You got it man you got it right out of the gate congratulations that rift was inside my head when I woke up that morning I put most of this episode together yesterday but I’m going to run out of contact if I keep doing one episode every day going back to the classic auto mall next Wednesday Be sure to tune in for the 1968 mercury comet that’s the next episode on what it’s like =)
@@What.its.like. I always liked Journey so many great songs. I've also been a Comet fan too. Owned a 74 2 door sedan for a couple years. It was a pretty good car but it was very front end heavy. Used to wear out tires on the front end like crazy. Other than that it always ran good and it drove really nice too. Added benefit of being the first now car I owned that has factory AC. Which was very important living in Arizona.
One Christmas I think I was 15 I got a record player for Christmas and my dad gave me his collection and he had some journey records.. I love that song it’s a great song that doesn’t get played as much as their other songs like separate ways, don’t stop believing, lights, faithfully... so many good songs.
Whoa! SPORTS COUPE!? Sports coupe.... I like it... great docudrama. Loved it. You do fine work. Thanks (Ha. They called it a the Sports Coupe. Craxmeupp. )
@@What.its.like. The 1948 Chevy that my dad had began to knock in the engine and he finally had to get rid of it and buy a 1953 Chevy to replace it. The 48 Chevy was burning oil also . So obviously it wasn’t very well made. I think it was new when he bought it.
5:20 I remember painting my 1955 Chevy Pickup red, while I was working at the Ash Tray factory (imagine _that_ as a job today!). One of the girls who worked there, I think a young Vietnamese woman, said, "oh, why didn't you paint your plane blue?" To her, the high center hood, with the low fenders made her think it looked like a plane in front. Side note, this same young woman _loved_ to sing Linda Ronstadt songs in Vietnamese ... I can still imagine some of them in my head, all these years later.
Those lights with the yellow lens are called Fog Lights, not running lights. The theory was that in places that had frequent fog. The headlights would reflect more glare than the yellow light.
That car would look even better after they get it out of the box! That's what my dad used to always say every time he saw a woodie LOL Had to do an edit on this because I wanted to come back in and say that you said the wood trim was a dealer installed option. I have to wonder if GM dealers were worried about the 48 Chrysler Town and country so they added that on there to try to compete with that?
Yeah they offered it because of the competition Chrysler, ford, mercury i’m sure there were others that had the wood trim in car form =) it was a fad and because it was a dealer option it was rare I saw something to the effect of 200 1948 Chevy sports coupes had this option. But couldn’t find that statistic again.
Moldings inside the windows were originally metal with hand-painted wood-grain in a burl pattern. Visors can be pulled out a few inches from the mounts to extend over the center of the windshield. You didn't point out the starter pedal/button to the right of the accelerator pedal, or the handle under the dash to open the cowl vent. Heaters both under the dash and under the passenger side of the front seat. Along the line on this car someone has removed the rubberized cloth welting between the bolt-on rear fenders and filled in the seam.
I love this strange wood phase in the late 40s. Nash Ambassador Suburban, Chrysler Town & Country, Ford/Mercury Sportsman -- and of course almost everybody had a woody wagon. I never knew Chevy made a wood-sided coupe, though! Very cool!
The dash mounted horn button is an add on. This is often the case with old cars when the steering wheel horn fails. I've never figured out why people just didn't fix the steering wheel horn.
I know right I took multiple takes of me explaining things and I guess the take that I like the most didn’t explain why the horn button was on the dashboard definitely aftermarket I don’t know why they can’t just fix it in the horn itself.. I had a truck like that where the horn button was in a weird place and I was like it’s not practical to figure out where to hit the horn button
9:47 While pointing out high beam, clutch, brake, accelerator; you didn't mention STARTER PEDAL. Now _that's_ an array of things to keep you feet busy!
Fascinating and rare. I never knew there was a coupe with real wood option except MOPAR'S Chrysler Town and Country. Always something new to learn from you, Jay. 👏👏
Ford in mercury also offered cars and Woodie form i’ve been looking for all of the wagons this year I really would like to feature some cool woody cars Nash also has them =)
Very good on your comment on the oiling system of the 216. I've owned a '53 Chevy Pickup 3/4 T. It was the 3600 model, the very LAST 216 Cu. In. in a pick up, the 235, which came out back in '41.
4:00 It's fun to think back when the "crank case ventilation" was simply an oil separator and a down draft tube (just in front of the distributor, behind the fuel pump, in the picture) ... Wow, that'd NEVER be allowed now-a-days! As the engines aged, and began to blow more blow-by, the entire undercarriage of the car would be (sometimes literally) dripping wet with oil. As a youth, I have taken a long metal pipe, and piped that blow-by to the back bumper, kind of like a 2nd exhaust, where the blow-by would come out in its own pipe-annoying other drivers, perhaps, but keeping the undercarriage nicer.
The sides my 1992 Pontiac Bonneville bulge out a bit, so the front doors fold into the quarter panels just like the doors on this chevy fold into the fenders -- it really is a fascinating bit of engineering and body design.
Hey Jay, this post war Chevrolet is absolutely gorgeous!!! The fact that it's a woody makes it that much more attractive!!! This baby has been restored to perfection, wow!!! Thanks for sharing another exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂
Thank you so much for the positive vibes glad you dig this episode I saw it the first time I went to classic auto Mall but I didn’t get a chance to film it the second time I saw it I was like this is happening I think it was the third car shot that day.. The first car was the 36 Cadillac followed by the 58 Cadillac Eldorado brougham =) I’m going back Wednesday I can hardly wait
I have a 1947 Chevy Fleetline with the country club option. I don’t know if it’s original or someone added it along the way, but I love it. Everybody, and I mean everybody loves that car. I changed the 216 after the babbit bearings went out for a 235. I love driving that car.
@@What.its.like. my fleetline is black, i think it’s only been repainted once in its life, if that. The wood trim is a light color wood, so it makes a really nice contrast.
My father had a 48 four door base model. he explained to me how awful the vacuum assist shift was and made driving it a real chore. The 216 was not a very good, but the 235 was a much better powerplant. Ten years ago, I did a video on a electrical restoration on a 47 Chevy radio. The 46, 47, and 48 used the same radio, as this car did not have one.
We also had a 48 4-door sedan. I don't remember which trim line. The first car that I remember. My dad bought it used. We were a Chevy family with a 1950 (our first new car) 4-door slantback, a 1954 210 4-door sedan, and a 1961 Bel Air 4-door sedan. All had the same 6-cylinder engine and 3-speed transmission.
You are correct. In the period following The Great Depression money was very tight. Everyone pinched their pennies. The two-door sedans were built on the same wheel-base as the four-door ones which meant the seat-pitch [The distance from the front of the front seat to the front of the rear-seat.] was the same. Two-door "sedans" existed in a time when it was normal for whole families to ride together. By eliminating the rear doors' structural framing plus their attendant hinges and locking mechancisms, a significant cost difference could be realized to the benefit of the buyer without giving up interior volume. Two-door coupes are built on a shorter wheel-base and thus have a noticeably shorter seat-pitch along with a much educed interior volume. These are for people who rarely have back-seat passengers. Business coupes have a an even shorter cabin usually without any rear seating accomidations and a much larger trunk than was normally available. They were intended for hauling around a salesman's samples. By the mid-fifties, once the post-WW2 economy had improved considerably, most of these body varients had disappeared.
@@wallacem41atgmail Dear @wallace ... a sincere THANK YOU for that great and thorough explanation. It all makes sense. My grandfather had a 1950 Plymouth business coupe ... and as a kid I thought it was weird not to have a back seat.
4:31 0-60 21.7 sec As a teen, I remember reading a _Road & Track_ article where the author mentioned the Volkswagen Bus going 0-60 "in a sleep-inducing 38 seconds."
Another fantastic design from this era of automobiles! It is absolutely gorgeous! 🤩 I've always thought that the wood sides on the different makes, gives super appeal! I like the look of Cabriolet also, and I think the Aero has an awesome look that makes it easy to imagine it in motion even when it's not moving! I would have definitely gotten the song this time, one of my favorite bands, and a song from my high school days! 😎
Beautiful lines and still clunky/chunky. 😀 I love it though, especially the wood siding. My family of 7 had a 49 Chevy DeLuxe. This far surpasses it. Thanks
The 216 was a reliable engine even with the splash lubrication (nick-named "babbit pounder") if the owner had the oil changed frequently & did not push the engine too hard...60 mph was OK but the driver was pushing it beyond that speed. Floored it would do just above 80 mph but that was not a good idea on this car. 1948 was the last for the pre-war based bodies----1949 Chevrolets were the first real post-war body for Chevrolet vehicles.
I read somewhere that it took several yers to retool for new models after the end of WWII so they were still selling pre-war models. To make them look like something new the wood paneling was added. Not sure how true this is but it makes sense from a marketing viewpoint.
Your right Chevy/ ford/ dodge essentially the big three where the last to make new models, just blew dust off prewar dies and made minor changes to those designs. That’s why kaiser had a phenomenal first couple years, then when the big three caught up and made new models
I hope you will film that 1929 Model A Phaeton beside this Chevy soon! Let me know as I have a few 1929 Model A model kit videos. I like the wood paneling on this Chevy. Keep up the good work on these review videos!
I wish it’s 16 right now here.. it’s going to get better saying 55 one day next week Jan and feb are the coldest months here. But have also had snow in May as well the year I got married (2015) it was 90 in May and swimming pool was open spring came early that year
Just to clarify on the Chev 235, it went back to 1941 in trucks, as a splash lubricated engine. In 1953 there were 2 versions of the 235, the splash version on manual cars and the fully pressurised 235 on automatic cars, which I believe fully superseded the splash engine in 1954.
@@What.its.like. The engines were also different in that the engine used in manual transmission cars had mechanical valve lifters that had to be manually adjusted and the engine for the automatic transmission had hydraulic valve lifters and was slightly more powerful. According to Scotty Kilmer some Honda models even recent ones had mechanical valve lifters. Really old school engines!
I want to go there so bad but Chicago is so far away I’ve never been to Chicago maybe this summer I can reach out and maybe do some cars from there that would be awesome =) I was looking at another place in the Midwest I think it’s in Missouri the other place I was thinking =)
Jay man, I have almost caught up, waiting for 14 hours to see this, and I am very keen, but while my pork medallions are BBQing, and the potato chip slices, cooked in butter are cooling, I will make a salad and place the sliced pork onto the top of it. In Australia, no time for depression, it is Summer, and it is a thick heat wandering around the 100F you guys use, but at least it hasn't gotten really hot, Humidity isn't too high, but it feels it? Maybe my swamp cooler is just pumping hot water into the air? This vehicle, by all accounts, is gonna be a real beaut. Something about that era of getting back to normal, the whole jubilant postwar response, in an even richer nation celebrating surviving the whole shitfight of war. And it's lead up to then buying a new car; a car and a house and have kids, just do it all because we can. They had suffered such privations throughout the depression and then the war. This was the big payoff, and Detroit wasn't about to disappoint now, were they? Okay Jay, I will leave it to you and try not to disturb you, while you are working.
You're correct about the 216 engine using a splash oil system for the crank (a completely goofy system) but the 235 that replaced the 216 ALSO used splash until I think 1958. So, just bec your 216 got swapped out for a 235; which may have happened only a few years after your new 216 died; if a used/rebuilt 235 was swapped in, you could easily still have splash oiling. Should you care? Yeah, because with splash you're driving around with 20 psi or less.
235 was fully pressurized by 1953 for the corvette (could be 54 somewhere in there) I believe I totally forgot about Chevy having a 235 prior to that..
@@What.its.like. I'm likewise not aware of a pre-54ish 235, but I don't claim to be an expert. For Corvette, you could be right but I've read (and there is a post below) that states 235 was splash for some models until '58. Like another poster below, I had a '53 3600 pickup which had a 216. It was my first rebuild job and it unfortunately blew up about 500 miles later. Fortunately I had sold it by then.
The weight of this is very low, about the same as my old Nissan Maxima, although that was a limo with the good engine, which was happy with twin turbochargers. The whole weight thing with cars is so odd and wanders around a bit? I guess my preference is for the lighter side, from a handling perspective, with an excellent distribution of the weight as close to 50/50 as possible, with RWD of course.
I have no shame plus it shows that I’m just a regular person. Those are the rest of the cars that are in the pipeline so to speak as well as a 77 Grand Prix
For some time Chevys didn’t have an inside hood release. The 1970 Bel Air I had as my first car didn’t have an inside hood release and I regretted that when some thugs stole my battery one night. 😢. I understand that they would have stolen the carburetor if they had had the right tools.
Yeah I was gonna point that out and say that people do that when the horn button goes bad and the horn ring I don’t understand why they can’t just fix it in the horn but yeah thank you for mentioning that =)
4:12 Imagine a modern engine, spinning at 3300 RPM ... most will spin to 6,000 RPM _easily._ I wonder how out-of-balance these engines were compared to modern-day engines.
Fitting behind the steering wheel has never been an issue with me and in fact the steering wheel mounting has always been uncomfortably high to me. Unless you are sitting on a solid seat, the heavier you are, the more you are going to sink into the seat, so the steering wheel shouldn't be an issue. The darnedest think I ever remember seeing, which made me do a double-take, was this obese guy driving a Fiat X1/9. The steering wheel was pressed into his stomach. I wondered how he could turn it!
The only car the steering wheel has been an issue with is 58-60 thunderbird that’s why the crotch test exists that car the steering wheel is huge and isn’t up high going to do another one real soon
@@What.its.like. I understand, seems reasonable to me. There have been a few cars I've had trouble just getting in and out of, like a 1956 T-bird. If the top were off I wouldn't have much of a problem.
I couldn’t find the theoretical top speed so I figured I’d put quarter-mile specs just to give perspective of what normal that would be considered normal
The interior wood grain is fake. I've had a '46, '47', '48 and a '50. I also have a '55 Chevy truck. What is interesting to me is that the '42 - '48 had locking hoods and vent windows, then after '48 they didn't for many years.
@@What.its.like. When one ordered the factory-fitted "radio" option, an antenna was included. However, one could order the "radio-preparation" option which included only the antenna and associated wiring. The buyer could then, in this Chevrolet's case, install his/her own non-Delco (GM brand) radio. Note, the dash radio opening was the same size in every make and brand of car in that period. I purchased a new 1986 AMC Jeep Cherokee where this was still an available option.
Journey Who's Crying Now
You got it man you got it right out of the gate congratulations that rift was inside my head when I woke up that morning I put most of this episode together yesterday but I’m going to run out of contact if I keep doing one episode every day going back to the classic auto mall next Wednesday
Be sure to tune in for the 1968 mercury comet that’s the next episode on what it’s like =)
@@What.its.like. I always liked Journey so many great songs. I've also been a Comet fan too. Owned a 74 2 door sedan for a couple years. It was a pretty good car but it was very front end heavy. Used to wear out tires on the front end like crazy. Other than that it always ran good and it drove really nice too. Added benefit of being the first now car I owned that has factory AC. Which was very important living in Arizona.
One Christmas I think I was 15 I got a record player for Christmas and my dad gave me his collection and he had some journey records.. I love that song it’s a great song that doesn’t get played as much as their other songs like separate ways, don’t stop believing, lights, faithfully... so many good songs.
I am! I didn't get to the new video in time and you beat me to it, Carl!!
@@billolsen4360 I usually don't make first but I got lucky this time.
Whoa! SPORTS COUPE!? Sports coupe.... I like it... great docudrama. Loved it. You do fine work. Thanks (Ha. They called it a the Sports Coupe. Craxmeupp. )
=) glad you enjoyed this episode
Truly beautiful car. These mid 40s cars are just so beautiful and refined. Nothing extreme, but just so well put together and well done!
They were built like tanks =)
And that paint color goes so well with the woodwork.
@@What.its.like. The 1948 Chevy that my dad had began to knock in the engine and he finally had to get rid of it and buy a 1953 Chevy to replace it. The 48 Chevy was burning oil also . So obviously it wasn’t very well made. I think it was new when he bought it.
@@billolsen4360 The stuff on the inside of the door that looks like wood was really not wood. Jay was correct that it is not real wood.
'48 Chevy 2 door wagon with this option. Truly tunning to me.
5:20 I remember painting my 1955 Chevy Pickup red, while I was working at the Ash Tray factory (imagine _that_ as a job today!). One of the girls who worked there, I think a young Vietnamese woman, said, "oh, why didn't you paint your plane blue?" To her, the high center hood, with the low fenders made her think it looked like a plane in front.
Side note, this same young woman _loved_ to sing Linda Ronstadt songs in Vietnamese ... I can still imagine some of them in my head, all these years later.
Those lights with the yellow lens are called Fog Lights, not running lights. The theory was that in places that had frequent fog. The headlights would reflect more glare than the yellow light.
That car would look even better after they get it out of the box! That's what my dad used to always say every time he saw a woodie LOL
Had to do an edit on this because I wanted to come back in and say that you said the wood trim was a dealer installed option. I have to wonder if GM dealers were worried about the 48 Chrysler Town and country so they added that on there to try to compete with that?
Yeah they offered it because of the competition Chrysler, ford, mercury i’m sure there were others that had the wood trim in car form =) it was a fad and because it was a dealer option it was rare I saw something to the effect of 200 1948 Chevy sports coupes had this option. But couldn’t find that statistic again.
More to compete with Ford Sportsman and Nash Suburban.
Nice review Jay of this Chevy woody. Great lines that make the car look streamlined and fast.
The aero sedan I wanna find one that has wood sides, Country club version that would be epic
Glad you like dig this episode =)
13:51 I'm surprised to see that it's still six volt!
I'm also surprised to see the battery underhood, rather than under the floorboards.
Moldings inside the windows were originally metal with hand-painted wood-grain in a burl pattern. Visors can be pulled out a few inches from the mounts to extend over the center of the windshield. You didn't point out the starter pedal/button to the right of the accelerator pedal, or the handle under the dash to open the cowl vent. Heaters both under the dash and under the passenger side of the front seat. Along the line on this car someone has removed the rubberized cloth welting between the bolt-on rear fenders and filled in the seam.
I'm so glad you featured a Chevy with the rare Country Club option, Jay! P.S. I'd love to see you do a review of that red Allante in the background.
I’m going back next week maybe?
Such a beautiful design
I love this strange wood phase in the late 40s. Nash Ambassador Suburban, Chrysler Town & Country, Ford/Mercury Sportsman -- and of course almost everybody had a woody wagon. I never knew Chevy made a wood-sided coupe, though! Very cool!
Totally agree
The dash mounted horn button is an add on. This is often the case with old cars when the steering wheel horn fails. I've never figured out why people just didn't fix the steering wheel horn.
I know right I took multiple takes of me explaining things and I guess the take that I like the most didn’t explain why the horn button was on the dashboard definitely aftermarket I don’t know why they can’t just fix it in the horn itself.. I had a truck like that where the horn button was in a weird place and I was like it’s not practical to figure out where to hit the horn button
@@What.its.like. Like I written, I can't figure it out either.
AWESOME RUclips CHANNEL.
Glad you dig this channel =)
9:47 While pointing out high beam, clutch, brake, accelerator; you didn't mention STARTER PEDAL. Now _that's_ an array of things to keep you feet busy!
Like how u go slow, and show all the details
Thank you =)
What a treat !
Fascinating and rare. I never knew there was a coupe with real wood option except MOPAR'S Chrysler Town and Country. Always something new to learn from you, Jay. 👏👏
Ford in mercury also offered cars and Woodie form i’ve been looking for all of the wagons this year I really would like to feature some cool woody cars Nash also has them =)
Only a wood applique trim kit, not structural like Chrysler Town and Country or woody wagons.
Thanks for making these videos
Thanks for watching these videos =) plan is to cover all the cars that never got covered
Very good on your comment on the oiling system of the 216. I've owned a '53 Chevy Pickup 3/4 T. It was the 3600 model, the very LAST 216 Cu. In. in a pick up, the 235, which came out back in '41.
I forgot to mention that the pressurized oil system then come until the later 235 sometime and 53 or 54..
@@What.its.like. You've done very well, Jay!
=)
That's the kind of car that brought me home from the hospital in 1955
With the wood sides that’s awesome
4:00 It's fun to think back when the "crank case ventilation" was simply an oil separator and a down draft tube (just in front of the distributor, behind the fuel pump, in the picture) ... Wow, that'd NEVER be allowed now-a-days! As the engines aged, and began to blow more blow-by, the entire undercarriage of the car would be (sometimes literally) dripping wet with oil.
As a youth, I have taken a long metal pipe, and piped that blow-by to the back bumper, kind of like a 2nd exhaust, where the blow-by would come out in its own pipe-annoying other drivers, perhaps, but keeping the undercarriage nicer.
The sides my 1992 Pontiac Bonneville bulge out a bit, so the front doors fold into the quarter panels just like the doors on this chevy fold into the fenders -- it really is a fascinating bit of engineering and body design.
It is, they just slap cars together now with a few exceptions
I’ve never seen a 48 Chevy car like this. I was not aware that they made a car with wood on the side.
Hey Jay, this post war Chevrolet is absolutely gorgeous!!! The fact that it's a woody makes it that much more attractive!!! This baby has been restored to perfection, wow!!! Thanks for sharing another exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂
Thank you so much for the positive vibes glad you dig this episode I saw it the first time I went to classic auto Mall but I didn’t get a chance to film it the second time I saw it I was like this is happening I think it was the third car shot that day.. The first car was the 36 Cadillac followed by the 58 Cadillac Eldorado brougham =)
I’m going back Wednesday I can hardly wait
@@What.its.like. I think that I could just live there.
Me too going back Wednesday =)
I have a 1947 Chevy Fleetline with the country club option. I don’t know if it’s original or someone added it along the way, but I love it. Everybody, and I mean everybody loves that car. I changed the 216 after the babbit bearings went out for a 235. I love driving that car.
Your car sounds awesome what color is it? Chevy looks so much better than Chrysler
@@What.its.like. my fleetline is black, i think it’s only been repainted once in its life, if that. The wood trim is a light color wood, so it makes a really nice contrast.
Luv the glove box camera test 🇦🇺👍
Me too =)
These days you have to keep the trunk closed and locked. It probably wasn’t that necessary in the 1940s.
My favorite,grand paw had one.guess i'll keep dreaming.
Great video. That is a beautiful car - love the wood. I really like the 49-52 Chevrolets (I had a '52 Styleline Deluxe), but the 48 has great lines.
Thank you =)
My father had a 48 four door base model. he explained to me how awful the vacuum assist shift was and made driving it a real chore. The 216 was not a very good, but the 235 was a much better powerplant. Ten years ago, I did a video on a electrical restoration on a 47 Chevy radio. The 46, 47, and 48 used the same radio, as this car did not have one.
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing that memory with us =)
We also had a 48 4-door sedan. I don't remember which trim line. The first car that I remember. My dad bought it used.
We were a Chevy family with a 1950 (our first new car) 4-door slantback, a 1954 210 4-door sedan, and a 1961 Bel Air 4-door sedan. All had the same 6-cylinder engine and 3-speed transmission.
1:20 "Town Sedan" ... is a two-door. I've always understood "sedan" to imply _FOUR_ doors. Perhaps I was misinformed?
You are correct. In the period following The Great Depression money was very tight. Everyone pinched their pennies. The two-door sedans were built on the same wheel-base as the four-door ones which meant the seat-pitch [The distance from the front of the front seat to the front of the rear-seat.] was the same. Two-door "sedans" existed in a time when it was normal for whole families to ride together. By eliminating the rear doors' structural framing plus their attendant hinges and locking mechancisms, a significant cost difference could be realized to the benefit of the buyer without giving up interior volume. Two-door coupes are built on a shorter wheel-base and thus have a noticeably shorter seat-pitch along with a much educed interior volume. These are for people who rarely have back-seat passengers. Business coupes have a an even shorter cabin usually without any rear seating accomidations and a much larger trunk than was normally available. They were intended for hauling around a salesman's samples. By the mid-fifties, once the post-WW2 economy had improved considerably, most of these body varients had disappeared.
@@wallacem41atgmail Dear @wallace ... a sincere THANK YOU for that great and thorough explanation. It all makes sense. My grandfather had a 1950 Plymouth business coupe ... and as a kid I thought it was weird not to have a back seat.
4:31 0-60 21.7 sec
As a teen, I remember reading a _Road & Track_ article where the author mentioned the Volkswagen Bus going 0-60 "in a sleep-inducing 38 seconds."
I know it’s one of the slowest accelerating cars of all time =)
Another fantastic design from this era of automobiles! It is absolutely gorgeous! 🤩 I've always thought that the wood sides on the different makes, gives super appeal! I like the look of Cabriolet also, and I think the Aero has an awesome look that makes it easy to imagine it in motion even when it's not moving! I would have definitely gotten the song this time, one of my favorite bands, and a song from my high school days! 😎
That rift was in my head the day I was working on this episode =) the aero is my favorite I’ll need to find one
Beautiful lines and still clunky/chunky. 😀 I love it though, especially the wood siding.
My family of 7 had a 49 Chevy DeLuxe. This far surpasses it.
Thanks
=)
The 216 was a reliable engine even with the splash lubrication (nick-named "babbit pounder") if the owner had the oil changed frequently & did not push the engine too hard...60 mph was OK but the driver was pushing it beyond that speed. Floored it would do just above 80 mph but that was not a good idea on this car. 1948 was the last for the pre-war based bodies----1949 Chevrolets were the first real post-war body for Chevrolet vehicles.
Thank you so much for sharing that insight
10:45 *_NO_* young person has ever had a car with a hand throttle, nor a manual choke.
I have used one i actually prefer both I hate electric chokes.. I like to have control
Would have been nice to have the mystery song period correct for the vehicle...
I read somewhere that it took several yers to retool for new models after the end of WWII so they were still selling pre-war models. To make them look like something new the wood paneling was added. Not sure how true this is but it makes sense from a marketing viewpoint.
Your right Chevy/ ford/ dodge essentially the big three where the last to make new models, just blew dust off prewar dies and made minor changes to those designs. That’s why kaiser had a phenomenal first couple years, then when the big three caught up and made new models
I saw the antenna in front of the A post but didn't see the radio inside.
That’s weird this car didn’t have a radio I remember seeing the plate over where it would be
What is the green one next to the Chevy. That is a nice looking car.
Sweeeeet! Upper class car has "ash receivers" instead of plain old "ash trays" 🙃
I know right.. fancy =D
I hope you will film that 1929 Model A Phaeton beside this Chevy soon!
Let me know as I have a few 1929 Model A model kit videos.
I like the wood paneling on this Chevy. Keep up the good work on these review videos!
I didn’t do that one but I am going back Wednesday I can do that one for Wednesday.. =)
@@What.its.like. That will be cool! Also look for the seat adjusters, if there are any.
I don’t get it, this car is sensational to view, but my ‘artistic sense’ says otherwise? Thank you for this, Jay.
Thank you for watching this, glad you dig =)
We have been in the 80's all week
I wish it’s 16 right now here.. it’s going to get better saying 55 one day next week Jan and feb are the coldest months here. But have also had snow in May as well the year I got married (2015) it was 90 in May and swimming pool was open spring came early that year
Just to clarify on the Chev 235, it went back to 1941 in trucks, as a splash lubricated engine. In 1953 there were 2 versions of the 235, the splash version on manual cars and the fully pressurised 235 on automatic cars, which I believe fully superseded the splash engine in 1954.
Thank you so much for that clarifying that I totally forgot about that very important point =)
@@What.its.like. The engines were also different in that the engine used in manual transmission cars had mechanical valve lifters that had to be manually adjusted and the engine for the automatic transmission had hydraulic valve lifters and was slightly more powerful. According to Scotty Kilmer some Honda models even recent ones had mechanical valve lifters. Really old school engines!
Very nice 48 Chevy! The horn button is after market, not the original horn position. Love the wood! Another great vid.
I love woodies I love love to find the aero sedan woodie one day sorry aero sedan country club =)
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@@danielulz1640 yep typo, all fixed.
@@richardwarren7492 I thought that was the case. Good day to you.
Reminds me of the Chrysler town and country and Ford and Mercury sportsmen convertible models of that era.
Totally =) I hope to cover some more woodie cars
@@What.its.like. Yep.
I need that front sheet metal for mine…
In the Chicago Area, we have the Volo Auto Museum, which also has cars like this for sale!
I want to go there so bad but Chicago is so far away I’ve never been to Chicago maybe this summer I can reach out and maybe do some cars from there that would be awesome =) I was looking at another place in the Midwest I think it’s in Missouri the other place I was thinking =)
Nice 🥰
=)
I just bought a clean one yesterday
Awesome with the wood grain sides?
@@What.its.like. no plain but clean
Sweet =) enjoy it
Jay man, I have almost caught up, waiting for 14 hours to see this, and I am very keen, but while my pork medallions are BBQing, and the potato chip slices, cooked in butter are cooling, I will make a salad and place the sliced pork onto the top of it. In Australia, no time for depression, it is Summer, and it is a thick heat wandering around the 100F you guys use, but at least it hasn't gotten really hot, Humidity isn't too high, but it feels it? Maybe my swamp cooler is just pumping hot water into the air?
This vehicle, by all accounts, is gonna be a real beaut. Something about that era of getting back to normal, the whole jubilant postwar response, in an even richer nation celebrating surviving the whole shitfight of war. And it's lead up to then buying a new car; a car and a house and have kids, just do it all because we can. They had suffered such privations throughout the depression and then the war. This was the big payoff, and Detroit wasn't about to disappoint now, were they? Okay Jay, I will leave it to you and try not to disturb you, while you are working.
You're correct about the 216 engine using a splash oil system for the crank (a completely goofy system) but the 235 that replaced the 216 ALSO used splash until I think 1958. So, just bec your 216 got swapped out for a 235; which may have happened only a few years after your new 216 died; if a used/rebuilt 235 was swapped in, you could easily still have splash oiling. Should you care? Yeah, because with splash you're driving around with 20 psi or less.
235 was fully pressurized by 1953 for the corvette (could be 54 somewhere in there) I believe I totally forgot about Chevy having a 235 prior to that..
@@What.its.like. I'm likewise not aware of a pre-54ish 235, but I don't claim to be an expert. For Corvette, you could be right but I've read (and there is a post below) that states 235 was splash for some models until '58. Like another poster below, I had a '53 3600 pickup which had a 216. It was my first rebuild job and it unfortunately blew up about 500 miles later. Fortunately I had sold it by then.
I never heard of a horn button not being on the steering wheel! Did I hear that right? Beautiful car!
It was relocated to the dashboard.. The horn ring must’ve went bad
Starter on the floor.You put right heel on gas pedal and right toe pushes the starter!
The weight of this is very low, about the same as my old Nissan Maxima, although that was a limo with the good engine, which was happy with twin turbochargers. The whole weight thing with cars is so odd and wanders around a bit? I guess my preference is for the lighter side, from a handling perspective, with an excellent distribution of the weight as close to 50/50 as possible, with RWD of course.
Can you tell me what year and model car on my channel red one thanks
Good video. Don't sing. Just don't.
I have no shame plus it shows that I’m just a regular person. Those are the rest of the cars that are in the pipeline so to speak as well as a 77 Grand Prix
Is that horn button original or an aftermarket item?
It doesn't look like it would be factory stock...but I could be wrong.
Is aftermarket is a common thing when the horn button stops working they move the button
@@What.its.like. If you do another one of this year of Chevy, you'll have to look for that dash mounted horn button on the other car.
For some time Chevys didn’t have an inside hood release. The 1970 Bel Air I had as my first car didn’t have an inside hood release and I regretted that when some thugs stole my battery one night. 😢. I understand that they would have stolen the carburetor if they had had the right tools.
Yeah they where outside then inside then outside again now they are inside and some now have no access (new corvette convertible, Bugatti Chiron)
Nice car. Horn button on the dash was added on by someone at some point...it's not original...FYI.
Yeah I was gonna point that out and say that people do that when the horn button goes bad and the horn ring I don’t understand why they can’t just fix it in the horn but yeah thank you for mentioning that =)
@@What.its.like. Love the video !!! Thank you !!
My dad called the vent windows "no drafts"
Cool =)
Detroit dreams
Looks so much better with the country club option
4:12 Imagine a modern engine, spinning at 3300 RPM ... most will spin to 6,000 RPM _easily._ I wonder how out-of-balance these engines were compared to modern-day engines.
Interesting point
Fitting behind the steering wheel has never been an issue with me and in fact the steering wheel mounting has always been uncomfortably high to me. Unless you are sitting on a solid seat, the heavier you are, the more you are going to sink into the seat, so the steering wheel shouldn't be an issue.
The darnedest think I ever remember seeing, which made me do a double-take, was this obese guy driving a Fiat X1/9. The steering wheel was pressed into his stomach. I wondered how he could turn it!
The only car the steering wheel has been an issue with is 58-60 thunderbird that’s why the crotch test exists that car the steering wheel is huge and isn’t up high going to do another one real soon
@@What.its.like. I understand, seems reasonable to me. There have been a few cars I've had trouble just getting in and out of, like a 1956 T-bird. If the top were off I wouldn't have much of a problem.
I don’t think they were meant for drag race.
I couldn’t find the theoretical top speed so I figured I’d put quarter-mile specs just to give perspective of what normal that would be considered normal
The interior wood grain is fake. I've had a '46, '47', '48 and a '50. I also have a '55 Chevy truck. What is interesting to me is that the '42 - '48 had locking hoods and vent windows, then after '48 they didn't for many years.
I’d like to buy an antenna for my Chevy. Sorry, it’s only sold with the radio.
This one seems to have the antenna without the radio
@@What.its.like. When one ordered the factory-fitted "radio" option, an antenna was included. However, one could order the "radio-preparation" option which included only the antenna and associated wiring. The buyer could then, in this Chevrolet's case, install his/her own non-Delco (GM brand) radio. Note, the dash radio opening was the same size in every make and brand of car in that period. I purchased a new 1986 AMC Jeep Cherokee where this was still an available option.
That’s interesting
The radio was tube
Awesome thank you =)
"Fleemaster"?
Hahaha great catch damn auto correct I’ll fix that
paint in the dash very bad !
Awesome Studebaker truck logo what year?