Classifying the 1957 El Dorado Brougham as one of the 5 DUMBEST of the WORST cars in America in the 1950s makes this one of the DUMBEST of the WORST videos on RUclips.
The Cadillac Eldorado Brougham was not meant to be built in large numbers. It was supposed to be a limited edition that was exclusive. It was to be built for just two years. It was replaced by a second-generation redesign that was designed by Pininfarina and even built in Italy.
C'mon Man !!! The Crosley Hotshot LOOKED LIKE A ENGLISH TAXI (not an MG). Large riding lawn mowers now have 20 hp. That's what this Gomer is an English Taxi styled Citroën 2CV. This in the 50s when Big 3 were installing big motors. The Crosley Hotshot a sports car ?? WHAT, going downhill at Pike's Peak ??
GM had an air suspension on the 1958 top of the line Chevrolet. It was apparently reliable, but mechanics had to know to unhook the air shocks before jacking up the car and losing all the air. It took a while for them to pump back up to normal pressure.
ANOTHER BAIT AND SWITCH!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOFY RED CAR THAT JAY LENO WAS STANDING NEXT TO? THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO SEE. AND YOU EXPECT ME TO WATCH ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS?? I DON'T THINK SO.
In the 1960s I remember seeing a few Edsel's at car sales. But I never rode in one and never saw one run. But I always thought they were good looking cars.
I remember seeing some parked on streets around the neighborhood, and saw some driving around. I never rode in one though. I was born in 1957 and my family was all General Motors.. In fact, the entire neighborhood was a GM predominant neighborhood.
Crosley was not making small cars before this car, they made appliances. The width of the car was required so they could move cars thru the front doors of the appliance stores.
4:55 They were using a small model in some of these scenes, because it looks very strange to me. The camera movements look weird when they are using a small model.
3:28 - That's BS that the original cost of the 1957 Cadillac Brougham would be equivalent to $120K in today's market. $13,000 in 1957 is way more than $120,000 today. To put in perspective, the top of the line Chevrolet in 1957 (the Belair) was around $2,500, which is more than 5 times "less" than the Cadillac. Please show me the "new" vehicle today (much less equivalent to the Chevy Belair of 1957) which you can buy for under $24,000. You can't do it.
My Grandpa bought my Grandma an Edsel. I think it was a 1958?? I don't remember if it was new or not, but it looked like new. Light blue with matching interior. Grandma drove it three blocks, twice a day to school and back. She taught school. One day the car was gone. Sold. I liked it.
nope, my dad had the same caddy as the first car when i was a kid (born in '65), never ever had any issues with it like they claim here. bogus claim. love that 1/24 scale toy they used. edsel was still a ford so ...., cost more than a buick or olds yet more expensive and no where near the quality. and no, edsels are not that "sought after" these days. crosley hotshot, same hp as vw bug, but a little heavier...hhhmm, wonder why it failed. oh, and cost more. oh, thats not a hotshot in the video. also, during the 1950's, america wasnt trying to recover from WW2 like the rest of the world, americans didnt really want tiny eco cars, they wanted big V-8 cars so small cars just didnt go over so well, even VW didnt sell like they did in the 60's and later.
Are you sure about Edsel's not being sought after? Have you checked prices on a pristine (and even not pristine) Edsels? They are very desirable. The Crosley was simply ahead of it's time.
@@richardrice8076 yeah crosleys were cool, but not a lot of people were that interested in them. edsels have a "fan base" i guess you could say certain, collectors that do really like them, and among that fan base yes, they are sought after, i was just meaning in the general sense that '55 - '57 chevys are. not trying to put them down or nothin, just sayin.
@@GMCOGRE nothin' is as popular as tri 5 Chevys! A fan base? Never thought of it that way. I know a guy who wasn't a fan but bought an Edsel this spring. Tryin' to think of a car that has a fan base, I think Packard might fit that description. As for the Crosley yes in the large and in charge '50's it was an anomaly. But by 1960 Corvair, Falcon, Comet( which was to be the next gen Edsel but Ford had had enough) Lark etc were all the rage and I believe the Crosley would have fit right in. But the early to mid '50's? Nah, Americans had money to spend and the post war boom was on.
Is that the best Nash Metropolitan he could find, it's in bad shape and all rusted out. Also, he did not care to mention that the Metro was the car of choice of Donald Duck.
I was going to buy a Metropolitan that wasn't on too bad shape, but showed its age a bit. Black and white was pretty cool looking for just 2 grand. The owner turned out to be a real prick though. Ratted me out to my boss.
I WAS BORN IN 1958. There was a recession. Americans were concerned about The Cold War, and the satellite SPUTNIK (fIrst Oct. '57) brought uncertainty. The Cuban revolution was occurring. Batista fled, and US corporate assets seized. Somehow the 1950s, GI bill fueled growth decade took a mild economic pause OR consumers finally found more realistic expectations & realistic reach. What was being offered in the market, finally seemed too much for the average consumer.
I was born in 1957. US auto consumers mostly liked what was being offered, but by the early 1960s, strong demand for smaller vehicles was identified and catered to, with the first US compact models in 1959/1960. The revolutionary rear engined Chevrolet Corvair, the more conventional Ford Falcon and Plymouth Valiant, along with the oddly designed AMC Rambler series, which was more of a mid-size intermediate.
You seem to be a little confused or your research stopped halfway through a Wikipedia page. The big three car companies in the USA were vicious and crushed anyone who tried to compete. They controlled the DOT by lobbying to outlaw anything they weren’t doing. Sometimes they even turned on each other. Look into the history of Chrysler’s push button transmission for an exhaustive explanation of this. Aggressive and cheating competition is why the kaiser didn’t get sales. 90hp would have been pretty impressive back then. Speaking of horse power, the hotshot’s 30hp would have been double of any daily driver in the UK at that time. For example, the early 60s Triumph Herald made great sales in Europe, it was powered by a mind blowing 16 horsepower. In fact, pretty much every critical thing you said about the Crosley could be restated as the reasons for the success of VW’s Beetle. They just happened to catch the big three looking the other direction. I know this whole thing is click bait but dang it if misinformation don’t just burn my britches.
My dad had 3 Metro’s. He loved it. The President of the England club had an orange and white one , with a 454 big block,and he came over to the US to drag race. It was incredibly fast.
hell man, almost ANYTHING brit or european with a big block chevy is fast as hell, hell, even a shit ton of small US cars are. back in the early 90's i but a big block chevy in a triumph spitfire, ran like a raped ape. 427 dual carb pushing 750 hp. zoom zoom zoom.
I had a Nash Metropolitan I bought non-running for $150 in the mid ‘80’s. Got her running in an hour or two. Neat little car, my wife loved it, and constantly bugs me to buy another one.
@@Blue_Ridge_Ranger in the early 90's i bought a 1950 chevy pickup that would barely start, nursed it home and wasnt sure i would make it, gf was driving our 64'mgb and she thought she was going to have to tow it, ran that bad, spent 2 hours tinkering with it and took it out on the street and burned rubber. just needed ignition parts cleaned up carb adjusted and timing set, was top model so had 235 straight six instead of 216 , early version without pressure fed oiling to crank, dipper cups on crank to dip oil from the pan onto crank journals, babbitt rods no standard rod bearings.and 4 speed trans, torque tube driveshaft to rear so no u-joints and no rear end hop no parts bought. had it for years till drunk driver totaled it parked on the street. only cost me a couple hundred bucks, owner bet me i couldnt get it started. took it back to him and showed how well it ran and he just shook his head in dis-belief. was actually a rare model with factory installed cab heater, 5 window cab was cool. after a year put a 302 GMC straight 6 in it with clifford 3 carb intake and header with 4 speed GMC hydramatic auto trans from a 2 ton truck that was built with a clutch from the factory and not a torque converter, very low first gear with later model 12 bolt chevy rear, man that thing was fast from stoplight to stoplight. miss it. sorry for writing a novel but got wound up and lost.
The Consumer MAY want something slightly different but NOT revolutionary. They WANT to be able to be COMPARED to others WITHOUT initial shock, confusion, or difficulty.
The Edsel was an ENTIRE DIVISION without many models. Henry I wanted to honor his son. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CONVENTIONAL (hindsight); and, Sold from the main Division (Ford). The Honda Prelude with advanced features WAS STILL A HONDA. If an opportunity presents itself later, THEN eventually a Big 3 can re-brand into ANOTHER Division. Also re-name plating some existing cars can SLOWLY build the new Divsion. The Infiniti G20 was a reskined & upgraded interior small Nissan. Infiniti also did a retreat from its biggest body and a V-8 engine.
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Classifying the 1957 El Dorado Brougham as one of the 5 DUMBEST of the WORST cars in America in the 1950s makes this one of the DUMBEST of the WORST videos on RUclips.
Well said.
Ageeed
The Cadillac Eldorado Brougham was not meant to be built in large numbers. It was supposed to be a limited edition that was exclusive. It was to be built for just two years. It was replaced by a second-generation redesign that was designed by Pininfarina and even built in Italy.
I love it when "experts" give us their opinions about a topic they know very little about!
Thought I should watch this before Jay Leno has it taken down. And no, it was not worth the time I spent on it.
This guy did a lot of talking without actually saying anything!
At least when your 1957 Cadillac broke down, you had comfortable seats, a bar, air-con, & other mod cons to make your wait as pleasurable as possible!
ANOTHER SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS NOT WHAT HE TALKS ABOUT.
A I narration is no expert.
The worst of the worst is this video. It comes off as a cheap AI product. Do better.
he got what he wanted clicks veiws & comments for showing a 1/24 scale model badly what a douche
I hate it when they're showing a totally different vehicle than what they're talking about.
At least find a picture of the Crosley Hot Shot.
Wow.
The thumbnail is another annoying CLICKBAIT. That car was not in the overly long boring video.
that car was photoshopped, never existed.
Nor was that 1961 Dodge Polara a "car from the 1950s"
C'mon Man !!! The Crosley Hotshot LOOKED LIKE A ENGLISH TAXI (not an MG). Large riding lawn mowers now have 20 hp. That's what this Gomer is an English Taxi styled Citroën 2CV. This in the 50s when Big 3 were installing big motors. The Crosley Hotshot a sports car ?? WHAT, going downhill at Pike's Peak ??
Nice to the a Crossley, but none of'em is a Hotshot!
My 1st. car was 1957 CADALLAC HEARSE😎
GM had an air suspension on the 1958 top of the line Chevrolet. It was apparently reliable, but mechanics had to know to unhook the air shocks before jacking up the car and losing all the air. It took a while for them to pump back up to normal pressure.
Hilariously badly painted plastic models can apparently sneak past AI. Do yourself a favor and scroll on to content created by live humans.
The AI narrator should expand it's vocabulary. Re-using the same stream of words in describing all these cars. Laughable.
There should be a system for suing clickbait
The only part of the Ford Thunderbird that was fiberglass was the removable hardtop roof.
That's got to be a model. Talking about the blue 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham .
It is, cheesy crap in a cheesy video.
Model cars????
Ffs! Clickbait Thumbnail strikes again! Good Grief!
yup, nonexistent car.
Let's talk about the Hotshot. I know, we can talk about the Hotshot while we show different models!
ANOTHER BAIT AND SWITCH!!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOFY RED CAR THAT JAY LENO WAS STANDING NEXT TO? THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO SEE. AND YOU EXPECT ME TO WATCH ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS?? I DON'T THINK SO.
In the 1960s I remember seeing a few Edsel's at car sales. But I never rode in one and never saw one run. But I always thought they were good looking cars.
I’ve owned 4 1958 Edsel Station Wagons and 1 1959 Edsel Wagon. One ‘58 was my daily driver for years (early to late ‘70’s) No issues.
I remember seeing some parked on streets around the neighborhood, and saw some driving around. I never rode in one though. I was born in 1957 and my family was all General Motors.. In fact, the entire neighborhood was a GM predominant neighborhood.
Build quality....typical of UAW Union standards, even today, especially with GM products.
Build quality has nothing to do with unions. Build quality is dictated by management.
@@MarinCipollina funny how they always blame unions
The segment of the Crosley showcased the sedan , not the Hotshot.
Open bottles of liquor in a car. Yeah, that would work. Everyone gets sloshed and the driver doesn't have a drop? Don't think so.
I hate AI reading a script. It's really obvious with certain words.
Crosley was not making small cars before this car, they made appliances. The width of the car was required so they could move cars thru the front doors of the appliance stores.
Crosley still makes appliances, radios and even music vinyl disc turntables.
4:55 They were using a small model in some of these scenes, because it looks very strange to me. The camera movements look weird when they are using a small model.
1/24 scale on tile floor.
3:28 - That's BS that the original cost of the 1957 Cadillac Brougham would be equivalent to $120K in today's market. $13,000 in 1957 is way more than $120,000 today. To put in perspective, the top of the line Chevrolet in 1957 (the Belair) was around $2,500, which is more than 5 times "less" than the Cadillac. Please show me the "new" vehicle today (much less equivalent to the Chevy Belair of 1957) which you can buy for under $24,000. You can't do it.
The 57 Caddy was just awesome. I agree these were some of the most awesome and greatest cars ever created.
WHEN YOU SHOW A DIE CAST METAL MODEL OF THE REAL CAR INSIDES LOL AND PRETEND TO BE AN EXPERT .
Never saw the thumbnail car. Bye, Felicia.
My Grandpa bought my Grandma an Edsel. I think it was a 1958?? I don't remember if it was new or not, but it looked like new. Light blue with matching interior. Grandma drove it three blocks, twice a day to school and back. She taught school. One day the car was gone. Sold. I liked it.
nope, my dad had the same caddy as the first car when i was a kid (born in '65), never ever had any issues with it like they claim here. bogus claim. love that 1/24 scale toy they used. edsel was still a ford so ...., cost more than a buick or olds yet more expensive and no where near the quality. and no, edsels are not that "sought after" these days. crosley hotshot, same hp as vw bug, but a little heavier...hhhmm, wonder why it failed. oh, and cost more. oh, thats not a hotshot in the video. also, during the 1950's, america wasnt trying to recover from WW2 like the rest of the world, americans didnt really want tiny eco cars, they wanted big V-8 cars so small cars just didnt go over so well, even VW didnt sell like they did in the 60's and later.
Are you sure about Edsel's not being sought after? Have you checked prices on a pristine (and even not pristine) Edsels? They are very desirable. The Crosley was simply ahead of it's time.
@@richardrice8076 yeah crosleys were cool, but not a lot of people were that interested in them. edsels have a "fan base" i guess you could say certain, collectors that do really like them, and among that fan base yes, they are sought after, i was just meaning in the general sense that '55 - '57 chevys are. not trying to put them down or nothin, just sayin.
@@GMCOGRE nothin' is as popular as tri 5 Chevys! A fan base? Never thought of it that way. I know a guy who wasn't a fan but bought an Edsel this spring. Tryin' to think of a car that has a fan base, I think Packard might fit that description. As for the Crosley yes in the large and in charge '50's it was an anomaly. But by 1960 Corvair, Falcon, Comet( which was to be the next gen Edsel but Ford had had enough) Lark etc were all the rage and I believe the Crosley would have fit right in. But the early to mid '50's? Nah, Americans had money to spend and the post war boom was on.
@@richardrice8076 for some reason i couldnt think of the word i needed so i just threw fan base in there. gettin to old i guess.
@@GMCOGRE close enough, how 'bout cult following?😀🤪
"Bro-um" 🤣
Another chanel with AI narration, not worth the price of admission, and that's free.
Is that the best Nash Metropolitan he could find, it's in bad shape and all rusted out. Also, he did not care to mention that the Metro was the car of choice of Donald Duck.
hahaha, yup.
I was going to buy a Metropolitan that wasn't on too bad shape, but showed its age a bit. Black and white was pretty cool looking for just 2 grand. The owner turned out to be a real prick though. Ratted me out to my boss.
@@ericbitzer5247 why? what did it matter to either of them if you bought it or not.
@@GMCOGRE After he ratted me out to the boss, I never went back to his house.
@@ericbitzer5247 yeah but why did it matter to your boss? on company time?
Wtf ,2:26 that is a toy model , now that is dumb !
The bar in the Cadillac is an oxymoron , nice option but rather insipid.
I WAS BORN IN 1958. There was a recession. Americans were concerned about The Cold War, and the satellite SPUTNIK (fIrst Oct. '57) brought uncertainty. The Cuban revolution was occurring. Batista fled, and US corporate assets seized.
Somehow the 1950s, GI bill fueled growth decade took a mild economic pause OR consumers finally found more realistic expectations & realistic reach. What was being offered in the market, finally seemed too much for the average consumer.
I was born in 1957. US auto consumers mostly liked what was being offered, but by the early 1960s, strong demand for smaller vehicles was identified and catered to, with the first US compact models in 1959/1960. The revolutionary rear engined Chevrolet Corvair, the more conventional Ford Falcon and Plymouth Valiant, along with the oddly designed AMC Rambler series, which was more of a mid-size intermediate.
Dreadful.
You seem to be a little confused or your research stopped halfway through a Wikipedia page.
The big three car companies in the USA were vicious and crushed anyone who tried to compete. They controlled the DOT by lobbying to outlaw anything they weren’t doing. Sometimes they even turned on each other. Look into the history of Chrysler’s push button transmission for an exhaustive explanation of this. Aggressive and cheating competition is why the kaiser didn’t get sales. 90hp would have been pretty impressive back then. Speaking of horse power, the hotshot’s 30hp would have been double of any daily driver in the UK at that time. For example, the early 60s Triumph Herald made great sales in Europe, it was powered by a mind blowing 16 horsepower. In fact, pretty much every critical thing you said about the Crosley could be restated as the reasons for the success of VW’s Beetle. They just happened to catch the big three looking the other direction.
I know this whole thing is click bait but dang it if misinformation don’t just burn my britches.
Nothing like using a plastic model to represent the Caddy in the video... and giving it a '58 Chevy front clip.
Cadillac eldorado nor that bad
nope, my dad had one when i was a kid (born in '65), never ever had any issues with it like they claim here.
My dad had 3 Metro’s. He loved it. The President of the England club had an orange and white one , with a 454 big block,and he came over to the US to drag race. It was incredibly fast.
hell man, almost ANYTHING brit or european with a big block chevy is fast as hell, hell, even a shit ton of small US cars are. back in the early 90's i but a big block chevy in a triumph spitfire, ran like a raped ape. 427 dual carb pushing 750 hp. zoom zoom zoom.
most dont know, the metro was built in england and had MG running gear. 1500 cc engines,same as an MGA.
I had a Nash Metropolitan I bought non-running for $150 in the mid ‘80’s. Got her running in an hour or two. Neat little car, my wife loved it, and constantly bugs me to buy another one.
@@Blue_Ridge_Ranger in the early 90's i bought a 1950 chevy pickup that would barely start, nursed it home and wasnt sure i would make it, gf was driving our 64'mgb and she thought she was going to have to tow it, ran that bad, spent 2 hours tinkering with it and took it out on the street and burned rubber. just needed ignition parts cleaned up carb adjusted and timing set, was top model so had 235 straight six instead of 216 , early version without pressure fed oiling to crank, dipper cups on crank to dip oil from the pan onto crank journals, babbitt rods no standard rod bearings.and 4 speed trans, torque tube driveshaft to rear so no u-joints and no rear end hop no parts bought. had it for years till drunk driver totaled it parked on the street. only cost me a couple hundred bucks, owner bet me i couldnt get it started. took it back to him and showed how well it ran and he just shook his head in dis-belief. was actually a rare model with factory installed cab heater, 5 window cab was cool. after a year put a 302 GMC straight 6 in it with clifford 3 carb intake and header with 4 speed GMC hydramatic auto trans from a 2 ton truck that was built with a clutch from the factory and not a torque converter, very low first gear with later model 12 bolt chevy rear, man that thing was fast from stoplight to stoplight. miss it. sorry for writing a novel but got wound up and lost.
Talk about the Hot Shot and show every model but the Hot Shot.
Several things that you didn't mention are the first solid state radio. The price was more than the price of a new house. Insane, right?
10,000 could buy you a brand new levit home with full basement in 1960
The Consumer MAY want something slightly different but NOT revolutionary. They WANT to be able to be COMPARED to others WITHOUT initial shock, confusion, or difficulty.
Congrats, you managed to strech a 6 minute video into a 23 1/2 minute onw.
and another channel to block
Cybertruck in 50 yrs 😂
The 1957 El Dorado Brougham is a plastic model
Is it just me, or at 11:20, did the AI say “Oney one hundred pounds?”
How well do you think that bar would go over today and that 57 Cadillac?🍻
Imagine a time when GM put unproven technology on cars. Just like today!
no worse than ford dodge or any body else, so stop hating dork.
So much of the same over and over boring
Interesting. But: Please describe the strange car used in the little picture, to advertise this video!
The Edsel you can take the engine out and put a horse in there room for the horse head to go through
Top speed was around 70 memalarge.
My parents owned a Metropolitan, I actually fell in love with it as a kid, I wouldn't mind having one today, I liked it very much.
The Crosly thats iffy 🤔
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The Edsel was an ENTIRE DIVISION without many models. Henry I wanted to honor his son. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CONVENTIONAL (hindsight); and, Sold from the main Division (Ford). The Honda Prelude with advanced features WAS STILL A HONDA. If an opportunity presents itself later, THEN eventually a Big 3 can re-brand into ANOTHER Division. Also re-name plating some existing cars can SLOWLY build the new Divsion. The Infiniti G20 was a reskined & upgraded interior small Nissan. Infiniti also did a retreat from its biggest body and a V-8 engine.
henry's son
You know nothing
Watching this video was a total waste of time.
suicide doors
edsel
The Edsel was bad
very bad.
If I don’t see the car portrayed on this video you will a thumbs down and a bad comment and I will never watch your videos anymore
If i remember right the nash metro was a v-4
bro ham
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO HOLD A CAMERA
Click bate
why so serious kitten?