🌷🌷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.
"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!
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.
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.
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 ✌️🤠
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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 !!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 👍
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! 😎
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!
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.......
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!
-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.
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....
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. 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.
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.
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.
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
converting prices into today's dollars doesn't really work. you cannot buy a car comparable to a lasalle for $30k today. $30k would buy you a ford focus or a malibu but not anything like a car comparable to a lasalle. $30k would get you a hyundai or a kia maybe but not anything between a buick and a cadillac. dollar conversions are not value conversions.
It shows how bad inflation has gotten over the years. I totally agree that a dollar today is nothing compared to a dollar years ago and that’s what the inflation calculator is supposed to calculate but it doesn’t… It also shows people when they continue to buy products at crazy prices like a Honda Odyssey minivan decked out is over 50 grand now but people keep buying if people would stop buying them at that price. I bet the price would come down. computers, ABS traction control electronics cost a lot of money too which these cars did not have and that is a huge blessing. You don’t have a computer system override anything
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.
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
"Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days."
Didn't need no welfare state
Everybody pulled their weight 👏👏🍻 ✌️😊🇺🇸
🌷🌷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.
@@johnboydTx Which, of course, was not remotely true in reality.
Haha! You beat me to it! Lol!
@@LearnAboutFlow country folk in the brush live differently...
"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!
🍻🍻✌️😊🇺🇸 they were the days..
They sure were. Amen
BUT WE KNOW !!!
You got THAT right!
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.
Were you snoring?
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.
WYR 1: All of them.
WYR 2: All of them.
Classic cars? I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!
Sweet =)
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 ✌️🤠
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
I've had several of the super six cars... they are tourqey! Beat a 69 Chevelle..V8 headers...
@@kennethanway7979 yes !!!!
Good Mileage for the time too,Amazing how Mileage has improved on cars now,But hyped up 4 cylinders are the reason
I rented a La Salle with chauffeur for my wife's 21st birthday. Very nice riding car
Sweet =)
_I rented a La Salle with chauffeur for my wife's 21st birthday. Very nice riding car_
What a great date !
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.
It's funny you mention "vapor lock." Just another thing the current crop of drivers has never experienced.
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
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.
That's a nice old ride, it looks to be original unrestored.
Quite surprising that this unrestored unit looks so good at 85 years old
@@billolsen4360 I see cracks, and checks, in the laquer paint, and a few other imperfections, but overall it's pretty nice.
@@robertwatkins364 I'm guessing those cracks are poor Bondo application.
@@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.
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.
[not me]
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 !!
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
I hear " Rock and roll fantasy" in the background.....I haven't heard that tune in years.
That place is awesome. They even play awesome music.
I wouldn't mind seeing a video about the yellow 68 Corvair Convertible in the background!
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.
The front center grill looks like a 1940 Nash. The Nash has thicker bars though I think.
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?
They were very close at the end of production run
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.
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.
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.
Oh wow that’s crazy thank you so much for sharing that with us =)
The interior must have been quite handsome when it rolled off the production line.
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.
I love the old styles of the eras I hope one day to restore a car like it.
Plenty of great cars can be found on Facebook marketplace place
What a treat ! Man , i would have to drive this caddy if i had it lol
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.
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
I remember seeing one these for sale with the entire back cut off. It had been converted to transport a Shriner parade car!
Interesting
Millineal anti theft device…way ahead of its time!
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 👍
One day the coupe will be featured as soon as I find one =)
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! 😎
Sweet choices
Another tough decision but I'd have to choose the 39 Packard and the 39 Buick
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!
Packard Laslle,TheLasall classy streamlined car ,Think that straight 8 runs Smooth
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.......
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!
I’ll have to definitely look for a 34 gal I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person awesome choices.
I’ll have to definitely look for a 34 gal I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person awesome choices.
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
Sweet choices
-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.
Going with the Lincoln on style alone.
Sweet choice
At 14:10, I notice that your hair color perfectly matches the head liner in the car. Coincidence?
Hahaha coincidence
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....
Way to go Jay
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.
Awesome choices =)
A few cars in the pipeline there are two Corvair and a Karman Ghia. I haven’t done a beetle yet.
@@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.
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.
@@What.its.like. that would be awesome.
I actually prefer the '38 over the '39, but both a beauties! WYR: 1) LaSalle 2) Buick!
Awesome selections =)
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.
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
Love that Packard!
Me too there’s just something about Classic packards
Lincoln and Chrysler, but all of them would be swell!
Sweet choices
I don't think those taillights were amber, just completely faded out! Looks to be a HPOF car.
Very true
Headlight binacles that's the word you were looking for.
Those headlight buckets or canisters as called them are nucleus
Glen Miller...in the mood
That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title
In the mood Glenn Miller
That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title
WHAT kind of paint work is that? What did they do, paint it in their garage with a rattle can-?
Looked like the original lacquer
Lincoln then LaSalle. Nice video. I wonder how much they want for this car. But not interested in buying it.
$16K
Awesome choices. I put it in the video how much they want for it when showing the pictures of the car
I don't think the taillight lenses are original, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
39
39 Zephyr
39 Buick
Oh my, song was way too easy and I was way too slow...
Sweet choices
Song was easy I love that song =)
I like the 1938 model.
Sweet
My cars of choice would be Lincoln Zephyr, then LaSalle.
Cool choices
Sweet 60s beetle..#meep.
39 Packard and the 39 Chrysler
Awesome choices
La Salle for both
Sweet choices
Oh and Germany attacked Poland after annexing part of Czechoslovakia ---- ,Austria --------
Packard or Chrysler for easier to service engines.
Sweet choices
Glen Miller --In the Mood ?
That’s the song and band dennislettich4035 beat you for title
39 looks better
Hard choices, again.
Always try to make the choices hard
'38 every time in the '39 the greenhouse is too tall giving a gawkish profile while the'38 is much sleeker.
converting prices into today's dollars doesn't really work. you cannot buy a car comparable to a lasalle for $30k today. $30k would buy you a ford focus or a malibu but not anything like a car comparable to a lasalle. $30k would get you a hyundai or a kia maybe but not anything between a buick and a cadillac. dollar conversions are not value conversions.
It shows how bad inflation has gotten over the years. I totally agree that a dollar today is nothing compared to a dollar years ago and that’s what the inflation calculator is supposed to calculate but it doesn’t…
It also shows people when they continue to buy products at crazy prices like a Honda Odyssey minivan decked out is over 50 grand now but people keep buying if people would stop buying them at that price. I bet the price would come down. computers, ABS traction control electronics cost a lot of money too which these cars did not have and that is a huge blessing. You don’t have a computer system override anything
1939 LaSalle NOT PACKARD
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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.
Eric Ruud, can’t please everyone, I’m finding out..
If you can do better, then please make your own videos. I am sure that we would all like to see your superior productions.
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
I will MUTE this insufferable AI Robot and turn on the CC. Not that they are much better...
I’m sorry my voice doesn’t appeal to you. I am not an AI robot but a real person.
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