13 WORST Cars From The 1950s, Nobody Wants Back!
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- 13 WORST Cars From The 1950s, Nobody Wants Back!
Explore the "13 WORST Cars From The 1950s, Nobody Wants Back!" In this video, we delve into the most infamous cars of the 1950s USA that have faded into obscurity. Discover why these automotive failures are better left in the past. A must-watch for car enthusiasts and history buffs alike!
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This video is a classic example of "Talking just to hear your head roar".
This guy grew up strapped in the back seat of his momma Honda Civic. He ain't got a clue about the 1950s.
Not a clue of anything...from under what rock does he live? Those cars from the 50s are worshiped by enthusiasts all over the world, many sell for prices that easily would buy you four new cars if they are in good condition..
Mustang II? Come on... Should I explain when the fifties happened?
Missed it by twenty years,lol
Artificial Intelligence misses the mark
70s Stang, 50s engineering with 20s performance. Here in the UK if you had one in the 80s you literally couldn't give them away. A friend of mind noticed one randomly dumped on a piece of scrub land near his house and registered it his name to annoy his neighbours with the racket coming out of the exhaust. I mean, we might not have liked the XJS styling at the time (well, I did but then I'm a bit weird) but at least it could do 140+ for it's no miles to the gallon.
@@darthwiizius Should I mention a few british Cars of the 50s, 60s, 70s? 😂😂😂 That were Real junk !!
@@sergiovazquez9223
A few? I think you'll find it's more than that. Cars in general weren't perfected until the late 80s/early 90s, people go on about Audi's and VWs but in that period MK1 golfs and Audi Quatros were rust buckets, you could watch them rust in real time. Mind you my Mk1 Ford Fiesta Supersport wasn't any better, the steel was so wafer thin that surface rust left holes.
The last 3 are from the 70's, not 50's... 🙄
This gentleman also included the last three cars in his 1960's cars that nobody wants back! I bet he would include them in 1980's, '90's and 2000's.
At 23:44 he also includes a TV advertisement for a 1960's Dodge Coronet!
I still want a 1957 Ford Thunderbird! I don't care if it leaks water in the rain -I'll drive it on sunny days!
i'M a Chevy guy. But the 57 TBird is to die for.
So, if these cars, The Metro,T bird, Hawk, were so unpopular, why are they so damn Popular with collectors today. These cars were all ahead of their time.
collectability is directly invers of availability. This is the case in automobiles even more than other antiques.
I agree with you! I was surprised to see some of those cars were so unpopular! My memory tells me differant.
Mainly because they're rare, as few have survived over the years!
They were so ahead of their time many were scrapped in less then 20 years due to the fuel crisis.
I'm a Chevy guy. But the T Bird was gorgeous.
All of these cars are better than your video!
That's savage!
@@hopkin2006 But warrented, full of mistakes and the pictures didn't match what he was talking about. Totally a FAILURE, done by someone without a clue about the subject !
Cars from the 1950's ? Well, you almost had it right until the last 3 cars on your list.
I'm not in the USA but give you lots of credit, I'm curious about how they build a 1971 Vega in the 50s?
@@annabellesnightmares😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
@@annabellesnightmares it was 1950and 21😂😂
I'm still trying to figure out those RUclips vids from a few years ago that claimed Woodstock was in 1959, and housewives of the 50s were dropping Acid.
It's because millennials have no real education. The 50s and 60s are the same to them. They even call Xers born in the 70s "Boomer."
I about beat my head trying to teach history to that Generation. You couldn't teach them because they all knew everything already, a third of every classroom was whacked up Ecstacy, the rest on Ritalin, and their parents thought their kids could do no wrong. Pathetic.
@@annabellesnightmaresMarty McFly brougjt it from the future 😂
Can I suggest adding the Benz 3 Wheeler from 1890's, Model T Ford, the Yugo 55… These were from the '50's.
Poorly researched. Pictures used often did not match with year of car being discussed A waste of time
In the Mercury Turnpike Cruiser segment, why is there footage of a late '50s Chrysler product? Why does the Eldorado Biarritz segment have so much footage of '57 and '58 Cadillacs? And do you really think that '59 Eldorado Biarritz owners would be among those cost-conscious drivers worrying about rising gas prices?
What a poorly put together video. Often the wrong car or engine or interior is shown. Problems are mentioned that I've never heard of before and the 1971 Vega, the 1974 Mustang II, and the 1978 Pacer aren't 1950s cars by a considerable stretch.
My family had a '54 Nash Metropolitan, I remember as being a nice little runabout, and we even took it on weeklong journeys. Not everyone felt cheated by its being a compact automobile.
Guess they needed 3 more cars to get the unlucky 13 number..... so why not throw in some random cars from another decade...
Not sure why the Vega, Pacer and Mustang II were included in the video. Clearly not 50's cars. Was the title submitted before the content perhaps?
Anything made before he was born in 2000 he thinks was the 1950s.
"Forgotten relics", whatchoo smokin Mac?
Last time I checked 1950's ended on Dec.31, 1959. So the cars from the 1970's are greatly removed form the 1950"s!
what about 1950and 21🤣🤣
Pure filler. They will mention these same cars again in the 13 worst cars of the 1970's plus 3 from the 90's!😁
Since there are 10 years in a decade, 1960 is the last yearof the 1950's.
@@goldfieldgary 1950 to 1959 is ten years. Use your fingers.
@@goldfieldgary Yes there are 10 years but they were 1950 -1959 not 1951- 1960!
The Crowley Hotshot clinched victory at Sebring’s 12 hour race. It finished first, second and third in its class completing 15 laps in the 12 hour event. I would love to get hold of the July 1950 Car and Driver magazine to see what really happened.
I think I would take just about any of those cars compared to the junk that is on the American roads today talking about all the foreign junk cars
A little bit of jingoism goes a long way with you Yankers. So Mercedes Benz, Koenigsegg, Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche are all unable to make a car as well the fckers that voted Trunt to represent them? Come on, vote him back - we all know outside the US that you all adore him - why else would you follow his request to smash up your own parliament FFS?
The whole world is laughing at you, moreso than North Korea. They didn't choose their fcked leader.
Too bad. All of these cars look great. I actually saw a 1956 Packard Caribbean a few years ago in two-tone blue; absolutely breathtaking.
Those are great cars! I had a '55 Caribbean. Yes, they had some issues, and I met a guy that worked for Packard, he was the Ultramatic "specialist" in the area. He described for me the "bugs" in these cars, but after those were fixed he said that they were great cars. The only trouble mine ever gave me was when 1 electric window stopped working.
My aunt had one - us kids would sit in the back seat and bounce bounce bounce as she gaily drove us here and there.
Ugly AF. Yanks have no taste or style though - so wouldn't even know ugliness, even when expressed by the behaviour of your chosen Trunt.
I generally like foreign cars of that era, but the '59 Caddie convertible has always been a beauty---especially in red. (Although a mechanical POS, my dream car has always been a '63-67 Jaguar XKE. I couldn't afford one new, nor can I afford one now).
Old Jags are great if you keep them perfectly clean and buy a complete aftermarket wiring harness!
@@davidkilts1670 ---Reportedly, if a Jag stopped leaking oil, you were a quart down. I would like one with a '65 283 Chevy V8. There was a restoration that was re-engined with a US V8 for about 20% of an original---but it still looked cool.
A Jaguar XKE was a beauty but not a car for Houston in stop and go traffic which guaranteed overheating. It was attention getting particularly from law enforcement.
Jaguar XKE is a beautiful car, just too complicated for you Yankers - and it was not from the 50s. Impossible to train US mechanics to understand anything other than primitive flat head V8s. The Europeans were making much more efficient, better looking, better handling, and faster cars than the Septics in the 50's - and still are.
Tenured College professors wore plaid elbow patches and rode a bicycle or drove crappy economical loser cars under the speed limit. a turnpike cruiser would give him a guilt trip
5:48 Lordy, I love that Nash Metropolitan Station Wagon! The school teacher lady who rented the duplex across the street had a black Thunderbird, a later model though. All black, including its hard top, it was a beautiful sight.
How Can you jump from the 50's to the 70's end of video for me
The Caribbean is the perfect candidate for a "Resto mod" work.
No.
@@richruksenas5992 Why not?
And you said the cars from the 50's but you skipped from decade to decade! What's up with that? And the George Jetson car And the.foodarackacycle is broken again Jane!!!
Why, oh why, are these videos produced? Whoever produces these videos has absolutely no interest or knowledge about cars. All they do is anger real car buffs and invite the hate nerds to say stupid things like "I'd never have a car of the fifties. The air bags and crumple zones only work when the touch screen displays the back up camera and the heated seats are activated by the mandatory power windows".
Besides, cars of the 1950s don't include cars of the 1970s. And the insertion of the wrong car is inexcusable ('60 Mercury for a '57. Studebaker sedan for a Hawk. '57 TBird for a '55.
They used a 4L60-E in the Packard?? What!!???
It was brought to them by some kid named Marty driving a Delorean.
Don't say that something a Yank said wasn't the truth!
Not one of them has been wrong yet, look at your favourite leader - Trunt - he has yet to do or say anything wrong.
Perfect, the Septics are. Infallible even.
I still have my Vega-- outfitted it with sway bars, Koni Shocks, took great care of it. It was alot better than most people debunk it to be, as long as they took care of it.
Actually, we collect many of these cars . And they bring in big dollars and the auctions
Lets talk about Pacer's lack of "adequate" engeneering. In discusions with G.M., AMC had an agreement with G.M. to purchase the rotery engine that G.M. assured them they would produce. Based on this, AMC DESIGENED their Pacer with the rotery engine in mind. It was only after AMC already had started production of the Pacer and had autos sitting around waiting for engines that G.M. announced they had decided to back out of the deal. AMC was stuck between a "rock & a hard place" not having a motor that would fit their car. In desperation they installed their 6cyl which did not fit. THANKS G.M.!
It was even worse than that. GM was also going to make a a front wheel drive transaxle to go with the rotary engine. The Pacer was intended to have a rotary engine AND front wheel drive.
GM cancelled its agreement with Wankel because of problems with the rotary engine - primarily poor gas mileage and mechanical unreliability of the apex seals and rotary-tip seals. Mazda had the same problems with its version of that engine. I wouldn't say that GM screwed over AMC just because it wanted to. Besides, GM paid Wankel $60 million for production licenses and got nothing for it.
@@BingBangBye My point is that G.M. made a deal with AMC & AMC trusted them. G.M. MADE A DEAL to sell rotery engines to AMC & AMC made the mistake of trusting them. AMC designed a whole car around a rotery engine. G.M. DID SCREW OVER AMC because they were a competing brand....
@@johnstadelman4022 Bless your heart. Unless you've read the full text of the agreement between GM and AMC, and were privy to the discussions between the two companies, you can't state that as fact. GM would have been foolhardy to build an engine that had reliability issues, poor gas mileage, and wouldn't pass emissions testing, and AMC would have been foolhardy to accept an engine with those problems. Have a nice day.
Repaired many Pacers in the 70's, AMC 232 and 258 inline six were very reliable motors. The major issue was the back half of the engine was under the dash area, making rear spark plugs and valve cover gaskets a royal pain. The 232 and 258 inline six later became the great 4.0 inline six in the jeep models.
I like most of those cars, especially the big Dodges.
The Hot Shot never ever came with the tin block.
But but my dad owned a Hudson terraplane and it had a bad door latch and I fell out by leaning on the door! Now I lean to the left when riding in any car! And the thunderbird had porthole windows which was the coolest thing I ever saw. But I was just a kid so what did I know? And I owned a lark myself with a three on the steering wheel column that's how I learned to shift a standard transmission. And my parents owned a mercury wagon and it was a bohemeth, but it fit all 12 of the family comfortably! But it had no speakers to speak of so we sang rolling down the hi-way!
The Crosley stole a lot of Austin-Healey design cues.
Please don’t “click to fill” 4:3 material (do not BBC; Blow-up / Blurr / Crop) old video (or film converted to video) that degrades the resolution to less than standard definition. It may look OK on a computer screen but on a TV it’s reduced to blurry mush. Leave 4:3 alone!
I had many friends who had Chevy Vega's and I never heard of any of the mechanical problems mentioned. I will say riding in them felt like riding in an under powered compact made entirely of cast iron. I myself had the successor to the Vega which was the Chevy Monza which was surprisingly one of the best cars I ever owned and I owned many over my long life. My Monza had a 140CU Aluminum 4 cylinder with an overhead cam and it performed equivalent to a Nissan 240 SX, I know this from racing my brothers 240 which I had expected to lose to easily and instead consistently came to a tie with.
I owned two Vegas and I had ALL of the mechanical problems mentioned. The Monza's 140cu engine was the Vega engine, except with the main problems solved.
@@BingBangBye Thanks for letting me know that. I guess the friends I had were either lucky or never mentioned the issues.
@@r.g.c.3897 I'm sure the failure rate couldn't have been 100%, so I have no doubt your Vega-owning friends could have won that lottery. 👍👍
Packard segment shows modern car electrics
Was the '58 Plymouth Fury that different from the '57 Dodge Coronet? They appear almost identical, as cooperate twins would.
I used to see many of those Metropolitans in UK. Small cars with the unusual door. Then they all disappeared. (like the Renault Daupihne and the very US-looking Vauxhall Victor with dragons' teeth chrome fenders).
The Metro was known for very weak front ends. Get too sporty and the front spindles would break off. What really killed the Metro though was the Beetle.
It survived my older brother learning to drive in it. 😂
The Mustang ll would have done much better if it was not named a Mustang. It will always suffer from comparison to past Mustangs. Should have had it's own badge name.
50"s? Hmmm, well I do remember the Mustang 2's illustrious career. California CHP had ordered some for the purpose of high speed pursuit where I lived in San Bernardino. They found out at 100 mph the front floated and became extremely dangerous to drive. These Mustangs had the 302 block, special order from Ford.
Those dated sounding voices of 1950s commercials amuse me.
Gaps and visible flaws? Please tell me this isn't a problem with all cars, especially with al trucks of any year.
13) The Crosley Hotshot. It was guly, and no one in this Country would settle for am inline four.
12) The Packard Carribean. The Automatic Transmission was experimental at the time and other Companies never put it in their highest rankd cars until the transmission had been refined enough to desrve to go into it. Also, the Straight-Eight engine was too antiquated for anyone to want it.
11) Nash Metropolitan. It looked too wierd and yes the small engine was a factor. A lot of people would love to have a stock one right now.
10) Ford T-Bird. He has to diss this one as Biden likes Corvettes and this T-bird was not only a better car in being a metal car with a V-8 but also looked better hands down.
09) Studebaker Golden Hawk. They were chasing Dodge/Chrysler with cars that had fins08). Mercury Turnpike Cruiser. It is a Family car. So what's your point?
08) Edsel. It wasn't as bad as everyone cries about. One. It is a good looking car if you can get over the car's nose. Two. The only problem with it was new untested tech. But don't say anything because it was the infant form of what you now cal paddle shifters and any other tech that is in the wheel like Cruise-Control or the speed control buttons used in the first Dodge Caravan. Three. The second bodystyle leftovers were used to create the limited-edition 1960 Sunliner.
07) 1959 Cadillac. He can't say anything about this considering it is one of the best designed during a year when all GM cars except the Impala of that year were all dogs.
06) Kaiser-Darren. he has to diss this one because of what it was/is. It was the Corvette as Corvette was in it's Second year. And this car had MOPAR in it. Kaiser was part of AMC which was MOPAR parts-bin.
05) The Dodge Coronet. How can he diss the Motor of the Brotherhood of Muscle? All of their cars to my knowledge that got a Hemi in '68, were on a platform based off of this car.
04) Chevy Vega. Yes it was a failure, at attempting to make a small American Car. We used to be able to but all we can do successsfully now is make supersized everything.
03) The Second Generation Mustang. Back off of it now. Without this car the Mustang would have died with the First generation being the only Muscle Generation. And without the Mustang, there would have been ZERO Musclecars from ALL Companies because of it because all of the Muscle made because they were chasing the sales of the Mustang regardless to the size of the car. You would not have gotten A-Body Musclecar competiton either. So like with the Pinto which this car is built on that Platform,and you better. If you love Muscled cars, then you an apology and a debt of gratitude to both.
02) Ford Pinto. See above.
01) AMC Gremlin. Where else could you get a Compact car with the chioce to put a MOPAR V-8 as it's Powerplant?
Signed-RIchard.
The '58 Edsel Corsair may have left a lot to be desired, but I had a '59 Edsel Ranger and I loved that car! I'm 6'8" and had to lean forward to be able to reach the dashboard! The hood and trunk came up to my hip. Roomy, dependable with its column shift transmission and its 312 V8. Undercoated from the factory it was still just as solid in 1989 as it had been when it was new.
That 1959 Cadillac misses a dead dear on its hood.
Imagine that! A 1971 car came out in the 1950's! Incredible!
It was ahead of its time.
This might well be why my family chosen to drive Volkswagen
beetles and busses back then. The slide roof bus served us well.
we had a golden hawk. it was great .
What a shame about the Packard Caribbean. An absolutely gorgeous car to view. Might be a good candidate for a complete restoration of body and gut everything else to be replaced with modern more reliable parts.
I think that the Packard Caribbean is a beautiful car-for a start, the bodywork is of the very finest order and it looks as if it was made for cruising down long straight roads if I had the money to buy one though, I'd see if a manual gearbox could be put in.
How come the timing of the 1974 Mustang 2's release coinciding with the 1973 oil crisis challenged its reception when it was a response to the oil crisis?
You said that Studebaker was "known for their lack-lustre cars" during your presentation of a '56 Golden Hawk (which is anything but lack-luster itself). Going back a few years, Stude introduced the brilliant and popular Champion model just before WWll, the first post-war styled car (many features copied by other auto makers), the '53 Starlight and Starliner Coupes which were called by designers as the best designed cars of the 1950's (and made all other cars look 10 years older) and was the first postwar example of what became the popular "personal car". Add to that, models with superchargers, the industry's first self adjusting brakes, tuff OHV V8's 4 years before Pontiac , Plymouth or Chevrolet and the first low-priced car with a true automatic transmission.
l believe your credibility is in question.
What I would have loved to have is a King Midget!!!! So simple, and would have been great for around town!!! No more dangerous than the 1973 Pinto I drove for years!
The parking garage on my block used a towed Crosley Hotshot as a way for the driver to get back to the garage after delivering a limo to an owner on 5th Ave in NYC.
I owned a mustang 2.....the WORST POS and biggest waste of money I ever did....that was a turning point for me AWAY from FORD
I would be amiss if I did not point out that many of these cars became collector cars which are cherished by there current owners!
That Hot Shot was bad. It looked cheap. Thanks you for sharing such an informative video with us. I saw some cars I've never heard of. When I was growing up we had a Rambler convertible but it was only the very top that went down.
I thought the title say 13 worst car from 50's not 60's and 70's and so on😂😂
Why isn't the 1975 AMC Pacer in this list of bad cars from the 1950s?
Pretending to be experts when you're S for Brains is a sad fact of courrent internet.
How much is a 59 caddy these days?
My father owned a Mustang 2 with a Boss 305 wedged in! It was fast but a bitch to get stopped with all the weight inn fount. At one point he was driving a Mavrick with the same engine. I got a ticket in that car for doing 102 mph on the Kentucky Turnpike! 1976
My father had a "57" Merc, and its biggest problem was overheating. The engines had water-jackets that were too small to pass a sufficient amount of water to remove enough heat to prevent overheating. Dad had nothing but trouble with that car. I remember him saying "The year Chevy came out with their best car ever, I bought that G-D Merc".
'Mercury' was a way to hide a four-letter word.
Friend of mine has one.
Drivers it often and long distance.
No Problems.
Maybe the Problem was, how they were treated?
Interesting that the 57 Mercury Turnpike cruiser had quad headlights as they were barely DOT approved for 57 and these cars were usually designed 2 years prior to release years. '57 Ford was supposed to have quads but they went to a retrofittted DOT single headlight at the last minute because they were not sure of the '57 DOT approval of the quad system.
That's me at 1:18...
some of these cars were not from the 1950s but the terrible 1970s
successor? burrits? and 1971 chevvy vega? '74 mustang ii? '78 pacer? how do they fit in this video? who writes this sh!t?
I can't see any car here that I wouldn't love to have in my garage, Even the Vega, Mustang 2, and the AMC Pacer. These is real cars, No rolling computers
Lies about the Edsel. I own one. I should know.
You seem to be mistaking the Mercury Turnpike with the Plymouth Fury.
I give a C+ for effort. Whoever edited this video did a pretty poor job of it
We would do well to have these cars today. Everything is a SUV now.
Everybody wants a Studebaker hawk 12:18 12:27 😊 13:56
Nothing says rotten craftsmanship like EDSEL. 😆
I would love to have a Crosley...
Edsel CORSAIR - was only one of four models. So much more trouble than you measure. Cadillac BI - AR -RITZ has three syllables. This entire post is offensively substandard. 😡😡😡😡
WTF? The Vega was built in the 1970s, not the 1950s.
I daily drive a 1957 Chevy Bel Air. It will be on the road for another 100 years.
2:20. That thing won at Sebring? What was its opposition? Soap Boxes?
The mustang pinto. Lousy car, but not 50s. It's from the 70s! You really should get your titles corrected.
You don't even stay in the 60's decade.
so 70s cars were actually from the 50s?
That Metropolitan was a true abortion of a car
I was going to badmouth this clip, but basically every comment beat me to it.
The 1957 Ford redefined "ugly"
went from advertised 50’s cars jumped right into 70’s miss steps especially due to oil embargo.
just think if the USA would have sped up oil production then how much better off we would be
even under green deal joe.
1955 Ford Thunderbird and nobody wants it? Those things are super collectible. Most of them are, if not downright iconic.
Then you jump to 3 turds from the 70's. OK they're all trash but wrong decade much?
2:40 Packard Caribbean: NOT the Hotshot's successor! The companies were separate. IDIOTIC Packard 'info'; it had been long a luxo player, was losing in '50s with unloved redesign.
It's just me or did you show a Plymouth in the Mercury portion. And really, 1970s cars in a 1950s video. Kind of sloopy.
I WAS going to say, pretty much ANY American car. Things haven’t changed a great deal, have they?
Terrible video filled with with errors inaccuracies. In the 1957 Turnpike Cruiser segment alone, later model Mercurys were shown and there was even a late fifties Chrysler product in it. Years of other makes other than the year being discussed were consistently shown. And what is a Vega doing in a video about 50's cars?!
How many times was it needed to say the name of each car!?!
Worst RUclips film of the 2020s....
What do the Vega, Mustang ll & Pacer have to do with the WORST Cars From The 1950s?? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Gee, maybe somebody just wanted to stretch their video out long enough to get one more stupid commercial in. Pitiful! That or they don't know WTF their doing.
Sounds like another video made by someone who has never had or seen any of these cars.
Whether or not any of them had issues back in the 1950's when they were new, is irrelevant today. Cars with had less desirable power trains simply get modern power plants and transmissions installed and thus they become what ever the owner wants them to be.
I would never look at any Crosley as a 'sports car' while some may have raced them, they were more or less an early econobox type car with low expectations and a low price. They were never meant to be competitors of more expensive sports cars.
The only car on the list I find issue with is the Thunderbird but as a guy who's 6ft3in tall, I simply don't fit. Powertrain wise, they were no different than any other Ford of that era.
Packard in its later years was struggling with costs and profits, their cars began to show it which likely caused their demise or 'merger' which ended the brand name. As a car for the most part they weren't much worse than other vehicles of the time. I also can't say I've ever run across one with an original automatic transmission in the wild, but by the time I came along they were already mostly gone from the roads.
I did grow up with an elderly couple across the street that drove a Caribbean convertible as their second car, but that one had a column shift three speed manual trans.
1950's US cars look so bad compared to European cars.
Logic of getting views: "People see woman, they click!"
Who's the female in the thumbnail ? Does she have anything to do with this ?