@@gentlegiants04 I drive trucks with 'highway viewing holes' too. I keep a handful of ball bearings in a tray on my dash. If somebody tailgates I just drop some on the floor and kick em to the hole. Suddenly... no tailgater
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.
Alright so, let's see: -rusted body -worn out piston rings -smooth old tires -parts held together by chicken wire -broken heater -one door missing -dash lights not working -bent frame -missing muffler -left front tire missing -brakes not working -oil burning in the cylinders (big blue cloud of smoke) Sounds like something you'd find on facebook marketplace along the line "no bargaining, I know what I have"
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!
If anyone is wondering why this video has so many recent comments or why the algorithm has chosen you to see it, its because someone used this song in a BeamNG short which exploded in views, and in turn everyone came to find the full song, which in turn made youtube's algorithm to see this video as significant, which in turn sends it to everyone who watched anything remotely within the last 2 weeks gets to see it
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!
This song fits me well. Had a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. Car sat all winter long one year and it rusted something terrible. Floorboard rusted through. Quarter panels rusted totally through. Muffler fell off it. Driver's side door wouldn't shut and I had to hold it closed with a C clamp. Heater went out of it. Frame was bent from getting hit in the side. Only thing good about the car was the motor. Didn't leak a single drop of oil. Motor ran like a sewing machine. Didn't have much giddy up go power but it went down the road pretty good.
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
That Chevy looks like a realistic version of what you’d find inside the staring garage at the beginning of the game “The Long Drive”. Looked like such fun to make this video back in 1987. No Internet. No phones. Just living in the moment… I wish we could go back to those times. *Sigh*
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!!
We used to sing a song like this in elementary school, it went “Driving through the snow In a broken Chevrolet Through the fields we go Crashing all the way The snow is turning red I think I might be dead I wake up in the hospital with stitches in my head”
Dashing through the snoww On a pair of broken skiiiis Overthe hills we goooo Bashing into treeees Now the snow is reddd I think I'm nearly deadddd And now im in a hospital with stitches in my headdd OH Cant remember the rest lol 😂
Can’t believe this is actually from 1987. Humor really evolved a lot but some things are meant to stay the same. Aren’t they. This seriously is a great Christmas song in my opinion. I could listen to this for a really long time.
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.
LOL. My godfather lives in Ireland now, but he used to live in Rochester, NY. He drove a VERY crusty 1980's Chevy K-100. Much like in the song, the radio was about the only thing that still worked on the truck. Also, good on your girlfriend for not taking your Toyota out in the snow, at least not on the salty roads.
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
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.
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.
Song reminds me of a friend who drove her 2001 Buick oldsmobile with a donut tire, popped the tire, and drove over 7 miles with a popped tire, the last 3 on just the rim. I remember seeing the trail from the wheel up the hill to the college. Good times!!!
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
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!
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 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.
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.
this video was filmed in 1987 the Chevrolet Impala they used looks to be a 1975 or so is crazy to me. After a bit over ten years in the upper peninsula its that beat up. That goes to show how unforgiving the UP is or how shitty GM's build quality was in the 70's. Not like modern GM products are that good today either
Got this goddamn masterpiece recommended last week. I found myself a new Christmas tradition. Fuck Jingle Bells and Heavy Metal Christmas (the album) and other, "traditional Christmas songs".
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!
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.
My 2002 Dodge Caravan is basically the same way. It's faded, rusted, the driver's window doesn't roll down, and the license plate is starting to come loose. But it still has heat, AC, and the radio still works.
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.
@@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.
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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 😂🤣
wish i had a car that had that "feature"
@@gentlegiants04 I drive trucks with 'highway viewing holes' too. I keep a handful of ball bearings in a tray on my dash. If somebody tailgates I just drop some on the floor and kick em to the hole. Suddenly... no tailgater
WHAT
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.
Its to cover up the expensive noises
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.
I dont know what a "Yooper" is, but it sounds like something french
Alright so, let's see:
-rusted body
-worn out piston rings
-smooth old tires
-parts held together by chicken wire
-broken heater
-one door missing
-dash lights not working
-bent frame
-missing muffler
-left front tire missing
-brakes not working
-oil burning in the cylinders (big blue cloud of smoke)
Sounds like something you'd find on facebook marketplace along the line "no bargaining, I know what I have"
Then its marked as sold
@TreesBot "you should've hurried son, it was a keeper"
i mean the radio is aight so thats something
12500 no lowballers i know what i got
@@Momo_Kawashima always thought it was white smoke ment oil in the cylinders
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.
@@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!
If anyone is wondering why this video has so many recent comments or why the algorithm has chosen you to see it, its because someone used this song in a BeamNG short which exploded in views, and in turn everyone came to find the full song, which in turn made youtube's algorithm to see this video as significant, which in turn sends it to everyone who watched anything remotely within the last 2 weeks gets to see it
Well actually, this isn't the original, there is a video that has this same song from 16 or 18 years ago I think
@@GlitchySpaceSimulationsthat one was from 16 years ago, this looks like it’s from 1980’s tbh.
1986
I was NOT looking for Christmas songs or BeamNG and this was still recommended. Thanks God for that.
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 🤣
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!
Everyone is here after watching that one YT short... And then realising it's older than YT itself
OK BUT FR
yes
The beamng one?
FR!
@@JRBX-09ye
My grandpa showed me this song about 2 years ago, and I can't stop listening every Christmas season, it is way too good!!!
This song fits me well. Had a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. Car sat all winter long one year and it rusted something terrible. Floorboard rusted through. Quarter panels rusted totally through. Muffler fell off it. Driver's side door wouldn't shut and I had to hold it closed with a C clamp. Heater went out of it. Frame was bent from getting hit in the side. Only thing good about the car was the motor. Didn't leak a single drop of oil. Motor ran like a sewing machine. Didn't have much giddy up go power but it went down the road pretty good.
😂😂
Not even the radio?
@King_Sus car didn't have a radio in it. Was a stripped down model
I love how this is a 8yr old song and people got recommended this or the Beamng stuff and now that led them to this gem. I fricking love Christmas.
It's from 1987?
14 minutes ago oh my god lmao
Yep I got it too
It's 37 years old 1987
Lol yeah)))😂
Its my new winter jam
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.
Every year, like clockwork, I return to this gem.
Happy holidays from 2024!
Hii
That Chevy looks like a realistic version of what you’d find inside the staring garage at the beginning of the game “The Long Drive”.
Looked like such fun to make this video back in 1987. No Internet. No phones. Just living in the moment… I wish we could go back to those times. *Sigh*
I like how as it gets closer to Christmas people come back to this video. It’s 8 years old and I’m seeing hour old comments
It's a perfect Christmas song for anyone with a project car
I just found this a couple of days ago and I like it especially the game parody’s of this song/video
Real, plus for the fact that im gonna try and stay up til 12:00 midnight and blast this full volume
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.
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
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!!
"The radio its okay" is the christmas equivalent to "everybody but your dog"
I bet this music video had a budget of 5 dollars and a case of beer. And I love it.
I don't doubt it did
@railroadmillion681 clearly you don't understand a joke.
Heck Yeah!!!!!!
You misunderstood their comment. The I dont doubt was a double negative, meaning they do believe that was the case. @@SgtSnazzerino
@@SlimothyJimothy ok, well... Sorry I guess?
Has it really been 30 years?! Still one of my favorite songs to get me in the Christmas spirit!
We used to sing a song like this in elementary school, it went
“Driving through the snow
In a broken Chevrolet
Through the fields we go
Crashing all the way
The snow is turning red
I think I might be dead
I wake up in the hospital with stitches in my head”
Dashing through the snoww
On a pair of broken skiiiis
Overthe hills we goooo
Bashing into treeees
Now the snow is reddd
I think I'm nearly deadddd
And now im in a hospital with stitches in my headdd OH
Cant remember the rest lol 😂
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
Can’t believe this is actually from 1987. Humor really evolved a lot but some things are meant to stay the same. Aren’t they. This seriously is a great Christmas song in my opinion. I could listen to this for a really long time.
lol same
@ it feels good to know that someone agrees with me.
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.
I need a rusty chevrolet of my own. I saw a 68 Impala wagon for sale with no brakes and rust EVERYWHERE. Sounds perfect.
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?
My local radio station has started playing this during the Christmas season and I LOVE IT
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.
rusty cars in the "SALT/ RUST BELT" are common. after all ,salt is a car killer!!!!
LOL.
My godfather lives in Ireland now, but he used to live in Rochester, NY. He drove a VERY crusty 1980's Chevy K-100. Much like in the song, the radio was about the only thing that still worked on the truck.
Also, good on your girlfriend for not taking your Toyota out in the snow, at least not on the salty roads.
thank GOD the radio is OK
Yep if you're radio is OK thats the important thing
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 ❤
How "My Winter Car" going to be:
yes 🤣
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.
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.
I'm here Christmas 2022 remembering my mom who played this song every year since I was a kid in the early 80's
This is low-key a banger
For real
0:53 is where the song starts
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
who else is here because of that one short lol
Everyone
30 mins😨?
Me
Me
yes
We love the short for bringing this song to light
I own a 1979 Corvette, and a 2003 Grand Marquis. There could not be any video more accurately depicting my winter experience.
Still more dependable than a Cybertruck
YES
Less rust too
that's a really low bar, my 30-something year old lawnmower is more reliable than a cybertruck
Just as long as the radio’s ok it’s fine
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
I went to HS with these guys. Great bunch, great memories.
This song is one of the most well known things from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Im very lucky to say I live in the amazing town of Ishpeming and can point out every place where this was recorded.
The finest Christmas song ever written right there, folks.
I always come back to this song during christmas time
Same
Song reminds me of a friend who drove her 2001 Buick oldsmobile with a donut tire, popped the tire, and drove over 7 miles with a popped tire, the last 3 on just the rim. I remember seeing the trail from the wheel up the hill to the college. Good times!!!
"The frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio, its okay-ay" you know your fine when the radio works.
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
This is like the theme song for Christmas in the Northern Midwest.
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.
For anyone wondering what type of chevy it is
its a 1975 Chevrolet Impala (5th generation)
That was a good year! Sophomore in high school! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@Nan-59 nice
@@Nan-59 Happy 64th birthday. lol
Nice! I wonder if there are many four doors left? Such a practical big boat! :)
@@jamesgizasson oh yeah there's a lot of them left
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!
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.
Welp...it's about that time of year again.
For anyone wondering where this is, I believe it is Michigan’s upper peninsula, hence why the band is named ‘The Yoopers.’
yeah the accents sound almost Canadian but they're next door to Canada.
From Nagunee,East of Marquette. You bet,eh?
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.
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.
As some who who lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan and is a yooper, I am very proud of this
Michigan native here, and I love this song!
Well you dont NEED anything if it still starts and the check engine light is still on. If its off we have problems.
19 mins ago
This whole music video is just your average day in a Minnesotan winter.
You’re not wrong
This is the best christmas song ever and thats the best chevy I've seen
Just saw a BEAMNG parody of this, how many others are here because of it?
Yup
Eyup
Yup
Yessir
Yessir I am 😂
I could totally see this being played over the radio in 1987.
Uhhhhhh I don’t think Chevrolets and radios in cars in 1897-
@@Martineman-p7h he mosy lilely meant 1987
@@Martineman-p7h Typos are crazy with this one. 😭 Yeah, I meant 1987. I just type too fast.
@NightshadeEvergreenimagine it was played it 1897-
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!
thought at first that this is a parody of 80s music videos. was surprised to see that it infact isn't and it actually released in the 80s.
this video was filmed in 1987 the Chevrolet Impala they used looks to be a 1975 or so is crazy to me. After a bit over ten years in the upper peninsula its that beat up. That goes to show how unforgiving the UP is or how shitty GM's build quality was in the 70's. Not like modern GM products are that good today either
no some of gms trucks today are still shit but the SUVs and cars are good
Thinking of buying a 96 Blazer, first thing I’ll play if I gets her
Blast it LOUD!!
@@theincrediblemr.b413 Yes
This upload is officially 8 years old! Who else just discovered this song in 2024?
Got this goddamn masterpiece recommended last week. I found myself a new Christmas tradition. Fuck Jingle Bells and Heavy Metal Christmas (the album) and other, "traditional Christmas songs".
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
It’s alright if the frame is bent or if the muffler went, but god damn it if the radio wasn’t okay…
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!
One of my third graders just told me we had to listen to this :) We enjoyed it lol
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
1:01 the transition from 2 FPS to 60 literally bugs my brain
It's been officially 9 years since this masterpiece was released merry Christmas everyone
Actually I first heard this song 25 years ago
The fact that I was 6 when this came out and it was legendary back then, and it still is, says something
This song has been and will alway@ be a family tradition for me.
Welp its November I guess its Da Yoopers time for everone else too
Someone please put this in a time capsule for future discovery.
My 2002 Dodge Caravan is basically the same way. It's faded, rusted, the driver's window doesn't roll down, and the license plate is starting to come loose. But it still has heat, AC, and the radio still works.
so it's completely okay then
A chrismas tradition, you can't get into the holiday cheer until after rusty chevrolet
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.
We got IGAs in Ohio still
IGA still exists in Manitoba
We would always listen to this in Elementary school during Christmas time (I’m from Wisconsin)
My dad has a 1958 impala this song suits it well
I love sending this song to everyone in my contacts
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.
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 🤣😂
This song is the funniest "Jingle Bells" parody ever, hands down!
No, feet down hoping the brake catches
is en blijft een geweldige kerstsong 👍🌲
If you listen to this in 2020 your a goat
I've sang this song since I was 10. Sing it to my kids even, mostly at Christmas. I'm 40. Lol
I'm only 13 and me and my friend both love the older stuff.
Bahhhhhhhhhhhh!
@Trevor Ober you like to live on the edge I see ;)
@@H1PP1E88 that's what I like to here :)
I used to have a car where if you where sit in the back seat you can look down and see the road.
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!
its December so now im gonna start playing this every 2 hours
Ima play this FOR 2 hours
Same
Lol