The '49 Ford in your future.

A vintage documentary about the design and prototype, testing, and manufacture of the 1949 Ford Model line

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

This is better than anything I've seen on Netflix lately. That '49 design truly was a BIG styling change, into the 3-box profile that lasted for half a century. Wouldn't you love to grab any one of those cars while it was still brand new?? Give me any body style, any color, I'll take it!.

[@walterweddle7644]

Yeah and Netflix removed Andy Griffith! Yet Netflix has Sharknado! Go figure!

[@Maxtowers71]

A business coupe.... awesome

[@jamesbumbry4066]

What is a 3 box profile???

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

@@jamesbumbry4066 That's a term used in the auto industry for the general style with flat hood, flat roof & flat trunk all about the same length, like 3 boxes. The "fastbacks" starting with the 63 Stingray didn't comply but the rest were 3-box until the SUV invasion.

[@raylocke282]

Same old flathead though.

[@isleifoterogarcia4478]

The United States of America have a great history that needs to be told, not in items and money, but in human achievement and values. This film remembered me to see the past a key to the future, neglected by those who wants of not to dream, and just hammer us with skepticism and doubts. Thanks for posting this jewel for future generations to see.

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[@405liner]

Fabulous! I love the way these films were produced, narrated, and the wonderful music.

[@jackschewel4399]

I own a 1949 Ford Custom Convertible. I would post a picture if I could. A beautiful thing to behold.

[@ninja63639]

I just picked up a club coupe. I can't wait to get started on it

[@leecoffman2594]

My first car, I bought a 1949 ford sedan V8, 4 door with dark green color, in March 1952 for $1295. I was 18 years old and I saved my money after working for a year. I loved that car and I wish I still had it !

[@bombasticbuster9340]

Lee Coffman I bet that was a fun experience. I am 50 yrs old and my first car was a 53 ford truck. It was a hand me down, the I bought a 78 pinto with all power, ac, automatic. It was a Runabout a light lime type green, almost like a National forest ranger car of the day. I wished I still had it. These were the redesigned due to fuel tank issues. My model had no issue by then. A real economic car, 35 mpg, but we only drove 55 then!

[@Handiman544]

I'll bet you do wish you still had it. It's probably worth $20,000 or more.

[@mikesamra9126]

@Big Bill O'Reilly Not at all. That was a time in history where America made everything and we exported goods all over the world. People were married and kids could walk to school. We are living in perilous times. BTW, I like Bill O'Reilly.

[@mikesamra9126]

@kevin Simala I hear you.

[@Pimp-Master]

@@bombasticbuster9340 Too bad about the Pinto. The car was on every street in the USA, and now you can barely see them anywhere.

[@efandmk3382]

I learned to drive in a 1949 Ford...sort of. My Grandparents lived in a rural area and I'd go to visit them during the summer. They had a dark blue 1949 Ford tudor that still ran, but was no longer street worthy. It had been their first brand new car, so they kept it. It was full of rust and some of the floor pans were even open. They used to fuel it up and let me drive it around the field behind the house. At 10 I was able to drive a stick shift.....on the column which is harder than on the floor. This was the mid seventies, and the only time this thing got fueled, tires aired up, and fired up was when I came to visit. I think an axle finally rusted through and broke and they had it hauled away. Am I crying yet?

[@herbvonwerder9330]

Mlm

[@troyadamson8618]

One of my favorite cars. Always wanted one. That dark blue 2 door was beautiful.

[@donwert]

I love these old industrial process films. This one is great because it shows how complex the process of making a new car is, including tooling and manufacturing. Amazing they did this without CAD/CAM!

[@WSNO]

That computer-assisted stuff was developed on the back of the work these people did. Took it upon myself to keep the traditional skills alive.

[@Paramount531]

This is my absolute favorite piece of automobile advertising. I bought a VHS copy of this at the Henry Ford Museum a long time ago and was wondering when it would show up here. Of course, it helps that I just love the 49-50 Fords, which were still fairly plentiful when I was a kid in the 60s. Thanks for posting it!!

[@aaronmaynard8890]

+Paramount531 Glad you enjoyed. I picked them up at an estate sale... I'm a bit of a vintage documentary junkie. I didn't know what to expect, but the videos were so good I thought they needed sharing! If you didn't see, I have a few other Ford videos too.

[@gl9248]

If you were living in Detroit and working at Ford during these times, you were living the American dream!

[@glennso47]

Detroit has since turned into the American nightmare. along with several other cities.

[@onlythewise1]

@OAT351 but you would of been ya right

[@juanasanelli6831]

Si La enormidad de trabajadores qu eintervenian para producir el auto Hoy dia son ROBOTS que hacen el auto ... Y esos miles de trabajadores son desempleados o trabajan en otra cosa lejos de su ciudad. Razon de mas. La poderosa otrora ciudad de Detroit hoy es Ruina de lo que fue Los robots producen HAMBRE y pobreza a los trabajadores que no compraran otro auto ..y asi se inicia una nueva era donde cada vez los empleos seran menos

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

Working in an assembly plant at that time was brutal work...no attention at all was paid to ergonomics, health, and comfort. Discrimination and bullying were common. But for a man who was uneducated at that time the wages were very good.

[@JDAbelRN]

Well, don't be worried, Detroit cleveland Pittsburgh and countless other rust belt cities and oil and gas fields will come back to life to fight the war, surely, against China soon., if we're willing to fight them.

[@joevignolor4u949]

My father owned a 1950 Ford Crestliner, which was practically identical to the 1949 models shown in this video. His Crestliner probably was built on the same assembly line. I still have the bill of sale for it. He bought it used in 1960.

[@martyphillips7854]

Joe Vignolo I am freshening the 50 Crestliner I restored in 1980, also a 51 woodie I restored in 1977-78, part of my life.

[@proudveteran4696]

The 49 convertible was my first new car, what a ride

[@malcolmwhite6588]

I imagine - what was her name and where did you take her? A car was a ticket to impress a lady in those days 😉

[@zxtenn]

Talked so POSITIVE then in these mini documentaries, so proud

[@Porsche996driver]

Awesome! Hard to believe that they could pull all that off in time for debut in June 1948!

[@dlrautomotive788]

Thanks for providing these videos for us to watch. I enjoy watching them.

[@jamesharmon148]

I never had one but, I think that is the coolest car ever to hit the road. I’d buy one now in a heart beat.

[@alexm566]

zero safety, no power steering, no Bluetooth or navigation

[@TheChoochooboy99]

In other words you have to know how to drive, read a map, and listen through one speaker on your tube powered am radio. Damn, that would just be horrendous.

[@alexm566]

@@TheChoochooboy99 in other words, you have to learn how to avoid getting t-boned or rear-ended, navigate unfamiliar neighborhoods and states and finding gas stations and hospitals, and listen to non-stop ads about hair loss products instead of your podcasts/audio books and exotic music. also, how many people under 30 know how to read a road map/compass or even held one in their life?

[@TheChoochooboy99]

@@alexm566 yeah. Kinda like I had to do in the late 80’s/early 90’s when I learned to drive. Only I had a car with no radio at all. And I had to pay attention to the road and watch for all of the other idiots out there driving. What a great time.

[@alexm566]

@@TheChoochooboy99 Many accidents can't be avoided with just skill. e.g. t-boned or rear-ended in a stopped traffic. You'll find so many of those here on KZbin. I am glad you had sufficient skill and luck to avoid getting into one, but millions of others weren't. Anyone can live just fine without a radio but why do so when bluetooth and mobile Internet are dirt cheap and available in any regular car nowadays? The Ford is beautiful for what it is on a sunny weekend, but not as a modern daily driver for 10-20 miles in downtown traffic and congested highways.

[@coburnlowman]

I have a complete1950 that I need to get back on the road. It needed some work like Brakes , Tires , other odds n ends when I parked it one day. Its been sitting close to 20 years now but still has antifreeze in the radiator. The entire interior is rotted out and was in bad shape when I was driving it. This show makes me want to get her going again. They did drive good as it told in the 🎥 film.

[@JDAbelRN]

Hope you started on your dreams! Parts can be found anywhere, even NOS, GOOD LUCK!

[@alexfraser8186]

Had a 49 blue coupe when I was growing up.liked seeing clay modeler used to be one for Ford's

[@communismman1471]

I've always wanted a 49'-50' ford hopefully I'll be able to fulfill my dreams

[@WAQWBrentwood]

Even though I am a GM guy, I always loved the '49-'50 Ford. Interesting that that they remind me of the '60-'63 Falcons, Along with the 15 year early 1962 Plymouth, these WERE the future!

[@herrunsinn774]

Look how thin people were back then... Men, women and children alike. That was before McDonalds, "All you can eat" buffets, and countless sedentary hours in front of the TV (that was just being introduced at the time.)

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

But smoking was popular then.

[@JDAbelRN]

Not a bunch of fatty diabetic lazy ass soy boys, either, in the Great Depression, ww1 nor Korea, real men and women, not any "UNIDENTIFIED ", EITHER!

[@floydt2029]

Many people would marvel at the technology of early and current manufacturing.

[@geoffdearth7360]

Especially when you consider how entire industries were converted to war manufacturing and then back again.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Biff Tanner liked these cars, especially the convertible.

[@GeorgeRellas]

That "dream car" segment, starting @ 13:14 was FANTASTIC! WOW, THE VISION THEY HAD!!! 4 YEARS AFTER WWII!!!

[@funsweed]

My first car when a teenager, used 1949 Ford

[@agostinodibella9939]

I liked how the”new” car passes the old car in the end.

[@timfordfalconxf7714]

Take me back. Cars had style and passion. Now its like here is a car goodbye, Like the new Tesla THING pick up, UGH I'll watch this 2 times thanks I am 23 BTW

[@juanasanelli6831]

Si eran HOMBRES haciendo el auto para HOMBRES Veias el trabajo de los hombres su pasion y ORGULLO por lo que hacian Tambien sus marradas tornillos flojos ... baguetas mas calzadas Etc.. Hoy dia son perfectos , antisepticos .. ,pero sin alma ...Ya no los hacen los hombres Son frios y duros robot trabajando a lo oscuro sin nada mas que sus leds de testeo de circuitos

[@jamescapra5081]

I Love 1949 to 1951 Fords,especially the Coupes.

[@shartingfish5761]

So much pride in what they did and designed.. sadly all are dead..

[@JDAbelRN]

I disagree, there are pockets of pride and integrity left in USA, we just need a good swift kick in the ass, as Dad use to say!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Ford is a trademark of the Ford Motor Company. It a member of the “Big Three,” the largest three traditionally US-based automakers. It was founded by Henry Ford who implemented the “assembly line” process of manufacturing large numbers of relatively affordable automobiles.

[@Glendetta]

Thanks for this great interesting oldies video - amazing video!!!!

[@prwingman1]

Alway loved the look of the 49-51 Fords! And I'm happy that I finally bought a 51 Fordor. ( yes that is how it's spelled)

[@zxtenn]

I will be 64 in a few months and when I was a little kid my Father bought I think a 51 with a V-8 coupe, white with black painted top and 3 speed manual, sat in the front seat on Mommys lap back then

[@hankrogers8431]

Henry was especially proud of the moniker "Fordor" as it had his name in it. LOL :)

[@sdgakatbk]

This is excellent and really well put together.

[@JohnDoe-wo1jd]

the intro music sounds like your about to watch an epic movie

[@josecarballido7848]

Thanks for sharing this videos in particular I really like it is part of the story

[@skdinterceptor2828]

FORD....Free Open Road Driving. Beautiful era when cars were the new craze, innovative and creativity to give the world transport. Designers who had immagination. I would definitely go back to the 50s in the time machine and live the dream. CARS now have no character and are unnecessaryly complicated plastic jelly moulds. Real shame.

[@maxsinger3526]

Expect they go for 300-400 thousand miles. Enjoy your polio tho

[@danlove4270]

Best handling car of its day......not a lot of folks around anymore who recall driving this one

[@nygelmiller5293]

To Dan Love. I eventually achieved my own dream in the 1980's , when I managed to buy a 1968 Karmann-Ghia Type 34. (Or Razor Edge as we call it in the U.K. ) The SECOND Karmann-Ghia , that ridiculously WASN'T imported to the States, even though it looked like a smaller CORVAIR. KARMANN-GHIAS could be serviced all over the world, because they were powered by Volkswagen! But till later could break away on twisty roads, or in winds, because of swing axle suspension. BUT the last ones (like I had) had double jointed suspension, which not only sorted handling problems out, but made them SO stable, that I had confidence to go out in ANY winds with it! So for this FORD already to be so stable in winds, already in 1949, is PHENOMENAL!

[@danlove4270]

Appreciate your comments here. I had to Google the Type 34 and I agree it is a beautiful design. Best wishes!

[@nygelmiller5293]

Proper six seater with proper bench front seat. Proper car!

[@bermuda3619]

great film the 49s rock

[@Code3forever]

Great video!

[@pcno2832]

The '49 was surprisingly compact for a full sized car, but the inside still looks quite comfortable. It was lower than its predecessors, but still tall enough for hat wearing drivers. The people buying these cars would have been shocked if shown how bloated cars had become 20 or 25 year later.

[@Pimp-Master]

In the San Fernando Valley of LA, my Mexican neighbors never threw away their cars. They had a dusty, old '49 parked off to the side on their acre of property. This is where I pretended to be a driver going places at age 7. I arranged to have their daughter, same age as me, sitting in the front seat too. We'd pretend together.

[@chico305SIGMA]

Cute story. Did you marry her?

[@nickgeorge2176]

Love these classic old adds.

[@geoffdearth7360]

My family never had a Ford. I have to admit they were cool looking though.

[@thedarkartist3231]

this Is an awesome video, plus really love old school cars.

[@gregclatk8950]

My first car was a 1966 Ford Mustang bought used.nice looking car

[@juanasanelli6831]

Mi primer auto fue un Lincoln 1940 mi segundo auto Ford Country sedan Año 1954 ...

[@skatesneakerlover]

My granddad bought one of these with all the bells and whistles, brand new back in the day. Traded his old faithful '39 Ford V8 in and regretted it every single day from then onwards. Every month it was back in the Ford shop, not wanting to start, not running, no power. Everywhere we went it was hit and miss if we would drive out like civilized people or if the hood and trunk would be up in the air with Granddad bent over the engine, mostly with random old timers standing around, looking on, pipe in mouth, and giving advice. Eventually, with a massive cloud of smoke and a screaming engine, we would fly out of wherever we had been parked, the auto trans slipping or refusing to change up, only to repeat all of this at the next stop, us kids silent and shocked in the back seat with all the cussing and the way Grandad would beat down on it trying to get it to catch - the banging onto the floorboard was so loud and the whole car rocked side to side. The main dealer couldn't (or wouldn't) ever get it right or change it over - Ford was stingy that way, so Grandad hammered it hard, punished it, and murdered it every single chance he got. There was never a day when that V8 wasn't screaming its guts out at more than full revs and coughing, spluttering, and backfiring, but as a toughened railroad man, he was determined to get his money's worth out of a brand-new car. He hated that the V8 was so lazy, especially when fully loaded on a roadtrip. Eventually, he gave up and treated himself to the '57 Fairlane 500 which was problem free. He couldn't trade the '49 because it would never start after he pulled in, so my cousin got it and he was even more brutal to it than Grandad ever was, blowing the V8 up somehow. As a final send-off, he dragged it into a field and set fire to it. To this day, its rusted shell is still there in the same place where its lazy and problematic life was brought to an end.

[@1982kinger]

When America did it right and was proud AF

[@markdraper3469]

A lot nicer than the Chevy that year. But this is most memorable to me because the lady who drove us kids to day camp in '59 had a '49 wagon and one day as I hopped onto the open tailgate, she pulled away and I rolled out. Didn't notice till a block later. But that was the kind of place it was too.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Golly gee, I sure hope I could get my 1949 Ford one day!

[@JiveDadson]

Notice that the horsepower of the V8 is not mentioned. That's because the V8 and the I6 had almost equal displacement and power.

[@JiveDadson]

@Mark Godfrey When the V8 came out in '31, it made 65 HP. By '49, it made just over 100 HP. All this stuff is googleable.

[@hanschenk2708]

GREAT VIDEO HAVE A SCALE MODEL OF A 49

[@DanJ30]

The 50's arrived a year early for Ford.

[@hebneh]

The 1949 Fords saved the company from bankruptcy, and creating them was partly contingent upon the death of Henry Ford, which finally ended his paranoid resistance to designing a really modern car.

[@Justkevin377]

Lexus got free engineering lessons with this video

[@radioguy1620]

I wouldn't be surprised if every Japanese and Chinese student is still shown this movie

[@broderickwallis25]

AND... no computers !!! Yes

[@19553129]

The original cab forward, still a cool car.

[@richardsmith5394]

To think all those folks have passed on, and this is History.

[@ron5935]

My father bought a new one when I was 8 Mint/pale green tudor

[@meganmilesreidmeganmilesre7372]

So cool. Is there a film like this for the 49-51 Mercury??? I see a couple of 49 Mercs on the test track, even a Lincoln convertible 👍👍

[@raccoon681]

3:09 want that blue woody

[@marcoarizaga9038]

I LIKE IT GOOD JOB!

[@user-ng4gm8bi4i]

Ohhh Retro😍

[@ricardorodrigues7304]

excelente, parabéns.

[@cespo77]

What are beautiful time. When our country was great! How did we get to where we are? Very sad.

[@cobracharmer6178]

Robert Mitchum's Thunder Road Ford at 39:49!!!!

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

What the film didn't tell ya is that there was actually another model...but only in Australia, the Ford Tudor Coupe Utility.

[@theosanchez7187]

Nice video, and ending to, they dont make cars like this no more...

[@RD2564]

The progressive styling lead to a sales win for Ford in 1949 good times.

[@robc8468]

Holy Kodachrome it's a color film! If anyone under 50 wonders what Kodachrome color looks like there ya go!

[@jamesslick4790]

YEP, Kodachrome was the best, Awesome color and less fading like "lesser" color film stock.

[@chico305SIGMA]

I'm 29 and this looks amazing!! No wonder capitalism triumphed.

[@JDAbelRN]

Kodachrome...another American and unsurpassed triumph!

[@aaronlovell6026]

This is true America. The commercial, the car. Everything, this is America. This is who we are.......

[@broderickwallis25]

Were !!!

[@bluerider7922]

One of my Uncles didn't have enough money to pay attention, but he had a '50 with a musical horn and mudflaps hanging nearly to the ground and rubber straps hanging off the rear bumper with reflectors on them, Ugh! I was only a kid when he had it in the middle '50's, but I was embarrassed for him. My parents weren't rich, but my dad had a Teamster Union driving job and we had a new car every 4 years in the '50's and every 2 years in the 60's.

[@emo7237]

1:04 somewhere on the outskirts of Gary Indiana

[@arielsarino2823]

During the stability test it seemed like the driver was bouncing about in the car 😄

[@johncasciello4123]

We do not see any CAR PRODUCER in 2022 showing these TEST for WEAR on the CAR anymore!! How can they when week after week the #1 hit song is RECALL RECALL RECALL!!! The voice announcer also had HIS VOICE tested and practiced for that CORRECT SERIOUS NO NONSENSE APPEAL!!

[@hankrogers8431]

So, 1928, 1932, 1949 and 1952 were the big model change years? 1955 started the eyebrow headlights....

[@xcesar4impx666]

i got a 1949 and a 1950 SHOEBOX !!!!

[@MarkMeadows90]

I love the style of the Club Coupe. What factory blue color was shown with the demonstration club coupe model?

[@skipstalforce]

OMG, such handling and power!!

[@535tony]

Notice they mentioned the straight six engine had 95HP, but they didn’t mention the HP of the V8? That’s because the bigger V8 had 95HP, only 5HP more then the “economy” six. Ford would finally replace the Aging flathead V8 with a new overhead valve “Y Block” V8 in 1954.

[@addiesingh1260]

Am very abscess with old cars suspension level 100%best then today's cars

[@raylocke282]

I prefer the 35 to 41 and 46 to 48.The 49 had alot of bugs which they ironed out.The six was good but if you didnot break in the V eight right it would turn into an oil guzzler .

[@glennso47]

I was wondering what the difference is between a two door sedan and a two door coupe?

[@gertraba4484]

one has a frameless glass on side windows without posts

[@hankaustin7091]

@@gertraba4484 the sedan has the post.

[@frankkoslowski6917]

That's right. It's the car which standard of living does define. Just ask any Eurasian Bolshevik on the East Side of the river Rhine.

[@chrisrojas3561]

39:18 Thank you to the girls who lubricated the steel sheets.

[@pcno2832]

5:30 I'd hate to have to use the key to lock my car from the outside every day. Some other cars just made you pull on the handle while shutting the door to keep it from unlocking.

[@timsteinkamp2245]

Yes, until that day you shut the door thinking the key is in your pocket but no. It is a call to the locksmith and a $185 bill.

[@moultra4622]

Gostaria de ver documentáros sobre o FORD MERCURY de 1949. Para mim o melhor e mais bonito...!!!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

The ‘49 Ford in your future.

[@lrg3834]

The narrator in the second segment sounds like Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes.

[@p47thunderbolt68]

Didn't know Ford had a flat 6.

[@professorpatpending8731]

we see Henry Ford II at 11.18. RIP

[@radioguy1620]

these bodies would sell today if the repro'd them

[@robloxalberto5871]

I'm going to restore one of these cars and I cant find an engine

[@JDAbelRN]

Keep looking...it's in a junkyard somewhere in the world, or on the streets of Cuba 🇨🇺

[@nygelmiller5293]

You don't get that much attention to detail today! Customers don't seem to count anymore.

[@glennso47]

So Ford had a V-8 long before Chevy.

[@steveh4968]

The Ford flathead V-8 came out in 1932!

[@juanasanelli6831]

Chevrolet tuvo V8 en 1917... Y Cadillac y antes de que el Ford V8 ya en Ford el Lincoln tenia su V8. El merito del V8 de Ford fue la masificacion con el nuevo diseño de hacer el V8 que si n bien ya habian eran pesados complejos y caros

[@-oiiio-3993]

Chevrolet had them in 1917: www.bonhams.com/auctions/25593/lot/123/?category=list Cadillac had them in 1914.

[@qqkk5581]

I was born 60 years too late.

[@augustuscrocker9328]

Sounds like a Mike Wallace narration.

[@crist67mustang]

©1949 / 2019 Ford Motors Company All right reserved. This 70 years old footage was made for you in the future. We know that today's cars are made under ugly designes standards, cause our consumers believe that they know how to make a car.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

What on earth are you trying to say here, “crist67mustang?”

[@victorcounts3393]

This story repeatedly cited 149000 as the number of people who built Ford vehicles in 1949. How many does it take in 2021.