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My 1957 Studebaker Silver Hawk was built in the Hamilton, ON factory

Wish they still made them like this and at that price. New cars are over priced garbage.

Check out inventory at Bricklin Autosport in Rochester area! Odd that BLUE was not offered - many cars back then offered 4 or more shades of blue!

A much more scenic drive. Not so over grown.

Great Video

We had a 1929 Durant in the garage late 60's. I can still smell the mohair !

Could use a little music.

That was a pneumatic wrench, not electric.

Glad you shared this as it is - without the whole AI-fps-flattening and artifical sound-awkwardness... thanks for that.

*BEFORE REAGAN*

Looks like they all had fun 😊

That shot in the very first clip is where i have got so stoned so may times with the boys! Hell yeah! Still looks very similar today.

I think it's worth looking at the demise of Russell in the context of Ford Motors. Ford started making the model T in 1908. By 1915 they were making half a million per year. They cost $700 in 1910 The trend in car manufacturing was to use assembly lines to produce cheaper cars. By 1915 Russell was hand building cars for thousands of dollars. It was going to cost them many thousands of dollars to retool and even more energy to rethink their approach. Easier to sell the rights to the engine and concentrate on other manufacturing. Incidentally, my grandmother was Tommy's sister, and I thought Jerry's book "Built to a Standard" was a through history of Tommy Russell and Russell Motors.

Here I am spending all this time spraying primer and paint when I could just use the garden hose! 😐

Nicely done! I'd never heard of this company.

so it was always terrible...

I was told by my father years ago that the Red Seal Continental engine was used by many auto manfacters in the 20s.

Great footage

Ray and his little chevrolet 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊 Btw Durant's were sold in Australia and New Zealand as Rugbys😊

It's actually spelled Dofasco.........Dominion foundary and steel Co.

Isnt thereone in st jacques, by the NB QC border

Canada wire was located nearby

Great video thanks. 👍🏆

23:53 Willys introduced all new 2 wheel drive all steel Jeep station wagon in July 1946.

Awesome to hear Minto pronounced correctly!

Very interesting film - thank you for posting. My grandfather, who I never met, was a Durant Dealer, I have a small amount of literature and some old advertisements from his dealership that was in Spokane Wa. (I think).

Great talk guys! Thanks for putting this on. I visited the museum a couple months ago for the first time with my Father and I really liked the Bricklin a lot. It's great to hear that New Brunswickers remember the car with fondness and not an "oh what could have been" perspective

Absolutely amazing information. Thanks for taking the time to make this video! 🇨🇦

Not an electric wrench it’s air driven. Also that’s not an angle grinder.

And now our stupid city is going backwards. Lets add more unused bike lanes. Lets not twin the malahat

It is nice to see this old footage , that was me driving in the first car shown and my son is filming! 😆 Thanks for showing this! 😎👍

What the heck how come the video that Ford made are all black and white. 😂. Cool video ty for putting this up for people to see 👍 🇨🇦 🔧

I remember when I was a child visiting the Craven "A" collection of antique cars when it was a going concern in the 1970s. I was just wondering where that collection was kept? Was the museum at their head office in North york where you mentioned the Rolls-Royce was driven from? I thought it was based somewhere like Kitchener Waterloo. Thanks for explaining the fascinating history of the Canadian Automotive Museum. I hope to visit it soon. I would guess that this museum is the main automotive museum in Ontario, is there a Federal Automotive Museum in Ottawa?

We still travel the same speed today.

Very HQ cars from a forgotten brand!

I grew up on Fleming Crescent in Leaside during the 1950s and 1960s. BTW, the footage is a lot easier to watch at half speed, as it closely resembles reality. However, doing this causes the soundtrack to fail a bit more than I can handle! lol So I switch back and forth.....thanks for posting.

In the early '50's we had three families from Sidney who would form a convoy to go over the "hat" and camp at Rathtrevor beach each year. The convoy was so that if one car broke down there were others to help.

Very interesting commentary on early off-roading and rail-riding in a car. Wondering how common these practices were.

In the few days since we recorded this talk, we've learned a lot more about its context, and the people in it! Huge thanks to Mark Richardson for the detailed information; Perry Doolittle was indeed not present for the majority of the drive; he designed the route, however. Doolittle joined the journey in Quebec, where he drove over the bridge and then returned to Toronto. It's worth noting that he claimed someone else had crossed the Pont de Quebec by car, illegally, a few years earlier- so he was not the first to cross the bridge. He then got back on a train to travel by rail to a CAA conference in Vancouver, but got off around Dryden to join the car on its drive to Winnipeg, where he spoke again and then left by rail for Vancouver. The pilot of the car, for 100% of the drive, was Ed Flickenger, who was a film maker and photographer employed by Ford. The people who did the actual driving were a succession of Ford executives from each of Ford’s local regions as the car travelled through. Doolittle never claimed to have made the drive. That story was started by Ford’s PR department in 1973 when they recreated the drive to publicize their new Mustang and Cougar. Auto journalists just went along with the statement and nobody ever checked it.

Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to share; very curious how much info about this journey has been lost to time or just never was. Would be interesting to find where either the car, or even it's grille ended up.

2:27 Not an electric wrench, but a pneumatic wrench.. Air powered

I owned car number 134 which I bought from C & C Motors here in Oshawa when they were located on Grenfell St. I put over 97,000 miles on it before taking it off the road. I kept it in my garage for some years hoping to retore it but finally gave it to a man who at the time had seven others. He was going to restore mine as it was in the best shape of all of the ones he had.

I had a 175 TNT enduro back in the 70s . At the time it was the best thing out there ! Now near 70 and still ride a dirt bike…Yamaha xt225 .

What's with the synth sounds? Do they make droids in the Bricklin factory, too?

Ford Screwed Canada , so did GM , and Chrysler . Canada got the Big Shaft ...

It makes me Very sad Canada lost its auto industry. Canadian Government sold us out. The USA big 3 bought our Government . Just like the Areo industry . Sad Truth Canada had the most advanced Fighter Jet in the late 1950s The Avroarrow And Canada was told to shut it down. Thanks Diefenbaker.

yes CANADA 💪🏭

Challengers and Camaros Chevrolet Trucks hellcats , Chargers .......all made in Canada

Love Studebakers . I have a 1964 Studebaker Avanti R2 , S/N 5000 . Awesome Cars and we do miss them .

These guys worked hard BACK THEN. Then the union came to be and became candy land. Over paid, lazy, spoiled. GM, ford and Chrysler (Daimler, Fiat, whatever it is now) are still in business by incorporating more and more foreign made parts into it's cars and trucks. Built in USA? At best, assembled in USA. Also, salaried employees have had it made as well. Labor cost and horrible quality has sunk GM, ford and Chrysler (FIAT).