Chevrolet Intro 1966 Pt. 2

[@charlesross8449]

Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about, "GO CHEVY"

[@happytobereligionfree9648]

A '66 Chevelle 396 4-speed AND a Go-Go Girl! Yes!

[@silicon212]

I could even hear the Rock Crusher on it at one point.

[@billhershkowitz5759]

I want to enter the "Taillight Zone" and drive all of those awesome muscle cars!!

[@walterweddle7644]

We have entered the twilight zone. Shortage of cars because a shortage of computer chips.

[@gerry-p9x]

Eww went to new car intros as kids they drove bad as I got ,my DL LATE 60S THEY DROVE HORRIBLE AND DRIVERS HOT IMPALED BY STEERING WHEELS HEADS HIT DASH AND THRU WINDSHIELDS.

[@Qboro66]

I LOVE THE SIXTIES!

[@townhall05446]

I love how the actors have such a difficult time with everything on the non-Chevy wagons (reminds me of my 5 year old when I ask him to do something he doesn't want to) or how they put someone behind the wheel of the Plymouth who drives like they're drunk in the 'passing' demonstration, swerving the wheel back and forth like the car won't go straight.

[@THX-kw2jh]

I Like the GTO and the GoGo Girl.

[@aarondavis4341]

I love these old car commercials, they didn't pull any punches when it came to putting down the competition

[@tomservo56954]

These weren't consumer commercials

[@ToyKingWonder]

This was interesting. Selling against the competition, even when the competition is from the same company!!!!

[@KingRoseArchives]

ToyKingWonder I eventually became a huge problem but at the time the infighting seemed to be a good business model.

[@frederickbooth7970]

Thia was the craziest ads I`ve ever seen! Very entertaining.

[@danr1920]

Loved seeing the Corvair. The 65-69 Corvairs really did handle well.

[@KingRoseArchives]

It's a shame they didn't handle the problems before putting the Corvair into the market.

[@tjjohnson9876]

I'm a Ford guy, but I enjoy the nostalgia. Thanks for taking the time to post this!

[@KingRoseArchives]

+Thomas Johnson Thanks for watching.

[@patfromamboy]

I have 1966 Chevelles and a 1970 Monte Carlo but I also like Fords and Chryslers. It’s ridiculous comparing a Corvair to a Mustang. I’d love to have a 1960’s Mustang

[@hebneh]

20:30 - "A go-go girl, to go with my go-go car." Yes. Many times, yes.

[@loose-arrow-garage]

My dad had a 1966 Caprice wagon with a 396 just like the one shown. I learned to drive in that car. I have many great memories of road trips in that wagon.

[@sim61642]

Imagine if car companies did comparisons today.

[@thejesusgeek24]

These were filmed in various locations in the East portion of Mesa, Arizona. The scenes shot at the General Motors Proving grounds are located at Ellsworth and Ray Rd. GM sold the land to a housing developer in 2009 and has since partially been developed into residential neighborhoods. It's very cool to see what the area looked like in the 60s. If you look at the background of some of the shots you can see the Superstition Mountains, Usery Mountains, as well as Red Mountain.

[@thejesusgeek24]

27:31 is downtown Scottsdale, AZ.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Thanks for the context and history.

[@thejesusgeek24]

King Rose Archives Thanks for all of your amazing uploads on automotive history. I've spent hours watching your channel, it's truly a gem.

[@billz410]

That’s a fact. The old GM Proving Grounds...no trace of it now.

[@TheSpritz0]

I remember those Fairlane GT's were so popular back then!!!

[@radioguy1620]

Every body had a 66 Ford Country Squire. It was the Explorer of its day.

[@mikeweizer3149]

Captian Tom's sea stories a 66 Ford Country squire was alot more attractive than any explorer or fat ass suv also alot more class and rode even better!!!!!.

[@randyjones7818]

My dad had a 68 impala wagon...big hoss.rj

[@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor7744]

Me gusta la Chevrolet Caprice Ranchera de ese año también el Chevrolet Caprice de 4 Puertas

[@jm1551701]

This is fun to watch, specially since right now I am in the middle of restoring a 66 Chevelle, it's amazing, as I strip her down to her bare metal and run my hand down the skin, I think to myself a human hand has not touched her since 65 when they started building for the new car year in 66, specially where the roof panel meets the sail panel I see where the tech. on the assembly line ground down the weld and it's pretty smooth, that whole Chevelle line is great from beginning to end great cars, I think these old adds are great . I think to myself as I work on this old girl that when she was born I was only 2 years old, if this car could only talk, what stories she would tell.

[@eduardoescarcega8480]

Felicidades Sres Atentamente♥️👏

[@MarkinDC]

This is a GAS - the living end, baby! I want to buy one, and I'm a MOPAR guy! THANKS for posting.

[@bluesharp59]

Thumbs up for you.

[@JeffBazell]

I saw Nick Nolte as one of the cowboys trying to fit in that back seat. LOL

[@MrRobster1234]

If you got rear-ended in any of those wagons the people in the rear-facing seats pop out through the back window quicker than you can read this.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Our understanding of safety has improved. Different times.

[@Lousybarber]

Rob Mackenzie In a head on collision those passengers would get a serious case of whiplash. Getting hit either in front or behind was bad news.

[@anonamust8697]

Yes, and can you imagine how seeing whatever it was that hit you come speeding towards you would look like as you face rearward? "Holy Sh.....!!" (Where the final two letters of that last word belong, insert the sound of meeting your maker, instead....)

[@michaelweizer7794]

@@anonamust8697 .....Oh and one other potential dangerous thing those that were sitting in the back could flip the bird to those that were tailgating!!!!!.

[@anonamust8697]

@michael weizer: Yeah, and ANOTHER thing you could do for tailgaters is have a sign ready to hold up by the people seated in the rear that says in really big letters: “BACK THE F*** OFF!!”

[@bigredc222]

That was corny as heck, I loved it. Thanks for posting it.

[@littleiamful]

so cool.

[@PaisanVinnJK]

Is it just me or did anyone else see that GTO ahead of both cars off the line and sandbagging it to allow the chevelle to pass?

[@ixlr8677]

race campers?

[@gabrielueta6908]

Go-go girl!!!

[@crazyfugger6703]

I know this is highly biased towards GM or at least Chevrolet... but I enjoyed seeing this and other videos like it.. Keep uploading them!! It is refreshing to see the cars from an era long gone.

[@TheSpritz0]

Corvairs ALWAYS handled well, especially in downtown driving or narrow streets/multiple turns... Mustangs were just way better on the highway- I drove one all the way from Vancouver to Los Angeles only stopping for fuel & coffee did it in 24 hours... P.S. I have to add the Chevy station wagons were very advanced with the automatic load leveling, they had great dependable engines too those 350's were so reliable!

[@TheSpritz0]

***** It might have been the 327 V-8...

[@bk14nyc]

At the 22:35 mark, look at how Low the Exhaust Pipe is hanging down on the Chevelle SS. I wonder why??? 🙃

[@petereconomakis149]

The Chevelle had no Mufflers!! Just straight pipes!!

[@seoulkidd1]

Is it me but when I saw those cowboys in back of those Station Wagon's it screamed BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN

[@PacificCircle1]

I'm a Chevy man, but the only fair comparison with a mustang would have been a Camaro.

[@KingRoseArchives]

PacificCircle1 True. That was the competition. Of course, this was produced to be seen by a room full of drunken Chevy dealers who were itching to go golfing. Don't think anyone was taking notes are paying much attention.

[@ManInTheBigHat]

King Rose Archives Ha! That's exactly right. Must have been painful to sit through these. That's why some of them have dancing girls. Pretty radical crashing the competition's vehicle.

[@PacificCircle1]

King Rose Archives The push for truth in advertising had not yet taken hold.

[@PacificCircle1]

OK, so a '67 matchup then.

[@rickslick730]

PacificCircle1 I agree but I think the Camaro came out 67 but it was in production and went on sale September 29th 1966 for the 1967 year

[@70Kenny]

The "new" Corvair from the '65 model year until it's demise in May of 1969 actually had the rear suspension defect (that made the '60 to '64's prone to rollovers) CORRECTED. The fact is that the engine in the rear gave it a different weight distribution. That was lost on a few people who couldn't understand the most basic laws of physics. If you speed around corners in a rear-engined vehicle, you're far more likely to have the rear end break away.

[@KingRoseArchives]

True. Something Ferdinand Porsche learned when he built the rear engined racers for Auto Union. He had to enlist motorcycle riders as drivers who were used to letting the back slide. Testing showed that the Corvair needed some simple modifications to make it safe. Even experienced drivers like Denise McCluggage discovered it was dangerous when it spun out of control when she was testing it. She was about as experienced a driver as they come. But Ed Cole at GM wouldn't listen to those who suggested the Corvair needed to be fixed before it was released. Bunkie Knudsen was told to drop it or he'd be fired. Cole won the debate with the board who didn't want to shell out the extra couple of bucks it would take. Knudsen finally convinced them they had to do it (after his niece was crippled in her Corvair) but by then the car''s reputation was destroyed. And all the money they spent on litigation and paying Ralph Nader for sicking their detectives on him, meant the car would never pay for itself. Penny wise.

[@70Kenny]

+King Rose Archives That is all true! And the reason there was never a Pontiac Corvair (intended as either an upmarket Corvair or perhaps a Canadian version) is because John Z. DeLorean was the head of the Pontiac division in 1959. DeLorean was a brilliant automotive engineer, and he was aware of the Corvair flip-overs on the GM test track. He flatly refused what he considered to be a flawed, incomplete design to be tried out in his Pontiac division. He was forward-thinking enough to believe it could lead to legal trouble.

[@waswestkan]

Corrections wher too late to keep the Corvair viable. Mustang inspired pony cars from Mopar and GM along with the mustang created a new market that had no place for an improve Corvair IRS. Early advertising for Corvair suggested that the Corvair could be driven like a Corvette, can't blame the consumer for doing so.

[@t4705mb6]

And the Vette was ass end heavy as well. Many an owner ended up having surgery to remove fiberglass shards when the car exploded into pieces after fishtailing out, off the road and bouncing off guardrails and trees..... or other cars! (If they lived through it, that is!)

[@70Kenny]

t4705mb6 There were a number of cars on the market in the 1960's that qualified as "unsafe." For example, the Triumph Spitfire. It had a swing axle suspension system very similar to the Corvair. The four-banger didn't provide much torque, and the swing axles didn't usually cause many handling problems. But when British Motor Corporation introduced the first generation GT6 in 1966 (a hardtop fastback with a considerable boost in power with it's inline 6), they used the same swing axle rear suspension as the Spitfire. The result was a fun little car with a tendency to spin out when the driver dared to slow down for curves (wish I owned one!) :-)

[@markostermayer3614]

The song at the start sounds like a parody of May Irwin’s Frog Song, a big hit in the 1890s. Strange to see it referenced so late, and also odd to see a country twist on it. I have a 66 impala myself and it’s pretty neat to have both music from an era I’m interested in and my car at least tangentially related.

[@victorialouden1912]

may 30 1966 was the last day of chevy2 production at Norwood on June 1 they started the new F BODY PRODUCTION

[@dizzydavid4668]

6:30 sounds like that duck song "Got any grapes?"

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I've seen these ads before, and I have to wonder sometimes how many of these actors are still alive today.

[@hebneh]

I was surprised to see the brand new Ford camper get intentionally tipped on its side in the last scene. But overall, the comparison driving and handling tests were ludicrously staged to make the Chevys look superior.

[@professorpatpending8731]

there may be a reason why the makers don't compare models as they did back then.

[@MisterManseattle]

I like in the camper test they swap out the Ford truck. Starts with chrome bumper then switched to color match back to chrome at finish line. Color match is the base 6cly motor

[@ulissitos]

20:24 when the grand grand mothers where young ......

[@sim61642]

16:37 The forgotten matrix prequel?

[@05cr125rider]

boy that little 289 sure wasn't that far behind that pig 396,bet that bbc used a quart of oil right then.now that 327 was sweet

[@ike780]

"Not safe at any speed" Nader

[@zappatx]

I have the more rare 1965 version of this I need to get on the internet soon!!

[@KingRoseArchives]

zappatx That would be great.

[@75aces97]

Looks like Chevy had a pretty big production budget for their promos. Especially for a film only intended for dealer eyes.

[@paulht3251]

Would be interesting to see a crash test 😁

[@anthonynelson9136]

The 350 hp 327 4 speed Nova would outrun the 360 hp 396 Chevelle 4 speed. 13.8 quarter mile time for the Nova versus 14.3 for the Chevelle. 53 years later Ponderosa Lumber is still in business in the same location at 64th st and Thomas RD. Scottsdale AZ.

[@peterlyons2000]

Door sag at 18m44s is so GM.

[@Chevy4x4dawg]

Cowboys in wagons!!!! Love hose Clint Eastwood hats. 007 &7/8 . Pretty sure the GTO should of won. But got to LOVE he GoGo dancer Blue lives matter don't shot each other's tires out, but hey way to lay her over!! I wish I had been born 2 decades earlier and could of grown up in the 60s

[@KingCast65]

So they compare a Mustang to a Nova for family car LOL

[@townhall05446]

Funny how Chevy went full tilt against the other GM brands as much as they did Ford. It must have been a fantastic time to work at a car company - or be in the market for a new car. I was too young then but remember how my brother''s friends who worked part time at a grocery store would buy cars like these brand new and pay them off in a year or two. No sooner did they get them home, the engine came apart for a cam, headers, intake manifold...

[@larkatmic]

We sure were a thin lot back then. We're beginning to look like livestock now. :(

[@marksman4004]

I bet that go go girl is about 86 years old mow.

[@sim61642]

19:17 I thought tony tiger was a tiger, That was before his cereal mascot carrer apparently.

[@t4705mb6]

Folks plunked their money down on Mustang because it was purdy.

[@noeltheshemale]

howz that fender acoustic.

[@misters2837]

Extended Econoline Loaded Incorrectly vs Standard Length Chevy Loaded Correctly...HMMMMM....Seems Legit!

[@anonamust8697]

That was one bad-ass wagon. If that thing still exists in pristine shape, what do you think it would bring at auction? (1 MIL $$$?)

[@zephead843]

Do I hear the voice of Foghorn Leghorn?...makes the skit very funny.

[@jatigre1]

Is there an MST3K version of this?

[@thejesusgeek24]

Alex Tigre "But he bought the flippin car!!"

[@eldo59]

Love the SS. But GTO is the boss!

[@seoulkidd1]

Who the hell driving a Corvair or Mustang off road lol

[@Roshake77]

7:55 - OOOOOOOH BURN

[@hotroddaddy-et4xg]

they forgot to tell everyone about how the rear suspension in the corvairs would collapse....that they would fish tail and spin at low speeds. and how they used to flip and kill people. that's why the corvair only lasted a couple years.. it was taken off the road by force because of the high death rate.. must have been something about the mustang as it's still selling 54 years after it's inception. they should have used a gt350, . that 66 ford wagon you could order a 427 with a 4 speed, buckets and console.the tailgate went down and opened to the side and.a power rear window...the 66 ranchero was a 1/2 year model. outsold the el camino every year. . the ranchero was the first and the longest production run of any C.U.V...

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

That problem was corrected for the 1965 model Corvair.

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

Hello Mustang Was A Pony Car, It Was Innovative

[@shawnyoung5960]

I'm a Chevy guy and loved this race here at 4:29. For a car that was soo far behind that mustang caught up almost instantly and would have passed them giving another 20 seconds. The driver had realized he could slide forward and push on the gas some more,...LOL Time to watch a ford video now so I can see basically the same race but with probably, surprise, a different loser! I wonder who the loser would be in that version?

[@stephenstewart9242]

I’ll take the FoMoCo it has the SideOiler 427 hi riser duelquad w/ cast iron headers over the Rat semi hemi 427 & that’s a fact, don’t forget it’s the 2nd yr of the famous twin I beam front suspension & still n use to this day !

[@FURY1958]

Am I wrong or the white trouser's guy is a very young Nick Nolte?

[@jimmartin7881]

I would say you're correct sir.

[@FURY1958]

@@jimmartin7881 Thanks!

[@billhershkowitz5759]

Those were the days..gas was what...24 cents a gallon? Note the hardtops...a body style on Mercedes seems to have these days...those engines...growling and throbbing...we were a lot more innocent and America was on top

[@KingRoseArchives]

Bill Hershkowitz It was a different time. Something's are good to let go but we have lost some of our optimism that produced these big, confident vehicles.

[@pohldriver]

Torturing people is illegal. Holding thousands of go-go girls captivate is just one of his fiendish schemes, and not a big deal.

[@larkatmic]

Fords have always been a better looking car, until the 70s. When they were at their worst.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Yes I sold them in 79 , they were junk , especially the older used ones . The Granada , Monarch , 74 Mustangs etc .

[@charlesf4428]

Nope...GM set the trend for styling and were years ahead of Ford..especially Mopar!

[@hoborock007]

I would have split this video up into 4 or 5 segments ..shorter vignettes... more views

[@radioguy1620]

I thought the Mustang did pretty well against the 327 Nova

[@mebeasensei]

Did Germaine Greer create this one?

[@tommissouri4871]

8:45 - How did the PR guys let this out? Look at that misalignment.

[@Gravemarker13]

My friend has the 62 Corvair Sedan, Not anything I'd want to have myself, They're far too expensive for restoration

[@kennethsouthard6042]

I don't get why big daddy GM let them show up another GM product like this, especially since it came from higher end division.

[@valerababenko8903]

путешествие......

[@bobjohnson205]

Agent 007 and 7/8's! Lol

[@kmyre]

The unbiased credibility of this video is underpinned by the sales success they was the Corvair, especially against the obscure Mustang. Oh, wait...

[@austins.6934]

Now, that's a lawsuit.

[@daleschmidt7157]

Let me guess, this brought to you by GM. However, I did enjoy it too.

[@KingRoseArchives]

+Keeper Oath That it was. It was made for the dealer presentations. They'd do something big every year to get the dealers excited about the new cars coming out in the Fall. They'd spend a lot of money on these films and on bringing the dealers and super salesmen to Las Vegas or somewhere they could play golf, have a good time, consume massive amounts of booze and get to know what's in the pipeline.

[@kennedymcgovern5413]

That was three cars against one. All of these people should have bought a MOPAR.

[@michaelweizer7794]

Kennedy McGovern again that would have been 1967 when Plymouth had the GTX and Dodge had the Coronet RT. Let alone Mercury already had the Cyclone!.

[@robertglenn5398]

The comparison between the SS396 Chevelle and the Mustang wasn't really a fair comparison. The 1965-66 Mustang wasn't designed or marketed as a hot car. It was an attractive sports car that more women purchased than men and was powered by ...what was it, the 289 2 barrel carb? There was nothing more hot or attractive to look at as well as fun to drive as the 1964-67 GTO. Another favorite was the classic silver with black vinyl top Chevelle SS 396. Every young guy wanted one.

[@waswestkan]

I'm pretty sure the first mustangs as standard equipment had an inline six couple to a three speed manual transmission. Plenty of men bought them because unlike most women they could afford new cars, and the base engine & transmission still had a fun factor degree. for the street. Not every teen girl's daddy could afford to buy them a new care. Those who could stuck to more conservative model. Not to mention they provided a light weight platform constructing a drag strip car. My observations anyway...

[@PacificEdibleSeaweed]

Jim Handy Studios turned out interesting work in the 30s, showing actual manufacturing techniques along with a fair amount of capitalist v/s socialist content. Some of this has gone into the fantastic. Decent period footage though.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Jason Wolffe Jam Handy was a leader in corporate filmmaking. As you point out there was an ideological component to everything they did. There hasn't been much scholarly attention paid to this and how these films affected public opinion. Sounds like a PhD. opportunity. Could be more fun than studying the sex lives of worms.

[@jeremylavoie8495]

Haha good ol advertising..

[@gdcat777]

@11:00 That's called mutual hand job seats.

[@petey1234567ful]

recognize nick nolte?...its him

[@KingRoseArchives]

No kidding. These big promos were good gigs for actors.

[@allanwolfe6071]

Horribly stupid, but highly entertaining . Got a good laugh over comparing a Corvair with the Mustang. Let's see, those mustangs were number one sellers and many are still on the road. Corvairs met the junkyard within a few years and were GM's version of the Edsel. I was a little surprised in the one promo they were dogging the GM sister lines. The last promo was the best of all comparing one horrible van against another equally notorious even for that era.

[@northerniltree]

My preacher told me to stop watching porn. So, now I watch corn. Thanks, King Rose!

[@gundrillerman4810]

Holy fuck, long enough commercial.

[@KingRoseArchives]

gundriller man These were made for the dealers. Every year they'd bring the dealers to Vegas or some other swank place, ply them with booze, let them play golf and show them a big film all about what's coming to their showrooms in the Fall. It was the ritual.

[@billypate2479]

+gundriller man it's not a commercial, It's a dealership promo film for salesmen to sharping up sales skills

[@fathertime1331]

I bet the Corvair outlasts the Mustang by decades.

[@glennso47]

Father Time The WHAT? Outlasting the Mustang?

[@bluevalkyrie2517]

So you have to buy three different chevys to beat a mustang?

[@markkarpf2305]

Wow! Chevrolet diss their own cousins!

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

4:24 so FAKE that luggage did NOT all come out of the Corvair's oddly-shaped SMALL FRUNK.

[@jeffmullinix7916]

The horse and wagon back then is no station wagon . It is a truck so to call . Now they are not telling you the truth once again . A wagon to haul over long distant by horse and wagon the wagon part is call Conestoga or cargo wagon . There are many types of wagon to do a job . The first wagons was called Hucksters . They were used to a lot of thing like being buses , hauling local things , paddy wagons and thing of that nature . Ether motorized or Horse drawn .