"THE COOL HOT ROD" 1950s HOT ROD CULTURE in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MODEL A ROADSTER 87114

[@markwilliams5606]

This wants me to go for a ride in my Hot Rod Lincoln! Lol🇺🇸🏁💪

[@ClayLoomis1958]

"I was left so far back I could have been driving Jack Benny's Maxwell." That's the way to rope the kids in. Use a hip, modern reference that they'll all understand.

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

In the '50's, when this was made, he was one of the biggest stars on TV. Now do you understand?

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@@lekmirn.hintern8132 But he was already over 50 years old when his show was on. Kids didn't care about him. He was a huge star for the same reason Milton Berle and Lucille Ball were big stars. Because they had no competition. TV was new, a lot of people were only getting 2 or 3 channels, and a lot of it was just crap. You look back at any of those Uncle Milty clips and you can see it - they really aren't genius, or even very funny. Benny was much the same. Those old pregnant pauses he uses don't hold up so well today.

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

@@ClayLoomis1958 Benny's stardom is actually due to his great success on radio. Everything he did played better on radio than on TV. Had he just started with TV, I don't think he'd have been nearly as successful... much of his TV audience was probably people who followed him from radio. Listen to his radio stuff and you'll see what I mean -- especially if you compare some of the ones he did in both mediums, like 'Jack visits his vault'. Ten times funnier on radio.

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

BTW, most television was always crap. Including now. The exceptions are what we remember. And though I agree with you re Berle and Lucy, there was also some good TV comedy in the '50's: THE HONEYMOONERS, a lot of the Sid Caesar stuff, Burns and Allen, Ernie Kovacs...

[@danielbuckner2167]

@@ClayLoomis1958 uhhh... duh. That was the point, he didn't feel cool by being stuck on the side of the road while a Star passed him hence the Maxwell reference. You're welcome.

[@creepingjesus5106]

In the sequel, Billy accepts that the only way is to put a much bigger engine in it.

[@almostfm]

Repeat after me: There is no replacement for displacement.

[@20alphabet]

This film won an award for accuracy, but we all know awards are meaningless. This film is a good example of that. It begins with the ludicrous statement that hot rodding began after WWII. But the fact is many were souping up their Model A Fords a decade before the war began.

[@axipixel5811]

Model A not so much, people were souping up mostly Studebaker Big Sixes throughout the 20s before Ford released the flathead in 1932. It's sad history's forgotten about it, but they did some impressive stuff for internal combustion being in its infancy.

[@tombob671]

And the " how jobs" and Model T

[@sarjim4381]

Officer Jim Daniels and his pearl handle .38. Those were the days.

[@vinnydaq13]

Sar Jim More likely ivory handled - pearl handles are too slippery.

[@sarjim4381]

@@vinnydaq13 Pearl and ivory grips for revolvers were popular right to the end of revolvers in police work.

[@vinnydaq13]

@@sarjim4381 My preference would be rubber grips - much better grip if your palms get sweaty ( or bloody! ).

[@sarjim4381]

@@vinnydaq13 Yes, and I'll take checkered wood grips. We're all different.

[@tommccallan8802]

That's Pomona dragsstrip "NEW" before the grandstands were built ( look how fresh and black the asphalt is) look at the hills at the end of the strip and compare the hills today...SAME

[@tom7601]

Thank you!

[@LawrenceRoss1906]

Ha! I'm from Inglewood, and I think this was filmed at Morningside High.

[@tommccallan8802]

My dad went to pomona h.s. grad. In 50 he talked about running track at Morningside

[@robertvilliard3402]

Billy realized his hot rod got him laid 😉 alot 👍🏁

[@nunyabizness9955]

Makes me wanna start my own hot rod club called The Death Traps. You can only join The Death Traps if you have violations for reckless driving, drink driving, and speeding.

[@nunyabizness9955]

Violations for lewd behaviour while driving also a plus.

[@DouglasUrantia]

At least hot rod boy wasn't foolin around with some pervert at the park....as in ''Boys Beware''.

[@daryllect6659]

0:53 - "I think I need a bigger steering wheel."

[@thetreblerebel]

A town full of sleepwalkers

[@72polara]

Now we have rich old ladies driving in modern electric heaps....

[@dougabbott8261]

Different times.

[@queenslander954]

The original American Rebel without a Clue.

[@LawrenceRoss1906]

And then Billy put an LS in his hot rod.

[@vinnydaq13]

Lawrence Ross LS swap for the WIN, BAYBEE !!

[@MrGrace]

​@@vinnydaq13 what is an LS

[@vinnydaq13]

@@MrGrace It’s the engine from the Chevy Corvette.

[@rickmaginity6042]

Again more vids like this one .

[@yakacm]

Mr Hanks doesn't seem too concerned about his son dying in a hideous manner.

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

Then Billy gotta LS

[@MrBothandNether]

"Tom Hanks was Walt's best friend, and his hero, actually" 6:40

[@20alphabet]

Tom Hanks is a baby eating Satanist.

[@elcamino5145]

Where's the imports?

[@oscarholley891]

I know what you mean when you say "imports"

[@garyposton4249]

You can't do this nowadays not in high school anyway custom build a hot rod like that would cost you a 100,000 dollars the insurance company wouldn't even let you do it anyway

[@wesrichards6168]

Fast forward to 2020, EVERYONE drives like lunatics and cops just sweep the pieces into body bags.

[@ZacLowing]

This was written by squares.

[@daveo532]

Those damn kids...

[@jccccc4065]

Did they steal this story for Tokyo Drift?

[@benniemcdonald1365]

Squares

[@mjinzer6881]

😂😂

[@mjinzer6881]

😂😂😂😂😂😂