I enjoyed "Leave it to Beaver" when growing up and today in my 70's watching reruns on cable TV. Loved the cars of the 60's and '70s. My favorites was the 1962 Dodge Dart 440, 1963 Plymouth Fury, and 1963 Polara. Too bad, not in color. My neighbor had a 62 Dodge Dart convertible in 1962. It was a great looking car and had lots of fun with the top down. Those were the days when cars had their own identity. Today, cars look like they came from the same mold.
As a "B-52" (born 1952) here I have similar memories. OMG!!! just yesterday I was commenting to a younger neighbor how "back in the day" one could identify a cars make/model/year just by looking at it. Today its much more difficult as they all look the same!!!
@@edwardbazylewicz960 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the early 60’s Chrysler-Plymouths were beautiful cars. Of course, all manufactures built beauties in the late 50’s. The 55,56,57 Chevys and Fords were iconic, but the Dodge, Plymouth, Desotos had a sleek look that others went to in the early 60s. My brother in law had a 57 Dodge Coronet that he drove until the 1980s. When I was 10-11 years old (1970-71) my folks had a 1956 Buick Special it was basically a 56 Chevy tagged as a Buick. It had a V8 and a two speed Power Glide automatic Transmission. I loved that car.
We toured Universal Studios in March, 1970 when I was 7 years old. Even then, I knew the Cleavers' home when I saw it. A few second later, we drove by 1313 Mockingbird Lane, the home of the Munsters! So cool! Who knew the Cleavers and the Munsters were neighbours? Ha! A few years back, we attended a home show in Toronto and met Jerry Mathers and Ken Osmond (R.I.P.). Really nice gentlemen, a class act, both of them...
I lived in Los Angeles during the 1970s. A friend took me out to see two houses in Highland Park: one looked like the house in _The Addams Family_ and the other like Tara in _Gone With The Wind_ . I took her into Troutdale Estates (Beverly Hills) and showed her a house whose gate, driveway and facade looked like the house used in the movie _Cinderfella_ and the series _The Beverly Hillbillies_ .
My wife has always been a homemaker our whole married life. I don't believe she has any pearls, but she wears a dress or skirt every day, and a necklace and earrings no matter what she does around the house. So, I don't get this excessive scrutiny or complaints of Beavers mothers' clothes. Always been that way with us.
Agreed. I'm 76 and never saw my mother in a dress unless we were going to church! Surely not while cooking or cleaning. My father was a blue collar worker so obviously, didn't wear a suit or jacket every day but,, this is what made these types of shows so special in a simpler time of life. I learned to drive on a '57 Chevy with a stick shift on the column. Not sure anyone of my kids or grandkids has even seen a stick shift on the column! Thanks goodness we can find these shows on METV or streaming service. Great memories. Also...how beautiful were those cars? No SUV's that all look the same now.
Good job, Tony! The fact that you were able to discern the difference between a TR3 and a TR4 is one thing, but when you caught the Triumph Herald...big respect!
Hello from Finland. Yes, those were real cars. I remember when watching this in the beginning of 60’s when I was ten and admiring those beautiful autos.
Man! This was a great presentation and very well- narrated by Tony Dow; God rest his soul. I love this show so much. I miss wholesome family shows like Beaver. I loved car-spotting on all of these shows from the '50's, '60's, and '70's. Being the carnut that I am. My mother had a brand new, 1963 Dodge Polara 4-door just like the one in the show, when I was a little kid. Loved that push-button Torqueflite.
They missed the very best car scene ever. I believe Eddie was pranking Lumpy by chaining his back axle to a tree. Lumpy started to drive away, and it ripped out the entire back drive of the car! A major classic moment in Eddie Haskell hi jinks.
Know what we used to say in my old college fraternity way back in the day? 'What's the dirtiest thing ever said on television?' 'Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.' 😂
Never forget Wally's first car episode. Eddie tells him- "Just hook-up the doo-hickey to the what-ya-ma-call-it. Reattach the thing-a-ma-jig to the doo-dad, then put the gizmo back on. It's a can of corn." I've used that phrase a million times in the last 45 years to describe a difficult job. "It's a can of corn, Wally." LMAO.
My dad had a Pontiac with back tail fins like that. I was about 9 or 10 at the time. I was little and remember my feet weren't long enough to touch the floorboard.. My dad always left it for my mother while he was at work. He worked at General Motors from the time I was 8 years old until I was grown. Lord I miss them days and my parents. When your parents are Dead the world seems ten times colder and lonely. 😢
I know Thomas, I know. I'm a bachelor who never married or had kids. My family was everything back in the day. They're all gone now. My father was one of the last and I lost him last year at almost 94. We used to know all the neighbors and were all friends. Today, I'm still in the same town and none of these new young people want to know me or even say hello. The only people I know are the last 4 of the original people in the neighborhood and they're very old. The world, for me, IS ten times colder and lonelier compared to back in the day. Especially when it's automatically assumed by society that you have some kind of support system.
👏Loved it! GREAT video, and the narration voice was just right! Nearly every one of those cars had a back seat as big as a sofa! "So, go visit your local DeSoto Plymouth dealer, and tell 'em Groucho sent ya!"😁👍
Cool looking cars, tail fins, and fun names like Belvedere, and my favorite. the Plymouth Fury. Thanks for this video, a pleasant comfortable trip back to my youth in the late 50's- early 60's.
Love the look of those Plymouths. My father still have a '61 Plymouth Fury, but it is pretty rusty and needs a lot of TLC. He said it was the car he learned to drive on.
This is great! I do this whenever I watch old TV shows -- I try to identify the cars. They had great styling back then, and I would always look forward to the new models that would come out each year.. Perry Mason - the old series -- is one of my favorite old shows to watch for cars of the '50s and 60's.
Any of the old shows set in a city were gold mines. Dragnet was a great one for car spotting, and I've thought a million times that if I somehow traveled back in time people wouldn't be amazed at my clothes or mannerisms, they'd be wondering why I was caressing the car and draping myself across every old car I walked up on. I'd be hoping that at that moment I'd be whipped back to the present, my contact with the car dragging it back through the vortex with me! 🤣
Wonderful video. The location is a place in California where several tv series were made. Such as Bewitched and many others movies. Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica. Thank you.❤
The windshield remover and window remover in general ….was busy …. they either rolled down the windows or removed them all together …. because of the reflections . Thanks Fusion Kidd ….. Larry Mondelo 😊 was great !
I know…in the opening credits for one of the later seasons the car backs out of the driveway, and it’s obvious that there is no rear window in the car.
Yea that was common back then. Just like the Pontiac used in I Love Lucy when they drove to Hollywood had no front windshield either. It's pretty obvious too! LOL
@@aarons3695 I doubt Ward would have had a company car. We're never told what it actually was that he did for a living, but it's been kind of an opined consensus that he was some kind of accountant. When I was little back in the '70's, our neighbor up the street was a district manager for a supermarket chain. He had a company car and was allowed, like your father, to use it for personal use as well.
You guys have to bear in mind several important factors here. First off, Ward made good money as a professional. Although we were never told exactly what his job was, it's assumed he was an accountant. Second, houses in the 50's and 60's were much more affordable than they are today. Part of the whole post World War II American dream was a house in the suburbs. My own parents had a house built in the 50's in a brand new development when they first got married. It only cost them $17,000 and the payments were only like $78 a month on a 20 year mortgage. I inherited it and today I can sell the house for close to half a million! The rule of thumb was that you spent no more than 25% of your income on housing. That was mortgage, property taxes and insurance. As for the cars, they were much more affordable back then. Unless you bought a luxury car like a Cadillac or Lincoln. In addition, the trade in versus resale value was much higher then. If you traded in a car after a year, you got close to what you paid for it and the profit on resale was very little for dealers. Also, until the Reagan tax reforms of 1986, interest on new car loans was tax deductible. So it made sense for a middle class family to always have a newer car. Helping that was that a family only had ONE car. It wasn't until the 60's that it started to become common for a family to have two cars. Today, if you trade in a new car after a year, you're lucky to get half of what you paid for it. Used car values are the highest they've ever been and dealers now make more money on used cars than they do new ones. Finally, cars back then weren't designed to last for the high mileage they are today. Almost no one reached 100K on a car back then. There would be all sorts of problems mechanically. Todays cars can go 200K or more with almost no engine trouble. Although you'll pay thousands in repairs for computer repair, sensors and the like.
@@retroguy9494Ward was an accountant. It was easier to afford new cars back then, but they weren’t well equipped or as long lasting as what we have today.
@@rogercvc6768 They sure don't make them like they used to. They weren't intended to be museum pieces 70 years later. If the car companies could make all their cars fall apart after 2 years they would. Long lasting cars are good for banks but not the car makers.
I'll take the 1960 Plymouth Fury!!! Love those tail fins! Gorgeous car!!! I remember these cars when I was growing up. I loved looking at all the different styles of "ears," which is what I called fins back then before I knew better! Lol. I remember as the years went on being rather disappointed as there were getting to be less "ears" to look at. I am afraid I still feel that way!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great idea. At 4:06 you missed that beautiful 1960 Chrysler convertible, behind the awesome 1960 Plymouth Convertible with faux spare tire. Both had huge fins.👏
Beautiful cars. I remember most of them. My Dad and older brother owned a few. Back in 1973, I drove a 1967 Chevy SS Camaro, 1965 Ford Galaxie 500, mint condition. I thought the Narrator sounded like "Tony Dow" 🤗 Great video! and I send my Love up to Heaven Tony! ❤✝
we had a '64 t-bird ragtop- you had to rev the motor to put the top up/down or the right-rear window up/down. that was the last year before ford started putting alternators in them.
I'm really enjoying all of these. You've really put a lot of work into them. I don't know how these ended up in my list but I have to thank "the algorithm" for introducing them to me. This series is still widely syndicated and probably will continue ... forever. The synthesized voice is virtually identical to Tony Dow. That scene with the tire rolling down the street out of control makes me LOL. In the final season, the opening has the family coming out of the house and getting into their Plymouth Fury in the driveway. As the car is backing up toward the camera, you can tell the rear window has been removed to eliminate any reflection. Universal's "back forty" lot in Culver City was used for almost all of the exterior shots in this series, as well as many other movies and TV shows.
One of the cars was a 1962 Plymouth fury sport. It was season 4 and an early model '62, though it was filmed in '61. The car I'm talking about was pulling up in the driveway during the credits at the end of the show. There was also a 1961 fury in season 3. Season 5 had a 1963 Fury.
I'm sure you realized that the show ended in 1963. It's and honest mistake. Now back to the show. Did you notice the masking tape on the 57 fords rear quarters, covering up the Fairlane name. Good video, had my 62 Savoy signed by Jerry Mathers 5 years ago. It's amazing how many people think my car was used on the show, I wish! It's a nice theme to play on at car shows, even my license plate says GEEWALY.
Yes it is! That's because both the Cleaver house (technically called the 'Paramount House') and the Munster house (technically called the 'Maxim House) were both located on 'Colonial Street' which was on the backlot of Universal Studios in Hollywood.
@@tommurphy4307 Well, that's what I've read and saw in documentaries. I never visited it myself as I'm all the way on the other side of the country just outside New York City. According to one documentary I saw, when the Universal City tour jitneys used to roll by, they would have to stop filming on The Munsters and people would want autographs. It drove the crew crazy. But I read that Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne were very happy to oblige the fans.
Love seeing these great old cars, that daily drivers. You should do the same with 77 Sunset Strip. I remember that Gearld Loydd Kookson, "Kookie" had a car that went on a show circuit to various Ford dealers. It was an early sixties T bird with 2 427 engines, a convertible with the back seats covered. Who knows what ever happened to that car; it may never have appeared on the show.
I seem to remember an opening sequence, probably from 1962, of Beaver and Wally smiling at the camera through the back window of a '62 Plymouth. I wonder if the '62 Chrysler 300 convertible was the same one seen briefly in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World driven by Jerry Lewis. They were quite rare.
I've always said that the star of that show was Lumpy's '40 Ford convertible with the flathead V8. That car was loved by hot-rodders and is very sought after today. Fred's Fairlane 500 is a close second. The Rutherfords knew how to pick 'em.
Well done. The most interesting subject of the entire series was observing some of those garish looking cars. They sold rather poorly at the time until they were completely refined for 1963
If you love old "mid-century) cars as I do, this video is a MUST.Tony Dow must have known these cars, as he is a GREAT narrator. I think its more than just being ggood at script reading
Great vid!!!!!!! 👍👍 Always liked the 1959 DeSoto during the end credits. And have always wondered who was driving it, who owned it and what ever happened to that car. 🙂
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Me and my brother used to watch this show every Saturday night . A great show and a great time growing up !
The Narrator, Tony Dow. R.I.P Wally 😔
Artificial Intelligence reproduction. Still, though, RIP Tony Dow.
Really? I'm sorry 😢 to hear this. I thought he was still with us.
He was on Adam 12 for an episode, his car was stolen. G.T.O. I believe ⁉
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I enjoyed "Leave it to Beaver" when growing up and today in my 70's watching reruns on cable TV. Loved the cars of the
60's and '70s. My favorites was the 1962 Dodge Dart 440, 1963 Plymouth Fury, and 1963 Polara. Too bad, not in color.
My neighbor had a 62 Dodge Dart convertible in 1962. It was a great looking car and had lots of fun with the top down.
Those were the days when cars had their own identity. Today, cars look like they came from the same mold.
As a "B-52" (born 1952) here I have similar memories.
OMG!!! just yesterday I was commenting to a younger neighbor how "back in the day" one could identify a cars make/model/year just by looking at it. Today its much more difficult as they all look the same!!!
This was the time when the Chrysler Corp. made Dorkmobiles. Except Imperial, of course.
@@edwardbazylewicz960 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the early 60’s Chrysler-Plymouths were beautiful cars. Of course, all manufactures built beauties in the late 50’s. The 55,56,57 Chevys and Fords were iconic, but the Dodge, Plymouth, Desotos had a sleek look that others went to in the early 60s.
My brother in law had a 57 Dodge Coronet that he drove until the 1980s. When I was 10-11 years old (1970-71) my folks had a 1956 Buick Special it was basically a 56 Chevy tagged as a Buick. It had a V8 and a two speed Power Glide automatic Transmission.
I loved that car.
@@larrybruce4856 I was too young to remember the cars. But, in reruns they’re really cool.
...my boss at my first job in 1969 drove a 62 Dart - by that time it looked like shit...
We toured Universal Studios in March, 1970 when I was 7 years old. Even then, I knew the Cleavers' home when I saw it. A few second later, we drove by 1313 Mockingbird Lane, the home of the Munsters! So cool! Who knew the Cleavers and the Munsters were neighbours? Ha! A few years back, we attended a home show in Toronto and met Jerry Mathers and Ken Osmond (R.I.P.). Really nice gentlemen, a class act, both of them...
Very cool
@@snugj5957 Cool! Thanks. MR
I lived in Los Angeles during the 1970s. A friend took me out to see two houses in Highland Park: one looked like the house in _The Addams Family_ and the other like Tara in _Gone With The Wind_ .
I took her into Troutdale Estates (Beverly Hills) and showed her a house whose gate, driveway and facade looked like the house used in the movie _Cinderfella_ and the series _The Beverly Hillbillies_ .
I love these old shows that show the classic old cars that built automobilia
I wonder why there was no Studabakers on the show . Not even just in passing traffic
most of them weren't classics, but many were buy-backs and even purchased from other production companies.
I'm a a car guy from way back and a life long fan of this iconic show. You nailed it, much respect.
our dads brought us up proper...
The cars were the best part of this show. I'm 73, had many friends, moms were homemakers, BUT none of them wore pearls or dress like June wore.
My wife has always been a homemaker our whole married life. I don't believe she has any pearls, but she wears a dress or skirt every day, and a necklace and earrings no matter what she does around the house. So, I don't get this excessive scrutiny or complaints of Beavers mothers' clothes. Always been that way with us.
Barbara Billingsley always wore a necklace to conceal a small scar on her throat.
Agreed. I'm 76 and never saw my mother in a dress unless we were going to church! Surely not while cooking or cleaning. My father was a blue collar worker so obviously, didn't wear a suit or jacket every day but,, this is what made these types of shows so special in a simpler time of life. I learned to drive on a '57 Chevy with a stick shift on the column. Not sure anyone of my kids or grandkids has even seen a stick shift on the column! Thanks goodness we can find these shows on METV or streaming service. Great memories. Also...how beautiful were those cars? No SUV's that all look the same now.
@@MagSeven7 My three on the tree made a good armrest at times.
I wanted to help her take them off . . .
Thanks for all the trouble you took to get all these car shots.
Came for the classic cars, stayed for the episode-story overviews!
Great video!
Good job, Tony! The fact that you were able to discern the difference between a TR3 and a TR4 is one thing, but when you caught the Triumph Herald...big respect!
Hello from Finland. Yes, those were real cars. I remember when watching this in the beginning of 60’s when I was ten and admiring those beautiful autos.
The Plymouth Fury's were beautiful.
Especially in the movie ¨Christine¨
Plymouth made some awful cars. My dad made a big mistake buying one in 1957. He went back to Fords.
@@yvonneplant9434 Interesting. My dad was a GM guy. As far as looks goes, I love the Fury.
Couldn't beat the styling
Man! This was a great presentation and very well- narrated by Tony Dow; God rest his soul. I love this show so much. I miss wholesome family shows like Beaver. I loved car-spotting on all of these shows from the '50's, '60's, and '70's. Being the carnut that I am.
My mother had a brand new, 1963 Dodge Polara 4-door just like the one in the show, when I was a little kid. Loved that push-button Torqueflite.
I feel you, I too miss Beaver.
@@spankynater4242 you've got to get hold of yourself!
Love those Plymouths!
Love that translucent steering wheel on the '61 Plymouth Fury!
Yes, love the Plymouths!
As a diehard Oldsmobile afficiondo, I was quite thrilled that he got that 1960 Oldsmobile Super 88 correct!
i miss the old pontiacs and oldsmobiles- you can have those ugly new buicks.
Thank you for this informative, well-researched and produced video. I still get excited at the scene with the Corvette and the Triumph !
Great little documentary about the cars used. I realized that sounded like Tony Dow narrating. May he RIP!
Some Great Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouths were only slightly hurt on this show. LOVE the OLD CARS. Makes you laugh to watch this video. Thanks.
Least expensive @ the time
Chevrolet & Ford was TOP DOLLAR
I remember all those cars, and all those episodes. Too bad I didn't pay this much attention to my school work back then
That '60 Plymouth Belvedere is SWEET!!!!
They missed the very best car scene ever. I believe Eddie was pranking Lumpy by chaining his back axle to a tree. Lumpy started to drive away, and it ripped out the entire back drive of the car! A major classic moment in Eddie Haskell hi jinks.
I was going to mention that too. I remember it well. Lumpy's reaction was priceless😂😂😂😂😂
I heard this episode was the inspiration for George Lucas in the similar cop car scene in the movie American Graffiti.
The chain they used belong to Ward.
@@AyeCarumba221 Great scene, but the host describes Lumpys 1940 Ford with another scene. Great episode but we get the idea right!?
So true
2:30 June feel some remorse about Ward being so hard on the Beaver.. THERE IT IS! 🤣
Know what we used to say in my old college fraternity way back in the day? 'What's the dirtiest thing ever said on television?' 'Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.' 😂
I agree with Ward and his harsh approach.
Ward was hard on the Beaver, its true. But in the end, it was because he loved the Beaver so much.
@@bellemorelock4924 Passionately
@@retroguy9494 My memory from university was the question: "Do you remember when Beaver Cleaver was a name and not a reputation?" 🤣🤣
I never thought I'd watch this entire video and thought I'd be bored with it. Thank You.!
Never forget Wally's first car episode. Eddie tells him- "Just hook-up the doo-hickey to the what-ya-ma-call-it. Reattach the thing-a-ma-jig to the doo-dad, then put the gizmo back on. It's a can of corn." I've used that phrase a million times in the last 45 years to describe a difficult job. "It's a can of corn, Wally." LMAO.
Great piece enjoyed!
...one of the reasons I watch it now on METV...we didn't watch sitcoms when I was as kid...but I love the 'antique' cars....the cars of my yute'...
sometimes, i roll up a fatty and watch 'svengoolie' on saturday nights.
Always loved the cars on this show, Ward must have been in a hurry to get home the way he raced that Plymouth into the driveway!
My dad had a Pontiac with back tail fins like that. I was about 9 or 10 at the time. I was little and remember my feet weren't long enough to touch the floorboard.. My dad always left it for my mother while he was at work. He worked at General Motors from the time I was 8 years old until I was grown. Lord I miss them days and my parents. When your parents are Dead the world seems ten times colder and lonely. 😢
I hear ya Thomas.
My dad had a 59 Pontiac Bonneville mint green with a chrome dash. What a car
Amen I miss my parents
Back in the days when dads had union jobs that supported their entire families.
I know Thomas, I know. I'm a bachelor who never married or had kids. My family was everything back in the day. They're all gone now. My father was one of the last and I lost him last year at almost 94. We used to know all the neighbors and were all friends. Today, I'm still in the same town and none of these new young people want to know me or even say hello. The only people I know are the last 4 of the original people in the neighborhood and they're very old.
The world, for me, IS ten times colder and lonelier compared to back in the day. Especially when it's automatically assumed by society that you have some kind of support system.
My Dad had a 1962 Chrysler 300. Seeing the one in the show was cool. Great video, you called out these cars spot on!
👏Loved it! GREAT video, and the narration voice was just right!
Nearly every one of those cars had a back seat as big as a sofa!
"So, go visit your local DeSoto Plymouth dealer, and tell 'em Groucho sent ya!"😁👍
The narrator was Wally Cleaver
Cool looking cars, tail fins, and fun names like Belvedere, and my favorite. the Plymouth Fury. Thanks for this video, a pleasant comfortable trip back to my youth in the late 50's- early 60's.
I love those old cars back then especially the Plymouth Belvedere for 1962.
Love the look of those Plymouths. My father still have a '61 Plymouth Fury, but it is pretty rusty and needs a lot of TLC. He said it was the car he learned to drive on.
The cars I remember as I was growing up! Love your videos and the cars, they are spot on!!!!! THANK YOU!!!
This is great! I do this whenever I watch old TV shows -- I try to identify the cars. They had great styling back then, and I would always look forward to the new models that would come out each year.. Perry Mason - the old series -- is one of my favorite old shows to watch for cars of the '50s and 60's.
Any of the old shows set in a city were gold mines. Dragnet was a great one for car spotting, and I've thought a million times that if I somehow traveled back in time people wouldn't be amazed at my clothes or mannerisms, they'd be wondering why I was caressing the car and draping myself across every old car I walked up on. I'd be hoping that at that moment I'd be whipped back to the present, my contact with the car dragging it back through the vortex with me! 🤣
@@k.b.tidwell caressing yourself? don't try that now.....
@@tommurphy4307 fixed it!
It's Nice Seeing The Great Old 👍 Vehicles 😊
1962 Mopar station wagon at 7:04 in the driveway across the street. This video was fun & well done.
Wonderful video. The location is a place in California where several tv series were made. Such as Bewitched and many others movies.
Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica.
Thank you.❤
Enjoyed the cars on the show, particularly the Plymouths.
The windshield remover and window remover in general ….was busy …. they either rolled down the windows or removed them all together …. because of the reflections . Thanks Fusion Kidd ….. Larry Mondelo 😊 was great !
I know…in the opening credits for one of the later seasons the car backs out of the driveway, and it’s obvious that there is no rear window in the car.
Yea that was common back then. Just like the Pontiac used in I Love Lucy when they drove to Hollywood had no front windshield either. It's pretty obvious too! LOL
@@retroguy9494 Yeah, I don’t think it had wipers, either!
@@DavidBugea It didn't! 👍
It's amazing this average middle class small town family could afford a new car every year! ☺
And a massive house.
@@aarons3695 I doubt Ward would have had a company car. We're never told what it actually was that he did for a living, but it's been kind of an opined consensus that he was some kind of accountant.
When I was little back in the '70's, our neighbor up the street was a district manager for a supermarket chain. He had a company car and was allowed, like your father, to use it for personal use as well.
You guys have to bear in mind several important factors here. First off, Ward made good money as a professional. Although we were never told exactly what his job was, it's assumed he was an accountant. Second, houses in the 50's and 60's were much more affordable than they are today. Part of the whole post World War II American dream was a house in the suburbs. My own parents had a house built in the 50's in a brand new development when they first got married. It only cost them $17,000 and the payments were only like $78 a month on a 20 year mortgage. I inherited it and today I can sell the house for close to half a million! The rule of thumb was that you spent no more than 25% of your income on housing. That was mortgage, property taxes and insurance.
As for the cars, they were much more affordable back then. Unless you bought a luxury car like a Cadillac or Lincoln. In addition, the trade in versus resale value was much higher then. If you traded in a car after a year, you got close to what you paid for it and the profit on resale was very little for dealers. Also, until the Reagan tax reforms of 1986, interest on new car loans was tax deductible. So it made sense for a middle class family to always have a newer car. Helping that was that a family only had ONE car. It wasn't until the 60's that it started to become common for a family to have two cars.
Today, if you trade in a new car after a year, you're lucky to get half of what you paid for it. Used car values are the highest they've ever been and dealers now make more money on used cars than they do new ones.
Finally, cars back then weren't designed to last for the high mileage they are today. Almost no one reached 100K on a car back then. There would be all sorts of problems mechanically. Todays cars can go 200K or more with almost no engine trouble. Although you'll pay thousands in repairs for computer repair, sensors and the like.
@@retroguy9494Ward was an accountant. It was easier to afford new cars back then, but they weren’t well equipped or as long lasting as what we have today.
@@rogercvc6768 They sure don't make them like they used to. They weren't intended to be museum pieces 70 years later. If the car companies could make all their cars fall apart after 2 years they would. Long lasting cars are good for banks but not the car makers.
Showcasing the wild virgil exner designs.
I was born in '58. Those cars remind me of the one in the horror movie "Christine"
WOW!! YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR CARS GREAT!!! VIDEO,,.. THX.
I'll take the 1960 Plymouth Fury!!! Love those tail fins! Gorgeous car!!! I remember these cars when I was growing up. I loved looking at all the different styles of "ears," which is what I called fins back then before I knew better! Lol. I remember as the years went on being rather disappointed as there were getting to be less "ears" to look at. I am afraid I still feel that way!!!!!!!!!!!!
they got smaller and then faded away into history.
Note on the frig: 'Ward, you were a little rough on the Beaver last night.
Love,
June"
"PS - thanks for the pearl necklace!"
I really enjoy this “cars of t.v. shows” series.
Well done and I appreciate the voice actors (in this case, Tony Dow as Wally).
Keep them coming!👍👍
Great idea. At 4:06 you missed that beautiful 1960 Chrysler convertible, behind the awesome 1960 Plymouth Convertible with faux spare tire. Both had huge fins.👏
fins were all the rage back then. what a great time to be a kid!
1ADAM 12 shows a lot of great old cars . I always enjoy naming them to my wife !
I bet she loves it! 😂
Dragnet is pretty good for that too!
you must be a real hoot in front of the tube.
GREAT video! I would watch one of these for every TV show from back then.
I had a big honking 1960 Plymouth Fury until I got drafted. We did have fun in it but sold it when I left
Love the sports cars!
Beautiful cars. I remember most of them. My Dad and older brother owned a few. Back in 1973, I drove a 1967 Chevy SS Camaro, 1965 Ford Galaxie 500, mint condition.
I thought the Narrator sounded like "Tony Dow" 🤗 Great video! and I send my Love up to Heaven Tony! ❤✝
we had a '64 t-bird ragtop- you had to rev the motor to put the top up/down or the right-rear window up/down. that was the last year before ford started putting alternators in them.
Amazing Classic !
I'm really enjoying all of these. You've really put a lot of work into them. I don't know how these ended up in my list but I have to thank "the algorithm" for introducing them to me. This series is still widely syndicated and probably will continue ... forever. The synthesized voice is virtually identical to Tony Dow. That scene with the tire rolling down the street out of control makes me LOL. In the final season, the opening has the family coming out of the house and getting into their Plymouth Fury in the driveway. As the car is backing up toward the camera, you can tell the rear window has been removed to eliminate any reflection. Universal's "back forty" lot in Culver City was used for almost all of the exterior shots in this series, as well as many other movies and TV shows.
I remember a lot of these cars , some were before my time . I loved cars that had individual styling !
Thanks so much for this!
Fantastic , Love Those Cars ,And The Leave it To Beaver Show.
This is a brilliant idea! A wonderful video! Well done!!
Some cool cars from the 50's and 60's. Wish this tape was in color.
It was like watching a number of automobile shows.
That 59 Plymouth Fury was sweet.
Wasn't that the "Christine" car
@@jaybennett236Christine was a 58
Great Job!
Most risqué comment on 50’s TV: June- “Ward, you were pretty rough on the beaver last night.”
GREAT COMILATION. THANKS FOR SHARING
Very cool!
I absolutely thought that this video was narrated by Tony Dow!
These cars are from my teen years, great job!!!
That was a swell idea,featuring all those cars. I wish we could make a new car with fins
Slap some old Cadillac fins on your new SUV! Wouldn’t that look great?!
a prius would look better with a pair of big fins on it...
Nice hearing Tony Dow now gone!
This narration is the best
I've always wanted to see something like this - thanks!
One of the cars was a 1962 Plymouth fury sport. It was season 4 and an early model '62, though it was filmed in '61. The car I'm talking about was pulling up in the driveway during the credits at the end of the show. There was also a 1961 fury in season 3. Season 5 had a 1963 Fury.
I'm sure you realized that the show ended in 1963. It's and honest mistake. Now back to the show. Did you notice the masking tape on the 57 fords rear quarters, covering up the Fairlane name. Good video, had my 62 Savoy signed by Jerry Mathers 5 years ago. It's amazing how many people think my car was used on the show, I wish! It's a nice theme to play on at car shows, even my license plate says GEEWALY.
Weird they left the front Fairlane badge uncovered though.
2:29 2:30 2:33
I’m curious why the masking tape ? Because the Ford are still on the hood and the trunk.
@@YS-fr6numaybe they didn’t want it scuffed or damaged ?
“Ward, you were a bit hard on the Beaver last night” that old gag.
Real cars ! Good stuff . Thanks.
June giving Ward the eye saying I'm worried about the Beaver 🦫
Ward be easy on the Beaver
if he asked her to see a doctor..
They sure had alot of family cars! lol
I love this! I hope that you do 'The Twilight Zone' some day!
I remember thinking about the cars during the episode, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" with Claude Akins.
Anyone notice the Munster’s house that showed up briefly in one of the street shots? It was on the right hand side. 7:06
Same creative/production team behind both classic shows!
Yes it is! That's because both the Cleaver house (technically called the 'Paramount House') and the Munster house (technically called the 'Maxim House) were both located on 'Colonial Street' which was on the backlot of Universal Studios in Hollywood.
@@retroguy9494 it was really in universal city?
@@tommurphy4307 Well, that's what I've read and saw in documentaries. I never visited it myself as I'm all the way on the other side of the country just outside New York City.
According to one documentary I saw, when the Universal City tour jitneys used to roll by, they would have to stop filming on The Munsters and people would want autographs. It drove the crew crazy. But I read that Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne were very happy to oblige the fans.
This is amazing! Thank you!
Love seeing these great old cars, that daily drivers. You should do the same with 77 Sunset Strip. I remember that Gearld Loydd Kookson, "Kookie" had a car that went on a show circuit to various Ford dealers. It was an early sixties T bird with 2 427 engines, a convertible with the back seats covered. Who knows what ever happened to that car; it may never have appeared on the show.
was it a triple-carb setup? we had a plastic tonneau for our '64 t-bird and it was a pain-in-the-butt to put on/off
I seem to remember an opening sequence, probably from 1962, of Beaver and Wally smiling at the camera through the back window of a '62 Plymouth.
I wonder if the '62 Chrysler 300 convertible was the same one seen briefly in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World driven by Jerry Lewis. They were quite rare.
If you look closely, you'll see there's no glass in that rear window. It was removed to eliminate glare in the camera shot.
@@nealshirley6479 i think a half-dozen commenters already said that....
@@tommurphy4307 Sometimes I comment without reading all the other comments. A lot of them aren't worth reading, like yours.
Nice, looks like a nice show with lots of classics in it
Seeing the black exhaust pour out of that "new" Triumph TR4 when they shift gears is a reminder of how far we've come.
Is that the car where Beav says it was burning rubber? LOL.
@@curtchase3730 I don't know! "Burning rubber"? The Beav? Whoa. Serious respect for the Beav.
you should see the mess it made on the showroom floor!
Lumpy’s ‘40 Ford 👌🏾
I've always said that the star of that show was Lumpy's '40 Ford convertible with the flathead V8. That car was loved by hot-rodders and is very sought after today. Fred's Fairlane 500 is a close second. The Rutherfords knew how to pick 'em.
theyve all been scrapped and now theyre re-incarnated kias.
Great video
Great video🤙🏼
That's neat video bro 👍 👌
The cars back then were works of art,and all built in Detroit Michigan! Ah those were the days!
Well done. The most interesting subject of the entire series was observing some of those garish looking cars. They sold rather poorly at the time until they were completely refined for 1963
not refined- transformed into newer garish-looking cars.
I’m a retired elementary schoolteacher, and it’s really sad that kids are not interested in cars at all today because cars today are so boring! 😒
I'll look alike and boring.
They also had a 1961 Dodge Lancer parked out front on the street in a few episodes
If you love old "mid-century) cars as I do, this video is a MUST.Tony Dow must have known these cars, as he is a GREAT narrator. I think its more than just being ggood at script reading
That was great, subscribed.
Great vid!!!!!!! 👍👍
Always liked the 1959 DeSoto during the end credits. And have always wondered who was driving it, who owned it and what ever happened to that car. 🙂
Those were the days, not like now.
Well they're LONG GONE.....
(Let Pat Boone know too)
Fantastic
Cool video!