From Dawn To Sunset (1937)

This classic example of "capitalist realism" depicts a day in the life of Chevrolet workers in the U.S., while attempting to convince them that their own fortunes were inextricably linked to the fortunes of General Motors.

[@reddrw1]

I Love these old films...My grandfather was a Auto Painter for the Cadillac Division. I am proud of all the Auto and Rubber workers we had in our family.

[@stevepape9011]

You should be!

[@shionhaggi8163]

i love too but i couldn't find their archieves

[@yt_bharat]

This was the greatest nation on Earth. The real generation of men and women who built usa. Huge respect from India

[@realmccoy]

You’re right. WAS! And thanks to the rise of liberal democrats, those once great cities have been forever destroyed.

[@peterroberts2737]

As someone who spent time on a production line I can say, those people know they are facing yet another seemingly endless day of mind numbing work and know that tomorrow will be exactly the same

[@prevost8686]

Along with a full belly, a roof over their heads, and clothes on their backs all the while spending more money on useless electronics than many third world workers make in a month. Don’t like “mind numbing “ work? Start your own business. Work for yourself. Then you’ll know what work is. I run my own small business and 12-16 hour days are normal.

[@jason60chev]

WHat happens, when working on an assembly line, if you have to take a dump? Does the line back up till you get back or does someone replace you?

[@prevost8686]

@Ralph Goober That’s true which is why they shouldn’t bitch about having a good job.

[@northerniltree]

@@jason60chev Ever hear of a cork?

[@RivetGardener]

@@jason60chev They get a backup replacement for a bit.

[@rob1248996]

My father started at Chevrolet Atlanta in 1947 and I worked there before the Navy. It was a real "joy" to work there. For some reason however, I still have a warm and fuzzy feeling for the place. Can't explain it. I guess you had to be there.

[@Kenlydford]

Hope you’re doing well

[@jdemo7167]

You have to admire the dedication of all those years of hard labor for their families. My wife's grandma worked at "The AC" as she called it. AC spark plug factory in Flint Michigan for 34 years. She was one of the last to get a true pension. I wish we could make things here again so the kids could have something to do.......sigh.

[@mcmans.]

"AC" Not "The AC" AC Stands for Albert Champion Inventor of the Champion Spark Plug.

[@dave1956]

Instead of play video games and become “influencers”.

[@ralstonpruitt]

Never ever to be seen again...ever. Almost like a science fiction film.

[@stevepape9011]

You got that right!

[@stevepape9011]

You got that right!!

[@mcmans.]

Not in The United States You Got That Right. GM Factories in Mexico and China from US Tax Payers.

[@td3993]

Love how these are shown in their full high fidelity sound, as they were originally, and not with the top end all cropped off.

[@ColonelKlank]

Somebody in this comment list obviously hasn't known anyone who worked in the auto industry. They are very well paid and have great benefits. Industry is the engine of any economy and spawns towns and cities, builds roads, parks and shopping centers. Our middle class has nice cars, boats, motorcycles and homes. Hard work is what makes profit. A person can feel pride at the end of the day when he/she works hard. When the workers get lazy, quality goes down and manufacturers lose profit and have to close down.

[@TheRoland444]

Today real work is for suckers, smart people make great money by conjuring and reallocating work done by the suckers.

[@sooke54]

The work is much safer today, too. Over $2000 of the price of every GM car goes to pay for pension and medical payments for past and present employees. Legacy costs that many foreign manufacturers don't have. Makes it that much harder to compete.

[@marcandrews3945]

sooke54 We pay for those medical costs, in which we all deserve medical care, one way... or another.

[@ogarnogin5160]

@@sooke54 I agree, every one should be paid less so you can buy more

[@PigOnRye]

Nowadays people hate on American-made cars. German-made cars, for example, are dominating the market. Not to mention the presence of other non-American manufactured goods (anything made in China) in the market.

[@noelroberts8199]

I love the quality control, 2 guys with lights quickly checking over the car.🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

[@tempest411]

Those cars are GORGEOUS!!! They looked so much nicer than what we have today.

[@johnbockelie3899]

It's the 1930's where is the money coming from???.

[@MarinCipollina]

They were anything but.. They were rough riding, poor handling, and generally unreliable compared to now. When's the last time you had to change a flat tire? Or had a car that just wouldn't start? That used to be common.

[@tempest411]

@@MarinCipollina Yes, but they looked gorgeous! The reliability isn't so bad if you look at it as a challenge and appreciate 'old stuff' as I do.

[@MarinCipollina]

@@tempest411 Don't misconstrue, I love the looks of those from post WW II until 1980 or so, especially late 1950s and early 1960s !! Those were some great and quite memorable shapes with the space age and jet age. I was born in 1957, and cars from the 1950s and even late 1940s were quite common on the streets well into the 1970s.. But about the time the movie "Christine" came out (1983), I realized they were disappearing quickly. I miss them all !

[@captainmarz8378]

The masculine dream of a lifestyle. What a time, the familys, the occupations,so civil, so respectable, so wonderful

[@dave1956]

I’m sure that it wasn’t quite this romantic, but it’s nice to dream. What a great society.

[@SuperBuzzy57]

When a man could earn enough to feed a family of four and have a nice home on one workers salary. Before maximum profits won out over excellent work and the welfare of the lower classes.

[@MrShobar]

+Tim Richards That's why they staged a sit-down strike at GM in 1936-37?

[@dickhartzell6261]

Just what I was thinking while watching this sunny little movie. Since the strike ended during the winter of 1937, it's easy to imagine that all the workers we see getting their paychecks were now members of the UAW. According to the Wikipedia entry on the strike, the result of the settlement was that workers "got a 5% increase in pay and were allowed to talk during lunch." So not all the prosperity we see here can be credited to GM's benevolence.

[@prevost8686]

Tim Richards Long before the One World Globalist traitors with names like Clinton/Bush sold this country out all in the name of “free trade”.

[@TheOzthewiz]

@@prevost8686 Chancellor Trump will bring all these great jobs back. We just have to give him a second term..........and maybe a third?

[@pjmillah2172]

@@TheOzthewiz that's why all of trump's and his families products they sell including magazines hats are made in gyna.... meanwhile he gave corporate taxes the biggest pay raise in history....and 97% of them bought shares back for profit while 3% used it to expand jobs.

[@Hudson-1947]

Absolutely. Think of what was going on in Soviet Russia in the 30's. I would rather have my fortunes tied to General Motors than live in a workers paradise that socialism offered.

[@193322009]

Love the old all-metal cars. No crappy cheap Chinese plastic parts to fall apart. Great video!

[@bigstuff52]

The plant shown in Flint Mich is where I started my career out with GM in 1969......Nothing left of it but a empty concrete field...

[@CamaroAmx]

my grandparents bought their home (their 3rd home as the family grew) in 64 for $15,000. they paid it off in 10 years with my grandfather working fulltime and my grandmother working odd jobs and/or part time and raising 3 children (they ended up having 5). after they paid off the house my grandmother was given a choice between a new car or an inground pool (the pool won). she ended up getting a new car in 85 for more money then what they paid for their house (as my grandmother found very funny).

[@jdizzy01]

I love these old movies, I lived in Lansing for 3 years and RE olds was still a big name. the plant i worked in at one point did assembly on the 442. A coworker found a picture of an area that now has vertical mills and 3 axis machines making defense parts.

[@charlesmurray4013]

My Dad Worked at Oldsmobile in Lansing For 30 Years. I Always Wanted A 442 But Never have Bought one Yet.

[@b.snoodleman5864]

It almost unconscionable to think that every factory that was shown in that film is gone and when I say gone I mean gone. Most every factory that GM shuts down just sits for years and gets vandalized when parts of it could be rented out. Ultimately GM gets sewed by the city its in and has to give the property to the city after they pay for its demolition and clean up. And when its all gone and there is nothing left at all but a giant concrete slab, they put a fucking fence around it? No fence for years when the building was there getting trashed and vandalized but a fence is put up when there is nothing there at all? More of the great GM management thinking like the EV-1

[@mcmans.]

Government Funded. What do You Expect?

[@wurlitzergroup]

Fascinating to see so many able-bodied men actually going to work. Ahh the good ole daze...

[@geoben1810]

4 years later and American car manufacturers would halt the production of cars and turn to producing an unprecedented number of war machines to fight in WW2. The "giant had been awakened". Admiral Yasimoto expressing his well founded apprehension aboard his flagship after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@RobertPlattBell]

You make a good point, but look at 06:00 for example - the endless rows of desks for clerical workers. In an era before computers, the white collar workforce was also substantial - which is why all the "Big-3" automakers had skyscrapers in downtown Manhatten - human computers, basically. The recession of 1980 saw a reduction in blue collar labor. The recession of 2009 was a layoff of the white collar counterparts, as more and more office jobs are replaced with web-based applications.

[@jvarela965]

:) Thanks for posting these videos ! They are like a XMAS present.

[@SuperAgentman007]

3:17 and this is what Detroit used to look like in 1937

[@raylocke282]

Nice simple solid cars .Love my Chevy 37.Antique car.

[@domingodeanda233]

That was so awesome.

[@abraa0joserribeirodeolivei651]

VIDEO MARAVILHOSO EXEMPLO DE MUNDO CIVIĹIZADO.OBRIGADO.

[@bbqsauce875]

Cuando eran todos blanco?

[@2009Berghof]

I am from St. Louis. I recognized that building just before you see the shot from across the Mississippi River-Cahokia. It is the city Municipal Court building.

[@lostyourmarbles]

Wow, 908,279 Standard and Master Deluxes were built in '36. They hustled building these awesome cars. The best part is you can still see these cars for sale on craigslist all the time...

[@tjlovesrachel]

Jon Emberson I have a 37 master... love that car

[@donaldgalaz4513]

We own two 41 Chevy's in our family,one stock and one Gasser. Check my profile pic✌🏼

[@jamesanderton344]

In 1937 those workers were the lucky ones....the Great Depression was brutal.

[@roberthaworth8991]

But '37 was the same year Congressional Republicans forced New Deal programs to be scaled back -- too early, as it turned out; a snap recession followed. Only the run-up to WWII -- Lend-Lease orders from Britain and increased military preparedness spending by FDR -- brought us out of the doldrums of 12-15% unemployment. So much for the self-correcting bias of capitalism.

[@user-bw3bn7cg2x]

красивые машинки. молодцы

[@spartonboat1]

This is a great period piece. 90% of the heavy and other lifting jobs in the plants today are automated pick and place. The big robot welders you see today were often hand controlled back then. I remember the "nut runner" job was to control by hand a machine that tightened big front suspension nuts. Those guys had forearms like Popeye from handing on to that air powered nut tightener! A down side is that a GED will not get a job in a modern plant. You almost need an associates degree, but that is not true in the vendor plants. Most everything today in computer controlled!

[@billysmith5721]

i worked at troybilt. the gears cut in the cnc chuckers would embed in your skin. the coolant was absorbed into your body too.

[@jamurphy8386]

oldcarboater - The Computer, which promised to "improve day-to-day life" has literally and almost singlehandedly *DESTROYED* The Middle Class, the American Dream, Pride in a hard day's work, character, manners, respect, and nearly EVERYTHING that USED to make this a great Country!!! 😲 😲 😮😣 It's NOT Racism! It's certainly NOT the idealistic concept of "fair share" - especially for people who simply refuse to work..... NOPE. We are literally living in the aftermath of the Revenge of the Nerds! Enjoy your iPhone in your face. You ARE the illustration of the decline of a once Great Nation. Regardless of where your family came from, everybody had the same opportunity - to WORK for their fair share.

[@johnbockelie3899]

So, what was the purpose of WW2, and at the end we wind up with foreign cars?. And our cars are cheap.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Brand new ( all long gone) Cars. 1937.

[@johnbockelie3899]

They seem to be happy during the great depression.

[@zxtenn]

Well said and true, i am 57 so i remember no cell phones, computers, etc. But we do love the internet as i will attest to, regardless it's sad what this Country has become.

[@gottajamm]

What Beautiful Craftmenship on the Vehicles in those days...Wow

[@TheOzthewiz]

Yeah, when you had to head back to the dealer every month to fix a defect!

[@vandenabeeleandries]

Whow what a lovely film. Big on American dream :)

[@rinunculartoo3006]

And all those goods they were buying were made in America, by Americans. That was the key to prosperity. Everyone who wanted to work had a job and earned a good wage. How times have changed. Now we have the working homeless, people who have jobs but cannot afford accommodation, and sleep under bridges, yet still put in a days work. Something is terribly wrong and we need to fix it.

[@woopseedaisy643]

Interesting film. Supposedly the cost to build a modern car is somewhere around $7000-$8000. Auto workers get good pay and benefits. Hence, the high overall price they charge to the buyers. Buyers are probably paying more toward worker benefits just as much for the vehicle itself lol

[@JackF99]

Pretty cheery narration for the Great Depression. Unemployment in '37 was over 14%.

[@davegeisler7802]

Another Jam Handy classic 👍

[@ronalddamp2745]

God bless america and her industry..you will rise again..best wishes from the uk

[@EristiCat]

Perhaps the work was tedious at times. But I suspect the sense of community those people had more than made up for it. Community it work, at home in the neighborhood, at church, the bowling league, at their kids school. I bet they knew their neighbors in a way that’s rare today. I bet they had a pride in those community public buildings that no one even thinks about today. What has replaced all that? Facebook?

[@Robbi496]

There really WAS a time when the American Worker was treated well and paid well, and the rich paid their fair share of income, but it ain't that way anymore :(

[@bigstuff52]

Robbi496 Agreed!!

[@dynodon8592]

This was before Unions, environmentalist, PC, and lawyers got there hands in it.

[@HyperSpaceProphet]

+Robbi496 The 'Rich" pay MORE than their "Fair Share". If you got rid of "entitlements", then there'd be more than enough tax money....But half of the people just suck up resources without paying ANYTHING. "Fair share" is a term used by socialists to divide us.

[@Handiman544]

+mj ee I love when our government tells us Social Security is an entitlement. Since when is taking money out of someone's paycheck for 45 years and then spending it, an entitlement???? The government took my money and then used it as a "slush fund" and left me with an IOU.

[@panhead55]

Robbi496 Hey lady, you need a few lessons on real US history and economics, not the brainwashing standard of the public school system.

[@midcenturymodern9330]

It's shocking to see Flint, Michigan shown in this film vs. Flint today. Those jobs are now in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, China, and who knows where else.

[@The6stringwannabe]

Wanna see the Chevrolet's new for 1937 being assembled? Fascinating history!

[@Blackfinity1]

Fascinating to watch. I wonder how many of the men seen here putting cars together ended up fighting in Europe or the Pacific theater in WWII just a few years later? I wonder how many didn't come back. What was built in this factory during the war?

[@writereducator]

Blackfinity1 Tanks, trucks, airplanes, jeeps . . .

[@trivet1970]

+writereducator and lots of each

[@dfcvda]

back in the day when America actually made things.

[@justinturner2861]

Um.. since when has "america" not made things?

[@mcmans.]

Wow, Just Say it...

[@woodyofp8574]

Ahh, the depression. An era of prosperity.

[@leaturk11]

It’s a shame the US is not like this anymore.

[@JohnSmith-cf4gn]

I would love to go back to those days even though I wasn't born till 15 years later. Quality built cars and simpler times.

[@monarch1957]

At least wages and prices were a lot more in line back in the 30's todays they are way out of wack.

[@dynodon8592]

What makes you think they were?

[@MrShobar]

+DYNO DON Correct. There was a lot of labor unrest in 1936-37.

[@teebryanpeneguy859]

They were paid much better than today, all things considered. One adult could maintain a home with no college degree (or debt) and most workers belonged to unions. Today, the average wage is virtually unchanged since 1978, while housing, health care and education are up exponentially.

[@NewBookz]

Watching this in 2020, the covid 19 era, look at those crowds of people shoulder to shoulder! and now...streets are mostly empty.

[@mrknotthall]

Too dangerous now.

[@katherinemcdonnell6333]

The threat was never even real.

[@randyandtheretreads3144]

The workers at GM in Oshawa Ontario earned big bucks for a century. Sadly GM closed the plant Dec 2019 and laid them off. Over recent decades the percent of Oshawa work force who worked for GM went from about 80% to zero.

[@sirwilliamblackstone]

Does anyone know what the papers are that the mean are handing in at 20:20?

[@garyschiffli1043]

No flat screens or I products in those stores! Imagine how much different this video would look in color.

[@RobertPlattBell]

Another Jam Handy Classic!

[@FayazAhmad-yl6sp]

Visited in 1937 very interesting to see the people their dresses of that time roads shops houses population was very less.

[@tomfindley3687]

The men in the lines are in the same sequence as the paychecks they are getting.

[@matrox]

18.15 is a shot of one of the first indoor shopping malls.

[@mebeasensei]

And this in the middle of the great UAW strikes. Didn't realize how de-centralized GM was getting even by 1937.

[@jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069]

what worries me is the lack of eye protection and little regard for worker safety

[@nuckelheddjones6502]

Too true sir ,too true.

[@user-ty6do8yz4l]

Adjusting for inflation, these men made 9 times more than the people doing it now. Plus, they weren't laid off every 7 months.

[@tjlovesrachel]

I wanna see what one of paychecks looked like

[@nomadman1196]

Well here's the thing, by the time this film was made, the dollar was only worth 60% of what it was in 1900. Today, the dollar is worth only 1%. Thanks Fed. 👍

[@micmac99]

20:51 Oakland. The Chevrolet factory was replaced by Eastmont Mall.

[@writereducator]

Capital, hard-working virtuous people, rule of law, small government, faith in God--those are a few of my favorite things.

[@MrShobar]

+writereducator How about collective bargaining rights? These very workers occupied various GM plants and shut down production to earn their rights.

[@writereducator]

+MrShobar People in any legitimate endeavor have the right to organize.

[@jamurphy8386]

Sadly, something that started as a great idea - collective bargaining - evolved into greedy Unions. THAT, gave manufacturing Companies almost NO CHOICE but to move their production *and all our jobs* OVERSEAS, to Countries that are more like WE USED to be! Asia has what used to be our Middle Class - AND, our Economy. Our Unions took things way too far......

[@fernanmenendez5636]

Small government? I remind you that this were the years of the New Deal, a plan that involved a lot of government control, a plan that revived the U.S. from the Great Depression, caused by a totally free stock market.

[@PRODEVE6]

JA Murphy many industries today need more unions.

[@luiskyer]

Wow! a valuable historical document

[@highwaystar8310]

The days when a blue coller worker could support his family with his paycheck only, now his wife has to work just to keep up with the jone's or nowadays the perez's.

[@user-yl4lf9mh1w]

the rich got too greedy. They reduced our earnings by half and took it for themselves. Its why the man and wife both need jobs now.

[@Kyle899]

As long as you were white

[@carlosrobertomendesrabelo4899]

Tempo bonito!!!

[@michaelkupchik3974]

I would buy one of those cars in a heartbeat 💓 .👍👍👍

[@Rayo_Rob_No.17]

Industry was a good thing, a living wage for the common man, a country where no one took anything for granted, where work was rewarded. Also, companies manufacturing a product that was worth the investment. People took pride in their jobs and the things they bought with their hard earned money. We live in a disposable society, let's take a page from our grandparent's generation, there's a lot we can learn from them!

[@charlescooke6609]

A great lesson could be learned from opening credits for our leaders.

[@fiddlerpin]

11:08 I wonder if the guys driving those new cars across the tracks know that a train is pulling out!!!!

[@nuckelheddjones6502]

Not so much that as it is corporate greed. They all claim they have a duty to the shareholders to turn as big a profit as possible. But to have a corporate charter that company is supposed to first and foremost be working for the public good. When they focused on profit, the coprporate charter is supposed to be revoked and they are supposed to lose that corporate charter protection. Instead they buy congress and our tax money goes to them to promote their products in other countries.

[@sasansasani669]

how sweet, like a perfect utopia.

[@reddrw1]

Somebody made a comment, were all the Black Folks...well the rule was at that time that Black People should not be filmed ..Some years ago I contacted the History Channel and asked the question. Why was there not much film of Blacks fighting for our country. They replied , that at that time WWII, Korea Conflict film crews were told not to film Blacks ....How sad.....My Dad served in WWII and in the the Korean Conflict.......R.I.P. Dad

[@billysmith5721]

black people get a raw deal in the justice system

[@charlesmadison1384]

@@billysmith5721 Black folks, men & women, got a raw deal all the way around. The prejudice is still there.

[@bbqsauce875]

This is real America, for that 1937

[@Orwiable]

Can somebody tell me what exactly is shown in 17:28 and 18:20? Thanks!

[@jazzbo13]

Very likely what you are seeing in both scenarios is the payment for goods sold in a department store. Rather than have individual registers in each department, the payment was done in one central location, with payment made via a network of cables and pulleys.

[@yodoglover400]

It sounds like Jim McKay doing the narration way before ABC sports.

[@atuan0276]

Can i know the song in this video?

[@4bmain1969427]

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma..but..looks like we failed you...sorry...not my fault...we tried..but..too many traitors....thanks for the memories...

[@MrBrendog67rat]

I’m in the trades, I get up before the sun 0 dark 30

[@rogerstill71]

Freude durch arbeit

[@fiddlerpin]

The 5 day monotonous work week.

[@matrox]

I bet she is live, and I bet she remembers being filmed too.

[@dave1956]

It sure seemed to work. Products made here and it’s interesting to see. You don’t see many obese people or homeless. People worked hard and virtually everyone worked. I remember stories that my parents and grandparents told me. You could send your kids to school without fear of them being a victim of a shooting and getting hooked on drugs. I’d live in this era in a heartbeat.

[@RivetGardener]

That's what America was all about! An auto worker, or most any factory worker could support a family nicely given their wages and our country's economic state. Too many offshore factories and foreign countries undercutting our labor wages. Big middle finger to corporate America for shipping production overseas.

[@Acer_Maximinus]

“…shipping production overseas.” Automation and mechanization killed US manufacturing jobs. Similarly with steel and other industries.

[@fahads1398]

😊👍

[@lestersabados1306]

Boy life was hard back then.

[@TheSierraron]

I forgot one thing they worked and lived in AMERICA and they bought American products and this country prospered because the profits stayed here

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

@19:19 this man just bought a Segway 60 yrs before it was invented?!?!

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

When people took pride in their work and were proud of what they did and showed it their personal and profession lives. What happened? I'm only 40, must have been something back then!

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

@PAPPY I'm from the old school, you don't your job, there's the door and don't let it hit you on the way out!

[@DonaldYEastArtist]

Someone should now do a movie on how industry is doing everything to destroy the middle class.

[@jason60chev]

Every day for 80 years........WHERE are all of those cars, now?????

[@donaldgalaz4513]

Some of us are still building and maintaining them,they just call us Hot Roders or Low riders now,,,,

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

Nearly all of them have been scrapped and melted down. Some of that metal might be in your car.

[@CamaroAmx]

there was no direct deposit back then. if there was it would take weeks to go through (no computers back then). besides, most people got off work early enough back then to run to the bank after work to cash their checks.

[@Underledge]

Up until the mid-1960s, many companies paid in cash.

[@Porsche996driver]

FDR’s new deal was making a difference and the economy was growing again. But WWII on the horizon....ugh.

[@kenp3L]

11:07 Safety first!

[@johnpro2847]

11.00 mins Background music "I'm in the money" as there pay checks are handed out.

[@User0000000000000004]

There.

[@charlesdell2864]

Back when cars were cars built of steel, not of plastic like today.

[@User0000000000000004]

You mean back when a 35mph crash would kill all the occupants of both vehicles? Yeah. What a time. You dope.

[@BloxerPlot]

yeah so youre implying new cars also dont kill people due to its plastic body, good job.

[@50zcarsman]

Today's cars are a dozen times safer than the old ones -- and I've had a couple of dozen '30s, '40s, and '50s cars. We now know that safety under crash conditions comes not from rigid steel construction, from a combination of: 1. dissipating energy away from the passenger compartment rapidly, and in a controlled manner, plus 2. cushioning the spontaneous and involuntary movement of passengers brought about by physics, in response to an impact. The first purpose is accomplished by building-in all that "plastic" you deride, plus the careful design crumple zones, breakaway engine mounts, "self-jettisoning" gas tanks, etc.; the second is the work of airbags -- of which even the cheapest car now has at least six. There's no question which car I'd want to experience a 40MPH crash in -- a mid-'50s Cadillac or a '2015 subcompact. The subcompact, every time.

[@attheratehandle]

@@50zcarsman Their idea of safety is feeling the enormous jolt of two cars colliding at 60mph that is transmitted efficiently to their body via the solid steel chassis.

[@franktatom1837]

At that time, they believed that a rigid frame was the best protection in a crash. Packard even touted their hidden running boards as a safety element up to 1950. I have a 1949 Pontiac and there's nothing but fairly thick sheet metal proecting me in any collision, ant the interior is all metal. My friends ask me what will happen if I'm in an accident, as if it isn't obvious! My grandmother was in a low speed accident in 1950, never drove again, and really didn't like riding in cars afterward because the car was so damaged in the accident, although she wasn't hurt.

[@tempest411]

F**k it. I've heard enough. I'm going to the 40's. I know medical science was...well, there wasn't any. But I'll take my chances...I'm goin' in!!

[@thomassvec3771]

Yes, Dad was gm linden nj....😊

[@SpeedTriple59]

Shame how America got left behind in the design etc of cars..Inveting some fantastic innovations in automotive history..

[@matrox]

The kid at 19:10 is in her 70s now.