8-bit Show & Tell dug up some more versions of ChevyTech! th-cam.com/video/VsVkIy_jNmE/w-d-xo.html ♫ Listen to the heartbeat of America ♪ th-cam.com/video/_MdrOVzvb7I/w-d-xo.html Also, Chevtech is now playable in your browser on archive.org! archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive
One of my dad’s friends used to work for Mercedes, They had this kind of software where you design a car The disk gets sent to the factory. and the card gets made and then sent to the dealership. One of the employees I’m not sure who was playing with it and designed the most vile colour combination and made the car look hideous for a laugh. unfortunately someone sent the wrong disk into the factory and this vile car got made! They only realised their mistake when it arrived on a transporter, they then spent thousands getting the car re-sprayed and reupholstered :-)
So, basically .. It was Chevrolet.com before the internet was mainstream. I mean, that's essentially just a DOS version of any auto manufacturers website today. I actually wonder if this is just a modified version of their actual ordering software. You know, someone comes into the dealer and wants to special order a brand new car. They likely used a system like this to record the features that the customer wants, so they could print it off and send it to the factory to be fulfilled. If that's the case, then it's kind of brilliant, because you are paying them to do the job of their secretary when you brought in the print-off to order your new car.
GM at the time was actually pretty forward thinking with electronics. Doug DeMuro uploaded a video yesterday of a Buick Reatta from the 80s with a factory touchscreen that actually responded extremely well for the 80’s.
2 years ago I was working at a dealership (not Chevy!) and they were using a computer system from 1984. It was way more complicated than this. But you could have used this as a starting point I guess. Anyway, as a retro computer enthusiast it was amusing to use such a system! The novelty eventually wore off though.
@@aidancommenting This was just an attempt to gain attention of the Marketing team for the company I work for in effort to support Clint. Wasn't aware I had to make a video on it, GM, or allow all to see who I subscribe to and identify as legitimate fan or someone trying to help.
I would have spent hundreds of hours messing with car configs, memorizing every single option for every single car, if I had access to this in the 80s. There's wasn't a lot to do then, just re-read the same magazines, but to have individual options and prices available, configure exactly how you wanted it, etc - I can't overstate how amazing that would have been at the time to be able to do from home.
My granddad managed a fleet of Chevy work vehicles for the Sprint company back in the day, and he was a big Chevy fan, so of course he had this on his computer. Seeing that "Heartbeat of America" tagline again was weirdly nostalgic! I'm not a car guy, but when you're three years old and your granddad is showing you DOS, man, everything is interesting! I used to put together dream cars and trucks with this like I knew what I was doing. :) Dang, I miss my granddad. He taught me a lot.
Thinking of it, I probably once did see this demonstrated at a Chevy display at a shopping mall once as kid. Nice of them to show it off, even though I was obviously a kid with no possible way of buying a car.
Thank you for looking through the graphics! I was really curious about the Corvette :) The graphics remind me how I used to mess around in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga 500, doodling all sorts of things. It must have been fun making the art for this little program.
I own a '98 Chevy Cavalier 2.2 RS (2 door) model. Just rebuilt the head gasket and a bunch of other stuff on it since last Fall. She still purrs at over 250k miles! Seeing this though brought me back to when my Aunt owned an 86/87 Cav convertible. So cool!
Cash for Clunkers ended up being the death knell for a of cars from this era, which is why you don't see them on the road much anymore. A bit of a shame, really.
My dad drove a 1987 Chevy Nova 5 door hatch! The Chevy Nova was just a rebadged Toyota Corolla. That car ran forever and got over 50mpg. Thanks for another great piece of content! I love this older, obscure software. A lot of my family members drove those very cars. Most of them were terrible.
Thank you for sharing this! I had a 1988 Chevy Corsica, when I was in high school, in the late 90s. It was a generous hand-me-down from my parents and I loved it. I have many great memories of that "noble steed". There are times where I think about buying one to restore, since it's such a basic car and underappreciated car.
I love these old computer illustrations! Always wonder how they were done, if they hand drew them on graph paper and then put in the coordinates for vectors or if they drew right on screen with the keyboard or mouse (if available at the time).
First commercial mouse is 1983 (for the Apple Lisa) but the first light pen was 1955 and they were in wide use by 1965 to the point they were IBMs input of choice when they sold mainframe computers.
this is now known as the Build Your Own tool on the GM brand websites. i used to work for the call center that did this via phone back in the 90's, and now i work for the company that built and maintains the current BYO tool and the websites. the version we used in the call center was basically a Windows version of what you have there.
My mom had a Sprint, the memories in that tiny car lol. Haven't thought about it in 20 years now haha, I do vaguely remember being able to fill the gas tank for $10 or less in the early 90s.
""Knight Rider 2000", good lord there's a made-for-tv I haven't thought of for a few years. Hilariously, adjusted for inflation the Corvette coupe featured would cost roughly $60,000. They were really proud of that car.
K.I.T.T. in that movie is a redesigned Dodge Stealth (to give it a look of a Pontiac concept car of the time) though and the one in the series was a Pontiac Firebird TransAm.
As a Brit who loves cars and computers this is fascinating. Back then British car magazines did little coverage of American cars beyond the sports cars. That’s why I love watching things like Hoovies Garage as I get to see cars that we never got over here. A friend of mine had an imported Blazer mind in the late 90s and it was nothing but trouble.
Back in late 93 or early 94 my family received a 3 1/2 inch demo floppy from Chrysler. The disk was about the Dodge Neon which was being introduced at the time. It was somewhat similar to this Chevy disk but included full VGA pictures of the car and had some simple animations. I think it even had some simple Adlib or SB music included too!
When I was about 9 years old (mid 90's) I had a Buick floppy for my Commodore 64, it came in a shoebox of copied disks I bought at a garage sale. From memory it was more of a history tour of their older models, quite a few graphics too. We never had Buick as a brand in Australia, so I found it fascinating as a kid to look at all their wacky car designs and features.
Neat. I had the Buick one for the Mac and the disk came with a paper that stated how many errors the program had. We noticed all the specs that were wrong made the GM product look better always at the expense of the competitors!
I am continually fascinated with MS-DOS software. I grew up with MS-DOS. It never came to my full realization of just how much software was created for MS-DOS. I wish I owned a copy of every single software that has been created for MS-DOS. That would be quite the collection to peruse through.
Like your friend 5:31, I do have that exact 1988 Beretta 2-door GT coupe with all those options that you've selected. I bought from my Dad in the early 2000s and I still have it. I take good care of it and I drive it around once in a while. I have other newer vehicles but this one has been in the family for many years and I just love it.
I love how it says the disk is designed for your entertainment. Seeing the list of model names gave me a brief flashback to the final round of Classic Concentration when I used to watch it around 1992. I don’t recall if they were Chevy models but that’s how my brain works. Now we wait for a dealer to get in touch and offer Clint his very own woodgrain Chevy with options chosen from this disk.
My dad bought a 87 Sprint new that had a 3 cylinder but also sold with a turbo. I love that car, 45 mpg city and 54 on highway. No power and you had to cut the AC to pull up a hill in first gear. Not many cars since then with that great mpg rating, but a awesome compact.
9:39 My first car was a '97 Chevy Cavalier. Funny how retro hardware/software is a product of the times it's in, thus giving way to individual context and nostalgia...
Reminds me of my first real computer a Sharp MZ-80A which my Mum bought cheap secondhand at auction, the only tape that came with it had Basic and a Car dealership program in basic! I played around with it, I remember it having Ford Cars of the day and a finance calculator on it. It was definitely bespoke for a local dealership and a very young me found it really interested looking at the code even if I didn't understand it. That old machine taught me basic and made me want more, kept me going until I got my Commodore 64c in 1989 :)
Hey Clint, this is Shane from The Internet Archive. Thanks for archiving this software with us! We've gone ahead and created a version of the software that can be run in the browser via DOSBox. You can find it at archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive Let me know if you ever have other items to convert to emulation.
Fun! Years ago I went to a hoarder house estate sale and found a Ford dealership branded LaserDisc player. Unfortunately, it was at the bottom of a pile of 10 other LD and CED players and they had none of the discs.
I'm totally loading this up on my IBM XT. My main car was an '84 Chevy Celebrity for most of the early-mid 2000s (stupid reliable, actually sold it for a profit in 2012). Thanks Clint!
When I went to the Ford plant here in NE OHIO back around the time when this disc was made, we went into one of the offices for the tour and they had a computer program drawing out cars/trucks on a printer. The printer was basically like a 3D printer with a pen attached and it was drawing out your choice of car/truck that you wanted on a piece of paper. I mean the X, Y looked like todays 3D printers. Also it was just drawing the outline of the car/truck.
@@andreasglantz2294 I was so young and it was so long ago I couldn't remember the name of it (guess I could have looked it up on google). But now that you mention the name it's ringing bells loud and clear. Thanks for reminding me.
I somehow got my hands on Buick’s 1992 and 1993 disks like this when I was a kid. The 1992 disks were custom-printed 5 1/4” floppies in a Buick logo disk. They came in clear protective sleeves so you could see the sweet artwork on the disk and I can still distinctly recall the smell of those vinyl sleeves.
Fun Fact: around this time Chevy's pickup division signed an official sponsorship deal with Brett Engleman who owned and drove The Michigan Ice Monster monster truck and he rebodied the truck with a new 1988 K1500 body and competed as The Heartbeat Of America for a few years.
Most PC builders on TH-cam: Look at my new insane liquid cooling rig for my Ryzen 9 PC! Clint: Look at my new cork feet for my 286 PC Me: Nice cork feet.
@@LGRBlerbs Interesting to note: the production wanted to use the real banshee for the movie. The problem was that it was a handbuilt one off showcar owned by GM. Instead, they licensed the shape from GM and built a replica based on a Mitubishi 3000gt. Videobob Moseley on youtube is the current owner of that car. Now relax officer... You're off duty now.
Thanks for the upload LGR! I was way stoked you found the 86'-87' years! That Chevy R-10 truck you deemed a "70's style" is debatably the worst Chevy truck to work on! One year truck that had the old Silverado bodies with the new TBI/Fuel Injected engines. Cool find and again thanks for the upload!
What a wonderful IBM computer. I never owned an IBM desktop computer. My father owned an IBM laptop that he told me I could have, if I could fix it. I did, and so it became mine. I spent hours on the family Gateway desktop computer. Wonderful memories of playing "Where In The U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego?", "Return To Zork", and "Star Trek 25th Anniversary".
Like, 20 years ago, I was really big on scraping off the cork feet on my vintage systems, and replacing them with rubber feet. Then I found out that rubber feet break down and ruin tables. Those were the days.
My mother had an 88 Caprice. Used it as a taxi in the Greater Toronto Area. Odometer stopped at 200,000km exactly. Trip odo kept running though. Kept it running and on the road until 1999 when it got stolen. By then we estimated 500,000km on it, front passenger door didn't lock. Key wasn't needed to start the engine which fired up every time. Shutting it down was a different story. Had a run on condition for some reason. It was some weird hybrid carburetor/direct fuel injection thing that our mechanic could never get quite right.
So aside from the financing calculator, they might as well have just made a printed catalog with all this information, and probably been able to fit a lot more pictures in it showing what some of the options looked like. But hey, it's the 1980s, and guess what? COMPUTERS.
The only Chevys I rarely saw on german roads back the days was the Baron Cabriolet and the Corvette. I remember holidays in Sweden the early 90's. I saw plenty Chevys there, these cars fascinated me as a kid because I mostly never saw them but on TV. When I recently visit Sweden again, all the US cars were gone, and I saw the same boring Cars as everywhere in Europe :-) Nice memories.
I did a dealer showroom demo for BMW motorcycles back in the 1985 or 86. I did all the cga artwork for it. They had a buy a BMW in europe, drive it around on vacation and then ship it home. Apparently it was cheaper than importing a BMW back in the 80's.
I was blown away to find out gm used computers to map out dimensions into cad software with CNC probes way back in the 70s. Same tech that you see engineers using today but think it's the latest cutting edge tech.
My grandpa bought a black s10 brand new with a chrome rear bumper and red stripes, the only one like it I've ever seen. He gave it to my dad and he would let me shift the gears when I rode with him. Reverse at 40 is fun :p
I remember playing a car building game in the early 90's, you could choose, engine type,size and location. Brake type and adjust the design of the vehicle profile for aerodynamics and then hit the test button and the program would run the vehicle around a track for you and then give you the results of how it performed.
Oh man, what a coincidence. I had a dim memory of playing that _incessantly_ as an early 90s kid, and about a year ago I tracked it down. Assuming you're remembering the same game I was, it's "Car Builder", by Optimum Resources in 1982
I played this game too. I remember putting a snow plow on the front, testing it in the wind tunnel and the program would chastise me for putting that in there.
@@Chocomint_Queen I'll look it up. Thanks, I couldn't remember much, but I thought the concept was cool and spent fair amounts of time tweaking to see what aspects changed.
That Caprice was truly a classic. The program kinda looks familiar, but I'm not sure I remember that floppy case. Maybe, I got it from AOL or a BBS. Although, I did try to visit the autoshow every year & couldn't resist trinkets. I picked up a bag from the first vendor that had them & stuffed it full of stuff. I DO remember Ford Simulator, though. I think the local Dealer had those, when the '89 T-bird came out. At the time, I had an '87 5.0, so I was kinda excited about the new model. The game was pretty cool & reminded me of Test Drive, but without the cool Amiga music. The Berretta & Corsica were good vehicles. They were uncharistically unboxy. The Quad 4 was popular, but I preferred the 3.1. 2nd would get you all the way to 85, which is where Ford digital dashes would top out.
So essencially Need For Speed Underground: Chevrolet Editon '87 Also this reminds me of that movie of that guy that went to the city to buy his dream car one day before his wedding that was a "Trovare" car (an obviously parody of a Lamborgini) and he started to add things to it and it inmediatedly breaks down minutes after he brought it, the dude was at a chair with this fancy early 90's CGI based program that allowed him to customize the car the same way as this one, with fancy futuristic Wipeout-ish sound effects and a sexy voice over as well, one of my all time favorite movies.
I saw the reviews for many of these models when _MotorWeek_ had their Retro Review streams during April and May. I think the Beretta and the Corsica are the poster children of peeling paint.
Special ordering cork feet? They still have those as "appliance" or "furniture" pads that you can just go and buy at a hardware store. (Usually the aisle where they sell those stick-on hooks and stuff like that.) They also will have the rubber and felt stick-on pads too.
12:52 - The "Squarebody" crew cab pickup, Suburban and full size Blazer (and its GMC Jimmy twin) actually remained in production through the 1991 model year, 18 years after they were introduced!
Clint: there are no games on here :,( Me: :,( Clint: *plays the ad program with the same zest and passion as if hes playing a brilliant classic DOS game* Me: :,) I love this channel
Clint, all your friends had Chevys because they could always rely on that great GM quality. Remember kids: a GM car will run like shit longer than most cars will run at all. I'm a GM fanboi by-the-by, I've owned 3 Pontiacs and not a single one of them powered by a Pontiac engine. Oh GM, you are a wonder.
8-bit Show & Tell dug up some more versions of ChevyTech!
th-cam.com/video/VsVkIy_jNmE/w-d-xo.html
♫ Listen to the heartbeat of America ♪
th-cam.com/video/_MdrOVzvb7I/w-d-xo.html
Also, Chevtech is now playable in your browser on archive.org!
archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive
see the USA, in your chev ro let... baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and chevrolet
Now I want a Beretta.
That's VHS quality right there!
btw the next version of the pickup didn't release 'till 88 ;)
The Corvette C4 had the best 80s cheese commercial th-cam.com/video/CP7ijUkgc-4/w-d-xo.html
I’m impatiently waiting for LGR Cars.
We should put Clint in the Trabant with Robert (Aging Wheels) and Alex (aka Clone Robert) from Technology Connections.
Agreed. I've tried mentioning that as well
@@HB45175 I'm fully down with this
I hope with RCR as well, this pandemic sucks.
@@HB45175 *Alec
One of my dad’s friends used to work for Mercedes, They had this kind of software where you design a car The disk gets sent to the factory. and the card gets made and then sent to the dealership. One of the employees I’m not sure who was playing with it and designed the most vile colour combination and made the car look hideous for a laugh. unfortunately someone sent the wrong disk into the factory and this vile car got made! They only realised their mistake when it arrived on a transporter, they then spent thousands getting the car re-sprayed and reupholstered :-)
That's hilarious!
That's amazing, dude! What a cool story
Ahhh, the classic pink and green and tennis-ball yellow! What a combo!
That was immensely stupid. It should have been taken and preserved as a time capsule. You can't do that anymore.
The noise of a old computer in the background, aaahhhhh clint you know how to bring back memories
Lee01Mr it’s strangely calming
I can't hear it over the noise my own computer is making :p
My fan is louder than your fan :p
So, basically .. It was Chevrolet.com before the internet was mainstream. I mean, that's essentially just a DOS version of any auto manufacturers website today. I actually wonder if this is just a modified version of their actual ordering software. You know, someone comes into the dealer and wants to special order a brand new car. They likely used a system like this to record the features that the customer wants, so they could print it off and send it to the factory to be fulfilled.
If that's the case, then it's kind of brilliant, because you are paying them to do the job of their secretary when you brought in the print-off to order your new car.
You got it! Pretty novel stuff at the time.
GM at the time was actually pretty forward thinking with electronics. Doug DeMuro uploaded a video yesterday of a Buick Reatta from the 80s with a factory touchscreen that actually responded extremely well for the 80’s.
2 years ago I was working at a dealership (not Chevy!) and they were using a computer system from 1984. It was way more complicated than this. But you could have used this as a starting point I guess. Anyway, as a retro computer enthusiast it was amusing to use such a system! The novelty eventually wore off though.
LGR Blerbs 🧐
I can't remember if he mentioned it, but those screens used CRT screens. I never thought a car had one built in the dash ever.
I shared this on our internal social media site. Would love to see if this is still available somewhere within the company. #iworkforGM
Nice! Would love to know more if anything comes up that you can share.
Seems a bit unusual that this guy's been on TH-cam for 11 years, no content, no subs and he works for GM.. just an opinion
@@aidancommenting is it a requirement that you need to make videos to be on TH-cam? I wasn't aware
@@hectorg5809 i don't have any videos either. should i be worried?
@@aidancommenting This was just an attempt to gain attention of the Marketing team for the company I work for in effort to support Clint. Wasn't aware I had to make a video on it, GM, or allow all to see who I subscribe to and identify as legitimate fan or someone trying to help.
I love seeing these old, weird softwares
so say we all
I would have spent hundreds of hours messing with car configs, memorizing every single option for every single car, if I had access to this in the 80s. There's wasn't a lot to do then, just re-read the same magazines, but to have individual options and prices available, configure exactly how you wanted it, etc - I can't overstate how amazing that would have been at the time to be able to do from home.
My granddad managed a fleet of Chevy work vehicles for the Sprint company back in the day, and he was a big Chevy fan, so of course he had this on his computer. Seeing that "Heartbeat of America" tagline again was weirdly nostalgic! I'm not a car guy, but when you're three years old and your granddad is showing you DOS, man, everything is interesting! I used to put together dream cars and trucks with this like I knew what I was doing. :)
Dang, I miss my granddad. He taught me a lot.
0:01 Just wanted to say I appreciate you waving to us via the reflection on the monitor. 👋🏼
Thinking of it, I probably once did see this demonstrated at a Chevy display at a shopping mall once as kid. Nice of them to show it off, even though I was obviously a kid with no possible way of buying a car.
It is 1987... It is the future... (insert darksynth song)
I’m imagining cork feet... underneath.
_Good._
I'm imagining cork-grained XT. Cork everywhere!
@@LGRBlerbs They are fantastic! I have three 5150s that I stack so that I can pull or push on them and feel the corky solidity.
Thank you for looking through the graphics! I was really curious about the Corvette :) The graphics remind me how I used to mess around in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga 500, doodling all sorts of things. It must have been fun making the art for this little program.
I’m so happy this channel exists. Keeps me going between LGR episodes.
Also love how your “throwaway” channel is so high quality.
Well I'm glad to see the base coat was a standard option for the Beretta
I own a '98 Chevy Cavalier 2.2 RS (2 door) model. Just rebuilt the head gasket and a bunch of other stuff on it since last Fall. She still purrs at over 250k miles! Seeing this though brought me back to when my Aunt owned an 86/87 Cav convertible. So cool!
My dad owned a Corsica back in the day. Brings back memories.
Cash for Clunkers ended up being the death knell for a of cars from this era, which is why you don't see them on the road much anymore. A bit of a shame, really.
My dad drove a 1987 Chevy Nova 5 door hatch! The Chevy Nova was just a rebadged Toyota Corolla. That car ran forever and got over 50mpg.
Thanks for another great piece of content! I love this older, obscure software. A lot of my family members drove those very cars. Most of them were terrible.
"Look at that generic GM design! Fantastic!"
Nothing like the feeling of bare cork feet running on smooth woodgrain!
Thank you for sharing this! I had a 1988 Chevy Corsica, when I was in high school, in the late 90s. It was a generous hand-me-down from my parents and I loved it. I have many great memories of that "noble steed". There are times where I think about buying one to restore, since it's such a basic car and underappreciated car.
man my dad's 88 corsica lasted like 14 years. drove the hell out of that thing until it disintegrated.
I love these old computer illustrations! Always wonder how they were done, if they hand drew them on graph paper and then put in the coordinates for vectors or if they drew right on screen with the keyboard or mouse (if available at the time).
They did both! They also used graphics tablets and lightpens as inputs
@@nathanczaja sounds like a great idea for an LGR episode :)
First commercial mouse is 1983 (for the Apple Lisa) but the first light pen was 1955 and they were in wide use by 1965 to the point they were IBMs input of choice when they sold mainframe computers.
Oh boy! The 1987 Chevy Nova was a rebadged Toyota Corolla, the best car GM never made!
Nova Twin Cam was a rebadged AE82 Corolla with the 4A-GE. Very interesting little thing
I owned one and put 200k miles on it before my wife totaled it.
The first family car I remember was a gray '87 Chevy Nova. I recall it having very scratchy seats. We ditched it around 1996 for a Saturn.
It was also an insult to the Nova name.
@@benn454 definitely fit with "no va", or "won't/doesnt go" which was said to be why the nova wasn't a big seller in Spanish speaking countries. Lol
this is now known as the Build Your Own tool on the GM brand websites. i used to work for the call center that did this via phone back in the 90's, and now i work for the company that built and maintains the current BYO tool and the websites. the version we used in the call center was basically a Windows version of what you have there.
I drove my '50 Dodge over to a friend's place today and went out for a cruise in his '52 Chevy DeLuxe Sport Coupe that he has owned for over 60 years.
My mom had a Sprint, the memories in that tiny car lol. Haven't thought about it in 20 years now haha, I do vaguely remember being able to fill the gas tank for $10 or less in the early 90s.
My father owned the 1985 hatchback 2-door sprint when I was little. Lasted 16 years.
""Knight Rider 2000", good lord there's a made-for-tv I haven't thought of for a few years.
Hilariously, adjusted for inflation the Corvette coupe featured would cost roughly $60,000. They were really proud of that car.
A new 2020 corvette is about that much, so I guess they're still on track price wise.
K.I.T.T. in that movie is a redesigned Dodge Stealth (to give it a look of a Pontiac concept car of the time) though and the one in the series was a Pontiac Firebird TransAm.
Pretty neat of you to make a disk image of this. Now we can all mess around with the beauty of CHEVTEC
I always appreciate those little updates like that, seems small but it makes the restoration feel really complete and that's fun to know :)
As a Brit who loves cars and computers this is fascinating. Back then British car magazines did little coverage of American cars beyond the sports cars. That’s why I love watching things like Hoovies Garage as I get to see cars that we never got over here. A friend of mine had an imported Blazer mind in the late 90s and it was nothing but trouble.
Back in late 93 or early 94 my family received a 3 1/2 inch demo floppy from Chrysler. The disk was about the Dodge Neon which was being introduced at the time. It was somewhat similar to this Chevy disk but included full VGA pictures of the car and had some simple animations. I think it even had some simple Adlib or SB music included too!
When I was about 9 years old (mid 90's) I had a Buick floppy for my Commodore 64, it came in a shoebox of copied disks I bought at a garage sale. From memory it was more of a history tour of their older models, quite a few graphics too. We never had Buick as a brand in Australia, so I found it fascinating as a kid to look at all their wacky car designs and features.
Brings back memories, my first car was a 1986 Cheva Nova 4 door notchback with a 5 speed manual, no power steering, no air, and AM/FM/Cassette radio.
From my childhood watching American TV, so many cars for the A-Team to trash! Thanks for buying all the Chevies bad guys! ;-)
And B.A. had a GMC Vandura
Neat. I had the Buick one for the Mac and the disk came with a paper that stated how many errors the program had. We noticed all the specs that were wrong made the GM product look better always at the expense of the competitors!
Definitely 1987, as it said to pick a 1988 Beretta at the beginning of the program...
Also in 1988 model year they redesigned some of the trucks.
I am continually fascinated with MS-DOS software. I grew up with MS-DOS. It never came to my full realization of just how much software was created for MS-DOS. I wish I owned a copy of every single software that has been created for MS-DOS. That would be quite the collection to peruse through.
Like your friend 5:31, I do have that exact 1988 Beretta 2-door GT coupe with all those options that you've selected. I bought from my Dad in the early 2000s and I still have it. I take good care of it and I drive it around once in a while. I have other newer vehicles but this one has been in the family for many years and I just love it.
I love how it says the disk is designed for your entertainment.
Seeing the list of model names gave me a brief flashback to the final round of Classic Concentration when I used to watch it around 1992. I don’t recall if they were Chevy models but that’s how my brain works.
Now we wait for a dealer to get in touch and offer Clint his very own woodgrain Chevy with options chosen from this disk.
My dad bought a 87 Sprint new that had a 3 cylinder but also sold with a turbo. I love that car, 45 mpg city and 54 on highway. No power and you had to cut the AC to pull up a hill in first gear. Not many cars since then with that great mpg rating, but a awesome compact.
9:39 My first car was a '97 Chevy Cavalier. Funny how retro hardware/software is a product of the times it's in, thus giving way to individual context and nostalgia...
Man the 80s was not only the golden era for cars, but for computers as well!
Reminds me of my first real computer a Sharp MZ-80A which my Mum bought cheap secondhand at auction, the only tape that came with it had Basic and a Car dealership program in basic! I played around with it, I remember it having Ford Cars of the day and a finance calculator on it. It was definitely bespoke for a local dealership and a very young me found it really interested looking at the code even if I didn't understand it. That old machine taught me basic and made me want more, kept me going until I got my Commodore 64c in 1989 :)
Hey Clint, this is Shane from The Internet Archive. Thanks for archiving this software with us! We've gone ahead and created a version of the software that can be run in the browser via DOSBox. You can find it at archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive
Let me know if you ever have other items to convert to emulation.
Watching you talk about cars so much makes me wish I had more time to talk with you about early 2000s tuner culture at VCFMW
Fun! Years ago I went to a hoarder house estate sale and found a Ford dealership branded LaserDisc player. Unfortunately, it was at the bottom of a pile of 10 other LD and CED players and they had none of the discs.
I'm totally loading this up on my IBM XT. My main car was an '84 Chevy Celebrity for most of the early-mid 2000s (stupid reliable, actually sold it for a profit in 2012). Thanks Clint!
When I went to the Ford plant here in NE OHIO back around the time when this disc was made, we went into one of the offices for the tour and they had a computer program drawing out cars/trucks on a printer. The printer was basically like a 3D printer with a pen attached and it was drawing out your choice of car/truck that you wanted on a piece of paper. I mean the X, Y looked like todays 3D printers. Also it was just drawing the outline of the car/truck.
Eric Marcus You’re describing a plotter.
@@andreasglantz2294 I was so young and it was so long ago I couldn't remember the name of it (guess I could have looked it up on google). But now that you mention the name it's ringing bells loud and clear. Thanks for reminding me.
I somehow got my hands on Buick’s 1992 and 1993 disks like this when I was a kid.
The 1992 disks were custom-printed 5 1/4” floppies in a Buick logo disk. They came in clear protective sleeves so you could see the sweet artwork on the disk and I can still distinctly recall the smell of those vinyl sleeves.
There's probably a recall out for this... :P
We need @RegularCars in here.
More like @ZebraCorner - Mahk loves Chevrolet.
My family was all into GM products growing up. So, this was a perfect birthday treat! Thank you sir!
I love those old trucks, my first truck was an '83 K20!
Fun Fact: around this time Chevy's pickup division signed an official sponsorship deal with Brett Engleman who owned and drove The Michigan Ice Monster monster truck and he rebodied the truck with a new 1988 K1500 body and competed as The Heartbeat Of America for a few years.
Ah yes the good ol 80's, when A/C and window defrost was entirely optional.
Most PC builders on TH-cam: Look at my new insane liquid cooling rig for my Ryzen 9 PC!
Clint: Look at my new cork feet for my 286 PC
Me: Nice cork feet.
Thanks LGR for uploading it to archive.org , i love these old programs and will check the Ford sim.
There's something about watching old floppy discs load up on old IBM's that's just so comfy
Kr2000 indeed! Great memory Clint! Cool theme music too.
Hehe, I watched that so many times on VHS back then. I loved the Pontiac Banshee.
@@LGRBlerbs Interesting to note: the production wanted to use the real banshee for the movie. The problem was that it was a handbuilt one off showcar owned by GM. Instead, they licensed the shape from GM and built a replica based on a Mitubishi 3000gt. Videobob Moseley on youtube is the current owner of that car. Now relax officer... You're off duty now.
The Heartbeat of America. That's Yesterday's Chevrolet.
Thanks for the upload LGR! I was way stoked you found the 86'-87' years! That Chevy R-10 truck you deemed a "70's style" is debatably the worst Chevy truck to work on! One year truck that had the old Silverado bodies with the new TBI/Fuel Injected engines. Cool find and again thanks for the upload!
In excellent condition they are worth $20-$30k right now!
its a miracle that all these old disks works till today ! :-D
I love the car videos on LGR. Musing about the cars that aren't around anymore. Feels hollow man.
What a wonderful IBM computer. I never owned an IBM desktop computer. My father owned an IBM laptop that he told me I could have, if I could fix it. I did, and so it became mine.
I spent hours on the family Gateway desktop computer. Wonderful memories of playing "Where In The U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego?", "Return To Zork", and "Star Trek 25th Anniversary".
Like, 20 years ago, I was really big on scraping off the cork feet on my vintage systems, and replacing them with rubber feet. Then I found out that rubber feet break down and ruin tables. Those were the days.
This took me waaaaaaay back to my 6 year old self learning DOS. Thanks for the time trip. Subscribed.
My mother had an 88 Caprice. Used it as a taxi in the Greater Toronto Area. Odometer stopped at 200,000km exactly. Trip odo kept running though. Kept it running and on the road until 1999 when it got stolen. By then we estimated 500,000km on it, front passenger door didn't lock. Key wasn't needed to start the engine which fired up every time. Shutting it down was a different story. Had a run on condition for some reason. It was some weird hybrid carburetor/direct fuel injection thing that our mechanic could never get quite right.
It's like looking into a time machine, all the way into last week on an old computer running old software
So aside from the financing calculator, they might as well have just made a printed catalog with all this information, and probably been able to fit a lot more pictures in it showing what some of the options looked like. But hey, it's the 1980s, and guess what? COMPUTERS.
The only Chevys I rarely saw on german roads back the days was the Baron Cabriolet and the Corvette. I remember holidays in Sweden the early 90's. I saw plenty Chevys there, these cars fascinated me as a kid because I mostly never saw them but on TV. When I recently visit Sweden again, all the US cars were gone, and I saw the same boring Cars as everywhere in Europe :-) Nice memories.
I did a dealer showroom demo for BMW motorcycles back in the 1985 or 86. I did all the cga artwork for it. They had a buy a BMW in europe, drive it around on vacation and then ship it home. Apparently it was cheaper than importing a BMW back in the 80's.
I was blown away to find out gm used computers to map out dimensions into cad software with CNC probes way back in the 70s. Same tech that you see engineers using today but think it's the latest cutting edge tech.
So the sprint was a suzuki, the spectrum was an isuzu, and the nova was a toyota. Precursor to what became GEO motors in the 90s. Worth researching.
My grandpa bought a black s10 brand new with a chrome rear bumper and red stripes, the only one like it I've ever seen. He gave it to my dad and he would let me shift the gears when I rode with him. Reverse at 40 is fun :p
I remember playing a car building game in the early 90's, you could choose, engine type,size and location. Brake type and adjust the design of the vehicle profile for aerodynamics and then hit the test button and the program would run the vehicle around a track for you and then give you the results of how it performed.
It could be Detroit by Impressions?
Oh man, what a coincidence. I had a dim memory of playing that _incessantly_ as an early 90s kid, and about a year ago I tracked it down. Assuming you're remembering the same game I was, it's "Car Builder", by Optimum Resources in 1982
Ktothe Swiss A modern version of this would be Automation.
I played this game too. I remember putting a snow plow on the front, testing it in the wind tunnel and the program would chastise me for putting that in there.
@@Chocomint_Queen I'll look it up. Thanks, I couldn't remember much, but I thought the concept was cool and spent fair amounts of time tweaking to see what aspects changed.
great reflection in the monitor
Cavalier was replaced with the Cobalt, which was then replaced with the Cruze.
That Caprice was truly a classic. The program kinda looks familiar, but I'm not sure I remember that floppy case. Maybe, I got it from AOL or a BBS. Although, I did try to visit the autoshow every year & couldn't resist trinkets. I picked up a bag from the first vendor that had them & stuffed it full of stuff. I DO remember Ford Simulator, though. I think the local Dealer had those, when the '89 T-bird came out. At the time, I had an '87 5.0, so I was kinda excited about the new model.
The game was pretty cool & reminded me of Test Drive, but without the cool Amiga music. The Berretta & Corsica were good vehicles. They were uncharistically unboxy. The Quad 4 was popular, but I preferred the 3.1. 2nd would get you all the way to 85, which is where Ford digital dashes would top out.
So essencially Need For Speed Underground: Chevrolet Editon '87
Also this reminds me of that movie of that guy that went to the city to buy his dream car one day before his wedding that was a "Trovare" car (an obviously parody of a Lamborgini) and he started to add things to it and it inmediatedly breaks down minutes after he brought it, the dude was at a chair with this fancy early 90's CGI based program that allowed him to customize the car the same way as this one, with fancy futuristic Wipeout-ish sound effects and a sexy voice over as well, one of my all time favorite movies.
We had quite a few of these cars in our fleet back in the day. Not bad for ease of maintenance.
An impressive array of sockets there friend.
WeeoW! good old clint reviewing weird old software and sharing nostalgic tales, heck yes.
If you were into cars back in the 80's and you had this .. I bet you could literally spend HOURS playing around with this
Oh wow, I always had fun with the Buick ones of these back then, but I didn't know that the other GM marques had it too! Neat.
I saw the reviews for many of these models when _MotorWeek_ had their Retro Review streams during April and May. I think the Beretta and the Corsica are the poster children of peeling paint.
I still have my grandfather's 1978 Chevy squarebody 4x4.
Ah the '80s, when a 12% interest rate was considered normal...
Now its normal to see 8 year plans. You take some you lose some...
I sold cars for five years, people do zero down 84 months on 80k dollar Tahoe’s and suburbans. I don’t get it.
@@campaug Those are what's known, to use the highly technical scientific term, as "shortsighted idiots."
In the late 70s/early 80s, mortgage rates could be even higher than that. Car loans could be over 20%!
@Karl Burnett leaseing is much more expensive. Its only cheaper if you want new cars every 3 years...
I daily drive a 87 Monte Carlo LS thats not modified or lowridered to heck at all so this is very awesome to see :)
Special ordering cork feet? They still have those as "appliance" or "furniture" pads that you can just go and buy at a hardware store. (Usually the aisle where they sell those stick-on hooks and stuff like that.) They also will have the rubber and felt stick-on pads too.
12:52 - The "Squarebody" crew cab pickup, Suburban and full size Blazer (and its GMC Jimmy twin) actually remained in production through the 1991 model year, 18 years after they were introduced!
Clint: there are no games on here :,(
Me: :,(
Clint: *plays the ad program with the same zest and passion as if hes playing a brilliant classic DOS game*
Me: :,) I love this channel
Neat. I definitely remember the Ford software from the 90s, but never seen this before.
Clint, all your friends had Chevys because they could always rely on that great GM quality. Remember kids: a GM car will run like shit longer than most cars will run at all.
I'm a GM fanboi by-the-by, I've owned 3 Pontiacs and not a single one of them powered by a Pontiac engine. Oh GM, you are a wonder.
I've owned a chevy powered by a pontiac and a pontiac powered by a chevy 😁
A Celebrity has never driven a Chevy Celebrity, and the Monte Carlo was never driven in Monte Carlo!
I remember the Sprint Turbo being really fast when they came out.
I had a 1987 G-20 Chevy van, last year! I put a bunch of money into fixing it up and then, I donated it to Denver homeless program.