I was born in '47 and grew up with a lot of those cars and early rock music around me. It's obvious to me now that a car is a lot like a woman in that it should at least look good to inspire a man to want to work and save his money to own it. After you do own it, of course, you could have a lot of mechanical problems, as with a woman. But what we've got today, generally could only inspire me to take a baseball bat to. And the music is no better.
Back in the 1950's my Mother would show me old pictures. There was one picture that I loved more then all the others, it was a PIC of my Dad holding my older sister in front of his car when she was just a baby. She is 68 today. I didn't care about my Dad or sister in that picture, but that car fascinated me. I asked my Dad, what kind of car is this, he laughed and said, O'h that was my old dark green 1938 Pontiac. Gosh I loved the beauty of that car! Wouldn't that kind of love for a car come from a previous lifetime?
These cars were not on the road in the '50s. If you had a '55 Chevy, it was probably a basic model and it probably needed washing. Rear view mirrors fell down when hit a bump, windows rattled. the were no seatbelts so your head hit a hard metal dash, the engines did not run smooth and had a tendency to stall at traffic lights, gears were 3 spd column shift and some would not go into 2nd, hand brakes would not hold a car well on an incline, seats were cheap and uncomfortable. windshields would shatter into sharp pieces, gas tanks would explode on rear impact, tires often got flats, there was no aircon, and heaters took forever to get the car warm. Cars were crap back then. At the time, of course, I was glad to just to be able to drive anything that would get me out of the house.
+ardalla535 Agree! I remember 35 yrs. ago when an old 40's model came into a garage for repairs. When I saw it I said to the mechanic, "They don't make 'em like they used to." His response was, " Thank God for that!"
DJ no kidding, cars back then had a personality you could see one & know immediately what it is & who made them, today they all look alike & mostly foreign.
Bull Cedar I totally agree with you. I bought my first car in August, 1958. It was a 1931 Buick, straight eight, then in 1962 I bought a 1959 Volkswagen which I just sold last year. I'm now 73 years old and I still love the old cars and the old music of the '50's and '60's.
I like the old cars too, but the biggest Lemon i ever had was a 56 ford, 2 door hardtop, with the 292 Auto, a nice looking car, But the biggest piece of crap there ever was. When i would drive down a gravel road, the dust would come into the car so thick it would choke you. In 1969 my brother bought a new LTD, 4 door sedan, the same way, that cured us on Fords.
Well, Jim, it sounds like you had a rotted out floorboard I don't care what make, model or year you have what happened to you wouldn't have happened to a healthy car.
QUE COISA LINDA ! UMA JÓIA MAIS PRECIOSA QUE A OUTRA ! TENHO UMA PAIXÃO ANTIGA COM AUTOMÓVEIS AMERICANOS ANTIGOS ! SE EU PUDESSE TERIA TODOS ÊLES NUMA COLEÇÃO PARTICULAR PARA COMPARTILHAR COM OUTRAS PESSOAS QUE TEM A MESMA AFINIDADE !
@grabar20 you are correct-a-mundo must have been a brain fart, late in the evening, thanks for catching this, I'm usually the one who knows these music trivia bits. Never too old to be educated. Thanks again.
Yep, this is the cars from the 50's. The teenagers back then didn't have brand new cars! They had to drive the jaloppies, as I did after I was grown too. They were easely 10 to 20 years old. As long as it could still roll on wheels, some didn't have all the pieces parts on them and the kids made the best of what they had, in some cases were very lucky to have "wheels". The title fits totally!!
76 year old codger here A lot of these cars aren't anything like the hot rods of the 50s Big wheels modern engines $5000 paint jobs not the cars that the average guy back then could afford The ones that are period correct are great
Thank you Sooo much.... I Loved this ...! My Dad Co- Signed for me to by a 1960 Vette. to keep me working for the family Biz, I was only 19 years old at the time , I was the 2nd owner , a local car from the area.... That was back in June / 1967 , I still have that old chev., ......Lets see ....... that was 49 years ago ! I Truly am Blessed to have been able to hang on to it this long...you always hear the story , ( Man I Still WISH I Still had my first / or favorite that I had years ago...) Love going to Car shows and Just hearing all the old car stories and meeting wonderful Car guys and Ladies..... anyway Love your Vids. Thanks
Chuck Berry I remember in the fall of 1987 someone told me that Chuck Berry just turned 60. I was 37, but a rock n Roller being 60 seemed so strange. That was almost 30 more years ago. Last Friday David Bowie moved on before he was even close to 70, today, Jim Frey the lead singer of The Eagles moved on at the age of 67. Let's hope that there is a rock n roll heaven and for you younger people, you can always brag after playing David Bowie or Eagles music, that THOSE BOOMERS, THAT IS WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
I was born in 1950 and for the first 13 years of my life I never loved anything more then cars. I've often wondered if that strange love I had for cars had something to do with reincarnation, I.E. I loved cars in my previous life. Especially when I would see old movies from the 1930's and 40's on TV I was fascinated by them. I used to skip church and look through the window at the brand new 1960 Fords, then go to another part of town and look at the brand new Chevy's, same with Pontiacs and Buicks. Then that interest or deep love disappeared along about 1963. They gave me such a wonderful feeling. When we would have visitors, I would stand out in the drive way and admire everything about the car whether it was brand new or a old car built 15 years before I was born. Seeing many of those cars in the video reminded me of that strange love I had for cars only my first 13 years of life, since then, 1963 I haven't cared anything about cars. It makes me wonder about reincarnation.
alan murr I too was born in 1950 and one of my earliest recollections of me and cars was the scrapbook that I kept of pictures of cars. I would scour the newspapers and magazines for pictures of cars and when the new model year cars would be introduced i was right there cutting them and pasting them. I remember trying to guess what the new ones would look like from the sillouetes they would show... or from the canvas draped cars on the transports when they would deliver them. Even before I was 9 I could look and a car and tell you make model and year! when i discovered I had a half brother at the age of 10 he used to show me off to his friends with my knowledge of cars! I can still do it with cars up to about the early 70's.. after that they didnt change them too much. to this day i can spend hours nosing around car museums. I HAD to go to the big auction in nebraska a couple of years ago. i was in old car heaven!!
+grobenid , Wow! I loved your comment. It says from 5 months ago. I just now received it on Jan 15, 2016. Only on Google+, that red light in the top right hand corner of my email. Not from You Tube. I used to get a big thrill on very rare occasions while looking at a few of my parents magazines they would show a new 1960 Chevy or Ford or whatever in color. I would cut it out and save it as just looking at it gave me a thrill. We have a lot in common. To me as we moved into the mid 60's you couldn't tell a Ford from a Chevy anymore unless you looked at Chevy's bowtie logo, or see Ford written in a football shaped circle. Back in the 50's and 60's there were lots of movies on TV from the 30's and 40's before we even came into this world and they( the cars in the movies) fascinated the heck out of me, and still do today. It's as if I lived before 1950 and loved cars from the Model T ford to 1950. When we had visitors when I was a kid I was much more interested in their car out in the driveway. I would walk all around it looking and admiring the inside and outside, especially those rare whitewall tires. It didn't matter if it was a 15 year old chevy from 1946 (I'm remember such a car in 1961) or a brand new 1956 Pontiac station wagon. I remember my Uncle brought a brand new red and white Pontiac station wagon in 1956 when I was 6 and to this day that car, even tho a station wagon (my uncle had a wife and 4 kids), was the most beautiful car I ever seen. It was so pretty both the interior and exterior. I'm going to save this site as I lost your Google + comment because there is something about your comment that I can really identify with. I don't even know yet what song brought me to this site but I should find out in a couple of minutes. We kind of sound like kindred spirits.
Jack A most teenagers in the 50s couldn’t afford a new car so they bought cars from the 20s, 30s, 40s and customize those. My Father had a 47 Chevy in the late 50s.
But most of those old cars were not in colors. Only black and dark green. Henry Ford thought all cars should be black much like baseball fans don't want to see a orange baseball. Henry Ford once said that you can have any color of car that you want AS LONG AS IT IS IN BLACK! He later gave in to a dark green.
un ford del 37!!!! mi papa tenia uno y lo hacia volar a 100km/h!!!! (tambien siempre se quedaba sin gasolina) como se llama el primer tema de este video y quien lo caNTA? 5*
There are shows that feature stock restorations. Nobody shows up. The back to the 50's show has over 11,000 cars and over 100,000 spectators every year. Cars of the past were slow, handled poorly, inadequate brakes and tacky interiors. The styling was great. Our 1951 Ford pickup looks stock, but under the skin it has disc brakes, independent suspension, 400 horse, a 5 speed. It can run a road course, a drag strip or the freeway. Don't like modified cars? Get back to the nursing home.
Now that's music to my ears! Maybe every generation feels this way, but it seems that those of us who grew up in the 1950s had the best of everything. Cars, music, television, clothes (poodle skirts and saddle shoes), dances (jitterbug) and drive-in theaters with cars that didn't have bucket seats. There are so many great memories of carefree times. (Did they really believe that getting under the desk at school would protect us from a nuclear blast?)
I get what you mean. I agree more with what you describe of your pick up. Looks stock but isn't under the skin. I see the old cars as works of art and history. Once altered in appearance exterior an interior, there is a distortion of all the things you described of the old cars causing a loss of historical perspective. As you point out though, in the United States it really is about the bottom line. If the people pay for a meth high, sell meth. You'll be in the nursing home or worse one day.
Hey you 50s how are you doing I'm doing good I hope you have a awesome car show this summer I did cars and I dig bands I like it alot love Tonya burckhardt debit stands family
B4BoomersBlockBoy7 , I loved those sky blue 1956 Fords when I was 6 in 1956. And can't forget those brown Chevy Bel Airs of 1955, and those Pink and dark grey 55 chevy bel airs. Those Dark grey and Pink two tone Chevy's reminded me of what we called those pink and black taffee candy's that was so popular in those days. I as a 5 year old and thought they they copied all of those 55 chevy two-tone black and pink Chevy Bel Airs, to me still the prettiest car ever!
david somerville think how you spell his name lead singer of the diamonds ,,,,he did live in shadow hills california he used to sing @ a nice dinner on saturday nite,,,,the bad part hes about 70 looks like hes 40 ,,,,,some have it lucky,,,,
Very fine video upload, I salute all the American car designers of the forties and fifties, now we have "same old same old" sad reflection of the times we live in. My personal favourites? 34-36 ford coupes with just a tiny bit of lowering but otherwise stock.
The Diamonds' original lead singer was Dave Somerville, a native of Ontario, Canada with no known familial connection to Mr. Hanks. He's alive and well, and still performing as "Diamond Dave Somerville." (The other original members were Ted Kowalski, Phil Levitt, and Bill Reed, none of whom fathered Tom Hanks.)
Guess I'll just hang out in my stock '69 Rambler wagon in front of the nursing home. :) Yep, it doesn't have anything updated, but I love it just the way it is!
Probably my favorite car of the 50s. When I was 16 my dad was going to help me pay for my first car. So I scanned the ads in the newspaper, found what seemed like the perfect car, a '56 Crown Victoria, 2-ddor with a moon roof. I dragged my dad out to look at it with me. OMG! It was gorgeous! Custom painted metal flake blue with duel chrome exhaust and a set of "baby moons" on the wheels. We took it for a test ride and drove it home to show my mom. While it was parked out in front of the house, the mother of the neighbor kids (also 16 and hoping to get a car) came down and told my dad, "You know what's going to happen if you get that car for your son? Our sons are gonna want us to get one that good for them! We'll never hear the end of it!" Well, they needn't have worried. My dad wouldn't let me get the car. Why? "Because it sounds like a goddam hot rod. Who knows what some kid has done to that engine. Might not be safe." LOL That was my dad. Mr. Old School Conservative. I ended up with a turquoise and white 55 ford 4-door from Canada, complete with the odd Canadian Ford "lightning bolt" side trim. But hey, it was 3-on-the-tree and I could lay rubber in 2nd! So there was that. Unfortunately, I was going too fast on a curve, hit a patch of gravel, the car flipped over twice and tumbled down a 15-foot embankment and that was the end of it. Totaled. Ah, the good ol' days.
my first boy friend he had 56 Ford Crown Victoria ,he made me so mad he change the color to red and white his was standard shift .but he crash it he hit a deer .
Awesome video with great, appropriate music for the times! I don't think there's a car that I wouldn't want to drive, although that turquoise Thunderbird in the beginning would be a good start!
Nice video! Very appropriate collection of oldies to go along with it! The music fits the times! Thanks! Let's, do not forget this era of history-Cars & Music! Enjoyed & Thanks!!
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I was born in '47 and grew up with a lot of those cars and early rock music around me. It's obvious to me now that a car is a lot like a woman in that it should at least look good to inspire a man to want to work and save his money to own it. After you do own it, of course, you could have a lot of mechanical problems, as with a woman. But what we've got today, generally could only inspire me to take a baseball bat to. And the music is no better.
amen
Too many hotrods, not enough stocks.
Back in the 1950's my Mother would show me old pictures. There was one picture that I loved more then all the others, it was a PIC of my Dad holding my older sister in front of his car when she was just a baby. She is 68 today. I didn't care about my Dad or sister in that picture, but that car fascinated me. I asked my Dad, what kind of car is this, he laughed and said, O'h that was my old dark green 1938 Pontiac. Gosh I loved the beauty of that car! Wouldn't that kind of love for a car come from a previous lifetime?
Beats all the so called CARS'''''''''' on the road nowdays These were the days when Cars were Cars.'
I agree
These cars were not on the road in the '50s. If you had a '55 Chevy, it was probably a basic model and it probably needed washing. Rear view mirrors fell down when hit a bump, windows rattled. the were no seatbelts so your head hit a hard metal dash, the engines did not run smooth and had a tendency to stall at traffic lights, gears were 3 spd column shift and some would not go into 2nd, hand brakes would not hold a car well on an incline, seats were cheap and uncomfortable. windshields would shatter into sharp pieces, gas tanks would explode on rear impact, tires often got flats, there was no aircon, and heaters took forever to get the car warm. Cars were crap back then. At the time, of course, I was glad to just to be able to drive anything that would get me out of the house.
+ardalla535 Agree! I remember 35 yrs. ago when an old 40's model came into a garage for repairs. When I saw it I said to the mechanic, "They don't make 'em like they used to." His response was, " Thank God for that!"
Wade Rivers shut up! Modern cars are shit!
DJ no kidding, cars back then had a personality you could see one & know immediately what it is & who made them, today they all look alike & mostly foreign.
I hate when I only get to look. I want to drive all of them. Hence the reason I avoid car shows.
I'm an old man now....but there's nothing wrong in lovin' the rigs and tunes that got us home...
Bull Cedar I totally agree with you. I bought my first car in August, 1958. It was a 1931 Buick, straight eight, then in 1962 I bought a 1959 Volkswagen which I just sold last year. I'm now 73 years old and I still love the old cars and the old music of the '50's and '60's.
Al Barany
great, I had a 55 Mercury convertible, Chinese red and white, red and white leather interior white top.
Little Darling by the Diamonds, a great song from the fifties. Original artists, doesn't get any better then the Diamons, sorry you didn't like it.
I like the old cars too, but the biggest Lemon i ever had was a 56 ford, 2 door hardtop, with the 292 Auto, a nice looking car, But the biggest piece of crap there ever was. When i would drive down a gravel road, the dust would come into the car so thick it would choke you. In 1969 my brother bought a new LTD, 4 door sedan, the same way, that cured us on Fords.
Well, Jim, it sounds like you had a rotted out floorboard I don't care what make, model or year you have what happened to you wouldn't have happened to a healthy car.
QUE COISA LINDA ! UMA JÓIA MAIS PRECIOSA QUE A OUTRA ! TENHO UMA PAIXÃO ANTIGA COM AUTOMÓVEIS
AMERICANOS ANTIGOS ! SE EU PUDESSE TERIA TODOS ÊLES NUMA COLEÇÃO PARTICULAR PARA COMPARTILHAR
COM OUTRAS PESSOAS QUE TEM A MESMA AFINIDADE !
@grabar20 you are correct-a-mundo must have been a brain fart, late in the evening, thanks for catching this, I'm usually the one who knows these music trivia bits. Never too old to be educated. Thanks again.
Yep, this is the cars from the 50's. The teenagers back then didn't have brand new cars! They had to drive the jaloppies, as I did after I was grown too. They were easely 10 to 20 years old. As long as it could still roll on wheels, some didn't have all the pieces parts on them and the kids made the best of what they had, in some cases were very lucky to have "wheels". The title fits totally!!
76 year old codger here
A lot of these cars aren't anything like the hot rods of the 50s
Big wheels modern engines $5000 paint jobs not the cars that the average guy back then could afford
The ones that are period correct are great
@2734135 Sorry old lad the flip side was faithful and true,get a job was by The Silhouettes.its all true...............
Now I have more cars to look to see if I can find plastic model kits to build.
Thank you Sooo much.... I Loved this ...! My Dad Co- Signed for me to by a 1960 Vette. to keep me working for the family Biz, I was only 19 years old at the time , I was the 2nd owner , a local car from the area.... That was back in June / 1967 , I still have that old chev., ......Lets see ....... that was 49 years ago ! I Truly am Blessed to have been able to hang on to it this long...you always hear the story , ( Man I Still WISH I Still had my first / or favorite that I had years ago...) Love going to Car shows and Just hearing all the old car stories and meeting wonderful Car guys and Ladies..... anyway Love your Vids. Thanks
56 mercury montclair was my first car, bought it in 1963
More Frankenstein cars. I prefer the stock cars they look much better.
Name is Paris Anderson Mark Boy friend bedroom with her
Barely any stock cars...chopped and screwed up semblances of cars of the past.
my car will be a yellow 1932 Ford coupe
Why is the screen littered w/ what looks like 1920 cars?
Chuck Berry I remember in the fall of 1987 someone told me that Chuck Berry just turned 60. I was 37, but a rock n Roller being 60 seemed so strange. That was almost 30 more years ago. Last Friday David Bowie moved on before he was even close to 70, today, Jim Frey the lead singer of The Eagles moved on at the age of 67. Let's hope that there is a rock n roll heaven and for you younger people, you can always brag after playing David Bowie or Eagles music, that THOSE BOOMERS, THAT IS WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
And, as you probably know by now, Chuck Berry entered Rock-n-Roll Heaven just few days ago. RIP, Chuck.
all the cars are from the 40s because you turn a 40s car into a 50s hot rod
I was born in 1950 and for the first 13 years of my life I never loved anything more then cars. I've often wondered if that strange love I had for cars had something to do with reincarnation, I.E. I loved cars in my previous life. Especially when I would see old movies from the 1930's and 40's on TV I was fascinated by them. I used to skip church and look through the window at the brand new 1960 Fords, then go to another part of town and look at the brand new Chevy's, same with Pontiacs and Buicks. Then that interest or deep love disappeared along about 1963. They gave me such a wonderful feeling. When we would have visitors, I would stand out in the drive way and admire everything about the car whether it was brand new or a old car built 15 years before I was born. Seeing many of those cars in the video reminded me of that strange love I had for cars only my first 13 years of life, since then, 1963 I haven't cared anything about cars. It makes me wonder about reincarnation.
alan murr I too was born in 1950 and one of my earliest recollections of me and cars was the scrapbook that I kept of pictures of cars. I would scour the newspapers and magazines for pictures of cars and when the new model year cars would be introduced i was right there cutting them and pasting them. I remember trying to guess what the new ones would look like from the sillouetes they would show... or from the canvas draped cars on the transports when they would deliver them. Even before I was 9 I could look and a car and tell you make model and year! when i discovered I had a half brother at the age of 10 he used to show me off to his friends with my knowledge of cars! I can still do it with cars up to about the early 70's.. after that they didnt change them too much. to this day i can spend hours nosing around car museums. I HAD to go to the big auction in nebraska a couple of years ago. i was in old car heaven!!
+grobenid , Wow! I loved your comment. It says from 5 months ago. I just now received it on Jan 15, 2016. Only on Google+, that red light in the top right hand corner of my email. Not from You Tube. I used to get a big thrill on very rare occasions while looking at a few of my parents magazines they would show a new 1960 Chevy or Ford or whatever in color. I would cut it out and save it as just looking at it gave me a thrill. We have a lot in common. To me as we moved into the mid 60's you couldn't tell a Ford from a Chevy anymore unless you looked at Chevy's bowtie logo, or see Ford written in a football shaped circle. Back in the 50's and 60's there were lots of movies on TV from the 30's and 40's before we even came into this world and they( the cars in the movies) fascinated the heck out of me, and still do today. It's as if I lived before 1950 and loved cars from the Model T ford to 1950. When we had visitors when I was a kid I was much more interested in their car out in the driveway. I would walk all around it looking and admiring the inside and outside, especially those rare whitewall tires. It didn't matter if it was a 15 year old chevy from 1946 (I'm remember such a car in 1961) or a brand new 1956 Pontiac station wagon. I remember my Uncle brought a brand new red and white Pontiac station wagon in 1956 when I was 6 and to this day that car, even tho a station wagon (my uncle had a wife and 4 kids), was the most beautiful car I ever seen. It was so pretty both the interior and exterior. I'm going to save this site as I lost your Google + comment because there is something about your comment that I can really identify with. I don't even know yet what song brought me to this site but I should find out in a couple of minutes. We kind of sound like kindred spirits.
Not the original version.Sounds like the Diamonds,tho.
that first black truck looks alot like my first car
More modified Frankenstein cars,
50's Car Show??? Most of these cars are from the 30's and 40's.
Jack A most teenagers in the 50s couldn’t afford a new car so they bought cars from the 20s, 30s, 40s and customize those. My Father had a 47 Chevy in the late 50s.
Another great video! Keep them coming and thanks for the timeless tunes - long live the 50's!
The most stylish cars of the late 40s & 1950s were the Kaisers and Frasers which should have been included !
Absolutely incredible 😍
The title is a little misleading since most of these cars are from the 30's ad 40's.
Jack A not many teenagers in the 50s could afford a 50s, so they customized older cars. My father had a 47 Chevy in the late 50s early 60s
But most of those old cars were not in colors. Only black and dark green. Henry Ford thought all cars should be black much like baseball fans don't want to see a orange baseball. Henry Ford once said that you can have any color of car that you want AS LONG AS IT IS IN BLACK! He later gave in to a dark green.
I like the '54 Buick Skylark
Flip side of Little darlin was "Get a Job"
un ford del 37!!!! mi papa tenia uno y lo hacia volar a 100km/h!!!! (tambien siempre se quedaba sin gasolina) como se llama el primer tema de este video y quien lo caNTA? 5*
I have a crown Victoria 1955, black and white. It needs to be restored but my husband of 44 years passed away in 2012.
There are shows that feature stock restorations. Nobody shows up. The back to the 50's show has over 11,000 cars and over 100,000 spectators every year. Cars of the past were slow, handled poorly, inadequate brakes and tacky interiors. The styling was great. Our 1951 Ford pickup looks stock, but under the skin it has disc brakes, independent suspension, 400 horse, a 5 speed. It can run a road course, a drag strip or the freeway. Don't like modified cars? Get back to the nursing home.
Wish I could save each individual picture to share with people who only get text messages. Beautiful cars. Thanks for the memories
Now that's music to my ears! Maybe every generation feels this way, but it seems that those of us who grew up in the 1950s had the best of everything. Cars, music, television, clothes (poodle skirts and saddle shoes), dances (jitterbug) and drive-in theaters with cars that didn't have bucket seats. There are so many great memories of carefree times. (Did they really believe that getting under the desk at school would protect us from a nuclear blast?)
I get what you mean. I agree more with what you describe of your pick up. Looks stock but isn't under the skin. I see the old cars as works of art and history. Once altered in appearance exterior an interior, there is a distortion of all the things you described of the old cars causing a loss of historical perspective. As you point out though, in the United States it really is about the bottom line. If the people pay for a meth high, sell meth. You'll be in the nursing home or worse one day.
Hey you 50s how are you doing I'm doing good I hope you have a awesome car show this summer I did cars and I dig bands I like it alot love Tonya burckhardt debit stands family
Looking for a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria for sale !
B4BoomersBlockBoy7 , I loved those sky blue 1956 Fords when I was 6 in 1956. And can't forget those brown Chevy Bel Airs of 1955, and those Pink and dark grey 55 chevy bel airs. Those Dark grey and Pink two tone Chevy's reminded me of what we called those pink and black taffee candy's that was so popular in those days. I as a 5 year old and thought they they copied all of those 55 chevy two-tone black and pink Chevy Bel Airs, to me still the prettiest car ever!
your in luck I think I might have a solution for you buy hemmings motor news and. Place a wanted ad for a 1956 Ford crown Victoria.:-)
david somerville think how you spell his name lead singer of the diamonds ,,,,he did live in shadow hills california he used to sing @ a nice dinner on saturday nite,,,,the bad part hes about 70 looks like hes 40 ,,,,,some have it lucky,,,,
Very fine video upload, I salute all the American car designers of the forties and fifties, now we have "same old same old" sad reflection of the times we live in. My personal favourites? 34-36 ford coupes with just a tiny bit of lowering but otherwise stock.
I am so sad my grandpa sold his 1956 Crown Victoria. I would have loved to have it.
16 años tenía...... Ah¡¡¡ aquellos buenos viejos tiempos¡¡
Don't remember cars this nice back in the 50's. Or the 60's, not even the 70's.
The Diamonds' original lead singer was Dave Somerville, a native of Ontario, Canada with no known familial connection to Mr. Hanks. He's alive and well, and still performing as "Diamond Dave Somerville." (The other original members were Ted Kowalski, Phil Levitt, and Bill Reed, none of whom fathered Tom Hanks.)
Back to the 50's features cars made from 1964 on back. So...last year we saw a 1908 Olds, and a (real) 1962 Cobra, and everything in between.
Guess I'll just hang out in my stock '69 Rambler wagon in front of the nursing home. :) Yep, it doesn't have anything updated, but I love it just the way it is!
i had 1956 Crown Victoria i love that the deer got me .
my favorite car i love it it was so beautiful
Probably my favorite car of the 50s. When I was 16 my dad was going to help me pay for my first car. So I scanned the ads in the newspaper, found what seemed like the perfect car, a '56 Crown Victoria, 2-ddor with a moon roof. I dragged my dad out to look at it with me. OMG! It was gorgeous! Custom painted metal flake blue with duel chrome exhaust and a set of "baby moons" on the wheels. We took it for a test ride and drove it home to show my mom. While it was parked out in front of the house, the mother of the neighbor kids (also 16 and hoping to get a car) came down and told my dad, "You know what's going to happen if you get that car for your son? Our sons are gonna want us to get one that good for them! We'll never hear the end of it!" Well, they needn't have worried. My dad wouldn't let me get the car. Why? "Because it sounds like a goddam hot rod. Who knows what some kid has done to that engine. Might not be safe." LOL That was my dad. Mr. Old School Conservative. I ended up with a turquoise and white 55 ford 4-door from Canada, complete with the odd Canadian Ford "lightning bolt" side trim. But hey, it was 3-on-the-tree and I could lay rubber in 2nd! So there was that. Unfortunately, I was going too fast on a curve, hit a patch of gravel, the car flipped over twice and tumbled down a 15-foot embankment and that was the end of it. Totaled. Ah, the good ol' days.
my first boy friend he had 56 Ford Crown Victoria ,he made me so mad he change the color to red and white his was standard shift .but he crash it he hit a deer .
Appreciate all the work done to convert the 30's and 40's cars into rods but really wanted to see 50's cars as produced.
Awesome video with great, appropriate music for the times! I don't think there's a car that I wouldn't want to drive, although that turquoise Thunderbird in the beginning would be a good start!
Nice video! Very appropriate collection of oldies to go along with it! The music fits the times! Thanks! Let's, do not forget this era of history-Cars & Music! Enjoyed & Thanks!!
whats the first song?
Many of those hot rods were actually before 1950 .
It is the Diamonds.........this version was done on the PBS Doo Wop show.....
GOOD F,,,ING MUSIC, MISS THAT,, IAM 70 YEARS OLD
Dank I wish all cars would go back to this!!!!
Now that I've rediscovered your channel I may never have to go to another car show in person. -Grin-
Lovely!
THANKS YOU TUBE ,ALL THESE MEMORIES BEAUTIFUL VEHICLES!!!!
Thanks for your comments! Glad you enjoyed the videos. Hope to get back to Oshkosh again this year.
Tive a oportunidade de andar em um rabo de peixe.
Otimo carro para a época
Que linda canción!! Amo los 50's y 60's!!
I like the stock tbirds and vettes. :-)
great sound track 50' s 60' s 👍🖑✌
was a la sale one of the cars in the show?
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Little Darling by the Diamonds, a great song from the fifties!
ich lauf aus bei den karren... geil... und die musik ist auch super :)
Most of these cars are before the fifties, nice though anyway.
Saudades do passado e que bela musica!
oh my It's my penthouse video of cars I like!!!!
when cars were cars , and music was music
Great music too!
bit sad theres no 1957 plymouth fury
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Austin a40 1954
Wish my car was in good enough condition to make it there. Intend on going next year! ('57 Bel Air 4-door)
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I WAS THERE THAT YEAR!!!!!!
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good Times!!!!
OH Yeah!
muito bom
That wasn't sung by the Diamonds. Oh by the way the lead singer of the Diamonds, Tom Hanks Father