I was 18 years old in 1969 working at a Ford dealer washing cars. One day a transport pulled in with a whole load of 1969 mustang Mach 1s My jaw dropped to the ground and everybody in the showroom came out to look at new design Mustang . What an exciting time.
‘69’s were not as good looking as 67-68 models but were much better looking than the 1970 Mustangs. The only Mach 1 I was interested in at that time were the 428 Cobra Jets. I soon saw them at the drag strips. They were a knuckle buster to work on to.
That Trucking Company was HADLEY AUTO TRANSPORT Headquartered in SANTA ANA CA. They were in business from 1931-2007 with Teminals in California, Arizona, New Mexico & Texas. It was a great Company to work for, Bill Hadley took the reins from his Dad in 1957, he loved his drivers. Sadly in December of 2006 HADLEY lost the Chrysler traffic & on April 1 2007 lost the Ford traffic to non-union carriers, the Company shut down for good. I was 1 of their drivers in Northern California.......
Was there a family link to the date grower Hadleys? Love them dates. The '60 Fords were a ? of style to me. Lucky the '61s brought some style to the full size line.
Yes it sure was Hadley. Back in the mid 1980’s we drove for a private auto transport outfit out of Livermore, Ca, and remember seeing the Hadley trucks out on the road. There was another outfit around the Bay Area that ran green cabover Freightliners, but no thanks to another senior moment I don’t remember the name of the company.
I'm 54 years old and I started following reruns of leave it to beaver in 1975 till today...And this is the first comercial add I've seen from the show...what a masterpiece.
Kind of amazing to see them advertising Ford Motor Company especially when their show mostly featured Plymouth or other Chrysler Corporation automobiles. Thanks for posting this! 😃
Auto sponsor changed from Ford to Plymouth. Ward drove a "Fury," with big fins. EVERY car shown was a Ford, but now a Plymouth. There was nothing new about the Ford Thunderbird for 1960, that was the 3rd and last year for that body shape.
@@trevortrillion6037 It's hard to wrap my head around conservative Ward Cleaver driving a flamboyant Virgil Exner Mopar! 😅 And didn't Wally's friend "Lumpy" drive a '39 Ford with primered front fenders?
Awesome commercial! I'll never forget a particular visit to my aunt and uncle's when I was eight...they'd just gotten a new '60 Ford Galaxie and we followed my uncle out to look it over in the car port...he waved his hands over it in a 'Vanna White' motion and proclaimed "THIS is the most beautiful car in the world!"
Appreciate the effort in capturing a very rare television clip. I am both a fan of LITB as well as old auto commercials! Still watching the Beaver reruns. Now if we can see Eddie Haskell talking about Chevys!!
@Winston Wong....although, there may not be a commercial with Eddie - there was an extended promotional for Chevrolets in 1965 that featured the cast of Bonanza and Bewitched. Seeing Michael Landon driving a '65 Vette and Pernel Roberts driving a beautiful '65 Impala. Dan Blocker ( Hoss ) being polite and addressing Agnes Moorhead as "Miss Moorehead". I think that the video may be here on TH-cam somewhere. Also, was Nova and station wagon.
What a riot that you'd see an ad for Ford with Wally & the Beaver, it's even more hilarious that the ad was done on Colonial Street at Universal Studios with the Munsters house right behind them, I'm sure they found something as a showroom on the backlot, you'll have to find more of these rare ads, I get a kick out of these
the Munsters home is right down the block from the Cleaver home. It appears fairly often. i wonder how common 3 minute commercials were...or if this was a special promo.
Though the show was filmed on Colonial St. and the Munster's house was 3 house down from the Cleaver's ,that is not the Munster house behind them. Just because it is a Victorian house does not make it so. Note: In the 1980's all the houses from Colonial St. were moved from their original location to were they are today with the exception of the Cleaver house that was move again because of the movie "The Burbs" and is not part of the Universal tour. The house you see on the tour is from the "Leave it to Beaver" movie .
I’ve been a LITB fan for decades, but this is the first time I’ve seen Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers playing their characters, filmed in color. Swell! Plenty of color stills out there, so I wonder if there’s more film like this.
i agree this was great seeing wally and the beav in color , i always try to guess what color their clothes are when watching litb , i’m baffled that wally’s letterman swear is blue and yellow , it has black letter amd looks gray on the show
For several years, my friend David and I watched Leave it to Beaver before school. The show ended at 8:55 and school started at 9:00am. Lucky for us, the school was right behind our houses. We always arrived 30 seconds before the bell rang.
Thanks Fran! That was awesome. I was born in 1968 and love all the nostalgia you share. It always gives me mixed emotions though. I’m happy to see how wonderful we all had it in the past. But it pains me to think that those times are long gone. I love your videos. So please keep up the great content.
I was born in '65. Funny thing about remembering the past. We tend to only remember the good stuff. It wasn't always so good. No insulation in the houses. No air conditioning. Looking back at old photos, we were pretty darn poor. No seatbelts in cars. JFK assassination. Racial intolerance. Vietnam. Construction safety....what safety? No computers. No color TV. Small lawn mower. Funny thing about all that "bad stuff" is, I didn't even know it existed until decades later. I miss those days, too.
@@RalphSampson... I was born in 1952 and lived in northern Pennsylvania so a few of the things on your list didn't seem that important. I don't think that I missed air-conditioning all that much, but in the winter I imagine having insulation or better insulation would have made houses and schools at least seem warmer or not hot as heck. If no one had a color tv, how could you miss it? What bothers me is that some tv stations won't air vintage black and white programs. Seat belts and car seats? I never " missed " them, however, as a child I was injured 2 or 3 times when a car door was shut on my fingers. I don't know why (maybe people are just more careful?) but you rarely see a kid that has had their fingers shut in a car door anymore. As a quick end, I would almost trade my microwave oven for the better tasting ice cream of 70 years ago. Almost, because I rarely eat ice cream anymore, I no longer crave it as I did as a kid.
In the classic car collection that I managed for six years, we had a 1960 Sunliner with a 352/360 engine. It was, as indicated in this commercial, the hottest engine produced for public use at the time. The Sunliner was a convertible version of the Starliner, which was mentioned in the commercial as the "hot car."
"There's the Mustang, and the Mustang Mach-E...Mr. Wilson's real sore about that name... a Maverick, and the Bronco, and a Mustang coupe...Wally, why are Mom and Dad looking at an Escape?"
Chrysler merely supplied vehicles (primarily Plymouths) to the show in later seasons, but doesn’t appear to have had a combined sponsorship/product placement like Chevrolet had with Bewitched. In fact, Ward Cleaver (and just about everyone else) actually drove Fords in the first two seasons.
@@fratzogmopars Yes, I know…trust me, I’ve seen every episode more times than I can count. It seems like once Wally started driving, there were more scenes that included the family car. And since this happened after Plymouth started supplying the show with vehicles, most people only seem to recall Chrysler products in the show.
Thank you "Classic Car Channel" for this bit of nostalgia. I remember those days when each car line had "character". Cars were "work of art" and each different platform had a personality of its own. You "drove" a car and felt the road, traction, curves, ... underneath it. Each year brought new models that did look different from the previous years and had various colors, shapes, gadgets not like the "homogenized" modern cars of today. Designs advances and competitions were also seen in other industries (motorcycles, farm machinery, stereo consoles, TV-cabinets...). America was great and led the world and (most) of the middle class flourished. For most families, hard work meant that the family was going to make it (financially) - we lived "The American Dream". Thank you for the memories, thank you for bringing me back to a time of innocence, freedom and optimism (before the war, that is). Ciao, L (Veteran).
00:22 Thats the Munster house in the background. This was filmed on the Universal Studio lot. The Cleaver house was down the street. Keep in mind these are real houses in fenced off neighborhoods. They use these houses over and over for different movies or TV shows. These same houses are still there and used today.
@@stugrant01 They are actual fenced off neighborhoods with complete houses used in movies and TV shows. If they were not fenced off they would be like a regular development of homes.
Our family bought a new 6 passenger Country Sedan in 1960. My father traded in a 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood that my mother learned to hate pretty quickly after it was bought, and all but forbid my father to ever buy another new Chevrolet. I remember my family poring over a book given to us by the Ford dealer that allowed you to see all the different full-sized Fords in their different colors...sort of the car equivalent of looking at a catalog of carpet samples. After a lot of back and forth my father (with the family's help) settled on a Belmont Blue wagon with a woven vinyl interior in medium blue. The neat thing about Belmont Blue was that under street lights at night it would look purplish. BTW, the 1960 Ford full-sizers were so wide that they were actually illegal in some states. Compared to the Brookwood, that Country Sedan barely fit into our near new suburban house's garage...it really was that wide.
Always thought the '60 Ford was a pretty sharp car for the times. (Not that '59 & most any Ford in the '60s wasn't good looking but the '60 was a standout. Could never understand why it was a one-year-only design...
Fun Fact - when Beaver turned 16 he went out and bought a NEW 1964 GTO for himself ! I have new respect for the Beav ! Good Move ! Bet he wishes he still had that one !
@@mypolara That's good to know! As I was watching this I was saying to myself...if I was a hot looking guy like Wally, the LAST car I would want would be a Ford! LOL
I remember when new car models were a big deal and we all looked forward to new models to see how much they changed from the previous years models. Good times and good memories
@@oldiesgeek454 Congratulations. I think the '66 is the most handsome of the '64 - '66 "Flair Birds". Motor Trend titled a test drive of a '66, "Aladdin On Autopilot". It was genius of Ford to design and engineer Thunderbirds to grow up right along with baby boomers while successively retaining their uniqueness which continually attracts people so many years after the model left production. It's virtually impossible for a Thunderbird not to draw an admiring glance and smile from even the most jaded motorist or pedestrian. Facts 💯
That was awesome I never knew wally and the beaver were in commericals lol that's cool as a kid in the 70s I grew up watching leave it to beaver and now as 50 year old I had to get it on DVD still watch it all the time!
As Wally would say, "Gee, that's corny!" though where we lived the city introduced brand-new all aluminum buses on our line, and when I saw one coming, I start shouting like I'd one the lottery. Kids sure do goofy things...
Wally actually owned a Corvair Monza that he drove to the set everyday. He was screwing around with some other guys during a break from filming by playing baseball. Wally hit a high pop fly and it landed on a car's windshield and broke it. The car was Steve McQueens.
I was 6 years old when I went to to Moorehead Ford in Mansfield Ohio to pick up our new red 1960 Ford Starliner. To me the 60 Starliners aer one of the prettiest cars Ford ever produced.
People say that cars aren't exciting like they were back then. I disagree. I'm extremely excited about all the new electric cars coming out. I consider it a renaissance of the auto industry, after decades of boring models that offered little new or exciting.
You're absolutely right about Ward's choice of cars. I read an article that said his '57 Ford was the one that ended up in the swamp in "Psycho"; it was actually saved and still exists! They had to pull the original V8 to keep it from sinking too fast, though.
Well, the first Two seasons were film at Republic Studios and the last Four seasons were filmed at Universal Studios when the show change networks. You can see the original house in color in the background of a few episodes of "Get Smart" .
Yes & in one episode I recall that Beaver broke the front passenger window & got the shock of a lifetime when they left to go somewhere & as they were driving away his dad asked him, to his horror, to roll the window up not knowing his dad had already gotten it fixed! (Amazingly fast service in those days... LoL).
Kept waiting to see the driver drive the rear bumper into the ground backing down the ramps lol. Pretty steep for cars that long but he did it no problem. Cool video
Oh man, those horizontal fins! My folks bought a 1961 Falcon (Turquiose-y/White top) and years later I took it to college. Would love to have a Starliner! Bob from KCMO
@@wyo1446 Have to say, America sure did love the Falcon. But I'm not sure anybody who bought an automatic was thrilled. A friend of my dad's had a '60 w/"Ford-o-matic". I remember how long we had to wait to pull out on the highway & Even then thought we'd wind up getting killed. Thought we'd never get up to 30! Next door neighbor had Powerglide '60 Corvair & Even with two adults & a whole pile of us neighborhood kids that you'd never put in a car today I don't remember it having to struggle like the Ford did. And later dad had a '62 Club Wagon (3 Spd stick. Don't even think automatic was offered till they finally got some bigger engines & did away with 2spd automatic). I remember there were hills he couldn't even climb in 2nd & since they didn't even give you a synchro 1st gear he'd wind up rolling down backward & starting off in 1st & never up-shifting. His old 36hp '58 Volks Kombi microbus could do better in 2nd (out of 4 gears) than the Ford in 2nd of 3 gears. The Volks barely managed 60 on the highway, the Ford barely 70. (In all fairness he had a friend that later had an absolute bare bones Econoline with the 170 engine & 3spd & it definitely was a lot better) Not giving you my opinion, just describing my personal life experience with each of these vehicles.
@@DejaView Well, that's why ya test drive before ya buy, lol. They weren't meant to be speedsters, they were meant to be simple, basic, economical, and reliable transportation, and they filled the bill, the public got what they asked for. And it took a Mustang to eclipse them in sales, so they didn't do to shabby.
Very cool! I was watching Bewitched a few days ago and they panned to a lineup of GM muscle. 69 L88 Vette, 69 RS SS convertible Camaro, SS Chevelle and an Impala. She drives a 68 Camaro convertible with a blacked out rear valance. Big Block! I Dream of Genie, Tony drives a GTO and Mike Brady drives a blue 70 Cuda. Those were the days. $.55 a gallon for gas.
Lived one block south of Jesse R. Ellico Ford in Alhambra, CA. and the neighborhood kids did the same thing every Autumn- ride our bikes up to watch the new models come in. I 'll always remember the day the new T-Bird appeared for 1961 and made such an impression on me that decades later I would own two.
Like the Chevy Nova the Ford Falcon was a great little car. If Detroit had made more cars in that size class, and veered away from 'land yachts' there would have been no need for all of the imports which flooded the country during the oil embargo!
"All seats in a station wagon face forward as they should." Truer words never spoken. Anyone who has barfed after sitting in the back-facing rear seat can attest to this.
It was a 1961 Plymouth. Not a Ford Starliner,and Beaver never drove the car. They were monkeying around in it and he knocked the parking brake off and it rolled into the street. The car had a push button torqueflite transmission and there was no “park” button on the transmission. You used an emergency brake for park and there was a release lever under the dash on the left side. Beaver bumped that . Wally found the key and drove it back into the driveway and a cop wrote him a ticket for operating a car without a license.
@@Suddenlyits1960 …..and after Eddie “gave them the business”, Ward grounded them for a week in their room, and after considering that was too hard on Wally and Beav, June snuck in milk and cookies and talked Ward into only grounding them for the weekend. Meanwhile, Beaver was a hero at school and all his friends would sneak over to his bedroom window and hear how Beav did it…..
There was an Oldsmobile dealer a block away in the 60s just past the Super 5&10 and a little A&P grocery store... I was sent to for bread and milk occasionally. I used to go down and watch them unload the cars. This isn't fantasy of a kid world that never existed. Beaver and Wally stuff happened.
I'm drooling watching these old cars. My first car was a 1962 ford falcon. If that car could speak. ( as a kid I got plenty in the back seat of my falcon)
how about the episode where Ward Cleaver is out of town and Beaver takes the car for a joy ride and the next morning June Cleaver asked him, Beaver, weren't you a little hard on the Ford last night.
That's odd that these 2 actors were allowed to advertise Ford products. Ford only supplied their cars Leave it to Beaver the first 2 years. By 1959 Chrysler Corporation supplied the show's vehicles (it is in the credits at the end of each show). You would of thought there would of been a clause in their contract.
Cars were often released in the second half of the previous year so this might have been filmed in, say, August of ‘59 before the cars were even publicly revealed.
@@chewybrand238 So two actors who are known to have never had a bad thing to say about their career as child actors are somehow being "exploited" for acting in a commercial as the characters they were playing at the time and getting paid for it?? Many actors have pitched for companies in commercials during their career not to mention Leave It To Beaver at that time had Ford as one of the shows sponsors so it would natural to have the shows actors to pitch for them. Seems like you feel that nobody under 18 should ever act because its exploitative.
Pretty cool. They were really selling that little efficient Falcon. The Valiant was a more solid ride and competitively priced. Mr. Cleaver would probably agree as he was a Mopar man by then.
In 1961 we moved to a house along a moderately busy street, east Burnsde Street between 78th and 79th to be specific in Portland, Oregon. Much less traffic back then, and a very different city overall. There was a concrete wall that we would set on and watch the cars go by, naming every one that we could. And I think we were pretty good at it, but then, every car had very unique styling, unlike the cars of today which are more generic.
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I was 18 years old in 1969 working at a Ford dealer washing cars. One day a transport pulled in with a whole load of 1969 mustang Mach 1s My jaw dropped to the ground and everybody in the showroom came out to look at new design Mustang . What an exciting time.
That's my favorite car of all time. I'll never be able to afford one though. One can dream right?
Four years later I bought a 1970 Mach 1 from a girl. I still own it today.
I was 5 back then, and didn't know crap from Shinoda!
Why not just look up the new design on the internet?
‘69’s were not as good looking as 67-68 models but were much better looking than the 1970 Mustangs. The only Mach 1 I was interested in at that time were the 428 Cobra Jets. I soon saw them at the drag strips. They were a knuckle buster to work on to.
One of my favorite tv shows when I was growing up!
Thanks to METV I get to watch it every morning before work. Always puts me in a warm happy place and starts my day out right.
Respect Beaver lover
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Could've had the entire truck load for about $13,000.
Rest in peace, Wally.
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Those were the days... not like now.
That Trucking Company was HADLEY AUTO TRANSPORT Headquartered in SANTA ANA CA.
They were in business from 1931-2007 with Teminals in California, Arizona, New Mexico & Texas.
It was a great Company to work for, Bill Hadley took the reins from his Dad in 1957, he loved his drivers.
Sadly in December of 2006 HADLEY lost the Chrysler traffic & on April 1 2007 lost the Ford traffic to non-union carriers,
the Company shut down for good.
I was 1 of their drivers in Northern California.......
Figures, the auto makers had no loyalty after all those years.
Was there a family link to the date grower Hadleys? Love them dates.
The '60 Fords were a ? of style to me. Lucky the '61s brought some style to the full size line.
Very cool. I bet you saw some pretty cool cars fresh off the factory floor!
Yes it sure was Hadley. Back in the mid 1980’s we drove for a private auto transport outfit out of Livermore, Ca, and remember seeing the Hadley trucks out on the road. There was another outfit around the Bay Area that ran green cabover Freightliners, but no thanks to another senior moment I don’t remember the name of the company.
Had a friend that drove for Hadley in the Phoenix area. He busted his butt but made good money. I wondered what happened to that company.
I'm 54 years old and I started following reruns of leave it to beaver in 1975 till today...And this is the first comercial add I've seen from the show...what a masterpiece.
There was a leave it to beaver again show in 1984
@@rocketshipsandrobotsinterg2184 This ad has to be 1960 cause Wally is almost Grown and the show was three years away from going off the air.
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I’m going to be 62 in December and remember watching Leave It To Beaver in the mid 1960’s.
Hi!🙋♀️I'm 53 years old and I've been watching Leave It To Beaver all my life! IT IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE TV SHOW!👊❤️
Really cool seeing Beaver and Wally in color.Sweet rides too!😎👍
Many of the shows in B&W then, for sure.
Those actors made nothing compared to the 7figures paid now.
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Kind of amazing to see them advertising Ford Motor Company especially when their show mostly featured Plymouth or other Chrysler Corporation automobiles. Thanks for posting this! 😃
I was just thinking this, myself.
But, in earlier episodes, Ward Cleaver was shown driving a 57 Ford Fairlane sedan.
Auto sponsor changed from Ford to Plymouth. Ward drove a "Fury," with big fins. EVERY car shown was a Ford, but now a Plymouth.
There was nothing new about the Ford Thunderbird for 1960, that was the 3rd and last year for that body shape.
@@trevortrillion6037 It's hard to wrap my head around conservative Ward Cleaver driving a flamboyant Virgil Exner Mopar! 😅 And didn't Wally's friend "Lumpy" drive a '39 Ford with primered front fenders?
Awesome commercial! I'll never forget a particular visit to my aunt and uncle's when I was eight...they'd just gotten a new '60 Ford Galaxie and we followed my uncle out to look it over in the car port...he waved his hands over it in a 'Vanna White' motion and proclaimed "THIS is the most beautiful car in the world!"
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He was right!
Appreciate the effort in capturing a very rare television clip. I am both a fan of LITB as well as old auto commercials! Still watching the Beaver reruns. Now if we can see Eddie Haskell talking about Chevys!!
Or EDsels ☝️
Even Eddie wouldn't talk about a shevy
The beaver was cute...
I watch and eat my breakfast every morning with the Beaver. It's on for 1 hr... Right after Looney Tunes. 😆 what's even funnier. I'm 64.
@Winston Wong....although, there may not be a commercial with Eddie - there was an extended promotional for Chevrolets in 1965 that featured the cast of Bonanza
and Bewitched. Seeing Michael Landon driving a '65 Vette and Pernel Roberts driving a beautiful '65 Impala. Dan Blocker ( Hoss ) being polite and
addressing Agnes Moorhead as "Miss Moorehead". I think that the video may be here on TH-cam somewhere. Also, was Nova and station wagon.
How cool is it to see Wally & the Beav in color?? WHOA!!!
What a riot that you'd see an ad for Ford with Wally & the Beaver, it's even more hilarious that the ad was done on Colonial Street at Universal Studios with the Munsters house right behind them, I'm sure they found something as a showroom on the backlot, you'll have to find more of these rare ads, I get a kick out of these
the Munsters home is right down the block from the Cleaver home. It appears fairly often. i wonder how common 3 minute commercials were...or if this was a special promo.
Though the show was filmed on Colonial St. and the Munster's house was 3 house down from the Cleaver's ,that is not the Munster house behind them. Just because it is a Victorian house does not make it so. Note: In the 1980's all the houses from Colonial St. were moved from their original location to were they are today with the exception of the Cleaver house that was move again because of the movie "The Burbs" and is not part of the Universal tour. The house you see on the tour is from the "Leave it to Beaver" movie .
@@majorneptunejr Interesting fun facts, thanks...
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Well, Ward Cleaver was driving Fords in '57 and '58. But by around '60, I think he (or the shows sponsors) had switched to Plymouths!
This Ford factory visit makes for a great episode of Leave It to Beaver.
I’ve been a LITB fan for decades, but this is the first time I’ve seen Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers playing their characters, filmed in color. Swell! Plenty of color stills out there, so I wonder if there’s more film like this.
i agree this was great seeing wally and the beav in color , i always try to guess what color their clothes are when watching litb , i’m baffled that wally’s letterman swear is blue and yellow , it has black letter amd looks gray on the show
Really Keen!
But would Ward buy Beaver (age 16) a T-Bird? (No, he'd get a real used Falcon. "It's for your own good, Beaver."
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"Wally, these suck. I can't wait until they make the Mustang."
"Wally, these suck. I wanna go see the PLYMOUTHS!"
For several years, my friend David and I watched Leave it to Beaver before school. The show ended at 8:55 and school started at 9:00am. Lucky for us, the school was right behind our houses. We always arrived 30 seconds before the bell rang.
Used to watch Leave it to Beaver before catching the school bus to North Pembroke Elementary school in 1971-73
@@thebreadreport9841What city is North Pembroke in? I went to Pembroke Elementary in Va.Beach,Va.
@@thomasterry1131 Massachusetts
Thanks Fran! That was awesome. I was born in 1968 and love all the nostalgia you share. It always gives me mixed emotions though. I’m happy to see how wonderful we all had it in the past. But it pains me to think that those times are long gone. I love your videos. So please keep up the great content.
I was born in '65. Funny thing about remembering the past. We tend to only remember the good stuff.
It wasn't always so good.
No insulation in the houses.
No air conditioning.
Looking back at old photos, we were pretty darn poor.
No seatbelts in cars.
JFK assassination.
Racial intolerance.
Vietnam.
Construction safety....what safety?
No computers.
No color TV.
Small lawn mower.
Funny thing about all that "bad stuff" is, I didn't even know it existed until decades later.
I miss those days, too.
@@RalphSampson... you can keep most if not all of the technology you have just mentioned.
@@RalphSampson... I was born in 1957. I'll take your "list" over the list of shit today's world has to offer. Any day.
@@RalphSampson...
I was born in 1952 and lived in northern Pennsylvania so a few of the things on your list didn't seem that important. I don't think that I missed air-conditioning all that much, but in the winter I imagine having insulation or better insulation would have made houses and schools at least seem warmer or not hot as heck. If no one had a color tv, how could you miss it? What bothers me is that some tv stations won't air vintage black and white programs.
Seat belts and car seats? I never " missed " them, however, as a child I was injured 2 or 3 times when a car door was shut on my fingers. I don't know why (maybe people are just more careful?) but you rarely see a kid that has had their fingers shut in a car door anymore.
As a quick end, I would almost trade my microwave oven for the better tasting ice cream of 70 years ago. Almost, because I rarely eat ice cream anymore, I no longer crave it as I did as a kid.
*You were B. in '68?!*
( *Poor baby...you missed it all!* )
( *Actually...1964 was 'The Year Everything In America Changed'* )
Didn't Chrysler provide the cars for the Leave it to Beaver show? So I'm surprised The Beaver and Wally are advertising Fords.
In the classic car collection that I managed for six years, we had a 1960 Sunliner with a 352/360 engine. It was, as indicated in this commercial, the hottest engine produced for public use at the time. The Sunliner was a convertible version of the Starliner, which was mentioned in the commercial as the "hot car."
352 with Holley on top. I had one in my 58 ford convertible. Just resting your shoe on the accelerator it got rubber.
So cool seeing those two in color! R. I. P Tony Dow!
this is so neat to see IN COLOR!
RIP Wally 🙏😭✨🌹
Wally is still alive
Died July 27, 2022
@@stardust_memories2260 Man, what a bummer. Wally gone!
In 1960: “How come they got so many kinds of Ford cars?”. In 2022: “How come they don’t have any Ford cars?”
Because their latest cars were junk!
2022..."Hey Wally, how come all the cars look the same"?
@@jaya.0069 No, it's because all you yuppies and new gens don't want cars anymore, just japanese jellybeans
“How come they’re all electric Wally?”
"There's the Mustang, and the Mustang Mach-E...Mr. Wilson's real sore about that name... a Maverick, and the Bronco, and a Mustang coupe...Wally, why are Mom and Dad looking at an Escape?"
RIP Wally ~ Tony Dow April 13, 1945 - July 27, 2022
I never knew they had a car ad. That show had a helluva impact on kids then. Showed how important it is to have both parents. Good show I enjoyed it.
Beaver and Wally in color!! Wow!!
I prefer my beavers colored but in the end its all pink inside.
@@adamn7516You got that right!!!
Yeah sort of
I read that if the show had continued, it would have been in color, and expanded to an hour.
It is interesting to see Wally and the Bever in color.
It certainly is interesting
Interesting, especially considering that the show was sponsored by Plymouth!
Chrysler merely supplied vehicles (primarily Plymouths) to the show in later seasons, but doesn’t appear to have had a combined sponsorship/product placement like Chevrolet had with Bewitched. In fact, Ward Cleaver (and just about everyone else) actually drove Fords in the first two seasons.
@@DavidBugea Wally smashed up Ward’s 62 Plymouth in one later episode.
@@fratzogmopars Yes, I know…trust me, I’ve seen every episode more times than I can count. It seems like once Wally started driving, there were more scenes that included the family car. And since this happened after Plymouth started supplying the show with vehicles, most people only seem to recall Chrysler products in the show.
@@DavidBugea TV shows and cars. They don’t make em like they used to.
@@fratzogmopars It was the '63, and Ward had just got it!
I love LITB and Fords, so this is great! One thing I found interesting is I've never seen LITB in color, so this is cool/different.
Thank you "Classic Car Channel" for this bit of nostalgia. I remember those days when each car line had "character". Cars were "work of art" and each different platform had a personality of its own. You "drove" a car and felt the road, traction, curves, ... underneath it. Each year brought new models that did look different from the previous years and had various colors, shapes, gadgets not like the "homogenized" modern cars of today. Designs advances and competitions were also seen in other industries (motorcycles, farm machinery, stereo consoles, TV-cabinets...). America was great and led the world and (most) of the middle class flourished. For most families, hard work meant that the family was going to make it (financially) - we lived "The American Dream".
Thank you for the memories, thank you for bringing me back to a time of innocence, freedom and optimism (before the war, that is). Ciao, L (Veteran).
00:22 Thats the Munster house in the background. This was filmed on the Universal Studio lot. The Cleaver house was down the street. Keep in mind these are real houses in fenced off neighborhoods. They use these houses over and over for different movies or TV shows. These same houses are still there and used today.
Ooops....sombody already said what I just said.😢
I think that the houses are office buildings on the studio lot. Or storage facilities accessed from the back.
@@stugrant01 They are actual fenced off neighborhoods with complete houses used in movies and TV shows. If they were not fenced off they would be like a regular development of homes.
Gee Wally, me too…
Our family bought a new 6 passenger Country Sedan in 1960. My father traded in a 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood that my mother learned to hate pretty quickly after it was bought, and all but forbid my father to ever buy another new Chevrolet. I remember my family poring over a book given to us by the Ford dealer that allowed you to see all the different full-sized Fords in their different colors...sort of the car equivalent of looking at a catalog of carpet samples. After a lot of back and forth my father (with the family's help) settled on a Belmont Blue wagon with a woven vinyl interior in medium blue. The neat thing about Belmont Blue was that under street lights at night it would look purplish.
BTW, the 1960 Ford full-sizers were so wide that they were actually illegal in some states. Compared to the Brookwood, that Country Sedan barely fit into our near new suburban house's garage...it really was that wide.
Always thought the '60 Ford was a pretty sharp car for the times. (Not that '59 & most any Ford in the '60s wasn't good looking but the '60 was a standout. Could never understand why it was a one-year-only design...
Fun Fact - when Beaver turned 16 he went out and bought a NEW 1964 GTO for himself ! I have new respect for the Beav ! Good Move ! Bet he wishes he still had that one !
Tony Dows first new car was a Corvair, He found it a few years ago!
Bought a 64 GTO IN 1969. I wish I still had it. It was great having a car with its own popular song and yes, mine had “3 deuces and a four speed”
I met Eddie Haskell at convention back in the early 2000's and he said that he owned a few model A street rods.
@@mypolara yeah just read that also
@@mypolara That's good to know! As I was watching this I was saying to myself...if I was a hot looking guy like Wally, the LAST car I would want would be a Ford! LOL
I was 4 years old in 1960. They were still around as I was growing up in the 60s. Love the T-Bird and Galaxie, Beautiful, sexy cars... Gorgeous!
I remember when new car models were a big deal and we all looked forward to new models to see how much they changed from the previous years models. Good times and good memories
I had a Diamond Blue '60 Thunderbird and a Colonial White '62 Falcon Futura. They sure were pretty cars.
I loved the rear wraparound seat in the T.Bird.
@@jaya.0069 Yes. That was excellent passenger packaging by Ford interior designers.
@@solemandd67 I currently own a Diamond Blue 66 Bird... Not bragging, just thought I'd mention it. 😊
I love it when people know the factory name of their car color.
@@oldiesgeek454 Congratulations. I think the '66 is the most handsome of the '64 - '66 "Flair Birds". Motor Trend titled a test drive of a '66, "Aladdin On Autopilot".
It was genius of Ford to design and engineer Thunderbirds to grow up right along with baby boomers while successively retaining their uniqueness which continually attracts people so many years after the model left production.
It's virtually impossible for a Thunderbird not to draw an admiring glance and smile from even the most jaded motorist or pedestrian. Facts 💯
Great Wally and Beaver selling Ford's video. I've never seen this before! Thank you for sharing!
Wait a few years Beav... when you see the new '64 Mustangs?? You'll REALLY love Fords!! 💙
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That was awesome I never knew wally and the beaver were in commericals lol that's cool as a kid in the 70s I grew up watching leave it to beaver and now as 50 year old I had to get it on DVD still watch it all the time!
I watch Beav on DVD almost every day too.
As Wally would say, "Gee, that's corny!" though where we lived the city introduced brand-new all aluminum buses on our line, and when I saw one coming, I start shouting like I'd one the lottery. Kids sure do goofy things...
My dad has a 1960 ford falcon 4 door just like that one. Such a wonderful and rare car today.
My mother owned one. 3 speed on the column and no power steering
One of my favorites shows a s a kid back in the Early 1960's.
Wally actually owned a Corvair Monza that he drove to the set everyday. He was screwing around with some other guys during a break from filming by playing baseball. Wally hit a high pop fly and it landed on a car's windshield and broke it. The car was Steve McQueens.
"actually"
there is a video of him , later in life, and he found the car and worked on it to get it running again
If I was watching this advertisement in 1960, Wally and Beaver would convince me to buy a new Ford.
loved watching leave it to beaver.
I was 6 years old when I went to to Moorehead Ford in Mansfield Ohio to pick up our new red 1960 Ford Starliner. To me the 60 Starliners aer one of the prettiest cars Ford ever produced.
People say that cars aren't exciting like they were back then. I disagree. I'm extremely excited about all the new electric cars coming out. I consider it a renaissance of the auto industry, after decades of boring models that offered little new or exciting.
The very opening show Andy Hardy Street on the ballot of MGM. We even see the exterior of,the Smith house from Meet Me in St. Louis.
What a great commercial! I don’t remember ever seeing this one
Cool to see "Leave It to Beaver" in color.
I noticed that Mr.Cleavor had a 1957 Ford the first two seasons of leave it to Beaver , by 1960 he had a 1960 Plymouth Fury.
You're absolutely right about Ward's choice of cars. I read an article that said his '57 Ford was the one that ended up in the swamp in "Psycho"; it was actually saved and still exists! They had to pull the original V8 to keep it from sinking too fast, though.
@@douglasstark1657 Very interesting!
Well, the first Two seasons were film at Republic Studios and the last Four seasons were filmed at Universal Studios when the show change networks. You can see the original house in color in the background of a few episodes of "Get Smart" .
Ward had a Plymouth starting in 1959. The 1960 seen in Tire Trouble was a Belvedere,not a fury.
They changed sponsors
Fun Fact: In the first season of LTB, the Cleavers owned a White 1957 Ford, the same exact car Janet Leigh drove in Pycho.
That's cool to know! 😊
Yes & in one episode I recall that Beaver broke the front passenger window & got the shock of a lifetime when they left to go somewhere & as they were driving away his dad asked him, to his horror, to roll the window up not knowing his dad had already gotten it fixed! (Amazingly fast service in those days... LoL).
The exact same one? They pulled it out of the swamp & hosed it off? LOL
@@GenerallyGeneralLee I suspect. The silver Nash Healy that SUPERMAN (George Reeves) drove really belonged to William Powell.
@@GenerallyGeneralLee 'Beaver' aired from '57 to '63, so season 1 was about 3 years before Janet drove it in 'Psycho'.
If you watch Leave it to Beaver, the cars in the show were Plymouth/Chryslers.
Also Chevy Corvair
@@ejford5083 first season a Ford Fairlane, after that all Plymouth Fury's. Cars the Cleaver's had. Wally did drive a 1953 Chevy
We had a 1960 Chevy Parkwood Wagon. I loved that thing with the big airplane on the side.
Huge Fan ! Of their show. Most recently : Tony Dow Rest In Peace You will be missed 1945 -2022.
1960, the last model year for the “square birds”. 1961 was the introduction of the “bullet birds” with the new 390 engine.
Kept waiting to see the driver drive the rear bumper into the ground backing down the ramps lol. Pretty steep for cars that long but he did it no problem. Cool video
Wally in the beaver is the most classic Hollywood TV show out there
Such beautiful cars back then unlike today
Oh man, those horizontal fins! My folks bought a 1961 Falcon (Turquiose-y/White top) and years later I took it to college. Would love to have a Starliner! Bob from KCMO
What’s the dirtiest comment ever made on 60s TV? June telling Ward- You were a little hard on the beaver last night!
I remember when the cars were brand new from 1956 on. My favorite back then was a 55 Crown Victoria. My dad had one.
"Falcon, up to 72 dollars less than it's rear engine competitor!"
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Chevrolet Corvair!
And Falcon kicked it's rear engine competitors ass.
@@patrickcannell2258 Probably more like the VW, since the Corvair never came close to competing. Lol
@@wyo1446 Have to say, America sure did love the Falcon. But I'm not sure anybody who bought an automatic was thrilled. A friend of my dad's had a '60 w/"Ford-o-matic". I remember how long we had to wait to pull out on the highway & Even then thought we'd wind up getting killed. Thought we'd never get up to 30! Next door neighbor had Powerglide '60 Corvair & Even with two adults & a whole pile of us neighborhood kids that you'd never put in a car today I don't remember it having to struggle like the Ford did. And later dad had a '62 Club Wagon (3 Spd stick. Don't even think automatic was offered till they finally got some bigger engines & did away with 2spd automatic). I remember there were hills he couldn't even climb in 2nd & since they didn't even give you a synchro 1st gear he'd wind up rolling down backward & starting off in 1st & never up-shifting. His old 36hp '58 Volks Kombi microbus could do better in 2nd (out of 4 gears) than the Ford in 2nd of 3 gears. The Volks barely managed 60 on the highway, the Ford barely 70. (In all fairness he had a friend that later had an absolute bare bones Econoline with the 170 engine & 3spd & it definitely was a lot better)
Not giving you my opinion, just describing my personal life experience with each of these vehicles.
@@DejaView Well, that's why ya test drive before ya buy, lol. They weren't meant to be speedsters, they were meant to be simple, basic, economical, and reliable transportation, and they filled the bill, the public got what they asked for. And it took a Mustang to eclipse them in sales, so they didn't do to shabby.
Very cool! I was watching Bewitched a few days ago and they panned to a lineup of GM muscle. 69 L88 Vette, 69 RS SS convertible Camaro, SS Chevelle and an Impala. She drives a 68 Camaro convertible with a blacked out rear valance. Big Block! I Dream of Genie, Tony drives a GTO and Mike Brady drives a blue 70 Cuda. Those were the days. $.55 a gallon for gas.
Gasoline is still 55 cents a gallon. Its three dollars in tax that we are paying.
@@paulmatulavich7321 Very true!
Gas was still in the 30cent range at that time.
gas was more like 30 cents a gallon pre 1970's - I was there lol
When I started driving in the early '70s, it was about 32 cents - so I got to enjoy the Good-Old-Days for several months before the first oil-crunch!
In “The New Leave it to Beaver” in the 80s, Wally drove an old T-Bird like that.
"Quiet, Beeve... you wanna get hollered at?"
1960, the beginning of a great decade for American car makers.
I remember these cars big and heavy on a windy day they held the road. As a teenager we had 56 Dodge with push button automatic transmission and A/C.
Lived one block south of Jesse R. Ellico Ford in Alhambra, CA. and the neighborhood kids did the same thing every Autumn- ride our bikes up to watch the new models come in. I 'll always remember the day the new T-Bird appeared for 1961 and made such an impression on me that decades later I would own two.
Like the Chevy Nova the Ford Falcon was a great little car. If Detroit had made more cars in that size class, and veered away from 'land yachts' there would have been no need for all of the imports which flooded the country during the oil embargo!
This is too cool. I never saw this before. The funny thing. The show was sponsored by Chrysler. The show featured Chrysler products.
"All seats in a station wagon face forward as they should." Truer words never spoken. Anyone who has barfed after sitting in the back-facing rear seat can attest to this.
I thought that this show was going to leave Peacock Streaming services. Now, I have to not quit anymore in one of these days! Let's go!
I've never seen Wally and the Beave in color at that age.
Ooooh I love this and I love them and the show soo very much! 💜😊
"Gee Wally..what did that creepy Judy Hensler mean when she said we were being 'corporate shills' for doing this?"
I remember this episode…..Beaver climbs in the Starliner and drives it over to Whiteys house.
It was a 1961 Plymouth. Not a Ford Starliner,and Beaver never drove the car. They were monkeying around in it and he knocked the parking brake off and it rolled into the street. The car had a push button torqueflite transmission and there was no “park” button on the transmission. You used an emergency brake for park and there was a release lever under the dash on the left side. Beaver bumped that . Wally found the key and drove it back into the driveway and a cop wrote him a ticket for operating a car without a license.
@@Suddenlyits1960 …..and after Eddie “gave them the business”, Ward grounded them for a week in their room, and after considering that was too hard on Wally and Beav, June snuck in milk and cookies and talked Ward into only grounding them for the weekend. Meanwhile, Beaver was a hero at school and all his friends would sneak over to his bedroom window and hear how Beav did it…..
Is that the one where he gets a ticket
Weird seeing them in color. Watch them every week.
I'll take 3 of each delivered to my climate control warehouse in 1962 lol
Don't bury it underground like the one on the time capsule. True story. It filled with water and ruined the car!
There was an Oldsmobile dealer a block away in the 60s just past the Super 5&10 and a little A&P grocery store... I was sent to for bread and milk occasionally.
I used to go down and watch them unload the cars. This isn't fantasy of a kid world that never existed. Beaver and Wally stuff happened.
I'm drooling watching these old cars. My first car was a 1962 ford falcon. If that car could speak. ( as a kid I got plenty in the back seat of my falcon)
Rest in Peace Wally.
how about the episode where Ward Cleaver is out of town and Beaver takes the car for a joy ride and the next morning June Cleaver asked him, Beaver, weren't you a little hard on the Ford last night.
Never saw any of these commercials. These are good.
Fantastik. Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed !
Fords were used on Leave It To Beaver before Plymouths.
Great commercial! I'd never seen it before...but then, I was only 2 in 1960!
That's odd that these 2 actors were allowed to advertise Ford products. Ford only supplied their cars Leave it to Beaver the first 2 years. By 1959 Chrysler Corporation supplied the show's vehicles (it is in the credits at the end of each show). You would of thought there would of been a clause in their contract.
at least they switched to a better brand of car
Cars were often released in the second half of the previous year so this might have been filmed in, say, August of ‘59 before the cars were even publicly revealed.
Just another attempt to use "children" in advertising! I consider this exploitation. Look how far we have come.
@@chewybrand238
So two actors who are known to have never had a bad thing to say about their career as child actors are somehow being "exploited" for acting in a commercial as the characters they were playing at the time and getting paid for it?? Many actors have pitched for companies in commercials during their career not to mention Leave It To Beaver at that time had Ford as one of the shows sponsors so it would natural to have the shows actors to pitch for them. Seems like you feel that nobody under 18 should ever act because its exploitative.
The Beav, I used to watch that show religiously.
Hey Wally, I didn't know our street was a heavy truck route? That must be why all of Mom's wall hangings are always crooked!
What a charming commercial! I never saw Wally and Beaver in color before. Before the US became Africanized, suburbia and television were so pleasant!
Politics is downstream from Culture, and Culture is downstream from Commercialism.
That's it, I'm on my way to the Ford dealership to check out all the new Ford cars!
This should've been included in the dvd box set of all the seasons. Would have been a cool extra
Very cool.................... 👍🙂
This ad needs a Eddie and Lumpy cameos.
Pretty cool. They were really selling that little efficient Falcon. The Valiant was a more solid ride and competitively priced. Mr. Cleaver would probably agree as he was a Mopar man by then.
Let's go home Bever, that truck driver put something fleshy in my tailpipe and now I can't sit or walk right.
In 1961 we moved to a house along a moderately busy street, east Burnsde Street between 78th and 79th to be specific in Portland, Oregon. Much less traffic back then, and a very different city overall. There was a concrete wall that we would set on and watch the cars go by, naming every one that we could. And I think we were pretty good at it, but then, every car had very unique styling, unlike the cars of today which are more generic.
Wow, that is neatdo!👍 Leave It To Beaver is my FAVORITE tv show!👍❤️
When the Beaver is happy, we're all happy.