@@djs.7702 FYI Gas prices were in the teens in suburban Philadelphia back then. Incomes weren't as high but neither was the tax load from Feds, State, local government.
I had some of these cars when they were new and I am judging them by the standards of their time. I am 82 years and still own and drive cars of that era! All of the cars are exactly what they were intended to and did that very well!
My family bought a NEW 1958 Studebaker "Silver Hawk". It was a "step down" from the AWESOME "Golden Hawk", with the same 289ci V8 sans the McCulloch supercharger. It was silver-grey with white accents in the tail fins. I loved the styling and the build quality of the vehicle. The beautiful dash with "metal turned" panel which housed Stewart Warner "white on black" gauges (with a blank spot for a tach which the Golden Hawk had). Stock engine was a "2-barrel " with dual exhausts. We "upgraded" with a '53 Oldsmobile 4-barrel carb mounted on an Oldsmobile aluminum manifold and converted distributor to "dual point". Was fairly quick (for its day) with 0-60 in about 9 sec., 1/4 mile in 16.5sec at 85mph! I GREATLY miss that car!!!
@@alb5489 I think Packard went out of business in 56 so not surprising the Packard hawk was lacking, not sure if your aware of it but the Packard plant in Detroit is all but gone they've been tearing it down since Summer, the old American Motors plant is gone as well.
A neighbor a few lots up my street had a '55 tri--color (light green, dark green, white roof) Stude Commander - same body different trim, and his kid had a '56 Tbird, maroon, Continental kit hardtop. I was a few years before driving but I really liked that Studie...pure class, even had the green tinted windows that went with air conditioning. Used to walk past his driveway on my way to school...and wish.
Don't get me wrong, I love this video, but the LOOK of these American Design Icons of the '50s IS the substance! As kids, the Fall showroom arrivals each model year was an exciting event. Sure we cared what was under the hood, but style and badge recognition captivated our adolescent taste!
What is Really Stupid is the excessive redundancy of this channel. How many times can you play the same video clip? How many ways can you say the same thing?
Anyone who says the first generation Thunderbird is stupid, is stupid. That was one of the most beautiful cars ever made. If anything was stupid it was how Ford lost it's way with the design of that classic.
You folks completely missed the point on most of these cars. AS you continuously pointed out they are still recognized not as stupid mistakes, but as iconic examples of their time. Stop trying to judge them by 2020s standards.
I owned a 1954 Chevy Belaire Sport Coupe-Candy Apple Red that Turned Heads everywhere I went, yes it only had a 235 Six Cylinder Motor but it was Built Strong and Rode better than these Expensive New Cars today. I wish that I still had it...
You go on and on about the Hudson convertible, yet not ONE single image, drawing, film, or photograph of said vehicle, what are the editors of this venue thinking? Or is the typical misinformation being spread on the internet like so much manure? I hesitate to wonder
You have to remember that most of the krap being put out on the Toob these days is completely A.I. generated... All that sh*t does is scan text and repeat what it's read with a goofy voice that can't pronounce half of what it says. The scariest part is that there are millions of people who follow exactly what this sh*t says.
@@MarkBerg-tk8js My grandfather had a Hudson Hornet (Probably 1953) and, in the mid 60's my father wrecked it. When my father died in 2011, I inherited totes of miscellaneous parts. As a kid, my brother ( I was always the passenger) drove that car, in the fields. It was so comfortable and spacious. Learning to drive and operate heavy machinery on my Grandfather's fields, were the best summers of my life. Those were the days.....I'm 62, by the way.
This narration is so a very poor descriptive of these automobiles, as a mature adult car enthusiast of this period I believe this presentation to be lacking in many ways.
Just a Note, Fuel in late 50's-early 60's was 27 cents per gallon and I did buy gas during this time frame for 17 cents a gallon in a town that had a Price War on Gas so you could Fill your Tank Up for 3-4 Dollars...
Gas in Phoenix Arizona in 1971 was about 27 cents a gallon. Cost me 14 cents to fill my mini bike. Nobody really cared about fuel mileage until about 1974 when it jumped to 37 cents a gallon or so which was caused by a shortage.
Correction on the Speedster: Pushbutton transmission was NEVER offered on Studebakers. Also, ALL Speedsters were 2 door hardtops and had tuck and roll upholstery as standard.
Studebaker's "Flightomatic" had a column mounted shift. And, our '58 "Silver Hawk" was a COUPE (solid "B" pillar) with standard "naugahyde" bench seats, front and rear.
The "build quality" left a LOT to be desired. That is the reason Plymouth never made "number 3 sales spot" even though it was part of the "low priced 3". It had everything else going for it!
I wasn't born in 1958, but I never saw gasoline prices exceed.299¢ until the gas crisis of 1973. .30¢ a gallon must of crippled people earning .25¢ - $1 an hour
@@tonycolca2241 I was repairing cars during this time period and one thing that I remember about these Chrysler products is the LOUSY door handles. Didn’t take long before they came loose and the next thing was it would break off and pull right out of the door. Very poor design.
Often in this video custom versions of the mentioned cars are used and much of the text content is distorted.55 Chevy convertibles did not offer bucket seats or LS1 engines, 59 caddy’s did not have wire wheels as shown nor did the bodies drag on the ground, packards and Studebaker were hot rods in their day. 55 thunderbirds had bench seats, corvettes had buckets making it rough for youth to fool around and make out in cars. The author talks of a Hudson Hornet convertible but only is a sedan shown….with zebra non stock seat covers.
Well! What a downer. Endless complaining about style over "practicality". An extended rant about a DeSoto and Hudson convertible with dozens of photos and not one of a convertible. For those of us who lived through all these cars and loved them, this ridiculous essay totally misses the point and the mark. What a waste of 49 minutes. Nice try but no cigar.
YOU ARE WASTING EVERYONE ELSE'S TIME....... AND YOUR OWN? WHAT GIVES? JUST ADMIT IT TO EVERYONE, YOU HATE OLD CARS, AND HAVE MISSED YOUR CALLING ( FOR SURE! ) and are bored to death!!!!!!!!! GUESS I PRETTY MUCH PEGGED IT!
THESE AI PRESENTATIONS by people who weren't even alive to drive these cars is not only absurd but an insult to those who actually drove them. I am totally sick of these. "Legendary Cars" should give up their imagined expertise and start reviewing frozen pizzas or TV dinners.
Nobody should call these kind of cars stupid because that was an era of rennaissance... as a result I feel insulted by this video poster because what he portrays as junk was a brand new thing once upon a time. FJB and may God bless.
This was an era where engineers and stylist had FREE REIGN in creating automobiles without any government or "bean counter" restraints!! A fabulous era!!
i started my collision repair career in 1959. we were repairing outer body rust on all these cars before they were 2 years old. nothing great about these turds !
This was my Era of Built Strong and Very Smooth Riding Cars--the Late 50's and Early 60's Built Vehicles that had Character that did not look Bugs like All these Newer Vehicles. If it were not for Plastic, these Newer Vehicles would not be able to Travel down the Road...
I drove a 55 Ford Crown Victoria. An absolutely reliable car that was easy to repair. Affordable for the working man. It was the golden age of the automobile. This AI voice must believe the gubment controlled auto manufacturers produce better cars. Well, look. At the vehicles produced today.😊
I can see some of his points about the styling, even though I grew up during that time period, but I absolutely agree that these are wonderful cars. I can tell that this is NOT a car guy. He lost me at the '55 Chevy being unreliable. The SBC is among the most reliable engine series ever made! This is why most hot rodders and car builders use some form of the Small Block Chevy crate motors in their projects. But then, how can he call these the "stupidest cars" of all time, and then call them "icons" and "sought after by collectors"? Probably drives a Tesla. And in how many different ways can he say the same thing about the same car? This video could have been done in 15 minutes had it not been for that. He should do a video about how all cars look the same nowadays. There is no more style, because it costs too much, and they know the public will buy whatever they put out anyway. Cars used to be an extension of the owner. Now they're just transportation to the majority of the buying public.
While knocking flash and style of the innovative 1950s , let's discuss the stupidity of the late 1980s to present, where we have few colors, even fewer interior color selections, squarish metal sedans became humpy roofed look alikes, with front and rear jello mold caps for bumpers. And prices! "You want what for that? Whaddya, nutz?". I know what I like, and the new stuff you can't work on, ain't it! So lighten up on the innovators of the past.
The Gold and White Plymouth Furry was such an all time beautiful car. I had a friend and neighbor with a cream colored one with a slant 6 that was wonderful. Ron W4BIN
Back in the early 1960s I once competed against a Corvette in a Lotus. A 'Vette may have been closer to being a sports car than a T-Bird but that's not anything to brag about. It was just too much of a stretch to try to categorize either as a "sports car." We called them "sporty cars." A friend that owned a 'Vette, as a babe magnet, not a racer, was unhappy that he was only getting 10 mph. He complained to the dealer. After the tuneup he got it back and was able to get 8 mph. He was just a kid in his early 20s working for the Post Office. I think it was about 2 months after he got it, he was drafted. He had a friend take it out for a half-hour drive every weekend for those 2 years. The listing of quality issues for almost all of the cars of that time was far too long. American businessmen were and continue to be about as incompetent as humanly possible . . . in almost every industry. Embarrassments. If they were paid what they are worth, almost all would be panhandlers. Boeing used to be an exception. No more. The health insurance industry is composed entirely of parasites. Et alia, etc., etc., etc.
horrible, jittery camera work. way too close most of the time. my eyeballs are vibrating. bailing out of here at 32 minutes. too bad this video was ruined by incompetence.
I owned a 57 T-Bird years ago. While it was a comfortable car to drive it definitely was no sports car. With the hardtop on you had to get into it more by crawling into in, head, then butt, the pull your legs in than the normal way. I used to let people sit in the car, when the top was on, mostly to see them struggle to get in it.
I love that half the convertibles discussed showed only sedans...I guess they came with a DIY cutting torch. I owned a number of these cars and neighbors/friends owned the others-I think the commentary would be much different if the authors were some years past puberty instead of approaching it.
My parents were very proud of their first new car, 1957 Desota. I was pf the age that i slept in the back windshield. I dont know if it was good or bad, but back seat room allowed me to grow. We had it until dad traded it for a 1964 dodge polaria. Those were the days!😂😂
Many of his comments are contradictory. I am much older than this gentleman, and was there to watch history unfold. He is just sprouting his opinion here. Nothing else.
Speak for yourself. These cars were a dream to drive. They were cheap in the nineties. We loved these cars. We lived like kings. You will never know. Perfect girlfriend car. Perfect. Perfect drive in car. Safe. Fast. Stylish. Very reliable.
There were two 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Broughams. in my area of Westchester County New York My mother owned one and some Banker in Scarsdale owned the other. My mother's was T-boned by a drunk driver while it was being serviced. because of the pillarless side doors the car couldn't be repaired. The insurance company totaled it with only 13,000 miles on the odometer. ten years later I bought the other one for $175. Hard to believe today but that is how fast those old road locomotives depreciated. The Cadillac I bought was in fair condition, BUT nothing to write home about. I sold it a yer later and bought a 1962 Oldsmiobile Starfire which I likes a lot more. The Ford Thunderbird was never a "sports car. Kids of the time called it the Geezerbird emphasizing its appeal to retirees. The Packard Hawk was a stupid idea BUT there was Nothing "Packard" about it. I found the 1957 Desoto Adventurer comfortable and innovative, and reliable. No one in the Fifties or Sixties was even slightly concerned with gas mileage. AND you did not mention the swivel front seats which made entering and exiting the car easy for older folks.
You don't know what you're talking about I had a 1955 Thunderbird for my 16th birthday no it was not a sports car like a triumph for a Jaguar but it was a wonderful car and it was no dog
@@mem45414 No insult intended, but what "minimums" constitute a "nice house" ??? In 1961 my Father purchased a "NEW" 4- bedroom, 1 & 1/2 - bathroom, 2-car attached garage home in Akron, Ohio; within a nice upscale neighborhood of Summit County (28 miles from Cleveland Hopkins Airport) for $28,500. So I would say the $12,000 dollar figure would have been for an older 2-3 bedroom house with no attached garage, located somewhere like Toledo, Youngstown, Cincinnati, or East Palestine, Ohio ???
The Headline was just a way to grab us all emotionally for views and to piss off everyone into commenting all to boost it's rating in the algorithm to earn this content creator more money in ad revenue. And with over 77K views in only 2 days it seems to be working. Plus 150 comments so far. That's a million views in a month. That's gotta be big money. Just turn off the volume and enjoy seeing the cars once again without traveling to a car show.
The best way to watch this video is to mute the audio and enjoy the beautiful cars . The AI voice over is lying BS.
Yeah. The AI (average intelligence) voice was rubbish. At one point an ad was used with the same voice !!!
I don't think its AI...😅😅😅
AI generated content, voice and stolen videos. Stop watching. 😅
I couldn’t agree more , this video is about as valuable as toilet paper after use !!!
Just another load of bullshit from some one who hides be hind robots
Nothing stupid about these cars
This is not worthy of air time
like people woried about gas mileage then. these cars were sought after from day 1.
I AGREE 100%!!!!!!!
@@djs.7702 FYI Gas prices were in the teens in suburban Philadelphia back then. Incomes weren't as high but neither was the tax load from Feds, State, local government.
I had idiot in mind!
@@75fxe77 The ( Rich ) were starting to pay there fair share!!!!
I had some of these cars when they were new and I am judging them by the standards of their time. I am 82 years and still own and drive cars of that era! All of the cars are exactly what they were intended to and did that very well!
Amen and I am almost your age-late 70's--Loved these Older Cars--Character...
Another video about cars by someone who doesn't know anything about cars.
Let's repeat everything 6 times. Just in case anyone missed it the first five times it was said.
Most of the cars were absolutely fantastic
A friend of mine owned a Studebaker Hawk. It was a great car, both performance-wise and in appearance. A real head-turner in its day.
My family bought a NEW 1958 Studebaker "Silver Hawk". It was a "step down" from the AWESOME "Golden Hawk", with the same 289ci V8 sans the McCulloch supercharger. It was silver-grey with white accents in the tail fins. I loved the styling and the build quality of the vehicle. The beautiful dash with "metal turned" panel which housed Stewart Warner "white on black" gauges (with a blank spot for a tach which the Golden Hawk had). Stock engine was a "2-barrel " with dual exhausts. We "upgraded" with a '53 Oldsmobile 4-barrel carb mounted on an Oldsmobile aluminum manifold and converted distributor to "dual point". Was fairly quick (for its day) with 0-60 in about 9 sec., 1/4 mile in 16.5sec at 85mph! I GREATLY miss that car!!!
The Studebaker Hawk series cars were awesome looking.
@@donyoung6463Except that U. G. L. Y. NOSE/SNOUT of the Packard Hawks.
@@alb5489 I think Packard went out of business in 56 so not surprising the Packard hawk was lacking, not sure if your aware of it but the Packard plant in Detroit is all but gone they've been tearing it down since Summer, the old American Motors plant is gone as well.
A neighbor a few lots up my street had a '55 tri--color (light green, dark green, white roof) Stude Commander - same body different trim, and his kid had a '56 Tbird, maroon, Continental kit hardtop. I was a few years before driving but I really liked that Studie...pure class, even had the green tinted windows that went with air conditioning. Used to walk past his driveway on my way to school...and wish.
I've had the Matchbox version of the Cadillac since it was new and its performed flawlessly for all of these years.
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The 55 chevy and T bird are my dream cars. 1955 was the year I was born. That's the best years of those 2 cars🎉❤😂
Don't get me wrong, I love this video, but the LOOK of these American Design Icons of the '50s IS the substance! As kids, the Fall showroom arrivals each model year was an exciting event. Sure we cared what was under the hood, but style and badge recognition captivated our adolescent taste!
Most of these cars are better than anything you can buy today.
Showing a 57 and 59 Dodge while talking about a 58.
Our family had a 1956 Chrysler Windsor.....big fins, astounding ride, huge passenger area, terrible gas mileage but nobody cared.
Nobody cared about the gas mileage because a full tank cost a buck fifty. Those were the days.
At sixteen years old (1963) I bought a 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport.two door hard top. It was the best car I have ever owned.
All of the cars in this video big big money today on the old car market! So who's the stupid one now? This video is a joke!
What is Really Stupid is the excessive redundancy of this channel.
How many times can you play the same video clip?
How many ways can you say the same thing?
How does the 55 Chevy convertible ever get on this list? Just asking…..
The Mark II is drawing a lot of money from collectors because it was hand built, and was beautiful at the time.
You spend an excessive amount of time saying the same thing over and over and over while not really saying anything of substance.
Lots of truth in your comment !!
That comes with stupidity,no charge!
Anyone who says the first generation Thunderbird is stupid, is stupid. That was one of the most beautiful cars ever made. If anything was stupid it was how Ford lost it's way with the design of that classic.
You folks completely missed the point on most of these cars.
AS you continuously pointed out they are still recognized not as stupid mistakes, but as iconic examples of their time. Stop trying to judge them by 2020s standards.
the crap hes saying is wrong.
A collection of some of the most beautiful, and practical, works of art in history. Too bad about the abysmal narration.
And maybe this car hater could do a little image stabilization before putting up such a video.
I owned a 1954 Chevy Belaire Sport Coupe-Candy Apple Red that Turned Heads everywhere I went, yes it only had a 235 Six Cylinder Motor but it was Built Strong and Rode better than these Expensive New Cars today. I wish that I still had it...
You go on and on about the Hudson convertible, yet not ONE single image, drawing, film, or photograph of said vehicle, what are the editors of this venue thinking? Or is the typical misinformation being spread on the internet like so much manure? I hesitate to wonder
You have to remember that most of the krap being put out on the Toob these days is completely A.I. generated...
All that sh*t does is scan text and repeat what it's read with a goofy voice that can't pronounce half of what it says.
The scariest part is that there are millions of people who follow exactly what this sh*t says.
I’m 86, I was there, they were the latest , beauties of the day !😅😅
I had a boyfriend back in the mid 1970’s who was restoring a Hudson.
@@MarkBerg-tk8js My grandfather had a Hudson Hornet (Probably 1953) and, in the mid 60's my father wrecked it. When my father died in 2011, I inherited totes of miscellaneous parts. As a kid, my brother ( I was always the passenger) drove that car, in the fields. It was so comfortable and spacious. Learning to drive and operate heavy machinery on my Grandfather's fields, were the best summers of my life. Those were the days.....I'm 62, by the way.
The purchaser of T bird was not a drag racer
They WERE PRETENDERS to drive up and down the boulevard .
I like all these cars
Today , .. American made cars , are they better than those shown in the video ?!
What a pile of crap! Great visuals but horrendous, repetitive narration. All your videos are crap. The cars are wonderful, if not accuately described.
This narration is so a very poor descriptive of these automobiles, as a mature adult car enthusiast of this period I believe this presentation to be lacking in many ways.
This person/AI should be fired/dismantled, they know NOTHING about classic cars and should NOT comment on them.
I like the way you used ' dismantled '!
The "stupidest" in the title is ONLY in the AUTHOR's mind!
Just a Note, Fuel in late 50's-early 60's was 27 cents per gallon and I did buy gas during this time frame for 17 cents a gallon in a town that had a Price War on Gas so you could Fill your Tank Up for 3-4 Dollars...
Do leave out $0.50 an hour pay .
Do leave out $0.50 an hour pay .
Gas in Phoenix Arizona in 1971 was about 27 cents a gallon. Cost me 14 cents to fill my mini bike. Nobody really cared about fuel mileage until about 1974 when it jumped to 37 cents a gallon or so which was caused by a shortage.
Correction on the Speedster: Pushbutton transmission was NEVER offered on Studebakers. Also, ALL Speedsters were 2 door hardtops and had tuck and roll upholstery as standard.
Studebaker's "Flightomatic" had a column mounted shift. And, our '58 "Silver Hawk" was a COUPE (solid "B" pillar) with standard "naugahyde" bench seats, front and rear.
Nice to see some of these cars but I have to shut off the absolutely useless inaccurate and redundant narrative
I guess this content creator isn’t worried about making any friends, lol
And we were on the gold standard in 1958 and gasoline was only 30 cents a gallon. I was 18 and 1958 the Plymouth Fury was an exceptionally great car
The "build quality" left a LOT to be desired. That is the reason Plymouth never made "number 3 sales spot" even though it was part of the "low priced 3". It had everything else going for it!
I wasn't born in 1958, but I never saw gasoline prices exceed.299¢ until the gas crisis of 1973. .30¢ a gallon must of crippled people earning .25¢ - $1 an hour
I knew a guy that bought a 58 Plymouth Fury and a door fell off on the way home why do you think it was chosen for the book and movie christeen
@@tonycolca2241 I was repairing cars during this time period and one thing that I remember about these Chrysler products is the LOUSY door handles. Didn’t take long before they came loose and the next thing was it would break off and pull right out of the door. Very poor design.
@@beef539 we better be careful about what we say about CHRISTINE !
Often in this video custom versions of the mentioned cars are used and much of the text content is distorted.55 Chevy convertibles did not offer bucket seats or LS1 engines, 59 caddy’s did not have wire wheels as shown nor did the bodies drag on the ground, packards and Studebaker were hot rods in their day. 55 thunderbirds had bench seats, corvettes had buckets making it rough for youth to fool around and make out in cars. The author talks of a Hudson Hornet convertible but only is a sedan shown….with zebra non stock seat covers.
Wish Jay Leno would have done the "voice over".
The thunder bird is beautiful there is no way they had the stance and tire combo in 56 this video is like critsising babe ruth for drinking a beer
Or road wheels on a fifties Mopar
A lot of beautiful vehicles
Well! What a downer. Endless complaining about style over "practicality". An extended rant about a DeSoto and Hudson convertible with dozens of photos and not one of a convertible. For those of us who lived through all these cars and loved them, this ridiculous essay totally misses the point and the mark. What a waste of 49 minutes. Nice try but no cigar.
YOU ARE WASTING EVERYONE ELSE'S TIME....... AND YOUR OWN? WHAT GIVES? JUST ADMIT IT TO EVERYONE, YOU HATE OLD CARS, AND HAVE MISSED YOUR CALLING ( FOR SURE! ) and are bored to death!!!!!!!!! GUESS I PRETTY MUCH PEGGED IT!
THESE AI PRESENTATIONS by people who weren't even alive to drive these cars is not only absurd but an insult to those who actually drove them. I am totally sick of these. "Legendary Cars" should give up their imagined expertise and start reviewing frozen pizzas or TV dinners.
What's STUPID about these classic beauties?
they were superior in every aspect compared to what is being produced today
Nobody should call these kind of cars stupid because that was an era of rennaissance... as a result I feel insulted by this video poster because what he portrays as junk was a brand new thing once upon a time. FJB and may God bless.
This was an era where engineers and stylist had FREE REIGN in creating automobiles without any government or "bean counter" restraints!! A fabulous era!!
@@TheOzthewiz I am a 1957 model myself and I am certainly stupid looking. I can only hope nobody like this makes a video about me.
i started my collision repair career in 1959. we were repairing outer body rust on all these cars before they were 2 years old. nothing great about these turds !
I agree with you who call this BS all these are collectable nothing like that anything after that that are just appliances
#1 ~ 1952 Hudson Convertible Broghan. Why didn't they show even one picture of one. What a dork.
Yeah. I kept waiting to see the convertible.
This reminds me of the video about the 74 Grand Torino driven by Star sky and hutch. Lol
This was my Era of Built Strong and Very Smooth Riding Cars--the Late 50's and Early 60's Built Vehicles that had Character that did not look Bugs like All these Newer Vehicles. If it were not for Plastic, these Newer Vehicles would not be able to Travel down the Road...
I drove a 55 Ford Crown Victoria. An absolutely reliable car that was easy to repair. Affordable for the working man. It was the golden age of the automobile. This AI voice must believe the gubment controlled auto manufacturers produce better cars. Well, look. At the vehicles produced today.😊
I bet they are all detroit dinosaurs
This is a joke. The pictures and dialog are all over the map. No congruency.
: Plymouth engineering was way ahead of its time. The Forward Look cars are some of the best ...
The 57 Fury came with the 318. The 58 had a one year 350 big block.
...hands down, this is one of the 12 stupidest car videos I have ever watched.
I can see some of his points about the styling, even though I grew up during that time period, but I absolutely agree that these are wonderful cars. I can tell that this is NOT a car guy. He lost me at the '55 Chevy being unreliable. The SBC is among the most reliable engine series ever made! This is why most hot rodders and car builders use some form of the Small Block Chevy crate motors in their projects. But then, how can he call these the "stupidest cars" of all time, and then call them "icons" and "sought after by collectors"? Probably drives a Tesla. And in how many different ways can he say the same thing about the same car? This video could have been done in 15 minutes had it not been for that. He should do a video about how all cars look the same nowadays. There is no more style, because it costs too much, and they know the public will buy whatever they put out anyway. Cars used to be an extension of the owner. Now they're just transportation to the majority of the buying public.
Forget the audio and enjoy the great looking cars
While knocking flash and style of the innovative 1950s , let's discuss the stupidity of the late 1980s to present, where we have few colors, even fewer interior color selections, squarish metal sedans became humpy roofed look alikes, with front and rear jello mold caps for bumpers. And prices! "You want what for that? Whaddya, nutz?". I know what I like, and the new stuff you can't work on, ain't it! So lighten up on the innovators of the past.
New cars… let’s design a new turd, put wheels on it , make it impossible to work on and sell it for 50,000 wadyasay???
Nasty, shaky and amateurish camera work. It looked like 5th grade science project.
I cut out after four minutes. Padded narrative is redundant.
I actually enjoy these videos because these cars are great, beautiful cars that are very seldom seen today.
In your next video you are forbidden from using any form of the word "practical"
These fucking commercials every 5 minutes are killing me. I pay for a subscription and still get this 💩
The Gold and White Plymouth Furry was such an all time beautiful car. I had a friend and neighbor with a cream colored one with a slant 6 that was wonderful. Ron W4BIN
If i had jay lenno money id have one of each - beauties - great video Thanks 👍
Some young punk that still lives in moms basement put this video together.
Back in the early 1960s I once competed against a Corvette in a Lotus. A 'Vette may have been closer to being a sports car than a T-Bird but that's not anything to brag about. It was just too much of a stretch to try to categorize either as a "sports car." We called them "sporty cars."
A friend that owned a 'Vette, as a babe magnet, not a racer, was unhappy that he was only getting 10 mph. He complained to the dealer. After the tuneup he got it back and was able to get 8 mph. He was just a kid in his early 20s working for the Post Office. I think it was about 2 months after he got it, he was drafted. He had a friend take it out for a half-hour drive every weekend for those 2 years.
The listing of quality issues for almost all of the cars of that time was far too long. American businessmen were and continue to be about as incompetent as humanly possible . . . in almost every industry. Embarrassments.
If they were paid what they are worth, almost all would be panhandlers. Boeing used to be an exception. No more. The health insurance industry is composed entirely of parasites. Et alia, etc., etc., etc.
Hold on to your hats, kids...
Because A.I. KNOWS EVERYTHING 😉👌...
It's the youngsters that'll fall for anything that I'm worried about.
Knows everything about NOTHING!
All the cars are awesome, the video is the only thing thats stupid
horrible, jittery camera work. way too close most of the time. my eyeballs are vibrating. bailing out of here at 32 minutes. too bad this video was ruined by incompetence.
I owned a 57 T-Bird years ago. While it was a comfortable car to drive it definitely was no sports car. With the hardtop on you had to get into it more by crawling into in, head, then butt, the pull your legs in than the normal way. I used to let people sit in the car, when the top was on, mostly to see them struggle to get in it.
Whenever I see AI Jay Leno in the thumbnail, I just keep scrolling...
Poorly researched. The 1955-57 Thunderbird did not have the option of an Air Conditioner.
The Hudson Hornet sedan was the best ride, I ever experienced in my life.
I love that half the convertibles discussed showed only sedans...I guess they came with a DIY cutting torch. I owned a number of these cars and neighbors/friends owned the others-I think the commentary would be much different if the authors were some years past puberty instead of approaching it.
it is not a lincoln continental. it's only a continental. for some reason they severed the lincoln name from this model and made it continental only
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My parents were very proud of their first new car, 1957 Desota. I was pf the age that i slept in the back windshield. I dont know if it was good or bad, but back seat room allowed me to grow. We had it until dad traded it for a 1964 dodge polaria. Those were the days!😂😂
Many of his comments are contradictory. I am much older than this gentleman, and was there to watch history unfold. He is just sprouting his opinion here. Nothing else.
This dork does not know what makes a god car.
I sure hope you got Jay Leno's permission to use his likeness in your thumbnails.
Speak for yourself. These cars were a dream to drive. They were cheap in the nineties. We loved these cars. We lived like kings. You will never know. Perfect girlfriend car. Perfect. Perfect drive in car. Safe. Fast. Stylish. Very reliable.
Absolute garbage by a robo poster who knows nothing about cars.
About 5 minutes of information compressed into 50 minutes.
I like the Aussie-style vehicle in the thumbnail photo.
I really liked the 58 Dodge Royal Lancer.
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The front end was a "bit busy" for my taste!
There is nothing stupid with these cars . Cars were made like this back then . Jay Leno is not stupid for collecting cars like this .
Not nearly as stupid as what they are putting out now. Pickups and SUVs are the only ones of substance.
There were two 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Broughams. in my area of Westchester County New York My mother owned one and some Banker in Scarsdale owned the other. My mother's was T-boned by a drunk driver while it was being serviced. because of the pillarless side doors the car couldn't be repaired. The insurance company totaled it with only 13,000 miles on the odometer. ten years later I bought the other one for $175. Hard to believe today but that is how fast those old road locomotives depreciated. The Cadillac I bought was in fair condition, BUT nothing to write home about. I sold it a yer later and bought a 1962 Oldsmiobile Starfire which I likes a lot more.
The Ford Thunderbird was never a "sports car. Kids of the time called it the Geezerbird emphasizing its appeal to retirees.
The Packard Hawk was a stupid idea BUT there was Nothing "Packard" about it.
I found the 1957 Desoto Adventurer comfortable and innovative, and reliable. No one in the Fifties or Sixties was even slightly concerned with gas mileage. AND you did not mention the swivel front seats which made entering and exiting the car easy for older folks.
You don't know what you're talking about I had a 1955 Thunderbird for my 16th birthday no it was not a sports car like a triumph for a Jaguar but it was a wonderful car and it was no dog
Do these people shake the camera on purpose when filming??? This is horrible to watch!
Artificial Idiocy.
Relax. It's just a bunch of opinions about cars by an AI computer that has no feet, and never drove any kind of car.
Let me tell you a cautionary tale of having an extremely limited vocabulary.
In 1957, YOU COULD NOT BUY A DECENT HOUSE within states like California or Ohio for $12,000 U.S. Dollars !!! More like $24-33 K.
$12,000.00 COULD and did buy a really nice house in 1957 here in Ohio
@@mem45414 No insult intended, but what "minimums" constitute a "nice house" ??? In 1961 my Father purchased a "NEW" 4- bedroom, 1 & 1/2 - bathroom, 2-car attached garage home in Akron, Ohio; within a nice upscale neighborhood of Summit County (28 miles from Cleveland Hopkins Airport) for $28,500. So I would say the $12,000 dollar figure would have been for an older 2-3 bedroom house with no attached garage, located somewhere like Toledo, Youngstown, Cincinnati, or East Palestine, Ohio ???
Who would call a Mark 11 or a 59 Cadillac stupid? Oh the humanity 😮!!!
Wow, was this ever overwritten, yada, yada, yada!
What a load of misinformed Bull crap!
where is the Hornet Convertible ?
The Headline was just a way to grab us all emotionally for views and to piss off everyone into commenting all to boost it's rating in the algorithm to earn this content creator more money in ad revenue. And with over 77K views in only 2 days it seems to be working. Plus 150 comments so far. That's a million views in a month. That's gotta be big money. Just turn off the volume and enjoy seeing the cars once again without traveling to a car show.