While the latter part is true, it matters a lot on certain years and less on others. If it's a mild face-lift year like identifying a '53 Chevy as a '54 that's one thing, but saying a '54 is a '55 is a huge goof for back then. They id'd a '56 Merc as a '55 Chevy Sunliner, which is a Ford convertible. The model year of cars hasn't mattered for so long now, most people think it was always this way. It wasn't. @@rdavis4366
I remember all these cars. Amazing how much styles have changed over the years. I’ve driven a lot of these cars and have fond memories of them. Thanks for posting.
@johnanderson3700 I wasn't quite old enuff to drive when these gorgeous pictures were taken, but I sure knew each of these cars. Speaking of time, America had roughly half the number of people we gave now, no internet no social media, and very little of today's craziness. The 50s were a glorious time in many ways...
@@rtflone seems like only yesterday. During much of my childhood we had no car & I walked a lot; or took a bus with parents. Used to walk a mile plus to country store. One store whole community used to gather around stove in winter & visit: Boiled eggs on stove to share. An entirely different world back then.
@@johnanderson3700 It does seem like only yesterday and in many ways a better one. The Great Depression was only 20 yrs in the past. Other than a home mortgage if you could afford one people didn't live on credit and in debt. You bought what you could afford to buy and that's it. A much better way to live imho..
Finally cars today (2023) are getting away from those gawd aweful hubcraps or wheelcovers that do absolutely nothing, and worse than bumper stickers or engine covers
Born in 1940, I remember seeing everyone of those cars on the road at one time or another. That's when each one was very distinguishable. All you had to do is look at it and you knew which one you were seeing! Miss those days!!
Love cars from the 50's and 60's. Great seeing them in their original new condition. I also love seeing how these photos look to have such a high resolution. Thank you for posting.
I don't think anyone can argue against that. My sister has in her possession home videos in color of this era when I was a small child (born in '52) and she was an even smaller child or baby (born Jan. 4, '56). Our family had a '53 Olds Super 88 and a '57 Olds Super 88. The bank manager of our small town of DeQuincy, LA had just bought a '57 Chevy with the "Power Pack" option, which was a factory "souped up" 283 (4 bbl. carb and hotter cam). He had read somewhere the Olds Super 88 would be a bit faster in the 1/4 mile than the Chevy. Sure enough, they drag raced at an approx. 1/4 mile at the edge of town. My dad in his Olds beat the Chevy by over a car length TWICE! True story. 😉🏎
in the 50's I was in my 20's and could hardly wait for the look and design of the new models every year ,I owned a used 53 and then a 56 Studebaker called "Power Hawk" color green-white ,which I traded later for a new 58 Chevrolet
This was the greatest decade in US history. Anyone with a job could own their own house and land. Most people I knew that had a decent job traded cars every two years. That's about the time Detroit was coming out with a new model. This wonderful time, before giant corporations took over the country, was a time anyone with ambition could buy land and start a business. My father, a WWII vet, came home from the army and learned the auto body trade. Within 6 years he was buying old cars, fixing them up and selling them. In another year or so he bought a piece of land where the new highway was going. It had a litte shack on it. We lived in that shack while he built a garage, opened his own shop, and I worked there with him repairing those beautiful 50's cars. After living in that shack for a few years the whole family built a big colonial home behind the shop. My brothers and I worked at that shop until my father died, over 30 years.
Those were wonderful times! Cars were colourful and distinctive. Television was new and exciting. Music was great and so much fun. Not everything was perfect, of course, but life was good.
Hurray for Kodachrome! I shot many rolls of that slide film and they still look great today. It really does justice to the great colors of these '50s cars.
I have some old rolls still in freezer, but seems like no one will process the slides . My favorite film; especially for macro. I used to shoot 120 rolls of the slide film as well as 35mm. Digital just isn’t the same.
Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away .......😁
@@johnanderson3700 Maybe it's that today's color film pales compared to Kodachrome. I shot the crap out of Kodachrome for years. Images I took 40 years ago still look fantastic. Now, my late model Sony digital cameras look just as good, thankfully. Color pops at 42 and 61mp. So glad as I miss Kodachrome. No one can develop that film anymore. A real shame for photographers who wish to shoot film today. I've gone totally digital with these new cameras with the newer super sensors.
I had many cars from this era. They were simple & easy to work on. Chrome was real chrome...not plastic & the hoods closed like bank vaults on strong hinges that required very little maintenance, just a little lubrication now & then to keep them in good shape. The engines were low stressed low RPMS & would run for years with little maintenence. NO computors or moduls!
I Totally Agree with you 125%!!...TODAYS Vehicles Are Crap!!- one pays $15K-$100K For Crap That Will Only Last 5-8 years as opposed to $2-3K ( $20K-$30K Today) of 50 plus years ..when ALL Vehicles Were Made Of 98% Of True Metal (Solid) & Only 2% of Plastic Todays Cars Are Now Made 98% Plastic , 2% Metal Substance (thin)
I was an apprentice mechanic back in the early 60's and worked quite a few 50's cars too. Routine maintenance (tune-ups, oil changes, lube jobs) were done far more often than they are today. Tires weren't as good and didn't last as long. Corrosion was a bigger problem. I could go on but why bother. I will admit - styling was a lot more "dramatic" back then.
And the car bumpers, if damaged, would be re-plated with a complicated electrolysis method. Companies were built around this need. Enter plastic bumpers. Exit this industry.
@@seadog686 ... and they were not as safe back then. Today's cars need less maintenance but when they do go wrong it will cost you dear. as they are so complex The other thing about those 50s cars, they were big, thirsty , polluting beasts. Gasoline was a few cents a gallon back then so people thought nothing of this ...
These older steel monsters are death machines, survival rate in crashes has gone up massively since they started making cars "safer" which means your argument has no leg to stand on, gramps. Also these old cars are absolutely hideous and I wouldn't take one if you gave it to me for free.
Except they are safer. Cars in the 50s literally had nothing stopping you from dying in a crash, even a minor one, and were incredibly unsafe because their bodies were made of pure steel including the doors unlike modern cars built with safer materials. While cars from this era were beautiful yes, it came at a cost. Nowadays cars are much safer and we should be grateful for that.
I was a kid in the 50's and wished I had been old enough to own some of these cars when they were new. I've ridden in a good number of them as family members had some of these models and were die hard owners. It seemed brand and model loyalty was strong in my family. Not sure if others were like that. For instance, my grandfather would only own Oldsmobiles. My parents were die hard Chevy owners. An uncle would only buy Mercury's. An aunt that would only drive Plymouths and so on. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
Yes interesting concept. It seems that " brand loyalty " was a big thing. Perhaps it is closely aligned to a persons sense loyalty to all things in life.
So true I was born in the early 50s and my dad only bought Fords where the rest of the family bought Chevys or Buicks. It's still Fords for me thanks' dad!!
Gives you the greens of summer , The best color transparency film every produced ! I photographed thousands of 3D slides mostly on K64 and a few K25 . My uncle was a photographer and I was amazed at his images from the 40s and 50s on Kodachrome .
Glorious cars! Loved the two-tone colors, plentiful chrome, the change from the more rounded shape to "the box" body shape, and the fins of the late decade. And let's not leave out those hood ornaments -- clipper ship, Indian head, pelican, stylized plane among them. We had a '55 Chevy (Bel Air, White & Yellow) and a '58 Chevy with its infinity-design tail lights that was light and dark green. How I enjoyed washing those cars as a small kid in the 1950s. Thanks for bringing back happy memories.
Sorry but many of these cars are hideous, and no, I'm not all that young, I'm 58. Also chrome literally sucks. If it's not "perfect plate" it's just a rust bed. Don't think I'm being a "modern" ass either, as I think the '45 Flathead Harley Davidson is the most beautiful bike ever devised. Modern cars are just more "balanced" with nothing extreme in the visual to detract from the actual function. Everybody complains that they all look alike, well, that because it's something that is proven to WORK. Just like WWII fighter planes. 90% of them resemble each other. That is because "what works, works".
@@waynepurcell6058• Perhaps those of us that were actually living in the 1950s have a greater appreciation of the cars of that decade. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't take any of them over my AWD Subaru Crosstrek, but I will always remember special times in 'fifties cars while no such memories will come to mind of my Crosstrek.
@@classicmoviesvault I really enjoyed washing our white / light yellow 1955 Chevy and light green / forest green 1958 Chevy (with infinity sign back lights). Especially sunlight on polished chrome was a delight.
The top's down on the Hudson because Gorman is at the summit between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. So even though it's snowy in the photo, it was probably a fairly sunny day at lower elevations. The area is still a popular spot for people to drive up for a few hours and play in the snow.
Shame how today's political propaganda has to touch every aspect of life. Born in 1949, I recall the 50s as a fun and carefree era. I was a white child with no responsibilities and no concept of the hate and discrimination directed at others. Thankfully my parents, while not shielding me, didn't indoctrinate me with that hate. I grew up in the south but didn't understand why integration was such a big deal. Three quarters of a century later, i still don't. The 50s, like today was a happy time for those adults who were able to pretend the poverty, inequality and pervasive hatred wouldn't affect them.
Wow, so many memories from my childhood in the 50s! I love the way that most of these are pictures were taken by the owner or a family member. And not only did the cars of that decade have "style, class, and color" (SEE: comment below), but they also had metal (!).
For you younger generation, Gasoline prices were between 20 to 27 cents a gallon for regular grade. Supreme probably ran you about 30 to 34 cents a gallon. Ah the good ol days. Gas stations actually competed for the lowest prices. Many of the cars you see in the video could be bought for under $3,000! Yes that's right less than 3 thousand dollars...brand new car from the dealer!. Of course many folks earned less than $2.00/hour full time job and many houses could be purchased for under $15,000. Mc D's hamburger was about 15 cents. My how times have changed.
Since my Dad was a GM car guy I was always a Chevy dude like him (although he did get a couple Buicks and Pontiacs). I especially liked the 55, 56 and 57 Chevys!
I remember my dad bringing home his 53 bel air looked just like the one in the picture. 2 toned blue and white. Almost brought a tear to my eyes. For Christmas I bought him a can of simonize. Would help him wax it every summer 😊
At 6:00 minutes into the video there is a '56 Jet Black Chevy very much like the one my big brother owned. His had the light lime-green interior. It was a GREAT looking car.
When cars were pieces of art. When colors were colors and not various shades of depression. When music was music and not brown noise. When men were men and women were women. When people knew the meaning of words like "decency", "honesty" and "shame".
HUH>>>??? Every car broke down constantly, they burned and smoked oil - polluting our world, and there were no safety advances in the 50's... accident? You went through the windshield. Oh - and your reference to 'brown noise' is RACIST, while the next line is homophobic.
When black people and women had terrible living experiences and black people were still being lynched in the South 😂for the average white man it was perfect, but have some retrospect at least. Also as much as I agree with you on that point, trans people did exist back then too surprisingly. Even in the 70s it became mainstream lol, as much as we hate it, it’s always been a thing. Nuance is important.
@@cloudirubez07 Back then, trans people and other perverts had to keep their inclinations to themselves. One of the things that made that time so perfect.
I did live through the 50s. I think one thing that has been lost is what I would call .."clean and classy". Seems like in our present day people are proud of the fact they can be sloppy looking and accepted. That''s fine...but I grew up seeing the best was always shown to be "clean and classy"
Don't forget about all the litter and trash everywhere now days. You don't see any of that in this video, everywhere is clean and nice, as it should be.
Your absolutely correct in your comment. Slobs and morally defective lowlife's are unfortunately walking around in our sick society. They are repulsive. Stay safe and pure God bless 🙏
The following corrections should be made: @3:29....'56 Ford ; @4:53....'55 Mercury ; @7:28...'50 Mercury. Thank you for uploading these GORGEOUS photos!
I was a teen in the 50s and loved cars! Every September the new models would come out where i lived and everyone was excited about it! They were exciting, great to look at designs, attention to detail, a visual delight to behold with all the uses of color. I think it was good for the brain! Seriously! Compare to today where everything's the same. Makes your eyes and brain lazy. And underdeveloped! Maybe thats why a lot of people are so crabby these days. 😂
Well said and agreed. Back in those days, the dealers (at least where I lived in DeQuincy, LA) would put bedsheets over the glass in their showrooms to cover up the new model cars that had been driven in the night before. They would take them off beginning "new car day". In those days, cars differed in design throughout from top to bottom from year to year. They differed not only in sheetmetal, but in a completely differently designed DASH setup as well! All of us kids - at least those of us who were car lovers - would wait around on our bicycles outside on the street for the dealership staff to remove the sheets and boom, what a surprize!
@@daleandrews3552 Yes sir. I remember our dealers would cover the windows. And the cars were covered on the delivery truck/ trailers. My parents had a truck stop and a driver ask me if I would like to see a New 55 Chevy before it got to the dealer. He pulled the cover back and it was like Christmas for me. What a treat for a young teen in love with cars. I loved those days when gas was a quarter, & girls didn’t have tattoos ❤
Two-tone cars impart an attitude of optimism. 2:12 Snow is very rare in Gorman and it never gets too cold there. Couple was out for a bracing, rare, cool-air top down spin in their Hudson Hornet.
Will you people moaning about a very few wrong calls on makes and models just stop, rewind and enjoy the view. I was too busy reminiscing and wishing we could these days, open a hood, change points, condensor and plugs connect a dwell meter, and timing light and be on our way in an hour or so, all tuned up. Rebuild a carburetor in about 2 beers time when needed. Those truly were the days my friends. Almost every model from every manufacturer changed every year. Chrome! Real Chrome! Genuine AM radios. We were happy with it all. Yes we were. Oh yeah... gas ran about 31 cents/gallon in '57. And if you got 15 miles per gallon on a trip, you couldn't wait to tell everybody about the amazing mileage. My dad had a '56 Dodge Coronet, flathead 6 with 2 speed push button powerflite transmission. The car had 3 tone paint. We liked it!
right on ,@georl1, you would think that the producers would get the makes and years right ? , they named a 1955 or so , Mercury montcolm as another make and screwed up the model . They tried and the cars are beautiful and bring back good memory's .
Back then a parking lot looked like a field of easter eggs. My friends dad had a new 1956 Buick Century and what a beauty. After all these decades I sill recall the colors. Cream White and Canary Yellow, and of course the chrome.
My friend in high school had a 1963 Ford Galaxie that was Chestnut brown. It was a beautiful deep rich metallic brown. My 1968 El Camino was Tripoli Turqoise.
Very enjoyable video. I love the instrumental 'surf rock' with the strong Doo-Wop ties of '50's music. The color is gorgeous. I have to wonder if the blue '59 Cad at 1:55 isn't more recent from the girl's coat. Some model mis-identificarions here. 3:31 id's a '56 Ford as a '59; though there is a yellow '59 in the background. 4:57 id's a '56 Merc Montclair convertible as a '55 Chevy, and a Sunliner in addition. Only Ford's convertibles were Sunliners.
Wow Kevin, you've really an eagle eye. I can only tell those 2 apart by the taillights, even from the side, but the picture cuts off. It's interesting how the 'white streak' on the rear quarter panel reappears on the '59, but more dramatically on the '60 as a jet trail.. Too bad there's no '58 Impala here. With that model, the C-pillar and rear window from the '53 and '54 reappear on the '58 coupe. It's amazing to me the often brazen mistakes made on these videos. I saw a new one on Desi, Jr. and the narrator was using pictures of Donny Osmond when he appeared on 'Here's Lucy' in '72 (as himself) claiming it was Arnaz. Ummmm, no. They're not the same person!! @@kevinburesh4135
Well, I am only with those two models, Bob. I've owned several of them over the years/decades. The only difference in the bodies are the tailights, as you mentioned, and the front grilles. Yep, Chevy...(as well as the general public)...really liked the look of that painted stripe/trim on the ''53/'54. I saw in a book on the Tri-Five Chevy's, that the designers tried bringing it back on the '56's rear quarter panel. The book included a pic of one early clay mock-up '56....with that stripe, and a different grille. As it turned out, they actually did include it on the '56 Bel-Air...though it runs forward, across the front fender...rather than rearward. I would have liked seeing a '58 Impala, too. It's a great looking model! I currently own a '53 Sport Coupe...which has that 'C pillar' design you mention. I love that look. Even some modern day SUV's have that basic design. Very interesting...on the mistake with Desi Arnaz, Jr.! @@bobpierce115
I know exactly what you mean on the '56, with it across the front fender. I'm glad you own a '53 sport coupe. I'm sorry the tri-5 continues to overshadow them at car shows. As far as the '57's rear quarter panel goes, its sleekness (to me) is an optical illusion. The eye is drawn to the aluminum, which makes the area above and below it narrow also, even though it really isn't, if you see one 'naked' as in being repainted or restored. it's very wide. I wish the '57 had retained the '55-'56 hood ornament instead of the the separate 'gun slits'. Most of all, I HATE the fact so many '57 Chevy convertibles have been ruined by the ugly front and back vertical bumper guards, fender skirts. goofy fender mirrors and that god awful continental kit! I get that these were 'legit' options, but that doesn't mean they don't look! Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't notice these cars being bogged down with this damn shit in the 1980's. '90's. Absolutely everything that can be ruined, has been ruined. @@kevinburesh4135
Yeah, I'd like to see more 53's and 54's at the Car Shows, also...but, there haven't been very many of them in shows around here, lately. I'm in the process of restoring my '53...and plan on driving it regularly, when it's done. I agree, regarding the excessive add-ons of chromed parts....like bumper and grille guards....and, those ridiculous looking continental kits! ; ) @@bobpierce115
Delightful. Brought back memories. I did see a couple of errors in the captions (Mercury identified as Chevy, incorrect year on another Mercury), but loved the images.
Grew up in the 50,s and long for those days again. The beauty and styling grace of these beauties can never be reproduced.Thanks for the wonderful memories!
Kodachrome was an incredible film. It used a unique dye-transfer rather than dye-coupler process, so the color is almost as durable as an original Technicolor film print.
Yes, it was a wonderful time for great American automobiles- and brings back fond memories. Plus you let the pictures tell the story with very nice background music. Thank you- you’ve warmed a 75 year old heart this morning.
I've owned a Robins Egg Blue '55 Cadillac Coupe de Ville while living in San Francisco in the 90's. I'd have loved to have experienced living, working and owning a mid century modern home with one of these pretty cars the 1950's, minus the blatant racism.
Garry NOT Linda. Here's my take on the incorrectly labeled vehicles: 2:30 56 Pontiac not a 55. the side trim on the Star Chief had the side chrome trim in the spear shape. A 55 Pontiac was correctly labeled several pictures before that. The side chrome stripe angles down and rearward all the way to the back. I owned a 56 just like the one in the picture. 4:53 55 Mercury Montclair Sunliner Convertible. 7:29 49 Mercury. 8:07 54 Chevrolet not a 53. The 53 turn signal lights were round at the ends of the grille not the oval light on the corner of the front fender.
57 Ford two door hardtop. 56 Chevrolet two door hardtop 58 Chevrolet two door hardtop. Good years and good memories. Vehicles you could work on and have fun doing it!
A lovely walk down memory lane, thanks. Unfortunately, there were a few blatant errors of names of makes (confusing a Ford with a Chev) and some model years on a '56 Ford and a '49 or '50 Mercury.
3:30 - The red & white car in the foreground is not a 1959 Ford; it's a '55 or '56. There is, however, a yellow & white '59 Ford on the far right edge of the photo, next to the bus.
I remember traveling to Nebraska from East Tenn to see my Grandparents each year in our 52 Olds 88 until we got a new 61 Chevy station wagon. Boy did it have lots of room. No air conditioning in any of our cars until about 1965 . And mostly no Interstate either. Stopping at the motels like the ones in some of these pics. Looking for a decent place to eat ,no big chain restaurants until Howard Johnsons came along. People were even courteous on the road and would even stop if you were broken down.
Love the cars of 1950s and 1960s the colors the stylish looks that you know what make it is.Looking at some of the roads and streets, cars back then were very oil leaky LOL.Great video of classic cars in there prime 👍
Good move, Kevin! Beat the jackals by using original color photos instead of colorized b&w's, so they can't bitch about the colors.😉 Now, if you can tighten up make, model, and year, ya got it made! Keep up the good work...I just enjoy the trip down memory lane...and drive-ins! 😁
Saludos a la cultura norte Américana sus autos maravillosos. Su música hermosa tube un vehículo estadounidense un belair coupe 1958 automático lo adquiri cuando joven lo restaure y pinte rojo y techo blanco le pinte las bandas blancas en los neumáticos en los radiales modernos no existen con bandas de fábrica como en la época bueno por donde me paseaba era el centro de las miradas lo vendí ase muchos años por nesesidad era joven y necesitaba tener mi casa propia para mi familia an pasado 20 años y con estas imágenes me da mucha nostalgia saludos desde chile
Great video. This is the kind of video I had to watch twice. Once for the cars...and again for the houses and scenery behind them. I note 3 errors on car years. Not bad! Still gave you a thumbs up!
Never been a “car guy” plus I wasn’t born until 71 so none of these resonate with me (though my dad would have loved these)….but as an amateur photographer I absolutely love the colors from the Kodachrome film. 😀😀
These are cars that people will still be standing in front of in 2050 and saying "Oh, dude. What a car!" Nobody will ever stand in front of a 2001 Dacia and say "What a car! It can go from 0 to 60 km/h in under 25 minutes."
Back in the sixties I owned a 1955 coup Deville Cadillac, flamingo orange with a continental kit. I really enjoyed that car. I kept it till I had to send it to the auto grave yard.
Thanks for the trip back in time. On road trips, my brother and I would see who could be the first to guess the year and make of the cars coming into view. Couldn't do that with today's models.
I can see why folks were taking pictures of these cars back then - they were works of art. Today, who'd even bother to take a picture of a family car, unless it's to list if for sale on eBay!!!
Crankcases vented to the atmosphere, leaded fuel, inefficient carburetors (esp. @ idle), lotsa unburned fuel, few safety features, single-reservoir master cylinders, etc. We REALLY don't wanna go back to those days. They're nice to look at though!!
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A handful of them were misidentified, but I really enjoyed seeing this.
I noticed 2 or 3 were wrong, could be more. Enjoyed the video anyway....
@FloridaClay Did you notice that most of the cars were 2 door hardtops only a few were 4 door sedans
Thank you for pointing that out some of them weren't even the right make never mind year
No biggie. It’s just great to see all the cars of yesteryear anyway!
While the latter part is true, it matters a lot on certain years and less on others. If it's a mild face-lift year like identifying a '53 Chevy as a '54 that's one thing, but saying a '54 is a '55 is a huge goof for back then. They id'd a '56 Merc as a '55 Chevy Sunliner, which is a Ford convertible. The model year of cars hasn't mattered for so long now, most people think it was always this way. It wasn't. @@rdavis4366
I remember all these cars. Amazing how much styles have changed over the years. I’ve driven a lot of these cars and have fond memories of them. Thanks for posting.
@johnanderson3700 I wasn't quite old enuff to drive when these gorgeous pictures were taken, but I sure knew each of these cars. Speaking of time, America had roughly half the number of people we gave now, no internet no social media, and very little of today's craziness. The 50s were a glorious time in many ways...
@@rtflone seems like only yesterday. During much of my childhood we had no car & I walked a lot; or took a bus with parents. Used to walk a mile plus to country store. One store whole community used to gather around stove in winter & visit:
Boiled eggs on stove to share. An entirely different world back then.
@@johnanderson3700 It does seem like only yesterday and in many ways a better one. The Great Depression was only 20 yrs in the past. Other than a home mortgage if you could afford one people didn't live on credit and in debt. You bought what you could afford to buy and that's it. A much better way to live imho..
Finally cars today (2023) are getting away from those gawd aweful hubcraps or wheelcovers that do absolutely nothing, and worse than bumper stickers or engine covers
I like watching classic movies so that I can see classic cars
Back when cars had style, class and color.
For color, class and style, you'd really need to fast forward to the 1960s.
and the people
so did people
Real cars😮!
Yeah the. 50s 60s and 70s the cars were the best
Born in 1940, I remember seeing everyone of those cars on the road at one time or another. That's when each one was very distinguishable. All you had to do is look at it and you knew which one you were seeing! Miss those days!!
Very good and lovely memories!
When did those cars disappeared ?
What a time to be alive especially in America
None of the troubles of today
Love cars from the 50's and 60's. Great seeing them in their original new condition. I also love seeing how these photos look to have such a high resolution. Thank you for posting.
The cars are always the stars:) Thank you for a great look back in time at them!
A much better time period in America. Please take me back to the 50's and early 60's !
Rampant segregation!!
When America was at it's zenith!!!🤗👍
And the only way to go was down, and that's what happened. @@keithdukes5990
You're obviously white.
I don't think anyone can argue against that. My sister has in her possession home videos in color of this era when I was a small child (born in '52) and she was an even smaller child or baby (born Jan. 4, '56). Our family had a '53 Olds Super 88 and a '57 Olds Super 88. The bank manager of our small town of DeQuincy, LA had just bought a '57 Chevy with the "Power Pack" option, which was a factory "souped up" 283 (4 bbl. carb and hotter cam). He had read somewhere the Olds Super 88 would be a bit faster in the 1/4 mile than the Chevy. Sure enough, they drag raced at an approx. 1/4 mile at the edge of town. My dad in his Olds beat the Chevy by over a car length TWICE! True story. 😉🏎
Exquisite cars with lots of style and panache. Now we have boring SUVs and crossovers that all look the same. 😞
They all looked the same back then. Only different degrees of ugly.
Viva 50's! Cars and women both looked better...
in the 50's I was in my 20's and could hardly wait for the look and design of the new models every year ,I owned a used 53 and then a 56 Studebaker called "Power Hawk" color green-white ,which I traded later for a new 58 Chevrolet
This was the greatest decade in US history. Anyone with a job could own their own house and land. Most people I knew that had a decent job traded cars every two years. That's about the time Detroit was coming out with a new model. This wonderful time, before giant corporations took over the country, was a time anyone with ambition could buy land and start a business. My father, a WWII vet, came home from the army and learned the auto body trade. Within 6 years he was buying old cars, fixing them up and selling them. In another year or so he bought a piece of land where the new highway was going. It had a litte shack on it. We lived in that shack while he built a garage, opened his own shop, and I worked there with him repairing those beautiful 50's cars. After living in that shack for a few years the whole family built a big colonial home behind the shop. My brothers and I worked at that shop until my father died, over 30 years.
Glad things were good for your family - but the generalization that it was good for everyone is not true.
That is/was the American dream.
Those were wonderful times! Cars were colourful and distinctive. Television was new and exciting. Music was great and so much fun. Not everything was perfect, of course, but life was good.
wonderful age the fifties in the USA and great cars....better than ever
Hurray for Kodachrome! I shot many rolls of that slide film and they still look great today. It really does justice to the great colors of these '50s cars.
I have some old rolls still in freezer, but seems like no one will process the slides . My favorite film; especially for macro. I used to shoot 120 rolls of the slide film as well as 35mm. Digital just isn’t the same.
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away .......😁
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!
@@johnanderson3700 Maybe it's that today's color film pales compared to Kodachrome. I shot the crap out of Kodachrome for years. Images I took 40 years ago still look fantastic. Now, my late model Sony digital cameras look just as good, thankfully. Color pops at 42 and 61mp. So glad as I miss Kodachrome. No one can develop that film anymore. A real shame for photographers who wish to shoot film today. I've gone totally digital with these new cameras with the newer super sensors.
I think you are right the colors were really nice in the 1950's
I had many cars from this era. They were simple & easy to work on. Chrome was real chrome...not plastic & the hoods closed like bank vaults on strong hinges that required very little maintenance, just a little lubrication now & then to keep them in good shape. The engines were low stressed low RPMS & would run for years with little maintenence. NO computors or moduls!
I Totally Agree with you 125%!!...TODAYS Vehicles Are Crap!!- one pays $15K-$100K For Crap That Will Only Last 5-8 years as opposed to $2-3K ( $20K-$30K Today) of 50 plus years ..when ALL Vehicles Were Made Of 98% Of True Metal (Solid) & Only 2% of Plastic Todays Cars Are Now Made 98% Plastic , 2% Metal Substance (thin)
I was an apprentice mechanic back in the early 60's and worked quite a few 50's cars too. Routine maintenance (tune-ups, oil changes, lube jobs) were done far more often than they are today. Tires weren't as good and didn't last as long. Corrosion was a bigger problem. I could go on but why bother. I will admit - styling was a lot more "dramatic" back then.
And the car bumpers, if damaged, would be re-plated with a complicated electrolysis method. Companies were built around this need. Enter plastic bumpers. Exit this industry.
And any fender bender, no matter how small, could land you in the morgue.
@@seadog686 ... and they were not as safe back then. Today's cars need less maintenance but when they do go wrong it will cost you dear. as they are so complex The other thing about those 50s cars, they were big, thirsty , polluting beasts. Gasoline was a few cents a gallon back then so people thought nothing of this ...
A great photo-gallery of cars when they were beautiful and people when society was still sane.
The video is all fake AI generated images
Isn't that the honest truth!
Manufacturers claim that cars are built " safer " now , they won't admit the cars are UGLY now !!!
They all look alike.... Like they've been pulled through a knothole.
There's no such thing as an unsafe car. It's unsafe drivers.
These older steel monsters are death machines, survival rate in crashes has gone up massively since they started making cars "safer" which means your argument has no leg to stand on, gramps. Also these old cars are absolutely hideous and I wouldn't take one if you gave it to me for free.
@@1940limited
Yup, the guy commenting to your post is likely one of 'em! 😉🤣😂
Except they are safer. Cars in the 50s literally had nothing stopping you from dying in a crash, even a minor one, and were incredibly unsafe because their bodies were made of pure steel including the doors unlike modern cars built with safer materials.
While cars from this era were beautiful yes, it came at a cost. Nowadays cars are much safer and we should be grateful for that.
I was a kid in the 50's and wished I had been old enough to own some of these cars when they were new. I've ridden in a good number of them as family members had some of these models and were die hard owners. It seemed brand and model loyalty was strong in my family. Not sure if others were like that. For instance, my grandfather would only own Oldsmobiles. My parents were die hard Chevy owners. An uncle would only buy Mercury's. An aunt that would only drive Plymouths and so on. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
Yes interesting concept. It seems that " brand loyalty " was a big thing. Perhaps it is closely aligned to a persons sense loyalty to all things in life.
So true I was born in the early 50s and my dad only bought Fords where the rest of the family bought Chevys or Buicks. It's still Fords for me thanks' dad!!
Yes. My grandfather always said Dodge was the best car and Chrysler was second best. He had 2 of those weird looking 64s parked in his driveway.
I agree with you
How enjoyable. I'm from that time, and everyone had to have their photo taken next to their car.
Yes, there are several mis-identified…but still enjoyed seeing them!
Also back when the ladies knew how to dress and conduct themselves like real women.
Gives you the greens of summer , The best color transparency film every produced ! I photographed thousands of 3D slides mostly on K64 and a few K25 . My uncle was a photographer and I was amazed at his images from the 40s and 50s on Kodachrome .
Glorious cars! Loved the two-tone colors, plentiful chrome, the change from the more rounded shape to "the box" body shape, and the fins of the late decade. And let's not leave out those hood ornaments -- clipper ship, Indian head, pelican, stylized plane among them. We had a '55 Chevy (Bel Air, White & Yellow) and a '58 Chevy with its infinity-design tail lights that was light and dark green. How I enjoyed washing those cars as a small kid in the 1950s. Thanks for bringing back happy memories.
Sorry but many of these cars are hideous, and no, I'm not all that young, I'm 58. Also chrome literally sucks. If it's not "perfect plate" it's just a rust bed. Don't think I'm being a "modern" ass either, as I think the '45 Flathead Harley Davidson is the most beautiful bike ever devised. Modern cars are just more "balanced" with nothing extreme in the visual to detract from the actual function.
Everybody complains that they all look alike, well, that because it's something that is proven to WORK. Just like WWII fighter planes. 90% of them resemble each other. That is because "what works, works".
@@waynepurcell6058• Perhaps those of us that were actually living in the 1950s have a greater appreciation of the cars of that decade. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't take any of them over my AWD Subaru Crosstrek, but I will always remember special times in 'fifties cars while no such memories will come to mind of my Crosstrek.
Desde 🇦🇷🇦🇷 Amo los coches de esta época de los USA car's
I agree the two-tone colors are the best
@@classicmoviesvault I really enjoyed washing our white / light yellow 1955 Chevy and light green / forest green 1958 Chevy (with infinity sign back lights). Especially sunlight on polished chrome was a delight.
The top's down on the Hudson because Gorman is at the summit between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. So even though it's snowy in the photo, it was probably a fairly sunny day at lower elevations. The area is still a popular spot for people to drive up for a few hours and play in the snow.
Makes sense! Thank you for the explanation!
Shame how today's political propaganda has to touch every aspect of life. Born in 1949, I recall the 50s as a fun and carefree era. I was a white child with no responsibilities and no concept of the hate and discrimination directed at others. Thankfully my parents, while not shielding me, didn't indoctrinate me with that hate. I grew up in the south but didn't understand why integration was such a big deal. Three quarters of a century later, i still don't. The 50s, like today was a happy time for those adults who were able to pretend the poverty, inequality and pervasive hatred wouldn't affect them.
South america paid for your happy childhood.
Sure, the black children didn’t enjoy the same absence of hate and discrimination . Happy life for the whites!
Back when the chrome was thick and the women were straight and didn't have tattoos!
...and no smut or swearing or Tattoos or body piercing...@@TheProfessorOfLife
Let's rid ourselves from , 'THE' problem of division and move
On
Wow, so many memories from my childhood in the 50s! I love the way that most of these are pictures were taken by the owner or a family member. And not only did the cars of that decade have "style, class, and color" (SEE: comment below), but they also had metal (!).
For you younger generation, Gasoline prices were between 20 to 27 cents a gallon for regular grade. Supreme probably ran you about 30 to 34 cents a gallon. Ah the good ol days. Gas stations actually competed for the lowest prices. Many of the cars you see in the video could be bought for under $3,000! Yes that's right less than 3 thousand dollars...brand new car from the dealer!. Of course many folks earned less than $2.00/hour full time job and many houses could be purchased for under $15,000. Mc D's hamburger was about 15 cents. My how times have changed.
those were cars.i grew up inthe 50,s.wish they would bring them back
They were cool but not as good as cars today.
@@melrose9252
😅🤣😂
The 55 Chevy convertible was a 55 Merc, and the 50 ford 4 door was a 55. Correction, 56
After the pari of '59 Fords, the next was not a '59 Ford, but an earlier one perhaps a '56?
@@michaelwaldmeier1601 I think it was a 55. Either way, not a 59
@@PfalzD3 Pretty sure it was a "56...we had a "55 and the tail lights were just a tad different!!
@@usmale49 Could be. It's hard to tell from the Profile, since it was a two year body style.
I own a 56, I couldn't tell from that picture. Either way, It's not a 59. @@usmale49
56 Ford Fairlaine was my favorite.
3:28 is not a 59 Ford. It's a 56. 4:53 is a 55 Mercury Montclair. 7:36 is probably a 50 Mercury.
I made the same comment about the "56 Ford...great minds think alike, I guess! lol
@@usmale49 That's funny because truly great minds would have noticed the errors come from this entire video being made up of fake AI generated images
I remember that '55 Pontiac from a small dealership near my house in North Texas. I thought it was the nicest looking car I'd ever seen.
Back when cars were allowed to be colors other than white, black, silver, and dull red.
Since my Dad was a GM car guy I was always a Chevy dude like him (although he did get a couple Buicks and Pontiacs). I especially liked the 55, 56 and 57 Chevys!
Oh yes, the Tri-fecta 5's! 😏👍
You misquoted a 1955 Mercury Montclair as a 55 Chevy Sunliner, Which a Sunliner is a Ford Convertible.
I remember my dad bringing home his 53 bel air looked just like the one in the picture. 2 toned blue and white. Almost brought a tear to my eyes. For Christmas I bought him a can of simonize. Would help him wax it every summer 😊
That was actually a ‘56 Pontiac @ 2:30…but you’re doing pretty well at this point.
At 6:00 minutes into the video there is a '56 Jet Black Chevy very much like the one my big brother owned. His had the light lime-green interior. It was a GREAT looking car.
These exquisite cars were inarguably works of art. Just imagine how many of these cars are still available in Cuba ...
Even a few in Viet Nam
American cars of the '50s were anything BUT basic.
The American motorists and the cars they drove were the most advanced in the world.
When cars were pieces of art.
When colors were colors and not various shades of depression.
When music was music and not brown noise.
When men were men and women were women.
When people knew the meaning of words like "decency", "honesty" and "shame".
thank you bro
HUH>>>??? Every car broke down constantly, they burned and smoked oil - polluting our world, and there were no safety advances in the 50's... accident? You went through the windshield. Oh - and your reference to 'brown noise' is RACIST, while the next line is homophobic.
When black people and women had terrible living experiences and black people were still being lynched in the South 😂for the average white man it was perfect, but have some retrospect at least. Also as much as I agree with you on that point, trans people did exist back then too surprisingly. Even in the 70s it became mainstream lol, as much as we hate it, it’s always been a thing.
Nuance is important.
@@cloudirubez07 Back then, trans people and other perverts had to keep their inclinations to themselves. One of the things that made that time so perfect.
6:41 Bought one of these in 1979. It was my first car. Built the same year I was born.
That 53 chevy sunliner is a 55 mercury montclair hell the name is on the hood and finder
I did live through the 50s. I think one thing that has been lost is what I would call .."clean and classy". Seems like in our present day people are proud of the fact they can be sloppy looking and accepted. That''s fine...but I grew up seeing the best was always shown to be "clean and classy"
Don't forget about all the litter and trash everywhere now days. You don't see any of that in this video, everywhere is clean and nice, as it should be.
Your absolutely correct in your comment. Slobs and morally defective lowlife's are unfortunately walking around in our sick society. They are repulsive. Stay safe and pure God bless 🙏
And still is.
The following corrections should be made: @3:29....'56 Ford ; @4:53....'55 Mercury ; @7:28...'50 Mercury. Thank you for uploading these GORGEOUS photos!
yep i have a 56 fairlane
you got them.
2:14 that is a 1950 Hudson not a 51. At 2:50 that is a 51 Nash not a 52!!!
I was a teen in the 50s and loved cars! Every September the new models would come out where i lived and everyone was excited about it! They were exciting, great to look at designs, attention to detail, a visual delight to behold with all the uses of color. I think it was good for the brain! Seriously! Compare to today where everything's the same. Makes your eyes and brain lazy. And underdeveloped! Maybe thats why a lot of people are so crabby these days. 😂
Well said and agreed. Back in those days, the dealers (at least where I lived in DeQuincy, LA) would put bedsheets over the glass in their showrooms to cover up the new model cars that had been driven in the night before. They would take them off beginning "new car day". In those days, cars differed in design throughout from top to bottom from year to year. They differed not only in sheetmetal, but in a completely differently designed DASH setup as well! All of us kids - at least those of us who were car lovers - would wait around on our bicycles outside on the street for the dealership staff to remove the sheets and boom, what a surprize!
No doubt the best times for USA! Elegance, style and wealthyness: a bygone optimistic epoch!
@@marcob4630 Very well said!
thanks ! @@bobdillaber1195
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Yes sir. I remember our dealers would cover the windows. And the cars were covered on the delivery truck/ trailers. My parents had a truck stop and a driver ask me if I would like to see a New 55 Chevy before it got to the dealer. He pulled the cover back and it was like Christmas for me. What a treat for a young teen in love with cars.
I loved those days when gas was a quarter, & girls didn’t have tattoos ❤
Late 50s cars were stunning.
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon, and love was only sixty cents away.
21 to 27 cents
But most people made $80 week.
American style of 50's , as for me, is the best car design ever
Two-tone cars impart an attitude of optimism. 2:12 Snow is very rare in Gorman and it never gets too cold there. Couple was out for a bracing, rare, cool-air top down spin in their Hudson Hornet.
Light cars with the style!
Thank you for the video. Cars of the 1950's had a lot of style.
Will you people moaning about a very few wrong calls on makes and models just stop, rewind and enjoy the view. I was too busy reminiscing and wishing we could these days, open a hood, change points, condensor and plugs connect a dwell meter, and timing light and be on our way in an hour or so, all tuned up. Rebuild a carburetor in about 2 beers time when needed. Those truly were the days my friends. Almost every model from every manufacturer changed every year. Chrome! Real Chrome! Genuine AM radios. We were happy with it all. Yes we were. Oh yeah... gas ran about 31 cents/gallon in '57. And if you got 15 miles per gallon on a trip, you couldn't wait to tell everybody about the amazing mileage. My dad had a '56 Dodge Coronet, flathead 6 with 2 speed push button powerflite transmission. The car had 3 tone paint. We liked it!
THAT 1955 MERCURY MONTCLAIRE CONVERTABLE WAS GEORGEOUS ! Cars used to be so exciting !
It was nice to see all those olds cars that I remember so well growing up even though you had the wrong year on several of them.
and the make on ar least 3.
right on ,@georl1, you would think that the producers would get the makes and years right ? , they named a 1955 or so , Mercury montcolm as another make and screwed up the model . They tried and the cars are beautiful and bring back good memory's .
Back then a parking lot looked like a field of easter eggs.
My friends dad had a new 1956 Buick Century and what a beauty. After all these decades I sill recall the colors. Cream White and Canary Yellow, and of course the chrome.
Great description!
My friend in high school had a 1963 Ford Galaxie that was Chestnut brown. It was a beautiful deep rich metallic brown.
My 1968 El Camino was Tripoli Turqoise.
Very enjoyable video. I love the instrumental 'surf rock' with the strong Doo-Wop ties of '50's music. The color is gorgeous. I have to wonder if the blue '59 Cad at 1:55 isn't more recent from the girl's coat. Some model mis-identificarions here. 3:31 id's a '56 Ford as a '59; though there is a yellow '59 in the background. 4:57 id's a '56 Merc Montclair convertible as a '55 Chevy, and a Sunliner in addition. Only Ford's convertibles were Sunliners.
Good job at noticing those, Bob. One more to add...the very last car shown...labeled as a '53, but it's a '54 Chevy.
Wow Kevin, you've really an eagle eye. I can only tell those 2 apart by the taillights, even from the side, but the picture cuts off. It's interesting how the 'white streak' on the rear quarter panel reappears on the '59, but more dramatically on the '60 as a jet trail.. Too bad there's no '58 Impala here. With that model, the C-pillar and rear window from the '53 and '54 reappear on the '58 coupe. It's amazing to me the often brazen mistakes made on these videos. I saw a new one on Desi, Jr. and the narrator was using pictures of Donny Osmond when he appeared on 'Here's Lucy' in '72 (as himself) claiming it was Arnaz. Ummmm, no. They're not the same person!! @@kevinburesh4135
Well, I am only with those two models, Bob. I've owned several of them over the years/decades. The only difference in the bodies are the tailights, as you mentioned, and the front grilles. Yep, Chevy...(as well as the general public)...really liked the look of that painted stripe/trim on the ''53/'54. I saw in a book on the Tri-Five Chevy's, that the designers tried bringing it back on the '56's rear quarter panel. The book included a pic of one early clay mock-up '56....with that stripe, and a different grille. As it turned out, they actually did include it on the '56 Bel-Air...though it runs forward, across the front fender...rather than rearward. I would have liked seeing a '58 Impala, too. It's a great looking model! I currently own a '53 Sport Coupe...which has that 'C pillar' design you mention. I love that look. Even some modern day SUV's have that basic design. Very interesting...on the mistake with Desi Arnaz, Jr.! @@bobpierce115
I know exactly what you mean on the '56, with it across the front fender. I'm glad you own a '53 sport coupe. I'm sorry the tri-5 continues to overshadow them at car shows. As far as the '57's rear quarter panel goes, its sleekness (to me) is an optical illusion. The eye is drawn to the aluminum, which makes the area above and below it narrow also, even though it really isn't, if you see one 'naked' as in being repainted or restored. it's very wide. I wish the '57 had retained the '55-'56 hood ornament instead of the the separate 'gun slits'. Most of all, I HATE the fact so many '57 Chevy convertibles have been ruined by the ugly front and back vertical bumper guards, fender skirts. goofy fender mirrors and that god awful continental kit! I get that these were 'legit' options, but that doesn't mean they don't look! Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't notice these cars being bogged down with this damn shit in the 1980's. '90's. Absolutely everything that can be ruined, has been ruined. @@kevinburesh4135
Yeah, I'd like to see more 53's and 54's at the Car Shows, also...but, there haven't been very many of them in shows around here, lately. I'm in the process of restoring my '53...and plan on driving it regularly, when it's done. I agree, regarding the excessive add-ons of chromed parts....like bumper and grille guards....and, those ridiculous looking continental kits! ; ) @@bobpierce115
A handful of them were misidentified, but I really enjoyed seeing this. Thanks you!
Lol, yes...seeing that Merc called a Chevy basically had me questioning everything I'd ever seen or heard in my life. 🤪
YouS welcome.
@@serfcityherewecome8069 Yes because its all fake AI generated images. you can't find these anywhere else because they are not real.
Kadachrome Color look better than my smart phones HD pictures! Love those cars. Built tough. Built in the USA!!!
Yeah , cars were better then , and so were cameras !!!
Why at your country don't build cars as before?
@@gustavoperez5480
Very expensive to build today. 😔
@@elaineewalt8137 so sad.
These care are perfect untouched. you can se the happiness in peoples faces thank you vary much👌👌
Delightful. Brought back memories. I did see a couple of errors in the captions (Mercury identified as Chevy, incorrect year on another Mercury), but loved the images.
I noticed a Chevy marked incorrectly - it said Malibu right on the side!
That would be because none of these are real images, they are all composites generated by AI.
Grew up in the 50,s and long for those
days again. The beauty and styling grace of these beauties can never be reproduced.Thanks for the wonderful memories!
WOW.... that was really something.
Thanks.
What were some of the cars from 1945 right after WW2 ?
The colors of cars were so much more exciting back then.
All images were fake AI generated pics.
この時代のアメ車には夢がある。子どもの頃のテレビに登場するのもこんな車だった。
とても手にする事は出来ないので、プラモデルで我慢している。
Kodachrome was an incredible film. It used a unique dye-transfer rather than dye-coupler process, so the color is almost as durable as an original Technicolor film print.
Thank you for sharing this information that was really informative
Great clip!! & The color really takes me back!! I was born in 55. Love the vintage cars!!! Ahh memories ❤️
The 59 Lincoln Continental MK IV is sweet.
Yes and I loved the "Breeze Way" rear window that Mercury also put on some of their models too!!
Golden years,fabulous pics 👍
If they still made kodachrome I would go back to film
incredible cars and wonderful colors!
my favourites are 2:00 and 8:00 😃
Yes, it was a wonderful time for great American automobiles- and brings back fond memories. Plus you let the pictures tell the story with very nice background music. Thank you- you’ve warmed a 75 year old heart this morning.
The era of style. Souless today.
Several of the cars are mis-labeled
I've owned a Robins Egg Blue '55 Cadillac Coupe de Ville while living in San Francisco in the 90's. I'd have loved to have experienced living, working and owning a mid century modern home with one of these pretty cars the 1950's, minus the blatant racism.
A few slips... at 3.30 is a 56 Ford, not 59. At 4.59 is a 55 Mercury, not a 55 Chevy Sunliner, etc. But thanks for posting. Lovely to watch.
Really nice.
U can draw a dividing line between cars of first half of 1950s, more basic, & 2nd half of 1950s, flamboyant
Garry NOT Linda. Here's my take on the incorrectly labeled vehicles: 2:30 56 Pontiac not a 55. the side trim on the Star Chief had the side chrome trim in the spear shape. A 55 Pontiac was correctly labeled several pictures before that. The side chrome stripe angles down and rearward all the way to the back. I owned a 56 just like the one in the picture. 4:53 55 Mercury Montclair Sunliner Convertible. 7:29 49 Mercury. 8:07 54 Chevrolet not a 53. The 53 turn signal lights were round at the ends of the grille not the oval light on the corner of the front fender.
57 Ford two door hardtop.
56 Chevrolet two door hardtop
58 Chevrolet two door hardtop.
Good years and good memories.
Vehicles you could work on and have fun doing it!
A lovely walk down memory lane, thanks. Unfortunately, there were a few blatant errors of names of makes (confusing a Ford with a Chev) and some model years on a '56 Ford and a '49 or '50 Mercury.
These are the cars my parents and their friends drove in my childhood and that my high school friends drove in the 1960s. Thanks for the memories.
3:30 - The red & white car in the foreground is not a 1959 Ford; it's a '55 or '56. There is, however, a yellow & white '59 Ford on the far right edge of the photo, next to the bus.
I remember traveling to Nebraska from East Tenn to see my Grandparents each year in our 52 Olds 88 until we got a new 61 Chevy station wagon. Boy did it have lots of room. No air conditioning in any of our cars until about 1965 . And mostly no Interstate either. Stopping at the motels like the ones in some of these pics. Looking for a decent place to eat ,no big chain restaurants until Howard Johnsons came along. People were even courteous on the road and would even stop if you were broken down.
How did you survive traveling at a car without air conditioner?
@@gustavoperez5480kick panel vents and opening quarter windows.
@@gustavoperez5480
The same way we survived w/out A/C in our homes! 😉 You chirrens would NEVER understand those days! 😉 🚫A/C 🥵 😅🤣
@@elaineewalt8137 I agree.
the 52 Nash was actually a 51 ,I have one in my garage 49-51 was that model ambassador
You only got three wrong on the Make and years still a great video......
Love the cars of 1950s and 1960s the colors the stylish looks that you know what make it is.Looking at some of the roads and streets, cars back then were very oil leaky LOL.Great video of classic cars in there prime 👍
Good move, Kevin! Beat the jackals by using original color photos instead of colorized b&w's, so they can't bitch about the colors.😉 Now, if you can tighten up make, model, and year, ya got it made! Keep up the good work...I just enjoy the trip down memory lane...and drive-ins! 😁
Unfortunately every image in this video was AI generated and not real.
Things truly were better in the past.
Saludos a la cultura norte Américana sus autos maravillosos. Su música hermosa tube un vehículo estadounidense un belair coupe 1958 automático lo adquiri cuando joven lo restaure y pinte rojo y techo blanco le pinte las bandas blancas en los neumáticos en los radiales modernos no existen con bandas de fábrica como en la época bueno por donde me paseaba era el centro de las miradas lo vendí ase muchos años por nesesidad era joven y necesitaba tener mi casa propia para mi familia an pasado 20 años y con estas imágenes me da mucha nostalgia saludos desde chile
Great video. This is the kind of video I had to watch twice. Once for the cars...and again for the houses and scenery behind them. I note 3 errors on car years. Not bad! Still gave you a thumbs up!
None of the images are real, it's all AI generated.
They don't make good cars anymore. My mom had a 55 Pontiac. I wasn't born yet.
If she would have keep it, she probably would have done a good business selling it nowadays.
Never been a “car guy” plus I wasn’t born until 71 so none of these resonate with me (though my dad would have loved these)….but as an amateur photographer I absolutely love the colors from the Kodachrome film. 😀😀
That dark blue Merc is a 50, not a 55.
These are cars that people will still be standing in front of in 2050 and saying "Oh, dude. What a car!"
Nobody will ever stand in front of a 2001 Dacia and say "What a car! It can go from 0 to 60 km/h in under 25 minutes."
...or, the same DAY! 🐌 😂
Back in the sixties I owned a 1955 coup Deville Cadillac, flamingo orange with a continental kit. I really enjoyed that car. I kept it till I had to send it to the auto grave yard.
But..Why?? 😥
Thanks for the trip back in time. On road trips, my brother and I would see who could be the first to guess the year and make of the cars coming into view. Couldn't do that with today's models.
I can see why folks were taking pictures of these cars back then - they were works of art.
Today, who'd even bother to take a picture of a family car, unless it's to list if for sale on eBay!!!
Nice to see the classy cars! I was disappointed that only one Chrysler product made the list.
Crankcases vented to the atmosphere, leaded fuel, inefficient carburetors (esp. @ idle), lotsa unburned fuel, few safety features, single-reservoir master cylinders, etc. We REALLY don't wanna go back to those days. They're nice to look at though!!
External engine vent is called a Road Draft Tube. 😎👍🇺🇸✝️