I don't think I've ever seen a car commercial focused on people of very simple means that didn't try to sell them something they didn't need and couldn't afford. Bravo!
Our mail man use to drive an old Studebaker and was drunk half the time. He use to hit the mail box with his car and dad would have to go out and replace it.
Believe it or not this was the car to have in 1959 if you were a hot rodder. Chevy would sell you the 4 speed from the Corvette behind the 315 hp tripower 348. With 4:11 gears it was the quickest sedan in the quarter mile you could buy. No other American sedan offered a 4 speed behind a V8 in 59.
Oh man totally 🤘!! These cars were better looking handled by hot rodders than lowriders/cruisers. My Dad would tell me he’d see these on the drag strip (55’s/56s/59s) a lot in the 60s-70s. And I saw one race in the late 90s at our nearby race track! It’s just these ‘59s were made to go fast and everything like you said perfectly.
Hmmmmmm.....Think l will run on down to my Chevrolet dealer and take a gander at one of them there cars. Definitely looks like it would be worth the money.
Beautiful car, even in the most basic form. But it has a poorly designed frame underneath. LOVE the people going to church - so wish this could be shown on today's TV.
I agree, but if you tried to show that today somebody would sue because they were offended or triggered. My family had a '59 Bel Air. Nice looking car, as I recall. This '59 Biscayne looks pretty plain.
America seems to have lost the values so strongly inferred in this commercial; work hard, humility, respect for one another, build quality products. Now it seems to be all about what society offer me as entitlement; certainly not what President Kennedy spoke about.
back then, you could drop out of high school and get a job where you could buy a house and support a family. today it is hard to do that with a college degree.
@@carryclass6807 So true! Except now you will need a Ph.D just to get your foot in the door of the Funky Golden Arches! Want fries with that?!?! l.o.l.💕
In 1960 valiant did a mail carrying commercial focusing on its dipped unibody and alternator that charges at idle unlike this cars generator.they also filmed in the winter with heater running.
If the old couple he delivered the package to was 70 in 1959, then they would’ve been born in 1889! That was during The Wild West days!! YEEEE HAWWW!!! AND, it would get old for the Postman to slide across that bench seat to the right EVERY TIME he had to put mail in the mailbox. That would SUCK. 📬📬📬
Actually,it could probably achieve that fuel mileage number quite easily - IF you had the six cylinder engine,in combination with the 3 speed transmission with overdrive, and you were referring to the highway mileage number....
@@frankgiaquinto1571 True, but I'll quibble about the "quite easily" part. 22mpg is a Mobil Economy Run number and doesn't represent average drivers and average driving conditions. Obviously, the V8s would get less mileage and I think the usual slip 'n slide Powerglide might hurt gas mileage even more.
@@LearnAboutFlow They were built reasonably well but the frame on these cars is weak and was replaced with a conventional frame in the mid 60s. Obviously these cars are not as safe in crashes as cars that we have today but your chances of being in a crash was also lower back then.
#1 What mailman ever drove a Chevy? They were always Jeeps in my area. Sometimes even RHD to reach the mailboxes easier. #2 Driving it to church would have been unauthorized personal use of postal property.
The Biscayne, Bel Air and Impala, in Canada were called Pontiac Strato chief, Laurentian and Parisienne and were powered by Chevy motors, They weren't U.S Pontiacs.
Until recently I thought that this was the ugliest Chevrolet ever built. I now think that it was really cool. I think that many of these people needed to have a post office box! I cannot imagine living in such primitive conditions today.
They were great cars but sadly other than a padded dash and safety belts nobody ordered there were no safety features. In the famous crash test between a 59 Bel Air and a modern 2009 Malibu, the 59 was crushed like an aluminum can. The purpose was to demonstrate how much safer cars have become in 50 years.
+CalebEatsaBullet people reference that video all the time, and the part no one talks about is that GM cars had a really stupid X frame design from 1958 to 64. A car older than that would have fared FAR better in the matchup. Oldsmobile engineers saw the inherent danger of the X frame design and went against corporate, insisting that side rails be added. They were the only line that did the upgrade. www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-an-x-ray-look-at-gms-x-frame-1957-1970/
I think the concept was showing rural America in this particular commercial and how the Chevy could handle the rough roads with he full coil springs etc. Black's not normally living in these white rural communities. Now I would think Chevy had advertising for black people since black people did buy a lot of Chevy's. Print ads, billboards, Radio etc.
I'm guessing that a commercial like this was probably shown in local movie theaters prior to the show beginning. It's too long for TV and too rural to have been ran nationally.
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I don't think I've ever seen a car commercial focused on people of very simple means that didn't try to sell them something they didn't need and couldn't afford. Bravo!
Back when the average citizen and the corporations were on the same team so to speak. Now it's all profits no matter what.
What a wonderful time to be alive, miss those days!
I'm NOT gonna miss them and jou can't make me!
I want one! Sure wish I still had all my old Chevy's, had a 57,63,64,65,66,71,74,75
Sounds like Johnny Cash “One piece at a time” song
Our mail man use to drive an old Studebaker and was drunk half the time. He use to hit the mail box with his car and dad would have to go out and replace it.
What does your comments have to do with anything? Who are you talking to anyway. No one cares
Believe it or not this was the car to have in 1959 if you were a hot rodder. Chevy would sell you the 4 speed from the Corvette behind the 315 hp tripower 348. With 4:11 gears it was the quickest sedan in the quarter mile you could buy. No other American sedan offered a 4 speed behind a V8 in 59.
Oh man totally 🤘!! These cars were better looking handled by hot rodders than lowriders/cruisers. My Dad would tell me he’d see these on the drag strip (55’s/56s/59s) a lot in the 60s-70s. And I saw one race in the late 90s at our nearby race track! It’s just these ‘59s were made to go fast and everything like you said perfectly.
Gull-wing ‘59 Chevy, moving through country roads, and taking its owner to church! Great time in America!👏🙏🇺🇸
It's interesting how car advertising of the late 50's and 60's still extolled the virtue of being able to navigate dirt roads.
Ah, the good old days...when cars actually had style.
I have a white bagged 59 impala 4 door on my TH-cam channel.
Chevy still has style sooooooo
TOO bad the 'style' of the 1959 Chev was NOT stylish.Especially the tail-lights!
Hmmmmmm.....Think l will run on down to my Chevrolet dealer and take a gander at one of them there cars. Definitely looks like it would be worth the money.
I want one
Beautiful car, even in the most basic form. But it has a poorly designed frame underneath. LOVE the people going to church - so wish this could be shown on today's TV.
I agree, but if you tried to show that today somebody would sue because they were offended or triggered.
My family had a '59 Bel Air. Nice looking car, as I recall. This '59 Biscayne looks pretty plain.
They were rust buckets the 59 Chevrolet cars.
@@JohnTapscott1 ,,,,I still drive a Chevy (Silverado) and I go to church...I enjoy "offending" those who want me to stop practicing my freedom!
I also have always drove Chevys and gotten great service and I also go to church too
Some of them just like anything else some of them were some of them were not@@garymckee8857
Had a '59 Bellair a '65 Impala a '74 Caprice - wish I had now!
Dad had a 59 Brookwood station wagon. Loved that car.
Just bought one. A throw back to the 2 that I owned as a kid in the 80's. Those were 6 cyl 4 doors. This one is a 2door restomod from the 90's.
Mine is a 2door
America seems to have lost the values so strongly inferred in this commercial; work hard, humility, respect for one another, build quality products. Now it seems to be all about what society offer me as entitlement; certainly not what President Kennedy spoke about.
back then, you could drop out of high school and get a job where you could buy a house and support a family. today it is hard to do that with a college degree.
@@carryclass6807 So true! Except now you will need a Ph.D just to get your foot in the door of the Funky Golden Arches! Want fries with that?!?! l.o.l.💕
In 1960 valiant did a mail carrying commercial focusing on its dipped unibody and alternator that charges at idle unlike this cars generator.they also filmed in the winter with heater running.
Our mailman always drove a Jeep - necessary when you live in the boonies!
+VinnyDaQ ...........Our Mailman Used IH Scouts For The Same Reason........LOL..
I ❤ the Styling and Color Scheme 😊
If the old couple he delivered the package to was 70 in 1959, then they would’ve been born in 1889! That was during The Wild West days!! YEEEE HAWWW!!! AND, it would get old for the Postman to slide across that bench seat to the right EVERY TIME he had to put mail in the mailbox. That would SUCK. 📬📬📬
I'd become a postman immediately if the local mail service owned these.
It has FINs!!!!.
And critics made fun of the Edsels looks?
ahh. the good ol days.. when 35 year olds looked like they were 75. LOL
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22MPG? Actualy, not bad for the time.
That number is a lie.
With the underpowered 235 6 yes.
Actually,it could probably achieve that fuel mileage number quite easily - IF you had the six cylinder engine,in combination with the 3 speed transmission with overdrive, and you were referring to the highway mileage number....
@@frankgiaquinto1571 True, but I'll quibble about the "quite easily" part. 22mpg is a Mobil Economy Run number and doesn't represent average drivers and average driving conditions. Obviously, the V8s would get less mileage and I think the usual slip 'n slide Powerglide might hurt gas mileage even more.
Your mileage may vary.
Thats my car.
The commercial makes you long for a America we that even the most jaded among us probably wish for but probably never was......
What a nosey mailman! He had to stick around to see what was in that ladies box! Lol
fuck i wish i was alive back then
Given how poorly built and unsafe these cars were, you probably wouldn't be alive long.
@@LearnAboutFlow They were built reasonably well but the frame on these cars is weak and was replaced with a conventional frame in the mid 60s. Obviously these cars are not as safe in crashes as cars that we have today but your chances of being in a crash was also lower back then.
A car commercial that featured people going to church?
These look like very nice people.
#1 What mailman ever drove a Chevy? They were always Jeeps in my area. Sometimes even RHD to reach the mailboxes easier.
#2 Driving it to church would have been unauthorized personal use of postal property.
typically rural carriers drive their own vehicles, or at least used to.
not in mayberry.
@@carryclass6807 Still do.
That's a different kind of commercial for a sedan.
Apparently no mail trucks back then...
My first car was a 59.green and paid 50.00 for it from my dad.
The Biscayne, Bel Air and Impala, in Canada were called Pontiac Strato chief, Laurentian and Parisienne and were powered by Chevy motors, They weren't U.S Pontiacs.
That is a 1959 Chevy
I know the video quality is less than stellar but those Chevys looked old and used up even when they were new.
Oh they would never show someone going to church now days
That old dude shoulda had a JEEP instead of an impala!
@Musical Box who you think your calling a millennial lol
That's a Biscayne, not an Impala. It is the least expensive, behind Bel Air and Impala.
Yea well it's not a jeep wt ever the he'll it is!!
59 El Camino -------- Was Almost My First Car --------- It Wasn't Ment To Be I Guess -------- Oh Well
Try driving a new car through a stream these days, and it would probably fall apart from rust a week later
Until recently I thought that this was the ugliest Chevrolet ever built. I now think that it was really cool. I think that many of these people needed to have a post office box! I cannot imagine living in such primitive conditions today.
They were great cars but sadly other than a padded dash and safety belts nobody ordered there were no safety features. In the famous crash test between a 59 Bel Air and a modern 2009 Malibu, the 59 was crushed like an aluminum can. The purpose was to demonstrate how much safer cars have become in 50 years.
+CalebEatsaBullet people reference that video all the time, and the part no one talks about is that GM cars had a really stupid X frame design from 1958 to 64. A car older than that would have fared FAR better in the matchup. Oldsmobile engineers saw the inherent danger of the X frame design and went against corporate, insisting that side rails be added. They were the only line that did the upgrade. www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-an-x-ray-look-at-gms-x-frame-1957-1970/
I watched that video. If I owned one, I would stay out of the fast lane. If I die, least I'll die in a car I love.
@@clintgracia3612 Just ignore the fact the passengers were thrown through the windshield and such.
И что дальше? Возмите Ford EcoSport и этот Шеви... Интересно кто победит?
I think the concept was showing rural America in this particular commercial and how the Chevy could handle the rough roads with he full coil springs etc. Black's not normally living in these white rural communities. Now I would think Chevy had advertising for black people since black people did buy a lot of Chevy's. Print ads, billboards, Radio etc.
I'm guessing that a commercial like this was probably shown in local movie theaters prior to the show beginning. It's too long for TV and too rural to have been ran nationally.
They're targeting a slightly different demographic these days!
A nosey mailman.
Looking at them draft cards!
Uncle Joe had a 54 Caddilac, pink and a 60 Chevy wagon, gray. I thought both were butt-ugly cars. Uncle joe didn't look so good either.
Imagine showing people attending CHURCH in a car commercial today!
Antifa would be fire-bombing Chevy dealers nationwide.
They were attending a KKK meeting
@@LearnAboutFlow Well OK then.
whats a antifa?
Who filmed this? Grant Wood? All you need is Ma and Pa with a pitchfork. And I guess there were no black folk back then. Ah, the 50s.
They would have had to search hard for a black family because the white population made up almost 90% of the total.
POS. Least expensive of the big 4 that's why they bought them for fleets.
blacks drove caddies and oldsmobiles in the 50s, they wouldn't be caught dead driving a chevy