[Dealer Film] 1959 Ford wagon... Leave it to Beatle? Colorized
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2023
- Ford! This is some kind of strange Twilight zone "Leave it to Beaver" Episode :)
Ford makes it's own leave it to Beatle episode selling the 59 Ford wagon. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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My parents went thru 3 station wagons when I was growing up. All used models. With 4 kids they needed a roomy car. A 1968 Plymouth fury lasted the longest, even after the engine spun a rod bearing (mom drove it low on oil). Dad replaced the bearing and they drove it several more years. I didn't realize that one day they'd be all gone. I miss em.
My parents went through four, although one died before I was born.. the '57 Ford they had shipped to Germany (Dad was in the Army) threw a rod right before its return trip in '63.. they got a '59 Plymouth in NJ which they drove to his new post in Kansas, where it provided me my first car ride; '65 brought a '62 Country Squire, 6 passenger, for the 8 of us.. times *have* changed! Then 1969 was their last brand-new car: the new Colony Park.. with enough seats for everyone!
I know you were talking about your parents. My they RIP. But I couldn't help but think your last line was referring to the fate of station wagons.
We are currently working on our ‘59 Ranch Wagon! Giving it some new life since it sat out in a field for some years, it’s such a fun car for our kids!
My Grandfather had the same car, I remember riding in it at age 7 , It was brand new. Those were great days. Every Part made In America.
My mother said many years later our 64 Country Sedan was a gas hog! 😂😂 I barely remember the car. The round taillights were what I remembered most. Dad said it had the 352 FE.
I have a book produced by Ford called "Station Wagon Living". I believe it's from 1959. Ford had a huge market share in the wagon segment and very well deservedly so. We had a 59 Ranchero, later a 60 Ford wagon.
What I want to know is did Mom and Dad get the model with the Thunderbird engine? Because that would be snazzy!
I just love these old films they're really fun to watch kind of corny too but that's how it was back then.
We were also a station wagon family. Having owned two or three different ones. The generation today will never know the joy of just pulling over someplace in a nice spot and having your mom break out the picnic lunch and everybody sitting around the tailgate of the station wagon and having their lunch together as a family. That is a piece of Americana that is sorely needed nowadays. Sit around the back of the car talking together having a lunch and putting those cell phones down for a while.
In Canada, Ford had a simular called Meteor, a division of Ford Canada.
"Hey Beatle.. do you suppose that's real soup up there in that bowl?"
I can’t tell you how much I LOVE these. Thank you so very much for loading them. My favorite thing to do is watch them in the car while eating take out.
I vote for getting the “snazzy” Thunderbird, along with the practical station wagon.
Glad you like them, this one I just happened upon and thought it was pretty funny. A fire truck is pretty cool also :) I think the salesmen must have been WTF watching this one :)
There is some pretty cool "Americana" in this episode also....General Electric radio.... Sears ads in the newspapers... the lamps... the ceramic Chickens :)
@@autochronicles8667Absolutely. I’ve always loved flagstone and their fireplace was nice looking. That era’s houses also had large windows and the metal trellis type “columns” along the front were a design I hadn’t seen before.
The design aesthetics of the 50’s and early 60’s in furniture, cars, houses, lighting and appliances are my absolute favorite.
My dad had c a used 59 Ford wagon like this. Pretty shot by the time he got it but he nursed it for many years until.I got him a 63 Valiant with the Slant 6 and 350k miles on it. When he passed, many of his buddies wanted that Valiant.😂
I am a little surprised the late 50s Fords just aren't that popular... Late 50s Mopars seem more popular.
By 1959 Ford was beginning to become "America's Police Car" and the '59 I think was used by a lot of departments,at least to me it seemed a sort of "muscle car"
at my Father's Brother's house there were two '59s for a while,both sort of silvery blue-gray as I recall,one was his "take home" Fairfax Police Department car,full of mysterious radios and one was his own personal car,I think it had the same powertrain as the police car it resembled those cars were "tough" (I doubt that the handling,braking or even acceleration would have been up to the standards of some cars of today however- didn't even have radial tires yet?)
later I seem to remember he offered to sell his to my Father but Father didn't want something "so powerful" I seem to remember although a couple years later my Father ended up owning another '59 two door hardtop convertible
interesting that the salesman in the video talks about "the Thunderbird engine" and that the engines had full flow oil filters-I think that had just about become standard on most cars in the past two or three years before 1959 although I think full flow spin on "easy change" oil filters were first pioneered by Chrysler Corporation
I think my Uncle (the Policeman) used to put Premium gas in his car unlike what the salesman said about "all the engines use regular"
Ford and Mopar between them owned the police car market. I think Chevrolet didn't really try too hard in that niche because of GM's institutional fear of getting trustbusted.
i wish all that my partner and i argued about was buying the same damn Ford.
Mr Wilson no longer giving out pennies, now giving out $10 bills.😂👍
Well, that’s inflation. I remember going with my mother grocery shopping in the mid sixties. She bought a weeks worth of food for $20.00.
A dollar in 2023 (or 2024) is worth about 4 or 5 cents on a late 1950's dollar (or less)
some of the estimates in car magazines giving "corrected to today's money" prices for cars in the past grossly underestimate inflation's ravages,as do,in my opinion,official Government pronouncements of inflation levels
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I also laugh (or cry) when the government says how inflation is under control. The price of gasoline might be lower (temporarily) but I spend more on food, which is sky high, than I do on gasoline.
That woman went to the dealership without her man! What is the world coming to?!
Yes... the neighbors were outraged I'm sure :)
It was certainly very nice of the salesman to explain things to her so that her feeble, feminine brain could understand them, too..!
I wish my wife would read the owners manual, not just the car but other products too. I wouldn't have to fix things or argue about her not v reading the manuals.
Those Ford Y block V8 engines had valve train oiling starvation.
I think by 1959 the worst problems had been fixed on the 292
big deal though was the 352 which was a new family of engine,I guess they had a non-Police version
I much preferred the FE blocks to the Y block, it was a huge improvement.
That’s because the owners listened to the salesman’s BS story and only changed the oil every 4000 miles, so the engines sludged over!
One Ford dealer training video on salesmanship actually stars Fred MacMurray - this was in '55 or so.
Was that Fred McMurray or Hugh Beaumont (Beaver's dad)?
Back then a penny would buy 3 bazooka bubble gums.
Charlie must've been adopted.. he doesn't sound like anyone else in the family...
the daughter got one line... Beatle was pretty annoying :)
Beatle: Most irritating son....ever. I do love these vintage ads, though.
Oh this thing is painful and cringe but funny :) I think they wanted to get a laugh poking fun at Leave it to Beaver
My family had a 1959 Ford Ranch Wagon in the powder blue and white two tone.
yeah very cool and the rear facing seat was fun for a while but really sucked if you had car sickness.
Many kids puked in those rear facing seats. They would also moon drivers. As told to me at car shows when I show my Olds wagon with the rear facing seats. If my mom's wagons had three seats, I would have done the same. Tha is, mooning!
Ford's 3rd seat faced forward!.. until 1965 when they brought out the "famous" DFRS: dual facing rear seats!
You'd think with a nickname like "Beetle" he'd be into Volkswagens. You know at some point he'll own at least one.
True but he was annoying, needed something similar to Beaver :)
Thats it Im sold!Im buying a new 59 wagon right now
A lot of peple did! 1959 was a record year for Ford wagon sales..
Certainly not a bad car in its day,perhaps a Rambler wagon would have been a bit easier to park,and I think the Ford had a tendency to need a fuel pump replacement at about 60,000 miles
they were still all monsters in 59... Longer, Lower wider!
@@autochronicles8667 Ramblers and Studebaker Larks were the first compacts, the Big 3 wouldn't have those until 1960.
1968 Beatle was killed at Khe Sahn with mortar fire!
Wagons evolved into SUV's.
absolutely... Now we are all driving wagons and pickups :)
Car was explained so even a woman could understand it.
Yeh....$50,000 for a new effing car is expensive!
Aww cmon DAD lets get a new car!!
10:26 she has blue hair. Like, Marge Simpson blue.
after a Year, he thought, "Should of got a Plymouth"
i wonder what car they had before? :)
The family should have bought a Nash.
Nash was gone after 1957.
So the daughter and her boyfriend could recline the seats and, well, you know. Oh yeah!
@@jonathanmorrisey5771 But it lived on as American Motors, and they were equipped with the (in)famous reclining seats.
Chevrolet. We had a 58 Nomad and a 68 Caprice Estate. The 58 lasted 10 years and a 100k and the 68 Caprice lasted 19 years until my Dad died. 118k miles.
...but, they wanted a *bigger* car..
Despite what geezers try to tell you cars from that era just plain didn't hold up too well.
Maintenance sucked and the cars were not really meant to last... but if you were a mechanic, the cars were very simple and could be maintained and run for years replacing parts.
A new car after 3 years of owning? You just have never loved your car.
off to the used car lot...