940 and not married, of course (lots of counterfactuals) she could have started my engine whenever she wanted! Contact!!! ;-)

[@michaeldeloatch7461]

@@atis5607 My friend used to fly a cessna in/out of a small little airfield out in the country, and it was owned by a guy named Stumpy or something like that who had lost an arm in a prop. Ouch.

[@KillianZippel]

But this girl is dead now

[@PilotAwe]

Hurry-up-picture

[@dinosoarskill17]

Lol yep

[@finndahuman57]

And it look Betters then Most of them Today

[@tmounidharan]

There now you got a round number of likes

[@PilotAwe]

@@tmounidharan Ty, I didnt even remember this comment, no wonder since its been 3 years

[@tmounidharan]

@@PilotAwe yeah those good ole days when people walk around streets without masks

[@hunterfisher1294]

God bless the women in our lives including my wife of thirty-seven years.

[@05cr125rider]

You musta gotten her an automatic.

[@JrgProductionsRSA]

37 years , wow congrats :)

[@babydriver8134]

32 years here. But our kind of woman is getting rare.

[@MrSafer]

ok boomer. the clock is ticking till you arent a drag on our economy anymore. have a good day.

[@babydriver8134]

@@MrSafer Please seek Jesus. The clock is indeed ticking.

[@jonass1285]

These old cars were the most beautiful ever built.

[@bruce92106]

I'll say this much, one of the first old 3 speed cars I drove as a kid was an old 3 on the tree Chevy Biscayne and I can safely say that old thing had no vacuum hose assistance! The only assistance that shifter got was muscle! Btw .. THANKS for uploading this. I just sent to a friend saying if not for KZbinrs this stuff would be forgotten and lost. Hopefully a whole new generation gets to see what proud real America was all about once upon a better time.

[@Texassince1836]

By the time the biscayne came out they had done away with vaccum assist shift. It was a failed 1940s experiment, most cars with it eventually had it removed

[@fredfiftyfour2183]

We had a 1963 Belair, shifted just fine the olde fashioned way...

[@adventure_F0x]

I love how this is extremely sexist yet also complimentary of women feminists are gonna be so triggered that the past existed

[@adventure_F0x]

Ambrosine Girardi depends where you look, sure some countries aren’t there yet but your main countries most definitely are ...

[@DMNssms]

Who cares they’ve ruined society

[@TimSlee1]

They were making it easier for women by adding this feature actually. This is far from sexist.

[@mickdavis2385]

Don't show this to women in Iran. Their husband will beat them with a chain for trying to learn how to drive.

[@TimSlee1]

@@mickdavis2385 Couldn't have said it better myself! Western countries are the least sexist and have been for a long time!

[@dnsmithnc]

"A stitch in time saves 9" After more than 1/2 century, I finally realize what that means.

[@mandochavez7457]

dnsmithnc whats it mean bro

[@MerelySemantics]

@@mandochavez7457 Basically means fix a problem now before it becomes a bigger one.

[@lloydwagner3709]

I had a '40 Chevy. That vacuum shift was nice, unless you had to change gears without the motor running when it was -40 degrees (like for a pull-start when the battery was dead). Then you needed just about all your strength to move all that mechanism. lol But with the motor running, yes, you could shift gears with your little finger.

[@DeLorean4]

Thanks to this video I now understand women completely. In my eyes they are no longer the weaker sex. They do so much hard work in the kitchen. //// In all seriousness, I find it interesting how this video employs a balanced, seemingly liberal 1940s perspective that today would be considered nothing but.

[@fujifrontier]

Yeah there’d be nothing but heart attacks across the country if they even tried it today lol

[@bobjacobson858]

My father told me that when he was in his late teens, his family bought a new 1940 Chevrolet, and he said that vacuum-assisted shift was wonderful and fun to drive.

[@lipsach]

Like the ergometer gadget.

[@inkey2]

I just loved this era......people smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank tumblers of straight 100 proof "bonded" whisky, banged their girlfriend bareback. Back when people were called "a regular guy"......"yeah Joe....he's alright....he's a regular guy"....when a cup of Java, a plain donut and a Lucky Strike were heaven. You would go to your good paying union job with a steel domed lunchbox in hand...the whistles blows at 5:00pm you head for home but not before you stopped off at Kelly's bar for a quick shot of Old Crow and some fast conversation. Wednesday night was bowling night with your factory team. When you get home you sit down and relax on the "davenport" with you feet up on a "hassock" while you light up a White Owl and listen to the hit parade on your 5 foot tall Philco radio.

[@jonyvonne]

+inkey2 Bareback's the only way, man!

[@inkey2]

+Morro BayCoast (MBCoast) .............TOTALLY...........

[@boleynali]

+inkey2 Yes, good ol` times indeed, trouble is they were all dead by 50.

[@inkey2]

+upton parka I don't know "anyone" who died back in that era at fifty years old. My father died at 83, his sister died at 83 as well,,,,,,,,my great aunt died at 95 years old and another aunt at 102. AND on my mothers side they all died in their 70s............infant mortality rate may average in to make it look like a young death rate

[@boleynali]

+inkey2 ...Well in that case what with today,s knowledge of keeping fit and eating the right foods you should live forever...happy days.

[@keithstudly6071]

My father had a 1940 Chevy. In 1950 he got a new Chevy with Powerglide. That was when my Mother learned to drive.

[@trainsntile]

In the early '60s, my mom tried driving my dad's '49 Pontiac with 3 speed column shift. She told me that she had to stop on an incline , stalled the car 4 times & told my dad to move the car as she pulled the E-brake & jumped to the passenger side. She never tried manual transmission again!!

[@neil6958]

There's a lot to learn from these old films.

[@zieo8218]

'Hurry-Up Picture' is 1000% better than 'timelapse'

[@fujifrontier]

s p e c i a l p h o t o g r a p h y

[@booring2]

wow that slow motion in 1940 is so good quality

[@I33nc3]

sure, because it is not slow motion...

[@punker4Real]

speed up da video Just like those fast worker videos where they "speed up the video"

[@0raffie0]

I love when people don't realize that slow-motion is nothing more than speeding up the camera motor while filming, and then playing back at normal speed. As if it is some kind of rocket science.

[@Riptor1998]

@@0raffie0 r/iamverysmart

[@MrMazda-yw1cr]

raffie but for the sewing machine she was only turning the wheel by hand making it work slower... they never slowed down the footage here

[@dnsmithnc]

This is how men were able to quit "oppressing" women. Seriously, during times of struggle, men and women naturally fell into the jobs they could do best. It wasn't like the woman says to the man, "Look, I've been cleaning the house long enough. Let me have a swing of that ax to clear that patch of land and you go wash dishes." What really happened, as far of division of labor and who was head of the family, wasn't oppression. It was the necessity of survival.

[@RandomNumber141]

Except men and women were told which jobs they should do based on gender roles and cultural norms. If women had the same education and upbringing as men I doubt as many would have stayed home with the kids. Sure, men were better suited to working in the coal mines, steel mill etc. because of their strength but there were still plenty of white-collar jobs that could've just as easily been filled by a woman.

[@jeffvader811]

@@RandomNumber141 Obviously, men and women can work in whatever roles they want and be equally as competent. But I do think there is a general biological inclination for women to be more domestic. Especially in the past where people had a lot more kids (out of necessity, because of higher mortality rates) a mother would have to spend a lot more time with the children for essential tasks such as breast-feeding which are gender specific. This is probably how this divergence in roles started, but there was definitely a societal/cultural element of sexism as well.

[@MrTexaspete30]

Oh my god I love these old videos my new favorites for sure

[@sasansasani669]

I wish I could go back 100 years. I don't want this new time.

[@evanmueller5575]

yeah because fuck the internet your phone literally everything you have and be in a economic hell hole because the war just ended

[@flyingskyward2153]

Written in 2018, so you want to go back to 1918 experience the end of WW1, followed by a global flu pandemic that killed huge numbers of people?

[@AbhinavS.R.]

Definitely. Me too.

[@jragas08]

this video is so entertaining that i even forgot that this video was about gear shifting

[@nlpnt]

8:16 Pre-production '41 Chevy with side moldings on the hood only. On production cars they extended the full length of the car and '42 and '46 models had the same moldings. They were deleted for '47-48 which made a cheap and effective styling change at a time when all resources were devoted to getting an all-new postwar model to market for '49.

[@matrox]

The sewing machine is one bad ass invention!😁

[@bigfella4845]

Ah yes the 40s back when TVs were surprisingly expensive and the average family just had a radio

[@mendonesiac]

I wonder what they would have to say about the modern clothes washing, diaper changing, dishwashing, 40 hour working Modern Man.

[@DarkKitarist]

Amen! Also dont forget about cooking! I love cooking.

[@johnnyblair6034]

They would call him a pussy for doing housework and only working 40 hours a week

[@Test-tz8pg]

@@johnnyblair6034 My grandpa helped with the housework. If something was broken, he fixed it. If the lawn needed mowing, he did it. If the wood stove needed restocking, he refilled it. If the car wasn't working, he made it work. He also worked on a welding crew, doing hard work 8-12 hours a day. If anyone had an excuse to not help out around the house, it would of been him. I don't know a single man over 70 that would call you a pussy for doing housework. Many men supported and helped their woman back then, not the same anymore.

[@egalf]

@@Test-tz8pg Many men supported and helped their woman back then, not the same anymore. Why should a man nowadays help a feminazi that calls him "toxic" and a "rapist" at all. They can rot in hell.

[@Test-tz8pg]

@@egalf My guy, where are you meeting these people that just call men rapists for no reason? I have never met one of these people in my whole life. 99% of the time I've heard a man called a rapist, it was because they were. I've heard 1 news story ever where the woman lied. All of y'all need to find some new friends if these are the people you know. Also, why the hell would you be in a relationship with someone that calls you a rapist? Have people not heard the saying "Don't stick your dick in crazy", or do they just disregard timeless bit of advice? High definition p0rn in any fetish you desire has become so prevalent there ain't any reason to put yo dick in crazy XD

[@brianallen9810]

Ahhhhh....another JAM HANDY ! blast from the past, where men were men and women new where their place was ;) I just love these.

[@accaliamurraymusic]

Why does each gender have to have a place? Isn't that a bit restrictive and limiting to general production and progression of society?

[@SuperMadmax10000]

Brian Allen Im no feminest by any means... but man thats sexiest

[@eschel2155]

Brian Allen aaaah... another SMART ONE. It was a blast in the past, where men were men, and even women knew how to spell "knew" :) I just love correcting others.

[@claireh9086]

E Schel sending you a virtual high five ✋

[@williejohnson3866]

New?

[@man_on_wheelz]

Oh my God!!! this commercials has me in tears of laughter!!!! I knew women used to be looked down upon as the "weaker sex" etc etc but damn did they go to the extreme with this video!!! And you can tell it was actually meant to show that women are more capable than we think! Making all those trips from the fridge to the stove, for shame of us not to recognize! tisk tisk lmfao!!!

[@Keaze]

Jee, a guy who thinks overt sexism is totally not a big deal and the only sexism that counts is the one where men literally call women retarded like cartoon villains. How unexpected. Must be nice to be able to delude yourself into thinking that this shit isn't sexist just because your self-centered ass isn't on the line. Also, defining women as "the weaker sex" just because they're not as strong as men is insulting, you really don't need much of a brain to realize why. No-one called men "The criminal sex" or "the violent sex" because they weren't trying to define men in negative terms or according to things they worse at. It's truly amazing what idiotic shit deluded misogynists can think of to pretend that insulting women was and is a-ok.

[@machineshopworkantiquemach6370]

Nobody calls women the "cheating sex" but they still do it my friend.

[@trainsntile]

How about "Rosie the Riveter" during WWII? "That little frail can do More than a male can do, Rosie the Riveter"

[@ThemUkuleles]

The Hand That Rock The Cradle Rules The Word.

[@dnsmithnc]

Now, they don't even have to do that.

[@34Packardphaeton]

"Word"? Yes. .... "World".. that's a different question.

[@alanstrong3295]

I am proud of any female who can drive a stick shift. 5 speed overdrive!

[@matthewdemaster2045]

Alan Strong nowadays, I'm proud of anyone who can drive a stick shift.

[@666dynomax]

matthew demaster can you

[@lukasnovotny2408]

You aren´t from Europe I guess. :D In my country - Czech republic almost everyone is driving stick shift.

[@veronicalake4140]

@@lukasnovotny2408 Ahhhh fuckkk

[@hagenl.2975]

Completely common in Germany across men and women.

[@prasaddhokale3256]

Most useful series on KZbin

[@jenniferstine8567]

Okay the only thing I didn't know already is how a sewing machine works. Mainly because I only know how to sew by hand. Before my mum got hurt she liked manual transmission. It wasn't pleasant when she tried to teach my older sister. I wish a family friend would switch to an automatic transmission. Every shift is jerky, loud and uncomfortable. Maybe it's because it's an old car, but it feels like he's destroying the transmission. I hate having to ride in it.

[@gamemoments8702]

Wow, i learned how a sewing machine works

[@phillipanderson2607]

This generation worked hard for a living. Honest and trustworthy . No microwave oven , no remote control TV, ,no cell phones . When you went on vacation ,you were left alone with no distractions because they could not reach you on the phone. Less stress for you.

[@dyer2cycle]

...that 1941 Chevrolet is a thing of beauty.... :)

[@trainsntile]

ALL those cars were!!!!!!!!!

[@auggiedoggie21]

Oldsmobile introduced the first fully automatic transmission, the Hydra-Matic for 1939. It would be 1950 and 1951 before Chevrolet and Ford, respectively, came out with their own automatics (Chrysler held on to their semi-automatics until 1952 and Lincoln offered their Cruise-Matic the same year). My '40 Chevrolet was the first year of the "Vacuum-Shift" feature that used a vacuum cylinder to ease the effort of operating the shift lever, and it worked perfectly. Wish I had it back!

[@50zcarsman]

Hydra-Matic kicked ass. Buick's Dynaflow had a couple of advantages, but accelerated only slowly and did NOT multiply torque -- unlike Hydra-Matic. It was only a fluid coupling.

[@TheOzthewiz]

@@50zcarsman Both, HydraMatic and Dynaflush had fluid coupling, the HydraMatic just had MORE (higher pressure) fluid coupling because of the torque converter. Your comment makes it sound as though there was some "mechanical" besides fluid coupling in the HydraMatic....

[@smartman123]

i born 1980 and i love old 1940 era golden ages not like nowadays stress and low quality of life life backthen much better than now

[@flyingskyward2153]

You know 1940 was right at the start of WW2 right? Not sure I'd consider it a stress free period.

[@RandomNumber141]

You're seeing only the good parts (Rose colored glasses much?). Not everyone was a white-collar white male.

[@pcno2832]

Seems like a cool invention, but the shift lever was not the most onerous factor in manual shifting, at least not once synchromesh transmissions were common; it was the clutch. I think most people would rather have a manual shift lever and an automatic clutch than the other way around.

[@tacomas9602]

It's 1900s technology trickled together in a hydraulic oil box behind a car built in 1940. What can you expect lol. They did quickly figure out a manual gear shift that's easy all the time is better than the early vacuum.

[@NikkyElso]

this video would be so politically incorrect now a days

[@Blueshirt38]

I don't see it as patronizing. It wasn't as if anybody was forced to live in these roles. You were still just as free to live your life as a lazy, cheating housewife, or as a transgender man who paints "modern art", there just wasn't all the political correctness that would get you fired from your job if you didn't pretend like you liked those people. Sure, women probably didn't care for spending an hour in the morning getting pretty for their man, but I'm sure there were also days that the man didn't like being a bridge builder- standing on a steel girder 100ft over a river, hammering hot rivets for 12 hours.

[@Blueshirt38]

You sound pretty offended, Kamikaze.

[@Blueshirt38]

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about at this point.

[@applesnoates]

ahh but so true

[@polygondwanaland8390]

Kamikaze you sound like a bitch tbh, probably a cat lady in the making

[@eduardofernandez5217]

My favorite KZbin channel

[@BFaluup]

To be fair back then women got a free house to live in and free food and clothes i would say from my point since all my problems have been financial that that would be a freedom i could only dream of. My grandfather knew how to use tools and built his own house and poured the foundation and he could troubleshoot and fix any problems with his or anyone elses vehicles....i asked him how he knew all that since he was just a truck driver his whole life and he said back in the day men were expected to know all that and it was basically mandatory to learn it.. i think we all have too much free time now.

[@50zcarsman]

Women of that era were by no means free, nor did they consider anything they received as a result of their husband's work his "gift" to them. Women who did not work outside the home -- and some who did -- lived entirely at the financial sufferance of their men, and had virtually no legal claim to a living share of his wages. Tradition alone dictated what she was entitled to. No woman could get credit in her own name until the early 1970s (!) -- a husband or other relative had to co-sign. In large areas of the country -- especially the deeply conservative South and the farming Midwest -- women's physical freedom to move about, visit distant places, or re-locate was quite constrained, causing them to forfeit many opportunities that men enjoyed. Divorce for any cause was considered a scandal by society, and was rare until the late 1960s. In-marriage physical and sexual abuse by a man were generally not recognized, and women's official complaints along these lines were ignored -- frequently until after she had been killed. There's "women's freedom" for you. And that's just for white women, the most privileged of all.

[@thepatriarch6144]

@@50zcarsman I would choose that over today's 'equality' anytime. Hell, I would choose the way Saudis treat women over the way they are treated in the modern West.

[@Vgp-rp4iu]

@@50zcarsman too bad it can't go back to being that way.

[@wonderfulwaldo4451]

trucker V bitter because your wife left you?

[@RandomNumber141]

@@Vgp-rp4iu Would you choose that because you're a man who'd benefit from such an arrangement?

[@metroperson]

This was a great film....I really like watching it.

[@blackburn7733]

Woman of those times were the one who actually deserved respect!

[@JohnBarringercopper101]

I had a 1928 Rolls Royce and that had servo assisted brakes worked by a mechanical servo!

[@kw9849]

5:37 George's going to get his wrist and arm broken by that hand crank, using his right arm like that!

[@basingold3651]

wHo'S jOe?

[@joeguzman3558]

My grandma was a house wife all her life and she was the greatest mom in the world ,she loved that my grandpa was the man in the house .and in charge . being femenine it's not weakness it's a beautiful God creation .

[@shelliecarlson7015]

And, before that, the transmission was non-synchronized. You had to double clutch. Step on the clutch pedal, shift from 1st to neutral, let out the clutch, push it back in, and slide into 2nd. Do it again to go from 2nd to 3rd. Then, to down shift, you pushed in the clutch, slid into neutral, let out the clutch, rev the engine a bit, push in the clutch, slide into 2nd, let out the clutch.

[@trainsntile]

I got my license in 1975. My 1st car was a 1949 Chrysler Royal "fluid drive". My girlfriend, at the time, also wanted an "old" car. Her father traded a Caterpillar backhoe & got her a 1929 Model A Ford rumble seat 3 window coupe. Was wondering why I couldn't get the shift into gear. At 18 years old, I learned 1st hand what was meant by 'double clutching'. Probably should have stayed with that girl- I lost a beautiful old car. LOL

[@shelliecarlson7015]

@@trainsntile We all have regrets.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Hey lady , get me a sammich !😁

[@marvinmartian7281]

Yes indeed! a sammich & a beer💋🍺

[@jackmcdonald8355]

I love this, things like this just couldnt exist today.

[@thomasjefferson4492]

GLORIE GLORIE, and NOW with all those energy saving things the women weigh 300 lbs,...OH you scientists did good,I hope your ol'e lady is 350 lbs........

[@34Packardphaeton]

.... mine finally just passed me.. in weight! UGH!!

[@saintmichael1779]

"Pep and ginger." I love it!

[@esechucote52]

My chuco52 Chevy Bel Aire hard top deluxe power glide transmission second owner since 1980

[@leesonneville1817]

"Now that the muscle-savers are busy, cutting down the work for men and women, we'll all have more energy for play time" as I lay slumped over the armrest of my couch barely able to move under my own weight. So tired, think I'll take a nap. "Alexa, pause KZbin".

[@zaxarrrr3659]

Humanity, cursed by its own hubris

[@trainsntile]

LOL!!!

[@TheEgg185]

Oh man. Those were the days. Thumbs up if you want to go back to 1950.

[@50zcarsman]

No black thumbs are up.

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

TheEgg185 I think your comment encapsulates exactly the thinking behind the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’, but there’s not going back. The 60’s changed everything and then Reagan really screwed us over.

[@AbhinavS.R.]

I'd go at the drop of a hat. Looking at old videos of different countries, it's clear that every single place was much more superior in the past.

[@joelgeorgeable]

really wanted to live in that decade

[@williamthegreat9632]

I do love women and yes they are amazing but when do the get to the cars? ;-;

[@codydonahue1177]

that was beautiful

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Chevrolet, often called Chevy, is a trademark of General Motors. GM is the largest traditionally US based automobile manufacturer into which the Buick, Cadillac, GMC, and Chevy divisions are subsumed. At one time two other makes which have recently been eliminated, Pontiac and Oldsmobile, were also divisions of GM.

[@breakerbreakeronenine_]

I can't stop laughing at these comments below...

[@willietheboggle3954]

Jon Emberson I RAN to the comment section, thinking this is going to be good!

[@matthewdemaster2045]

Willie The boggle me too

[@Meinstein]

Legend has it, that woman is still cranking her plane backwards trying to get it started.

[@rollingstopp]

So much energy and time saving that the lil wife takes the car out and has an (extra) marital affair ..... OHH MY LOL

[@firebird9711]

For some reason this made me laugh alot. Thanks buddy I needed that. Now, where is my wife right now??

[@FunSizeSpamberguesa]

This is refreshingly not-patronizing, especially for 1940, but the woman doing housework in heels cracks me up. According to my mom (who grew up in the 50s and 60s), women saved their heels for going out (so they wouldn't wear out as fast), and mostly wore cheaper soft flats around the house.

[@Kagaines]

Did it all dressed to the T rocking heels. Respect.

[@meekbaylake4771]

Well explained

[@gojoe283]

Heaven help you if the engine died and you needed to move that vacuum gearshift...if the engine wasn't running, the gearshift wouldn't budge!!

[@zachmikko3249]

How many gears you shifting through when the engines not running?

[@Evan_Case]

@@zachmikko3249 None. That's kind of their point.

[@johnbrooks633]

Not true. I learned to drive on a 1940 chevvy with "vacumatic gear shift" and without the vacuum assist it just took a little more effort.

[@hunkydoryize1]

and now what do they do

[@mrsauce9307]

stephen buckland nothing lol

[@gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef]

Talk about being strong and hard working and doing absolutely nothing to show it :/

[@smore9865]

most women have jobs now, gotta have a rich partner to be a stay at home spouse nowadays

[@TheTdw2000]

Make PowerPoint presentations and get abortions

[@JD-gx3ms]

Twerk and post it on Instagram

[@RonJohn63]

5:03 Ah, that's interesting!

[@JoshBrinson]

Hurry-Up picture... I'll use this from now on.

[@justasimpleguy9089]

This Video Perfectly Shows That A House Woman/Wife's Job Around The House Is About The Same Men Have To Do At Their Jobs

[@paulcheek5711]

modern tech is amazing, like magic

[@WDCallahan]

What units is this meter using?

[@nunyabizness6270]

Getting them ready for 'Rosie the Riveter ' role in WW2

[@trainsntile]

Rosie has a boyfriend, Charlie, Charlie, he's a marine. Rosie's protecting Charlie, Working overtime on the riveting machine...

[@lelboy]

Nice vid - but a little curious as to why the speedometer never changes, when the car is "apparently" being driven!

[@nomanjones4803]

Never went above 20 mph.

[@kayvalencia2223]

MAGIZ

[@fujifrontier]

She disconnected it to save miles lol

[@lukefletch2008]

Loved it so funni

[@metroperson]

yes you could still shift when the vacuum was not working....we had a 41 Chevrolet with it and you could still move the shift lever when it was not running

[@4gauge10]

Rosie-the-rivitor during WW-2 welded,built engines,machined parts,made bullets,bombs,guns,etc.. The men were fighting for American freedom,so the women keep the men fighting on the front lines with their skilled work. This isn't sexist,it's called reality of life.

[@j311ycaa5]

It's sexist to think that men and women are inherently suited for different tasks.

[@trainsntile]

All the day long weather the rain or shine, She's a part of the assembly line, She's making history, working for victory, Rosie the riveter...

[@datsoon9236]

Thanks a lot chevy, you made it so now everyone is driving automatics 😒

[@trainsntile]

YEAH- I wanted to get a new 1 ton pick-up truck with a 4 or 5 speed manual. Ford, NOPE, GM NO WAY. The only offering was from Dodge, but you had to buy a $3000.00 diesel to get it!!!

[@dennismartin4659]

I think the real lesson here is it is how the conveniences of modern technology has made us all less tough.

[@oldgysgt]

It's interesting how consumer tastes change back and fourth. In the late 30's and early 40's moving the gear shift lever from the floor to the steering column was considered modern progress, but in the 60's and 70's we looked down on the "old fashion" column shift. We would pay extra for "four on the floor", rather than settle for "three on the tree".

[@trainsntile]

Of course- it was considered a 'hot rod' with a 4 speed & of course you paid more!!

[@raywalz4952]

Just before the Men went off to WWII Women took over all the "Men" jobs during WWII When Men returned they went back to work and Women went back to traditional roles. Women never forgot the independence of running and financing their lives and instilled this sense of independence in their Boomer daughters. Thus the Women's liberation movement was born. Returning men had to..along with the women..deal with undiagnosed PTSD. Much of post-war hidden family violence can be attributed to this. Boomer children were saddled with a huge gender role shift that continues today.

[@mgm.al3mry]

Good point.

[@EbolaSquirrel]

8:13 wait WHAT

[@sahibkalsi7209]

Knowledge with little humour ......😍😍

[@NoosaHeads]

Did vacuum shifts also have automatic (or power assisted) clutches? If not, then there doesn't seem much to be gained by making the gearshift 80% lighter.

[@milo9942]

5:40 the guy started the engine incorrectly. You use your left hand so you dont break your arm when the engine takes

[@Milnoc]

That's why the woman was smarter in this scene. Let him break his own arm! 😂

[@trainsntile]

My father always told me NEVER to wrap my thumb around the crank, unless I wanted it broken!!!

[@red666A]

I wish i could go back into time.

[@buba4267]

4:23 is that James Dean????

[@dunzek943]

you don't mess with grandma when she was younger

[@danmay3040]

now that so called weaker sex can put you in a jail just by saying that you attacked her 20 years ago.

[@keithm5224]

Don't forget about the Victoria Price and Ruby Bates! That was before this was filmed

[@RandomNumber141]

On the flip side, women can take real action against actual sexual assault. So while false reports probably went up, real reports probably went up even more...

[@AbhinavS.R.]

@@RandomNumber141 So innocent men can be punished? Why should innocent people suffer for someone else to get justice?

[@Lucas-tr9hh]

0:25 looks like Mitsubishi sponsorship Lmaoo 🤣

[@harshprajapati6653]

WORK=FORCE×DISPLACEMENT thus the work is 0in the above case

[@albertpolak786]

The physics here is blowing my mind... "ergometer" units = tons of force = work = imperial units gone too far?

[@kornaros96]

Thank the lord for metric system...

[@wamyx8Nz]

I had one really old professor in college thermo who assigned every problem in imperial units. I'd just convert to metric, solve it, then convert the answer back.

[@Ken-lp9qt]

They should show this clip to those obnoxious women on the View.

[@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703]

Did you just assume their gender?

[@l337pwnage]

Saying "nice" things about and to women is a pretty old and time honored tradition. It is less so nowadays because, well, the fact is they don't deserve it anymore. It's much rarer for them to make the sacrifices that they used to.

[@henryreusch6313]

I love manual shifting, I'm glad it's still a big thing in Germany

[@jashugg]

Mercedes dropped the manual gearbox option from the E class in 2018 sadly

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Yep in America those are so rare that having one is a theft prevention

[@HarborGuy]

The Oldsmobile came out with auto-shifting in the late l930's...