I've seen some folks not understanding that this was for the salesmen to see....it would have been a big annual event, rent a movie theater and have a bunch of dealers together, then food and drink....wrecking a truck was amazing to do....and the Salesforce really would have enjoyed this film.
My father owned a Dodge and Plymouth dealership from around 1934 to 1969, and each summer Chrysler Corporation would debut the new vehicles for the coming year. We were in the Dallas Region so we would drive about 4 hours to Dallas to see the new vehicles. Chrysler would make a big production of it and would have off Broadway type groups perform a theme type show between the presentation of all the new vehicles. It was really great entertainment with a lot of skits, singing, dancing, and lots of beautiful ladies. In 1964 I was 17 when we went to the new car showing. I am almost certain they played this short movie before they introduced the new 1965 Dodge trucks. Back then trucks would go years with one body style that never changed from year to year. One year we had a truck that didn’t sell before the next years truck came out. There were no changes from year to year, and the truck had close to 0 miles on it, so Daddy sent the title back to Dodge and they issued a new title showing the truck was the next year’s model. They only did that on trucks, and it was rare, but the government stopped that practice a couple of years later. I also remember when Daddy received the first truck that cost $2000.00. He didn’t think any farmer would ever pay that much for a truck. Times have changed.
In SF,CA in the 60's every year they had a Truck Show. Every brand and all the semi's. In those days you could climb in and check everything out. I was 10 and my father took me every year, after all he was a Trucker. Good Times!
My favorite ( there weren't any I didn't like ) was " The Ghost and Mr. Chicken " . Scary and funny for a Six year old. It was another few years before I realized how Beautiful Joan Staley was !
They were very nice trucks especially the 4 wheel drives,the women back then took better care of themselves they look so beautiful such a good time to live
AMEN! Now we get to watch amazons woddle from side to side like they are proud of those trips to Pizza Pizza. And they even sell negligees in size xxl. Honey I'm home ... want to see how sexy I am! 🤣🤣
Love Don Knotts. Hilarious. I owned a 1967 Dodge van. Loved it. It had double doors on each side. I customized it with a bed in the rear with stereo speakers mounted forward underneath. Eight track player for sound. Made quite a few trips from PA to to San Antonio Tx. No need for motels. Kept On Trucking! It was the same style as in this video.
Beds in vans were still in style even in the late 80s... Took the modern retards in WDC to ruin the real fun of owning having a van. I bought air shocks for my 71 Chevy van so my parents couldn't see the thing bouncing in the driveway when I was ah with girls.
65 thru 71s were no joke. I have 69 D100 2x4 with the full floating rear that had been rebuilt like 3 times until I got a new one. Had a factory defect in the axle housing seals kept coming loose. It had 77K when I bought in 1988. It now has twice that. We tore the engine down took that for rebuilding to a local shop. They called me told me the thing was still like new asked why I wanted it rebuilt. The shop just redid the heads and regasketed the thing. Starts right up any kind of weather too.
Mr Knotts was one of my favorite old school slapstick comedians. The moves, the look and the voice. A very gifted performer. Thank you Don! Luv ya man!
I was born in '65,and in elementary school I had a chum I played little league with,his dad had a double cab with a camper shell.He was the local Little Debbie guy.Got to ride in it a few times (I think it had a 3-on -the- tree shifter).Thought it was very cool!
Wow! I loved this promo film. The super cool trucks and the the comedy that only Don Knotts could deliver. Playing a Barney like character in ever film he ever made never became boring.
I love it when he's behind the wheel of the pick up and he's looking out the window and making his eye bug out! lol He always just cracked me up and. that line.....the "big payload" line...lol
I bought a new 69 Dodge Power Wagon Camper Special, loaded. 383 V8 all power, PTO winch, except windows. I still have it, it's a tank with just 75k miles. Really hated to see them crash one in this video.
This was awesome! I've never seen a sales ad like this. I absolutely love Don Knotts. My favorite comedic actor of the time. I was 3yo when this ad was.made. These are my favorite years of Dodge trucks no less.
Don Knotts was one of my favorite actors. They don't build trucks like that anymore. Back then they were made with pure steel and a man could work on them when they broke down. Thanks for sharing! Never seen this one.
Ah, yes. You could service or rebuild every darn part on it. Though....they were underpowered, had brakes illegally unsafe by modern standards, got horrible per -horsepower mpg, steered poorly even with a giant ships' wheel, and made a one star crash rating look like a lofty goal. I absolutely love mine!
He was a serious actor. I was on set with Ron Howard a few times. We were good friends and neighbors. He and Andy would be studying their parts and were nothing like depicted on this video. However, once the cameras were rolling, they could turn on their charm and be hilarious, when the roll called for it. They were consummate professionals!
My best friend Dennis used to have a Power Wagon of about the same year, only it was a butt-ugly Dodge (stock?) orange and had a massive home built grill guard (that I found for him in a salvage yard!). He used to call it his "Dawg" - and we treated it like, one bashing through the hills and rocks of Colorado.
It was a fun truck to drive . I owned a red one I inherited it from a uncle who owned it for almost 15 years. It took exceptional good care of it. When I acquired the truck it only had 72k miles on it hardly broke in.
You're hanging out with the wrong crowd darlin'. She certainly isn't out here on this little idiot box twerking or whatever they do. If you put up a legitimate personal ad saying you want a natural beautiful woman to treat like a lady and respect as a woman, and you follow the "Mike Pence rule" which has been around long before Mike pence was VP? Then you'll find her. But please remember, you can't have your cake and eat it too. if you want a lady, then you are to be a gentleman at all times - all eyes on her. Forever. And please don't be fooled.. when you take a closer look at the Andy Griffith show? those women worked, contributed to the homes financially.. they were respected. They were the pharmacist, teachers, and if you take a very close look - who was the worst gossip on that show? Wasn't clara.. it was Floyd! The barbershop was a hen house. You didn't put your hands on a woman - you weren't allowed to abandon your family.. if you did, you'd better go clear to the other side of the country - and the men in town knew that... Didn't dare. I worked in South America - there was a man who was sitting on a street corner sort of beat up - and I had asked about him.. it was explained that he was driven out of his village. The men exiled him. - he had been bothering young women and girls, drunk, hitting his wife.. so the men took him out behind the barn end took care of it. if you want a lady to stay a lady - then gentleman need to be men, in action. Women have been forced to become more aggressive because of the amount of responsibility put on them - they're now expected by courts, to bring home the bacon, cook it, and clean up the pan they bought. one of the things I admire most in martial arts is the strength of the men throwing that punch so hard and so fast, and being able to stop on a hair on your nose.. now that's a sexy man that can let a lady be a lady. Knows when to use it, and knows when to put it away. Strength with control Just like a lady!
If I'd seen this sooner I'd have bought a Dodge years ago. I just bought my first in 2019. My first diesel was in 2003. First truck of my own was a '69 chevy in 1987.
How did we lose them? They aren't traded on the NYSE anymore, but they are still a stand alone company....just owned by Stellantis. They've had many owners over they years.........NYSE individual share holders, then Daimler about 30 years ago, then Cerebus about 20 years ago, a US company, then Fiat, now Stellentas.....still headquartered in Auburn Hills under the name FCA, but it's Chrysler Corporation still behind the name.
@OsbornTramain You just answered your own question, they haven't been the original Chrysler for many years. I drove their cars/trucks from 1972 until 2010. Stellentas is why I stopped primarily because they were overpriced.
I’ve gotten to meet him in person.. unfortunately he wasn’t around much longer, but had him sign a model car that my father had from the “Andy Griffith show” and it was at the Louisville, KY expo center somewhere around 20yrs ago..
Fun video. My cousin still has his 71 Power Wagon. It is still a beast. Nice to see no disclaimers while that truck was beat to death. How times have changed.
I had 66 Dodge pickup with a 318, and there was NO STOPPING that truck. Put 1.5 yards of gravel in the back, couldn't tell it was there. Pulled two horses and a trailer, I forgot they were back there
I think the area where they crashed the Dodge was filmed either at Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California or at Corriganville over the hill from Chatsworth in Simi Valley, California.
I like how Dodge was using a man wearing a crevatte to sell heavy duty trucks. Anyone know who the ice cold brunette in the black dress was? Hubba hubba
I thought the video title said Don Knotts and DON WIlson, from "The Jack Benny Show." The idea of the two of them together sounded like epic comedy. But then I realized I was wrong. LOL
Check out 9:34, look how narrow that cab is. Can you imagine being in an accident? Absolutely no crumple zone to absorb energy. This was when the people were the crumple zone. lol
I love at 2:52 when he says, "Men, ladies, men ladies and men..." Don Knotts is one of my favorite actors of all time. You were smart to put his clip in the thumbnail instead of Dodge (although Dodge had some damned good trucks back then, and the Powerwagon was super. Don got me here. Isn't he a national treasure?
If you're a big fan of Don Knotts, you know the Move, "The Love God?" with a character, "Osborne Tramaine" so that puts things into perspective about this Channel, I love Cars.... love Car Commercials......BUT. Don Knots is my most favorite Actor and Comedian
I love watching people, products, and local life I grew up with, even the sudio gate, fasions or costumes, with background cars, van, or trucks make me feel at home.
1965 - US Marines land in DaNang marking a significant escalation of the Vietnam War; the civil rights march in Selma was met with police attacks, tear gas and vicious dogs; The US intervened and occupied the Dominican Republic, 3000 Dominicans are killed, 31 US service members; Race Riots in Watts, Malcolm X is assassinated etc, etc. Take off the rose-coloured nostalgia glasses. This was a make believe commercial.
What a relic of another time. A time I remember well. A Power Wagon of about this vintage winched my truck out of a man-eating mud hole in the 90’s. Nothing to it, the guy said.
This brought back a old memory deer hunting with my Dad. His buddy had a Crew Cab Power Wagon, and as we were driving on a dirt road, we hit a rain check doing at least 35 mpg. No seatbelts in those days, or we never used them everyone in that truck hit the roof multiple times. Yee Haw!
@OsbornTramain, This is one of the rare promos among short subjects that need to return to theatre screens on a regular basis instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
There's a lot of things from Yesteryear that would not be allowed today, because we live in the "Politically Correct" era, anything and everything offends somebody! Society needs to take a good shit and loosen up a bit, can you imagine a show like, "Married With Children" being produced today, it would never make it to the air waves, because it would offend somebody!
vehicles for the coming year. We were in the Dallas Region so we would drive about 4 hours to Dallas to see the new vehicles. Chrysler would make a big production of it and would have off Broadway type groups perform a theme type show between the
Yeah why don't we look things up and consider the source the source on a juicy story like this, or non-story, will most likely somebody who's trying to make money, get you to buy a book, magazine or click. apparently there were rumors of affairs on the side of marriages with both Andy and Don - we don't know, so let's not go there. This is the world wide web. You just permanently potentially slandered someone without facts what we do know, information that came directly from his mouth is that Don knotts came from a very difficult childhood, father was an alcoholic, domestic abuse - he was under the care of a psychiatrist for many years and suffered from depression. we didn't learn this because he committed a crime and went to court and use this as an excuse to get off. According to his daughter maybe? Some family member in an interview who is present at the deathbed reported... as he was passing away, he was still joking to the point where people had to leave the room cuz they didn't want to laugh at a deathbed scene. But in this case.. they probably should have stayed cuz that's what a comedian looks for. see if you can find interviews of credible people talking into a camera where it's not cut and edited... Don't get anything second or third hand - those people are in business to sell you something. There should be plenty of interviews of Don knotts speaking for himself all over youtube.. just click and learn, before you burn someone please I'm just reminding you of something you already know. Have a nice day!
Great blast from the past. Rumor has it that Don Knotts was quite the ladies' man, as seen here! In one of his lesser-known movies, 'The Love God', he played a Hugh Hefner-type character! Very funny.
Don Knotts never shied away from making a buck, he actually did a book about building and repairing with Concrete for Quikrete......Somehow I'm guessing Don Knotts knew very little about concrete.
My aunt had an old Dodge Truck 4x4. They went everywhere with that thing. No telling how many jeeps they helped get unstuck that were trying to take the same routes.
I think people are getting spoiled. I had a real truck, an IH Travelall with only 14 thousand miles.......I sold it cause I hated driving it....it was loud...with rattles and not smooth at all.......it was pure truck.....it wore me out! Sold it......I admit it, I'm spoiled, I enjoy old cars and riding in them, but old trucks...no...had my share and am done with them.....
So true. I was in grade school but I remember this time. How far America has gotten of the road of commonsense and knowing and believing the difference between right and wrong...
Mom was in grade school with Don Knotts. Said he was a funny cut up guy way back then.
Wife graduated from BHH as an Imagrant from Cent America, I'm 3rd to 5th? Gen this area and LB.
This was a treat to every Dodge dealer and factory who got to screen it, I'm positive. Mr. Don Knotts was comedy gold.
Mr. fureley. Threes company
I've seen some folks not understanding that this was for the salesmen to see....it would have been a big annual event, rent a movie theater and have a bunch of dealers together, then food and drink....wrecking a truck was amazing to do....and the Salesforce really would have enjoyed this film.
There will never again be another Don Knotts. The man could do comedy with no effort.
Ralph furley 😁😁😁
Yep. All the greats are now gone.
C laughs wete few too
Jim kerry was better at ad lib comedy.
@@lloydclement2152 incredible MR. Limpet
My father owned a Dodge and Plymouth dealership from around 1934 to 1969, and each summer Chrysler Corporation would debut the new vehicles for the coming year. We were in the Dallas Region so we would drive about 4 hours to Dallas to see the new vehicles. Chrysler would make a big production of it and would have off Broadway type groups perform a theme type show between the presentation of all the new vehicles. It was really great entertainment with a lot of skits, singing, dancing, and lots of beautiful ladies. In 1964 I was 17 when we went to the new car showing. I am almost certain they played this short movie before they introduced the new 1965 Dodge trucks.
Back then trucks would go years with one body style that never changed from year to year. One year we had a truck that didn’t sell before the next years truck came out. There were no changes from year to year, and the truck had close to 0 miles on it, so Daddy sent the title back to Dodge and they issued a new title showing the truck was the next year’s model. They only did that on trucks, and it was rare, but the government stopped that practice a couple of years later.
I also remember when Daddy received the first truck that cost $2000.00. He didn’t think any farmer would ever pay that much for a truck. Times have changed.
That is such a good read. Thank you for sharing it.
Awesome story!
In SF,CA in the 60's every year they had a Truck Show. Every brand and all the semi's. In those days you could climb in and check everything out. I was 10 and my father took me every year, after all he was a Trucker. Good Times!
This was their inline-6 tow package 4wd 3/4 ton pickup in Refrigerator Green 🍏😅
He was right about it being a good year for trucks and America 😊
Showed it to my son and daughter. I'm gonna count it as history for our homeschooling today. 🙋🏻♀️😂
How the west was lost.
still better than the lies & garbage they'd be learning in regular-school
Just don't show them the comments, although that would certainly be a lesson in sociology.
Next you should have your kids binge watch 1930s-1940s swing music. Glenn Miller’s work! Now that’s real music compared to the crap today
dodge 😝
I remember the incredible Mr Limpet as a kid with Don Knotts! What a clever guy!
My favorite ( there weren't any I didn't like ) was " The Ghost and Mr. Chicken " . Scary and funny for a Six year old. It was another few years before I realized how Beautiful Joan Staley was !
Another great movie. The real kicker was The Love God.
Me too, I was mesmerized.
Vas is dis Limpet!
They were very nice trucks especially the 4 wheel drives,the women back then took better care of themselves they look so beautiful such a good time to live
AMEN! Now we get to watch amazons woddle from side to side like they are proud of those trips to Pizza Pizza. And they even sell negligees in size xxl. Honey I'm home ... want to see how sexy I am! 🤣🤣
And only sailors had tattoos.
@@van6278 I remember when the women really were women.
They don't make vehicles tough like that any more.
@@Bdub1952 Did the sailors have face tats on their thigh like the women do today?
Love Don Knotts. Hilarious. I owned a 1967 Dodge van. Loved it. It had double doors on each side. I customized it with a bed in the rear with stereo speakers mounted forward underneath. Eight track player for sound. Made quite a few trips from PA to to San Antonio Tx. No need for motels. Kept On Trucking! It was the same style as in this video.
It would be nice to have that back.
The Love Machine!
Beds in vans were still in style even in the late 80s... Took the modern retards in WDC to ruin the real fun of owning having a van. I bought air shocks for my 71 Chevy van so my parents couldn't see the thing bouncing in the driveway when I was ah with girls.
I own a 65 Crew Cab. Just searched 65 promo films.. This is the funniest Dodge truck thing I've ever seen!!! Thanks for posting it!
Lucky! You have the coolest truck on the comments 😎
that's so odd, nobody wanted a railroad crew truck back in the 1990s. (Saw dozens of them for sale in the classifieds for 1 or 3k.)
65 thru 71s were no joke. I have 69 D100 2x4 with the full floating rear that had been rebuilt like 3 times until I got a new one. Had a factory defect in the axle housing seals kept coming loose. It had 77K when I bought in 1988. It now has twice that. We tore the engine down took that for rebuilding to a local shop. They called me told me the thing was still like new asked why I wanted it rebuilt. The shop just redid the heads and regasketed the thing. Starts right up any kind of weather too.
Good for you. What a blessing.
Mr Knotts was one of my favorite old school slapstick comedians. The moves, the look and the voice. A very gifted performer. Thank you Don! Luv ya man!
"Mr. Furley..."!! That line always made me "Crack Up"!! RIP Don Knotts, and thanks for the laughs!!
@@turbinexman he was. Really loosing sight in eyes to end of. Life
Now he belongs to the ages.
The lady assistant with the clipboard is a knockout
They all were!
Loved the sexist style back then
Was
Watching her run was a real treat!
I was born in '65,and in elementary school I had a chum I played little league with,his dad had a double cab with a camper shell.He was the local Little Debbie guy.Got to ride in it a few times (I think it had a 3-on -the- tree shifter).Thought it was very cool!
My husband drove a 1965 Dodge 4-door pickup 4x4 in the USAF in 1968-1969. It had 3 on the floor + the "granny gear" (first gear).
The guy in the white hat is Mr. Whipple who said don't squeeze the Charmin.
Dick Wilson, yes, in the description and title
He was also on Hogan's Heroes a few times.
Wow! I loved this promo film. The super cool trucks and the the comedy that only Don Knotts could deliver. Playing a Barney like character in ever film he ever made never became boring.
I love it when he's behind the wheel of the pick up and he's looking out the window and making his eye bug out! lol He always just cracked me up and. that line.....the "big payload" line...lol
At 13:30 that is one of the most complete and utterly thorough and visually satisfying destructive crashes I've ever seen.
WoW! Who was the Big Payloads Girl? Smokin!
Was....
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 right. WAS. You got a name or just a play on words?
She's transgendered
@@calebproductions5970 Not back then...
I’d like to know who the girl is at 16:06.
I bought a new 69 Dodge Power Wagon Camper Special, loaded. 383 V8 all power, PTO winch, except windows. I still have it, it's a tank with just 75k miles. Really hated to see them crash one in this video.
Why do few miles?
This was awesome! I've never seen a sales ad like this. I absolutely love Don Knotts. My favorite comedic actor of the time. I was 3yo when this ad was.made. These are my favorite years of Dodge trucks no less.
Don Knotts was one of my favorite actors. They don't build trucks like that anymore. Back then they were made with pure steel and a man could work on them when they broke down. Thanks for sharing! Never seen this one.
Ah, yes. You could service or rebuild every darn part on it. Though....they were underpowered, had brakes illegally unsafe by modern standards, got horrible per -horsepower mpg, steered poorly even with a giant ships' wheel, and made a one star crash rating look like a lofty goal.
I absolutely love mine!
Love the Pentastar helmet...and the Lynn Townsend quote!
That’s Mr. Whipple.
I didn't recognize him without the Charmin hanging from his whiskers...
He was a serious actor. I was on set with Ron Howard a few times. We were good friends and neighbors. He and Andy would be studying their parts and were nothing like depicted on this video.
However, once the cameras were rolling, they could turn on their charm and be hilarious, when the roll called for it.
They were consummate professionals!
Was to young to remember this, what a treat. Thanks for posting this. love my vintage dodges
I usually think a little Knotts goes a long way, but this left me wanting more!
My best friend Dennis used to have a Power Wagon of about the same year, only it was a butt-ugly Dodge (stock?) orange and had a massive home built grill guard (that I found for him in a salvage yard!). He used to call it his "Dawg" - and we treated it like, one bashing through the hills and rocks of Colorado.
Back when a tough, rugged truck wasn't aftermarket and people either had a sense of humor or just dealt with it with dignity and grace.
Perhaps the greatest commercial I’ve ever seen!!
That 4x4 was sweet looking truck!
It was a fun truck to drive . I owned a red one I inherited it from a uncle who owned it for almost 15 years. It took exceptional good care of it. When I acquired the truck it only had 72k miles on it hardly broke in.
@@jamesthomas7405 I had a '65 D100 like it but slant 6 and a three on the tree. Rust bucket. The door slamming sound here is authentic (tin can)
@@rotunda57 That was always the main issue with Dodge, they rusted out. Otherwise they were great vehicles.
The woman in green dress, my my, so breathtaking, built Dodge tough!
The ladies were so much more beautiful and classy than Today
"The Ladies" were just toys for the men, please..."Big Payload"...LOL. Dick was fat, Wilson that is.
Women back in those days dressed nicely all the time.
different times different strokes. I feel sorry for the boys now. lol.
You're hanging out with the wrong crowd darlin'.
She certainly isn't out here on this little idiot box twerking or whatever they do.
If you put up a legitimate personal ad saying you want a natural beautiful woman to treat like a lady and respect as a woman, and you follow the "Mike Pence rule" which has been around long before Mike pence was VP?
Then you'll find her.
But please remember, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
if you want a lady, then you are to be a gentleman at all times - all eyes on her. Forever.
And please don't be fooled.. when you take a closer look at the Andy Griffith show? those women worked, contributed to the homes financially.. they were respected.
They were the pharmacist, teachers, and if you take a very close look - who was the worst gossip on that show? Wasn't clara.. it was Floyd!
The barbershop was a hen house.
You didn't put your hands on a woman - you weren't allowed to abandon your family.. if you did, you'd better go clear to the other side of the country - and the men in town knew that... Didn't dare.
I worked in South America - there was a man who was sitting on a street corner sort of beat up - and I had asked about him.. it was explained that he was driven out of his village. The men exiled him.
- he had been bothering young women and girls, drunk, hitting his wife.. so the men took him out behind the barn end took care of it.
if you want a lady to stay a lady - then gentleman need to be men, in action.
Women have been forced to become more aggressive because of the amount of responsibility put on them - they're now expected by courts, to bring home the bacon, cook it, and clean up the pan they bought.
one of the things I admire most in martial arts is the strength of the men throwing that punch so hard and so fast, and being able to stop on a hair on your nose.. now that's a sexy man that can let a lady be a lady.
Knows when to use it, and knows when to put it away.
Strength with control
Just like a lady!
That's the stone cold truth!
If I'd seen this sooner I'd have bought a Dodge years ago. I just bought my first in 2019. My first diesel was in 2003. First truck of my own was a '69 chevy in 1987.
Back then I refused to buy a Dodge because of their annoying ni-ni-ni-ni starter.
@dehydratedwater9806 gear reduction starters? I remember dodge power steering of the 60's70's was super super easy. Wish my ram now was that easy!
Chrysler was a great company I loved their vehicles and owed mulitable Dodges, Plymouth and Chrysler. I hate that we lost them.
How did we lose them? They aren't traded on the NYSE anymore, but they are still a stand alone company....just owned by Stellantis. They've had many owners over they years.........NYSE individual share holders, then Daimler about 30 years ago, then Cerebus about 20 years ago, a US company, then Fiat, now Stellentas.....still headquartered in Auburn Hills under the name FCA, but it's Chrysler Corporation still behind the name.
@OsbornTramain You just answered your own question, they haven't been the original Chrysler for many years. I drove their cars/trucks from 1972 until 2010. Stellentas is why I stopped primarily because they were overpriced.
Big payloads! Gotta love it!
very cool thanks,I was 5 in 1965 makes me feel old LOL
The scene with the bear was very funny!
I’ve gotten to meet him in person.. unfortunately he wasn’t around much longer, but had him sign a model car that my father had from the “Andy Griffith show” and it was at the Louisville, KY expo center somewhere around 20yrs ago..
Fun video. My cousin still has his 71 Power Wagon. It is still a beast. Nice to see no disclaimers while that truck was beat to death. How times have changed.
I’d love to have that truck. What a great advertisement for Dodge. That truck was doing what macked out off road vehicles do.
I had Googled 1965 Dodge truck, whilst trying to find one for sale like my dad's truck we virtually grew up in.
And then, this appears..
I had 66 Dodge pickup with a 318, and there was NO STOPPING that truck. Put 1.5 yards of gravel in the back, couldn't tell it was there. Pulled two horses and a trailer, I forgot they were back there
So fun, so period inappropriate...loved it! Thanks.
I didn't see that coming crashing a brand new Dodge truck. Great tv ad back then.
That was a Shocker !
I think the area where they crashed the Dodge was filmed either at Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California or at Corriganville over the hill from Chatsworth in Simi Valley, California.
@@spiff8862 Some of the background looked a lot like the backgrounds in MASH
I like how Dodge was using a man wearing a crevatte to sell heavy duty trucks.
Anyone know who the ice cold brunette in the black dress was? Hubba hubba
Actually, it’s just a theatrical promotional.
I thought the video title said Don Knotts and DON WIlson, from "The Jack Benny Show." The idea of the two of them together sounded like epic comedy. But then I realized I was wrong. LOL
Check out 9:34, look how narrow that cab is. Can you imagine being in an accident? Absolutely no crumple zone to absorb energy. This was when the people were the crumple zone. lol
''Big Payloads''🤣🤣😂 & IF YOU CAN'T DODGE IT, RAM IT!!
I love at 2:52 when he says, "Men, ladies, men ladies and men..." Don Knotts is one of my favorite actors of all time. You were smart to put his clip in the thumbnail instead of Dodge (although Dodge had some damned good trucks back then, and the Powerwagon was super. Don got me here. Isn't he a national treasure?
If you're a big fan of Don Knotts, you know the Move, "The Love God?" with a character, "Osborne Tramaine" so that puts things into perspective about this Channel, I love Cars.... love Car Commercials......BUT. Don Knots is my most favorite Actor and Comedian
@@OsbornTramain Wow. That's super cool! I had a '69 Charger 383. Loved that car. It would pick up and go!
They made fun of the fact that Mr. Knotts had "full control",..shows how big of a star he was...
I love watching people, products, and local life I grew up with, even the sudio gate, fasions or costumes, with background cars, van, or trucks make me feel at home.
It’s hard to believe there ever was a time like that in America, I believe we are the last generation.
yep, we're living in a world of ridiculous nonsensical pap and personal offense at anything.
Only if Trump gets reelected
@@stephen1170 He will help but we must do it ourselves.
1965 - US Marines land in DaNang marking a significant escalation of the Vietnam War; the civil rights march in Selma was met with police attacks, tear gas and vicious dogs; The US intervened and occupied the Dominican Republic, 3000 Dominicans are killed, 31 US service members; Race Riots in Watts, Malcolm X is assassinated etc, etc. Take off the rose-coloured nostalgia glasses. This was a make believe commercial.
@@stephen1170BS
What a relic of another time. A time I remember well. A Power Wagon of about this vintage winched my truck out of a man-eating mud hole in the 90’s. Nothing to it, the guy said.
don knotts in a 4x4 this is sweet,
How Don Knotts didn't win an Oscar for THE LOVE GOD is hard to believe!
One of my favorite Movies!
Those bird calls topped off by Don's American Eagle cry, were the funniest sound effects to a 1960s kid. We tried our best to mimic.
Definitely needed this during quarantine boredom. Thank you Sir!!
Quarantine?!?....... What quarantine??
This brought back a old memory deer hunting with my Dad. His buddy had a Crew Cab Power Wagon, and as we were driving on a dirt road, we hit a rain check doing at least 35 mpg. No seatbelts in those days, or we never used them everyone in that truck hit the roof multiple times. Yee Haw!
Isn't that the old don't squeeze the charmin guy lol
Yes Dick Wilson. Also Darren's drinking buddy on Bewitched.
Mr. Whiffle!!
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Outstanding 😇😇🌹🌹💖💖🧐🧐😉😉😏😏🍻🍻
R.I.P. Don Knotts & Dick Wilson!
Now they both belong to the ages.
Thanks for keeping the videos flowing during difficult times..
@OsbornTramain,
This is one of the rare promos among short subjects that need to return to theatre screens on a regular basis instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
Having Indians on the warpath would NEVER be in any video made in today's "PC" environment.
Right, they're all at the Casinos now. they get there on the roads we pay the taxes to build.
Not to mention, the blatant Male Chauvinism. Feminists would have a field day. Good times.
There's a lot of things from Yesteryear that would not be allowed today, because we live in the "Politically Correct" era, anything and everything offends somebody! Society needs to take a good shit and loosen up a bit, can you imagine a show like, "Married With Children" being produced today, it would never make it to the air waves, because it would offend somebody!
@@edbouman5013 yeah. The Catholics have gotten pretty cocky these days too. PC won’t let us discriminate against them. Sad.
@darkwood777 PC won’t let us say anything negative about the Catholics likewise could in the good old days
vehicles for the coming year. We were in the Dallas Region so we would drive about 4 hours to Dallas to see the new vehicles. Chrysler would make a big production of it and would have off Broadway type groups perform a theme type show between the
13:45 they should have had a perfect non-wrecked truck hidden at the bottom and come roaring up. "Greatest Truck Ever Built"
That scene you laid out reminds me of Don Adam’s as Get Smart falling and then getting right back up as if nothing happened.
And just think, 13 years later, another famous Dodge would begin racing down those same roads where this commercial was filmed...the General Lee!
Don is crazy funny love it.
Wow, incredible talent!
Ol' Don-always the ladies' man!
Yes, I bet he actually was quite the playboy in his day.
@@keithmcleod811 I have heard that he actually was a ladies man.
Yeah why don't we look things up and consider the source
the source on a juicy story like this, or non-story, will most likely somebody who's trying to make money, get you to buy a book, magazine or click.
apparently there were rumors of affairs on the side of marriages with both Andy and Don
- we don't know, so let's not go there.
This is the world wide web. You just permanently potentially slandered someone without facts
what we do know, information that came directly from his mouth is that Don knotts came from a very difficult childhood, father was an alcoholic, domestic abuse - he was under the care of a psychiatrist for many years and suffered from depression.
we didn't learn this because he committed a crime and went to court and use this as an excuse to get off.
According to his daughter maybe? Some family member in an interview who is present at the deathbed reported... as he was passing away, he was still joking to the point where people had to leave the room cuz they didn't want to laugh at a deathbed scene.
But in this case..
they probably should have stayed cuz that's what a comedian looks for.
see if you can find interviews of credible people talking into a camera where it's not cut and edited... Don't get anything second or third hand - those people are in business to sell you something.
There should be plenty of interviews of Don knotts speaking for himself all over youtube..
just click and learn, before you burn someone please
I'm just reminding you of something you already know.
Have a nice day!
Ask Thelma Lou and "Nita,Jua-ua-ua-ua-nita"!
Literally, as in his movie “The Love God”.
Great blast from the past. Rumor has it that Don Knotts was quite the ladies' man, as seen here! In one of his lesser-known movies, 'The Love God', he played a Hugh Hefner-type character! Very funny.
Where do you think my youtube name comes from? Publisher of Adult Educational Materials........
Imagine trying to pull off that ad today 🕺💃🕺💃😂🤣
women objectified, native Americans stereotyped, big "bad" gas guzzler trucks glorified. I can hear the lisping zombie SJW hoards stirring already.
Power wagon with that familiar clang of the door closing.
That closing door sound brought back memories
@@thekingsilverado9004 Nice! Take good care of that.
Don Knotts never shied away from making a buck, he actually did a book about building and repairing with Concrete for Quikrete......Somehow I'm guessing Don Knotts knew very little about concrete.
I never knew don was such a hit with the ladies.
Thelma Lou might get jealous
Barney has Thelma Lou in his “back pocket.”
Possibly.
According to the words of Gomer.
Mmmmm lots of curves in those dodge trucks! A few headlights on too I see!
That was…AWESOME!!!! Almost like watching a Russ Meyer film!!!
I didn't know Barney worked for Dodge? He's so funny.
I have more videos of him for Dodge, he did them for a number of years.
@@OsbornTramain Great! When are you putting up more?
@@rickduquette3399 they are up, search for a 1966 dodge film knots, you'll find it
My aunt had an old Dodge Truck 4x4. They went everywhere with that thing. No telling how many jeeps they helped get unstuck that were trying to take the same routes.
Nicely low budge film...Love Don KJnotts and Dick Wilson....REAL trucks..nto the now stardard electronic stuff or computers...now
I think people are getting spoiled. I had a real truck, an IH Travelall with only 14 thousand miles.......I sold it cause I hated driving it....it was loud...with rattles and not smooth at all.......it was pure truck.....it wore me out! Sold it......I admit it, I'm spoiled, I enjoy old cars and riding in them, but old trucks...no...had my share and am done with them.....
I owned a 69 W200...Wish they still made trucks like that.
Couldn't make this today
😂
What a gem!
Worth more than one view!
Only a matter of time until Steve Buscemi lands the lead in the “Don Knotts Story”
. LOL
I don't think you are being very fair to Don Knotts.
That will be cool 😎
Big Payloads, You better believe it, love Don Knotts
@5:24 reminds me of finding bread crumbs in sponge boy cartoon.
RiP Don Knotts, genius and comedian
Just found your awesome channel. Thank you!!
He will be missed.
I learned to drive in a 1966 Dodge D100 long bed with three on the tree. Imagine taking your driving test in that thing.
Don Knotts was the best. He provided the best laughter.
I like how it turns into an episode of bang bus in the end
The VAN was cool back then.
I believe your spot on about it being the LAST generation.
So true. I was in grade school but I remember this time. How far America has gotten of the road of commonsense and knowing and believing the difference between right and wrong...
The one, the only Don Knotts.
Today's auto commercials don't even show what you are buying.
"She has the lead in our new prospecting film 'Big Payloads' " "You better believe it." 😆
I love my Dodge truck....it never lets me down 🚚
Beautiful ladies with NO tattoos ❤ fun Dodge commercial 😊
Imagine having all four of those rigs ...👍🏼
Great find.
hhahahaa the last scene was like watching the Man from Snowy River!
Don Knotts tearassin in a cabover and set of doubles is pretty sweet.
That was awesome, and I wish we still had trucks and women like that these days.
My first truck was a 65 Dodge 3/4 ton with a 318. Back in 1978.