1966 Chevrolet - Original Sales Promo Film - Impact '66
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Including the '66 Chevy II and other full line models. Cringe at the demolition derby and the stacks of 1950s cars in the junk yard! Great quality color film.
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66 Nova is a masterpiece of minimalist design. The entire 66 product line is form and function at it's best.
I GREW UP DURING THAT ERA AND I LIKED ALL THE CARS OF THE 60S. NO MATTER IF THEY WERE FORD'S, CHRYSLER'S, BUICKS, PONTIACS, CHEVY'S, ETC.
Frank289100 Okay, I surely understand that but do you also remember that AMC and Studebaker were still around then,
I used to own a 1965 Impala with a 283. Great car with very little maintenance cost. Sad thing is that they don't make them anymore. I would never buy the pathetic junk they build now.
Might as well buy a Toyota, a Mazda, or Hyundai. They are all built better than any Chevy now.
@@glennso47 And if you do get used to looking at a pile of shit beacuse that's what most new cars look like today!.
I got a 66 impala a couple of years ago and it had been sitting for years but it still passes most of the tests I can try. Not bad for a 53 year old car.
I remember my mother's 1963 Chevy II station wagon rusting out above the headlights and at the bottom of the tailgate by 1971, despite all the praise the taxi company was giving the car at the start of this clip.
In order to prove how durable our Chevy IIs are, we found a cab company working in the most perfect environment in the entire US. No snow, little rain, and a year-round temperature that averages 73 degrees. Yes, sir, if you want a car that can take it, San Diego proves it's the Chevy II.
David Weber, Skip the weather vs the truth of the matter is Police and Taxi usage is the toughest tests for any passenger car these cars are usually driven 24 7 I outta know beacuse I'm a cab driver so I know what taxicabs go through!
@Eric Hartmann Taxi guys too liked crown vics. Even 10 years after the last ones were made some Police departments and cab companies still have em!
@Eric Hartmann I think this also applies to Mercury Grand Marquis as well, maybe now might be the time to find a nice one!
i like all of them these car look so much better than modern car
"Handles like a baby carriage?" you mean you gotta drive it from behind?
That was really great, and I'm sold, but how do I buy a new 1966 Chevrolet???
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The "coin balance" demonstration was only shown for the SMOOOOOOOTH riding Chevrolet. One has to assume the other vehicles failed the test?
Mercury had a demonstration where a jeweler was going to cut a diamond while riding in the back seat of a Mercury Grand Marquis. He had to cut it just right or the diamond would be spoiled.
@@glennso47 Shine on you crazy diamond!.
I'd assume the other cars passed, too. Chevy would be happy to show the coin falling over and dropping on the floor.
The Nova couldn't be sold in Mexico because in Spanish "Nova" means "It doesn't go".
That's interesting! In Canada they sold it under name of "Acadia"..
That's a fake legend. Novas sold well in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. "Nova" means the same thing in English and Spanish and it doesn't seem calling it an "exploding star" hurt sales anywhere. "No va" does mean "no go" in Spanish but that's like saying "Nomad" means calm in English. In fact, Pemex sold a "Nova" brand gasoline. Not to mention that the GM's Latin American dealers would tip off GM fast if they thought the name wouldn't sell.
I had a 1965 Nova 194 6cyl - 3 speed manual trans....it wasn't no race rocket but dam that car lasted for many years! Odometer only went to 99,999 miles but I'm sure it got more than 500,000 miles. It got a decent 25 mpg too! I'd love to have another - very simple and cheap to maintain. GM went to shit when they started using front wheel drive....all garbage now.
That was great!!
Some of the derby scenes were used in The Love Bug movie.... am I crazy?
I honestly don't remember, but I know they were filmed at Ascot Park in Gardena. When I was a kid, I loved it when my parents would take me there.
I am not a ford fan, but they failed to tell you what the sales numbers were for Ford vs Chevy. If more Fords were sold, of course there will be more scraped.
Chevrolet has been outselling Ford since the early 1930s. And I am a Ford guy.
In 1960's GM had 52% of market... all the other carmakers shared the other 48%... Buyers loved GM cars... GM was big enough to give more for the money... had no owner family to support... Govt. told GM sell less cars or we break you up as a monopoly... like they did to AT&T ==> 8 pieces...
@@BuzzLOLOL so again, the Govt. screws up everything they touch.
@@Boobtube. - Democrats don't like businesses/jobs/working...
@@BuzzLOLOL So, it was the government who forced GM to sell the Corvair, the Vega, and the Citation before they got all the bugs out. I did not know that.
Those stacks of 1950s cars in the junk yard, but NO Chevrolets. How can that be?
If you look closely you will see a few but it still might be right Fords quality and reliability sometimes varied from year to year.
Chevrolet would definitely have reorganised the junkyard in their favour.
@@CycolacFan intresting because this was back in the day where someone could tell the difference between the two.
More like they were filming in the non-Chevrolet section of the junkyard. To make things easier for them to locate, junk yards kept their vehicles separated and grouped by manufacturer. I'm sure that some still do, but for the most part, now they cut the catalytic converters out, remove the engine and transmission in one shot for higher demand vehicles, tires and wheels, maybe the spare tire, headlight ant taillight assemblies, maybe the radio and that's about it. If you need something else, they'll either have it by sheer luck because it hasn't been crushed and shipped yet, or they use their part finding network to see if maybe someone else has one. Their overall goal now is to turn them over fast for the scrap metal value more than anything else, so many of them may not even have sections for different makes anymore. But back when this was filmed, most of them kept their inventory organized by make, and that's what makes it look like there are more Fords than anything else.
According to Scotty Kilmer the junk yards are now Chevy dealerships.
Why didn't they include a Dodge, a Chrysler, or a Cadillac in the last competition?
Because Chevy didn't want to dilute the message that they were BETTER than their REAL rivals, Pontiac, Buick and Olds. Stealing sales from Ford or Chrysler was nice but even better to steal sales from their GM rivals and rise in the GM hierarchy. One of the roots of GM's failure was that GM let the divisions go to war with each other.
15.7 mpg out of a 1966 big block ,325 hp, damn I only get 13.2 mpg out of my 06 2wd 1500 Dodge with a 3.7 (225 cuid) V sick err six.
'99 Blazer... If it's behaving exceptionally well, I can squeeze 13 out of it.
You've got a heavy foot or out of tune engine... should be over 20 MPG at only 40 MPH... average about 18 MPG in easy driving...
And we think the Comercials are long now!
This isn't a commercial for the public on TV; it's a training film for Chevrolet salesmen.
@@hebneh I would love to have films like these used as commercials for today's vehicles. They would be MORE fun to watch than most of the programs that are currently on TV!
This is a promo that was to be seen by Chevy sales persons.
15.7 miles per gallon? Sounds like you'll be well prepared when the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 hits.
Really surprised the 396 won the MPG test... expected the 383 to be best... must have been the QuadraJet carb...
Could it be that until 1955 the Fords got into more crashes because they went faster since had a V8 and Chevy didn't?
So remember if you're buying a '66 Chevy II tick the options box for fleet spec with taxi cab suspension and interior.
Except you can't because they weren't available to the public.
I thought that every car junkie knew that Chevrolet came out with their new v8 in 1955, suprisingly the first Chevrolet that had a V8 was all the way back in1917!
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I would have thought so too. And that whole thing about the general public not having certain options available to them is BS too. Back in the day, ytou could go in to a new car dealer and order any car you wanted with any options or deletions you wanted. As long as the factory made that option available at all on the model you were looking at, you could order the car any way you wanted it. Your sales man would fill out the order card, get your loan approved, send your order form to the factory and a few weeks later, you would get a phone call telling you that your car had arrived. They weren't going to go outside their normal parameters and create a new color for you, but if you wanted a green car with a blue interior, as long as both were available options, you could get it that way. 4 speed doesn't come as an option on the 6 cylinder model, but that's what you want? As long as the bell housing and transmission bolts line up and the input shaft would properly spline up with the clutch, and everything would tighten up and function correctly, you could get it. You don't like carpeting and would rather have a full rubber mat instead? As long as there was a such thing as a rubber mat for that model, no problem. Back before the 90s, you could go into a dealership and get whatever you wanted, and that included fleet and interceptor options.
I think the BS fed to car buyers by the sales people is eclipsed by the BS fed to the sales people by the car companies.
Back when a car was a car not rolling entertain center on wheels I need WiFi connection Bluetooth because I am tht important not
See that's a shame, Chevy shouldn't have to compete with the B.O.P cars. That goes to show the problem GM has always had and why Olds & Pontiac aren't around anymore.
I liked my 66 galaxy alot better.
Those scrap numbers are sickening ( l0 year old cars)
Meanwhile, hordes of Toyotas, VW's and Datsuns are invading California with low prices and good fuel economy. How'd that turn out?
Bob T first of all it's not Datsun anymore and hasn't been since the early 80s, Its Nissan, Second it's not California anymore its Commieforia beacuse of all the leftwing nut jobs, What a shame it's a beautiful state that got ruined everyone's moving out!
Actually I was quoting the narrator from 1966. I know little about California except that the popularity of these early economy cars took root there (for the most part). Having owned a 1972 Datsun in 1975, I noticed when my local dealer hoisted the new sign, thanks.
exaggerated sales pitch
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