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Thanks for posting this interesting classic but please leave the music out. It sounds out of place and really detracts from the enjoyment of viewing this.

Watching these old films as a 24 year old Gen Z is absolutely surreal. Older folks born in the 1950s have some sort of hands on training from their high school shop classes. Meanwhile in my generation, the concept of a shop class, automotive class or metal working class is totally alien to us. I wish we had these things back when I was in high school.

The knowledge that you can learn from an old timer is extremely valuable pay attention to them and hang out with your local farmers the knowledge you'll have in a short few years you cant put a price on my advice to anyone young and i am only 26 its worked for me and if you are real young try as hard as you can to get into a trade school

A period of time when Americans had buying power & EVERYONE paid their fair share of taxes. Life seemed so simple. Always fascinated with car mass production. I don't know my 30's & 40's Chevies. Would love to have those two door fast back year. Thank you for the videos.👍🇺🇸

I bet that guy at the beginning was washing up in straight solvent.

so many cars and machinery all scrapped. amazing.

wayyy better built than today's plastic and computer controlled shit!

I requested Auto Shop in Jr. and Sr. High, never got one semester in, but I noticed a lot of my peers were getting in. 8 years after high school I enrolled in a trade school and became a mechanic. It pays well and fault isolation was a blast, never a dull moment, it’s rewarding to find issues, to make the machine work as intended by the engineers.

My dad worked at the Lakewood GM plant in Atlanta Georgia. Started in 1954 and retired in 1982. He worked in the paint booths hand painting the cars.

This was wonderful! It made me sad for what was a better time in our nation in many ways. Thank you for sharing this time capsule with us.

A different world it was

They didn't have micrometers in 1940?

And now all they do is replace parts and hook up everything to a computer…give me a carb any day!

Every thing does not come easy!

Vocational was called at the time⁉️🤔😊🫵😄🤫✌️✊

We don't wash our arms in Stottard Solvent anymore. Friends of mine got liver cancer from that, guess I'm lucky.

Ken this was a great video. Back then an Auto Mechanic was very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing! 💯💕👊👍

I was born into the trade. My pap was a body guy my dad a mechanic an now I can do both. Keeping the tradition alive an helping others be able to get around. 🙏 ❤

That's driving 24/7 at 41.5mph.

I began working there in 1976. Air conditioning? The foundry temperatures soared above 100 degrees during summer. Even with industrial fans, the heat was oppressive. In winter, our only warmth during breaks came from barrels filled with coke and gas lines to keep the fire alive. The movie portrays none of the loading, unloading, dipping, and core setting. Post-molding, parts were sent to the cleaning room for 'more fun.' We manually removed hot parts from shakers on the hot line, wearing asbestos gloves. Then came chipping and grinding. The movie's depiction didn't capture the foundry's reality; some areas had visibility less than twenty feet. Cleaning wasn't just a ride - on a machine; it involved sweeping into the main aisle for the sweeper. In engine plants, cleaners constantly mopped up oil due to the pervasive mist from machining tools. Sure, there were cushy push-button jobs, but only those with seniority landed them. Starting on a day when 600 others did, in a workforce of 21,000 across three plants, meant little opportunity for advancement for many years. Securing a day shift, let alone a decent day job, was a challenge. And then, layoffs would force us to begin anew. But yes, we did make some darned good money and I was proud to make it because I earned it.

Love the warnings against fly-bye-night grifter schools mid way through this film. 👍😎✊

In the mid 1970's I took an engine rebuilding class at my local junior college, one of the training films they showed us was called "Pontiac pours it on" showing engines being made from raw materials to the final assembly it made quite an impression. I have looked high and low on the inter web for that film and cannot find it, if anyone knows where it can be seen please let me know.

My high school wouldn’t let me in their crappy automotive classes . They said I was to smart for trades training. I quit and went to work for the mechanic down the street . No regrets .

My dad born 1/10/1917, was flight engineer B17 bombers, took mechanic and paint & body school on GI bill after WW2. I still have a couple of the books.

I was born 50 years too late. This is all I ever wanted from an education and a career and being born in 1985 I watched those classes die off and tried to catch every little scrap I could, but by the time I got to high school out automotive tech classes had all been scrapped in favor of a bigger budget for the football team. Our priorities have been messed up for a long time and we are finally feeling the negative effects of it. Hope it’s not too late to turn things around.

Even mechanics live in poverty now

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I remember a 20/20 episode from the 1970s that talked about a wife who did a mechanic's laundry and developed mesothelioma. Thanks for posting this video, which reminded me of that episode.

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I’m going to touch on another automotive company just for a minute…FORD!! Henry Ford was a ruthless employer read your history books but Henry Ford feared two things he feared God and he feared Walter Reuter the president of the UAW…. get some books and read about Walters life he was an amazing man and died too young!!

I love these videos, it truly was the mechanical age. I've been a Heavy Duty Mechanic for 50 years if you count the first helper years. Mostly Heavy Equipment and later Heavy Trucks as I got older. Yes a GOOD Mechanic can go almost anywhere and make good money, and I did. Seen a lot, done a lot, been a lot of places ordinary citizens never even think of. That said, I wouldn't recommend the Trade. If you are smart enough to be a good mechanic, you are smart enough to be an engineer. If you are not smart enough to be a good mechanic, you shouldn't even try. Find something you are good at. A conundrum for the industry. The last 20 to 30 years mechanical skills are not enough, manufacturers have gone so far into electronics, which knowledge of they have jealously guarded even from us "Technicians", which is a term I despise. I am not a Technician, I am a Mechanic, I fix stuff. A Technician is someone with a laptop who says "Widget A isn't talking to Widget B so we need to change Widget C" which doesn't cure the problem so following instructions you change one the main electronic components which doesn't help and ultimately it turns out to be a bad diode in the alternator. Or not. Ultimately you need to be a politician to pacify the customer, not a mechanic.

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Might you have some extra can and suitcase stickers? I love your video/ideas

Thanks for posting this! I love these old documentories. I was born in 1958, so Im the last generation that got to live those days. Take out the Vietnam war, The 50's, 60,s and 70's were great times. Life was slower, there was more respect, mothers could stay home and be a mother and a house wife. We could go out and ride our bikes and our parents didn't have to worry about us. Just be home by supper time. And if we left again after that, be home by dark. Neighbors went to visit each other and were always there to help if needed. Times like that will never be again. I would give anything to go back to those days. I fear for the kids of today. Thanks again. This was so fun to watch. My mom is 84. I put it up on the tv for her to watch and she loved watching it. We've watched it twice.

I still have my grandma's 1958 Philco refrigerator in my garage. Has one drawer and the little freezer box inside. Works fine. Only thing I've ever had to do to it was fix a wire that the damn mice got to.

Cleaning brakes with compressor air. The clouds of asbestos floating through the shop. The good old days. Retired GM tech. Still alive at 70 years old.

I learned that in 2024, being a mechanic at a shop only makes the owner of the shop rich and the mechanic living paycheque to paycheque

In the mid 50's, My parents and my oldest sister were driving through the area on their way to Chicago in search of work when they heard on the radio that Ford was hiring. My dad, an electrician, got in line. He was spotted by someone who recognized him and pulled him out of the line and took him to a foremans office. He was hired on the spot. He retired in 1989. Passed away in 2021.

And to think Preston Tucker was the enervator of most of these safety items back in 1946/47 including laminated windscreens and Ford was one of the Big 3 who helped destroy the Tucker corporation.

Anyone out there remember Chrysler's "Joe Tech" service training?

What about the 1936/37 sit down strike because GM was a lousy company to work for.

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Even though I grew up in a strict Mopar family, we had an occasional Ford or Chevy. My Mom had a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme which broke my heart (and hers) when she traded for an '86 Chrysler 5th Ave. I owned a '78 Type LT Camaro which I upgraded from a Chevy 305 to a factory crate motor 350 w/ 4 bolt mains!

If you want to talk over the background music, maybe turn the music down

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Washing hands in the parts washer and rinsing off with Brakecleen was standard procedure at least five times a day! After forty years as a Cadillac tech that's just the way it was. 😆

I put in 5O years as a mechanic. My dad was a mechanic, I was a mechanic and my son is third generation mechanic . Great life that paid really well. A good mechanic can go anywhere in the world and find employment .

Was that guy washing his hands in gasolene?

Its too bad that by the 1960s many automotive high schools(as opposed to ones that just had a automotive shop class) became dumping grounds for delinquents and troublemakers.It was assumed that if you didnt plan on college you werent too bright anyway.

Boy what a great time normal looking people, could probably all speak english, nobody had their pants hanging off their asses, no yo yo yo or riff raff, ohhh the glory days of America