My first car, bought in 1968 was a 1958 Impala convertible. What a beautiful car that was when I restored it. I was a kid without a license and learned how to work on everything from the 348 V8 engine to the motorized roof. I’m 71 and enjoy doing all my own car maintenance. Wish I had that Impala today.
Lord, I guess as the 58 Impala has to be one of the most beautiful cars ever built~!!! I feel the same way about a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air Sport Coupe I sold to finance moving to a new town with my family.
@@davidnewland2461After I graduated high school, I was fortunate to have owned a "65" 500XL Sports Roof and a couple of years later I got a "66" Galaxie 500 Convertible. I would love to have either one of them back before I die. Oh, what memories were made in those vehicles. 👍
FINALLY an honest, realistic assessment of the '75-'82 Corvettes. Chevy built quite a few of them so they're easy to find. Many still in pretty decent shape. Crazy thing about their lack of fans is found in how toward the end of the run of the C3, when the under hood power was completely absent, other features were actually a whole lot better than in the earlier years when the power was still there. The later versions are nicer inside. Far more likely to have leather seats, power windows and other creature comforts. Like the F car, Camaro and Firebird, the Corvette was still the same car it had been at the start of the run during the peak of the Muscle car/Pony car/Sprots car performance era. Small wonder GM sold so many Corvettes, Camaros and Firebirds in the late 1970s. AMC had nothing to offer a buyer and Ford had pretty much ruined it's Mustang before the FOX bodies would resurrect them to former glory in sales. The '75-'79 Corvettes were still "simple" no computer cars that any guy can easily work on. All they needed then and now is power. That part has always been the easiest part for any car guy to fix. Roller cammed, 383 Chevy Crate engines packing way more power than the iconic LT-1 top of the food chain SBC from 1970 is easy to acquire these days from so many suppliers it's price tag is fairly small for what you get. When installed in a '75-'79 you have a car that easily runs as hard or harder as any early model and gets there without the penalty of a less balanced car with a BBC up front. Better still? These cars still suffer the smog era stigma on valuation putting one together is less expensive and comes with no dilemma over "should I or shouldn't I" when pulling and tossing away the "numbers matching non-sense" that has never made much sense to me.
NO COMPRESSION 1970 WAS THE END OF COMPRESSION. WENT FROM 350NHORSE TO 180 HORSE IN 71. CALIFORNIA EMMISSION RESTRICTIONS THAT DETSROYED THAT. NEVER NEEDED TO HAPPEN. ENVIROMENTAL CRAP WAS THE CAUSE.
I loved the subject matter. Brought back so many memories. What I don't like is when they ask you to like the video before it even starts. How do I know if I'm going to like it or not? Ask at the end not the beginning.
The Chevy Citation was hated for what it was not. It did well in the class where it was built to compete. I had two of them for company cars. They were inexpensive, easy to drive, easy to park, and comfortable for a compact car. Cheap to gas up and while not fast, A Chicago to Pittsburg trip for a business meeting was no problem. Neither of them ever broke down. Drove well in the slick snowy weather and the back hatch was easy to load. Nothing outstanding, but nothing bad.
Citation was Motor Trend Car of the Year in initial model year. Mine was not bad after Chevy overhauled my manual transmission twice and replacing the brakes after extending the warranty.
The Citation was the first GM with front wheel drive, and that suspension was awful. My sister was driving an LA freeway in hers, and was cursing the suspension because the front end was so wobbly. Then she noticed all the other drivers pulling off the road. There was an earthquake going on, but she didn’t know it because her car always felt that way.
So glad I subscribed to this channel. Two days in a row now, I’ve had some really cool vids … that we’re eye opening and informative, for sure…but… They also provided some of the best laughs I’ve had in a long time. Thanks folks! Keep it up! 😎👍
I loved mine untill about 80 MPH when the tail fins caught wind and made the car drive like a forkliift. LOL Other than that it was comfortable, roomy, stylish, unusual all at the same time.The 1960 bubletop was the most pretty of them all.
I started noticing cars in '69/'70 and I remember seeing a lot of those '59 Chevy's. You could spot them a mile away on the freeway. They are one of my favorite cars too.
The 1958 Chevy didn't sell as well because of ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. The country went into a short recession, so people held onto the cars they had. By 1959 the economy was back on the rise, and so people who waited to buy a new car went ahead and bought the 1959 models.
My parents brought me to the dealer when we got our turquoise 4 -door 1954 Bel Air. I wanted the fake woodie wagon. The only option it had was automatic transmission. No heater, no radio.
My first car was a 1963 Impala 2 Dr. 6cyl. A/T. My next car was a 69 Impala 2 Dr. 327 with A/C.(loved that car!). As a kid, I do remember my moms 54 Belair, and her 55 Belair. Oh yes, she had a 66 Impala also. I guess you could call us the Chevy family.
1958 was a recession period. My father was a tool and die maker at Fisher Body in Pontiac, Mi...I think he was laid off for most of '58 and '59 until we moved to California and he started working in the aircraft industry...
Forgot the Chevette. I know most people will say should be forgotten. But I had a 1980 two door that I first swapped in a 3.8 Chevy V6 with a four barrel and cam. Latter on a 4.3. That little rear drive econo box was fast like crazy at the time. Didn't go around corners worth a crap but that wasn't the point then. Very fun and cheap. 💯👍
When I was a little boy, my brother Jerry (16 ears my senior owned a "58 Impala convertible. Then when I was 15, my other brother Greg ,(5 years my senior)bought a 58 Impala two-door hardtop coupe. I thought the "58 Chevrolet models were gorgeous.😂 I only wished I could have had one, as today prices are through the roof.
I loved the 58. The problem with it was it rotted to the bone the minute you got it home. So prone was it to rust, you see relatively few of them even restored today. But what a good looking car nonetheless.
Dad taught me to drive his '55 Bel Air on a deeply rutted sandy city street. Stick shift. The wipers were air powered, and when you pulled out to pass a car the wipers would slow down.
The 58 was interesting because while every other brand were still increasing the size of their tail fins, Chevy bucked the trend and made a model with no fins. Must not have sold that well, because in 59 they over compensated and made that garish outer space- looking model with huge fins.
I learned to drive in a 1950 yellow Mercury sedan. It was prone to carburetor vapor lock in the summer. I got my driver's license in a blue 1959 Chevvy. It drove and sounded like a truck.
So, for all these bad to somewhat-bad Chevy's, you forgot to mention (or maybe you were ignorant of it's existence?) the WORST of them all; the 1924 Chevrolet with the 'copper-cooled' engine. They developed an air-cooled inline 4 with copper fins 'welded' to the cylinder jackets, a bunch of ducting tin around the engine, and 2 fans; a small fan on the crankshaft blowing air into the ductwork and upward, and a larger fan at the top, sucking air out (with a bunch of air-entry slots at the bottoms of the cylinder jackets to let extra air in). That is why all 1924 Chevys have such a high hood; it was for clearance for this large top fan. They made about 1000 of these engines, and found that they were cr@p. Low power, detonation happened when hot (even with only 3:1 compression!), heat damage, oil that baked deposits in oil galleries, causing seized motors, etc. Only about 100 of these engines actually got sold to customers, and they recalled every one of them to replace the engine with the 'old engine' from the previous year. All 1000 motors were removed and scrapped, and all those cars were converted to the 1923 motor. Only 2 examples of this car exist today; one is in a private collection, and one is (ironically...) in the Henry Ford Museum. The tooling for this motor was sold off to a company which made generators, and they built a modified version of the motor up until about WW2.
My first car was a 54 Chevy Bel Air coupe. That PG tranny was its doom. I bought the neighbors 56 Chevy Sports Sedan. Nice car, I now have another some 60 years later. Chevys I have owned2 63 Impalas, 64 Elky, 64 Malibu SS, 65 C10, 71 Camaro RS, 70 Chevy step side, 00 Silverado 2500, 03 Trailblazer, 72 Vega, a POS, 76 Vega GT wagon, much better and an 06 HHR LT, what a great car.
My choice of forgotten 'bout Chevy?, 1975-79 Chevrolet Nova and 19751981Chevrolet Monza!!!!, When was the last time anyone seen one?.alot of both of these Chevrolets were turned into Streetrods but seeing one stock forget it!!!!.
@@GH-oi2jf Bullshit, maybe those shitty little 1980s jobs that were built under license with Toyota but not the ones that were built between 1962tp 1979!!¡
I was told by a Chevy representative that the "SSR" was only to be available for 3 to 4 years and then become a collectors model. I personally had much interest in buying one, but my income said otherwise. I even had a brochure of the earliest model, which said these are approximately the measurements. Plus my 1st car was none other than a 1960 Chevy wagon with YES with two doors,not 4.
I really wanted one of those also ,,had the bucks,, but realized it was the most impracticle thing to have ,,, not really a truck, ot really a hot rod , not really a pssenger car,, and finally saw one and thought they looked cheap,,,,,,, dodged a bullet ,,
Why does almost every site out here choose Mr. A.I. to narrate their videos? Give me live bodies or give me ... a Corvair Monza GT? Examples: "16-valve OHC Two-point-zero liter" should be "16-valve overhead cam, two liter"... and..."Four-hundred-twenty-seven C.I...." should be "Four-twenty-seven cubic inch..." There's a difference between the WRITTEN word and the SPOKEN word, but Mr. A.I. is not smart enough to know the difference.
And the Ford AND the Plymouth were stretched out on a longer wheelbase with great styling too. The 57 Chevy is also a good looking car albeit shorter on the 55 wheelbase.
I had a 1980 corvette. My wife had a 1991 4 cyl chevy Cavalier. I followed her home once on a curvey road as I watched her taillights disappear while she was casually driving, and I was wrestling that piece of $hit for all I was worth. What a turd.
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍 : WOW ! Finally a video that hits what happened in does days. Government interference & the Hilo parents ( oh cars need to be safer ) style was kill off ! So what did we get SUV’s the Big Egg lol !
The 1959 Chevy's yuuge horizontal tail fins would create lift at high speeds, enough to take weight off the rear wheels and make the car unstable. NYC's taxi operators bought these '58s, and replaced the bulbous (and expensive) tail light lenses with flat red plastic sheeting ... each time an OEM tail light lens broke in a minor traffic accident, the taxi operator was out a small fortune ... until this change was made.
Another 54 Chevy was forgotten.. the Corvette Nomad Wagon with a blue flame 6 cyl. 1st Nomad, was never produced, only 6 were made could tell a lot of stories about Chevy's but there's not enough space or time... retired Master Goodwrench
I had a 60 Corvair, and fixed the ster9ng problem by add9ng 200lbs to the front end. Car was rock solid on the road after that. I also had a 64 corva9r and it was a dream to drive. no a/c thought and that was the only problem (I ever had with it. Whrn I left Texas for Alaska I gave it to my daughter who let her "boyfriend" screw it up by addinhg water to the oil (he thought =it was low on coolant?
Knew a kid in high school, that had rich parents, and he was always going on about his dad promising to gift him a 'vette for his 16th birthday...we always replied, yah yah... Well his birthday came around and he was looking rather depressed..."What happened Danny?? No 'vette for your birthday??" He replied: "yeah, my dad got me a 'vette....a CHEVETTE !! The laughter was non stop...
I have a C3 Corvette a 1977 and she is not slow because she has no EPA she has 3 inch pipes and no converter's and she can go from 0 to 60 in just about 3 seconds because this car was built by Zora Arkus Duntov it's the last car he did and this car has his name all over it
@@glennday7802 no. Not in my dreams I had it taken to a drag strip and I watched the guy do it because this car doesn't have anything to block it up no EPA on this car it doesn't have a small block in it it's a big block because Zora Arkus Duntov made this car
how many remember the Little Nash Rambler how do u get this thing our of 2nd gear My 2nd oldest sis bought one brandy new a she first car. She still loves that car. It sets in her barn. She drives it only on Sun morning 5 to 8 on real nice days.
My family inherited my grandpa's 80 citation. Lack of a temp gauge was it's demise. By the time the temp idiot light came on, the idiot already cooked the motor. I did a valve job, and planed the heads, but it still lost water, so I figured the block cracked somewhere. gave it away.
I had a 62 corvair masda,it was a fairly good car except the engine would fall out while driving. I would stop and pickup the motor and put it back in the car and keep driving. It only had two 3/8 ×2 bolts that held the motor in place, so I kept extra bolts in the car.
Corvair suffered from the Mustang as much as from Ralph Nader. Mustang was a simple Falcon knock-off, so it didn't cost Ford much to make. Many of its internal parts and engines were already in existence or could be used in other Ford and Mercury products to spread the costs of manufacture. The Corvair, being rear-wheel driven, powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine with many major components in aluminum and with independent suspension shared virtually no components with other Chevys which made it more expensive to build. When Nader's book came out, GM had the excuse it needed to pull the plug. The Corvair's handling was later exonerated but the damage had been done.
The Chevrolet was the most beautiful car in GM's 1958 line up, looking much better and trimmer than the styling mistakes made by Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Pontiac and Buick that year, dressed up as faded streetwalkers with their obese fenders and over-chromed exteriors.
I’ll always remember my 62 Corvair convertible, 4 speed…. I was single, in my 20s. And it was a great car for attracting Ladies. TMI? My only cherry occurred across both front seats. 😍😋
The ‘58 sales slump was blamed on a recession if I recall. The ‘58 Chevy Impala was almost an entry level Coupe de Ville. My parents drove both but the Cadillac was traded in annually. The next Cadillac had tail fins.
When my father mustered out of the Navy, he bought '54 Chevy 4-door. It had 'porcelainized' light gray paint. A teenager totaled it by crashing his dad's Jaguar into it. Dad replaced with a '59 Chevy station wagon
Just a few corrections... The 1958 Chevrolet sales were lower than 1957 because 1958 was a RECESSION year. The economy was down, and we were tottering near another depression. that had more to do with lower sales than the car. The Corvair was originally scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the 1966 model year. Nader's book caused GM to continue them for another 3 years to show him that they weren't going to bow to his accusations. The REAL reason for the demise of the Corvair was COST. They were a quality car that was expensive to produce. While I am at it, the Chevelles of the mid to late 1970s were just plain stone cold UGLY! As was that hideous looking SSR. I would be embarrassed to have either one of them sitting in my driveway.
Referring to the 1958 Chevy as a "charicature" of the previous models is ludicrous. It was actually a cleaner (especially the non-Impala models), all-new design, devoid of the hood rockets, the cluttered front styling, and the tailfins that were beginning to lose favor with many car buyers. 1957 Chevrolet passenger car production was 1,401,648; for 1958 it was 1,215,597 (sources for both years vary), less than a 200,000 car difference. This video fails to mention the economic recession of 1958, and its negative effect on the sales of ALL car makes. The 1959 Chevy enjoyed a minor sales increase mostly due to a modest improvement of the economy. Had the recession not occurred, it's quite likely that the 1958 Chevrolet could have outsold the 1957 model.
In the '50s and '60s Chevy reigned supreme. But sorry folks, I gotta tell ya, when it came to looks and tech Chevy fell off a cliff in the '70s and '80s. I wouldn't have admitted it back then, but the foreign market took over and ran with it during that time. It wasn't till the '90s did they comeback, strong and I started buying Chevys again.
My first car, bought in 1968 was a 1958 Impala convertible. What a beautiful car that was when I restored it. I was a kid without a license and learned how to work on everything from the 348 V8 engine to the motorized roof. I’m 71 and enjoy doing all my own car maintenance. Wish I had that Impala today.
Lord, I guess as the 58 Impala has to be one of the most beautiful cars ever built~!!! I feel the same way about a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air Sport Coupe I sold to finance moving to a new town with my family.
any more, I'm all about turn key....... the truck is paid for, the wife car is paid for,
and were as used up as those good old days cars.
@@georgefitter7656 mine was a 1968 galaxy 500 great car I wish I had kept it it'd 'be rusted out hulk now
@@davidnewland2461After I graduated high school, I was fortunate to have owned a "65" 500XL Sports Roof and a couple of years later I got a "66" Galaxie 500 Convertible. I would love to have either one of them back before I die. Oh, what memories were made in those vehicles. 👍
@@georgefitter7656 think we all feel that our first cars were the best.
FINALLY an honest, realistic assessment of the '75-'82 Corvettes. Chevy built quite a few of them so they're easy to find. Many still in pretty decent shape. Crazy thing about their lack of fans is found in how toward the end of the run of the C3, when the under hood power was completely absent, other features were actually a whole lot better than in the earlier years when the power was still there. The later versions are nicer inside. Far more likely to have leather seats, power windows and other creature comforts. Like the F car, Camaro and Firebird, the Corvette was still the same car it had been at the start of the run during the peak of the Muscle car/Pony car/Sprots car performance era. Small wonder GM sold so many Corvettes, Camaros and Firebirds in the late 1970s. AMC had nothing to offer a buyer and Ford had pretty much ruined it's Mustang before the FOX bodies would resurrect them to former glory in sales. The '75-'79 Corvettes were still "simple" no computer cars that any guy can easily work on. All they needed then and now is power. That part has always been the easiest part for any car guy to fix. Roller cammed, 383 Chevy Crate engines packing way more power than the iconic LT-1 top of the food chain SBC from 1970 is easy to acquire these days from so many suppliers it's price tag is fairly small for what you get. When installed in a '75-'79 you have a car that easily runs as hard or harder as any early model and gets there without the penalty of a less balanced car with a BBC up front. Better still? These cars still suffer the smog era stigma on valuation putting one together is less expensive and comes with no dilemma over "should I or shouldn't I" when pulling and tossing away the "numbers matching non-sense" that has never made much sense to me.
I totally agree
Yeah I'd love to have a 1963 split window Corvette
your comment has 'motor-swap' written all over it.
12:34 @@bruceblackwell2205
NO COMPRESSION 1970 WAS THE END OF COMPRESSION. WENT FROM 350NHORSE TO 180 HORSE IN 71. CALIFORNIA EMMISSION RESTRICTIONS THAT DETSROYED THAT. NEVER NEEDED TO HAPPEN. ENVIROMENTAL CRAP WAS THE CAUSE.
My daily driver is a 61 corvair monza 900.runs and drives great!
64 Monza convertible ( 4 speed 140 hp) and 65 Corsa (4 speed turbo) are my faves
CORVAIR SPYDER WAS THE CAR BACK THEN.
theres a 64 Corvair here that i see from time to time
@@jimsmith9819 they are quirky cars ,but mechanically sound.mine is 98% original with 70k miles.i get admiring looks everywhere
@@melissajones-zv8cd i get admiring looks and comments about my 74 GMC K25, daily driver
If your going to compare old cars at least show stock models, not custom cars .
Exactly what I was going to write. As if photos of correct and authentic cars were so hard to come by.
I agree...I think there is some AI involved with this video. The narration sounds natural (not AI), but still.
No Chevy can ever be obscure to me! We still have our 1976 Impala and 1978 Caprice Classic!
I also owned a 77 Impala and a 78 Caprice classic two-door and I miss both of them I wish I still owned either one!
I loved the subject matter. Brought back so many memories. What I don't like is when they ask you to like the video before it even starts. How do I know if I'm going to like it or not? Ask at the end not the beginning.
Its all AI.
American Graffiti made me fall in love with the 58 impala
My first car was a 1958 Impala convertible. I wish I had that car today. I have a 1964 corvette coupe and enjoy riding around on sunny days.
The Chevy Citation was hated for what it was not. It did well in the class where it was built to compete. I had two of them for company cars. They were inexpensive, easy to drive, easy to park, and comfortable for a compact car. Cheap to gas up and while not fast, A Chicago to Pittsburg trip for a business meeting was no problem. Neither of them ever broke down. Drove well in the slick snowy weather and the back hatch was easy to load. Nothing outstanding, but nothing bad.
Citation was Motor Trend Car of the Year in initial model year. Mine was not bad after Chevy overhauled my manual transmission twice and replacing the brakes after extending the warranty.
The Citation was the first GM with front wheel drive, and that suspension was awful. My sister was driving an LA freeway in hers, and was cursing the suspension because the front end was so wobbly. Then she noticed all the other drivers pulling off the road. There was an earthquake going on, but she didn’t know it because her car always felt that way.
So glad I subscribed to this channel.
Two days in a row now, I’ve had some really cool vids … that we’re eye opening and informative, for sure…but…
They also provided some of the best laughs I’ve had in a long time.
Thanks folks!
Keep it up!
😎👍
Glad you like them! ❤️
I remember a few of these. Nice cars! Thanks for posting!
My father had a 1954 4 door Chevy. I love the styling of it.
Don't forget there was a 1958 Chevy in the movie American Graffiti, but I get your point. Personally I think I prefer the 58 0ver the 57.
You must be the only guy on the Planet that feels that way~!!
One of my favorite old cars is the 1959 Chevrolet. Or as I called is as a child, the Batmobile.
I loved mine untill about 80 MPH when the tail fins caught wind and made the car drive like a forkliift. LOL Other than that it was comfortable, roomy, stylish, unusual all at the same time.The 1960 bubletop was the most pretty of them all.
I started noticing cars in '69/'70 and I remember seeing a lot of those '59 Chevy's. You could spot them a mile away on the freeway. They are one of my favorite cars too.
The 1958 Chevy didn't sell as well because of ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. The country went into a short recession, so people held onto the cars they had. By 1959 the economy was back on the rise, and so people who waited to buy a new car went ahead and bought the 1959 models.
And they were FUGLY
plus they were ugly as compared to last year's model- deal-breaker......
@@tommurphy4307 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I like the 1958 Chevrolets better than the 1957s or 1959s.
Fun fact: Chevy and many other makers offered dual headlamps for the first time in 1958. Why? Because they were only approved by the NHTSA in 1957.
My parents brought me to the dealer when we got our turquoise 4 -door 1954 Bel Air. I wanted the fake woodie wagon. The only option it had was automatic transmission. No heater, no radio.
My first car was a 1963 Impala 2 Dr. 6cyl. A/T. My next car was a 69 Impala 2 Dr. 327 with A/C.(loved that car!). As a kid, I do remember my moms 54 Belair, and her 55 Belair. Oh yes, she had a 66 Impala also. I guess you could call us the Chevy family.
I have a 1979 Corvette with 88,000 miles in my garage…my father designed and engineered these sports cars!
having six corvairs they are some of the best cars i have owned ...
1958 was a recession period. My father was a tool and die maker at Fisher Body in Pontiac, Mi...I think he was laid off for most of '58 and '59 until we moved to California and he started working in the aircraft industry...
Forgot the Chevette. I know most people will say should be forgotten. But I had a 1980 two door that I first swapped in a 3.8 Chevy V6 with a four barrel and cam. Latter on a 4.3. That little rear drive econo box was fast like crazy at the time. Didn't go around corners worth a crap but that wasn't the point then. Very fun and cheap. 💯👍
Yes. Very very cheap, and I don't mean inexpensive.
When I was a little boy, my brother Jerry (16 ears my senior owned a "58 Impala convertible. Then when I was 15, my other brother Greg ,(5 years my senior)bought a 58 Impala two-door hardtop coupe. I thought the "58 Chevrolet models were gorgeous.😂 I only wished I could have had one, as today prices are through the roof.
I learned how to drive when I was 12 in my dad’s 1954 Chevy . It had a 3-speed manual shifter on the column.
I loved the 58. The problem with it was it rotted to the bone the minute you got it home. So prone was it to rust, you see relatively few of them even restored today. But what a good looking car nonetheless.
The Corvette model is the sexiest Chevy product ever made. Case closed.
Only if it's the 1963-64 split back window~!
58' Chevy was iconic and became a low-rider favorite. They're worth a fortune today.
"58' Chevy was iconic"
Yeah, those 58 foot Chevrolets are pretty rare.
Had a '55 and inherited my father's '59. both manufactured by "Generic Motors".
Dad taught me to drive his '55 Bel Air on a deeply rutted sandy city street. Stick shift. The wipers were air powered, and when you pulled out to pass a car the wipers would slow down.
The 1958 Impala is a highly looked for vehicle now.
The 2 door’s roof line is gorgeous.
The 58 was interesting because while every other brand were still increasing the size of their tail fins, Chevy bucked the trend and made a model with no fins. Must not have sold that well, because in 59 they over compensated and made that garish outer space- looking model with huge fins.
Yes, and a convertible even more so~!!
I remember the citation as the car of the year. Absolute proof that auto magazines were the whores of the auto industry
I learned to drive in a 1950 yellow Mercury sedan. It was prone to carburetor vapor lock in the summer. I got my driver's license in a blue 1959 Chevvy. It drove and sounded like a truck.
So, for all these bad to somewhat-bad Chevy's, you forgot to mention (or maybe you were ignorant of it's existence?) the WORST of them all; the 1924 Chevrolet with the 'copper-cooled' engine. They developed an air-cooled inline 4 with copper fins 'welded' to the cylinder jackets, a bunch of ducting tin around the engine, and 2 fans; a small fan on the crankshaft blowing air into the ductwork and upward, and a larger fan at the top, sucking air out (with a bunch of air-entry slots at the bottoms of the cylinder jackets to let extra air in). That is why all 1924 Chevys have such a high hood; it was for clearance for this large top fan.
They made about 1000 of these engines, and found that they were cr@p. Low power, detonation happened when hot (even with only 3:1 compression!), heat damage, oil that baked deposits in oil galleries, causing seized motors, etc. Only about 100 of these engines actually got sold to customers, and they recalled every one of them to replace the engine with the 'old engine' from the previous year. All 1000 motors were removed and scrapped, and all those cars were converted to the 1923 motor.
Only 2 examples of this car exist today; one is in a private collection, and one is (ironically...) in the Henry Ford Museum. The tooling for this motor was sold off to a company which made generators, and they built a modified version of the motor up until about WW2.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.
These were cars. America was America then!!
My first car was a 54 Chevy Bel Air coupe. That PG tranny was its doom. I bought the neighbors 56 Chevy Sports Sedan. Nice car, I now have another some 60 years later. Chevys I have owned2 63 Impalas, 64 Elky, 64 Malibu SS, 65 C10, 71 Camaro RS, 70 Chevy step side, 00 Silverado 2500, 03 Trailblazer, 72 Vega, a POS, 76 Vega GT wagon, much better and an 06 HHR LT, what a great car.
the Chevys i have owned, 53 BelAire, 59 , 57 StepSide, 62 C10, now an 84 C 30 plus my daily driver is a 74 GMC K 25
I had a '67 Impala SS. Loved that car! Wish I still had it.
My choice of forgotten 'bout Chevy?, 1975-79 Chevrolet Nova and 19751981Chevrolet Monza!!!!, When was the last time anyone seen one?.alot of both of these Chevrolets were turned into Streetrods but seeing one stock forget it!!!!.
The Nova deserves to be forgotten.
@@GH-oi2jf Bullshit, maybe those shitty little 1980s jobs that were built under license with Toyota but not the ones that were built between 1962tp 1979!!¡
You got some of that right, BEUTIFUL video though! 😊
Thanks! 😊
I liked the 58 design especially the 58 Impala 2dr hardtop.
I was told by a Chevy representative that the "SSR" was only to be available for 3 to 4 years and then become a collectors model. I personally had much interest in buying one, but my income said otherwise. I even had a brochure of the earliest model, which said these are approximately the measurements. Plus my 1st car was none other than a 1960 Chevy wagon with YES with two doors,not 4.
I really wanted one of those also ,,had the bucks,, but realized it was the most impracticle thing to have ,,, not really a truck, ot really a hot rod , not really a pssenger car,, and finally saw one and thought they looked cheap,,,,,,, dodged a bullet ,,
Why does almost every site out here choose Mr. A.I. to narrate their videos? Give me live bodies or give me ... a Corvair Monza GT? Examples: "16-valve OHC Two-point-zero liter" should be "16-valve overhead cam, two liter"...
and..."Four-hundred-twenty-seven C.I...." should be "Four-twenty-seven cubic inch..." There's a difference between the WRITTEN word and the SPOKEN word, but Mr. A.I. is not smart enough to know the difference.
Actually yeah this AI voice needs to be scrapped.
I still like that SSR and I'm going to get one one day
We bought a 1984 monte carlo SS, I HATED THAT CAR AFTER Warranty PERIOD WAS UP IT WAS NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS
The 57 Ford sold more than the 57 Chevy……..just saying 😁
GOOD FOR A FREE DRINK IN A TRIVIA CONTEST !!!
And the Ford AND the Plymouth were stretched out on a longer wheelbase with great styling too. The 57 Chevy is also a good looking car albeit shorter on the 55 wheelbase.
I would not call the Chevy Citation hideous. Every other criticism in this video is right on target.
The SS was not "vanilla".
I had a 1980 corvette. My wife had a 1991 4 cyl chevy Cavalier. I followed her home once on a curvey road as I watched her taillights disappear while she was casually driving, and I was wrestling that piece of $hit for all I was worth. What a turd.
My first car was a 1953 Chevy I bought for 75 bucks.
Cosworth Vega $900 cheaper than a Corvette. Who, in their right mind, opted for the Vega? Because it was still a Vega.
The 'Cosworth' Vega originally developed over 300 HP but it had to be seriously detuned to meet American standards making it possible to buy here.
7:24 check out the hitch ball on the bumper. Wouldn't be surprised if it was original equipment
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍 : WOW ! Finally a video that hits what happened in does days. Government interference & the Hilo parents ( oh cars need to be safer ) style was kill off ! So what did we get SUV’s the Big Egg lol !
The 1959 Chevy's yuuge horizontal tail fins would create lift at high speeds, enough to take weight off the rear wheels and make the car unstable.
NYC's taxi operators bought these '58s, and replaced the bulbous (and expensive) tail light lenses with flat red plastic sheeting ... each time an OEM tail light lens broke in a minor traffic accident, the taxi operator was out a small fortune ... until this change was made.
Why does this guy commentating sound like Richard Dreyfuss in Stand By Me movie commentating? 😂😂
Because it's probably AI generated.
Another 54 Chevy was forgotten.. the Corvette Nomad Wagon with a blue flame 6 cyl. 1st Nomad, was never produced, only 6 were made could tell a lot of stories about Chevy's but there's not enough space or time... retired Master Goodwrench
My parents bought a new Corvair. In like "62. My uncle borrowed it, and blew the engine.
I like the 1954 chevy it’s one of my favourites. 😊
I’ve seen a million 55, 56 and 57 Chevys customized ( love those!) but a 54 customized really stands out.
I had a 60 Corvair, and fixed the ster9ng problem by add9ng 200lbs to the front end. Car was rock solid on the road after that.
I also had a 64 corva9r and it was a dream to drive. no a/c thought and that was the only problem (I ever had with it. Whrn
I left Texas for Alaska I gave it to my daughter who let her "boyfriend" screw it up by addinhg water to the oil (he thought =it
was low on coolant?
Even this "Forgotten Chevy" video forgot to to mention the Chevy Chevette. I had a '77.
Gee I wonder why!!!!
Little known fact: The Isuzu Impulse was built on the GM T chassis, shared with the Chevette.
Knew a kid in high school, that had rich parents, and he was always going on about his dad promising to gift him a 'vette for his 16th birthday...we always replied, yah yah...
Well his birthday came around and he was looking rather depressed..."What happened Danny?? No 'vette for your birthday??"
He replied: "yeah, my dad got me a 'vette....a CHEVETTE !!
The laughter was non stop...
The old saying is that Toyota and Chevy were going to collaborate on a new compact car which would be called the Toylette.
@@clydecortright2437 ......Which is exactly what a Chevette was.. . A toilet!!!!!!.
The 1954 Chevrolet was just a refreshed 1953.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. 🤣
The corvair had an over steer issue that made it unsafe at speed. This was corrected by the implantation of front sway bars.
I love the 1958 Chevy. I wanted one badly as a kid.
55 Chevy...was just tooooo sweet!!!
As much as we'd like to forget the Vega and the Citation, none of these cars are forgotten.
If you drove a Vega, you’d stop at a gas station and tell the attendant (they still had attendants!) to check the gas and fill the oil.
None of these have not been forgotten for diverse reasons.
SO TRUE~!!
I have a C3 Corvette a 1977 and she is not slow because she has no EPA she has 3 inch pipes and no converter's and she can go from 0 to 60 in just about 3 seconds because this car was built by Zora Arkus Duntov it's the last car he did and this car has his name all over it
0-60 in 3 seconds? In your dreams.
@@glennday7802 no. Not in my dreams I had it taken to a drag strip and I watched the guy do it because this car doesn't have anything to block it up no EPA on this car it doesn't have a small block in it it's a big block because Zora Arkus Duntov made this car
The 1958 Impala was the first and best Impala design !!!!!
The Citations remind me of the Ford Pinto.
how many remember the Little Nash Rambler how do u get this thing our of 2nd gear
My 2nd oldest sis bought one brandy new a she first car. She still loves that car. It sets in her barn. She drives it only on Sun morning 5 to 8 on real nice days.
Beep beep!
Floor board all rotted out early
My family inherited my grandpa's 80 citation. Lack of a temp gauge was it's demise. By the time the temp idiot light came on, the idiot already cooked the motor. I did a valve job, and planed the heads, but it still lost water, so I figured the block cracked somewhere. gave it away.
I had a 62 corvair masda,it was a fairly good car except the engine would fall out while driving. I would stop and pickup the motor and put it back in the car and keep driving. It only had two 3/8 ×2 bolts that held the motor in place, so I kept extra bolts in the car.
Had the 59 Impala 348 tri power dark blue, red interior Muncie 4 speed loved that chevy
Where's the thumbnail? What is the thumbnail? It looks like a combination of a 58,59,60 and61 Impala.
It was Johnny Cash's car!
Corvair suffered from the Mustang as much as from Ralph Nader. Mustang was a simple Falcon knock-off, so it didn't cost Ford much to make. Many of its internal parts and engines were already in existence or could be used in other Ford and Mercury products to spread the costs of manufacture. The Corvair, being rear-wheel driven, powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine with many major components in aluminum and with independent suspension shared virtually no components with other Chevys which made it more expensive to build. When Nader's book came out, GM had the excuse it needed to pull the plug. The Corvair's handling was later exonerated but the damage had been done.
The Chevrolet was the most beautiful car in GM's 1958 line up, looking much better and trimmer than the styling mistakes made by Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Pontiac and Buick that year, dressed up as faded streetwalkers with their obese fenders and over-chromed exteriors.
The 58 impala was one of the most beautiful cars ever built
@davidsteiner7392 why was it a one year only, body style?
I’ll always remember my 62 Corvair convertible, 4 speed…. I was single, in my 20s. And it was a great car for attracting
Ladies. TMI? My only cherry occurred across both front seats. 😍😋
SHOW US THAT PRODOW TYPE ON THE COVER!
Give me Laguna so I can make a stock car out of it like in the Cannonball run!
What about the 1957 Chevrolet El Morocco?
My first car!
The ‘58 sales slump was blamed on a recession if I recall. The ‘58 Chevy Impala was almost an entry level Coupe de Ville. My parents drove both but the Cadillac was traded in annually. The next Cadillac had tail fins.
Never heard of a Laguna
the thumbnail is a clickbait, but the video is great, very informative SO i forgive you, LIKE 👍
I clicked to see the 58. I always thought them desirable. As far as the tri-5, I favor the 55.
@@stoveboltlvr3798 , I’m a big 58’ fan myself.
She never gets the love she deserves and I think she’s a gorgeous.
I had a 8 year old 55 bel air 2dr. Ht. 265 cid auto.
The reason for the 1958 being a sales flop was the Resection it killed a bunch of brands. Desoto, Packard, and Edsel all died because of 1858.
In 1858 cars were not even thought of!
@@glennso47Lol 😂
When my father mustered out of the Navy, he bought '54 Chevy 4-door. It had 'porcelainized' light gray paint. A teenager totaled it by crashing his dad's Jaguar into it. Dad replaced with a '59 Chevy station wagon
Classic car should have fenderskirts,
I find these picks subjective at best.
I learned how to drive on my Dad's 1955 Chev Belair, then my first car that I owned was a 1961 Chevrolet Belair 28e with three on the tree.
My first car was a 54 Chevy BelAire with three on the tree and a blue flame six for its engine.
I have a soft spot for that ride.
The Chevy citation x11 was interesting
Just a few corrections...
The 1958 Chevrolet sales were lower than 1957 because 1958 was a RECESSION year. The economy was down, and we were tottering near another depression. that had more to do with lower sales than the car.
The Corvair was originally scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the 1966 model year. Nader's book caused GM to continue them for another 3 years to show him that they weren't going to bow to his accusations. The REAL reason for the demise of the Corvair was COST. They were a quality car that was expensive to produce.
While I am at it, the Chevelles of the mid to late 1970s were just plain stone cold UGLY! As was that hideous looking SSR. I would be embarrassed to have either one of them sitting in my driveway.
The Corvair was responsible for the pony car. Ford introduced the Mustang as a response to the cheap sports car that the Corvair became.
the 59 could fly
I like.
This fifty eight chevy models always did can't find one too expensive
I owned a '58 Chev Impala I do have the same model car white,283 v8 auto.
Referring to the 1958 Chevy as a "charicature" of the previous models is ludicrous. It was actually a cleaner (especially the non-Impala models), all-new design, devoid of the hood rockets, the cluttered front styling, and the tailfins that were beginning to lose favor with many car buyers.
1957 Chevrolet passenger car production was 1,401,648; for 1958 it was 1,215,597 (sources for both years vary), less than a 200,000 car difference. This video fails to mention the economic recession of 1958, and its negative effect on the sales of ALL car makes. The 1959 Chevy enjoyed a minor sales increase mostly due to a modest improvement of the economy. Had the recession not occurred, it's quite likely that the 1958 Chevrolet could have outsold the 1957 model.
Love my old Chevys
AI bull shit!
first chevy got me
In the '50s and '60s Chevy reigned supreme. But sorry folks, I gotta tell ya, when it came to looks and tech Chevy fell off a cliff in the '70s and '80s. I wouldn't have admitted it back then, but the foreign market took over and ran with it during that time. It wasn't till the '90s did they comeback, strong and I started buying Chevys again.
the V6 citation was pretty quick
...for it's day.
Thank you, robot.
Too bad the 2004 to 2008 monte ss were front wheel drive.