1939 La Salle series 50 touring sedan.

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  • @stanleycostello9610
    @stanleycostello9610 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days."

    • @johnboydTx
      @johnboydTx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Didn't need no welfare state
      Everybody pulled their weight 👏👏🍻 ✌️😊🇺🇸

    • @michaeledwards2919
      @michaeledwards2919 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      🌷🌷The lyrics to 1972s tv series All In The Family. 🕊 How I remember it so I was ten years old, the best days of our lives 🌿
      Thank you for remembering
      God bless you.

    • @LearnAboutFlow
      @LearnAboutFlow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@johnboydTx Which, of course, was not remotely true in reality.

    • @Modeltnick
      @Modeltnick 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha! You beat me to it! Lol!

    • @johnboydTx
      @johnboydTx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LearnAboutFlow country folk in the brush live differently...

  • @BlaiseMiller-bk7dk
    @BlaiseMiller-bk7dk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My 1940 Buick has the exact same body and almost and identical interior, and I’ll tell you I’ve fallen asleep at several car shows in that thing so spacious and comfortable.

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Were you snoring?

  • @josephgaviota
    @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    13:50 I always like it when you point out ashtays in these older cars ... Young people cannot imagine how _EVERYBODY_ smoked back in the day.

  • @joebutchko2223
    @joebutchko2223 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "Didn't need a welfare state
    Everybody pulled their weight
    Gee our old Lasalle ran great
    Those were the days!!"
    How many never knew what those lyrics were about because they didn't know what a Lasalle was?
    But WE know!

    • @johnboydTx
      @johnboydTx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      🍻🍻✌️😊🇺🇸 they were the days..

    • @michaeledwards2919
      @michaeledwards2919 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      They sure were. Amen

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BUT WE KNOW !!!
      You got THAT right!

  • @ColtonRMagby
    @ColtonRMagby 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    WYR 1: All of them.
    WYR 2: All of them.
    Classic cars? I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!

  • @johnboydTx
    @johnboydTx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1939 Packard 😊
    The 1938 La Salle is more my styling love the dash and headlight height ! she looks like a good driver 😊
    Great Episode 👏👏
    Happy Motoring ✌️🤠

  • @geebs76
    @geebs76 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That radio is cool. I haven't seen one of those before. In addition to loving cars I love radios too. That looks like a Delco Model R-705. From what I gather these were made in 1947-1948. The control head mounts on the steering column and there is a box containing 8 tubes which presumably is under the dash.
    I'd choose the 1939 Packard 120 in the first scenario and the 1939 LaSalle in the second.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sweet choices
      I never saw a radio unit like that. I had to look it up to see what it was. I wasn’t sure if it was a radio or some sort of speed limiting device.

  • @danielcheatham3400
    @danielcheatham3400 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I rented a La Salle with chauffeur for my wife's 21st birthday. Very nice riding car

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sweet =)

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      _I rented a La Salle with chauffeur for my wife's 21st birthday. Very nice riding car_
      What a great date !

  • @billsmith8606
    @billsmith8606 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Not an expert on Cad flathead V8's but the exhausts coming out on the inside of the engine V makes sense when you think of engine cooling if you compare it to the Ford V8 which always ran warm due to the exhaust running through the block and out the side. Someone had mentioned that this configuration might lead to vapor lock with the heat it generates being close to the carb, I doubt that because if the fuel pump is mounted in normal V8 fashion the upper area would be on the pressure side of the pump, vapor lock occurs on the vacuum side when the fuel gets warm which lowers the amount of vacuum that can be applied before the fuel breaks up into vapor limiting the amount of lift that the pump can provide.

  • @YuTbCensorship
    @YuTbCensorship 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That running of the Exhaust on top and over seems crazy way to route the Exhaust.
    On hot days it probably would contribute to Vapor Lock of the Carburetor so close.

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's funny you mention "vapor lock." Just another thing the current crop of drivers has never experienced.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I thought that was a very interesting set up vapor lock sucks. I deal with it in my truck on really hot days and I’m really thankful for a manual choke because I can pull the choke out and correct it… but yeah definitely an issue that kids don’t have to worry about today

  • @retrobilly1719
    @retrobilly1719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    BTW My Uncle had I believe a 64/5 Dodge Dart,My Mom raved about how Great the Slant 6 was as an Engine ,I’m surprised myself how Fast the pick up was

    • @kennethanway7979
      @kennethanway7979 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I've had several of the super six cars... they are tourqey! Beat a 69 Chevelle..V8 headers...

    • @retrobilly1719
      @retrobilly1719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@kennethanway7979 yes !!!!

    • @retrobilly1719
      @retrobilly1719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good Mileage for the time too,Amazing how Mileage has improved on cars now,But hyped up 4 cylinders are the reason

  • @robertwatkins364
    @robertwatkins364 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That's a nice old ride, it looks to be original unrestored.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Quite surprising that this unrestored unit looks so good at 85 years old

    • @robertwatkins364
      @robertwatkins364 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@billolsen4360 I see cracks, and checks, in the laquer paint, and a few other imperfections, but overall it's pretty nice.

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertwatkins364 I'm guessing those cracks are poor Bondo application.

    • @robertwatkins364
      @robertwatkins364 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@josephgaviota
      That might be it too, I'm not sure. I know they slathered the laquer paint on those old cars. My father owned, and operated, an auto body repair shop. Some of the messes I have seen, it would take hours to explain.

  • @tjmusa
    @tjmusa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    2-16-24 we still have my fathers lasalles. 2 37 lasalles a 4dr and a 2 door. we also have a front clip and seat and frame of a 39 caddy full dash and inteaior. and a 39 lasalle 4 dr . some day someone will fix them up. thanks for posting.

  • @JohnCBurzynski
    @JohnCBurzynski 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Going with the Lincoln on style alone.

  • @bobblowhard8823
    @bobblowhard8823 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At 14:10, I notice that your hair color perfectly matches the head liner in the car. Coincidence?

  • @josephgaviota
    @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jay, you always make me yearn for a trip to the Classic Auto Mall.
    Falling Water is in PA, and the Liberty Bell is in PA ... I really must do a vaca in PA.
    Oh, and thank you for giving us interesting old cars to look at !!

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha nice Pennsylvanian is a cool state classic auto mall is definitely worth the visit just left there 5.5 hour drive back home lol

  • @pyrexmaniac
    @pyrexmaniac 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I hear " Rock and roll fantasy" in the background.....I haven't heard that tune in years.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That place is awesome. They even play awesome music.

  • @ronkemperful
    @ronkemperful 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I see a little 39 Buick in this design, not a bad thing - including the water fall chrome accents on each side of the front grill.

    • @robertwatkins364
      @robertwatkins364 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The front center grill looks like a 1940 Nash. The Nash has thicker bars though I think.

  • @richardwarren7492
    @richardwarren7492 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WYR 1: -Zephyr WYR 2: Buick For many years my mother- in - law was the personal secretary to David Packard. She worked for HP from 1941 until 1985 - - My father in-law worked at the Buick dealer in Mt View and the Palo Alto from 1945 till 1986.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh wow that’s crazy thank you so much for sharing that with us =)

  • @rrdcac255
    @rrdcac255 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Way to go Jay

  • @bparksiii6171
    @bparksiii6171 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    First pick 39 Lincoln Zephyr, second 1939 Chrysler. Still prefer the 34 LaSalle especially the 3 passenger coupe body, like the bi plane bumpers and portholes on the hood. When I was young I originally thought the 34 models was a Buick because of the portholes and the straight 8 until I learned that the 34 LaSalle was Cadillac's companion car. Great find.

  • @infernoking7504
    @infernoking7504 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the old styles of the eras I hope one day to restore a car like it.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Plenty of great cars can be found on Facebook marketplace place

  • @josephcrafa2694
    @josephcrafa2694 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A very pretty cAr to be sure. I’ve noticed that personally I love side mounts on cars of that era. Of course a very personal preference. Would love to know which of the cars you review are survivors vs restorations as many must be and optioned items bs aftermarket .
    Personally , I’d always pick a Packard or Lincoln.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Awesome choices I wish they kept better records of how many cars survive/how many cars were built sometimes you can’t even find the number on that

  • @josephgaviota
    @josephgaviota 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My dad was raised very poor ... the depression and all ... he always said the LaSalle was the bees knees. You mention it as a _junior_ to the Cadillac ... but maybe to dad's poor eyes, LaSalle was the best thing his family could even aspire to?

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were very close at the end of production run

  • @61rampy65
    @61rampy65 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wouldn't mind seeing a video about the yellow 68 Corvair Convertible in the background!

  • @Irishfan
    @Irishfan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lincoln and Chrysler, but all of them would be swell!

  • @seed_drill7135
    @seed_drill7135 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember seeing one these for sale with the entire back cut off. It had been converted to transport a Shriner parade car!

  • @denislandry7577
    @denislandry7577 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a treat ! Man , i would have to drive this caddy if i had it lol

  • @garymckee8857
    @garymckee8857 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    11:03 Too bad there wasn't a 2 door Coup'e to view. The radio is also something I never knew about.
    I have never seen one before and it's something different for sure.
    Thanks 👍

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One day the coupe will be featured as soon as I find one =)

  • @misterenergy959
    @misterenergy959 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Millineal anti theft device…way ahead of its time!

  • @NeedtoSpeak
    @NeedtoSpeak 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The interior must have been quite handsome when it rolled off the production line.

  • @davidlogansr8007
    @davidlogansr8007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hard choices today! In the first scenario I guess I would choose the LaSalle, in the second I would choose the Chrysler because my Dad had one and had a very good opinion of it until he rolled it on the way back to Camp LeJeune in 1950. Remarkable that neither he nor his fellow Marines were not hurt, and they put it back upright and continued the journey from Emporia Virginia!
    In the second scenario I would be hopeful that the LaSalle was as well equipped as this one!

  • @JefferyHall-ct2tr
    @JefferyHall-ct2tr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Jay!: The LaSalle was a NICE car! That one is quite nice! My favorite year of LaSalle is the 1934 model. That thing is sweet! The biplane bumpers and the round vents in the hood, made for a great art deco styled car. The 1938 is nice too! WYR#1 Packard for sure WYR#2 Was going to pick the LaSalle. . .until the 1939 Buick came up! I can't help it! I LIKE that design for some reason!

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ll have to definitely look for a 34 gal I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person awesome choices.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ll have to definitely look for a 34 gal I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person awesome choices.

  • @retrobilly1719
    @retrobilly1719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Packard Laslle,TheLasall classy streamlined car ,Think that straight 8 runs Smooth

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Like the 39 dash better, but prefer the 38 body style the best. 13:00 Those seats look very comfortable. WYR: 1. Packard 2. LaSalle

  • @tigre7739
    @tigre7739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think please have a beautiful design, simple but strong and solid look. I think the interior is great, it also looks simple, and understated, and spacious and comfortable! I would go with this one in the first WYR, and the Buick, which I really like, in the second! 😎

  • @carlmontney7916
    @carlmontney7916 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    39 Packard
    39 Buick
    This is a nice car for sure and I especially love to see these unrestored survivors. But in its day I really believe that the Packard was a more better automobile both in looks and reliability
    I also like that bug and the corvair you had alongside of you.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Awesome choices =)
      A few cars in the pipeline there are two Corvair and a Karman Ghia. I haven’t done a beetle yet.

    • @carlmontney7916
      @carlmontney7916 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@What.its.like. Jay, I drove VW's for many years. The only one that I never owned was a Ghia, but I had many bugs and buses. Also, a couple of Corvairs as well. They were reliable cars but You couldn't neglect the maintenance on them and you'd better carry a spare fan belt with you.
      In fact at one time I actually had a rail dune buggy, A lay down two seater that used a corvair engine mounted on a VW transaxle. That thing was scary fast. Scary dangerous too if you let it get away from you.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ve owned a Karman Ghia it’s the only car that I still know where it is. I’m hoping this year to maybe do an episode with it. I haven’t seen it in 7 years so it will be interesting to see if it still looks the same lol..
      I reached out to them last year and they said that I could do an episode, but it got really busy and I never got around to going out there. Kind of feel bad it’s not far from here. I’m hoping they’ll let me drive it.

    • @carlmontney7916
      @carlmontney7916 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@What.its.like. that would be awesome.

  • @hcombs0104
    @hcombs0104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For WYR, the Lincoln Zephyr for the first scenario, LaSalle for the second.
    As someone else just mentioned, this looks to be another nicely kept unrestored survivor car. I thought the front end was the most interesting part of it. Too bad they stopped producing these in 1940. Supposedly they were still selling relatively well. Go figure....

  • @wallyfronzaglio372
    @wallyfronzaglio372 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Another tough decision but I'd have to choose the 39 Packard and the 39 Buick

  • @johnboydTx
    @johnboydTx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Glen Miller...in the mood

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title

  • @draggonsgate
    @draggonsgate 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I actually prefer the '38 over the '39, but both a beauties! WYR: 1) LaSalle 2) Buick!

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome selections =)

  • @normanwyatt8761
    @normanwyatt8761 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The last time I saw a Cadillac LaSalle was in 1960 in a hot rod garage being dug-up with a torch to sell the steel to a junk yard....Nobody wanted them, so you either gave it away or sold to a junk yard.......

  • @Jerry-ok8gj
    @Jerry-ok8gj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love that Packard!

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too there’s just something about Classic packards

  • @BlaiseMiller-bk7dk
    @BlaiseMiller-bk7dk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In the mood Glenn Miller

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title

  • @aaronwilliams6989
    @aaronwilliams6989 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like the 1938 model.

  • @ColonelBagshott675
    @ColonelBagshott675 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Headlight binacles that's the word you were looking for.

  • @Flies2FLL
    @Flies2FLL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    -Name a car that had pronounced headlight bucket fairings, was produced by a major manufacturer, and sold from 1978 to 1995?
    Hint: The headlights were round.

  • @joeseeking3572
    @joeseeking3572 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    IMOP you could make a good case that there were no bad looking LaSalles. And once they left the classic era (which some will always prefer) LaSalle did art deco / streamline moderne better than most. The 34 is just a standout, though the 35 was a much better buy. It hung with the Packard 120, but generally lost out in terms of performance to the Century - which cost a bit more. For style though, the LaSalle had it over both - unless you had to have the Packard grille (and they were better screwed together, even the 120). That radio must be a GM dealer accessory. If you ordered the car with a factory unit, it was in dash. WYR is cruel today, as I lke all of these for late 30's sedans. OK - LaSalle in both cases.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome insight and information I try to make the would you rather hard so it makes you think plus that is what your options were back in the day generally sometimes there more outside the box depending on what era I need to find a 34 and 35 LaSalle I would really love to cover them all went to Classic auto Mall yesterday and did some stuff that we don’t usually More 60s cars there’s a bunch that stand out but 63 Grand Prix are really nice car just saying

  • @seed_drill7135
    @seed_drill7135 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't think those taillights were amber, just completely faded out! Looks to be a HPOF car.

  • @Flies2FLL
    @Flies2FLL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WHAT kind of paint work is that? What did they do, paint it in their garage with a rattle can-?

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Looked like the original lacquer

  • @KevinDockstader
    @KevinDockstader 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Those headlight buckets or canisters as called them are nucleus

  • @clarencesmith2305
    @clarencesmith2305 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    39 Packard and the 39 Chrysler

  • @JamesAllmond
    @JamesAllmond 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    39
    39 Zephyr
    39 Buick
    Oh my, song was way too easy and I was way too slow...

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sweet choices
      Song was easy I love that song =)

  • @ernielaw
    @ernielaw 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My cars of choice would be Lincoln Zephyr, then LaSalle.

  • @Kagaines
    @Kagaines 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sweet 60s beetle..#meep.

  • @markchandler1130
    @markchandler1130 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    La Salle for both

  • @jeffreykurth2703
    @jeffreykurth2703 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lincoln then LaSalle. Nice video. I wonder how much they want for this car. But not interested in buying it.

    • @stephenholland5930
      @stephenholland5930 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      $16K

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome choices. I put it in the video how much they want for it when showing the pictures of the car

  • @PaulHerman-v2m
    @PaulHerman-v2m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't think the taillight lenses are original, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

  • @retrobilly1719
    @retrobilly1719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    39 looks better

  • @49commander
    @49commander 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Packard or Chrysler for easier to service engines.

  • @andreamills5852
    @andreamills5852 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glen Miller --In the Mood ?

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title

  • @MrOlgrumpy
    @MrOlgrumpy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh and Germany attacked Poland after annexing part of Czechoslovakia ---- ,Austria --------

  • @aaronwilliams6989
    @aaronwilliams6989 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hard choices, again.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Always try to make the choices hard

  • @robertandmarieraas7744
    @robertandmarieraas7744 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1939 LaSalle NOT PACKARD

  • @winstonelston5743
    @winstonelston5743 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WYR1: Packard first, then LaSalle, Lincoln, hard pass.
    WYR2: LaSalle

  • @rhettburger6705
    @rhettburger6705 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    '38 every time in the '39 the greenhouse is too tall giving a gawkish profile while the'38 is much sleeker.

  • @ChrisCanary
    @ChrisCanary 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't take more than 2 minutes of your videos.
    You just rattle off what you're obviously reading.
    Bam bam bam bam... you talk AT us, like we're stupid and this is the 5th time you tried to explain.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Eric Ruud, can’t please everyone, I’m finding out..

    • @danielulz1640
      @danielulz1640 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If you can do better, then please make your own videos. I am sure that we would all like to see your superior productions.

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for having my back guys it means the world.. i’ll be the first to say that I’m not perfect, but I really do try to make this channel as informative/entertaining as possible

  • @anastassiosperakis2869
    @anastassiosperakis2869 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I will MUTE this insufferable AI Robot and turn on the CC. Not that they are much better...

    • @What.its.like.
      @What.its.like.  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’m sorry my voice doesn’t appeal to you. I am not an AI robot but a real person.
      Another keyboard warrior