1957 NAPCO Promotional Film!!
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- This is a really neat video of Chevrolet promoting the NAPCO system on their trucks using a 1957 Chevrolet 3/4 Ton NAPCO 4x4 climbing to the top of Pikes Peak without using any roads... pretty awesome even at today's standards!! Come check out our NAPCO Owner's Group and learn the history of Northwestern Auto Parts Co. aka NAPCO at www.napco4x4.or... start rebuilding your NAPCO 4x4 today!
Built Chevy Tough! Those were the days.
My '53 Chevy 3100 1/2 is still running strong with it's original 216 stove bolt 6, 3 on the tree and 4.11 rearend. It has never failed me in all the years I've owned. My Great Uncle bought in new here in Santa Ana, Ca.
Very impressive for a 6 cylinder, that looked like real tough terrain, that is when trucks were used for work, remember the Dodge powerwagon??
back when America made REAL tough trucks. that's why I drive a classic truck. the new ones are junk. great video!!
What a great video. America during it's golden age.
Back when trucks were American made. I drive a 66 as my DD and it is great. Nice not some something made of tin and plastic. Thanks for the video.
There are 3 Fords and a Chevy in my driveway, and none of them have an alternator that is made in the USA, all of them are made in Japan now. Those old truck were 100% American made, you are right!
Yeah, with a whole lot of plastic hanging off of it several inches from the ground, and thinner gauge sheet metal. Not to mention IFS and several hundred pounds worth of AC, airbags, stereos and other luxury junk. Hardly makes sense to make trucks tough any more, since 95% of them never get taken off the pavement and 85% of them are never actually used to haul more than a couple bags of groceries (maybe two or three times year they'll pull a fishing boat or camper). But, gotta have that image.
6 cylinder, no less! Amazing trucks, amazing scenery! Thanks for preserving! :) Jack
These are my favorite trucks they make!
would love to own one of these. =)
That was actually pretty cool I thought. I hope that I may be lucky enough to find Napco running gear for my 55 Chevy some day :)
at this time all the truck brands where great
Pretty Cool! I just bought a 57 stepside.. Notice how they needed the weight from a couple guys in the bed to get thru some of the tougher sections...
this is amazing.
What, no "Professional Driver on Closed Course: Do Not Attempt This At Home" warning on the bottom of the screen? Oh, right, this was before lawyers and lawsuits took over the country.
The road.
"The Jam Handy Organization reminds you to keep your preserves conveniently located!"
-Crow T. Robot
Cool Deal! American Power & Utility!
Forge On'
I saw it too, pretty cool.
mustang633NY is right. On our farm, we'd be lost without our 1950 Chevrolet 2.5 ton tandem axle grain truck, or the '69 GMC 1500...
if those chevy's are anything like mine, there better be about 4 gas stations on that
mountian......
I fell in love
Now days the tree huggers would protest a drive like this.
Realmente de lo mejor que he visto jamás bien chevy
Like it. Just after the drivers break camp to head for the summit look for the face in the clouds, it is pretty creepy.
back when America made REAL tough trucks. that's why I drive a classic truck. the new ones are junk.
The good old days when Americans bought American trucks, Americans built American trucks in American factories. No sell out Titans or Tundras. AAAA++++
I thought I would never seen Chevy Trucks film by Chev/Jam Handy.
It's sad they don't build trucks like this anymore, its just toss them and buy a new one now.
I'm sure it could be prearranged with a big enough ad budget.... :)
The block in my 2005 truck is iron, the body is steel...hmm. lol
Ominous...foreboding...better get my clipboard
6:12 rear gears?
These days Titans and Tundras are built in the US with at least as many US built components as any F-150 or Chevy (which are built largely of parts made in Mexico and other countries). There is no entirely "US made" cars any more, and most "imports" are bolted together here, just like "American" cars (many of which are from Canada and Mexico).
chevy task force pickup truck v.s a Land Rover 110
They flew.
There is a road that goes up Pikes Peak.
There is a road.
oh...oh pick me....lol
They were Fords...lol...They made it up there first !!!
They were fords LOL
You mean when the public didn't have much choice in terms of what to buy, except the mediocre products spewed out by American factories? LOL, yes those gladly were the days.
Now we get to pick mediocre profit making metal buckets with computers inside for inflated prices made in Mexico and Korea.
Nothing's changed.