AN EXPLANATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE NEW VACUUM GEARSHIFT, AND HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO COMFORT, EASE OF DRIVING, & SAFETY.
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@Andrew-ep4kw8 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the guy handling a crap ton of mercury with his bare hands.
@punman53927 жыл бұрын
Jared Connell It can be absorbed by your skin.
@SaberusTerras7 жыл бұрын
Check out Cody's Lab.
@pc_screen54786 жыл бұрын
Matt Bowen only if it's injured. Your skin itself won't do that
@mokelv6 жыл бұрын
played with it all the time circa 1950
@edh22465 жыл бұрын
When I was teen in the 60’s my brother bought a small bottle of mercury from the neighborhood drug store. We enjoyed playing with it. We liked to drop some on the floor and watch it burst into little beads and go everywhere. We also liked to shine pennys with it.
@JohnLeePettimoreIII5 жыл бұрын
Vacu-um Eff-fort Gotta love those careful and deliberate pronunciations.
@hotrodray98845 жыл бұрын
proper American english now lets tauk abut tars
@textech40563 жыл бұрын
I love the guy sucking on a cigar to demonstrate vacuum. Politically incorrect now.
@whitehorse19594 жыл бұрын
I love the science lesson given in impeccable English as part of the overall advertisement for Chevy. Those times, those people are now gone. Lost, like tears in rain.
@jordanrodrigues12794 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it was because they were selling to a trained audience returning from the war.
@fredericgadoury66104 жыл бұрын
And baby-boomers fuck this all up (not everyone it’s just the overall generation even though there are still positive things about it)
@pierremorin53973 жыл бұрын
Impeccable english but with angry tone.
@LMike20043 жыл бұрын
@@pierremorin5397 "Angry" or simply authoritative?
@chriskoop48883 жыл бұрын
@@pierremorin5397 It does not sound angry to me, just more forceful.
@jakewagner74164 жыл бұрын
"Greater safety for all." As they place an unsecured child in the front seat. How times have changed.
@Kit_Bear2 жыл бұрын
You stole my comment Sir ! :)
@ironcito1101 Жыл бұрын
Well, it _was_ greater safety than the unsecured child in the front seat entering the car on the side close to traffic 😛
@rhuttrho88 Жыл бұрын
It was! Now we are all in danger from wimpy, whiney, grown up babies! The, they, them crowd!🙄
@__KursK__9 ай бұрын
lmao
@David-vp3eq3 ай бұрын
And the lab guy handles mercury with his bare hands. We had chads back then
@MeanGeneSanDiego4 жыл бұрын
The innovative thinking to place the shifter on the steering column! We couldn't wait to buy a Hurst shifter and put it back on the floor!😲
@p47thunderbolt684 жыл бұрын
I remember when those gear shifts on the steering column would wear out you could by a "Hurst" floor shift for about $40.00 at a K Mart or an Advance Auto and replace it . Had to saw a hole on the floor and most transmissions had the bolt holes . Just hook up the linkage and it usually worked great .
@jimcollins34112 жыл бұрын
Still can buy them new for some transmissions but not all of them .
@trainsntile Жыл бұрын
My buddy bought a "somewhat" complete '57 Nomad project car (back in the 80's). The previous owner did just what you mentioned- ripped off the column shifter & cut a hole in the floor, even though he left the 3-speed trans in. He also didn't want the factory bench seat. He stuck in bucket seats. My buddy found the correct column shift lever & cut out the hump of a junk '57 & welded the 'patch' back into the floor. Last time I spoke to him, he was still trying to locate the correct bench seat, which was ONLY for the Nomad & ONLY for the '57!
@rhuttrho88 Жыл бұрын
Pepperidge Farm remembers.🫡
@Mercmad10 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine restored a 39 Chev a long time ago which had vacuum shift when new. During WW2 it was requisitioned by the US army ,whose engineers removed the vacuum shift and fitted a regular floor shift cover on the trans. When returned to it's owner at the end of the war it retained the floor shift. Obviously the military engineers felt it was an over complicated device that wasn't necessary.
@mendonesiac5 жыл бұрын
I'm going to assume that's why column shift didn't make it past the 70s, amazing it made it that far.
@redtra2365 жыл бұрын
Chevy made trucks in column shift until the mid 80's. The linkage is much longer though and can lock up. I can see why the military wouldn't want such a system.
@straightpipediesel2 жыл бұрын
@@redtra236 Foreign taxis, where they needed a front bench seat, were the last. Mercedes sold an E-Class with 4-speed column shift 1996, the Toyota Crown Comfort had a 5-speed column shift till 1999.
@redtra23611 ай бұрын
@Bohappenstance Click It's still more complicated and more prone to failure though even if you're went that long without major issues. I don't think it's a bad design but I can see why the military mostly went with floor shifts.
@4seeableTV3 жыл бұрын
These old film clips do a great job explaining the basics about cars.
@Catcrumbs6 жыл бұрын
Tip for headphone users: pull the jack slightly out of the socket to hear in both ears.
@riperchetobg5 жыл бұрын
I am using bluetooth headphones ;(
@sreerajnr6895 жыл бұрын
I saw this comment only after watching the whole video😢
@TheOzthewiz5 жыл бұрын
Switch receiver to "mono" mode.
@unclebuck05 жыл бұрын
Cool actually works
@jacknguyen39975 жыл бұрын
Thanks, it works
@exaviorvolgimesh85405 жыл бұрын
Does anybody else get bummed out watching these old videos, knowing that most of the people featured in them are either dead or old😩 life is too short.
@normc624 жыл бұрын
That kid at the end was probably a couple of years old, making him close to 85 years old now, if still living. My bet is everyone has passed on by now.
@TheJunky2284 жыл бұрын
Never thought of that...I think about how these seem like better educational material than what we get nowadays... it feels like our education system has shifted and is now failing us
@erwinrommel20553 жыл бұрын
So nice to watch old video clips.
@pierremorin53973 жыл бұрын
Be happy to be alive for now. Our turn to die will come like any person on earth.
@morenoortu95693 жыл бұрын
@Muckin 4on yeah its so true...
@dhy53423 жыл бұрын
The change from a floor shift to a column shift was mainly for passenger comfort. It meant you could have three passengers in the front seat or a driver with a close friend seated together.
@Riverrockphotos Жыл бұрын
Close friend lol.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@daviddavidson2357 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, stops your 'close friend' from accidentally deepthorating the shift lever at night.
@donmoore57165 жыл бұрын
The only vacuum shift car I remember was my '68 "automatic" VW bug. When you pressed slightly on the shifter, a vacuum device engaged the clutch instead of using a clutch pedal. Yeah, it sucked.
@firebird97112 жыл бұрын
I had a 67 floor shifter. Always wondered if that Auto Stickshift system worked well. Did you mean it sucked as in it was bad, or that it sucked as in, it uses vacuum?
@foxtrot3122 жыл бұрын
A real vw bug with automatic anything... well that's Witchcraft
@valiroime Жыл бұрын
**rimshot** 🥁
@nzs316 Жыл бұрын
I never understood why they need the bug with an automatic transmission. It’s was just wrong.
@PointyTailofSatan7 жыл бұрын
My right ear stills knows nothing about vacuum control.
@dahahaka5 жыл бұрын
You have your headphones the wrong way
@thechosenone84664 жыл бұрын
Its not stereo bruh. Just mono
@Alfalfa888884 жыл бұрын
woosh?
@AlainHubert4 жыл бұрын
@@thechosenone8466 Mono can also play in both audio channels if people uploading know what they're doing.
@dragonking70924 жыл бұрын
WTF I HAD ONE EAR OFF ON MY HEADPHONES I JUST GOT SO FREAKED OUT but then I realized the mono sound -_-
@andyharman30223 жыл бұрын
Vacuum power was in the public discourse back then. There were even proposals to to make a trans-Atlantic vacuum tube to propel people-carrying pods across the ocean.
@robb.6757 жыл бұрын
I remember when the wipers used to be vacuum operated. They worked well until the car was going up a hill, and the vacuum was low, and the wipers almost quit working. How things have changed.
@bigstuff526 жыл бұрын
me too Rob...
@mendonesiac5 жыл бұрын
The good old days, coming to a stop and your wipers do to.
@hotrodray98845 жыл бұрын
GM ....LOL
@Bartonovich524 жыл бұрын
@Casey Russel... only if you have an intake leak. Cars produce most vacuum at idle.
@rooftopvoter30153 жыл бұрын
I remember when the wipers used to be vacuum operated. They worked well until the car was going up a hill, and the vacuum was low, and the wipers almost quit working. How things have changed. Going downhill, your wipers would redline until you reached level ground.
@frankbiz3 жыл бұрын
Old information but still on point. You learn something from these videos all the time. Thanks. Amazing the effort that went into these videos.
@1979mackdriver4 жыл бұрын
I remember the coal furnace cleaners , a good number of the chimney sweep companys also offered the service. I used to watch them when I was a kid . I saw a patch blow off a bag once boy o boy what a mess ..
@machia07055 жыл бұрын
You can learn a lot from these early presentations. Newer presentations are often confusing.
@isaiahkmwale19594 жыл бұрын
Yes very much confusing
@Kevin-jb2pv2 жыл бұрын
I think this is for 2 reasons: 1) the tech today that's being explained is way more advanced and a lot more abstract (not physical, mechanical stuff you can see and feel) 2) A lot of the times these folks were made for people who may have only received a 3rd grade education before they had to help on the farm or start working in the factory. They're made for people who are assumed to be much less educated. This was legit a problem in WW2, and you'll notice that a lot of the time the educational films for the military will pause for weirdly-long periods of time (by today's standards) whenever there is text on screen to give the people watching, _who may actually be almost illiterate,_ time to sound out the words, if they need to, and keep up. Doesn't mean that these films aren't great. They're fantastic for explaining basic, universal, timeless concepts precisely because they are intentionally made to be as simple as possible. And also because a lot of the times they will explain the same thing over and over in different ways to cast as wide a net as possible. The one thing I think has been lost with 3D modeling is when they build actual, physical models of what they're demonstrating right in front of you, which really helps to make these concepts seem real.
@machia07052 жыл бұрын
@@Kevin-jb2pv I instruct people on concrete placement and testing, basic engineering principles and construction techniques. These people range from every level of education and they all understand what I’m saying because I put it in basic and tangible terms. A more technical question gets an answer, but without solid basics people get confused. But I also understand your point. Perhaps presentations should be presented as basic as possible no matter how complex the subject matter, unless you know the education level of your audience. What I’m referring to are presentations for example, about lawn mower repair. Watch a film from the 1950’s vs a KZbin presentation today. One is very concise and full of information, that being the one from the 1950’s. The newer one is often rushed and assumes that the audience knows more than they do. Just my opinion. Thanks for the comment.
@bcgrittner3 жыл бұрын
My late father talked about the vacuum shift going out on his late 30's Chevrolet. He bought a full manual shift linkage conversion kit. But then he discovered oil ports in the vacuum shift assembly. A few drops of oil and the vacuum shift came back to life. The conversion kit went to the junk yard in 1963.
@MrJohnnyDistortion3 жыл бұрын
If he only had Google or KZbin he could have found the answer.
@officialbazzargaming7 жыл бұрын
My left ear loved this video
@rommysoeli7 жыл бұрын
me too, I think my right speaker cable on headphone broken
@Genaro_Flores4 жыл бұрын
My right one missed it all
@gabodenos3 жыл бұрын
Use the audio in mono I write this to later xD (if i write bad i am sorry)
@davegilbertmusic3 жыл бұрын
That vacuum assist shifter was offered by Chevrolet in 1939, it cost $10
@foxtrot3122 жыл бұрын
Wow! 10 bucks was worth a lot back then
@trainsntile Жыл бұрын
A good amount of $$ for the time!
@4570govt8Ай бұрын
Love these old videos. These are so interesting.
@YMSI13 жыл бұрын
Oh, I appreciate my amp's mono mode more now
@YOUGOTIT21011 жыл бұрын
I agree. A lot of "old ideas" are still good ideas.
@johnmarshall44422 жыл бұрын
Thanks for finding this old film footage ( video ) really cool how this was explained.
@Sandy-oy2lr6 жыл бұрын
It's fun to watch these early developments. The engineering was great. But, the execution with assembly line issues and lack of really precise consistency made a lot of this very troublesome. Still, it's super interesting to see how engineering overcame these issues.
@artdecotimes29423 жыл бұрын
What are you saying, where did you uncover that pathetic attempt of research. Do you kids hear the things you type at a mental level, or is that your freeforall to educational matters to spew false lies however and whenever you can. Why can't it be both, why do all of you always say the same damn thing "well they look nice, but work not well". They were extremely precise, and had multiple educational pieces you would watch through, measurements of science to the very millionth of a centimeter were put in correct place to mark precisely whereas something is pinpointed to, hell atompointed toward.
@DamnStraightM35A213 жыл бұрын
Nowadays "a flip of the finger " while driving usually means something else.....
@bobbyheffley49553 жыл бұрын
The middle finger
@BRUH2004FTW3 жыл бұрын
Bruuh
@trainsntile Жыл бұрын
LOL!!!!!!!!
@tonyfremont3 жыл бұрын
Over 45 years of working on cars and I've never once seen this system on one. Lots of other vacuum controlled things though, like cruise control, power brakes, automatic transmission shift firmness, headlight covers and even windshield wiper motors.
@trainsntile Жыл бұрын
My mom had vacuum wipers on her 60 Mercury Comet. Crapiest set up I've ever seen. You're waiting at a stop light & the wipers are going 240. Step on the accelerator & they'd slow to a snail's pace! After 8 years of this, my mom asked my dad to get her a new car
@soavioes1534 жыл бұрын
Good footage, clear vision in 1938. Very good.
@sirpuffball63662 жыл бұрын
What the fuck how are these ancient videos so efficiently educational
@henrykoplien10074 жыл бұрын
Wow😳 The handling with such amount of mercury was incredible.
@AlexanderKrivacsSchrder4 жыл бұрын
It says a lot about today's attention spans compared to back then that they didn't even mention their brand or even cars or their invention until more than five minutes of video had passed.
@Bartonovich524 жыл бұрын
It says absolutely nothing about attention spans. Go listen to a 30 second radio spot from the era.
@Kevin-jb2pv2 жыл бұрын
It's easy to completely hold someone's attention for as long as you like when they have to sit in a blacked out room/ theater with no cell phones. Also, I think people overestimate how often people just completely zoned out during these types of films whenever the topic was something they had no interest in.
@CarminesRCTipsandTricks5 жыл бұрын
There's more than I thought involved with the old Three on a Tree!! But.... LESS effOrt involved!! 😜
@toddburgess67923 жыл бұрын
You find out how involved when your tree breaks and it's back to the floor. All I had was 2nd and reverse. I could drive, but only about 30mph, until JCWhitney came to my rescue.
@TeeroyHammermill9 жыл бұрын
Didn't need child safety seats or seatbelts back in 1938.
@VinnyDaQ8 жыл бұрын
dstarks80 Nah, let them die, we'll just have more kids. : P
@addagwenlyn96628 жыл бұрын
+dstarks80 Yeah, we wouldn't need those for another 30 years. Did you notice this car had emergency brakes ? We no longer have those either, they're now parking brakes. Whatever, they never did work in emergencies any how.
@mdogg16047 жыл бұрын
My '52 Plymouth had a true E-brake. It was a brake that squeezed the drive shaft to stop the car. It saved my butt at least once in the hills of Dubuque. Those were the days of single chamber master cylinders.
@punman53927 жыл бұрын
Those were the days when you were lucky if you weren't impaled by the steering column in a head on crash
@bradyspace5 жыл бұрын
..or don't need safe passenger side access away from traffic in 2018?
@davinreeves3 жыл бұрын
My first car was a 1960 Plymouth station wagon(in 1990) with push button drive
@firebird97112 жыл бұрын
Those were cool. My gramps had that exact model station wagon. It also had the speedometer which filled up columns in red like liquid filling up little cups. The push buttons were a little awkward to reach though, did it seem to you?
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about those giant post office vacuum tubes. Smaller versions used to be used in department stores and some offices. Chevrolet used vacuum shifters from 1937 or so until 1948. The system often didn't work right though and was dropped after that. But cars since the 1960's (Chryslers then anyway) have used vacuum to open doors directing air in heating/ventilation systems instead of a manual lever.
@MisterMikeTexas Жыл бұрын
Motor bank drives at bank and credit union branches still use them.
@papamike98664 жыл бұрын
You won't see people playing with copious amounts of mercury like that now days. Wow!
@jaswmclark12 жыл бұрын
This worked great until the seals wore, or the air filter got plugged or failed and allowed grit into the system, or in the winter moisture got in and froze. You could buy a kit to eliminate the vacuum cylender, which I did. Three on the tree was initally an option, at extra cost, then standard from about 1939. About 1960 floor mounted "stick shift" became an optional extra. Such is progress.
@davidclark44695 жыл бұрын
I had a 42 Chevy which had been converted to a mechanical clutch , from vacuum. It had a three on the tree and it never seemed hard to shift, to me.
@6h4714 жыл бұрын
David Clark Same here. I had a '41 with vacumn shift. It leaked and didn't work well at all. My dad converted it to straight linkage for me. He said those vacuum shift canisters were a problem practically from new.
@mdogg16047 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Note at the end how the announcer touts "greater safety for all" as mommy puts little junior in the front seat! Today mommy would be cited and maybe charged with child endangerment.
@justcarcrazy6 жыл бұрын
Then again, there were fewer cars, lower speeds and generally less driving anyways back then.
@mendonesiac5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing as they tossed junior onto the bench seat. They didn't even have seatbelts back then, but moving the shifter off of the floor made it a safer car for the little ones! Thank you Ralph for fighting to save us from ourselves.
@Jarl_Thidrandi5 жыл бұрын
That's because the government has become a nanny state and is out of control.
@sheputthelimeinthecoconut6295 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget crucified by the media
@firebird97112 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many things people 85 years from now will mock and condemn us for. Probably alot. But we'll be dead so it won't bother us, just like people in 1935 don't give a rats arse what we think either.
@merikmalhads1676 Жыл бұрын
Considering I've only driven automatic, this is the part which I have no experience of. Still, it is useful to better understand the shifting that is automatically done for me
@jeffreyhicks46513 жыл бұрын
Wow I learned more in this 11 minute video than I did in 11 years of school i definitely didn't know that is how lightning is formed and the air pressure above and below the wings. I learn so much from these videos it amazes me how much smarter people were back then and how much they knew and how stupid people have become in such a short time and back then they didn't have the answer to pretty much anything they would ever need to know in there hand or pocket as we do now
@geoben18103 жыл бұрын
Using and controlling air pressure to produce work is known as pneumatics. Using fluids in the same manner is known as hydraulics. 👍🏻😉
@SmartassX17 жыл бұрын
That was some vacuum cleaner.
@Pertamax7-HD7 жыл бұрын
nice gearbox sir
@thaithai3912 жыл бұрын
Very good,in fact outstanding!
@mauprivas68614 жыл бұрын
los que pusieron dislike a estas obras maestras bien explicadas, no deben saber inglés no veo otra razón.
@spanishlanguageeducational37374 жыл бұрын
I love these videos....
@d-boymiller23925 жыл бұрын
Super... Old is gold
@freddiemaxwell895910 жыл бұрын
3 on the tree!
@josephgaviota3 жыл бұрын
My old pick-up had three-on-the-tree ... I don't think any young person would even know what to do now-a-days. It's getting to where my 6-speed Acura at the car wash, only the "old guys" can pull it onto the rack. Most young people never drove a stick.
@SteveCarras14 жыл бұрын
They were sure trying to use all kinds of gearshift and clutch tricks in the thirties. Semi-automatic transmissions had somehting like this as well.
@Robert-xp4ii4 жыл бұрын
And now we've began making your car a nightmare to work on. 😃 It's cool seeing their thought processes though.
@YOUGOTIT21011 жыл бұрын
Great memories -- I remember my dad's 1947 Chevy and him telling me that it had vacuum shift, which was a great improvement over his older Chevy. The gear shift on the column has now re-appeared in the form of the paddle shift. There is nothing new under the sun.
@MrTheHillfolk5 жыл бұрын
Yea man... Anytime you see something new theres a good chance its been around but due to engineering limitations or metallurgy it isnt reliable. 4 valves per cylinder and water injection are 2 that popped in my mind. 4 valves might go back to the teens, its from the 20s at the minimum and water injection came about in the 30s.
@hotrodray98845 жыл бұрын
electrical.... more crap to ruin a car in 7 yrs.
@MisterMikeTexas Жыл бұрын
Did it still have a clutch pedal?
@YOUGOTIT210 Жыл бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas Yes
@hugolafhugolaf3 жыл бұрын
Back when learning was made cool. I'm still amazed at what these people accomplished with next to nothing.
@goattactac8790 Жыл бұрын
1938年当時に、これだけの解説番組を制作したアメリカが如何に偉大な国だとわかります。
@davidjames6664 жыл бұрын
Yep, they had vacuum control gear shifts back in 1938, but audio on the right side bewildered them
@Bartonovich524 жыл бұрын
Mono sound. There was only one speaker or bullhorn.
@Rainer670599 жыл бұрын
***** Very widepread. To some extent it was superseded by the automatic transmission. But on the one hand, American cars would have levers for automatic transmission shaped just like this gear lever for many decades. On the other hand the power brakes that would soon be standard in American cars and later also in European cars work by the same principle as this power shifter. They use the sucking power ("Saugkraft") of the engine. Also: such a shifting lever was in the Trabant, the one car of the GDR, German Democratic Republic. Although: the lever was longer. I'm not sure whether they used this power system.
@baklys13 жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
@danielbuckner21674 ай бұрын
In later years they did away with vacuum assist on 3 on the tree setups. It was funny to hear them say " better safety for all" while putting a toddler in the front with no seat belts and metal everywhere
@punjabifreethinker29394 жыл бұрын
I am impressed
@wcsii2 сағат бұрын
I got one lesson in meteorology and one in automotive engineering….
@curtn70765 жыл бұрын
Wish Chevy still cared about its buyers like this great explanation video. now Chevy now, quite frankly, doesn't give a damn.
@Bartonovich524 жыл бұрын
They never cared about anything but your dollars. They invented planned obsolescence so you’d throw away your perfectly good car and buy a new one.
@democratsaretheDEVIL4 жыл бұрын
I wish they cared about quality still.
@johnpaulsartorius93906 жыл бұрын
Just put the dang shift lever on the floor! Geeze
@EnergeticWaves5 жыл бұрын
John Paul Sartorius exactly
@democratsaretheDEVIL4 жыл бұрын
My 38 was last year of floor stick, shifts with ease.
@rooftopvoter30153 жыл бұрын
Install a Lenco and be done with it.
@Meinstein3 жыл бұрын
I would rather have a short-throw floor shift than all this garbage that is designed to wear out. This is the first of planned obsolescence.
@JTLowry3 жыл бұрын
3 on the tree was the new hotness
@billhershkowitz5759 Жыл бұрын
As I understand it, when the engine stalled, it was almost impossible to move the shift lever. This was one idea that was interesting, but didn't make much sense, especially once Hydra-Matic and Powerglide were offered...
@juanrivera-jo4xy9 ай бұрын
This is when chevy had real engineering and were pioneers to many automotive features or made it better!
@diegoochoa5725 жыл бұрын
"Vacu-ohm" "eff-ohrt" What a time
@johnrroberts79004 жыл бұрын
9:45 - No 'flip of the finger there' - that lady had to muscle it into second!
@NoName-ik2du2 жыл бұрын
6:01 - "...the most accessible, convenient position: Right alongside the steering wheel." And then for some dumb reason auto makers eventually forgot this and moved the thing back to the floor where it could be in the way all over again...
@InflatablePlane2 жыл бұрын
Looks like one of those missing links between things like the Hydra Matic, Reo's Self Shifter and Hudson's Drive Master.
@vip013 жыл бұрын
They also had vacuum operated windshield wipers for a few years.
@glennso472 жыл бұрын
Perfect vacuum. Sounds like a Democrats head.
@glennso472 жыл бұрын
The vacuum operated wipers were a headache when you tried to climb a tall hill during a storm.
@johanrosenberg63424 жыл бұрын
I didn't know post was sent with vacuum-tubes. Although email is better, and I don't mind waiting a couple of days for my packages.
@paulbroderick84384 жыл бұрын
Lady all in a tangle at 5.25!
@Handiman54411 жыл бұрын
I wish they would have left the headlight dimmer on the floor. It is much more convenient and safer to adjust headlight beams with your foot than with your left hand, that has to remain in basically the same position on the steering wheel to instantly deflect your headlight beam when approaching an on-coming car. The "button" on the left side of the floor was a better idea.
@mendonesiac5 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. When I was a kid they called the stick mount Euro-style. I guess it made your Pontiac feel like a BMW. Then the Japanese decided everything but the hazards should be on a stick or on your steering wheel...I hate it. My dimmer went out on my old 78 k20, and it cost $6 and took me five minutes to replace. I miss it.
@davidclark44695 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but my wife could never reach the floor dimmer. Ha...
@redtra2365 жыл бұрын
Yeah the truck I drive is on the floor. Much better design I see no reason for it to have been moved to the column. On most newer vehicles its the same lever as the turn signal which can result in you accidentally activating your signal.
@Bartonovich524 жыл бұрын
Good luck finding the floor high beam switch _IN THE DARK!!_ Or you have to hover your foot over it instead of resting it on the (probably non existent) dead pedal. No.. the Japanese made vehicle controls the right way from the beginning... all lights on the left stalk, all wipers on the right stalk. Easy to find. and don’t have to take your hands off the steering wheel to operate them. And the proof is how many times American manufacturers changed their layouts until almost universally they follow the Japanese method starting in the early 90s.
@42luke932 жыл бұрын
I wish the column shifter didn't have to phase away like it is doing now. I really like that shifter. It died with manual transmissions and now Automatic is phasing away : (
@Pertamax7-HD5 жыл бұрын
Ok sir
@kunjupulla3 жыл бұрын
Was this shown in the TVs or was this a video for attracting investors?
@santiagorubio8336 жыл бұрын
Very interesting transmission. But the car of video is a 1939 Chevrolet.
@cengeb Жыл бұрын
Then back to the floor was actually easier and more ergonomic, my current VW Golf R Manual stick of course 6 speed on the floor! 3 on the tree is where i learned how to drive
@textech40563 жыл бұрын
The shifter on top of the transmission is just way to simple. Lets see if we can complicate the hell out of this thing.
@sargonba29 жыл бұрын
power steering really changed our lives
@Skoda13014 жыл бұрын
And how widespread got this invention actually?
@valiroime Жыл бұрын
Much prefer the gearshift on the floor where the gods intended it to be. I’ve driven a column mount manual Maverick (back when they were cars, not the pretender pickup) back in the late ‘70s and didn’t care for it in the least.
@geoben18103 жыл бұрын
Rods and plungers and gears!!! Oh my! 😲
@SammyM007827 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many people watching this video were talking shit about the women getting in on the passenger side.......forgetting that this was clearly covered in your drivers manual :-). Try that shit today LOL.
@rommysoeli7 жыл бұрын
it still possible on todays car but it require some effort
@redtra2365 жыл бұрын
If your vehicle has bench seats no problem but its a pain in the ass with bucket seats.
@whitehorse19594 жыл бұрын
10:40 "... and GREATER SAFETY for all". What a way to close off. They wanted to show that a child could now sit right next to the driver and not interfere with the gear-shifting or the park-brake lever. How ironic that they used those words to close off. A Jam Handy Production.
@farisman86753 жыл бұрын
And that is how we chat each other
@johnmorgan43684 жыл бұрын
Seems like a real Rube Goldberg system. I'll stick with the floor shift.
@YOUGOTIT21011 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@helioselexandros2 жыл бұрын
7:45: 3 on the tree. My papaw taught me yo drive. On thid type of manual transmission.
@jamest.50013 жыл бұрын
That far advanced in shifting, but still using knee action shocks in 1938, I guess it's better than friction shocks I guess, but changes will be comming, especially after the war years,
@punkly84234 жыл бұрын
bench seating is a safety feature bring it back
@rooftopvoter30153 жыл бұрын
5:09, dumps mail all over floor. This is why I never get my mail, probably still on the floor at this place. 6:03, first shift clocks passenger in head.
@daviddavidson2357 Жыл бұрын
Everyone here talking about how gimmicky and inconvenient column shifting was. Car manufacturers today: "We now offer two shift lev- uhh paddles on the steering column as an option, it's the future!"
@Jrez5 жыл бұрын
Fewer and fewer cars today are even using vacuum control, everything is electronic. It can help lower costs and gives a greater amount of control, but electronics are always the part of the car that goes first.
@hotrodray98845 жыл бұрын
today vacuum is out because LEAKS screw with the computer and emissions
@Jrez5 жыл бұрын
@@hotrodray9884 I'm not saying computers aren't the reasonable choice, just that I appreciate the engineering that went into mechanical engine control more. Like why I prefer carburetor to efi.
@firebird97112 жыл бұрын
Yep, and millions of cars and trucks are sitting in manufacturer storage yards waiting for electronic brains which are in short supply right now.
@soldtobediers4 жыл бұрын
Jam Handy to the rescue
@theequalizer67844 жыл бұрын
Was it only on the movies or did people really see only in black and white outside the movies too during those days?
@firebird97112 жыл бұрын
Yeah the whole world was black and white. Nobody knew what color was until Kodak painted everything in color.
@miker2522 ай бұрын
I hope it worked better than those vacuum windshield wiper motors. The idea must not have lasted very long. I started my career as a mechanic in the sixties and have never seen a standard transmission car with that technology.
@youmeandeveryone58934 жыл бұрын
Now we know it's called plasma and it's not empty.
@deankay44343 жыл бұрын
Hey Bill, I noticed your shift handle is much longer than mine! Does that run in the family? If my shift handle was that long, I could get my lug nuts loose after service at your buddies shop! You know, Tiny’s Auto Repair. Yes, he is the 400 lb guy! Man, he sure puts them on tight. Well Joe, 70 to 80 years from now, they will use different colored “Torque Sticks”. I would hope so Bill, but they would get them too tight anyhow! Hey Joe, now you’re acting like some wild Jasper. Ha, ha!
@BigEightiesNewWave2 жыл бұрын
Problem is column shift has way more parts , has a lot of flex , not NEARLY as direct.