@@justsumguy2u Well, I guess if there are no more Galaxies left, I'll have to settle for an Edsel. Who knows, maybe one day they'll become a collector's item.
What I notice about the "non-PC" bits is that nothing has changed. Men still buy cars for status, focus on the technology, want to look good and impress women. Women still are attracted to "winners." Women still want to be seen as beautiful (thankfully). What's changed is it's taboo to SAY any of that. These old commercials are much more honest than we are today.
Except in extreme cases (where they are *trying* to be unattractive and have gone full lesbian) yes. Hetero feminists still want to "marry up", still want to feel secure within their man's domain, still want a "winner", still want to be attractive, even while they show off their independence, rebel visual cues, and strength.
I must have missed the non-pc bits. All I saw were entertaining and informative adverts. I must admit to being biased towards the 1960 cars - a friend had a convertible Sunliner (in England)
@@generalyellor8188 What are you trying to say? Seems somewhat babbled. That's the problem with trying to fit lots of insults in one sentence while trying to promote your ideas. What side are you on? PC or anti PC. It might be obvious to you of course.
I love the design of the 1960 Fords, especially the Galaxie Starliner hardtop and Sunliner convertible, and the Thinderbird. For 1960, all three low-price leaders Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth are beautiful cars with good engineering and engines.
1960 Galaxie was the WIDEST car allowed on the road- It was about 1" OVER the legal width limit- and the NHTSA allowed them to remain on the road provided Ford made them slightly narrower after the 1960 model year- otherwise they would have been required to have truck lights!
Yes, it was 81.5 inches wide when the law stated that 80 inches was the limit. However, GM also violated that 80 inch width ever so slightly with some of their 1959 and 1960 full-size cars.
@@Greatdome99 The track was narrow on all big cars like the 1960 Ford...except for Pontiac. The biggest challenge was squeezing them into old garages built in the 1920s.
@@SpockvsMcCoy - My '59 Olds 98 that I owned in the 1990s was 80.8" wide. I had to have the bridge guards at the Washington Crossing bridge close the oncoming lanes so I could cross! The limit on that bridge is 78".
Expect safety, exhaust smell, excessive wind noise, water leaks when it rained, stopping distance the length of a football field, huge blind spots, tire blow outs a couple times a year, having to lock each door individually, headlights that projected less that an large flashlight, misaligned body parts, tire vibration, steering wheel shaking over 60 mph, extremely loose steering wheel requiring exhaustive corrective measures to keep the car going straight, cracking dashboards, cracking seats from the sun, rusting frames and body panels, mufflers that only lasted a few years, pulsing brake pedal, no anti-theft starting…….to be continued. It’s dinner time.
@@OldSoulTech lol. Every plastic POS nowadays is at least capable of 100k miles before even needing to change the plugs, and aside from them being harder to repair, everything about them is more reliable and safer. That and a base Honda Civic will smoke this Galaxie and it's "wall to wall" carpet. My father's Lincolns all hit the wall before 6ok miles and even if he could keep them running all the fancy things like power windows and A/C died long before that. I had a late 60's Cadillac that was a fix it daily basket case before it had 50k miles on it. Considering cars of the 60's and 70's are put to shame by a modern riding mower for things like longevity, ride comfort and tech, I'd say you are as delusional as the Amish towards cars and electricity.
I love the early 60's Galaxies. I bought a '61 Galaxie in high school (2013) but wound up selling it cause the car was falling apart, and it was technically my first car since my only vehicle before that was a truck. If I hadn't overpaid, I could've fixed the car but I was in over my head so I had to bail, unfortunately.
I'm old enough to remember the 1960 Fords on the road. I didn't really care for them. The '61s were much prettier and Fords only got better through the decade. Now that I see the 1960 Fords through the lens of these elegant commercials, I've grown to appreciate it. Heck, I now think it's beautiful.
My father was a Ford dealer in 1960, I remember well how much attention the Starliner got. There was a Yosemite Yellow and Corinthian White Starliner in his showroom, it was spectacular.
@@SpockvsMcCoy Plenty. Even when he sold the place, we visited his friends - other Ford dealers in the area, and they would give me the models. I still have most of them.
Dad bought a new 1960 ford two door with a 390 cubic inch 300 horsepower motor. She was a beast. We lived in Montana and he liked to drive fast. Mom’s car was a new 1960 mercury parklane. Really great cars.
Maybe I was too involved admiring these rolling works of tech and art to be bothered by any said sexist remarks. For those deeply disturbed by 'political incorrectness'....to me it just indicates how little you have lived.
Beer coolers belong in the back of the station wagon with kids. Sandwiches, drinks, shiny vinyl, no seat belts, a great time for all. 😁 If you're ood enough to remember it. 😉
The American people and cars were more stylish and classy back then. And all the stuff was all-American. Each bolt and nut were made in America from american materials.
Pavel K. • 🤣😂 American materials⁉️ 😩 My dad was an Army Officer. He was stationed in Germany, in 1962-65. He took his white 1960 Ford Galaxie to Germany ; where it burned up on the Autobahn‼️💩 Strangely, he bought a 1965 GERMAN Ford Taunus 20m ; that DIDN'T self-destruct on the Autobahn❗😎🤔 That's what he shipped back to the USA. I guess that his AMERICAN Ford is in someone's auto collection; AFTER, it had an ENGINE replacement. 😁
@@mwmann3684 I've seen burned up W140 Mercedes a few times. BMWs. Volvos. So what? It was unfortunate one like Elvis 1955 Cady that burned up on the highway brand spanking new. But 1955 Cadillac wasn't notorious to burst in flames all of a sudden. Maybe he was smoking in the car I don't know.
I must really be a Mysogynistic Dinosaur... Because it's impossible for me to see any "non PC" in any one of these old commercials. Then again, I'm pretty sure that the whole "PC" thing was just another crisis tactic invented by The Powers That Be to cause us headaches.
Yeah clickbait but interesting I was 15 in 60 and thought the Ford was nice looking 1960 was a good year for cars especially GM cars the 60 Buick was a sculptured piece of art My Dad had a 60 Olds he let me drive it and I just loved that car
The 1960 Ford Notathunderbird, inspired by...a Thunderbird. Notice how incredibly stable both cars are in non-transition handling turns at a blistering 18mph. Form follows function...except for all the parts that don't. Enjoy four inches of steering play for that calm feeling while on the highway. At Ford, we don't even know the meaning of the word, "understeer"...so we certainly can't fix it.
I had forgotten how thick doors used to be on full-sized cars. At 7:50, the door thickness is clearly seen, and appears to be approaching a foot thick. Ah, the good old days.
I’m not an american car guy, i like the 90s japanese stuff mostly. But ever since i saw this car at a local cars and coffee i just can’t shake it from my mind! I just have to have one some day! Good thing I’ve got about 50 years left to work towards it ;)
@@VanWinger Sales of the full-size 1960 Plymouth dropped even further from 1959 for several reasons: competition from Valiant, competion from Dodge Dart, bizarre styling (especially tailfins), and Chrysler Corporation's bad reputation then for quality and reliability.
Design was based on a 1958 show car. Sales dropped to about 911,000 units for the model year from about 1.5 million in 1959. Controversial when new but the sleekest full-size Ford ever made. Violated highway standards for allowable passenger car width. The greenhouse stayed the same for 1961 but body lines and bumpers changed to the "classic" Ford look. Sales gap widened with the full-size Chevrolet but Ford Division was superior in developing new types of passenger cars (1960 Falcon, 1962 midsize Fairlane, 1965 Mustang).
The new Falcon snapped alot of those people away from the Galaxie. Sales of the 1961 'classic look' Full size Fords weren't better, but people tend to forget that
@@goldenltd1970 Ford had comparable sales to Chevrolet in 1959...but Ford had to wait again until 1973 to have comparable full-size sales with Chevrolet. The Ford LTD was a successful attempt to upstage Chevrolet. Plymouth full-size sales were a distant third place.
Those galaxies had a trunk bigger than most truck beds of today... loved the '60 Starliner mine was white like in the video then one day someone run a stop sign and T-boned the passenger side...I was beside myself to say the least and after the reports were filed the cop reminded me to take it easy on my way home...I left the seen with a burn out that left 2 black marks that stayed there for months. I called her Irene... "Goodnight Irene" I'll see you in my dreams 😫
I had a 70 Pontiac Bonneville. When you got past the rear seat there was 2 miles worth of trunk left to get to the tail lights. The damn car was so wide you could seat 4 people in the front and 4 in the back and have room left over. Best party boat I ever owned!
Next to the 1957.. I've always thought the '60 to be Ford's best looking full sized car. The only criticism I ever had was that the wheelbase seemed too narrow for the body.. yet it is their wide wheelbase that they brag about! Just a couple inches on either side and Ford could have caught Pontiac with their pants down.
@@norcalkustomdiecasts2130 yep, really. Women were women, and we were glad of it. Vaccines actually worked. Perverts n deviants were not elected to public office. It was great.
1:44 - a cute little joke for any photographers in the audience, as the image on the ground-glass screen of a view camera is inverted (yes, it really should be 'flipped' rather than rotated back to the correct orientation, but hey - I'm still impressed).
You sure got that right. I'm almost 63, and things have gotten worse every single year I can remember well, which goes back into the late 60s. We live in a sick, disgusting world today, and it is getting worse by the minute.
I was 13 that year and lived a block from the Ford dealer, 1960 wasn't a very good year for Ford, that model just wasn't seen on the streets very often and is quite rare...Loved the bench seats of the day, it was so cool to have your girl over next to you when cruising around, or parked...
@@WAL_DC-6B Im half Japanese and I had friends of all persuasion's back in the day. Now bc of the propaganda Im treated by blacks as the devil. We were much nicer people back then. I remember block parties, listening to soul music along with rock, going to our prom with Robert Bing, a cool black guy with our respective dates, my dad drove us. We all got along a lot better then. So sorry that those days are long gone and its mostly bc of the propaganga spewed by the liberal media. Those were the days, my friend.
@@WAL_DC-6B "Respected"? I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. I hope so. No...respect has nothing to do with it. POC were prohibited. I saw with my own eyes how restrooms, drinking fountains, seating, etc. was labeled. I recall trying to drink from the "colored" fountain because it was spotlessly clean, while the one for whites was filthy. I was pulled away under protest by my grandmother.
I kind of made the video a bit funnier by playing it at double speed, but I couldn't quite make it hilarious. Other than that, it definitely was a non PC ad in 1960 (more of a TV ad), but in 2022 I'm watching it on my PC.
the technical term is 'FUGLY', fuck'n ugly. just watched ford vs ferrari again and assholes also come to mind. never owned one, never will. they called Ford II in the movie 'deuce', more like douche if ya ask me.
@@u171098atgmail haha thats what we called them, fugly! I have had a few different ones here & there like a '74 Tbird, '79 Tbird, '83 F150, '87 Turbo Tbird, '89 Taurus & in the long run they were all crap as something was always breaking or giving me problems! I did like the '79 bird as it was a good looking car, baby blue with dark blue half vinyl top & interior, power everything, flip up headlights, 351 Cleveland 4bbl, last of the big body & only had 83,000 miles on it! I was going to town to get some groceries in 1998 & about halfway there it started knocking & smoking & then a loud bang & that was it, slung a rod, never gave me any problems before then & I always maintained all my vehicles! The Turbo T tranny went out twice, the F150 rear end gave out pulling a trailer, the Taurus was just junk & the '74 bird was a car my family had back in the late '70s, it was a land yacht with a 460 4bbl & got about 7 mpg downhill down wind! I always thought Tbirds were ugly cars until the '77-'79 models which were quite stylish & great driving cars! My gf in the early '90s had the Turbo bird & she was always having problems out of it!
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I agree. I was never much of a Ford person but in 1980 I was 14 years old and used to spend a lot of summers with my grandmother. My aunt lived next door and had a powder blue ‘79 Thunderbird with that navy blue short vinyl roof and T-tops. I used to love to wax it for her. That was one of the sweetest cars ever. I grew up in a Pontiac family but I would give anything to have that Thunderbird today.
@@cjlunn8469 My grandpa was a MOPAR salesman 1946-1977 so those are my first loves but I am also a huge Trans Am fan since Burt Reynolds filmed Smokey & the Bandit around my hometown area & glad I have owned many!
My first car was a 1961 Ford Galaxie. It was two years older than me. But I didn't think of it like that then. It was reliable and roomy. I miss it even now. I wish I had kept it a little longer. I traded it for a l lemon !
we had '60 and '64 Galaxie 500..(ended up with a '67 wagon when the 6th brother showed up)..i can say with personal knowledge the 60 was roomier of the sedans....lol
At first that Galaxie looked pretty good. Then they rolled in that beautiful Thunderbird and it turned into a piece of crap. But seriously, I guess it wasn't too bad when you put it up against other cars in its class.
I bought a 1967 Ford galaxy 500 from a friends grandparent's who bought it new & sold it to me for $500 which i had only $425 cash so they told me to write a post dated check for the mext paycheck & i did. Mine was a 2 door most popular of the time the 4 door was sold as a police car never Saw it as a normal car. It was fast cant recall exact engine size but all had to be 8 cyl upwards of 400+ double barrel for police to even consider using it on the streets. It had the power but technology was really cheap back then. Most cars were not expected to even reach 100,000 miles or last over 10 years. It was rare if they did. No airconditioning and a AM radio which had finally advanced to remove almost all tubes. It had seat belts as they were required that year and if you could fold down the front seat it made damn near a queen size bed so yes sex was frequent events and far too easy in a ford galaxy 500 when you're barely 20 yrs old
There was nothing "non-PC" in any of these...in fact, quite the opposite! Back then, no man would let a woman get behind the wheel of his car...ever! Yet, there she was....almost as if she was driving it!
And not a seat belt, crumple zone, shoulder belt or air bag to be found! Just rock-hard interior guaranteed to split your beautiful skull, thanks to the shitty drum brakes, squishy suspension and truck handling!!!! Thank you Ralf Nader for saving millions of Americans!!!!
If I was alive then I would of bought one with cash money. You couldn't beat a solid ford. Or a woman who sit in the passenger seat, and put her head on your shoulder.
Ford was a big loser to the 1955 to 57 Chevys, but they were way ahead when they came out with the Mustang. The saddest years were the crapbox Pinto and Vega days, when Honda and Toyota designed much better cars and Toyota and Datsun trucks.
I had a Chevy vega back in1977 what a lemon 3 quarts of oil a week but no smoke out the tail pipe amazing paid 800 bucks sold it 2yrs later 600 bucks so cars very cheap back then Denver Colo
My girl friend at the time, now ex wife, had a 1960 Ford Galaxie and I had a 1960 Ford T bird. The car pool guys I worked with made fun of my T Bird, not cool enough for a 18 year old, so I traded it for a 1960 Chevy Impala Coupe, they liked the Chevy much better and so did I.
Looks great! The non-PC ads convinced me. I'm going to my local Ford dealer tomorrow to buy a new Galaxie. I hope they still have some left.
I think there's only a couple left, but there's tons of Edsels that nobody wanted
@@justsumguy2u Well, I guess if there are no more Galaxies left, I'll have to settle for an Edsel. Who knows, maybe one day they'll become a collector's item.
Or a Fairlane 500 ;)
They may not with the car shortage.
@@jmpecore hey at least it wouldn't be dependent on the chip shortage hahaha
Man I like how these commercials don't change the shot every 1-2 seconds...it's actually watchable.
Amen.
What I notice about the "non-PC" bits is that nothing has changed. Men still buy cars for status, focus on the technology, want to look good and impress women. Women still are attracted to "winners." Women still want to be seen as beautiful (thankfully). What's changed is it's taboo to SAY any of that. These old commercials are much more honest than we are today.
@DonTruman. Everything you said is 💯 but does that apply to the “man-hating feminoid feminist?” 🤣🤣🤣
Except in extreme cases (where they are *trying* to be unattractive and have gone full lesbian) yes. Hetero feminists still want to "marry up", still want to feel secure within their man's domain, still want a "winner", still want to be attractive, even while they show off their independence, rebel visual cues, and strength.
A car so good that 500 years later they'd name a class of Starships after it.
Fun & entertaining commercials with beautiful cars & ladies.
I must have missed the non-pc bits. All I saw were entertaining and informative adverts. I must admit to being biased towards the 1960 cars - a friend had a convertible Sunliner (in England)
Yes, a bit of click-bait there.
Yeah, just ignore the under-educated, overly-sensitive anti-PC warriors who don't even understand the concept of their own mission.
Me too!
I get it! WHITE people in WHITE cars!
@@generalyellor8188 What are you trying to say? Seems somewhat babbled. That's the problem with trying to fit lots of insults in one sentence while trying to promote your ideas. What side are you on? PC or anti PC. It might be obvious to you of course.
These ads are beautiful. Beautifully written, shot and produced. We've backslid :(
I blame leaded gas.
This was before women had nose rings, tattoos and koolaid colored hair.
@@guidedmeditation2396
Our parents and grandparents had it better. Sad
I love the design of the 1960 Fords, especially the Galaxie Starliner hardtop and Sunliner convertible, and the Thinderbird. For 1960, all three low-price leaders Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth are beautiful cars with good engineering and engines.
1960 Galaxie was the WIDEST car allowed on the road- It was about 1" OVER the legal width limit- and the NHTSA allowed them to remain on the road provided Ford made them slightly narrower after the 1960 model year- otherwise they would have been required to have truck lights!
Yes, it was 81.5 inches wide when the law stated that 80 inches was the limit. However, GM also violated that 80 inch width ever so slightly with some of their 1959 and 1960 full-size cars.
The Wide Track Pontiacs wouldn't fit on service station racks. I suspect the same with these, too.
@@Greatdome99 The track was narrow on all big cars like the 1960 Ford...except for Pontiac. The biggest challenge was squeezing them into old garages built in the 1920s.
@@SpockvsMcCoy - My '59 Olds 98 that I owned in the 1990s was 80.8" wide. I had to have the bridge guards at the Washington Crossing bridge close the oncoming lanes so I could cross! The limit on that bridge is 78".
@@OldsVistaCruiser Likely a very old bridge
Great stuff. Thanks for posting-my how times have changed.
More like how they have been busy changing them.
Back in the day the car ads were big productions!!!
So were the cars. Today they’re boring.
A better era in a number of ways.
Expect safety, exhaust smell, excessive wind noise, water leaks when it rained, stopping distance the length of a football field, huge blind spots, tire blow outs a couple times a year, having to lock each door individually, headlights that projected less that an large flashlight, misaligned body parts, tire vibration, steering wheel shaking over 60 mph, extremely loose steering wheel requiring exhaustive corrective measures to keep the car going straight, cracking dashboards, cracking seats from the sun, rusting frames and body panels, mufflers that only lasted a few years, pulsing brake pedal, no anti-theft starting…….to be continued. It’s dinner time.
Death trap. No airbags, seat belts or crumple zones..
@@OldSoulTech lol. Every plastic POS nowadays is at least capable of 100k miles before even needing to change the plugs, and aside from them being harder to repair, everything about them is more reliable and safer. That and a base Honda Civic will smoke this Galaxie and it's "wall to wall" carpet. My father's Lincolns all hit the wall before 6ok miles and even if he could keep them running all the fancy things like power windows and A/C died long before that. I had a late 60's Cadillac that was a fix it daily basket case before it had 50k miles on it. Considering cars of the 60's and 70's are put to shame by a modern riding mower for things like longevity, ride comfort and tech, I'd say you are as delusional as the Amish towards cars and electricity.
@@stevenbeall9637
Yep, whenever I hear someone today moan about cars "they don't make 'em like they used to" my reply is "and thank God for that!"
@@OldSoulTech "safety nerd" yeah cause people who dont want to die in a horrific crash are nerds
I love the early 60's Galaxies. I bought a '61 Galaxie in high school (2013) but wound up selling it cause the car was falling apart, and it was technically my first car since my only vehicle before that was a truck. If I hadn't overpaid, I could've fixed the car but I was in over my head so I had to bail, unfortunately.
I'm old enough to remember the 1960 Fords on the road. I didn't really care for them. The '61s were much prettier and Fords only got better through the decade. Now that I see the 1960 Fords through the lens of these elegant commercials, I've grown to appreciate it. Heck, I now think it's beautiful.
The round taillights and grille on the 1961 Ford are more classic.
60 Starliner was a real beauty, even though lacking the traditional big round taillights
@Todd Bonin
I agree with your original opinion... The 60 Ford's are cool, but lack the continuity between '59 and '61.
Ah..what beautiful cars
@@SpockvsMcCoy yah because a vehicle after the other vehicle year is somehow more classic than a vehicle made before it.
Imagine some people's minds are so warped by PC that they ACTUALLY believe there is something wrong with these great old ads.
What is pc?
@@lazzie7495
Politically correct
Some people today call it woke.
@@matthew8153 true
Not that there's something wrong with the ads, it's today's rules.
My father was a Ford dealer in 1960, I remember well how much attention the Starliner got. There was a Yosemite Yellow and Corinthian White Starliner in his showroom, it was spectacular.
Yes, a wonderful fashion accessory. Too bad the body rusted through so quickly. I wonder how reliable it was mechanically?
Did you receive any plastic promo cars?
@@SpockvsMcCoy Plenty. Even when he sold the place, we visited his friends - other Ford dealers in the area, and they would give me the models. I still have most of them.
@@soilmanted ?
@@johnrotella2143 Very cool. There was a change in the type of plastic used in those promos of that era...some of the earlier ones would badly warp.
Dad bought a new 1960 ford two door with a 390 cubic inch 300 horsepower motor. She was a beast. We lived in Montana and he liked to drive fast. Mom’s car was a new 1960 mercury parklane. Really great cars.
Maybe I was too involved admiring these rolling works of tech and art to be bothered by any said sexist remarks. For those deeply disturbed by 'political incorrectness'....to me it just indicates how little you have lived.
I didn’t see anything politically incorrect and just thought the title was click bait. Or perhaps I’m politically incorrect and just don’t see it.
Didn't see any non-pc content either. I feel sorry for those that do.
Trunk space enough for 8 sets of golf clubs and a cooler full of beer. Right next to the full sized spare tire.
Beer coolers belong in the back of the station wagon with kids. Sandwiches, drinks, shiny vinyl, no seat belts, a great time for all. 😁 If you're ood enough to remember it. 😉
The American people and cars were more stylish and classy back then. And all the stuff was all-American. Each bolt and nut were made in America from american materials.
Pavel K. • 🤣😂 American materials⁉️ 😩 My dad was an Army Officer. He was stationed in Germany, in 1962-65. He took his white 1960 Ford Galaxie to Germany ; where it burned up on the Autobahn‼️💩 Strangely, he bought a 1965 GERMAN Ford Taunus 20m ; that DIDN'T self-destruct on the Autobahn❗😎🤔 That's what he shipped back to the USA. I guess that his AMERICAN Ford is in someone's auto collection; AFTER, it had an ENGINE replacement. 😁
@@mwmann3684 I've seen burned up W140 Mercedes a few times. BMWs. Volvos. So what? It was unfortunate one like Elvis 1955 Cady that burned up on the highway brand spanking new. But 1955 Cadillac wasn't notorious to burst in flames all of a sudden. Maybe he was smoking in the car I don't know.
Everything should be non-PC. I feel sorry for all the irrationally sensitive people today.
Back in the day the US put crazy people in asylums. Today they live on the streets or in Congress.
@@matthew8153 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love watching videos of the time period of my parents when they were in their 20s and 30s.
Yeah, the 90s and early 2000s were quite something.
Just kidding, I know we’re different age groups.
These commercials are brilliant!!! Love it.. thanks creating & sharing these with everyone 👍
I must really be a Mysogynistic Dinosaur... Because it's impossible for me to see any "non PC" in any one of these old commercials.
Then again, I'm pretty sure that the whole "PC" thing was just another crisis tactic invented by The Powers That Be to cause us headaches.
Yeah clickbait but interesting I was 15 in 60 and thought the Ford was nice looking
1960 was a good year for cars especially GM cars the 60 Buick was a sculptured piece of art
My Dad had a 60 Olds he let me drive it and I just loved that car
There was not a single deaf black lesbian in a wheelchair.
@@jamesmcinnis208 And I’m outraged.
@@oscarwinner2034 You are not alone.
It was how the man would tell the ladies to move over.
The 1960 Ford Notathunderbird, inspired by...a Thunderbird. Notice how incredibly stable both cars are in non-transition handling turns at a blistering 18mph. Form follows function...except for all the parts that don't. Enjoy four inches of steering play for that calm feeling while on the highway. At Ford, we don't even know the meaning of the word, "understeer"...so we certainly can't fix it.
Ah, spoken by a true GM fan who wasn't there at the time :)
@@galaxieLive - Sure he knew how to adjust a steering box.
I had forgotten how thick doors used to be on full-sized cars. At 7:50, the door thickness is clearly seen, and appears to be approaching a foot thick. Ah, the good old days.
I’m not an american car guy, i like the 90s japanese stuff mostly. But ever since i saw this car at a local cars and coffee i just can’t shake it from my mind! I just have to have one some day! Good thing I’ve got about 50 years left to work towards it ;)
Back when life was so much better no Internet no social media the phone stayed on the kitchen wall
Wish I was able to live in that era. Hate to be part of this generation living in a fake life.
Plenty of those in the day. I remember them. I rode in a 1963 Galaxie 4 door sedan!
Back when people had an open mind.
Good lord these are long commercials. Could you imagine watching a show and 3-4 of these pop up? You’d finish your dinner before the show came back on
"We've gone from a wholesome, elegant world to a sick and ugly one, thanks to PC culture" I agree with that 100%. PLEASE give me the '60s back.
Amen
The Sixties spawned much of our current upheaval.
At this point, I'd be happy with the 80s.
@@slicksnewonenow How about any decade?
@@heimatliebe116 exactly.
People have really gone insane if they somehow think THIS is non-pc.
Bill Maher is conservative by today’s values.
That Galaxie is sweet.
"This is a MAN-sized car."
A stylish and modern popular car for 1960.
So true John
Sales dropped significantly from 1959 but still popular compared to Plymouth. However, the 1964 Galaxie is generally more collectible now.
@@SpockvsMcCoy Despite the similar forward look styling the 59 Fury was the end of line for body on frame. '60 was unitized.
@@VanWinger Sales of the full-size 1960 Plymouth dropped even further from 1959 for several reasons: competition from Valiant, competion from Dodge Dart, bizarre styling (especially tailfins), and Chrysler Corporation's bad reputation then for quality and reliability.
the thumbnail and descrip are misleading
"Spread Your Legs" In a Ford Galaxy.
I'm glad this is not boycotted or girlcotted.
@Dan S
HILARIOUS 😁
50’ yacht; 1,000 square feet of sail area.
25’ car; same sail area.
My family had a 60' ford station wagon. My mother really liked that car.
that's big.. 😕
Design was based on a 1958 show car. Sales dropped to about 911,000 units for the model year from about 1.5 million in 1959. Controversial when new but the sleekest full-size Ford ever made. Violated highway standards for allowable passenger car width. The greenhouse stayed the same for 1961 but body lines and bumpers changed to the "classic" Ford look. Sales gap widened with the full-size Chevrolet but Ford Division was superior in developing new types of passenger cars (1960 Falcon, 1962 midsize Fairlane, 1965 Mustang).
The new Falcon snapped alot of those people away from the Galaxie. Sales of the 1961 'classic look' Full size Fords weren't better, but people tend to forget that
@@goldenltd1970 Ford had comparable sales to Chevrolet in 1959...but Ford had to wait again until 1973 to have comparable full-size sales with Chevrolet. The Ford LTD was a successful attempt to upstage Chevrolet. Plymouth full-size sales were a distant third place.
Yeah that was Lee's doing. He was a marketing genius
Umm, the cars looks like shit, but the women are gorgeous.
All that over 2 cars that, aside from the nice roof lines, are pretty frumpy.
Those galaxies had a trunk bigger than most truck beds of today... loved the '60 Starliner mine was white like in the video then one day someone run a stop sign and T-boned the passenger side...I was beside myself to say the least and after the reports were filed the cop reminded me to take it easy on my way home...I left the seen with a burn out that left 2 black marks that stayed there for months. I called her Irene... "Goodnight Irene" I'll see you in my dreams 😫
I had a 70 Pontiac Bonneville. When you got past the rear seat there was 2 miles worth of trunk left to get to the tail lights. The damn car was so wide you could seat 4 people in the front and 4 in the back and have room left over. Best party boat I ever owned!
Is my memory failing me? I don't recall that trim on the roofline
Next to the 1957.. I've always thought the '60 to be Ford's best looking full sized car. The only criticism I ever had was that the wheelbase seemed too narrow for the body.. yet it is their wide wheelbase that they brag about! Just a couple inches on either side and Ford could have caught Pontiac with their pants down.
I remember those days. The world was better, normal.
what the hell? in an era where Nuclear destruction ,racism, homophobia, sexism, and domestic violence was considered normal? really?
@@norcalkustomdiecasts2130 yep, really. Women were women, and we were glad of it. Vaccines actually worked. Perverts n deviants were not elected to public office. It was great.
@@bruceparker8033 im not gonna argue with you any more. thats It.
They crushed beauty while sanitizing behavior.
Today, a car commercial is a mixed race lesbian couple roasting marshmallows in the woods a 2 seconds of a nondescript car.
Great commercials, beautiful cars.
There is nothing very "hilarious" about any of those ads. But thanks for showing us a part of history.
1:44 - a cute little joke for any photographers in the audience, as the image on the ground-glass screen of a view camera is inverted (yes, it really should be 'flipped' rather than rotated back to the correct orientation, but hey - I'm still impressed).
They musta edited the banging in the backseat out?🙀
Oooh, pleated nylon
That's luxurious
1960 Galaxie "Look at that roof-line, pure ThunderBird."
2012 Mondeo "Yeah, we just copied Aston Martin."
I feel like the Galaxie was Rick Rolling any given situation.
Wow, how we have progressed, backwards.
You sure got that right. I'm almost 63, and things have gotten worse every single year I can remember well, which goes back into the late 60s. We live in a sick, disgusting world today, and it is getting worse by the minute.
I was 13 that year and lived a block from the Ford dealer, 1960 wasn't a very good year for Ford, that model just wasn't seen on the streets very often and is quite rare...Loved the bench seats of the day, it was so cool to have your girl over next to you when cruising around, or parked...
Don't don't forget the benefits of bench seats when you crashed
The beautiful Ford Galaxie...CORRECT!
Those pants tho. Bring it back 1:35
I toured a GM Vauxhall plant in N. England. The PR dept. had posters of topless women standing by their cars.
4:08 "I don't always drive, but when I do it's in a Ford Galaxie."
My God, the women. Tall, slim cheekbone goddesses. Betty Drapers, the lot of 'em.
We've gone from a wholesome, elegant world to a sick and ugly one, thanks to PC culture.
Hahaha!
Yeah, it was so "...elegant..." when women couldn't vote, and you could just drag her into your cave and procreate.
Let's go, evolution!
Yep, back in the days when Blacks, Asians, Jews, Hispanics, etc., respected where they were not wanted by Whites (sarcasm)
@@terryallen9546 Look its a male feminist lol.
@@WAL_DC-6B Im half Japanese and I had friends of all persuasion's back in the day. Now bc of the propaganda Im treated by blacks as the devil. We were much nicer people back then. I remember block parties, listening to soul music along with rock, going to our prom with Robert Bing, a cool black guy with our respective dates, my dad drove us. We all got along a lot better then. So sorry that those days are long gone and its mostly bc of the propaganga spewed by the liberal media. Those were the days, my friend.
@@WAL_DC-6B "Respected"? I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. I hope so. No...respect has nothing to do with it. POC were prohibited. I saw with my own eyes how restrooms, drinking fountains, seating, etc. was labeled. I recall trying to drink from the "colored" fountain because it was spotlessly clean, while the one for whites was filthy. I was pulled away under protest by my grandmother.
I don't really see anything "non-pc" or sexist in any of these ads, especially the last one about the "wide stability". What was sexist about that?
I kind of made the video a bit funnier by playing it at double speed, but I couldn't quite make it hilarious. Other than that, it definitely was a non PC ad in 1960 (more of a TV ad), but in 2022 I'm watching it on my PC.
As a kid back then I always thought Ford made some of the ugliest cars & as I got older I realized that they still havent changed to this day!
the technical term is 'FUGLY', fuck'n ugly. just watched ford vs ferrari again and assholes also come to mind. never owned one, never will. they called Ford II in the movie 'deuce', more like douche if ya ask me.
@@u171098atgmail haha thats what we called them, fugly! I have had a few different ones here & there like a '74 Tbird, '79 Tbird, '83 F150, '87 Turbo Tbird, '89 Taurus & in the long run they were all crap as something was always breaking or giving me problems! I did like the '79 bird as it was a good looking car, baby blue with dark blue half vinyl top & interior, power everything, flip up headlights, 351 Cleveland 4bbl, last of the big body & only had 83,000 miles on it! I was going to town to get some groceries in 1998 & about halfway there it started knocking & smoking & then a loud bang & that was it, slung a rod, never gave me any problems before then & I always maintained all my vehicles! The Turbo T tranny went out twice, the F150 rear end gave out pulling a trailer, the Taurus was just junk & the '74 bird was a car my family had back in the late '70s, it was a land yacht with a 460 4bbl & got about 7 mpg downhill down wind! I always thought Tbirds were ugly cars until the '77-'79 models which were quite stylish & great driving cars! My gf in the early '90s had the Turbo bird & she was always having problems out of it!
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I agree. I was never much of a Ford person but in 1980 I was 14 years old and used to spend a lot of summers with my grandmother. My aunt lived next door and had a powder blue ‘79 Thunderbird with that navy blue short vinyl roof and T-tops. I used to love to wax it for her. That was one of the sweetest cars ever. I grew up in a Pontiac family but I would give anything to have that Thunderbird today.
@@cjlunn8469 My grandpa was a MOPAR salesman 1946-1977 so those are my first loves but I am also a huge Trans Am fan since Burt Reynolds filmed Smokey & the Bandit around my hometown area & glad I have owned many!
Women were much more beautiful before they tried to become angry men.
@ 01:03 "... wall to wall carpeting."
The second ad is saying it is as "huh" as that modern art.
My first car was a 1961 Ford Galaxie. It was two years older than me. But I didn't think of it like that then. It was reliable and roomy. I miss it even now. I wish I had kept it a little longer. I traded it for a l lemon !
I'm sold. Sign me up for a Ford Galaxie. I want to buy one at the 1960 price, not the 2023 price.
A 1960 Galaxie Sunliner convertible is one of my dream cars. Their prices are getting crazy though.
we had '60 and '64 Galaxie 500..(ended up with a '67 wagon when the 6th brother showed up)..i can say with personal knowledge the 60 was roomier of the sedans....lol
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away
...evil forces ruled with incredible power.
Ha... I see what you two did there.
At first that Galaxie looked pretty good. Then they rolled in that beautiful Thunderbird and it turned into a piece of crap. But seriously, I guess it wasn't too bad when you put it up against other cars in its class.
I'd give my left nad for that Galaxy now.
@@gregggoss2210 I'd give both for the T-bird.
I bought a 1967 Ford galaxy 500 from a friends grandparent's who bought it new & sold it to me for $500 which i had only $425 cash so they told me to write a post dated check for the mext paycheck & i did. Mine was a 2 door most popular of the time the 4 door was sold as
a police car never Saw it as a
normal car. It was fast cant recall exact engine size but all had to be
8 cyl upwards of 400+ double barrel for police to even consider using it on the streets. It had the power but technology was really cheap back then. Most cars were not expected to even reach 100,000 miles or last over 10 years. It was rare if they did. No airconditioning and a AM radio which had finally advanced to remove almost all tubes. It had seat belts as they were required that year and if you could fold down the front seat it made damn near a queen size bed so yes sex was frequent events and far too easy in a ford galaxy 500 when you're barely 20 yrs old
3:40 Remember that episode where the Skipper kicked Mary-Anne and the Professor out of the car?
The good ole days....
There was nothing "non-PC" in any of these...in fact, quite the opposite! Back then, no man would let a woman get behind the wheel of his car...ever! Yet, there she was....almost as if she was driving it!
And the roads were safer.
And not a seat belt, crumple zone, shoulder belt or air bag to be found! Just rock-hard interior guaranteed to split your beautiful skull, thanks to the shitty drum brakes, squishy suspension and truck handling!!!!
Thank you Ralf Nader for saving millions of Americans!!!!
There is a 1960 Galaxie half-buried in the ground at Carhenge, in Alliance, Nebraska. Just so you know.
Before I was Born and as I was a Kid still when color TV was coming out...
I hate when women stand in front of cars for photos, unless it's an Isetta or a Honda 600
The women in the A-line skirts were nice, those were the days. The galaxy was all right.
These are very soothing
"The roof is pure Thunderbird" LOL. I own a 1965 Thunderbird and they do look the same but I'm not sure how that is meaningful.
the thunderbird was the flagship in fords lineup and having the roof design the same was considered a big deal at the time
Thin roof. No B pillars either. Sleek. Sadly no roll over protection. Then again, none of those ‘pesky’ seatbelts were in these cars either.
@@oscarwinner2034 Pff if you fully believe that ad, you can't roll a galaxy :p
The thumbnail is how babies are made.
Grandpa drove a Ford Galaxie. Ya, that car's got zip!
Amazing, the change from 69 to 60. Not bad.
Very cool............. 👍👍👍
back when cars didn't all look the same
"Put the kettle on"
If I was alive then I would of bought one with cash money. You couldn't beat a solid ford. Or a woman who sit in the passenger seat, and put her head on your shoulder.
'handsome upolstry' - lmfao
How could I ever fit all my luggage in that tiny trunk?
Ford was a big loser to the 1955 to 57 Chevys, but they were way ahead when they came out with the Mustang. The saddest years were the crapbox Pinto and Vega days, when Honda and Toyota designed much better cars and Toyota and Datsun trucks.
I had a Chevy vega back in1977 what a lemon 3 quarts of oil a week but no smoke out the tail pipe amazing paid 800 bucks sold it 2yrs later 600 bucks so cars very cheap back then Denver Colo
Sold in Argentina as the Ford Falcon
I just really want a Thunderbird right now.
I suppose the Galaxy would be nice too.
I guess these cars only came in white 😂
My girl friend at the time, now ex wife, had a 1960 Ford Galaxie and I had a 1960 Ford T bird. The car pool guys I worked with made fun of my T Bird, not cool enough for a 18 year old, so I traded it for a 1960 Chevy Impala Coupe, they liked the Chevy much better and so did I.