Just charge the battery and you are usually pretty good. Besides, with some of the winter effects, you want a car like that. There is sleeting rain/snow in Michigan which is a fun way of saying "raining ice" as it freezes on contact with any surface. I drifted around a Michigan left going 2 miles an hour on a flat road because of this. The car was brand new with winter tires.
This song has a special place in my heart. I owned a 1988 Chevy Celebrity (purchased new) that I finally said goodbye to in 2021. It had 513,779 miles on it. Still had the original engine that worked fine. AC and radio long stopped working, but it was warm as toast inside during cold weather. Three of the four power windows worked, as well as the cigarette lighter (I don't smoke, so it was never really used). Shocks and struts were shot, but when it was on the highway it was smooth sailing just like the day I drove it off the dealer's lot. Chrome bumpers and whitewall tires. What finally forced me to give it up was when I was told it would not pass inspection because the undercarrige rust was pretty bad (30 plus years of New York State winters will do that). Boy, do I miss that car!
im a toyota guy, i own a 2009 scion tc(197,200)2013 toyota sienna(92,100) and a 1992 lexus sc400(112,000). But i have a respect to the older cars like yours, they were built to last back then. Today alot of new cars cant even make it to 100k withour needing major service, and that goes for toyotas and hondas as well, they dont make them like they use to
Same with me! My 1978 Dodge Aspen has 591k miles on it and I've been driving it daily since new. She's falling apart and covered in rot and hasn't passed a Rhode Island inspection since 2012. But I was able to slap antique tags on her and I still drive her every day. Not much works anymore.. but the AM radio still is clear as a ever. God Bless these old cars they don't make them like they used to.
@@WringWraith171 591 K miles? That's great! Adding to my original comments, when my Celebrity reached 250 K miles, I contacted Chevrolet, asking whether they would offer any incentives on the purchase of a new vehicle. Their response: A letter congratulating me on being a loyal customer and a 100 K Plus Miler T-shirt. I wrote to Chevrolet again after she reached 500 K miles, except this time, I suggested a new vehicle. Another T-shirt! I am reminded of the guy in Missouri earlier this year who after reaching a million miles on his Volvo, was given a new vehicle by the company. While I was not successful, you still may have a chance if you reach a million and Dodge wants some good public relations.
I had a 1986 celebrity, and that was the best winter beater I ever had. It warmed up fast, and the heater would melt your face off. It had no driver aides (not even ABS), but with a good set of snow tires, it went through anything. It succumbed to rust cancer (also from New York State), but I miss that car. My car now complains if it gets too much snow built up on the front sensor and puts a warning on the dash. But if you turn off the front sensor it still puts a warning on the dash! So annoying!
Wait, what? I’m originally from Wisco, and loved Shopko while I lived there! I live in the South now, and there’s absolutely nothing like that, down here. Shopko is out of business now? Say it isn’t so!!!
It’s a pity that Shopko went belly up! I remember shopping at the Marquette, Michigan Shopko when I was little. I shopped at Shopko when I attended NMU also. Thank you for bringing back some memories!
My local radio station used to play this every year around the holidays before it changed formats and became a K-Love station. Great memories. RIP All Hit 98.9FM
Before the time of front wheel drive cars and awd SUV's, driving a rear wheel drive beater with sandbags (if you were uppity) or rocks in the trunk on an icy 2-lane at night with only dim incandescent headlights; that was the kind of live or die trying daily experience that gave us true grit in the face of adversity.
Gave us? Hell, I buy a rusty, rear wheel drive, winter beater with a heater about every 2 years. I've taken them through snow that would bring most new 4x4s to a stop and never had any problems. It's all about where you grew up and how well you can drive. My first car was a 1972 Chevy Impala that I bought at 16 for $275 and I'd love to have another one just like it this winter.
This song may be about Michigan, but as a person from Minnesota, it fits perfectly!! For I owned a couple of old chevys like this!! Including using a candle to see the dash at night. Also had a door fall off one due to rust!! This song sure brings back memories!!
In January of 1994 I was born at Bell Memorial hospital in Ishpeming. It was probably fate that I became a fan of Da Yoopers, eh? I never heard this on the radio, surprisingly, but I do listen to this every year. Sharing this with friends has become a tradition.
My family used to have an 85' S10 Blazer. Head liner fell off, heater was on its last leg, and the manifold rusted away (we called her "rolling thunder.") But that little truck fired up every time lol
This video is very accurate and had me in stitches. As an Arizona native, the word rust was not in my vocabulary, until me and my girlfriend went to stay with her parents in Burlington, North Dakota over the holidays. The first day there, we decided to take a drive, but she wouldn't let me take my Toyota pickup. Instead she made me park it in a shed and escorted me around the side of the house and there sat a roached out '72 Pinto. The driver side door handle had rusted off and instead there was a coat hanger tied to the door latch, half of the floorboard was gone and if you weren't careful, you would Fred Flintstone it down the street. The firewall was rusted out so the steering column was being held up from the sun visor by a crusty bungee cord and the steering wheel would bounce up and down as you drove down the street. You had to grapple the wheel in a sort of headlock to shift the car because there was no more longitudinal support. The best part was that one time when I came out from the general store to find my gf underneath the car zip tying the leaf spring to the rear axle. I knew she was a keeper before then, but that shattered any more doubts I had! That was seven years ago, and we've been married three years now. We both still drive that Pinto every time we get up to Burlington.
@@basicallyarobloxian4533 Pretty much. Can't believe that it still runs. As long as it's alive, it'll be the Burlington Beater, as we call it. It's hilarious, because my father-in-law drives a 2013 Mercedes E-Class and my mother-in-law drives a 2019 Silverado. Not shabby cars by any means, but during the winter, those go into the garage and the ol' Pinto comes out from the field and assumes the position of daily driver. They've had it for almost 20 years, and even when they bought it it was pretty rusty. When it does finally die, they'll probably get another rust bucket on the cheap for wintertime. It'll be a shame, though, 'cause we've made a lot of memories in that car. Two years ago, they bought a very crusty late '70's vintage Dodge D-100 pickup so that they can both run errands at once in the winter and so that we would have something to drive when we got up there. That's not in quite as bad of shape as the Pinto, but there's a bunch of electrical gremlins. You have to park on a hill because the starter is dead, but it's a 2WD, so getting to said hill is a little tricky; and if you turn on the high beams, the whole truck shuts off. It's a very fun time at my in-law's in the winter.
My old 1997 Subaru Impreza. How I miss you, you old bucket of bolts. You had me scared every time I drove it, but only really broke once. And it was in the middle of summer.
I loved this song as a kid even though I didn't get all the references that I only later learned were UP Michigan references. I've had more than a few cars like this in my life!
Ya, I think mine was a 64 impala, nicknamed the bondo buggy. The heater worked good, passanger side missing floorboard and a cracked block. It would take a industrial metal detector to find it with all the bondo in her.
Oh yeah. Grew up in Pontiac. This reminds me when I was working at a gas station in Southfield and an old mid-60's Dodge made a hard/fast left through the intersection, the spare tire came crashing through the right rear quarter panel of the car and rolled into our gas station. The dude eventually stopped and came back for it. I saw the whole thing happen. I have never laughed so hard. That damn car was more rust than car.
3 things in this song kids today won't know anything about: 1) IGA (unless you live near one that is independently owned and has kept the name) 2) Shopko sadly the store closed a few years ago 3) Lawaway... putting your Christmas gifts on Lawaway in July or August and picking them up in December.
I remember hearing this during the 1980s as well while in high school in Northern Maine. Looks like the video could have been made there. I believe our only radio station would play it.
A long time ago there was a weekly radio program called Click and Clack on NPR radio where two brothers ( Tom and Ray Magliozzi) answered people's car problems. They would call people up who sent emails about the car they would be having a problem with and have funny discussion about the car problem in questioned. During Christmas this song was used as a lead out to the show for a break. I even remember one fella they talked to called Arup Gupta. Think the show is still available as reruns on NPR podcast! RIP Tom Magliozzi
As a Yooper, I have toddlerhood memories of Marquette’s Shopko. I remember Mom and Dad buying me toys. Because of the toys, I always looked forward to Shopko.
For years talked about how this was my favorite Christmas song when I was little. I had no idea what he was talking about, then I found it and I remembered everything.
Lol, this song reminds me of my first car! It was a rusty Buick instead of a Chevrolet, but it was still a major pain in the ass! Especially in the winter!
My Grandpas most famous song...I sure wish I got to meet him. Apparently he directed the entire video basically by himself. I like to see other people enjoying his music, as it's basically the only thing I know about him.
My father passed his cassette tape down to me, I used to play it regularly but now I have to protect it for my son. I may be from the lower peninsula but I grew up on these videos and cassette tapes, we knew every word by heart and whether it be deer season or snow season we were singing. These songs made my childhood and even today give me a feeling of joy that makes it a little easier to shovel out the truck. The world is a better place because of your Grandpa. I wish I were able to shake that mans hand and thank him.
Ahhhhh the memories of driving around in my moms "uncle buck car" looking at Christmas lights while my sisters and i sang along to this on the radio 😂😂
@@goldbud2287 My 85' old's toronado 307 ain't bad either. It's slow but it's an indestructible heap of iron. I love it. My other gm product is a 77 chevy short van with a 350, so I have fun with that too. Old cars are so dam easy to fix.
@@goldbud2287 The 305s are great, too - for reliability, if they're not abused. They're not very powerful, but they'll last for a really long while with regular maintenance.
I met them in Munising,Michigan at the Marathon gas station on the main drag (i wanna say route 77 but its been so long lol). I spotted their buses and had to refuel right away just to hope to meet them. I sat at the pumps for 5 minutes and then they came out beef jerky and pasties galore lol. I rattled the motor a couple times and they came a running, was AWESOME! i got the rusty chevy comments lol in all good fun, then i stepped on it once and really got their attention, i then popped the hood and got a resounding HOLY WAH! from the group. I was hiding a Sleeper under the hood. They signed the underside of my hood of my 1970 chevy pick up (looked like something Jesse Duke) would drive lol greatest day of my life!
Great story, but if you were in Munising, probably M-28. M-77 goes from Seney North to Grand Marais and South through Germfask and Blaney Park to U.S. 2
@@barbarastewart1200 US highway 2..... my home highway hello from glasgow montana..... your winters are TAME compared to ours but ive got a 68 impala that fits this song perfectly..... it was my late aunts car..... her favorite car im not sure if i want to 100% restore it...... which will take at least 35 years of hard work or keep it rusty...... but make its 400 small block CRANK out the power (non-orignal motor..... my aunt was a BAD ASS hot rodder)..... a 400 and a 327 look exactly the same..... would be a hell of a sleeper
No Idea why this appeared when it did, but my mother's '64 Chevy sedan is named Freddy Krueger, from all the patch panels and rust scars... This fits the Plains states pretty good, actually. Merry Christmas, Yoopers.
Ah, I HAVE to watch this EVERY year. It wouldn't be Christmas without :) and i'm sure many of us have had experiences like this haha. I have went off the road in snow a few times. I got stuck on a hill during a blizzard in Kentucky one night at 3am. just going up the hill , there were woods everywhere, in the country. I couldn't move. I had a heater but was running out of gas. Finally a cop came along behind me and just said we called the tow truck. 15 minutes later there he was on top of the hill, his lights so bright. He backed down , hooked me up and told me for 20 bucks he would take me to the top of the hill, for 50 he would take me home. I said just take me home! It was about a 15 minute drive away. we got there, i had no cash. He said well I don't have a credit card machine with me. So he asked me if I get back over that way much. I said yes , my girlfriend lives there, so he trusted me to pay him later. He said not many tow truck drivers would do that for you. I said thanks a lot. the following week I stopped by his place , went inside and paid the 50 dollars. he didn't remember at first, then he did. i'm honest, he helped me. There were 3 other cars off the road that night with people standing there. He said he would be right back to get them. He said he didn't stop towing cars until 5am . I remember that same truck got ice on the INSIDE of the windshield. I couldn't see anything. so many times I drove with ice everywhere. once the windshield fogged up though, I had no choice but to pull over. Winter, I love it. WE are expected 3 inches of snow for Christmas in a few days on Christmas Eve.
At the time this song came out, my dad owned a Chevy pickup that was of the same bodily deterioration as the car in this video. We used to love it when this song came on at Christmas and we'd be riding in his pickup truck where you could literally see the floor beneath your feet. And being from the lower peninsula, winters then were about the same.
I love this song and video. It's on my Christmas playlist every year. My first car was a '71 Caprice that looked a lot like the Impala (?) In the video. Same color, even.
Born and raised a few miles from Ishpeming. I laugh watching them slide down the hill at Al Quaal! Most Yoopers can sled on a shovel. My family knows all the guys. Good people!
Lots of snow shoveling! Many used cars become rusty! I bought my first and only car used in Newberry. Like any used car, it had its quirks! I have been using public transportation in Chicago for almost 21 years.
I don't even celebrate Christmas or live in a place that gets much snow, but this is one of my favourite songs and music videos ever. Fuckin legendary. My parents used to sing it whenever the car started acting weird when I was little, and now it's ingrained into my psyche
Oh man I'm glad you found it lol they used to play this on the radio when I was little so every year me and my sisters would sing along in the pos Oldsmobile our mom had 😂
I have this 45 R.P.M. single, it is so funny to listen to it. I rub my friends nose in this one due to the fact he had a 1969 chevy bel air that was a rust bucket!!!!. I would piss him off when I played this tune at christmas time at his house in front of his family. he would not play it so I would bring my 1950 R.C.A. record player( restored/ rebuilt)that only plays "singles".
Just went out to do some errands. (In my Chevrolet Pickup) Turned on the radio and this is the first thing I heard. Now I cant get it out of my head. I love it.
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2fps
*Upgraded to 1987 yooper quality*
Just the intro bit.
Yes. The intro is intentionally stop motion. It was a filter used often in the 80s.
Husky Films I imagine this is how everyone feels that drives a rusty Chevrolet
@@silasmcgee3647 Exactly why I don't drive a Chevy.
My Dad owned this vehicle when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was hilarious to be able to watch the highway go by through the floor.
Haha
I used to have an old 72 Mercury comet that you could do that with 😂🤣
I always loved how in spite of everything else, the radio was OK.
Nothing quite like a Delco.
Just charge the battery and you are usually pretty good. Besides, with some of the winter effects, you want a car like that. There is sleeting rain/snow in Michigan which is a fun way of saying "raining ice" as it freezes on contact with any surface. I drifted around a Michigan left going 2 miles an hour on a flat road because of this. The car was brand new with winter tires.
As a native "Yooper" myself from the Copper Country, I remember this band very well. They gave us many hours of fun and laughter. My thanks to them.
Im a yooper too. Ive seen them live and been to their tourist trap.
This song has a special place in my heart. I owned a 1988 Chevy Celebrity (purchased new) that I finally said goodbye to in 2021. It had 513,779 miles on it. Still had the original engine that worked fine. AC and radio long stopped working, but it was warm as toast inside during cold weather. Three of the four power windows worked, as well as the cigarette lighter (I don't smoke, so it was never really used). Shocks and struts were shot, but when it was on the highway it was smooth sailing just like the day I drove it off the dealer's lot. Chrome bumpers and whitewall tires. What finally forced me to give it up was when I was told it would not pass inspection because the undercarrige rust was pretty bad (30 plus years of New York State winters will do that). Boy, do I miss that car!
im a toyota guy, i own a 2009 scion tc(197,200)2013 toyota sienna(92,100) and a 1992 lexus sc400(112,000). But i have a respect to the older cars like yours, they were built to last back then. Today alot of new cars cant even make it to 100k withour needing major service, and that goes for toyotas and hondas as well, they dont make them like they use to
Same with me! My 1978 Dodge Aspen has 591k miles on it and I've been driving it daily since new. She's falling apart and covered in rot and hasn't passed a Rhode Island inspection since 2012. But I was able to slap antique tags on her and I still drive her every day. Not much works anymore.. but the AM radio still is clear as a ever. God Bless these old cars they don't make them like they used to.
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591 K miles? That's great! Adding to my original comments, when my Celebrity reached 250 K miles, I contacted Chevrolet, asking whether they would offer any incentives on the purchase of a new vehicle. Their response: A letter congratulating me on being a loyal customer and a 100 K Plus Miler T-shirt. I wrote to Chevrolet again after she reached 500 K miles, except this time, I suggested a new vehicle. Another T-shirt! I am reminded of the guy in Missouri earlier this year who after reaching a million miles on his Volvo, was given a new vehicle by the company. While I was not successful, you still may have a chance if you reach a million and Dodge wants some good public relations.
@@eventhat8103 haha! That's awesome, glad Chevy gave you something! Maybe I'll be like Al Bundy and Dodge will offer me a Viper.
I had a 1986 celebrity, and that was the best winter beater I ever had. It warmed up fast, and the heater would melt your face off. It had no driver aides (not even ABS), but with a good set of snow tires, it went through anything. It succumbed to rust cancer (also from New York State), but I miss that car. My car now complains if it gets too much snow built up on the front sensor and puts a warning on the dash. But if you turn off the front sensor it still puts a warning on the dash! So annoying!
R.I.P. Shopko, Wisconsin will miss you and the history.
So will Michigan
There was a Shopko in Austin, Minnesota, my hubby’s hometown and one in Buena Vista, Colorado. They were both very nice stores. I miss them. 🙁
Wait, what? I’m originally from Wisco, and loved Shopko while I lived there! I live in the South now, and there’s absolutely nothing like that, down here. Shopko is out of business now? Say it isn’t so!!!
Awww I grew up with Shopko
It’s a pity that Shopko went belly up! I remember shopping at the Marquette, Michigan Shopko when I was little. I shopped at Shopko when I attended NMU also. Thank you for bringing back some memories!
My local radio station used to play this every year around the holidays before it changed formats and became a K-Love station. Great memories. RIP All Hit 98.9FM
I hate the radio monopoly. We get the same songs presented the same way CONTINENT WIDE.
I once walked out of burger king and saw my girlfriend ducttapeing her car back together... I married her
You married well.
Good call.
She's the marryin' type
Duct tape coat hangers and pliers all you needed for them old cars
U found a good one 🤣
As a Troll (as Yoopers call us residents of Michigan's Lower Peninsula), I listen to this at least once every Christmas.
I listen to this every day...and I'm from Pennsylvania.
i listen it all year round
Before the time of front wheel drive cars and awd SUV's, driving a rear wheel drive beater with sandbags (if you were uppity) or rocks in the trunk on an icy 2-lane at night with only dim incandescent headlights; that was the kind of live or die trying daily experience that gave us true grit in the face of adversity.
Gave us? Hell, I buy a rusty, rear wheel drive, winter beater with a heater about every 2 years. I've taken them through snow that would bring most new 4x4s to a stop and never had any problems. It's all about where you grew up and how well you can drive. My first car was a 1972 Chevy Impala that I bought at 16 for $275 and I'd love to have another one just like it this winter.
As a guy who drives a Chevy...
I can confirm this is what my Chevy has become.
Ya but they never die
Chevies run crappy longer than most cars run.
My local radio station has started playing this during the Christmas season and I LOVE IT
I used to play this song on my show every Saturday evening Decembers 1989 and 1990 when I was a DJ at WTOQ-AM in Platteville, Wis.
This song may be about Michigan, but as a person from Minnesota, it fits perfectly!! For I owned a couple of old chevys like this!! Including using a candle to see the dash at night. Also had a door fall off one due to rust!! This song sure brings back memories!!
In January of 1994 I was born at Bell Memorial hospital in Ishpeming. It was probably fate that I became a fan of Da Yoopers, eh? I never heard this on the radio, surprisingly, but I do listen to this every year. Sharing this with friends has become a tradition.
Everyone stand for the Michigan anthem
You haven't lived in PA yet lol
@@jenniferfaus2187 you haven't lived in wisconsin yet lol
Try Canada 🇨🇦
@@jenniferfaus2187 try Canada
Been to Canada many times in my life lol I know what the snow is like
My family used to have an 85' S10 Blazer. Head liner fell off, heater was on its last leg, and the manifold rusted away (we called her "rolling thunder.") But that little truck fired up every time lol
Those are the types of beaters that have a whole personality to them and I love them so much ❤
Im very lucky to say I live in the amazing town of Ishpeming and can point out every place where this was recorded.
This coming up on TikTok unlock a core memory for me and I am so thankful for it. Now, I wonder where that cassette went lol
I like how video feels nostalgic,friendly and not serious in same way. You dont see something like that nowadays.
Not true. I still drive a rusty Ford😮
@@oliviahoyler453 Thats cool. Still good car.
Yess!!!! If you grew up in the UP this is very nostalgic!
It reminds me of the Red Green show
@@dominik-zq2ip Must look at it. Im from Central Europe so I dont know whats going on lol
This video is very accurate and had me in stitches. As an Arizona native, the word rust was not in my vocabulary, until me and my girlfriend went to stay with her parents in Burlington, North Dakota over the holidays. The first day there, we decided to take a drive, but she wouldn't let me take my Toyota pickup. Instead she made me park it in a shed and escorted me around the side of the house and there sat a roached out '72 Pinto. The driver side door handle had rusted off and instead there was a coat hanger tied to the door latch, half of the floorboard was gone and if you weren't careful, you would Fred Flintstone it down the street. The firewall was rusted out so the steering column was being held up from the sun visor by a crusty bungee cord and the steering wheel would bounce up and down as you drove down the street. You had to grapple the wheel in a sort of headlock to shift the car because there was no more longitudinal support. The best part was that one time when I came out from the general store to find my gf underneath the car zip tying the leaf spring to the rear axle. I knew she was a keeper before then, but that shattered any more doubts I had! That was seven years ago, and we've been married three years now. We both still drive that Pinto every time we get up to Burlington.
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Pretty much. Can't believe that it still runs. As long as it's alive, it'll be the Burlington Beater, as we call it. It's hilarious, because my father-in-law drives a 2013 Mercedes E-Class and my mother-in-law drives a 2019 Silverado. Not shabby cars by any means, but during the winter, those go into the garage and the ol' Pinto comes out from the field and assumes the position of daily driver. They've had it for almost 20 years, and even when they bought it it was pretty rusty. When it does finally die, they'll probably get another rust bucket on the cheap for wintertime. It'll be a shame, though, 'cause we've made a lot of memories in that car. Two years ago, they bought a very crusty late '70's vintage Dodge D-100 pickup so that they can both run errands at once in the winter and so that we would have something to drive when we got up there. That's not in quite as bad of shape as the Pinto, but there's a bunch of electrical gremlins. You have to park on a hill because the starter is dead, but it's a 2WD, so getting to said hill is a little tricky; and if you turn on the high beams, the whole truck shuts off. It's a very fun time at my in-law's in the winter.
rusty cars in the "SALT/ RUST BELT" are common. after all ,salt is a car killer!!!!
My old 1997 Subaru Impreza. How I miss you, you old bucket of bolts. You had me scared every time I drove it, but only really broke once. And it was in the middle of summer.
Just as long as the radio’s ok it’s fine
Has it really been 30 years?! Still one of my favorite songs to get me in the Christmas spirit!
I went to HS with these guys. Great bunch, great memories.
thank GOD the radio is OK
Yep if you're radio is OK thats the important thing
I love sending this song to everyone in my contacts
I always come back to this song during christmas time
Same
This is like the theme song for Christmas in the Northern Midwest.
I'm here Christmas 2022 remembering my mom who played this song every year since I was a kid in the early 80's
The finest Christmas song ever written right there, folks.
I loved this song as a kid even though I didn't get all the references that I only later learned were UP Michigan references. I've had more than a few cars like this in my life!
Ya, I think mine was a 64 impala, nicknamed the bondo buggy. The heater worked good, passanger side missing floorboard and a cracked block. It would take a industrial metal detector to find it with all the bondo in her.
It’s time to make my annual return to this song i love how it blew up
I just discovered it and can't get enough of it!
I don’t remember the name of the oldies station in Marquette, but I remember they used to play all the yooper hits on the radio when I was a kid.
I got a 2000 dodge with 327000 miles on it, three pistons not firing, and falling apart from salt corrosion. I feel this song in my soul.
Holy Wah! You got quite da truck!
An absolute gem
I have well what's left of a 2 door version of the chevy in this video and my friends laugh when I'm driving my rusty Chevrolet lol
dodge and ford is trash
Um, wouldn’t it not start if 3 of the pistons didn’t fire?
Oh yeah. Grew up in Pontiac. This reminds me when I was working at a gas station in Southfield and an old mid-60's Dodge made a hard/fast left through the intersection, the spare tire came crashing through the right rear quarter panel of the car and rolled into our gas station. The dude eventually stopped and came back for it. I saw the whole thing happen. I have never laughed so hard. That damn car was more rust than car.
Holy Hell!!!! Thank you for sharing this story!!!!!! I laughed out loud!
At least the radio is okay. That's the most important part of the car, heh heh.
Heck with it rods are knocking just turn up the radio will be rocking till we're walking 🤣😂
The fact that I was 6 when this came out and it was legendary back then, and it still is, says something
3 things in this song kids today won't know anything about:
1) IGA (unless you live near one that is independently owned and has kept the name)
2) Shopko sadly the store closed a few years ago
3) Lawaway... putting your Christmas gifts on Lawaway in July or August and picking them up in December.
One of my favorite Christmas songs, I randomly started singing it this summer while mowing my Grandma's lawn with her old riding lawn mower.
Someone please put this in a time capsule for future discovery.
I remember hearing this during the 1980s as well while in high school in Northern Maine. Looks like the video could have been made there. I believe our only radio station would play it.
Hi Randy how are you doing this is your big brother Ernie bob
Da Yoopers the upper Penisula of Michigan. Another of their favorites is Second Week of Deer Camp.
Da Yoopers refers to people from the U.P. of Michigan. There also a reference to Negaunee, which is also a city in the Upper Peninsula.
The double take when he passes the tire was always my favorite part of the video
This song has been and will alway@ be a family tradition for me.
My class played this one twice everyday! Sometimes more than that. We at Mrs.Brooke’s Class see this as a classroom staple!
Showed this to my dad and he told me how he used to see them live at the Cove Bar in Naubinway! I’d kill to see these guys in their prime!
Michigan native here, and I love this song!
A long time ago there was a weekly radio program called Click and Clack on NPR radio
where two brothers ( Tom and Ray Magliozzi) answered people's car problems.
They would call people up who sent emails about the car they would be having a problem
with and have funny discussion about the car problem in questioned.
During Christmas this song was used as a lead out to the show for a break.
I even remember one fella they talked to called Arup Gupta. Think the show is still available
as reruns on NPR podcast! RIP Tom Magliozzi
Welp its November I guess its Da Yoopers time for everone else too
I live in wisconsin and this perfectly describes a few people I've seen/know
I remember them playing this on the radio during the winter when i was a kid.
If you know you know!!!
As a Yooper, I have toddlerhood memories of Marquette’s Shopko. I remember Mom and Dad buying me toys. Because of the toys, I always looked forward to Shopko.
A chrismas tradition, you can't get into the holiday cheer until after rusty chevrolet
For years talked about how this was my favorite Christmas song when I was little. I had no idea what he was talking about, then I found it and I remembered everything.
My Mom always loved this song, cause she could relate to it! Merry Christmas in Heaven, Mom, I miss and love you dearly!
My sister ALWAYS played this! Around in the 90's!
Lol, this song reminds me of my first car! It was a rusty Buick instead of a Chevrolet, but it was still a major pain in the ass! Especially in the winter!
gm product,same thing
We would always listen to this in Elementary school during Christmas time (I’m from Wisconsin)
Whew at least the radio works
This is my entire childhood growing up on a farm with my mechanic dad and uncles 😂
Yooper accent is funny. The "da" sound instead of th- reminds me of the Filipino accent.
My Grandpas most famous song...I sure wish I got to meet him. Apparently he directed the entire video basically by himself. I like to see other people enjoying his music, as it's basically the only thing I know about him.
Grandpa Joe woulda loved you Eli!😊
My brother-in- law went to school with your grandpa. Your grandpa was very creative.
I graduated with a Brad Potilla in 1991 at Negaunee. Any relation?
@@USFZeus I assume so. I'm pretty sure every Potila in the UP is related.
My father passed his cassette tape down to me, I used to play it regularly but now I have to protect it for my son. I may be from the lower peninsula but I grew up on these videos and cassette tapes, we knew every word by heart and whether it be deer season or snow season we were singing. These songs made my childhood and even today give me a feeling of joy that makes it a little easier to shovel out the truck. The world is a better place because of your Grandpa. I wish I were able to shake that mans hand and thank him.
Ahhhhh the memories of driving around in my moms "uncle buck car" looking at Christmas lights while my sisters and i sang along to this on the radio 😂😂
how did i just now find this, friggin masterpiece
This video will never die !
just like the old chevy!
I still have alot of family in da UP. Holy wah ! They got alot of snow this year, started before Thanksgiving, still digging out end of March.
Ive been through quite a few winters with my old 84 caprice she was an absolute Champ
Can’t beat those 350s
@@goldbud2287 My 85' old's toronado 307 ain't bad either. It's slow but it's an indestructible heap of iron. I love it. My other gm product is a 77 chevy short van with a 350, so I have fun with that too. Old cars are so dam easy to fix.
@@goldbud2287 The 305s are great, too - for reliability, if they're not abused. They're not very powerful, but they'll last for a really long while with regular maintenance.
My favorite christmas song
I met them in Munising,Michigan at the Marathon gas station on the main drag (i wanna say route 77 but its been so long lol). I spotted their buses and had to refuel right away just to hope to meet them. I sat at the pumps for 5 minutes and then they came out beef jerky and pasties galore lol. I rattled the motor a couple times and they came a running, was AWESOME! i got the rusty chevy comments lol in all good fun, then i stepped on it once and really got their attention, i then popped the hood and got a resounding HOLY WAH! from the group. I was hiding a Sleeper under the hood. They signed the underside of my hood of my 1970 chevy pick up (looked like something Jesse Duke) would drive lol greatest day of my life!
Great story, but if you were in Munising, probably M-28. M-77 goes from Seney North to Grand Marais and South through Germfask and Blaney Park to U.S. 2
How a bout da IGA. What a store
@@barbarastewart1200 US highway 2..... my home highway
hello from glasgow montana..... your winters are TAME compared to ours
but ive got a 68 impala that fits this song perfectly.....
it was my late aunts car..... her favorite car
im not sure if i want to 100% restore it...... which will take at least 35 years of hard work
or keep it rusty...... but make its 400 small block CRANK out the power (non-orignal motor..... my aunt was a BAD ASS hot rodder).....
a 400 and a 327 look exactly the same..... would be a hell of a sleeper
As a born Yooper (Marquette 1955), I always play this every Christmas. Summers in Ishpeming and National Mine. Fond memories.
Thinking of buying a 96 Blazer, first thing I’ll play if I gets her
Blast it LOUD!!
@@theincrediblemr.b413 Yes
Great song I remember listening to this song on this old tape that belonged to my mother a few years ago when we used to go Christmas shopping
No Idea why this appeared when it did, but my mother's '64 Chevy sedan is named Freddy Krueger, from all the patch panels and rust scars...
This fits the Plains states pretty good, actually.
Merry Christmas, Yoopers.
Ah, I HAVE to watch this EVERY year. It wouldn't be Christmas without :) and i'm sure many of us have had experiences like this haha. I have went off the road in snow a few times. I got stuck on a hill during a blizzard in Kentucky one night at 3am. just going up the hill , there were woods everywhere, in the country. I couldn't move. I had a heater but was running out of gas. Finally a cop came along behind me and just said we called the tow truck. 15 minutes later there he was on top of the hill, his lights so bright. He backed down , hooked me up and told me for 20 bucks he would take me to the top of the hill, for 50 he would take me home. I said just take me home! It was about a 15 minute drive away. we got there, i had no cash. He said well I don't have a credit card machine with me. So he asked me if I get back over that way much. I said yes , my girlfriend lives there, so he trusted me to pay him later. He said not many tow truck drivers would do that for you. I said thanks a lot. the following week I stopped by his place , went inside and paid the 50 dollars. he didn't remember at first, then he did. i'm honest, he helped me. There were 3 other cars off the road that night with people standing there. He said he would be right back to get them. He said he didn't stop towing cars until 5am . I remember that same truck got ice on the INSIDE of the windshield. I couldn't see anything. so many times I drove with ice everywhere. once the windshield fogged up though, I had no choice but to pull over. Winter, I love it. WE are expected 3 inches of snow for Christmas in a few days on Christmas Eve.
At the time this song came out, my dad owned a Chevy pickup that was of the same bodily deterioration as the car in this video. We used to love it when this song came on at Christmas and we'd be riding in his pickup truck where you could literally see the floor beneath your feet. And being from the lower peninsula, winters then were about the same.
is en blijft een geweldige kerstsong 👍🌲
Thats a MICHIGAN Beater with a Heater! 👍🏼👌😄
Not even a heater, it’s broke!
Hey. That's the same 2 Neguanee Cops we have today!
Yoopers!👍👍👍👍
funny that this video has more views than the population of the upper peninsula of michigan
That’s because you Trolls love it up here eh?
@@kristopherjewell5259 i live up here ! but yes
Grew up with this song playing in my 82 Chevy pick up...still singing it!!!
2022 still driving rusted out Chevrolets.
yea and they're from 2021 😂
I love this song and video. It's on my Christmas playlist every year.
My first car was a '71 Caprice that looked a lot like the Impala (?) In the video. Same color, even.
This song brings me back to my younger years 😍
Reminds me of my 2000 Blazer. Had to zip tie the bumper to keep it on. And I was a delivery driver.
Today in Buffalo.
Happy Thanksgiving Y'all.
Born and raised a few miles from Ishpeming. I laugh watching them slide down the hill at Al Quaal! Most Yoopers can sled on a shovel. My family knows all the guys. Good people!
What a classic song and then the video is really great :) I watch this every Christmas. it doesn't seem like Christmas if I miss this :)
Lots of snow shoveling! Many used cars become rusty! I bought my first and only car used in Newberry. Like any used car, it had its quirks! I have been using public transportation in Chicago for almost 21 years.
Man I love this and it sounds like we’re I come from car bearelly held together
That's a 1975 Impala sedan.
At least the Radio is ok. Rust in Peaces Chevrolet
I don't even celebrate Christmas or live in a place that gets much snow, but this is one of my favourite songs and music videos ever. Fuckin legendary. My parents used to sing it whenever the car started acting weird when I was little, and now it's ingrained into my psyche
anyone else listen to this song every December? lol
I do :)
Yup
First Time I ever heard it, Merry Christmas.
@@JJR53 merry Christmas
I hear it every year around Christmas time & it's makes me laugh after all these years. From the Tampa Bay area USA Merry Christmas everybody.
First time I ever heard this song with a few minutes ago on his other video with the truck. I'm still LMAO
Oh man I'm glad you found it lol they used to play this on the radio when I was little so every year me and my sisters would sing along in the pos Oldsmobile our mom had 😂
I have this 45 R.P.M. single, it is so funny to listen to it. I rub my friends nose in this one due to the fact he had a 1969 chevy bel air that was a rust bucket!!!!. I would piss him off when I played this tune at christmas time at his house in front of his family. he would not play it so I would bring my 1950 R.C.A. record player( restored/ rebuilt)that only plays "singles".
Holy crap, I've heard this song a bunch of times but have never seen the video.
As the owner of a 1990 Chevy truck, yeah this is accurate.
Just went out to do some errands. (In my Chevrolet Pickup) Turned on the radio and this is the first thing I heard. Now I cant get it out of my head. I love it.
This song is the funniest "Jingle Bells" parody ever, hands down!
No, feet down hoping the brake catches