1955 PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE - THE CONTROL AND FEATURE STORY
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2014
- This video was filmed a few years ago , This particular vehicle was sold by me but I thought the information may be of interest regarding the cars controls
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I love your car. An extremely fine example of a 1955 Plymouth. I have a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker. It's a wonderful car to drive. 2 tone green with matching interior. Still on 6 volts and all original with 69,000 actual miles. What fun these old cars are!
I am pleased to hear you have stayed with 6 volt as that is a seriously important element of what the car is. I have tried to keep all my old cars as true to their original state as possible as I feel they now have almost become a testimony to those people that built them over half a century ago - thanks for the comment
Nice review of a bygone era of American cars. I was a child that in that year, and I remember how easy it was to just look at a car and know right away which make it was. Cars back then were very distinctive with their bodies.
As you pointed out, the lack of safety features sadly made them serious injury or death trap cars, too.
People wanted new body styles, which helped sell cars, and not safety features.
Plymouth was a decent car for the money back then.
Thank you.
😆Those American cars and the promotions were amazing back then! Interiors with the metallic thread, tri-tones, and gadgets were cool! Thanks friend!👍
thank you for the comment - Chris
Beautiful car!!!!
thank you
my father got that "giant steering wheel" through his rib cage in a car accident in 1960. He was lucky to be alive as cars back then had no seatbelts or airbags. The car was considered "totaled" by the insurance company. He bought it back from the insurance company for a junked car price and had a friend rebuild it.......kind of a Frankenstien....parts from many 55s and 56s went into its reconstruction. Looked pretty good when done.....no great......but good enough. to get 7 more years out of it
Big selling points (for 1955) Really. . . were these points, also available on it's British equivalent. Such as the Morris Oxford or Austin A55 etc..etc.. A/T , 2 speed wipers, built in radio, and the list goes on. . . . ..The American car and it's British counterpart were separated by 2 to 3 decades. Incidentally the 55 Plymouth was renowned for it's reliability and tough build. You are very lucky to own such a car.Though in the States at the time Plymouth was regarded as a working man's run about and nothing to write home about. Kind Regards .
If your windscreen defroster is not putting out heat then the heat exchanger core is probably plugged. I had a 1955 dodge regent, essentially the same car made for the Canadian market, which worked extremely well in our famous winters.
The station wagon version of this, in red and white, was our family car when I grew up.
I can imagine that car well as it was the 'typical' family car of the period for families with children and a dog. - it was the sort of car that would have been in a Norman Rockwell painting:)
Beautiful 55 Plymouth. I love the color scheme of your car!
thank you
I would get excited today if I could get an interior that wasn’t black, grey, or beige…..
great observation and very true for many I suspect - thanks
No Chrysler products ever had the forward slanting or even vertical A post, unlike GM and Ford. The forward slanting ones were best at banging tall people's kneecaps when getting in or out. The two speed wipers were electric while some cars (AMC until much later) had infinite speed vacuum wipers that would slow down when going up hill or accelerating and go nuts when you took your foot off the accelerator - particularly entertaining in manual transmission cars as you go through the gears.
I think that a Cigarette Lighter on a present-day automobile, is usually an extra-cost option. In the 1950s, most adult people smoked. In 2021, not so much, as cigarette smoking is now believed to be bad for your health, more so now than in 1955.
A little more time addressing the . ,drive-train, after all, it is the heart of the car.
yes you are correct and the number of ash trays was a strong selling point in the 1950s
@@jeromebreeding3302 you missed the point of the video - it was to comedically high light the marketing emphasis on points of design and features which were important back in the day of its production. - as for the drive train, there are other videos dealing with that but strangely , the drive train was not a major feature of the marketing back in 1950s
Nothing like an 'Aussie's or a 'Brit's point of view and explanation of things..LOL!! Robert at 68.
Please keep this car in a garage when not driving
good advice
Is that a fan to the far right?
no it is not a fan - the ventilation is controlled by the quarter vents which turn forward and then directs forced cold air into the cabin which can be directed as required - the fan looking item is the radio speaker. - thanks for the comment
Innovative car for the time … NOT AMAZING !
the word amazing is very subjective, but as a young person in the mid 1950s, I was infatuated by the designs of automobiles. - the season of the year which was usually about the beginning of autumn was when the designs for the coming year were announced. Each advertisement of show announcement of a new car design was a highlight of the day or perhaps the week for me and my friends. The sight of the Plymouth for 1955 actually touched my deepest feelings as the design was so unique that in my eyes it was amazing. -- however,, another person looking back at this creation of mainly metal and glass, would consider it to be nothing more than innovative within it's period of history I suspect -- thank you for the comment
Sorry, but the camera is hopelessly out of focus. Opening quarter lights, armrests and hooks were absolutely bog standard items in the most basic of basic cars in the mid 50's.... Do you even know what you are talking about?.
firstly - this video was filmed over ten years ago with a Panasonic G1 micro four thirds camera that used primitive contrast focusing but was able to use a 12mm X2 crop lens which allowed the close up wide angle at a time when cameras we have today we not available - I was a young man when the 1955 Belvedere was originally launched and at the time of filming owned 13 1940s and 1950s American cars including a 47 Dodge, 49 Dodge, 50 Chrysler Newport, 51 Hudson Hornet, 52, Chrysler Imperial, 53 Chrysler Town and Country, 52 and 55 Cadillac, 56 Chrysler St Regis and various Jeeps etc - you are incorrect that all medium priced cars in the 1950s had even the features of that 55 Plymouth as even rear door arm rests were not fitted to all cars. If you had really listened to the video you would have understood it was a comedic ironic piece on the features that were marketed at the time of their production - but even the aspects of the size and position of the rear coat hooks was important at a time that many travelling salesmen hung up their dress jackets and shirts - the rear vents were important as they allowed through flow ventilation at a time most people smoked and the fact they had a means to stay open at speed or were a size to stop children putting their heads out was a sales factor = I have studied US car design all my life but I suspect you believe you are an important judge and expert so your comment will stay on the channel - oh and by the way, the Plymouth also had a separate fan dedicated for the front window demisting and this was extremely unusual for the period as I am sure you must be aware. the gear changing 'wand' as Plymouth called it was also original as was the symmetrical design of the dash as the car was designed to allow for right hand drive conversions. - I have written many articles over the years on US car design -Thanks