I am completely sure today's cars are far better but more beautiful? Noo way. That was the time. My father had a 1965 Buick Electra and I still miss it
Fairfaxcat ITS A NAME OF A BUICK CAR MODEL DA WILDCAT WAS LIKE OLSMOBILES STSRFIRE MODEL. WILDCAT WAS LIKE A SPORTIER VERSION OF A TOP NOTCH BUICK ELECTRA DUT SPORTIER WHEELS IS NOT AN ANIMAL CAT. NOW YU KNOW AND IF YU SEEN ONE YU WILL LIKE TO CUSTOM MAKE YUR BUICK. BUT TOO MUCH GREED OF DA MATKETS MADE IT BETTER FOR NON AMERICANS. EURO CARS ARE GOOD FOR DA EURO CURVES AN HILLS NOT FOR OUR REAL ROADS AN REAL LIFE CHOIRS.
This was the end of Detroit's early-1960s "downsizing" craze. Even the Buicks look trim compared to their fin-loaded 1950 predecessors and the Nova, looking a lot like an Opel Kadett, is actually compact on the outside as well as the inside. Whether they were spooked by the Suez crisis (which only added a few cents to gasoline prices in the USA but led to rationing elsewhere), or pissed off by the steel price increases (famously condemned by JFK), the "big 3" were testing the waters for a future of more utilitarian, compact cars, but the public got bored with the idea, so cars started growing again in the second half of the sixties, and were bigger than ever, a least on the outside, by the mid 1970s.
1:40 That J.C. Whitney tachometer looks pretty silly next to an automatic shift lever. 2:44 They seem a little obsessed with that Chinese kid. And, I'll bet they wouldn't dare playing that tinkle-music today, every time his face appears.
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Memories of great cars and a time when you knew you lived in America. Not anymore sadly.
Then along came Traitor Trump to tear it all down.
I still like the 1963 and 1964 Buick Wildcat, back than and now. I would like to get Wildcat, today.
I am completely sure today's cars are far better but more beautiful? Noo way. That was the time. My father had a 1965 Buick Electra and I still miss it
i'd love to have a '63 Buick wagon
Vintage wagons are fetching big $$ in 2019!
Just love the look of faded Eastmancolor.
These cars are gorgeous!
I remember these good old cars !
Love those old wagons.
great era to have a station wagon w family and visit our national forests
I don't think I could sleep in the back of a car, with the trunk open, in the woods!
I don't know whether I'd be entirely at ease riding with a wild cat next to me in the back seat.
Fairfaxcat ITS A NAME OF A BUICK CAR MODEL DA WILDCAT WAS LIKE OLSMOBILES STSRFIRE MODEL. WILDCAT WAS LIKE A SPORTIER VERSION OF A TOP NOTCH BUICK ELECTRA DUT SPORTIER WHEELS IS NOT AN ANIMAL CAT. NOW YU KNOW AND IF YU SEEN ONE YU WILL LIKE TO CUSTOM MAKE YUR BUICK. BUT TOO MUCH GREED OF DA MATKETS MADE IT BETTER FOR NON AMERICANS. EURO CARS ARE GOOD FOR DA EURO CURVES AN HILLS NOT FOR OUR REAL ROADS AN REAL LIFE CHOIRS.
gotta love that little chinese music when the Asian kid shows up in the Chevy 2 commercial lol
I'm dying. It was pretty common back then
this is not racist at all...only tells SF may have many Asians back then, any also working in today's tech company
I know I kept laughed each time
Before people were offended by anything they could find!! 😂
Excellent! Thanks for sharing!
English Setters in the first commercial. Best fukn bird dog ever!
Calling a Browning Auto-5 or one of its clones a "handmade bird gun" is a bit of a stretch... ;-)
I just don't remember all these nice sedans and coupes being driven off road. Were roads that bad in the 60's?
All 1962 & 1963 GM commercials !
William Boyett, Highway patrol, Adam-12 in the wildcat ad?
That's him!!
No modern German, Japanese or Korean car can hold a candle to an American car from the 60's for it's panache.
Man, what I'd give to be cruisin san fran in a 2 door chevy nova, with a
"broad" on the bench seat. With steppenwolf blastin out the window
Hell I would even do that in the station wagon XD
Yeah, love 'em too....used to blank out the rear windows, then add leafsprings so that it had the right "stance"....wagons are in these days.
This is 1963 not 1968, Steppenwolf wasn,t heard of .
Ok, the Ventures
Well, this is advertising at its finest. Ahem.
My family had a 65 Chevy II wagon.
Also my first car.
This was the end of Detroit's early-1960s "downsizing" craze. Even the Buicks look trim compared to their fin-loaded 1950 predecessors and the Nova, looking a lot like an Opel Kadett, is actually compact on the outside as well as the inside. Whether they were spooked by the Suez crisis (which only added a few cents to gasoline prices in the USA but led to rationing elsewhere), or pissed off by the steel price increases (famously condemned by JFK), the "big 3" were testing the waters for a future of more utilitarian, compact cars, but the public got bored with the idea, so cars started growing again in the second half of the sixties, and were bigger than ever, a least on the outside, by the mid 1970s.
Notice at 4:05 the woman is smoking a cigarette ..Wouldn't happen today..
Yes it would white bpy
1:40 That J.C. Whitney tachometer looks pretty silly next to an automatic shift lever.
2:44 They seem a little obsessed with that Chinese kid. And, I'll bet they wouldn't dare playing that tinkle-music today, every time his face appears.
No Name..That was no JC Whitney tachometer...I had one just like it in a 1966 SS 396 Chevelle..Made by AC Spark plug I do believe or Stewart Warner...
I know talk about stereotyping.
I can’t believe they slipped in just a little racism...