1955 Chevrolet - Boxes & Balls - Original Promo Film
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- See a '55 Chevy crash tested - OUCH! Chassis and suspension report - original promotional film. For more 1955 Chevy info - www.carsandstripes.com/articl...
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That driver has balls. He could have ended up in a box 😜
I love the advertising of the 50's! The all new 55 Chevy Bel Air, with our new box design chassis and your ballsy driving, there's no place you can't go! Running late for work? Jump the creek and take the railroad tracks! Chevy engineers know how your little Johnny will drive by watching and studying how he plays with his toys. If anything happens to your Chevy, just buff it out with a hammer and you'll be ready to go again!
I'm sure glad they anticipated me driving off a ramp into a car
me too - it happens all the time in England as well!
Got to love those four wheel drum brakes
I'm sold.... tomorrow morning I'll run to the closest Chevrolet dealership and buy the 1955 model... Better built for sure that a 2019 Equinox
Back when Chevrolet had balls
Those dirt roads out in the country, so beautiful. Probably all fully developed areas now
What blows me away with the crash test is there are no seat belts in these cars and the steering columns could kill you in a crash . You can see the driver dive under and to the side of the steering wheel and then come back up. I can't believe the nerve and courage these guys had.
balls they had balls
There is a crash test Video on u tube by IHS of a 59 chev and a 2010 malabu, watch it! its a shocker
That 59 had the weak "X Frame," though, so it's not representative of all 1950s-1960s cars.
Baily DenhHouten - I had a '59 Olds 98 (one of GM's upper-echelon cars) that had NO seat belts at all.
@bad dog Yep. I've seen 3 other 59s that folded in like the one in the 59 vs 09 video; two hit each other and were in a newspaper clipping.
Gee dad, can we buy a new 1955 Chevrolet? They're neat!
sure son, that would be swell...as long as you don't pick up any colored hobos.
Sure son but me and ur mom need room to wrestle. The Nomad with those power options is the car for us. Lol
Well Gee Whiz, that would be really fine!
GOLLY Wally,,,,you remember what happened the last time WE didnt talk to your MOTHER before hand.AH,,just kid'n-LETS go buy that BAD BOY!
If you look closely as the car pulls away not even the headlights are broken!!!! Amazing!!!
"Boxes & Balls" At first I thought this was a sex ed film.
What happened in '58, when the "X frame" replaced the box frame? Were those engineers smoking crack?
It's called getting high on money if they were trying to save costs. Y'know, if you cut corners you no longer have a square; do it enough and the circle's rolling.
Frontend damage.........forget the OTHER guy in his generic machine.....you gotta box frame
To which they changed again in 65 because it had no side impact protection whatsoever. I have 58 belair. It's cool but it definitely not safe in a collision. Doors have nothing but sheetmetal no crash bars etc. The marketing hype in these old commercials is comical.
I really like this video and all yours this is so spectacular thank you for making it. I enjoyed watching this and leaning because I was an aircraft Engineer. This is good !
I see where the Filmmakers of Christine got some good ideas
I'm gonna buy a '55 if I ever feel the need to jump and crash into another car's windshield...
Why WAIT,get out there and git er done!
I don't think today's million dollar car will be worth buying than 1950s cars
Very entertaining and somewhat educational. I'd like to a car manufacturer do those stunts today. Their legal and insurance departments would have stroke or something!
a CORONARY!!!!
Kind of surprising to me GM didn't put collapsible steering columns in their cars until the 1960's, even though they'd known since the 1930's that solid steering columns killed many a driver in a front crash.
I've wondered that myself
Supposedly they made some other measure in the 50s by moving the placement of a solid column so it wouldn't be so likely to kill a person. That doesn't really help in all instances, though.
The first car to have safety pop out glass seat belts and a crash safety chamber and padded dash was the 1948 Tucker Sedan made my Preston Thomas Tucker.
Gm is a company based on cost cutting and profits. They don't care about people. Other car companies are no different especially back then.
The reason it happened was called Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at Any Speed'
My Dad had 55 Belair, green with a cream roof.
The Chevy sure smashes that Frazer at the end!
Wow, good eye. I was trying to figure out what make that was.
they don`t makem to last like that any more, I remember working on my friends 56 these cars were made really strong,I would love to have one now my friend Gary Seeds hand 57 also very nice cars.
strong? they rusted out in 2 years. Valve job every 20K miles. engine life to compleat overhaul about 80K miles. These fancy balljoints, ok, true innovation, really hard in production, but back then they lasted about 7k miles.
mine isn't rusted out....my 55 Chevy and I just had our 30th anniversary together....265 v8 goes 150k between rebuilds... I had to replace the ball joints after the car turned 40...that's forty years.....valve job?...evey rebuild....so 150,000 miles....just horrible! ... get a clue!
i have a 56 dad bought it new ,,they did not rust out in 2 years my 265 went 125,000 miles ..an my ball joints were oem till i went an rebuilt the front end do to age not miles ,,its how you take care of your car an gee i raced it every fri...did have to rebuild the pg tranny twice ,,,lol
yeah. nice fairy tail
i was 4 when dad bought the belair i know that car inside an out i still have it
I get high from that suspension. Try to ride that railways in modern heaps huh....
Ok so there's no way that "oRdiNarY cArDbOarD bOx" supported that man
Maybe they made cardboard boxes out of better materials back in the 50's much like most other things back then.
@@davidlee9026 nope, cardboard has stayed the same
Is that an old Frazer they crunched in that gratuitous crash test?
I had a 1964 Biscayne 2 speed automatic 283 2 Barrel
4:10 how's the driver of the black car doing?
Ded.
There probably was no driver. I know you were likely saying that in jest.
not too good
Chevrolet lying for 60 years...Enjoy!..buddy i weigh 200lbs and i be damned if a box from then or nows gonna hold me up
1:20 BS!! What's that cardboard made of? Concrete? Or is it full of books.....??
Ya know! I had the same thought when i saw thought. I said, Oh yeah alright. What? Were boxes made of 4 ply cardboard back then? Whatever. Lol😝
BOY they really PUSHED the jumping your new 55 Chevy!!!Wonder how many ppl took that challenge with the mother in law on board?!?!?!
7:50 something:
Free rolling balls!?
Shit, I have free rolling balls too, oh wait, I'm a 1964 model!!
I just want to see how the “Chevrolet box frame” holds up in a crash
Nice vid
I kept waiting for Bugs Bunny to make an appearance.
It also handle plunges off of cliffs - just drive away with minimal sheet metal damage. lmao
Wow on the jump,they didn't lose the hubcaps,,,with those flimsy skinny tires it didn't roll on it's side
Bigger Better Boxes Bring Beautiful Ball joints Beyond Breaking
They didn't know about sway bars until 1957
They were around well before that. Some cars like Buicks and Oldsmobiles had them in the 1930's. I know Chevy had them at least by in the late '40's. The idea was patented decades before that.
Not thinking out of the box huh lol
4:05
Well, that's one way to make a car that drives away after such a collision. Why haven't I seen things like this in car tests from 2010-2015? Do they not do that? (I don't imagine a Prius would drive away from such a crash.)
Austin Lucas Such a test would be perfect nowadays. Like for example a Ford F-150 launching of such a ramp and landing on a Silverado or Sierra or a Ram (I never buy any Ram) or hell a Titan or Tundra or better yet all five mentioned.
+Austin Lucas Newer cars are designed with 'crush zones' to absorb impacts. In this video you can see that the driver leans far to the right to avoid impacting the steering wheel. I suspect that there was some padding to the side, below the camera angle, to provide the stunt driver some protection.
The likelihood of a crash happening where a car launches off a ramp and lands on top of another car is very unlikely so that's probably why such tests aren't common.
Would have been more realistic if the two cars collided head on rather than the Chevy landing on the comparatively soft roof of the other car.
4:09 Land a 1948 Kaiser on top of a '55 Chevy and see what happens!
Set points at 0.16
the heavier the better ! 1955 ! look at those Drum brakes !
Title should have been "two balls".
still drives 😬🙌
That baby retires this year.
Maybe that's a Kaiser?
1950 Mercury?
"50% more rigid"... like if that's a good thing lol. It's kinda funny hearing them bragging about how "undeformable" their car is :P
Exactly. More rigid to send shockwaves through the people inside while they fly through the windshield.
At4:15 what about the other driver just drive away
Its interesting how it implies that it has 50/50 weight distribution and how engineering excellence is given a high priority because cars that came after didn't even pretend to care about handling, the new chevys of the 70s seem worse when they should have been better.
*turbine graphics 16* - handling? *What* handling? According to former AU motoring journalist and rally driver Evan Green, *the average American motorist wouldn't know handling if he found it in bed with him.* (That comment was made by Green in response to an American motoring journalist's comparison of a Mustang and an E-type Jag, wherein said journalist claimed the 'Stang handled as well as the Jag. The bloody 'Stang couldn't even corner!)
Today's cars are designed to crumple upon impact so that they absorb the crash energy rather than sending it through the occupants. The car may have looked fine but I don't think the driver was.
take it from an old guy who drove those old cars. I would rather be in one of them then the things that pass for cars today.
My Dad survived hitting a telephone pole in the center of the 84 Caprice we had; some fool was in the passing zone too long going head on towards him. Father was in a 45 zone and hit the pole hard enough for it to snap and fall on top of the car; thankfully, Father put on his seat belt like I told him to.
It keep it's shape and won't total
Modern cars are much safer than old cars. I have a 58 Chevy and its basically all sheet metal with no structural members at all except for the frame. Side impact would kill everybody. It's scary how lacking the car is in strength. I love its style though that's wahy I'm restoring it
Box of Cox
looks like the 55 got a blown head gasket after the crash 4:32
+69roadr Hmm, maybe so. Dunno if it's that or a radiator leak.
Probably burning oil that splashed up from the oil bath filter into the carburetor.
I am pretty Shore, its the Cigar from the black Car Driver. Stuck in the Grill
Seat belts are extra
Not available in the '55. Everything else is though! www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1955_Chevrolet/1955_Chevrolet_Accessories/dirindex.html. Ford had the belts in '56. www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1956%20Ford/1956%20Ford%20Brochure/image14.html
So the car kills everything it hits
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holy shit this video/clip is old prob in the 1900s
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Well, no shit.
1955 to be more precise.
THAT ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL NO VIDEO CHANNEL - Probably late 1954.
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We need a man like Trump to turn this country around again...
Clearly you have angry issues and are in the need for some type of meds. You seem to hate Jews, that's your problem, not TRUMP...
My friend, it's called thinning the heard....
+biscaynenick That's exactly right.
+biscaynenick what year is your Biscayne?
yeah, it's working great!
Gonna get a shoe box designed NEW Chevrolet . Lets get some balls , and get a TV show in the 80's .
a New show called ,
lets name it , ...
Dukes of Hazard Need some cut off shorts on some pretty young ladies as well ;;
What a load of bullshit Chevy was trying to pass off as a safe frame in 1955. They still don't care about crash test ratings, their full sized pickups don't even have a 5 star rating.
So, in other words, it took till 1955 to do what Ford had been doing for years..
@@my55chevy43 Someone needs to educate you chev fan boys.
@@my55chevy43 Aww seems like I hit a sore point. LOL. Looks like someone can't handle the truth..
@@my55chevy43 And now not just sensitive but butt hurt also. You GM fanboys really are not that bright.
@@my55chevy43 You asked the question you got the answer. And you didn't like it. Then you whined like a little B about it. The only one looking like a fool here is you. As YOU are the tool that had to comment on it in the first place. Then whined when you got what was obviously going to the be the response.
Then whined a little B and took your toys home when you could not bait in kind. Kinda proves the point without a doubt that you lot are just not that bright. You must be one of those far left-wing virtue signalling Millenials, as that is their MO to a T