@@Kinseydsp Yes, exactly..I like old cars to look like they did in this film, when they were new and came off the assembly line...not just a shell of an old car with absurd lowering, modern drivetrains and interiors, ridiculously large diameter wheels with rubber band tires...or that gawd-awful fad called "patina", or any other fad of the times...they look best original, and they are only original once..the survivors deserve that....
The finest workers were building the finest cars in the finest factories in the finest cities. What a fine time they all had. Seriously though, I was a four- year- old kid then and I remember the 50s fondly.
I had a dream that i time traveled back too 55 and too a corvette assy.plant.I purchased one right off the assy.line and brought it back too present day 2017.
when I was young my bother and I cruse Van Nuys BLVD. in his Bad ass 1955 chevy Bel Air two door Hard top . That car would get first and second gear wheelies. Then my Mom n Dad on my 16th. Birthday got me a 56 Bel Air two door look just like my Brothers . Man that was the Best time of our life. Not as Fast as my Brothers But I love that car. The good ole Days.We was from Ontario Calif. When it was nice out there lol.
Great footage of the 55 Chevrolets being assembled & in color ! I remember seeing the 55 Chevy's everywhere in the 60's. Back when America was great & had a real strong middle class when the workers benefited as much as the owners. When wealth was more evenly distributed & the dollar was worth something. When you could pay cash to buy the American Dream. A new car & house my dad paid cash when he bought a new 57 Chevy Bel Air straight from the factory. AMERICA WHAT HAPPENED ????
@@58fins You are right & it's sad to look back at how great it was 65 years ago. Hard to look ahead when America already peaked long ago. As a kid in the '60's i took the '55 Chevy's & my dad's '57 Chevy for granted thinking these cars would always be around. Suddenly they became dinosaurs....the ravages of father time. I worked in a new car store in 2015 I only saw one cash sale for 20k all the rest were financed. I financed a 2010 used car from the store so I know what it's like to be in debt. I can't recall seeing my dad pay with a credit card only cash, he said he only financed a new Chevrolet in 1951.I never saw that car but I saw my grandpa's used '51 Chevy financing was rare back then
The democrats turned from the peoples party to a communist dictatorship! Everything for free for the slugs that don’t work off of the backs of those that do! Progressive liberalism is the cancer killing America!!
They are available made of all new parts. $75,000 assembled :www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2015/08/13/modern-classic-new-chevy-built-order-woodward-dream-cruise-chevy/31638857/
the plant 1:33 is Norwood assembly plant my dad worked there that plant is the home of the Camaro 67-87 the new highway the truck is on is called the Norwood lateral it connects interstate 75- and I-71 Norwood sits in the middle of the it's a 7 mile stretch of hwy that connects the 2 hi ways so G.M. could get the cars out without driving thru downtown Cincinnati.
1:57 is the Norwood assembly plant 5 minutes from my house at Water Tower I'll never forget it but that's also the Norwood lateral that the truck is hauling the cars away on that was a brand new free and 1/2 Mile Expressway that was in 1955 or 6 was built for General Motors for Norwood plant to connect 75 and 71 it's about equal distance to both I weigh two trucks could get in and out with the cars the Norwood lateral is still used today should be calling Norwood assembly plant lateral
Вот так выглядит настоящая старая Америка! Красота! Не то что сейчас, куча негров и всё искусственное. Американские машины, американская архитектура и атмосфера -это то что нужно сохранять.
pencil fluff... Thats when Democrats were Democrats, not the currupt anti-christian, baby killing atheists of today who don't give a dam about the hard working middle class. All they care about is the Illegal immigrants who cross our southern unchecked borders just so they can get votes so these elitists can remain in power and get rich off all of our backs.
John L & PeNcil Fluff... Amen to that my brothers... & thank God & our Potus for setting these elitists to be devoured as shown in the Psalms 64:8 He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn. -former recondo sgt. ''rock'' 82nd abn. '71-'74 41018
Sold...Listen to me you old baby boomer ..If you would get your head out of that damn bible for 10 seconds and start looking around and doing some thinking with that lump 3 ft above your asshole you would realize both parties are corrupt and don't give a flying fuk about average Americans..You make all us baby boomers look stupid...
the picture of this ad of this video is the Norwood Ohio plant after you see it go see if the thing is going down a brand new looks like a brand new highway that was the Norwood lateral that was a direct line from the GM plant I-75 and I-71 to get the cars out to the highways
Could you imagine going back in time with the money it takes to buy today's cars with plastic headlights that turn yellow in the 3 yrs later and buy like 3 or 4 of these
I love how people forget that the US was in a deep recession in the mid '50s, tax rates were much higher than they are now and virtually all the things that people take for granted now hardly existed.
Be nice if the classic Chevy"s came back, the problem is the American Dream is not affordable to the working class anymore. The middle class is gone & America has reverted back to the depression '30's just rich & poor. It'll never be like it was in the '50's we'll never see it again.
Yes, look at the Japanese cars made in the 1950's, even into the 1960's, look it up...they were a joke compared to Detroit's cars then, and that's an understatement....
I've always been a fan of the '55 Chevy. I used it as the central prop in my novel, "Summer of the Black Chevy." Details here: kevinsgiles.com/summer-of-the-black-chevy/
Urban sprawl did not look so bad THEN. Land was cheap, and plentiful. Now you have to be an aristocrat to own any. It is a nightmare to me now, really OVERDONE. What they are telling people here is "Everything is GREAT, go in to debt and buy a car and a house" or whatever. Weldors, carpenters, bricklayers could MAKE MONEY. Not so today, BB
Cars are waaaaay better now in every way...fit, finish, ride, handling, power, efficiency, safety, longevity, reliability, brakes, tires, amenities, tech options, etc....subjectively maybe lacking in style...that's about it.
the blue bel airs is norwood and when I pull out that plant they got a list of all them brand new Chevrolets and them truck sitting there that is the Norwood plant and the highway that they go on is called the Norwood lateral that was built just for the General Motors plant and of course General Motors f*** Norwood in 1987 if I closed it down the F body plant Camaro Trans Am plant
Well I'd say that was just a little does of good old propaganda. That was when u could believe what was coming from Washington, presidents could walk without falling, didn't fall asleep at a national or international summit and didn't talk like reverend Jim off Taxi
Propaganda yes BUT, it was positive propaganda and there's nothing wrong with that. Contrast that to the actively corrosive sepsis within today's body-politic and the MSM's role in it. Add to that the heavy spencer ships of yytt to make any krit is scism against our minders almost impossible.
Our wonderful President Donald Trump will go down as history's greatest president , the best the united states has ever had. President Donald Trump will be reelected in the year 2020 . Don jr or Ivanka Trump will be elected in the following election cycles. we will have Trump in the white house for the next 20 years, give or take.
@@buckyflywoodie3905 Yeah no. The fact that an idiotic conman made it this far shows how desperate conservatives have become. Trump is a symptom of the "forgotten peoples'" deluded envisionment for the future. MAGA! Morons Are Governing America!
They ought to rename this video "The killing car" after all the people who died due to it's then new untested design flaw, which saw no immediate end. It's okay though. Ford fixed the problem in their cars. Sadly they still toot the horn of this deadly awkward behemoth Chevy today, never knowing.
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I have a 1955 Chevy. Built in Norwood November 21st 1954. Still has the 265 and Powergide.
Great!! I have a 2 dr hardtop!(Baltimore plant)
I Love Them when they are original Good Old 265 V8
@@Kinseydsp Yes, exactly..I like old cars to look like they did in this film, when they were new and came off the assembly line...not just a shell of an old car with absurd lowering, modern drivetrains and interiors, ridiculously large diameter wheels with rubber band tires...or that gawd-awful fad called "patina", or any other fad of the times...they look best original, and they are only original once..the survivors deserve that....
So glad they made a lot of 'em. We can thank Ed Cole and Harley Earl, too -- R.I.P.
I worked at the Tarrytown n.y. Plant for three years 1957 ,1960 it was a marvel to say the least, hard work ,but good pay .
Workers had no idea what a classic they were putting together.
They knew, boy did we know.
I never miss a Jim Handy film!
For some reason these videos break my heart.
The finest workers were building the finest cars in the finest factories in the finest cities. What a fine time they all had. Seriously though, I was a four- year- old kid then and I remember the 50s fondly.
I had a dream that i time traveled back too 55 and too a corvette assy.plant.I purchased one right off the assy.line and brought it back too present day 2017.
vern wallen Only Tesla would let you do that.
Wonderful. This was the time when everything said: Made in the USA.
Unlike now Sadly
Right ON!
The 1950's was America's greatest decade.
brand new 55 Chevy big boy fries and a coke life couldn't be much better than that
the good old days loved them
Instead of the Super Bowl halftime show this year they should just play this video.
when I was young my bother and I cruse Van Nuys BLVD. in his Bad ass 1955 chevy Bel Air two door Hard top . That car would get first and second gear wheelies. Then my Mom n Dad on my 16th. Birthday got me a 56 Bel Air two door look just like my Brothers . Man that was the Best time of our life. Not as Fast as my Brothers But I love that car. The good ole Days.We was from Ontario Calif. When it was nice out there lol.
1st and 2nd really?56 looks like55? bob didn't your mom tell you that you never use your mouth to break wind? you are a fucking bullshiting fool!
So cool seeing all those '55's...
Great footage of the 55 Chevrolets being assembled & in color ! I remember seeing the 55 Chevy's
everywhere in the 60's. Back when America was great & had a real strong middle class when the workers
benefited as much as the owners. When wealth was more evenly distributed & the dollar was worth something.
When you could pay cash to buy the American Dream. A new car & house my dad paid cash when he bought
a new 57 Chevy Bel Air straight from the factory. AMERICA WHAT HAPPENED ????
What happened is the banks realized they could make more money off of debt slaves. I should know, I'm one of them!
@@58fins You are right & it's sad to look back at how great it was 65 years ago. Hard to look ahead when America already peaked long ago. As a kid in the '60's i took the '55 Chevy's & my dad's '57 Chevy for granted thinking these cars would always be around. Suddenly they became dinosaurs....the ravages of father time.
I worked in a new car store in 2015 I only saw one cash sale for 20k all the rest were financed. I financed a 2010 used car from the store so I know what it's like to be in debt.
I can't recall seeing my dad pay with a credit card only cash, he said he only financed a new Chevrolet in 1951.I never saw that car but I saw my grandpa's used '51 Chevy financing was rare back then
The democrats turned from the peoples party to a communist dictatorship!
Everything for free for the slugs that don’t work off of the backs of those that do!
Progressive liberalism is the cancer killing America!!
So why don't we take it back then?
Cuando se fabricaba con calidad, una belleza.
Oh still my post 3 owner 55 Chevy heart!
4 door wagon, 2 door post, & 4 door.
Thank's for that fond memory stir Paul! 41018
I wish they still made the 55 Chevrolet 2 door instead of the new junk cars they make today
They are available made of all new parts. $75,000 assembled :www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2015/08/13/modern-classic-new-chevy-built-order-woodward-dream-cruise-chevy/31638857/
Chevrolet Motor Division NEEDS to start showing this program for their car commercials!
Great Detroit iron being built and assembled back in the day.
Yes, and you could get a good paying job with an eighth grade education!
the plant 1:33 is Norwood assembly plant my dad worked there that plant is the home of the Camaro 67-87 the new highway the truck is on is called the Norwood lateral it connects interstate 75- and I-71 Norwood sits in the middle of the it's a 7 mile stretch of hwy that connects the 2 hi ways so G.M. could get the cars out without driving thru downtown Cincinnati.
Family has a 51 chevy truck... what a different time it... simple yet still pretty.
Now gm builds an assembly plant and China springs up around it.
1:57 is the Norwood assembly plant 5 minutes from my house at Water Tower I'll never forget it but that's also the Norwood lateral that the truck is hauling the cars away on that was a brand new free and 1/2 Mile Expressway that was in 1955 or 6 was built for General Motors for Norwood plant to connect 75 and 71 it's about equal distance to both I weigh two trucks could get in and out with the cars the Norwood lateral is still used today should be calling Norwood assembly plant lateral
Вот так выглядит настоящая старая Америка! Красота! Не то что сейчас, куча негров и всё искусственное. Американские машины, американская архитектура и атмосфера -это то что нужно сохранять.
my dads 55 still in the barn, i dont care about anything else we drove
Back when the '55 Chevy's were brand spanking new & everyone could
afford to buy one. Today many buy things they can't afford.
My Dad had a 55 Belair, green with a cream roof.
Love the 55s but inlove with the 57 chevy
back when America was ,,,great
pencil fluff... Thats when Democrats were Democrats, not the currupt anti-christian, baby killing atheists of today who don't give a dam about the hard working middle class. All they care about is the Illegal immigrants who cross our southern unchecked borders just so they can get votes so these elitists can remain in power and get rich off all of our backs.
John L & PeNcil Fluff...
Amen to that my brothers... & thank God & our Potus for setting these elitists to be devoured as shown in the Psalms 64:8 He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn. -former recondo sgt. ''rock'' 82nd abn. '71-'74 41018
John L Must be hell carrying the white man's burden squarely on your shoulders...Jack ass..
Sold...Listen to me you old baby boomer ..If you would get your head out of that damn bible for 10 seconds and start looking around and doing some thinking with that lump 3 ft above your asshole you would realize both parties are corrupt and don't give a flying fuk about average Americans..You make all us baby boomers look stupid...
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can you say house broken? 62618
the picture of this ad of this video is the Norwood Ohio plant after you see it go see if the thing is going down a brand new looks like a brand new highway that was the Norwood lateral that was a direct line from the GM plant I-75 and I-71 to get the cars out to the highways
Great video.
That guy had to lick every one of those labels he put on those windshields.
Very cool video and gave you a Thumbs Up.
Could you imagine going back in time with the money it takes to buy today's cars with plastic headlights that turn yellow in the 3 yrs later and buy like 3 or 4 of these
The 1950's optimistic view of America's bright future, I was born in 1952 and that was the typical attitude in those days.
Marten Trudeau Was that because you were born?😁
A time when you could actually afford a new car without breaking the bank.
If they would make a modern car with the same design as the 1955 Chevy i would be first in line to buy one.
RIGHT ON!
I love how people forget that the US was in a deep recession in the mid '50s, tax rates were much higher than they are now and virtually all the things that people take for granted now hardly existed.
I love how people forget Jim Crow laws were still rampant.
The 50’s were a better time than now. Without a doubt
I lost a chance this past weekend for a nice running 65 impala 2 door $2,500
Que buenos recuerdos y ese tiempo los propios artesanos con tecnología cada uno en su labor grandioso
You see, If they start making 55 chevys again, all will be better
Be nice if the classic Chevy"s came back, the problem is the American Dream is not affordable to the working class anymore. The middle class is gone & America has reverted back to the depression '30's just rich & poor. It'll never be like it was in the '50's we'll never see it again.
I want a time machine for Christmas.
I'd go to the 60s. Cooler cars and hot rods lol.
This dude sure goes off topic if this about GM assembly line !
And not a mention of what made Chevrolet a success the SBC !
I wouldn't mind taking one
Great vid, Paul! I wonder if 1:43 is the Van Nuys CA assembly plant?
Yes, definitely Van Nuys, California. www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Roz7q%2foB&id=EF70EC344216338522D3F0FEB2480BD24D6FE37C&thid=OIP.Roz7q_oBkBgDwyPqml0xhQHaFc&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.corvetteforum.com%2fforums%2fattachments%2fc4-general-discussion%2f47951170d1454319780-anyody-remember-the-old-gm-van-nuys-camaro-plant-assembly-losplant.jpg&exph=805&expw=1095&q=van+nuys+gm+plant&simid=608029971211159798&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0
Hand built, that's all I have to say about that.
I love a 55 chevy
We took those days for granted
"A factory is built in the open country. A great city arises around it."
TommyTwobats The beginning of Urban Sprawl.
TommyTwobats Janesville Wisconsin?
Everything is fine.......fine!
Imagine if you could order one off the line today!
HEY! They neglected to mention base ball ,hotdogs +moms apple pie!!
Anything made in Japan was laughed at even in the mid sixties.
Yes, look at the Japanese cars made in the 1950's, even into the 1960's, look it up...they were a joke compared to Detroit's cars then, and that's an understatement....
I've always been a fan of the '55 Chevy. I used it as the central prop in my novel, "Summer of the Black Chevy." Details here: kevinsgiles.com/summer-of-the-black-chevy/
never heard of ya
5:12 where is this place? I think I saw this on a Official Samsung S7 camera 4K video though. :D
It looks like Big Sur, California.
Does he say "all" at all? Lovin' those colors!
He gave his all,
If I only knew id save more of them
Fine
When men were men and women were women no transgender bathrooms!
السﻻم عليكم
At 0:37 the engine in that car looking at the valve covers doesn't look like a 265 V8. I am not too sure what it is supposed to be.
Will there ever be another time in history like this?
No it'll never be 1955 again, the best times have come & gone. All we can do is look back at how good it was.
If there is, it won't be in America. This video breaks my heart compared to what America is today. Too much greed.
Can you get 57 chevy assembly line ?
The crane operator was smoking a C-gar 😁
Are those dudes at 4:25 actually spray painting with no masks on?
1:13 pasting the stamps
The year I was born..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 yah hoo...lol..
Van Nuys?
Notice only one person per car.
55 chevy v8’s did not have oil filters
It was a option on the 265 V8
And every one o this assembly line could afford the car on their hourly wage. No longer. GO STRIKES!
4:39 GTA SA Walton
How about that dude at 1:10 who is licking those stickers with his tongue and then sticking them inside the windshield!
Why not build this nice cars and do IT economic with a modern V8
GET A FUCKING GRIP DUMB FUCK!
Government wouldn't allow it...government designs our cars now....
If I watch this video again, I may attempt to take my own life, has our country declined or is it just me?
Yeah you don’t see videos like THIS anymore made in China isn’t made well
Yha. Japan cars are the only cars worth buying now. Sad.
Japanese rice wagons
Urban sprawl did not look so bad THEN. Land was cheap, and plentiful. Now you have to be an aristocrat to own any. It is a nightmare to me now, really OVERDONE. What they are telling people here is "Everything is GREAT, go in to debt and buy a car and a house" or whatever. Weldors, carpenters, bricklayers could MAKE MONEY. Not so today, BB
This isn't an assembly line video.
0:50.....The black car has no side trim, & looks like there’s no back seat.
Correct ! the 150's had no side trim & the 2 dr Utility Coupes had no backseat.
It's a "business coupe" Cheapest one, next to no standard equipment.
Back when humans built cars.
The days cars use to be quality, not plastic crap
Cars are waaaaay better now in every way...fit, finish, ride, handling, power, efficiency, safety, longevity, reliability, brakes, tires, amenities, tech options, etc....subjectively maybe lacking in style...that's about it.
@@ljoelmchanley3676 Nope..they suck, I never want a car made past the mid 1980's....
@ 2:33 I believe that's Michigan's Northland Mall on 8 mile & Greenfield.
So innocent those days, now look what has happened with all the cars, traffic jams, smog, urban blight. Not so fairy tale now.
THIS IS AMERICA THE GREATEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD. IF IT WASN'T WHY IS THERE SO MANY NATIONALITES HERE.
the blue bel airs is norwood and when I pull out that plant they got a list of all them brand new Chevrolets and them truck sitting there that is the Norwood plant and the highway that they go on is called the Norwood lateral that was built just for the General Motors plant and of course General Motors f*** Norwood in 1987 if I closed it down the F body plant Camaro Trans Am plant
Sad for the american people and the Detroit motortown wery wery sad
i will take the 2 door 210 blue and hardtop 2 door
belair is the way to go in terms of quality and value
Donald Trumps Father made this Film...
I would take 1955 over 2022
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Well I'd say that was just a little does of good old propaganda. That was when u could believe what was coming from Washington, presidents could walk without falling, didn't fall asleep at a national or international summit and didn't talk like reverend Jim off Taxi
Propaganda yes BUT, it was positive propaganda and there's nothing wrong with that.
Contrast that to the actively corrosive sepsis within today's body-politic and the MSM's role in it. Add to that the heavy spencer ships of yytt to make any krit is scism against our minders almost impossible.
Long live Trump
what did he do so far?
+Tom Smith Trump is a Zionist puppet and the manchurian candidate, now President. And I'm Republican.
Our wonderful President Donald Trump will go down as history's greatest president , the best the united states has ever had. President Donald Trump will be reelected in the year 2020 . Don jr or Ivanka Trump will be elected in the following election cycles. we will have Trump in the white house for the next 20 years, give or take.
@@buckyflywoodie3905 Yeah no. The fact that an idiotic conman made it this far shows how desperate conservatives have become. Trump is a symptom of the "forgotten peoples'" deluded envisionment for the future. MAGA! Morons Are Governing America!
Lol, trump reelected
The best days of America!
What a time!
We are an unrecognized shell of the past now! Very sad 🥺
What a tiresome voice over commentary. I really wanted to watch but the voice was painful
Welcome to 1955 haha...
They ought to rename this video "The killing car" after all the people who died due to it's then new untested design flaw, which saw no immediate end. It's okay though. Ford fixed the problem in their cars. Sadly they still toot the horn of this deadly awkward behemoth Chevy today, never knowing.
FUCKING IDIOT!
What design flaw?
Probably the steering column. Collapsible steering columns came in ‘67 on GM cars.
55 Chevy! That's all I got to say about that