Chevrolet Intro 1966 Pt. 2
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2014
- Chevrolet turned to Lorne Greene from Bonanza to introduce its 1966 lineup to the dealers.
This film was produced by the Jam Handy Company in Detroit. Written by Bob Wicks and animation by Dick Petrovitch who later went on to win an Academy Award for "Crunchbird."
(Second half of Segment 1- comparison of Ford & Chevy sports cars)
00:05 Man playing guitar & singing about a Ford car (The Mustang)
01:55 Red Ford Mustang Fastback driving on US60 SE of Apache Junction AZ
02:18 Black Ford Mustang and Red Chevy Corsair on hills around Jerome AZ
03:27 Red Ford Mustang Fastback & Silver Chevy Corvette on US60 SE of Apache Junction AZ
03:54 Family & Luggage trying unsucessfully to fit into a Black Ford Mustang
04:23 Family & Luggage fits OK in a Silver Chevy II & Corvair
04:42 Race between Ford Mustang, Chevy II & Chevy SS 396 at Mesa Proving Grounds AZ
05:16 Card game & guitar player extolling virtues of Chevy cars
06:47 end of Segment 1
(Start of Segment 2 - Comparison of Ford & Chevy station wagons)
06:48 Lorne Greene at Apacheland Studios, SE of Apache Junction AZ
09:02 Chevy, Ford & Plymouth station wagons in various Mesa AZ locations
12:30 audio fades considerably through end
13:03 fullscreen ad graphics with text
14:46 Lorne Greene at Apacheland Studios, SE of Apache Junction AZ
15:44 end of Segment 2
(Start of Segment 3 - Comparison of Chevy & Ford performance cars (Dr. No themed))
16:08 Man drives dilapidated car that explodes.
16:42 Man (James Bland) meets Dr. Yes
17:39 Roadside motel, probably east Mesa AZ
18:14 Dr. Yes shows Chevelle 396, Ford Fairlane GT, Pontiac GTO
20:24 Go-go dancer in cage (wake-up you salesmen!)
21:47 Brake & acceleration tests of Chevy SS 396. Fairlane GT & GTO at Mesa Proving Grounds
24:19 end of Segment 3
(Start of Segment 4 - Comparison of Chevy & Ford vans & pickup trucks)
24:20 Chevy El Camino & Ford Ranchero at Apacheland Studios, SE of Apache Junction AZ
26:53 Chevy El Camino & Ford Mustang at Mesa Proving Grounds AZ
27:38 Chevy & Ford vans on Apache Junction and Mesa AZ streets
29:53 Chevy & Ford pickup trucks with campers
33:34 end of Segment 4
#corvette #mustang #ford #corvair #elcamino #sportscar #chevynation
For availability and licensing inquiries, please contact:
www.globalimageworks.com/contact
Ref: IA (Clip 2) - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
I want to enter the "Taillight Zone" and drive all of those awesome muscle cars!!
We have entered the twilight zone. Shortage of cars because a shortage of computer chips.
I LOVE THE SIXTIES!
Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about, "GO CHEVY"
This was interesting. Selling against the competition, even when the competition is from the same company!!!!
ToyKingWonder I eventually became a huge problem but at the time the infighting seemed to be a good business model.
A '66 Chevelle 396 4-speed AND a Go-Go Girl! Yes!
I could even hear the Rock Crusher on it at one point.
I love how the actors have such a difficult time with everything on the non-Chevy wagons (reminds me of my 5 year old when I ask him to do something he doesn't want to) or how they put someone behind the wheel of the Plymouth who drives like they're drunk in the 'passing' demonstration, swerving the wheel back and forth like the car won't go straight.
Imagine if car companies did comparisons today.
Loved seeing the Corvair. The 65-69 Corvairs really did handle well.
It's a shame they didn't handle the problems before putting the Corvair into the market.
These were filmed in various locations in the East portion of Mesa, Arizona. The scenes shot at the General Motors Proving grounds are located at Ellsworth and Ray Rd. GM sold the land to a housing developer in 2009 and has since partially been developed into residential neighborhoods. It's very cool to see what the area looked like in the 60s. If you look at the background of some of the shots you can see the Superstition Mountains, Usery Mountains, as well as Red Mountain.
27:31 is downtown Scottsdale, AZ.
Thanks for the context and history.
King Rose Archives Thanks for all of your amazing uploads on automotive history. I've spent hours watching your channel, it's truly a gem.
That’s a fact. The old GM Proving Grounds...no trace of it now.
Back when America was amazing.
Every body had a 66 Ford Country Squire. It was the Explorer of its day.
Captian Tom's sea stories a 66 Ford Country squire was alot more attractive than any explorer or fat ass suv also alot more class and rode even better!!!!!.
I'm a Ford guy, but I enjoy the nostalgia. Thanks for taking the time to post this!
+Thomas Johnson Thanks for watching.
I have 1966 Chevelles and a 1970 Monte Carlo but I also like Fords and Chryslers. It’s ridiculous comparing a Corvair to a Mustang. I’d love to have a 1960’s Mustang
I love these old car commercials, they didn't pull any punches when it came to putting down the competition
These weren't consumer commercials
My dad had a 68 impala wagon...big hoss.rj
Me gusta la Chevrolet Caprice Ranchera de ese año también el Chevrolet Caprice de 4 Puertas
This is fun to watch, specially since right now I am in the middle of restoring a 66 Chevelle, it's amazing, as I strip her down to her bare metal and run my hand down the skin, I think to myself a human hand has not touched her since 65 when they started building for the new car year in 66, specially where the roof panel meets the sail panel I see where the tech. on the assembly line ground down the weld and it's pretty smooth, that whole Chevelle line is great from beginning to end great cars, I think these old adds are great . I think to myself as I work on this old girl that when she was born I was only 2 years old, if this car could only talk, what stories she would tell.
I remember those Fairlane GT's were so popular back then!!!
20:30 - "A go-go girl, to go with my go-go car." Yes. Many times, yes.
Thia was the craziest ads I`ve ever seen! Very entertaining.
My dad had a 1966 Caprice wagon with a 396 just like the one shown. I learned to drive in that car. I have many great memories of road trips in that wagon.
I saw Nick Nolte as one of the cowboys trying to fit in that back seat. LOL
This is a GAS - the living end, baby! I want to buy one, and I'm a MOPAR guy! THANKS for posting.
That was corny as heck, I loved it.
Thanks for posting it.
Thumbs up for you.
Corvairs ALWAYS handled well, especially in downtown driving or narrow streets/multiple turns... Mustangs were just way better on the highway- I drove one all the way from Vancouver to Los Angeles only stopping for fuel & coffee did it in 24 hours...
P.S. I have to add the Chevy station wagons were very advanced with the automatic load leveling, they had great dependable engines too those 350's were so reliable!
***** It might have been the 327 V-8...
I know this is highly biased towards GM or at least Chevrolet... but I enjoyed seeing this and other videos like it.. Keep uploading them!! It is refreshing to see the cars from an era long gone.
The song at the start sounds like a parody of May Irwin’s Frog Song, a big hit in the 1890s. Strange to see it referenced so late, and also odd to see a country twist on it. I have a 66 impala myself and it’s pretty neat to have both music from an era I’m interested in and my car at least tangentially related.
Is it just me or did anyone else see that GTO ahead of both cars off the line and sandbagging it to allow the chevelle to pass?
race campers?
Is it me but when I saw those cowboys in back of those Station Wagon's it screamed BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN
Felicidades Sres Atentamente♥️👏
If you got rear-ended in any of those wagons the people in the rear-facing seats pop out through the back window quicker than you can read this.
Our understanding of safety has improved. Different times.
Rob Mackenzie In a head on collision those passengers would get a serious case of whiplash. Getting hit either in front or behind was bad news.
Yes, and can you imagine how seeing whatever it was that hit you come speeding towards you would look like as you face rearward?
"Holy Sh.....!!"
(Where the final two letters of that last word belong, insert the sound of meeting your maker, instead....)
@@anonamust8697 .....Oh and one other potential dangerous thing those that were sitting in the back could flip the bird to those that were tailgating!!!!!.
@michael weizer: Yeah, and ANOTHER thing you could do for tailgaters is have a sign ready to hold up by the people seated in the rear that says in really big letters:
“BACK THE F*** OFF!!”
The Chevelle had no Mufflers!! Just straight pipes!!
so cool.
Go-go girl!!!
The "new" Corvair from the '65 model year until it's demise in May of 1969 actually had the rear suspension defect (that made the '60 to '64's prone to rollovers) CORRECTED. The fact is that the engine in the rear gave it a different weight distribution. That was lost on a few people who couldn't understand the most basic laws of physics. If you speed around corners in a rear-engined vehicle, you're far more likely to have the rear end break away.
True. Something Ferdinand Porsche learned when he built the rear engined racers for Auto Union. He had to enlist motorcycle riders as drivers who were used to letting the back slide. Testing showed that the Corvair needed some simple modifications to make it safe. Even experienced drivers like Denise McCluggage discovered it was dangerous when it spun out of control when she was testing it. She was about as experienced a driver as they come. But Ed Cole at GM wouldn't listen to those who suggested the Corvair needed to be fixed before it was released. Bunkie Knudsen was told to drop it or he'd be fired. Cole won the debate with the board who didn't want to shell out the extra couple of bucks it would take. Knudsen finally convinced them they had to do it (after his niece was crippled in her Corvair) but by then the car''s reputation was destroyed. And all the money they spent on litigation and paying Ralph Nader for sicking their detectives on him, meant the car would never pay for itself. Penny wise.
+King Rose Archives That is all true! And the reason there was never a Pontiac Corvair (intended as either an upmarket Corvair or perhaps a Canadian version) is because John Z. DeLorean was the head of the Pontiac division in 1959. DeLorean was a brilliant automotive engineer, and he was aware of the Corvair flip-overs on the GM test track. He flatly refused what he considered to be a flawed, incomplete design to be tried out in his Pontiac division. He was forward-thinking enough to believe it could lead to legal trouble.
Corrections wher too late to keep the Corvair viable. Mustang inspired pony cars from Mopar and GM along with the mustang created a new market that had no place for an improve Corvair IRS. Early advertising for Corvair suggested that the Corvair could be driven like a Corvette, can't blame the consumer for doing so.
And the Vette was ass end heavy as well. Many an owner ended up having surgery to remove fiberglass shards when the car exploded into pieces after fishtailing out, off the road and bouncing off guardrails and trees..... or other cars!
(If they lived through it, that is!)
t4705mb6 There were a number of cars on the market in the 1960's that qualified as "unsafe." For example, the Triumph Spitfire. It had a swing axle suspension system very similar to the Corvair. The four-banger didn't provide much torque, and the swing axles didn't usually cause many handling problems. But when British Motor Corporation introduced the first generation GT6 in 1966 (a hardtop fastback with a considerable boost in power with it's inline 6), they used the same swing axle rear suspension as the Spitfire. The result was a fun little car with a tendency to spin out when the driver dared to slow down for curves (wish I owned one!) :-)
I'm a Chevy man, but the only fair comparison with a mustang would have been a Camaro.
PacificCircle1 True. That was the competition. Of course, this was produced to be seen by a room full of drunken Chevy dealers who were itching to go golfing. Don't think anyone was taking notes are paying much attention.
King Rose Archives Ha! That's exactly right. Must have been painful to sit through these. That's why some of them have dancing girls. Pretty radical crashing the competition's vehicle.
King Rose Archives The push for truth in advertising had not yet taken hold.
OK, so a '67 matchup then.
PacificCircle1 I agree but I think the Camaro came out 67 but it was in production and went on sale September 29th 1966 for the 1967 year
Looks like Chevy had a pretty big production budget for their promos. Especially for a film only intended for dealer eyes.
I was surprised to see the brand new Ford camper get intentionally tipped on its side in the last scene. But overall, the comparison driving and handling tests were ludicrously staged to make the Chevys look superior.
there may be a reason why the makers don't compare models as they did back then.
The 350 hp 327 4 speed Nova would outrun the 360 hp 396 Chevelle 4 speed. 13.8 quarter mile time for the Nova versus 14.3 for the Chevelle. 53 years later Ponderosa Lumber is still in business in the same location at 64th st and Thomas RD. Scottsdale AZ.
I've seen these ads before, and I have to wonder sometimes how many of these actors are still alive today.
Who the hell driving a Corvair or Mustang off road lol
Door sag at 18m44s is so GM.
"Not safe at any speed" Nader
may 30 1966 was the last day of chevy2 production at Norwood on June 1 they started the new F BODY PRODUCTION
boy that little 289 sure wasn't that far behind that pig 396,bet that bbc used a quart of oil right then.now that 327 was sweet
We sure were a thin lot back then. We're beginning to look like livestock now. :(
I have the more rare 1965 version of this I need to get on the internet soon!!
zappatx That would be great.
I bet that go go girl is about 86 years old mow.
I like in the camper test they swap out the Ford truck. Starts with chrome bumper then switched to color match back to chrome at finish line. Color match is the base 6cly motor
That was one bad-ass wagon. If that thing still exists in pristine shape, what do you think it would bring at auction? (1 MIL $$$?)
Those were the days..gas was what...24 cents a gallon? Note the hardtops...a body style on Mercedes seems to have these days...those engines...growling and throbbing...we were a lot more innocent and America was on top
Bill Hershkowitz It was a different time. Something's are good to let go but we have lost some of our optimism that produced these big, confident vehicles.
So they compare a Mustang to a Nova for family car LOL
Would be interesting to see a crash test 😁
I Like the GTO and the GoGo Girl.
6:30 sounds like that duck song "Got any grapes?"
Do I hear the voice of Foghorn Leghorn?...makes the skit very funny.
Folks plunked their money down on Mustang because it was purdy.
20:24 when the grand grand mothers where young ......
7:55 - OOOOOOOH BURN
Funny how Chevy went full tilt against the other GM brands as much as they did Ford.
It must have been a fantastic time to work at a car company - or be in the market for a new car. I was too young then but remember how my brother''s friends who worked part time at a grocery store would buy cars like these brand new and pay them off in a year or two. No sooner did they get them home, the engine came apart for a cam, headers, intake manifold...
howz that fender acoustic.
At the 22:35 mark, look at how Low the Exhaust Pipe is hanging down on the Chevelle SS. I wonder why??? 🙃
Hello Mustang Was A Pony Car, It Was Innovative
Cowboys in wagons!!!! Love hose Clint Eastwood hats.
007 &7/8 . Pretty sure the GTO should of won. But got to LOVE he GoGo dancer
Blue lives matter don't shot each other's tires out, but hey way to lay her over!!
I wish I had been born 2 decades earlier and could of grown up in the 60s
Torturing people is illegal. Holding thousands of go-go girls captivate is just one of his fiendish schemes, and not a big deal.
Extended Econoline Loaded Incorrectly vs Standard Length Chevy Loaded Correctly...HMMMMM....Seems Legit!
16:37 The forgotten matrix prequel?
19:17 I thought tony tiger was a tiger, That was before his cereal mascot carrer apparently.
Did Germaine Greer create this one?
does anyone know what law came into effect allowing a company to sue another company for using their competitor in comparison commercials? this hasn't been done sine I thin the mid 80's,
ex. Ford vs. Chevy. using another manufacturers name and discount competitor products against their own showing weaknesses versus the two. now Chevy commercials cant even use the word ford. they have to say "competitors."
Now, that's a lawsuit.
Is there an MST3K version of this?
Alex Tigre "But he bought the flippin car!!"
Haha good ol advertising..
My friend has the 62 Corvair Sedan, Not anything I'd want to have myself, They're far too expensive for restoration
Bah HA HA HA!
That GTO quarter mile thing was the biggest load of bull I've EVER seen!
+Kriegar1964 Not the first time they rigged the tests.
First time I saw chevy do that, their car was losing to a fairlane in its own commercial. They stopped the camera and put the chevy in front.
,
Any 4 cylinder performance cars build in the past 15 years could smoke any factory GTO, Chevelle, etc... Could smoke any factory musclecars of that era.. My all electric Tesla P90D has a best ET at 11.176 I had to park that 4 door hatchback.. Tower said I was too fast guess I was embarrassing all the other cars
Horribly stupid, but highly entertaining . Got a good laugh over comparing a Corvair with the Mustang. Let's see, those mustangs were number one sellers and many are still on the road. Corvairs met the junkyard within a few years and were GM's version of the Edsel.
I was a little surprised in the one promo they were dogging the GM sister lines. The last promo was the best of all comparing one horrible van against another equally notorious even for that era.
Agent 007 and 7/8's! Lol
The unbiased credibility of this video is underpinned by the sales success they was the Corvair, especially against the obscure Mustang. Oh, wait...
I don't get why big daddy GM let them show up another GM product like this, especially since it came from higher end division.
I would have split this video up
into 4 or 5 segments
..shorter vignettes... more views
I’ll take the FoMoCo it has the SideOiler 427 hi riser duelquad w/ cast iron headers over the Rat semi hemi 427 & that’s a fact, don’t forget it’s the 2nd yr of the famous twin I beam front suspension & still n use to this day !
I'm a Chevy guy and loved this race here at 4:29. For a car that was soo far behind that mustang caught up almost instantly and would have passed them giving another 20 seconds. The driver had realized he could slide forward and push on the gas some more,...LOL Time to watch a ford video now so I can see basically the same race but with probably, surprise, a different loser! I wonder who the loser would be in that version?
My preacher told me to stop watching porn. So, now I watch corn. Thanks, King Rose!
I thought the Mustang did pretty well against the 327 Nova
Let me guess, this brought to you by GM. However, I did enjoy it too.
+Keeper Oath That it was. It was made for the dealer presentations. They'd do something big every year to get the dealers excited about the new cars coming out in the Fall. They'd spend a lot of money on these films and on bringing the dealers and super salesmen to Las Vegas or somewhere they could play golf, have a good time, consume massive amounts of booze and get to know what's in the pipeline.
Fords have always been a better looking car, until the 70s. When they were at their worst.
Yes I sold them in 79 , they were junk , especially the older used ones . The Granada , Monarch , 74 Mustangs etc .
Nope...GM set the trend for styling and were years ahead of Ford..especially Mopar!
they forgot to tell everyone about how the rear suspension in the corvairs would collapse....that they would fish tail and spin at low speeds. and how they used to flip and kill people. that's why the corvair only lasted a couple years.. it was taken off the road by force because of the high death rate.. must have been something about the mustang as it's still selling 54 years after it's inception. they should have used a gt350, . that 66 ford wagon you could order a 427 with a 4 speed, buckets and console.the tailgate went down and opened to the side and.a power rear window...the 66 ranchero was a 1/2 year model. outsold the el camino every year. . the ranchero was the first and the longest production run of any C.U.V...
That problem was corrected for the 1965 model Corvair.
Am I wrong or the white trouser's guy is a very young Nick Nolte?
I would say you're correct sir.
@@jimmartin7881 Thanks!
That was three cars against one.
All of these people should have bought a MOPAR.
Kennedy McGovern again that would have been 1967 when Plymouth had the GTX and Dodge had the Coronet RT. Let alone Mercury already had the Cyclone!.
So you have to buy three different chevys to beat a mustang?
Love the SS. But GTO is the boss!
recognize nick nolte?...its him
No kidding. These big promos were good gigs for actors.
путешествие......
Jim Handy Studios turned out interesting work in the 30s, showing actual manufacturing techniques along with a fair amount of capitalist v/s socialist content.
Some of this has gone into the fantastic. Decent period footage though.
Jason Wolffe Jam Handy was a leader in corporate filmmaking. As you point out there was an ideological component to everything they did. There hasn't been much scholarly attention paid to this and how these films affected public opinion. Sounds like a PhD. opportunity. Could be more fun than studying the sex lives of worms.
8:45 - How did the PR guys let this out? Look at that misalignment.
The comparison between the SS396 Chevelle and the Mustang wasn't really a fair comparison. The 1965-66 Mustang wasn't designed or marketed as a hot car. It was an attractive sports car that more women purchased than men and was powered by ...what was it, the 289 2 barrel carb? There was nothing more hot or attractive to look at as well as fun to drive as the 1964-67 GTO. Another favorite was the classic silver with black vinyl top Chevelle SS 396. Every young guy wanted one.
I'm pretty sure the first mustangs as standard equipment had an inline six couple to a three speed manual transmission. Plenty of men bought them because unlike most women they could afford new cars, and the base engine & transmission still had a fun factor degree. for the street. Not every teen girl's daddy could afford to buy them a new care. Those who could stuck to more conservative model. Not to mention they provided a light weight platform constructing a drag strip car. My observations anyway...
My attention span is too small for their complicated history metaphor
The horse and wagon back then is no station wagon . It is a truck so to call . Now they are not telling you the truth once again . A wagon to haul over long distant by horse and wagon the wagon part is call Conestoga or cargo wagon . There are many types of wagon to do a job . The first wagons was called Hucksters . They were used to a lot of thing like being buses , hauling local things , paddy wagons and thing of that nature . Ether motorized or Horse drawn .
Holy fuck, long enough commercial.
gundriller man These were made for the dealers. Every year they'd bring the dealers to Vegas or some other swank place, ply them with booze, let them play golf and show them a big film all about what's coming to their showrooms in the Fall. It was the ritual.
+gundriller man it's not a commercial, It's a dealership promo film for salesmen to sharping up sales skills