I had a 64 coupe and it was a great car. The only thing is it had drum brakes and let me tell you, that was a scary thing going down a hill with drums. I still miss it, I had it for 16 years.
"new this year--disc brakes"----yeah, FINALLY! The Sting Ray's competitors like Ferrari and Jaguar had had them for about five years by this time! I've always wondered why GM allowed its only sports car to lag in technology for so long. I still love the Sting Ray, though--one of the coolest cars of all time! Great commercial--this is a nice find.
My two realtor friends each owned Mercedes Benzes, and both of them would tell me of the horror stories of owning those cars, that they were the least reliable cars they had ever owned, with a lot of electrical problems & malfunctions, engines and transmissions acting up, and a lot of other glitches that made them very unreliable!..both of my friends finally got fed up of paying 2.5K-6K in repair bills that they got rid of those cars and are now driving Cadillacs with zero problems!..how's that?
@RCwasHere -- Nobody could ever claim the Stingray looked like anything else on the road. No doubt about the car, its style and what that style signaled. Larry Shinoda and the other design team members outdid themselves. When my brothers and I were kids, any Stingray we saw was a big deal. Today's Corvettes put me in mind of Japanese cars like the Acura NSX --OK, and "swoopy," but very, very generic --- unremarkable.
@RCwasHere: Couldn't agree more. Cars, music, guns, and chicks ain't what they used to be. Many new cars are very good, but they aren't the finely crafted works of art they were. This era Stingray is just pure sex.
Um.. they DID have VHS then.. and color TV goes back more than 10 years BEFORE this commercial. TV had high quality VHS, professional quality tape. And I have seen some old, originals that are very sharp & clear. I think a lot of the TV we see now likes to portray any TV before 1998 as 'fuzzy & poor quality' stuff..
Disc brakes were an option..not stnadard. However love these old commercials. I am still looking for Pontiac wide track commercial from mid-late 70's.. Hawaiian theme. ahwo lau..i think wider is better
Disc brakes were standard on the Sting Ray from the time they were introduced for '65. You could go with drum brakes for a credit, but only several hundred of the 25,000+ Sting Rays sold that year were ordered with drums.
I want, an 63´Corvette split window, with the -65+ suspension + brakes, and the 69- 427 ZL1 with 4 speed manual transmission, all the good parts of the 60s performance and driveability in the most beatifull body ever, the 63 Split window. Ye i know its cars you should keep in original shape, but hell ye at least its not ''style' or ''pimp my ride'' i want to do at one, keep it original at most stuff, but the best corvette stuff from the 60s in an 63 shell, that's what i want.
@dadsoldtapes Somehow my grandad got a hold of a series of chevrolet commercials from the first commercialup until the late 90's on vhs. he did work at a chevrolet dealership for about 20 years so i guess he picked up then. but to get vhs digitalized, there is a device called a capture card that can hook up any kind of device like a vcr, tv, playstation etc, and can record it to your computer.
How did people digitize these commercials if back then before the age of VHS it was very hard to record television? I'm guessing organized archives are all that can keep these old commercials?
@timbomcd $4,600 was actually the base price. When you added in all the options like the big-block engine, AM-FM radio, close-ratio 4spd gearbox, etc. you'd be looking at a little over $6,000. Still, compared to that year's Porsche and Jaguar XKE, the Sting Ray was a great deal! I'd like to have a 396 Vette, too--who wouldn't? ;-)
@drippad Better yet let's get taxes lowered to ZERO for Americans and American companies. That's the kind of government Ron Paul would bring. Ron Paul 2012 or more of the same and we can't afford more of the same!
@DerekSkater11 Yeah there are ways to convert reels of film into digital... a rather expensive process with sophisticated machines - thing was, until the VCR came about the tube was pretty much the only way for anyone to receive anything resembling a video in the home (unless you went to the movie theatres). The 1980s and the proliferation of home video led to a craze, and that is why most of my TV commercial postings are from that time period.
@brendabaloyan--That's not exactly true; at least not in SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) competition--the Corvette consistently won in its class in the 1950s and '60s. One year (I forget which) Corvettes took the top twenty positions in the SCCA series, beating even the Ferraris as well as the British makes.
That may as well have been 120,000 bucks. Back in 65, a lawyer made 10 grand a year. Today, average 130,000. Hmm, monthly payments on a midyear bb was about $200. Salary $220 a week. Then you eat and house yourself. Naaw, sheeit, buy the vette and live in thre parents basement!
762SLR762: For your information, 60's era British cars were dripping, leaking, rattling, squeaking, atrocities with electrical systems designed by Benny Hill. Even today, British cars are not competitive with the best from Germany, Japan, and even some of the better American cars. Great Britain is a great country, but they have never in their entire history offered a truly world class mass-produced car.
That's for sure.. look at how people aren't buying into Blue-Ray. It is good, but so is plain old digital. There ain't a big diff.. not for my money..!!
That's true--Mercedes are vastly overpriced for what you get. The Germans have a habit of over-engineering everything, especially in the electrical department, with the result that their cars are expensive, but unreliable.
A Chevy Silverado with 310,000 miles on it that never broke down? Come on, be honest with us...we know better than that. '50s and '60s Japanese cars haven't been restored much in this country because not that many were imported here then--and they sucked. The Japanese at the time were in the process of learning how to build good fuel-efficient cars at half the cost of the American and European makes--that came to be in the '70s--ever seen someone restore a Pinto or a Maverick?
762SLR762: can't say that I agree with your opinions on cars, but I certainly agree with some of your political positions...the PC left-wing media's really full of shit. Peace
I'm sorry, as much as I'm a fan of American classic cars, they were never nr.1 in the world. German and Swedish cars were more reliable, fuel efficiant and better suited for North European rain and snow, though admitatly, not as cool.
I had a 64 coupe and it was a great car. The only thing is it had drum brakes and let me tell you, that was a scary thing going down a hill with drums. I still miss it, I had it for 16 years.
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the 1963-1967 Chevrolet Corvette was assembled in
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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This is actor Pernell Roberts from the TV series Bonanza making this 1965 Corvette commercial, for all of you who don't know.
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"new this year--disc brakes"----yeah, FINALLY! The Sting Ray's competitors like Ferrari and Jaguar had had them for about five years by this time! I've always wondered why GM allowed its only sports car to lag in technology for so long. I still love the Sting Ray, though--one of the coolest cars of all time! Great commercial--this is a nice find.
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My two realtor friends each owned Mercedes Benzes, and both of them would tell me of the horror stories of owning those cars, that they were the least reliable cars they had ever owned, with a lot of electrical problems & malfunctions, engines and transmissions acting up, and a lot of other glitches that made them very unreliable!..both of my friends finally got fed up of paying 2.5K-6K in repair bills that they got rid of those cars and are now driving Cadillacs with zero problems!..how's that?
When American cars were No. 1 in the World! This used to be a hell of a good country!
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The only Corvette TV ads that I remember, was when a new generation came out.
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A man ,a Vette......
@RCwasHere -- Nobody could ever claim the Stingray looked like anything else on the road. No doubt about the car, its style and what that style signaled. Larry Shinoda and the other design team members outdid themselves. When my brothers and I were kids, any Stingray we saw was a big deal. Today's Corvettes put me in mind of Japanese cars like the Acura NSX --OK, and "swoopy," but very, very generic --- unremarkable.
@RCwasHere: Couldn't agree more. Cars, music, guns, and chicks ain't what they used to be. Many new cars are very good, but they aren't the finely crafted works of art they were. This era Stingray is just pure sex.
Sting Ray
Amazing.
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That is a real sports car
Damn straight.
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Um.. they DID have VHS then.. and color TV goes back more than 10 years BEFORE this commercial.
TV had high quality VHS, professional quality tape. And I have seen some old, originals that are very sharp & clear. I think a lot of the TV we see now likes to portray any TV before 1998 as 'fuzzy & poor quality' stuff..
Disc brakes were an option..not stnadard. However love these old commercials. I am still looking for Pontiac wide track commercial from mid-late 70's.. Hawaiian theme. ahwo lau..i think wider is better
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Disc brakes were standard on the Sting Ray from the time they were introduced for '65. You could go with drum brakes for a credit, but only several hundred of the 25,000+ Sting Rays sold that year were ordered with drums.
I want, an 63´Corvette split window, with the -65+ suspension + brakes, and the 69- 427 ZL1 with 4 speed manual transmission, all the good parts of the 60s performance and driveability in the most beatifull body ever, the 63 Split window.
Ye i know its cars you should keep in original shape, but hell ye at least its not ''style' or ''pimp my ride'' i want to do at one, keep it original at most stuff, but the best corvette stuff from the 60s in an 63 shell, that's what i want.
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lol the vette had disc brakes in all 4 wheels back in 65, it took 35 years after that for every car to come with 4 will disc brakes.
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@dadsoldtapes
Somehow my grandad got a hold of a series of chevrolet commercials from the first commercialup until the late 90's on vhs. he did work at a chevrolet dealership for about 20 years so i guess he picked up then. but to get vhs digitalized, there is a device called a capture card that can hook up any kind of device like a vcr, tv, playstation etc, and can record it to your computer.
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Wow..Wild West Corvette
How did people digitize these commercials if back then before the age of VHS it was very hard to record television? I'm guessing organized archives are all that can keep these old commercials?
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RIP ROBERTS
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$4,600.00 in 1965 dollars is around 50k today. A standard chevy cost around $2500 then and today one costs $25,000.
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@timbomcd $4,600 was actually the base price. When you added in all the options like the big-block engine, AM-FM radio, close-ratio 4spd gearbox, etc. you'd be looking at a little over $6,000. Still, compared to that year's Porsche and Jaguar XKE, the Sting Ray was a great deal! I'd like to have a 396 Vette, too--who wouldn't? ;-)
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great ad ! could Dan Blocker ( Hoss) climb out of a Corvette?
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4-wheel disc brakes? in 1965? wow, it is a great car
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Adam cartwight on Bonanza, and Trapper John MD.
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Me llevo el auto, con todo y el conductor.
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@IRONSEAN7 Hahaha--Blazing Saddles; I love that movie!
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@UPTHElRS: That and the scripts.
lol a car like that would go for around $120,000+ today
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@drippad
Better yet let's get taxes lowered to ZERO for Americans and American companies. That's the kind of government Ron Paul would bring. Ron Paul 2012 or more of the same and we can't afford more of the same!
@MrRETEROROB Climb in maybe but not out,lol.
@brendabaloyan used?
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@DerekSkater11 Yeah there are ways to convert reels of film into digital... a rather expensive process with sophisticated machines - thing was, until the VCR came about the tube was pretty much the only way for anyone to receive anything resembling a video in the home (unless you went to the movie theatres). The 1980s and the proliferation of home video led to a craze, and that is why most of my TV commercial postings are from that time period.
@brendabaloyan--That's not exactly true; at least not in SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) competition--the Corvette consistently won in its class in the 1950s and '60s. One year (I forget which) Corvettes took the top twenty positions in the SCCA series, beating even the Ferraris as well as the British makes.
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Are you sure that wasn't an 1865 Stingray!!!!!!
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THE NEW SHERIFF IS A _-------BONG!!!!!!!
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Lets start taxing cargo containers . Bring manufacturing back to the USA
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That may as well have been 120,000 bucks.
Back in 65, a lawyer made 10 grand a year.
Today, average 130,000.
Hmm, monthly payments on a midyear bb was about $200.
Salary $220 a week.
Then you eat and house yourself.
Naaw, sheeit, buy the vette and live in thre parents basement!
762SLR762: For your information, 60's era British cars were dripping, leaking, rattling, squeaking, atrocities with electrical systems designed by Benny Hill. Even today, British cars are not competitive with the best from Germany, Japan, and even some of the better American cars. Great Britain is a great country, but they have never in their entire history offered a truly world class mass-produced car.
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That's for sure.. look at how people aren't buying into Blue-Ray. It is good, but so is plain old digital. There ain't a big diff.. not for my money..!!
Yep! They were very popular around the World!!! But not the best!!! Now they are among the worst!!!
@andersriedel NO!
That's true--Mercedes are vastly overpriced for what you get. The Germans have a habit of over-engineering everything, especially in the electrical department, with the result that their cars are expensive, but unreliable.
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Better yet, don't buy a 'Vette-buy a Honda, Toyota, or Nissan sport model and tune the thing up, then customize it!
A Chevy Silverado with 310,000 miles on it that never broke down? Come on, be honest with us...we know better than that. '50s and '60s Japanese cars haven't been restored much in this country because not that many were imported here then--and they sucked. The Japanese at the time were in the process of learning how to build good fuel-efficient cars at half the cost of the American and European makes--that came to be in the '70s--ever seen someone restore a Pinto or a Maverick?
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762SLR762: can't say that I agree with your opinions on cars, but I certainly agree with some of your political positions...the PC left-wing media's really full of shit. Peace
I'm sorry, as much as I'm a fan of American classic cars, they were never nr.1 in the world. German and Swedish cars were more reliable, fuel efficiant and better suited for North European rain and snow, though admitatly, not as cool.
Bob Crane the murdered actor had vhs