I’ll take a ‘57.

Yup, gotta go with the '57.

traso...I'll sell you my 1956 Belaire for $50,000 ..all original with the 289 V8 ( rebuilt in 1990 ) with 30,000 miles

Everyone and their grandma wants a 57 Chevy… if you buy a 56 “thrill drivers car” you buy a Chrysler 300. Stock car champ

@@ProjectLawnDart I drove all three, comparison proves it's Chevrolet for me!

I recall seeing the show too. I saw it sometime around 1978, maybe 1979ish. I want to say it was the Tim and Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. lol It made me want to learn how to drive on 2 wheels. I did end up racing a class 10 desert car for a while but never learned to drive on 2 wheels. Gotta add that to my bucket list. Never mind, my back says "no way" lol

Claude Mountain "take me word for it" and where did all that glass go? back to the beach?

May as well...finely-ground glass is, essentially, sand, and is ecologically inert, to boot. Your generation worries about the stupidest shit!

#bcubed72 stupid shit like glass in your foot? and explain 'your generation'

"Burburbur, DANG MILLENNIALS!"

They have giant sweepers that rake the beach and collect anything much bigger than a grain of sand. And glass particles that are sand-sized would be indistinguishable from sand to a beachgoer.

Lol IKR🤣

Yup. It’s funny cause now I look at every other suspension system as “inadequate”

My father bought one brand new in Levittown, PA. It was a two-tone green post coupe. Silent color home movies survive to this day, as he drove it in a parade with his fire company.

My great uncle had a 150 the REALLY cheap one thing was so basic but it got towed when he was in nam

That's awesome. Do you drive it or is it currently in project status?

Perfect if you were white lol

@@sladegerman probably the only catch.

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 and most likely you wouldn't have had AC assuming you were an average Joe.

absolut.

That ought to have cost a pretty penny.

Dimes must have been pretty big back then.

And a nickle could buy you a cup of coffee or a full sized candy bar.

I drove all three..... 🙂

I bet that looked pretty good.

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Hamdan Alharbi when 70 mph was considered dare devil

Hamdan Alharbi when a car weighs 3 tons all steel thats if you can flip it

HERPY, The US Interstate Highway system was built in the late 50's, the normal speed limit was 70 mph.. It was way back in the 20's and early 30's when 70mph was super fast. mainly because there were very few paved roads and still a lot of Horses on the road.. If you speed by a Horse drawn wagon, You got your ass kicked,, Inner city roads were cobble stone or sometimes, Concrete, outside of cities , just packed dirt.. Cars in this Video were very capable of much more than 70mph.. 70 was normal, if the road was worthy.. These cars did NOT even have seat belts, it wasn't until the late 60's that seat belts were mandatory.. People were much Braver back then,, No Whiners or Cry babies.. Nobody sued the Car Company, If you died in a car crash,, it was your fault for driving stupid..

The point was to demonstrate how an unmodified car right from the showroom floor would handle different situations.

no roll cages or bars in these. weighed 3200

Kind of like how cars like the 2000 Honda civic or Toyota corolla from the same year are treated. They're seen as junk now, but one day they'll be seen as classics.

Its not model T or model A(You mean Model B?). But doubtless it is a *1931 chevrolet*

Haven't seen a mint condition 1956 Chevy in a Chevy shiwroom in 64 years. All they have today is either cheap Korean crap or overpriced outsized SUVs

@@dumdum7786 lol...yeah...that is hard to imagine...I know i get it, at the time it was a considered a cheep pile of junk, but I was talking about my own feelings around it. I would love to own an old model t,,

@@MonsieurSquidward I'm sure you are right,,just reminded me of one. That style of car was made by a lot of companys back then.

But you can't choose what other drivers do

Alex Powers we call them cross plies in England but yeah they're pretty shit compared to radials

Yeah, the only thing stopping a rollover is the lack of grip..

You could do burnouts until a full tank was empty and only use like 4 miles of tire life. Lol damn things were like stones.

It's 100% not the same car. They cut the footage right as the A pillar started to collapse, after that, car's a pancake.

if you were watching in a 15 inch black and white TV, you probably would think you missed the rest

Listen to his voice, hear what he is telling you and he shows you. You can trust what he says is the truth, he is a real person, not a actor.

Because the front of the roof is crushed some. Just as you woulf expect from the way it hit

It’s the same car you can see the crushed a pillar and dented front fender 5:01

English please.

How long you've been alive for🤨

@@black.pewdiepie415 not long enuf ..been around since47'

@@doug.a.2665 lol

3:45 Robust frame! No crossmembers 😝😝

Lol so true🤣

yeah, when i ride my quad and do bicycles the tire can pop off the rim,, it sucks ( that why u get bead lock rims )

You see the car in the next shot and it's the same one he jumps over the vic, look at the dr. side a pillar, bent somewhat. Smashed no.

Even the front fender on the driver side is mashed up pretty good. Hence the far away shot to mask it

Do you really expect a car to roll over and not have a single mark on it? The point was you can roll over and not crush the whole top it. Go roll a modern car and see if all you get in a couple small bends.

Chevrolet: we lie about how well our cars are built. That's why we pulled several ads recently when people called our shit lol

@@solunaqua3475 way to miss the point.

Agreed.

Didn't you study history at school? The whole world was black and white back then! And for decades before this, people didn't even speak, they communicated with captions over a musical score. The world looked grainy and moved in a jerky fashion. Evolution made everything colourful in the 1950s, and the human race finally evolved in to colour. Just ask your grandparents. They probably remember waking up one morning to find they'd changed to colour overnight! Don't they teach this stuff in schools anymore? 😁

Clutch fluid?

I guess it's a boat that can't float. Maybe where the term land yacht came from. We might find out when I'm done building mine.

But at that time most repairs could be done with common tools, or a hammer if the body had to be fixed.

they had belts and helmets in shows

What's crazy is I'm rebuilding one right now & I had no idea I'll be able to do this when it's done.

Good but not safe. Crumple zones for all cars were not government mandated until the late 70’s. Although they been around since the late 50’s.

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That's a very astute observation.

Nash pioneered Unibodys in the US in 1941. Citroën in France pioneered them in Europe, in 1934. GM first used them on the Corvair in 1960. I- beam front suspension was only used on trucks, after 1949, and it was dangerous only on cars with transverse leaf springs ( Ford/Mercury, through 1948). However, Chevrolet did pioneer the MacPherson strut suspension, on a compact car that they decided not to produce, in the forties. And W.C. Durant (only one r) wasn't a genius, only thing he pioneered was combining companies to form a multi tier sales company to provide a wide price range of vehicles, under one corporation, but failed miserably in managing the result, resulting in his investors taking it away from him (twice), leaving him broke. Later management finally achieved, what he wanted to accomplish. Your Chevy bias is not based on real facts.

​@@freemansgarageNot too astute, almost all incorrect.

+Austin Lucas These probably had the 265 sb most never had an oil filter wasn't till late 56 that they added one

With or without the check engine light on? LOLOL!!

Well, I'm guessing they wouldn't bounce uncontrollably like a logo stick on steroids, they would stay on two wheels for more than 2 seconds after leaving the ramp and you wouldn't have a turning circle of 100 feet. Oh, and you'd use 1/50th of the fuel. And the Kia wouldn't need a suspension rebuild after every show. The crowd might have been entertained too, instead of thinking if watching paint dry might have been more fun. Other than that? 😁

@@another3997 The kia would stall as soon as it came off the ramp. the inertia and attitude info would shut the fuel off.Not to mention the panel adhesive would probably tear free with an overage of body torsion.

They're still around. You just have to look for them.

It's about electric now

My first Chevy had 500,000 km on it before the body rot made it unsafe.(Never rebuilt) I sold the engine for what I paid for the entire car 15 years before. I believe it is still pushing low 11's in the quarter mile.

Chevy Vega?

I once drove a chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry.

The traveling car show could've been how they transported it discreetly.

Really.

GM, Ford and Chrysler.

@@electrolytics thanks!!

@@Noval01rd You're welcome. Those were the "Big Three" Automakers. Ford Motor Company is Ford, Lincoln, Mercury. Chrysler Corporation was Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler. General Motors(GM) was Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac and GMC.(GMC just made trucks)

@@electrolytics Damn!! Thanks for the additional info!

I think they were the only out of the big 3 to own their own railroad so it's possible they were the only one that blew money on these films.

@@freemansgarage oh ok

Well yeah why would you put a good engine in a hunk a shit

But yet every time someone puts a Chevy engine in a Ford, they do just that, put a good engine in a hunk of shit.

Maybe both of you are right. Why put an engine in any car?

Riding around in the middle of nowhere at my job for years, I sure do see a hell of a lot more Fords than Chevys in the pickup category for old stuff, 80s and earlier.

Because Ford engines stay in Fords. Chevy owners are embarrassed to own a Chevy, so they hide the engine in another, better car.

Lol leaf springs. Like the Conestoga wagons of 75-100 years prior to that 😝😝

@@MrTheHillfolk Lol, round wheels, just like on Ben Hur's chariot! 😁