Clownin'Cars, old school, Dawsonville, GA 1950s!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2013
- Before there was drifting, there was clownin'. And, these boys knew how to do it! This video is compiled from, and includes, my father and uncle and some of their childhood friends having a good time. Enjoy!
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Back when we were Free in America. Good times
They still have fun with they cars doing sideshows
Amen to that.
Expect for being black or gay or anything other than a white christian dude... still a cool time back then though things were definitely built differently
Move you are not a tree
@@nickf4651 yeah, black people were literally being killed were wanting to vote then. you can appreciate the past without idealizing it.
What a wonderful window into a seemingly more carefree past. Love it
It was a different time, for sure.
I thought of that too.
What blows my mind is how much they spent on 8 mm film in those days that stuff wasn't cheap a 3 minute spool of film costs you about $8 then another $5 to develop it and that was big money in those days and you only got 3 minutes so congratulations to whoever did the photography😊
However had the insight to film this .......THANK YOU!!!!! Sooo valuable!! Americana, pop culture, hot-rodding community, classic car community!!! Sooo rare and sooo cool!!! Whoever was responsible for capturing this on film.....ARE INSTANT LEGENDS IN MY BOOK!!!! God bless America!!
Thankfully someone filmed this, but it is even more amazing it survived. Film from this era is rapidly deteriorating. Won't be around forever unless it's get preserved or converted to a digital file.
I love this!
When kids now say their grandparents never had fun, show them this. I couldn't believe it when they pulled out that chevy flatbed and had it spinning, undoubtedly still just the 216 straight six, but still plety of fun. I drive my '66 F100 like a grandpa, but this video is making me want to do otherwise..
Remembering my dear Dad teaching me how to do doughnuts in an open parking lot in the winter! Great fun and skid training, all rolled into one!! RIP Dad.
cops arrest u for dangerous driving and impound yr car if U try that today
Sad but true . Back in the early 90s I worked 3rd shift and had a 78 Chevy 3/4 ton four wheeled drive and on our lunch break I let the young drivers that never been in snow learn how to get out of a skid. They thanked me for that. Only 8 of us worked but great teaching them.
@Jeff Harper Good one Jeff! Hopefully you save them some troubles down the road. I'm sure they'll remember your efforts and pass it on to some other young'uns comin' up!
Even though it's delightful exciting good fun, everyone should know how to do it!
If insurance companies weren't bassackward elbow suckin' douchnozels they would see that's it's added to all high school drivers ed classes.
Many lives would be saved and less premium raising claims paid out because sissy assed driver lost control because they panicked and over corrected just cause their jalopy got the least little bit loose and they never experienced that feeling before so the lost their little limp lilly livered muffin top!
True. In 2012 I moved from central Ohio to Eastern TN, I'm serious they get a 1/2" to 1" or more they shut every thing down. I know it's different terrain but look at the news every time it snow anywhere, major crashes because nobody knows how to slow down or what to do if you are skidding. I was told to put vehicle in neutral to help you stop.
We used to get chased out of parking lots for doing donuts in the snow. Miss my old cutlass rocket 350 and my nova
Massive thanks to the filmer and uploader for giving us these gems to enjoy.
My husband grew up in D ville he's 62 when it snows he goes back to 18 stay out all day sliding around curves Turing 8s up and down road I used to be nervous but has never wrecked us he Say's hold on and laughs
And not one person called the law to complain!!! I wish I could have lived then!
Hmm, no loud music, no traffic blocked
I don’t know how I stumbled into here, but I am so glad that I did. The cars and music of my long ago teen years. I remember when tri-five Chevys were transportation and if you wrecked one, you just looked in the newspaper for your next ride. I remember my Dad’s 56 black and yellow convertible sitting in front of our house with a $100 sign on it. Wish I knew then what I know now, I would have been buying them up and stashing them away. 👴👍☮️❤️
Poetry in motion. Why can I look at these gorgeous cars for hours? Something has changed in car design and I was born into the wrong time.
👍👍..my father owned almost everyone of these cars..i saw all the pics..what a different time..
I had a couple of 55 chevys myself
Cars all look the same now
The change is people who designed cars back then did it by hand on paper with their human imagination Today they turn on a computer and don't do shit.
Re: "Something has changed." U got OLD
@@C0Y0TE5 Car Design has changed because I got old? And I felt the same way at 16. So? If you can't See the differences between a 50s Car and a 2020 Model, you are a mental case, which fits your statement
Ah the good ole days, when a "drive by" was a fun thing! That was a ton of fun to watch, great video! 👍
Still is
I didn't know Cars Could DANCE 🎉🎉😂😅😅. AWESOME !
As a guy that restores these cars. This is so awesome to see. The first car reminds me of my grandfather. Altho he had a 50 studebaker. Had an olds rocket as built as they get. Had the heads cut 0.100 to raise compression, custom ground cam, Rhodes lifters ( they were BRAND NEW technology then) smittys mufflers exiting in front of the rear tires.
Old Motion Pictures like these are worth a million words!
Thanks to whoever filmed this, and to all the guys in the cars! What a fun thing to watch!
The first time you drive a car with a locked differential 😂
Slip differential is better
The passenger in the Ford calmly smoking a stogie while the car pirouettes down the road!!!
Great video no doubt. Brings life back to the stories of my Dad and Uncle's and friends.
Großartig. Wäre wirklich gern in den 50ger -60ger Jahre aufgewachsen. So hatte ich eine69Apollo11 Kindheit. Auf den Tag genau,in Germany!!!!
This was wonderful to watch. That guy in the flatbed truck...😅😅😅
He was whipping that thing hard
50s and 60s were the best decades in America. Being born in the 2nd half of the 50s they were the best years of my life. By the late 70s America was well on track to becoming the current crazed sh!thole we are now witnessing.
that's because Boomers were getting OLD and voting (Repu blican)
@Nicky, how true, well said
@@C0Y0TE5 Liberals turned it into a sh!thole. I saw it happening as it happened.
@@C0Y0TE5 You got that completely bass-ackwards...of course.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter the working class back then was more democratic than republican
Those were definitely the good old days
Not for everybody.
Ya think 75 - 80 years ago, these kids thought they would be on a little computer smaller than a hood ornament? Great clip👍
idk how I got here but I'm not mad 🤷♂️ more impressed with the guys driving these old manual steering, manual brake, slow ratio steering, and full steel weight 🍻
And no steel belted all weather radial tires then, we hot rodded on worn bias ply tires, and no power steering or power brakes, but you knew your car .
To the Conccurs d' elegance crowd: Your "numbers-matching", 100-point showpiece may have had a similar past, 55 years before you paid $150k for it.
Similar story for some of their wives. lol!
Kinda cool giving a thumbs up to a video that was made over 70 years ago. 👍
I would say that the boys at Vitton Motors laid a wrench or two onto these engines .
So cool. I drove a 64 and a half Mustang back in the day. Clownin in the snow ahhhh the memories.
I make it a point to do spin outs on snow covered parking lots. This is how you learn the capabilities and limitations of your vehicle. It’s also fun…
I wish all the trailer queen owners could see this lol
Love that music.....
Not sure why this took NINE YEARS to get to my recommended, but THAT. WAS. AWESOME.
very good reminds me the things we used to do.thanks.
Great show ,thank you
Guessing this is back in the day when it used to snow regularly and probably now does not? I miss snow... LOL
Today there would be a 100 cops there😮
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.....
Looks like old car ran good fun times
Most fun ive had in awhile.
Way before my time my dad's told me great stories of what he used to do to his 59 Chevrolet Biscayne 348 Engine 3 in the tree he did a lot of racing he did all of this as he said times were fun should have lived them boy you weren't born yet
Feel sad for today’s youth my first car was a brand new 1968 Plymouth roadrunner 383 four speed and yes it rocked.
Gefällt mir sehr gut 👍🏻 und die Musik 🎶 bringt uns alle dieser Zeit näher!
I don’t know what you said, but you seem to approve. lol!
This gets a VERY rare upvote from me. UA-cam only counts 5000 upvotes, so I haven't handed out more than a half dozen in the past few years. But this video definitely got one today.
too bad about hjow ddg got worse
@@nobodynoone2500 Too bad about the fact that DDG is still an order of magnitude better than GGL.
I had the exact car the first white Chevy with it's hood and front fenders removed. It had been on a track somewhere in Louisiana, most likely in or near Baton Rouge, LA I didn't have my drivers lic yet, it had ben one of my uncles track cars.. that he retired. He gave it to my Dad for me to drive on our farm... That sucker was fast as hell... and loud.. really loud... I tore up and down our dirt road that was our private road about a 1/3 mile straight away back and forth for a few weeks on and off till my Dad said that loud SOB gotta go. it's raddling the glass out of the windows.. on the house.. anyway... I had a ball I was 14 years old .. it was 1971.
Great sounds, excellent
Notice how these guys can slide and drift ...and stay in total control.... fast forward 2023 idiots leaving car shows can't control their cars hitting walls or curbs
Or trees ... old school driving lessons needed for today's younger drivers . I was fortunate at 16my driving skills were taught by a " white light runner ""
In his old hauler mountain roads in Tennessee and Wilkesboro nc .areas .. hitting a 30 mph curve at 50 plus in 57 ford runner with 312 McCullough supercharger
Screaming drifting curves . I still have the car still screams 30 years after those driving lessons and his other runners ...😊
Really?
@@jogmas12 duh yes karen
@@quagmiredavis4117 I’m not a karen. I watch The Young Turks
@@jogmas12TYT lol...
That was a glimpse into a different America. We were still,pretty much,free.
I live in blue ridge ga and that takes me way back my friend thinks for that
I have found my new favorite video!!!!!!!😎✌🏻from Ga. also
That first car is a 1950ish Chevrolet, which has been retrofitted with a small block Chevy. I see nice finned valve covers, and some sort of multiple carburetor setup. Four one barrels? Can't see if it has headers.
What an excellent video! Thanks for uploading!!!
I first thought it was 2x4 with a Thunderbird engine, but then I paused it and saw 4x2.
Wow, great blast from the past👍
Best thing I've watched in a very long time👍
Pre Drifting before that term. Fun!
Amazing historical footage
Man that was a pretty good video. Brought back a lot of good time. Im glad we all got to share that. Thanks for the memories!!
Dawsonville was a crazy place back then. They practicing for running from the Law
Still is
I miss the days when I eased down main Street I've got a 78 z28 with 454 headers with thrust mufflers I could mash the clutch and Rev it good and make the alarm system go off in the jewelry store 😂
some great 50s and surfie music in this vid - loved the driving from 4:11 - 4:42 - the person filming must have really trusted the driver - madman lol :)))
What an awsome video from a different time
Great fun that’s been going on for years.
Can’t help but think “Wait till these guys have better power:weight ratio, stiffer suspension and fuel injection!” 🤘🏼
love that video bring back good memories
Snow was a rare event in most of Georgia.
That’s why these guys were out having fun!
still is
Great video.
Coowool This is the kinda stuff I’d see when I was a lil kid in the 50s n 60s before I was old enough to drive.
Man I thank you so much for this video I just can’t picture how crazy kids and Guy should get those old cars back then I’m from the 70s and how fast does a manual cars just awesome the rods thank you
Wow! This is one cool video. Actually had fun watching it. Thank you
That one guy was really drifting that ‘52 deluxe coupe. The 55 sedan was on ice
Awesome video,actually looks to be in the early 60s
Amazing they got those bias tires to do anything in the snow other than hold the car up.
Dawsonville GA huh?
I wonder if any of the Elliott clan was involved in this? Lol
Great video.
I would put money on an Elliott being there 👍...go #9
The first driver I'm sure hauled a little moonshine before !
Buch of cool 😎 cars and trucks
Awesome 👏
And kids today think they invented donuts and drifting. We called 'em "powerslides"
love the songs :)
Wonder if any of them are still cruising about now .
I'm 45 from the u.k. I was born in the wrong era and wrong country .
Got a massive love for the u.s. and anything American what a time and place !!!
🤔 There was kinda a _burnout_ _hierarchy_ where I grew up in the 80s. It was cool to do donuts on deserted snow covered cul-de-sacs and empty parking lots, and everyone did it at some point(except maybe the teacher's pet types). But people were most impressed when someone did smoky, posi burnouts on dry pavement.
The "holy grail of burnouts" was achieved, when someone pulled off multiple smoky donuts on dry pavement, where the car's driver & passengers couldn't see out through the ring of smoke! Unfortunately, most of us couldn't afford a car powerful enough to pull that off back then(in our teens and 20s).
Only, there was this one time where a police officer had been on the outside of the ring of smoke, watching the whole thing. So he was right there, ideally positioned by the only entryway/exit to that empty parking lot. "Display of Speed" was the charge.
@@JeffMc2006
You're right. I re-read my original post, and it came out the wrong way. So I completely re-wrote it.
The upside to snow and wet pavement burnouts and doughnuts is you don’t have to buy new tires as often!
"Drifting," old school...no power assist, slow mo' ratio steering..with heavy American iron !..Great Vid
Yep back when we were free in America you're right
Looks to me like around 1962 seeing the Falcon in there . Yeah we had fun back in the day with our cars and a snowy day
It's not all from the same time. Read the description. It's home movie footage his dad had of his dad and uncle's hot rodding adventures through the years!
Wow awesome time
Great videos!!
Too cool!!!!!
Some things will just never change
This is great!
Maybe there’s more out there to post.
oh classic stuff. nothing like tearing the living dog snot out of your car! Good times, great movies.
Mildred! Call the police! That Petty kid is doing donuts again! He will never amount to anything!
Kids think they started that stuff today guess what this is before my time and I'm 63.those guy's could drive circles around these kids today.
Back when car were made of steel and chrome and built to last not like today piece of plastic junker and people knew how to drive em too
AC lil corner too true
Last I checked my 2004 accord is made of steel, right up to the intake manifold!
@Draw4Reel paper thin steel. Cars today are nowhere near the quality of of pre 60's cars. Unless you own new and old like myself you wouldn't know. For example, the door hinges on my Tiburon or Edge are ¼" thick. The hinges on my 58' Edsel Pacer are ⅝" thick. It's like that for the whole car.
cool looked for this vid for a few years could not think of the term 'clownin"
My daddy was born an raised in that area at that time i was conceived, probably done the same shit,miss yall moma an daddy
i wanna "go back in time " i think a great time to have been a teen hot rodder ! unfortunately i was born 65
I bet you would have liked 20 cent a gallon gas too
Super cool !
Not fifties, there is a 62 or 63 falcon in the video. Still cool to see those cars.
'Dam lucky he did not bust that split axle hot doggin' it with that '52 chevy - like what happened to me, so many, many moons ago.
Lucky
I bet most of these were "" runners "" I noticed some have stiff suspension ... capable of handling a few gallons of white light ... lol 😆
My grandfather is the one in the 57s and all I can say is that it is very likely
@@carterredd5679 57 ford Fairlane? Probably 312 mill .. is car still around?
Yep! This was right down the road from downtown Dawsonville, plenty of “runners” (my dad included!) in the area.
@@JeffMc2006 i have 2 Dawsonville area cars ended up with family in Toccoa Georgia one is a 57 ford Fairlane 312 McCullough supercharger Fcode
80 gallon tank still in car and 63 Galaxie 410 /427 4 speed working on late 60s runner with 429 super cobrajet 370 hp all cars mentioned all original low
Miles and 63 and 69 engines were Holloman Moody prepped .. driving the 57 today taking it to west Virginia Saturday morning
Can't wait to hear that McCullough supercharger whine pulling grade in mountains Saturday 2nd gear let that 312 scream... I should
Fill that 80 gallon tank .. pay for the trip .. .. all the cars been in family since New
Moonshine runner for sure.
Yeah, it was a lot more fun back then. I know. I lived it. Not so much laughter now.
OLD: yr getting old, boomer
@@C0Y0TE5 Nobody cares Zoomer. Go complain about it to your two mommies.
Pretty good- no hit signs-poles- parked cars-pedestrians.
Theres some homeade liquor involved here somewhere.... and no cops.