I love the typical background music that accompanies the thousands of informational films from the mid century. I wish I could go back in time and re-live the 50’s and 60’s Things were so much better!!! And the cars were exquisite!!! Everything and everyone was better.
You're so right! Men went to the barbershop every week, wore suits and ties, and wore a hat outdoors, and smoked a pipe (tobacco, of course), and ladies wore hats with little veils, and white gloves when they went to town. People practiced etiquette, and held cocktail parties. Today it's tattoos, purple hair, piercings, obesity, beards and man-buns. What has become of us? So many people today are just monsters!😢
Chrysler and de soto made a lot of great cars through out the yrs i liked when they drive through the country side and the city and now they became classic automobiles of the past
I have a '48 Chrysler that obviously was built prior to the advent of power steering. Even with its giant steering wheel (about 18" in diameter) it's very much a hand full to drive. Going straight down the road is fine but winding country roads will indeed become tiring after a while. And parking easily turns into a huff and puff work out. It was nice seeing Barbara Billingsely even younger than in Leave It To Beaver. She was so lovely and beautiful.
Power steering stayed an option for so long that I'm sure there are a few of us who learned to drive say 50+ years ago have had at least 1 car without it.
@@postal_the_clown hi Mark Draper yes my first car I owned was 1953 Ford pickup no power steering and I drove it in city traffic to work in the city Los Angeles in southern California in traffic it wasn't bad to drive with out power steering if you figured out the tricks to drive it and park it I had lot of fun with that truck let's see going to work then after work and weekend's my surf board or my bike to the different beaches then there was cruising and dinner and dating and drive in movie's etc on Friday and Saturday night's great time's with my classic Ford pickup yes i believe in driving the classic car's or truck's all you can that's where the fun and good memories are well good night Mark Draper :-)
@@colewebb1425 Bravo! Yeah, my first was a '61 Fairlane (no PS) but when I got it it wasn't technically a classic, just an old car. Actually, all but my last 2 cars would be "classic" now...hmmm. And I was So Cal for 40 years mostly in Inglewood/Hawthorne so I can relate. The only pickup I had was a '64 Ranchero with the 144 "falcon six." Used almost as much oil as it did gas but it was reliable.
@@postal_the_clown hi Mark Draper and thank you for you're reply and yes I remember Inglewood and Hawthorne I got everywhere and the two classic car's you had I love our American car's and truck's built our way the American way for us and and about no power steering ah that's why we used Armstrong power steering lol :-D and about the Ranchairo sounded like it needed a new rear main oil seal and maybe a valve job with new valve guides and seals well have good night and a good week Mark Draper :-)
Probably few can now appreciate how power-steering must have felt like magic. I'm 45 & still only encountered it twice. I was young the first time, and initially thought the steering was Broken!
I learned to drive on a '75 Malibu with a 3-on-the-tree, manual steering (7 turns!) and brakes. When I tried out the first car I was going to buy (a '68 Cadillac), it seemed as if the wheel was locked until the engine came on and it could be turned with one finger. Of course, locking steering columns didn't come with most American cars until '69, but the way the wheel suddenly freed up seemed amazing. Power steering did rob the driver of the some feel for what the tires were doing, but for larger cars, it still made the car feel more nimble.
Oh yes, real power steering! Real power steering gave hours of expressway driving using any two fingers on one hand. Now most cars have that strange power steering that when you get to about 50 MPH it stiffens up so heavy it requires two hands. That's very tiring on long trips and good for bringing forth anger at times, particularly on windy days. It then leads to one of two thoughts, "I paid for power steering and they gave me this crap" or "Why did they bother with power steering at all". I started driving in 1972 when cars had real power steering. So I can offer that when the unfamiliar find themselves encountering real power steering, don't worry about the "feel" just turn the wheel where you want to go. As well, in a few days to a week you'll become use to real power steering, and you won't want to drive anything else.
@@discerningmind That is German and Japanese style power steering. REAL Power Steering is sweet. I can drive without it, but it is still sweet to have it.
"You rarely hear of those fellows bumping into each other." Yeah! All those craters on the moon? Acne scars. Meanwhile, Shoemaker-Levy-9 is going "Hold my beer."
some commercial. i'm assuming these where played during intermission at theaters. and i for one can attest to the wonders of power steering having driven more than one vehicle without it. no way would i drive more than 50 miles in a day without it.
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I love the typical background music that accompanies the thousands of informational films from the mid century. I wish I could go back in time and re-live the 50’s and 60’s
Things were so much better!!! And the cars were exquisite!!! Everything and everyone was better.
You're so right! Men went to the barbershop every week, wore suits and ties, and wore a hat outdoors, and smoked a pipe (tobacco, of course), and ladies wore hats with little veils, and white gloves when they went to town. People practiced etiquette, and held cocktail parties.
Today it's tattoos, purple hair, piercings, obesity, beards and man-buns. What has become of us? So many people today are just monsters!😢
That's why I bought a 53 Plymouth. You might not be able to go back to those days but you can drive like it.
Hippie culture is what ruined everything.
Its June Cleaver !!! 👍👍
Barbara Billingsely
Chrysler and de soto made a lot of great cars through out the yrs i liked when they drive through the country side and the city and now they became classic automobiles of the past
I have a '48 Chrysler that obviously was built prior to the advent of power steering. Even with its giant steering wheel (about 18" in diameter) it's very much a hand full to drive. Going straight down the road is fine but winding country roads will indeed become tiring after a while. And parking easily turns into a huff and puff work out.
It was nice seeing Barbara Billingsely even younger than in Leave It To Beaver. She was so lovely and beautiful.
Power steering stayed an option for so long that I'm sure there are a few of us who learned to drive say 50+ years ago have had at least 1 car without it.
@@postal_the_clown hi Mark Draper yes my first car I owned was 1953 Ford pickup no power steering and I drove it in city traffic to work in the city Los Angeles in southern California in traffic it wasn't bad to drive with out power steering if you figured out the tricks to drive it and park it I had lot of fun with that truck let's see going to work then after work and weekend's my surf board or my bike to the different beaches then there was cruising and dinner and dating and drive in movie's etc on Friday and Saturday night's great time's with my classic Ford pickup yes i believe in driving the classic car's or truck's all you can that's where the fun and good memories are well good night Mark Draper :-)
@@colewebb1425 Bravo! Yeah, my first was a '61 Fairlane (no PS) but when I got it it wasn't technically a classic, just an old car.
Actually, all but my last 2 cars would be "classic" now...hmmm. And I was So Cal for 40 years mostly in Inglewood/Hawthorne so I can relate. The only pickup I had was a '64 Ranchero with the 144 "falcon six." Used almost as much oil as it did gas but it was reliable.
@@postal_the_clown hi Mark Draper and thank you for you're reply and yes I remember Inglewood and Hawthorne I got everywhere and the two classic car's you had I love our American car's and truck's built our way the American way for us and and about no power steering ah that's why we used Armstrong power steering lol :-D and about the Ranchairo sounded like it needed a new rear main oil seal and maybe a valve job with new valve guides and seals well have good night and a good week Mark Draper :-)
"Ward, weren't you a little rough on the beaver last night?"
Probably few can now appreciate how power-steering must have felt like magic. I'm 45 & still only encountered it twice. I was young the first time, and initially thought the steering was Broken!
I learned to drive on a '75 Malibu with a 3-on-the-tree, manual steering (7 turns!) and brakes. When I tried out the first car I was going to buy (a '68 Cadillac), it seemed as if the wheel was locked until the engine came on and it could be turned with one finger. Of course, locking steering columns didn't come with most American cars until '69, but the way the wheel suddenly freed up seemed amazing. Power steering did rob the driver of the some feel for what the tires were doing, but for larger cars, it still made the car feel more nimble.
Oh yes, real power steering! Real power steering gave hours of expressway driving using any two fingers on one hand. Now most cars have that strange power steering that when you get to about 50 MPH it stiffens up so heavy it requires two hands. That's very tiring on long trips and good for bringing forth anger at times, particularly on windy days. It then leads to one of two thoughts, "I paid for power steering and they gave me this crap" or "Why did they bother with power steering at all".
I started driving in 1972 when cars had real power steering. So I can offer that when the unfamiliar find themselves encountering real power steering, don't worry about the "feel" just turn the wheel where you want to go. As well, in a few days to a week you'll become use to real power steering, and you won't want to drive anything else.
@@discerningmind That is German and Japanese style power steering. REAL Power Steering is sweet. I can drive without it, but it is still sweet to have it.
June Cleaver in the green car...
That's Beaver Cleaver's mom in the green car, lol
Before she learned to speak Jive.
@@VictorySpeedway Lol
Funny how June Cleaver is in a Chrysler promotional film and Ward Cleaver is in a promotional film for General Motors.
The wonderful Barbara Billingslov
@@VictorySpeedway Freaking dying here over this one!
2:35 A few years later Jimmy maybe steered a tank in Vietnam ...
Like the cartoon also, especially the late Frank Nelson's voice
Aunt Alice is Barbara Bilingsly, I think.
Back before rampant cost-cutting became the mantra. I don't care what anybody says, cars of this era were VASTLY better quality-wise than today's.
"You rarely hear of those fellows bumping into each other."
Yeah! All those craters on the moon? Acne scars.
Meanwhile, Shoemaker-Levy-9 is going "Hold my beer."
A Chrysler was one step below a Cadillac in those days.
About like a Buick, except for Imperials. They were Cadillac level cars.
i miss real power steering and soft riding cars.
I still have 54 New Yorker. Nice and big and heavy.
some commercial. i'm assuming these where played during intermission at theaters. and i for one can attest to the wonders of power steering having driven more than one vehicle without it. no way would i drive more than 50 miles in a day without it.
Wilding Pictures did such great pictures, in depth stuff, rather than just emotional tripping?
John Q. Bagdad has got it made lol.
Is aunt Alice June Cleaver? It sure looks like her.
Sure is!
4:29 None of the trees in the background are blowing at all, lol.
Ahh yes. Those days were the days before the joggers got all uppity.
Is that Lee Aker from Rin Tin Tin?
Torsion bar suspension .
Not until 1957
They took a shot at nascar told a kid he can drive and diminutive of women's driving from the beginning. Good ole Chevy.
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Is that Barbara Billingsly, Beaver's mother?
Brought to you by "Bulgemobile"
Chrysler made DeSoto cars from 1929-61. Sad, ain't it? ☹️
My late uncle's first car was a 1959 De Soto and it was advertised on the TV quiz show You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx. I am a baby boomer.
7:39 "Verily!!"
Why was Helen Keller such a bad driver?
Looks like a chevrolet emblem on the center of the steering wheel
No it doesn't.
Before power string woman drivers must have been all over the road I bet little jimmy fells a lot safety now
They managed OK, but they preferred the lighter Ford-Chevy-Plymouth type cars.
I have this theory that every guy who did voice-overs in the mid 1900's died of lung cancer.
You are wrong.
@@jamesbosworth4191 A magnificently astute observation, my friend! 👍
But Mom and Aunt June...er, Alice still had to shift for themselves--Chrysler had yet to introduce an automatic transmission.
Chrysler had Fluid Drive, a semi automatic. You drove the car as a 2 speed automatic on level ground.
@@michaelbenardo5695 You still had to use the clutch for reverse and other situations.
@@tomservo56954 And to shift into Lo as well, but you still didn't have to shift in normal forward driving, unlike a 3 speed manual.
Not so. They had Fluid Drive, which was a 4 speed semi automatic. On level ground, you drove the car as a 2 speed automatic.