So ... according to this . ..if 80% of accidents happen within 10 miles of one's home ..It does no good to move ..🙄. You will just have a home somewhere else 😒.. and the same thing will follow there , apply there as well ..🤨🤔😆😂. so ... question : what is the point in moving then🤔 ..??!? .. no matter where you go to live .🤨..there you will be .☺️🤗.if that statistic is true... then it is still true today .🤔.. .. just my humble opinion ... This is a scare piece created to scare the crap out of everybody & sell tires. .. no doubt outdated info 😄😄😅... suggest to take this bunk with a sense of humor ...don't forget .. It's an ad for General Tire 🚧🚧.😏trying to sell , sell , sell .🤑🤑🤑💲.🤨. ..That explaines the scare tactics..💰💲💰🤑🙄🤔 😆😆😝😜😄😄
My truck has some cheap Chinese "Goodride" tires on it. The guy in this video would probably have had his mind blown if he was told Chinese tires would be all over American roads in 2021.
@@felixgohier1638 because Amazon was usually known for its wild rainforests, not a store stealing online lazy pathetic site created by a guy who will cause a second depression.
@@rapman5363 What's crazy is members of the far-left progressive movement (eh-hem) actually believe that global warming is more important than global debt -now surpassing 200 trillion dollars. Boggles the mind to say the least.
when i was in the navy, i drove a 54 chevy. i would buy used, re-cap tires at a junk yard for only 3 bucks apiece. i couldn't spend all my drinkin money! lol
@@281cobracar7 GREAT name! Similarly, when we were kids, very few people had A/C in their cars-especially "factory air"-and there were a variety of aftermarket A/C systems people had. My dad would say we had "Mark 4/75 Air Conditioning"-4 windows down, 75 miles per hour.
That car actually almost looked like it's properly engineered to be safe; it had crumple zone, that ended before passenger compartment, and when it dropped on its roof the roof could handle it
@@rexjolles if I can get what I want from an old classic muscle car in a T bucket hot rod (build from a kit or buy a completed car) what’s the difference?!?!?!???? Because really I am just looking for a powerful V8 with open headers in any type of old car and a T bucket fills the bill
You’re referring to the kids at about 6:53? They are leaning forward but they could still be wearing seatbelts. They probably weren’t though. This was made around the time manufacturers were first being required to provide them as standard equipment but nobody used them. People thought it was silly. I remember my cousins standing up in the front seat next to my grandfather in his 59 Chevy. My sister used to lay down on the package tray under the back window in our 67 Camaro. It was a different era.
Now THIS is an ad. If the year was 1965 I'd be off to the shop to buy some Dual 90s right now. They gave us evidence that their product works, visual proof, and a solid reason to buy it in a casual and mature way. Ads nowadays are just unbearably stupid and obnoxious, likely because the people they target are less than brainless these days.
In 1980 I put some "Recap" Tires on my 1964 Mercury Comet Station wagon. Then drove from Southern California To Central Oregon. On the way back, I was cruising at 80+mph for hours. After I got back, I noticed a bulge the size of a grape fruit on the inside Right rear tire. Never again bought "Cheap" Tires
A local car dealer did that very same car-drop from a crane back in the 1970s. It was promoted for months before he actually did it - and it drew a huge crowd. I and a few friends of mine used to drive cars back that he bought in Chicago auctions (about 150 miles away). Back then, $25 was a respectable amount for a couple hours' work. It was a great time
Oh yes....I remember that. I took Driver Ed back in 1980 when I was 16. After viewing the film, us teens called it the "Death Movie", I had second thoughts about getting my coveted drivers license or even driving at all...lol
Risking TMI, I use an old-fashioned "safety" razor. My brother and I went back to these a decade or so ago. I feel like throwing an ¼ oz steel blade away is _MUCH_ less wasteful than throwing a whole plastic handle, chintzy blades and all away every week or two. I still think many of the ways we lived in the '50s and '60s were _much_ less wasteful than modern think.
@@josephgaviota I have a few. One is my great grandfather's, one is a unused gillette travel razor with the original blades, and another is a unused Gillette Aristocrat.
Tires have come a long way since then. Tires were tall and skinny tread. The wide oval came out in the 60's. Most cars today run on wide tread low profile tires. The best way to get around was with snow tires in the winter. They developed all season tires with the M&S rating. Still snow tires were the best. In the 80's I worked for a little independent tire dealer . We were primarily a B.F.Goodrich dealer. We sold all the major brands like Good Year, Michelin, Uniroyal, General, Continental, Pirelli, and some private label brands. I used the B.F.G Radial T/A's on both my 77 Trans Am's . I preferred the original rayon, nylon , constructed T/A's to the newer steel belted constructed version of the late 80's early 90's.
@Roy Futrell I feel you under the right conditions you can run them and have no problem but in the big picture people are lazy and don't look out for proper inflation and proper alignment that's were radials come into play the general public has to be looked after and for the most part you have to make your product idiot resistance a radial dosen't blow out under neglect from slack ass behavior it just goes flat and very rarely separates as the opposite bias ply tires back in the day was extremely dangerous if not properly maintained and that was a era of muscle cars and big horsepower that was way ahead of the handling aspect of the game if I had a classic cruiser and wanted to make it era correct sure I would go with the equipment of the day but as far as performance it's radials all day long and that's just an opinion and did you notice I like to babble on sorry
@@BigEightiesNewWave Also radial tires, especially high speed tires with nylon layers around the steel belt, had this problem. More tham 30 years ago I faced this with a set of Avon Turbospeed CR 28 in 205/60 R 13 86H. These tires had a tendency to wear uneven and needed balanced frequently. This manufacturer is well known for its bias ply tires for older cars and motorcycles. I think they have had problems with the build of good radials. After 10 k miles on them I then went to a set of Falken FK 06U in the same dimension and all former problems are blown away.
I had a set of Michelin tires on my El Camino. At about 40,000 miles of wear, and with good tread remaining, l had one of my tires suffer ply separation. What a pain.
Reminds me of the Uniroyal Tiger Paw tires for light trucks, biggest joke the tire industry ever saw. Had a 1985 GMC Suburban with those things on it, it was a never-ending nightmare with shifted and broken belts. The dealer where the truck came from stopped after the 3rd problem and referred us to an actual Uniroyal tire dealer, who gave us an increasingly difficult time with every visit. Finally it got to be too much going in to the tire place every month, so we just said screw it and got all new tires of a different brand, completely unrelated to Michelin, Uniroyal or BFG. Yeah, it cost a few bucks but the freedom was worth it.
Most people don't understand the principles of bias ply tires and radial tires. Radials are not always better. Bias plys have a greater comfort up to 40 mph. The sidewall of a bias ply tire is stiffer and less vulnerable to puncture than a radial one. Therefore bias plys are the first choice of many, which do l lot offroad driving; for example Interco Super Swampers, Pitt Bull Tires and others. Old cars have often, not always, a better behavior on the road with bia plys because their suspension is not suited for radials. Chrysler offered RTS "Radial Tuned Suspension" from 1965 to 1967 and Ford has made more than 100 modifications to their suspension system end of the 1960ies to usage of radials. Radials on the other hand give you more mileage and often better roadholding. Their tread is less vulnerable to puncture because of the belts beneath the tread. Their riding comfort is achieved via greater flexion of the sidewalls of the tire. Therefore it needs a carefull decision which tire type to choose.
These tires are part of why highway fatalities were the same in 1965 as they were in 2015 in spite of Americans driving _four times_ as many miles! It wasn’t if you had a blowout, it was when... and no dual tire was 100% blowout proof. Modern radials are the epitome of reliability in comparison, and with tire pressure monitors it’s very hard to run on an under inflated tire.
@@xaenon then don’t buy Firestone. As in 1965 there were good and bad manufacturers of tires just as today. Let me ask you this? You think General Tire is still a good tire making Company in 2021???
I have driven 90,000 miles on a set of Michelin tires on a 2003 Chevrolet Suburban. Michelin tires are like no other the way they make you vehicle ride and handle.
+Bruce Bryant I was in the tire business for years. A really funny thing about Michelins is that after WW2, the rest of the world was geared up for bias belted tires. France was decimated and didn't have the equipment to manufacture them. The radial tires that they made were really kind of a second rate tire. Instead of gearing up for bias ply tires, they, along with Dunlop kept improving it until it was the superior design that it is today. As for Michelins lasting so long, they do run a long time, but one of the main reasons for that is actually the cost. People that spend twice as much for a tire usually will take a lot better care of it. I have almost 90,000 miles on a set of Dunlops on a pickup. All i have done is keep the right amount of air in them and rotated them. That is all.
for me i found nothing better for my truck a 1995 toyota tacoma than a set of Yokohama geolanders i like Michelin tires but they had less grip because the truck if i would floor it the tires would chirp and in the rain i could get the tires to lock up not the Yokohamas thats my reason for my choice they also last a good amount of time
Back in the 60s, I had a summer job unloading tires from box cars at the Ford plant in Mahwah, N.J. By the time I got near the bottom of the stack, those 2 ply bias tires were as flat as a pan cake. They really put some crappy dangerous tires on new cars back in the day.
Reminds me of a story of my cheap uncle. The service man had the car on the rack, asked Uncle Fred if wanted whitewalls or not. Uncle Fred assumed that was going to cost more, so said "no." Only to realize later, he _had_ whitewalls, they were just facing INWARD !
It was heartbreaking to see all those classic Chevys crumpled up in the junkyard. 😢 Lots of people drove classic cars back then. 😏 There were several 64 Impalas and at least one 65 or 66 Impala. (It didn’t show the taillights so I couldn’t tell for sure.)
Fact.....automobile and motorcycle tires have gotten a lot better today than in 1965. Notice the boy on the bicycle? Those tires are still relatively the same. Here’s where we should be focusing on! Our kids are riding these. In the 60’s some of the tires had tubes. Tubeless tires are the best. Even motorcycles have tubeless tires? Except for rims with spokes (correct me if I’m wrong, been out of the motorcycle phase for years). I have worked on kids bikes recently, sadly, they are not different than the video.....think about it! Jim PS......when you loose a tire on a car, it’s usually an inconvenience. When you loose a tire on a motorcycle, it is very serious. I purchased a 1980 Honda 750Custom, in 1990. It had mag wheels (no spokes) and tubeless tires. This was way ahead of its time. I never had an issue with the tires on that bike.
Back in the day, I walked away from a head on collision with a drunk driver because I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove my hand me down 1970 Buick Electra. Those belts were truly life savers yet very few people bothered to wear them and if they did it was usually just the lap belt that offered very little protection in a collision. The shoulder belt in conjunction with the lap belt was extremely safe in those older cars. All of my friends picked on me for buckling up, especially wearing the shoulder belt.
5:02 do any of you guys remember those crappy bumper jacks??? I don't know how many times those things nearly got me killed by the car almost falling on me!!! Throw those away and get a good floor jack any day!!!....oh and let's not forget those (bumper jacks) came in 2 styles, one that hooks on the bottom of the bumper and the other one had a tab that stuck out which fit into a slot cut into the bumper itself.
On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
3:55 This really is a hard-sell. No car that would accept the tires on the right would ever have been fitted with the tires on the left; they look as if they were made to fit a Model T. Whatever was or wasn't good about Dual-90s, it was obscured by all this hype.
They said it too: a crash at 60, living through it isn't likely. This is why we have seatbelts now: So your remains aren't scraped off the road with a shovel. And airbags, and much, MUCH more rigid safety cages in cars, plus crumple zones designed to sacrifice the cars' structure to save you from the g force of a crash. Modern cars, definitely safer. (Although, man do old classics look nice.)
I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive as a teenager in the mid 70s. I wore both the lap and shoulder belts back then. In 1979 I was in a head on collision with a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban that crossed the center line. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts I walked away with only minor cuts and bruises from the belts. The shoulder belt was the thing that really made the difference.
@@jimbosc A brand new Chevy Malibu in 1976 had two blow outs a mile apart on the way home from the chevy dealership, since that day it has been anything but the worst tires ever made called firestone!!!PS. The Chevy dealer put four Goodyears on and they went 80k miles !!!
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80% of accidents happen within 10 miles of home?
That does it...I'm moving!
Well just don't move by MY home! I'm liable to have a head on with you. Hey I know, lets swap houses that way we both don't live at home.
@@davidlong1786 Don't get a motorhome whatever you do. Then, there's NO escape!
So ... according to this . ..if 80% of accidents happen within 10 miles of one's home ..It does no good to move ..🙄. You will just have a home somewhere else 😒.. and the same thing will follow there , apply there as well ..🤨🤔😆😂. so ... question : what is the point in moving then🤔 ..??!? .. no matter where you go to live .🤨..there you will be .☺️🤗.if that statistic is true... then it is still true today .🤔.. .. just my humble opinion ... This is a scare piece created to scare the crap out of everybody & sell tires. .. no doubt outdated info 😄😄😅... suggest to take this bunk with a sense of humor ...don't forget .. It's an ad for General Tire 🚧🚧.😏trying to sell , sell , sell .🤑🤑🤑💲.🤨. ..That explaines the scare tactics..💰💲💰🤑🙄🤔 😆😆😝😜😄😄
Note to self: Don't go to a comedy club with J. Mason
David Long Didn’t I go to different schools together with you guys? Next time, I’m taking the bus!
“If you don’t buy these you probably will die.” Good marketing.
LOL IKR
yea i saw it was by a tire company and was like "well g that sure is convenient."
spoiler alert everyone in this video is dead anyway
My truck has some cheap Chinese "Goodride" tires on it. The guy in this video would probably have had his mind blown if he was told Chinese tires would be all over American roads in 2021.
John W You sound proud to have communist rubber on your truck.
That kid should have had dual 90's on his bike
My bike from 1974 still has the factory Kenda tires lmao and they're fine
@@rexjolles it was a J O K E
@@RichTexas82513 yeah i know
@@rexjolles how often you ride it? Once a century?
@@zippityzbrake I did ride it every day until the chain broke when I tried to jump a pile of dirt
I can smell cigarettes through the video
Flavor country!
I can see subtle hate through your comment
@@artdecotimes2942 what makes you think that that was the time that cigarettes was real tobacco not recycled pieces of Amazon delivery boxes.
@@felixgohier1638 because Amazon was usually known for its wild rainforests, not a store stealing online lazy pathetic site created by a guy who will cause a second depression.
Am I the only one that wants to go back in time to drive these classic cars?
When you watch these old videos, it always feels like you are watching a different world, its crazy that this is our past.
It was a better time back then.
What’s crazy is that this is our right now.
@@rapman5363
What's crazy is members of the far-left progressive movement (eh-hem) actually believe that global warming is more important than global debt -now surpassing 200 trillion dollars. Boggles the mind to say the least.
That was when the company's cared about us wanted to save our lives for only a few dollars...
NOW,
TheyR trying to Kill US!
How is it crazy ?
I really watched this at 1 am for no reason.. see you guys in another 7 years
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I was thinking the same thing
He sounds just like Rod Sterling.
when i was in the navy, i drove a 54 chevy. i would buy used, re-cap tires at a junk yard for only 3 bucks apiece. i couldn't spend all my drinkin money! lol
Priorities !!
I remember in the '60s, LOTS of people without much money bought recaps. They were fairly popular.
My dad said the brand name for those type of tires were called "Maypops". Lol.
@@281cobracar7 GREAT name!
Similarly, when we were kids, very few people had A/C in their cars-especially "factory air"-and there were a variety of aftermarket A/C systems people had.
My dad would say we had "Mark 4/75 Air Conditioning"-4 windows down, 75 miles per hour.
If only that car that was dropped from the crane would have had dual 90s it could have stopped
Exactly. And, air brakes.
That car actually almost looked like it's properly engineered to be safe; it had crumple zone, that ended before passenger compartment, and when it dropped on its roof the roof could handle it
Couldn't do that with a car today.
Yeah, it had mismatched tires...
I did call to pepboys, they don't have dual 90's in stock :(
Stop playing around,,, what Sterling's brother...
Said is True '''
absolutely *** right .
dont be one of the 43,000 people that died this year!!!!!!!
my tire is 265mm wide it's almost a triple 90 :D
Ask for the triple 90s (or 270 width)
@@punker4Real It's funny in perspective, that my 175s are considered "pizza cutters" these days. Also having a 65 profile is becoming pretty uncommon.
NOOOO ---- RIP Nova, Falcon, and 1960 Dodge two door post!
Also the Thunderbird!
car dropped from crane was 1961 dodge 2 door sedan.
No great lost. Just cars 🚗
@@jogmas12 well now it sucks to see them go because they're classics but then they were just used cars
@@rexjolles if I can get what I want from an old classic muscle car in a T bucket hot rod (build from a kit or buy a completed car) what’s the difference?!?!?!???? Because really I am just looking for a powerful V8 with open headers in any type of old car and a T bucket fills the bill
I like watching old tv for the cars in the background
As their ad song used to say, “ Sooner or later, you’ll own Generals”.
Feeling much safer, now just need to light up a Camel...
smoke up buddy
the guy in the crain did lol
Doctors recommended
Don't forget to pump gas while you do it
Wait I think they still pumped you gas
Smoke em if you got em! Doctors recommended
Gotta love these Jam Handy productions - a free commercial with every safety lesson !!
+VinnyDaQ General Tire did a lot of these films for sales reasons, yes...mainly because they cost more than Goodyear or Firestone.
+Paul Duca What army did General Tire command?
ZerokillerOppel1 The mobile infantry, of course ! : P
My grandpa wanders out of the house and stares at the clouds as he thinks of the Dual-90.
A prerequisite to being an announcer then was having a proper smoker’s voice. Deep and slightly raspy.
The "smoker voice" is caused by the old microphones.
This is what women sound like now with the vocal fry nonsense while also squawking through their nose. Real attractive.
No it’s just a way of talking. “TransAtlantic accent”
All this tire safety, yet kids in back of the car with no seatbelts!
Seatbelts? What are you, rich?
Now that tires got improved they've got to wear them...
Well if you've got dual 90s, you'll never crash and won't need seatbelts!
You’re referring to the kids at about 6:53?
They are leaning forward but they could still be wearing seatbelts. They probably weren’t though. This was made around the time manufacturers were first being required to provide them as standard equipment but nobody used them. People thought it was silly. I remember my cousins standing up in the front seat next to my grandfather in his 59 Chevy. My sister used to lay down on the package tray under the back window in our 67 Camaro. It was a different era.
1965 was groovy.
I hope that crane operator is smoking a safety cigar.
Now THIS is an ad. If the year was 1965 I'd be off to the shop to buy some Dual 90s right now. They gave us evidence that their product works, visual proof, and a solid reason to buy it in a casual and mature way. Ads nowadays are just unbearably stupid and obnoxious, likely because the people they target are less than brainless these days.
In 1980 I put some "Recap" Tires on my 1964 Mercury Comet Station wagon. Then drove from Southern California To Central Oregon. On the way back, I was cruising at 80+mph for hours. After I got back, I noticed a bulge the size of a grape fruit on the inside Right rear tire. Never again bought "Cheap" Tires
Happened to me in the 90s with Michelins that were only a year old.
Firestone knows all of their tires are defective and kill people and still don't care.
They don't sell recapped tires for cars
@@frankdenardo8684 They used to....
@@MCTeck They sell recaps or retreads for medium and semi trucks being they are expensive.
gotta love that old school marketing
"heres all of the gruesome ways youll surely perish if you dont buy our product"
A local car dealer did that very same car-drop from a crane back in the 1970s. It was promoted for months before he actually did it - and it drew a huge crowd. I and a few friends of mine used to drive cars back that he bought in Chicago auctions (about 150 miles away). Back then, $25 was a respectable amount for a couple hours' work. It was a great time
safety advice still very much applicable today 60yrs later!!
Originally released in March 1965. Note the theater marquee at 0:22 promotes "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (released the previous June).
Thank you so much I didn't notice that...
The Radi. i
Distracted Me.
Radi i
Is the Plural : of Radius.
My buddy from the Roman Empire!
I was originally released in January 1964.
Someday you'll own......., Someday you'll own!....Sooner or later you'll own Generals! 👍! Sorry that jingle got in my head while watching this.
Same here.
I remember those skinny little bias ply tires on my dad’s Valiant, you could hardly keep the wheel straight on a sunny dry day!
But I bet it was like riding on a cusion of air.
This reminds me of those 16 mm films we saw in Driver Ed back in 1979.
Oh yes....I remember that. I took Driver Ed back in 1980 when I was 16. After viewing the film, us teens called it the "Death Movie", I had second thoughts about getting my coveted drivers license or even driving at all...lol
I also had driver's ed in '79. Those 'crash flicks' as we called them made our day.
'Signal 30' and 'The blood runs red on the highway' are my favs.
You owe it to yourself!
Man, this is gimmicky. A dual tread tire sounds as silly as a razor with three blades. Wait...
Risking TMI, I use an old-fashioned "safety" razor. My brother and I went back to these a decade or so ago. I feel like throwing an ¼ oz steel blade away is _MUCH_ less wasteful than throwing a whole plastic handle, chintzy blades and all away every week or two.
I still think many of the ways we lived in the '50s and '60s were _much_ less wasteful than modern think.
@@josephgaviota I'm also switching habits as I feel some old tech was less wasteful than new tech. Razors being one.
@@josephgaviota same dude. I got one for my 22nd birthday and I’m 26 now. Still using it. Still have the same pack of blades. Came with 100.
@@josephgaviota I have a few. One is my great grandfather's, one is a unused gillette travel razor with the original blades, and another is a unused Gillette Aristocrat.
@@rexjolles That "Aristocrat" is cool ;-)
Love the 3 ring white wall going to order a set
Adidas tires :D
Sorry, I am young...
I thought the same thing!! Never saw white walls like that before! So nice!!
Tires have come a long way since then. Tires were tall and skinny tread. The wide oval came out in the 60's. Most cars today run on wide tread low profile tires. The best way to get around was with snow tires in the winter. They developed all season tires with the M&S rating. Still snow tires were the best. In the 80's I worked for a little independent tire dealer . We were primarily a B.F.Goodrich dealer. We sold all the major brands like Good Year, Michelin, Uniroyal, General, Continental, Pirelli, and some private label brands. I used the B.F.G Radial T/A's on both my 77 Trans Am's . I preferred the original rayon, nylon , constructed T/A's to the newer steel belted constructed version of the late 80's early 90's.
65 Impala !💜
We need these PSAs today, no joke boys.
Will friends, I think its time we all went out and got a new set of Dual-90's ......I did, Have you ?
Frist ,before you get them put on ,check grammar. stay safe.
Hello, my name is Jim, I've got a problem, I haven't got the Dual-90's. I know, it's only 12 steps and I'm at the tire dealer.
I have never been a fan of Bias-Ply since they invented Radials.
The puncture proof ability was a point of interest though......😉
@@jimsteele2072 exactly. In spite of all this “super high tech” tire design the cars of the 1960s still handled like crap 💩
@@steveb7310 well, you have to think of them as if you were driving a boat thru a harbor😂😂😂😂
Thanks now I know what to do in the 1940s new jersey short turnpike
My old man Never bought new tires! Retreads were good enough for us🤔
My father had a tread cutter so you could get every dime out of every tire.
My old man would take the day off work to get tired. The next day the guys would make fun of his junk yard 'skinless Franks'.
My dad only bought new tires for his other family.
Jack Webb should have narrated this.
At first, I actually thought maybe it WAS Jack Webb.
A good tire is good thing to have👌🏻
single ply bias tires those were the days it's called the thinning of the herd
Bias ply tires flat spotting in the morning
@Roy Futrell I feel you under the right conditions you can run them and have no problem but in the big picture people are lazy and don't look out for proper inflation and proper alignment that's were radials come into play the general public has to be looked after and for the most part you have to make your product idiot resistance a radial dosen't blow out under neglect from slack ass behavior it just goes flat and very rarely separates as the opposite bias ply tires back in the day was extremely dangerous if not properly maintained and that was a era of muscle cars and big horsepower that was way ahead of the handling aspect of the game if I had a classic cruiser and wanted to make it era correct sure I would go with the equipment of the day but as far as performance it's radials all day long and that's just an opinion and did you notice I like to babble on sorry
@@BigEightiesNewWave Also radial tires, especially high speed tires with nylon layers around the steel belt, had this problem. More tham 30 years ago I faced this with a set of Avon Turbospeed CR 28 in 205/60 R 13 86H. These tires had a tendency to wear uneven and needed balanced frequently. This manufacturer is well known for its bias ply tires for older cars and motorcycles. I think they have had problems with the build of good radials. After 10 k miles on them I then went to a set of Falken FK 06U in the same dimension and all former problems are blown away.
I like all those little bitty economy cars they were showing in this video we need to get back to that
That’s probably my favorite marketing line I’ve ever heard.
“When it comes to your safety, the best is only good enough.”
Only Packard's "Ask the man who owns one" is a better U.S. tagline.
IT IS VERY TRUE THAT OLD OR BAD TIRES ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS RISK YOU CAN TAKE NO KIDDING.
I love these old PSA/Commercials.
Holy crap! I need the dual 90!! Wheelbarrows just blown a skin!
General made some good tires...today they're excellent too.
Pushing those bias ply tires.
1:12 so much tread on that tyre
I had a set of Michelin tires on my El Camino. At about 40,000 miles of wear, and with good tread remaining, l had one of my tires suffer ply separation. What a pain.
Reminds me of the Uniroyal Tiger Paw tires for light trucks, biggest joke the tire industry ever saw. Had a 1985 GMC Suburban with those things on it, it was a never-ending nightmare with shifted and broken belts. The dealer where the truck came from stopped after the 3rd problem and referred us to an actual Uniroyal tire dealer, who gave us an increasingly difficult time with every visit. Finally it got to be too much going in to the tire place every month, so we just said screw it and got all new tires of a different brand, completely unrelated to Michelin, Uniroyal or BFG. Yeah, it cost a few bucks but the freedom was worth it.
Too bad radials weren't widely available in the U.S. back then...
Most people don't understand the principles of bias ply tires and radial tires. Radials are not always better. Bias plys have a greater comfort up to 40 mph. The sidewall of a bias ply tire is stiffer and less vulnerable to puncture than a radial one. Therefore bias plys are the first choice of many, which do l lot offroad driving; for example Interco Super Swampers, Pitt Bull Tires and others. Old cars have often, not always, a better behavior on the road with bia plys because their suspension is not suited for radials. Chrysler offered RTS "Radial Tuned Suspension" from 1965 to 1967 and Ford has made more than 100 modifications to their suspension system end of the 1960ies to usage of radials. Radials on the other hand give you more mileage and often better roadholding. Their tread is less vulnerable to puncture because of the belts beneath the tread. Their riding comfort is achieved via greater flexion of the sidewalls of the tire. Therefore it needs a carefull decision which tire type to choose.
I don't know how we survived all those years driving on bias ply tires! 😲
I like watching videos of classic 1960's cars where unrestrained humans absorb the impacts of automotive collisions,,,
Nygen cords - tougher than steel. It is nylon, folks.
Is it the same man who announced everything on TV
Instead of installing seat belts and encouraging people to wear them, they were talking about "unsafe tires"
You do realize that in 56 years people will look back and wonder how we ever survived.
If only all tires today were built like that. Think how much safer we'd be able to drive.
These tires are part of why highway fatalities were the same in 1965 as they were in 2015 in spite of Americans driving _four times_ as many miles! It wasn’t if you had a blowout, it was when... and no dual tire was 100% blowout proof.
Modern radials are the epitome of reliability in comparison, and with tire pressure monitors it’s very hard to run on an under inflated tire.
@@Bartonovich52 Very true. I've had that happen while I was driving. Thankfully I wasn't driving at freeway speeds when that happen.
Today’s tires are built to very high safety standards.
@@jogmas12 Nobody told Firestone that.
@@xaenon then don’t buy Firestone. As in 1965 there were good and bad manufacturers of tires just as today. Let me ask you this? You think General Tire is still a good tire making Company in 2021???
This guy reminds me a LOT of Phil Hartman. I wonder if this is where he got the inspiration for Troy McClure.
Troy mcclure wee based off two guys, one's first name was Troy, the other's last name was McClure
Such style
1:20 And along came seat belts, shoulder harnesses (1968), 3-point seat belts (1973), mandatory seat belt laws and then air bags (1990).
Can I just get some headrests so I don't end up staring at my own butt?
Who knew rod Serling was so versatile
He did it for the money.
I have driven 90,000 miles on a set of Michelin tires on a 2003 Chevrolet Suburban. Michelin tires are like no other the way they make you vehicle ride and handle.
+Bruce Bryant I was in the tire business for years. A really funny thing about Michelins is that after WW2, the rest of the world was geared up for bias belted tires. France was decimated and didn't have the equipment to manufacture them. The radial tires that they made were really kind of a second rate tire. Instead of gearing up for bias ply tires, they, along with Dunlop kept improving it until it was the superior design that it is today. As for Michelins lasting so long, they do run a long time, but one of the main reasons for that is actually the cost. People that spend twice as much for a tire usually will take a lot better care of it. I have almost 90,000 miles on a set of Dunlops on a pickup. All i have done is keep the right amount of air in them and rotated them. That is all.
for me i found nothing better for my truck a 1995 toyota tacoma than a set of Yokohama geolanders i like Michelin tires but they had less grip because the truck if i would floor it the tires would chirp and in the rain i could get the tires to lock up not the Yokohamas thats my reason for my choice they also last a good amount of time
Yeah and the set I have were nearly $800.00! They damn well better last that long!
C moore There’s really nothing else you *can* do to take care of your tires!
The only brand of tire where I’ve experienced defects was Michelin. Less than a year old and developed a big sidewall bulge. This was in the late 90s.
thankfully these accidents happened a long time ago so we no longer have to worry about this
Me: You better be thanking Pontiac because they started advertising their car fleet already equipped with their infamous "wide track"!
Ah yes exactly what I want TH-cam.
Tires are life. Life are tires.
Back in the 60s, I had a summer job unloading tires from box cars at the Ford plant in Mahwah, N.J. By the time I got near the bottom of the stack, those 2 ply bias tires were as flat as a pan cake. They really put some crappy dangerous tires on new cars back in the day.
I never wore out a set of general tires. They fell apart before I could.
had dual 90 on a 66 buick wildcat they were ok terrible on snow
Very rubbery video!!
Sir, You've sold me, I'll take a set with the white-wall's facing out please..........
Reminds me of a story of my cheap uncle.
The service man had the car on the rack, asked Uncle Fred if wanted whitewalls or not. Uncle Fred assumed that was going to cost more, so said "no."
Only to realize later, he _had_ whitewalls, they were just facing INWARD !
It was heartbreaking to see all those classic Chevys crumpled up in the junkyard. 😢
Lots of people drove classic cars back then. 😏
There were several 64 Impalas and at least one 65 or 66 Impala. (It didn’t show the taillights so I couldn’t tell for sure.)
I want a set of General Dual 90s and a set of roulette hubcaps
6:53 You yell at them to sit back in their seats while the car is moving.
Shake Hands With Dangerrrrrrr
Fact.....automobile and motorcycle tires have gotten a lot better today than in 1965. Notice the boy on the bicycle? Those tires are still relatively the same. Here’s where we should be focusing on! Our kids are riding these. In the 60’s some of the tires had tubes. Tubeless tires are the best. Even motorcycles have tubeless tires? Except for rims with spokes (correct me if I’m wrong, been out of the motorcycle phase for years). I have worked on kids bikes recently, sadly, they are not different than the video.....think about it! Jim
PS......when you loose a tire on a car, it’s usually an inconvenience. When you loose a tire on a motorcycle, it is very serious. I purchased a 1980 Honda 750Custom, in 1990. It had mag wheels (no spokes) and tubeless tires. This was way ahead of its time. I never had an issue with the tires on that bike.
Forget tires, wear a seatbelt!
Back in the day, I walked away from a head on collision with a drunk driver because I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts when I drove my hand me down 1970 Buick Electra. Those belts were truly life savers yet very few people bothered to wear them and if they did it was usually just the lap belt that offered very little protection in a collision. The shoulder belt in conjunction with the lap belt was extremely safe in those older cars. All of my friends picked on me for buckling up, especially wearing the shoulder belt.
5:02 do any of you guys remember those crappy bumper jacks??? I don't know how many times those things nearly got me killed by the car almost falling on me!!! Throw those away and get a good floor jack any day!!!....oh and let's not forget those (bumper jacks) came in 2 styles, one that hooks on the bottom of the bumper and the other one had a tab that stuck out which fit into a slot cut into the bumper itself.
They should all stay home and stay safe
Sooner or later you'll own General
The two cars hitting at 30 thing is a common misconception.
Went to tire rack and couldn't find the dual 90 in my size lol
1:58 he said fuckless-ness I'm adding that to my vocabulary
I want these three stripe tires 🤩🤩
On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
3:55 This really is a hard-sell. No car that would accept the tires on the right would ever have been fitted with the tires on the left; they look as if they were made to fit a Model T. Whatever was or wasn't good about Dual-90s, it was obscured by all this hype.
Listen: speed and performance tires will safe lives
They said it too: a crash at 60, living through it isn't likely. This is why we have seatbelts now: So your remains aren't scraped off the road with a shovel. And airbags, and much, MUCH more rigid safety cages in cars, plus crumple zones designed to sacrifice the cars' structure to save you from the g force of a crash. Modern cars, definitely safer. (Although, man do old classics look nice.)
I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive as a teenager in the mid 70s. I wore both the lap and shoulder belts back then. In 1979 I was in a head on collision with a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban that crossed the center line. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts I walked away with only minor cuts and bruises from the belts. The shoulder belt was the thing that really made the difference.
Note the wrecked Corvairs in the junkyard at the beginning.
Like Ralph said, "Unsafe at any Speed."
Your next door hotrod neighbor is working on it everyday since that picture.
Don Draper approved.
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Why am I watching a tire commercial at 1am
Sooner or later, you'll own generals.
Or when you get drafted, the generals own you....
Quite the open threat to buy some tires
Dual 90's. Instant anti-lock brakes.
Firestone tires have killed thousands of people and I still warn people not to buy them!
I have Firestones on my car and someday you will too
@@jimbosc A brand new Chevy Malibu in 1976 had two blow outs a mile apart on the way home from the chevy dealership, since that day it has been anything but the worst tires ever made called firestone!!!PS. The Chevy dealer put four Goodyears on and they went 80k miles !!!
I want to know who tied that tire in a knot!
This is like go pro cameras before there were go pro cameras
HaHa bias ply tires
No way you can tie a modern radial in knots.
I attended an accident from a blow out and the woman was impaled on a fence post when thrown from the Jeep. Tires are your life.