In high school my best buddy talked his mother into buying a 1961 Impala… stripped. However, the goodies under the hood included the now legendary 409 mated to a 3 on-the-tree shift with a drag rated rear axle. Bench seats, solid black, dog bowl hubcaps on steel wheels and dual exhaust. Many a night we went to the bridges spaced 1/4 mile apart in Trinity River bottomlands. Never beaten. His mom never found out. He wound up with his own ride later… ‘55 Chevy with self-installed 4 speed floor shift and a highly machined 283… very sweet ride. Yeah, I still can remember being a teen… amazing now, just life then.
I had no idea the Maserati Quatroporte began so early. What a stunner! The '61 GM lineup was beautiful, but the Lincoln eclipsed the Cadillac visually. The smaller Dodge and Plymouth are definitely an acquired taste. Great video!
Cadillac looked much more exciting than Lincoln for 1961 with Jet Age looks.. That 1961 design really popped !.. Lincoln looked dowdy and boring by comparison.. Just my opinion.. Big Chryslers looked solid and aspirational, but Dodge and Plymouth, not so much. Very awkward looking, those.
When I was 4 years old, My father bought a 1961 Cadillac "bubbletop" Coupe de Ville.. Traded for another new Coupe de Ville in 1964, another Cadillac Coupe de Ville in 1967 and another Coupe de Ville in 1970.. Those were great reliable cars with powerful engines. Gasoline was cheap. During the 1960s American families drove the great American vacation to national parks like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and others.. A great time to grow up !
I noticed your channel yesterday. I began watching some of the uploads. Wow. Being a car enthusiast (especially American Muscle cars) this is right up my alley. I can remember all the cars my parents owned and drove over the years. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for posting, many of us antique car enthusiasts appreciate your thorough research and perfectly-paced delivery. The Mercuries, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles were exceptionally attractive for 1960. Thanks again!
This video was comprehensive. You put some effort into this video and some work. You covered the world and so many brands. I am impressed and I was sitting here watching the video thinking where did he find the time to do this video? Just wow and Bravo. Did like you covered so many cars globally. I will say one thing for all these cars they all had character and distinction. It was indeed variety. We do not see this anymore today.
As a Ford man through and through I have to say that the 61 "bubbletop" Chevrolet has got to be one of the prettiest cars to come out Detroit in the 60's if not ever and the steering wheel, a one year only item is a work of art in itself.
Showed up on my feed, awesome presentation! Originally from Flint, everyone in the family worked for GM in some capacity. My Uncle was lead at age 25, Engineering at AC Delco. He went on to play a pivotal role and had his hand or stamp on virtually everything that came out of AC Delco from 63 on through OBD1. He transferred to overseeing European operations based out of Southport England for a few years to be brought back for the new "at the time" Pontiac instrument cluster glass which required what he said was "a crap tonne of math" to get the correct shape. (87 or 88? Not sure) and then the New Presidential Limos. Had always asked and or mentioned that he should have wrote it all down but to him it was just a job and he could have cared less. He passed away last Sept
Those big 60s cars didn’t need backup cameras. When pulling out of that cramped parking space you just kept backing until you heard the crunch and pulled forward.
Love your videos; They cover the automotive gambit of marques world wide pretty well. It's quite interesting to see all these automotive designs from around world. Thank You again for a excellent, & very well done video.
The Rambler Ambassador at 2:46 and then later Rambler models were the biggest selling cars sourced from US parts in Australia. Similar story for a while with locally assembled Studebakers selling well. Selected Rambler models were assembled at the Australian Motor Industries (AMI) factory at Port Melbourne from 1961 to 1974 in right hand drive. Fitted with as much Australian content as possible like upholstery, paint and springs . AMI also assembled Triumph, Standard, Mercedes and the Toyota. The Toyotas assembled here starting in 1963 or so were the first Toyotas assembled outside Japan. Toyota were very interested in the Mercedes Benz 220S and 220SE (a smaller engine simpler version of the 300SE at 17:54) being assembled by AMI. Useful to compare the Mercedes OHC 2.2 litre six with the later Crown 2.3 litre ohc six. Toyota liked AMI so much that they bought the company and had them concentrate on Toyotas only Most of the other US cars only made it to Australia in tiny numbers as high taxed imports needing expensive local conversion to right hand drive. Lots of the british models made it here unless they duplicated or cannibilised local Holden, Ford or Chrysler parent companies lically made models. The non luxury cars were usually locally assembled to keep prices down
If I may.. you misspoke the engine size on the '61Merc at 4:09: not 252 but 352! also, as a point of clarification the Monterey Marauder of 1961 refers to its engine.. the Marauder as a body style with semifastback styling came out in 1963.
I eventually swapped it for a 1960 Caddy that had belonged to Johnny Cash, wish I still had it:( th-cam.com/video/qK27BjUtJsM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=gareth5000
“It’s My Party” was my favorite song as a child sitting in the back seat of my parents station wagon, no seat belts and the windows rolled up (manually) with my parents smoking one cigarette after another! Yep, those were the days (cough)!
Having learned to drive in a new 1960 Mercury I can testify that the end of the era of the 60’s “land barge’ is not a loss for driving enthusiasts. Floaty and boaty with no feel of the road in the steering and totally inadequate brakes. Tire squealing through corners was common at low speeds. When you backed up you could tell when to stop by the sound of the crunch into a nearby object.
This was drool-worthy nostalgia. And as for oddity, let's not forget the Pontiac, which went to hella crazy tailights, such that the rear of the car was wider than the front, getting some stuck. The next year Pontiac threw in the towel and just put two little dots on each side.! Great collection of UK and other cars ot other countries Thanks for your hard work! I'm going to go build a time machine now.
My Dad bought 1961 Nomad wagon woth a 283 V8, it had a rear facing 3rd seat, beautiful wagon. Traded for a 65 Impala wagon which was tradedfor a 70 Buick Eatate wagon.
My parents had a '65 Chevy wagon. What a beast! My dad said he could fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood *inside* it, seats down, of course. Try that today with your average wagon-wannabe SUV!
My first decent car was an all metallic aqua '60 Montclair 2-door hardtop with a 430 cu in V8 I bought in '65. It only had 28k miles & was spotless. I paid $800 for it. Great highway cruiser & I triple dated often due to the huge interior. At a time when buddies were driving '55-'57 Chevies, fifties Fords & odd hand me downs, the Merc stood out. Buried the needle around 3 A.M. on I-96 just outside of Detroit to see what that 430 could do. The Merc was rock solid & held to the road very well. Of course, I got caught by the state police with one dandy of a ticket, 120 in a 70. The trooper said I was going faster but 50 over was considered reckless driving. Got drafted & went into the Army two days later, saved me from a suspended license. Great times, great memories.
@@thehopelesscarguy The great thing about growing up on the southwest side of Detroit in the 50s through the 70s was all the cars & trucks that friends, neighbors & relatives owned. Most folks worked in the auto industry & drove some sweet rides. It was a gearhead's paradise. Cruising was in it's prime & gas was cheap. Woodward, Gratiot &Telegraph avenues was for cruising, College & Stecker roads was the place to be for late night street racing. Saw some crazy stuff. One night Gratiot auto supply had a AA fuel dragster that one of the guys tried to run on Gratiot. The cops were waiting for him at the end of the store driveway. Thank you for refreshing my memory of a bygone era. Keep the reviews coming.
I remember the cars in the 60s, but it was the early to mid 70s when cars got really big. There was a 74' Imperial in my neighbourhood that dwarfed my Mom's 69' Plymouth wagon.....and that's saying something because we couldn't close the garage door with her car parked in it. No Cadillac or Lincoln was outlawed on 8 state's roads, but the Imperial was.
Mid-70s crash protection regulations could add as much as 8 inches to already huge cars, and optional bumper guards could add another 4 inches. Not exactly the same long and low look of the 60s.
@@thehopelesscarguy four across in the front and back seats is what I remember. My middle brother was 6'-1 1/2" tall and he could lay across the trunk floor in our buddy's 71' NewYorker. My school principal used to tow a 10,000lb airstream with his high compression 69' NewYorker. Only mod was mosquito netting behind the grill, ahead of the radiator. Said it did it effortlessly with the torque of that 440.
1962 Chrysler, had many a New Yorker with the 413, 300 coupe 383, and a Newport 361 fun rides they were but at the time all over 20 years old ... fun rides many memories
My parents had a 1960 Edsel Ranger. I don’t know if it was true or a joke, but I remember being told Illinois vehicle code required rooftop clearance lights (like on truck cabs) on them.
I want to add more praise for your photographs of those beautiful British & continental European cars! One suggestion though, please name the source builder countries, in some cases they are simply not at all familiar to us Americans. Thank you again.
Impala Ford galaxie are big cars. But the ones you finish up with from Europe and Japan, I never thought about them being large cars. But I guess large is from different perspectives.
The 1961 Chevys had a great front metal grill with horizontal & Vertical lines, If you used flat black paint on the metal parts of the Vertical grill it looked like you had a custom tubular grill installed.
Several of these are some of the most ravishing and dramatically styled automobiles ever seen anywhere-- it could be argued that the late 50's domestic automobiles were even more historically styled, but in my opinion they were over-reaching, and this period represents a welcome moderation and return to tastefullness-with-drama. To me, these cars are in fact real examples of sculpture, at a time in which the sculpting of metal was a labor of love, instead of a by-product of nonhuman technology.
@thehopelesscarguy Yeah, I think this is why your channel here is such a draw, and so enjoyable. One after another, these pristine examples of this period of great design in automobiles. I always look at them and wonder just why they're such impressive things. I think it's many things, but mostly it's because they're somehow more *real* than modern automobiles.
From 15:28 the Peugeot 404, The Simca Vedette and the Citroen simpler ID 19 were all assembled in Australia. The Simca Vedette being built in the parent Chrysler plant until local Valiant production kept up with demand. A Chrysler with the weakest Ford V8.
I didn't see the 1960 Buick LeSabre in this video. It was 217 inches long, and 80 inches wide, with a wheelbase of 123 inches. The 364 cid V8 gave it 254 h.p. It was definitely one of the largest cars ever made.
It's no coincedence that the Opel Kapitan P2 shown at 12.35 carries the name of the biggest classic car dealer of the Netherlands; Gallery Aaldering, on its numberplate. Because they, and its smaller sister the Opel Rekord P2, were very popular in the Netherlands. First with the upper and middle class shopkeepers and farmers, giving it its nickname 'Boerenopel'/Farmersopel, and later on with the black leather jacket greasy haired rocker crowd, as their winter vehicle of choice, because they rode motorbikes in summer. Didn't do the reputation of the brand any good.😏
I don't know. I like the 64 Galaxie, but I prefer the 63 Impala, and it just wasn't a great period for the Mopars unless quirky is your thing. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
Quite a long list, but how come you missed the 800 lb gorilla from Mercedes, the LEGENDARY 600 and 600 Pullmann?? it was the favorite of heads of state and dictators, and was made from 1963 to 1981.
Today, these cars do not fit in todays garages, the garages are to short. T know, cannot find garages to put my vehicle in for the night. So sad. 👍👍👍. 7-15-2023
Other than the Chevrolet Impala---I don't like the styling of any of those cars of the early 1960s---domestic or foreign! The front grilles and lights are especially grotesque and disturbing. Whoever designed these cars---were they on drugs? Chevrolet, in my opinion, was the only auto manufacture who did proper styling
@@thehopelesscarguy Yeah get to the 64 compact fairlanes and the galaxies and of course the Mustang...even the big falcons but the Cara around 1960 looked odd. Many manufacturers did as they seemed to use strange shapes and styles including crazy complex lights and so on. Fortunately it was short lived.
Your big cars of the 60s really pissed me off: It was longer and didnt get the point with descriptions of all other cars. Two, and most important was the very aggrevating usage of litre sizes! The sizes were in c.i! These are American cars not British and during the years they were referred to in c.i. sizes! Nimrod! This is not Europe!! You are trying to force Americans to use metrics and making them for places that don't use US measurements. This is the only and last video I will watch of yours.
In high school my best buddy talked his mother into buying a 1961 Impala… stripped. However, the goodies under the hood included the now legendary 409 mated to a 3 on-the-tree shift with a drag rated rear axle. Bench seats, solid black, dog bowl hubcaps on steel wheels and dual exhaust. Many a night we went to the bridges spaced 1/4 mile apart in Trinity River bottomlands. Never beaten. His mom never found out. He wound up with his own ride later… ‘55 Chevy with self-installed 4 speed floor shift and a highly machined 283… very sweet ride. Yeah, I still can remember being a teen… amazing now, just life then.
Different days.
My Dad was designer GM Tech Center. Warren, Mi..1955-1986 ... he designed aspects of Buick and Cadillac when it was "FISHER BODY"
Fisher was around a long time.
Long bench seats that were perfect for lovers. No seat belts. Silly baby booster seats. No shock absorbing bumpers. Boy, those were the days!
I've slept on cots smaller than some of those seats, seat belts were a luxury option, and safety was in the hands of the driver.
@@thehopelesscarguy Absolutely, if bad driver driving no seat belts would help.
We never wore them anyway.
@@davidpancerev9658 When I took my drivers test they wanted them worn, so I had stopped spend 5 minutes trying to dig them out from under the seat.
Just ask the people who died in those cars that had no safety devices.
Another well-researched video with excellent photos. I absolutely LOVED the ‘61 Buicks. Thanks, HCG! 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Totally love the '61 Pontiac Olds Buick & Cadillac offerings.
I had no idea the Maserati Quatroporte began so early. What a stunner! The '61 GM lineup was beautiful, but the Lincoln eclipsed the Cadillac visually. The smaller Dodge and Plymouth are definitely an acquired taste. Great video!
Thanks, once again.
Cadillac looked much more exciting than Lincoln for 1961 with Jet Age looks.. That 1961 design really popped !.. Lincoln looked dowdy and boring by comparison.. Just my opinion.. Big Chryslers looked solid and aspirational, but Dodge and Plymouth, not so much. Very awkward looking, those.
When I was 4 years old, My father bought a 1961 Cadillac "bubbletop" Coupe de Ville.. Traded for another new Coupe de Ville in 1964, another Cadillac Coupe de Ville in 1967 and another Coupe de Ville in 1970.. Those were great reliable cars with powerful engines. Gasoline was cheap. During the 1960s American families drove the great American vacation to national parks like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and others.. A great time to grow up !
I noticed your channel yesterday. I began watching some of the uploads. Wow. Being a car enthusiast (especially American Muscle cars) this is right up my alley. I can remember all the cars my parents owned and drove over the years. Keep up the great work.
Thanks. Glad you have you among us.
Thank you for posting, many of us antique car enthusiasts appreciate your thorough research and perfectly-paced delivery.
The Mercuries, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles were exceptionally attractive for 1960.
Thanks again!
Thank you.
This is like ten videos made in to one. So much of great information and so well done. Such a joy to view this video.
Thanks.
@@thehopelesscarguy You are welcome.
This video was comprehensive. You put some effort into this video and some work. You covered the world and so many brands. I am impressed and I was sitting here watching the video thinking where did he find the time to do this video? Just wow and Bravo. Did like you covered so many cars globally. I will say one thing for all these cars they all had character and distinction. It was indeed variety. We do not see this anymore today.
Thanks. I spent some time on this one, wasn't sure I was going to make my deadline.
Absolutely 💯% True
@@thehopelesscarguy You more than made it! You nailed it!
@@OLDS98 Thanks, again.
Great show ! I love these oldies , please do a segment on 70s and 80 mid to full-sized RWD cars .
I will get there eventually.
As a Ford man through and through I have to say that the 61 "bubbletop" Chevrolet has got to be one of the prettiest cars to come out Detroit in the 60's if not ever and the steering wheel, a one year only item is a work of art in itself.
It is a very distinct design and not as conservative as later Chevys.
@@thehopelesscarguy Had the 61 bel air hardtop and 61impala sedan hardtop with 348 block.
@@alfredbisson9997 Nice.
Boy, some of those cars got over 20 mpg on leaded gas with a car that weighed 2 tons! We should go back there!
Showed up on my feed, awesome presentation!
Originally from Flint, everyone in the family worked for GM in some capacity.
My Uncle was lead at age 25, Engineering at AC Delco. He went on to play a pivotal role and had his hand or stamp on virtually everything that came out of AC Delco from 63 on through OBD1.
He transferred to overseeing European operations based out of Southport England for a few years to be brought back for the new "at the time" Pontiac instrument cluster glass which required what he said was "a crap tonne of math" to get the correct shape. (87 or 88? Not sure) and then the New
Presidential Limos.
Had always asked and or mentioned that he should have wrote it all down but to him it was just a job and he could have cared less.
He passed away last Sept
That is a shame. I'm sure he had an amazing amount of knowledge, and I'm sorry for your loss.
Those big 60s cars didn’t need backup cameras. When pulling out of that cramped parking space you just kept backing until you heard the crunch and pulled forward.
Well that and they had something called rear visibility.
Love your videos; They cover the automotive gambit of marques world wide pretty well. It's quite interesting to see all these automotive designs from around world. Thank You again for a excellent, & very well done video.
Thank you.
The Rambler Ambassador at 2:46 and then later Rambler models were the biggest selling cars sourced from US parts in Australia. Similar story for a while with locally assembled Studebakers selling well.
Selected Rambler models were assembled at the Australian Motor Industries (AMI) factory at Port Melbourne from 1961 to 1974 in right hand drive. Fitted with as much Australian content as possible like upholstery, paint and springs .
AMI also assembled Triumph, Standard, Mercedes and the Toyota. The Toyotas assembled here starting in 1963 or so were the first Toyotas assembled outside Japan. Toyota were very interested in the Mercedes Benz 220S and 220SE (a smaller engine simpler version of the 300SE at 17:54) being assembled by AMI. Useful to compare the Mercedes OHC 2.2 litre six with the later Crown 2.3 litre ohc six. Toyota liked AMI so much that they bought the company and had them concentrate on Toyotas only
Most of the other US cars only made it to Australia in tiny numbers as high taxed imports needing expensive local conversion to right hand drive.
Lots of the british models made it here unless they duplicated or cannibilised local Holden, Ford or Chrysler parent companies lically made models. The non luxury cars were usually locally assembled to keep prices down
I know very little about the Australian market, but I am learning. Thanks.
If I may.. you misspoke the engine size on the '61Merc at 4:09: not 252 but 352! also, as a point of clarification the Monterey Marauder of 1961 refers to its engine.. the Marauder as a body style with semifastback styling came out in 1963.
You are correct.
My first car was a 4 door 63 Belair with a 283 2 barrel and a 3 on the tree. It was a factory black with red interior.
NIce
My first car was a ‘63 Grand Prix. White with white leather bucket seats, automatic on the floor and a tach. Don’t know anything about engine sizes.
Cool video.
I like that it’s not just American cars, but from around the world, wit a 3 “Iron Curtain “ cars.
📻🙂🚗👍
Glad you liked it.
My first car was a 4 door 1963 Ford Galaxie with a 390 engine and no power steering or power brakes. It was a beast to drive but I enjoyed it
I bet.
Enjoyed the second half of the video, seen many European cars across Canada as a kid growing up back in the sixties!
Nice to hear.
I used to have a 68 Lincoln when I was 17. That was in Wales where most people drove Ford Escorts😁
Wow. Talk about owning the road.
I eventually swapped it for a 1960 Caddy that had belonged to Johnny Cash, wish I still had it:(
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Love the black Edsel 2dr hdtp. And the Dodge with the ram air hood.
A taste for the less common it seems.
Love the styling of those early sixties Fiats!
With the raised eyebrows?
I enjoyed this. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The cars of my childhood. Just watching this video takes me back.
Nice to hear.
“It’s My Party” was my favorite song as a child sitting in the back seat of my parents station wagon, no seat belts and the windows rolled up (manually) with my parents smoking one cigarette after another! Yep, those were the days (cough)!
I hear you.
Having learned to drive in a new 1960 Mercury I can testify that the end of the era of the 60’s “land barge’ is not a loss for driving enthusiasts.
Floaty and boaty with no feel of the road in the steering and totally inadequate brakes. Tire squealing through corners was common at low speeds. When you backed up you could tell when to stop by the sound of the crunch into a nearby object.
Few big cars of this era had adequate brakes, and handling certainly wasn't the priority.
This was drool-worthy nostalgia. And as for oddity, let's not forget the Pontiac, which went to hella crazy tailights, such that the rear of the car was wider than the front, getting some stuck. The next year Pontiac threw in the towel and just put two little dots on each side.! Great collection of UK and other cars ot other countries Thanks for your hard work! I'm going to go build a time machine now.
Good luck.
My dad had a 1960 Pontiac Chieftain 2 Dr.
That was a great looking car
Nice.
My Dad bought 1961 Nomad wagon woth a 283 V8, it had a rear facing 3rd seat, beautiful wagon. Traded for a 65 Impala wagon which was tradedfor a 70 Buick Eatate wagon.
Nice progression of wagons.
A fun video. Great photographs too.
Glad you liked it.
That opening '63 Chevy ad was in National Geographic (!) "Jet-smooth Chevrolet" all coil springs will do that for you.
Good eye, and memory.
My parents had a '65 Chevy wagon. What a beast! My dad said he could fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood *inside* it, seats down, of course. Try that today with your average wagon-wannabe SUV!
Agreed. Most full sized wagons could hold a sheet of plywood until downsizing of the late 70s.
Fantastic channel! I'm addicted. 👍
Glad you enjoy it!
My first decent car was an all metallic aqua '60 Montclair 2-door hardtop with a 430 cu in V8 I bought in '65. It only had 28k miles & was spotless. I paid $800 for it. Great highway cruiser & I triple dated often due to the huge interior. At a time when buddies were driving '55-'57 Chevies, fifties Fords & odd hand me downs, the Merc stood out. Buried the needle around 3 A.M. on I-96 just outside of Detroit to see what that 430 could do. The Merc was rock solid & held to the road very well. Of course, I got caught by the state police with one dandy of a ticket, 120 in a 70. The trooper said I was going faster but 50 over was considered reckless driving. Got drafted & went into the Army two days later, saved me from a suspended license. Great times, great memories.
Wow, thanks for sharing.
@@thehopelesscarguy The great thing about growing up on the southwest side of Detroit in the 50s through the 70s was all the cars & trucks that friends, neighbors & relatives owned. Most folks worked in the auto industry & drove some sweet rides. It was a gearhead's paradise. Cruising was in it's prime & gas was cheap. Woodward, Gratiot &Telegraph avenues was for cruising, College & Stecker roads was the place to be for late night street racing. Saw some crazy stuff. One night Gratiot auto supply had a AA fuel dragster that one of the guys tried to run on Gratiot. The cops were waiting for him at the end of the store driveway. Thank you for refreshing my memory of a bygone era. Keep the reviews coming.
@@robertchristie9434 Very cool.
I remember the cars in the 60s, but it was the early to mid 70s when cars got really big. There was a 74' Imperial in my neighbourhood that dwarfed my Mom's 69' Plymouth wagon.....and that's saying something because we couldn't close the garage door with her car parked in it. No Cadillac or Lincoln was outlawed on 8 state's roads, but the Imperial was.
Mid-70s crash protection regulations could add as much as 8 inches to already huge cars, and optional bumper guards could add another 4 inches. Not exactly the same long and low look of the 60s.
@@thehopelesscarguy four across in the front and back seats is what I remember. My middle brother was 6'-1 1/2" tall and he could lay across the trunk floor in our buddy's 71' NewYorker. My school principal used to tow a 10,000lb airstream with his high compression 69' NewYorker. Only mod was mosquito netting behind the grill, ahead of the radiator. Said it did it effortlessly with the torque of that 440.
@@malcolmhamilton5200 I bet it was. I knew a guy with a 69 New Yorker, a bit sluggish off the line, but once it was rolling, nothing could stop it.
Great review of lovely cars!
Glad you liked them.
I absolutely loved my 1964 Dodge Dart, if I could I would get another one. Love from Marysville, California
I wouldn't mind one myself.
Pity the 1963 Holden from Australia didnt get a mention
It probably should have, but I shifted where I was going to put it, mostly because of its competitors.
I'd like to see you do a video of 1955 to 1970 ambulance and hearse.
That is an interesting idea.
1962 Chrysler, had many a New Yorker with the 413, 300 coupe 383, and a Newport 361 fun rides they were but at the time all over 20 years old ... fun rides many memories
Nice.
My parents had a 1960 Edsel Ranger. I don’t know if it was true or a joke, but I remember being told Illinois vehicle code required rooftop clearance lights (like on truck cabs) on them.
Although far from a small car, I don't think the height was the issue. 😀
@@thehopelesscarguy I wasn’t clear. Sorry ‘bout that. It was due to width. I understand it’s width was second only to the Lincoln Continental Mk II.
I want to add more praise for your photographs of those beautiful British & continental European cars!
One suggestion though, please name the source builder countries, in some cases they are simply not at all familiar to us Americans.
Thank you again.
I do try to group them by country or name the location.
I just love the 1960s Mercury brand❤
They did still have their own style then.
That black Plymouth convertible is gorgeous
I like it.
Impala Ford galaxie are big cars. But the ones you finish up with from Europe and Japan, I never thought about them being large cars. But I guess large is from different perspectives.
Yeah, it is all relative. And will be problematic for these videos well into the 80s.
Awesome educational thank you sir!
Thank you.
Ooooooh, I love the Plymouth convertible shown at 0:54.
It does have the look.
The 1961 Chevys had a great front metal grill with horizontal & Vertical lines, If you used flat black paint on the metal parts of the Vertical grill it looked like you had a custom tubular grill installed.
Cool.
Several of these are some of the most ravishing and dramatically styled automobiles ever seen anywhere-- it could be argued that the late 50's domestic automobiles were even more historically styled, but in my opinion they were over-reaching, and this period represents a welcome moderation and return to tastefullness-with-drama.
To me, these cars are in fact real examples of sculpture, at a time in which the sculpting of metal was a labor of love, instead of a by-product of nonhuman technology.
When cars were allowed to have style.
@thehopelesscarguy Yeah, I think this is why your channel here is such a draw, and so enjoyable. One after another, these pristine examples of this period of great design in automobiles. I always look at them and wonder just why they're such impressive things. I think it's many things, but mostly it's because they're somehow more *real* than modern automobiles.
I own a 1963 Buick Electra sports coupe and love the whole damn thing
From 15:28 the Peugeot 404, The Simca Vedette and the Citroen simpler ID 19 were all assembled in Australia.
The Simca Vedette being built in the parent Chrysler plant until local Valiant production kept up with demand. A Chrysler with the weakest Ford V8.
Well they say flatheads are forever.
Really informative thanks.
Thank you.
I didn't see the 1960 Buick LeSabre in this video. It was 217 inches long, and 80 inches wide, with a wheelbase of 123 inches. The 364 cid V8 gave it 254 h.p. It was definitely one of the largest cars ever made.
Quattroporte sounds exotic but it is just Italian for Four Door. Lol.
Yep.
5:57 Olds' rear ends looked so hot in '61. 16:57 Those Facel Vegas were ex-pen-seev!
Agreed.
I think if we’re looking at the early 60’s the weird final Exner Imperial for 61-63 should have been featured instead of the 64-66 version.
Yeah, it was a tough call.
How cool is that Starliner at 2:02
Was that a Starliner?
@@thehopelesscarguy: Definitely.
Got my license in a 63 Galaxy XL, had to parrralel park that beast.
Sounds like you both survived.
more than many realize going on over the years!
There were a few.
I got a 1966 Chrysler New Yorker 4 Door Hardtop and it's 18 1/2 feet long and just under 5,000 pounds.
Cool beans.
0:47 why are we putting lift kits on these cars? Is this a 4x4 now?
The tires don't exactly fill the wheel openings.
What lift kits?
Plymouth may have goofed in 1962, but they would get things back together again in 1965!
Great vid!!!!
Thanks.
The Rolls Royce Was A Beautiful Car in The Early 60s ❤.
It had a classic look.
I had a Satellite in the 60s very large!
But not Impala large, and defiantly not Lincoln large.
WHEN GAS WAS 12 CENTS/GAL ...NO PROBLEM!!
Sure.
It was a problem for many, average US worker wage in 1960 was around $40wk.
Why were so many cars of this size only 2 door?
Actually most of them came in several body styles. It is just that most that remain are 2 door.
They had some Pretty Cars in Europe in the 60s
Some interesting ones for sure.
It's no coincedence that the Opel Kapitan P2 shown at 12.35 carries the name of the biggest classic car dealer of the Netherlands; Gallery Aaldering, on its numberplate. Because they, and its smaller sister the Opel Rekord P2, were very popular in the Netherlands. First with the upper and middle class shopkeepers and farmers, giving it its nickname 'Boerenopel'/Farmersopel, and later on with the black leather jacket greasy haired rocker crowd, as their winter vehicle of choice, because they rode motorbikes in summer.
Didn't do the reputation of the brand any good.😏
That is a cool bit of history there, thanks for sharing.
Somehow, 1964 seemed to be the year for style. Discuss amongst yourselves.
I don't know. I like the 64 Galaxie, but I prefer the 63 Impala, and it just wasn't a great period for the Mopars unless quirky is your thing. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
Quite a long list, but how come you missed the 800 lb gorilla from Mercedes, the LEGENDARY 600 and 600 Pullmann?? it was the favorite of heads of state and dictators, and was made from 1963 to 1981.
I was trying to keep the focus on primary models. Same reason I did't do the Cadillac 75.
Today, these cars do not fit in todays garages, the garages are to short. T know, cannot find garages to put my vehicle in for the night. So sad. 👍👍👍. 7-15-2023
Considering the popularity of full size trucks, which at least match these cars in length, it seems the fault is in the garages.
They don't look large when you park them next to modern SUV's and pickups.
There is that.
Obscene excess. And now the same mistake is happening with SUVs. I guess most people cannot grasp the concept of "treading lightly".
Small has never been the popular option in the U.S. .
Rolls Royce never released horsepower numbers ???
I'm pretty sure they do now.
I miss all of the old cars it is not worth what it is costing us to have clean air it is a ripoff.😮
I could read this in a book !. Sorry Dave
Yes, you could.
Too much data/specs. My eyes glazed over after just 5 minutes. A little more vocal “emotion”, and some interior comments would help.
Food for thought.
Other than the Chevrolet Impala---I don't like the styling of any of those cars of the early 1960s---domestic or foreign! The front grilles and lights are especially grotesque and disturbing. Whoever designed these cars---were they on drugs? Chevrolet, in my opinion, was the only auto manufacture who did proper styling
There was a significant change in styling during the period, with the grill dominating the front. Sort of the same thing that is happening now.
@@thehopelesscarguy Which is exactly why I don't like today's cars either.
I'm just here for the cars and not the whole technical specs 😬
Hopefully there were enough to keep you entertained for a bit.
time you get it waxed time for bed
Don't recognise many of the early sixties Ford's but they were sure ugly.
You think?
@@thehopelesscarguy Yeah get to the 64 compact fairlanes and the galaxies and of course the Mustang...even the big falcons but the Cara around 1960 looked odd. Many manufacturers did as they seemed to use strange shapes and styles including crazy complex lights and so on. Fortunately it was short lived.
There's always one a**hole isn't there!!!🤔🤨🧐🙄🥊
No wonder the Europeans want all of our old American cars thier cars were crap
I would say American buyers of the time had different requirements.
Nice cars but boring commentary.
Stats are an acquired taste.
Your big cars of the 60s really pissed me off: It was longer and didnt get the point with descriptions of all other cars. Two, and most important was the very aggrevating usage of litre sizes! The sizes were in c.i! These are American cars not British and during the years they were referred to in c.i. sizes! Nimrod! This is not Europe!! You are trying to force Americans to use metrics and making them for places that don't use US measurements. This is the only and last video I will watch of yours.
For that matter, if your going to misquote engine sizes, why don't you go ahead and quote engine power in kw and list the prices in Euros!
Thank god for that.
I just might.
@@jehu75 always one a**hole isn't there!!!🤔🤨🧐🙄🥊
BIG cars were produced in 1957, with all Chrysler models. GM in 1959, and Ford in 1960.
Oh that just breaks my heart. Mitt Romney what a joke!!!! A genuine RINO