James was extremely nice with his fans . He invited me at a con years ago in the 90,s to sit with him while he signed autographs back in the 90,s . I was still a police officer back then and we spoke a lot about family work and his military service for probably an hour in between the guests . He was so nice to each and everyone. So easy to speak to . Once in a lifetime meeting I’ll never forget .
He had a great sense of humor too. Way back in the 80's, my brother and I were waiting in line for an autograph. When it was my brother's turn, he said "Mr Scott, what happened to your accent?" Mr Doohan had a look on his face like "what are you talking about?" Then he broke into a huge grin and said (in Scottish accent): "Oh, I only do that when I get paid! Now you owe me $500!"
Loved his singing at a convention party (the night before). He had such a beautiful baritone voice and sang the tune his chr, Scotty sang on one of the episodes of the "Star Trek Animated" series.
I have been a loyal Toyota customer since 1984. I bought a 2004 Toyota Tacoma truck with 8 miles on the odometer.(Brand New) I put 385,000 miles on it in 13 years. I put 244,000 miles on a 1984 Toyota Truck. They are good. I currently have a 2022 Tacoma with 67,000 miles on it. Scotty is right.
@@Mabeylater293 The USS Enterprise. It's the galaxy class exploratory starship that Doohan's fictional character "Scotty" served on as the chief engineer.
No "flash screens." No pulsing music. No fast cuts and shaky camera and in and out, extreme close up panning. Human attention spans used to be much, much, longer than they are today.
Oh come on. You know you wish there was an interracial gay couple with everyone but a straight white man like Doohan in it. Commercials are to indoctrinate us, don’t you know?
One thing people weren't aware of. Back in the 60s & 70s Toyota equipped their cars with not only a wheel jack but tool kits to change spark plugs, a socket wrench set, screwdrivers, all standard equipment. That's how serious these people were back then.
Speaks to the level of practical competence people had then too, maintaining and repairing your own car is well beyond the huge majority of motorists now.
Every Italian and British car from that era that I have seen in 30+ years in the business had a jack and tool kit. The Owners' Manuals are works of art- with engine disassembly shown! Original tool kits are big money these days as restorers want originality, as do buyers.
It’s a combination of increasing complexity and car companies getting greedy by forcing people to go to & pay dealerships by purposely making routine maintenance more difficult and inaccessible.
"Every Italian and British car from that era...had a jack and tool kit." Like saying every asthmatic and diabetic I have seen, carries an inhaler and insulin. Therefore everyone should be carrying these.
"...equipped their cars with not only a wheel jack but tool kits...That's how serious these people were..." People in 2024 are just as "serious" about being prepared. In 2024 there is far lower occurrence per mile driven, of the need for emergency roadside self-service. Internet-dispatched road service like AAA is much cheaper and practical than in 1968. And EVs have maybe 10% as many moving parts to go wrong vs ICE vehicles And cars go much longer between service intervals. In 1968 the average spark plug replacement interval was 12k miles. In 2024 it's 100k - 200k miles. In 2024 about 30% of cars don't even have spare tires, to save weight and volume, which decreases energy consumption.
Great to hear Jame's Doohan's real voice, not "Scotty's". He sounds like a Canadian from small town Ontario, which he was. He was born in Vancouver but moved there as a young boy. When Star Trek started many Canadian viewers already knew him and William Shatner because they had acted on CBC Television shows and many Radio Dramas.
That's what you call the "mid-Atlantic accent." All the American movie and television personalities in the 1940s were trained to speak that way, so that both U.S. and British audiences could easily understand them. If you ever wondered why people on TV talked so strangely back then, this is why. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
I met Mr. Doohan at a convention back in the day. He couldn't have been a nicer human being. We went on stage and did his thing and after the show when the people left, he stuck around with a few of us and chatted for a while. I just have warm feelings thinking about that encounter given that the gig was over and he was cool enough to hang "off the clock". I'd worked other conventions with TOS cast members that weren't like that at all.
My Father-in-Law, who is probably the biggest actor/director of the last 50 years used to tell stories about the "Character Actors" he had worked with and he said that many of them were mildly famous and often some of the loneliest people you would ever meet. They never obtained the celebrity success of the lead actors and as such, they really didn't make a lot of money back then either. Many of them had other jobs such as construction, teaching, or temp jobs. Often people would hang around them to just "take" what they could whether it was money, acting connections, etc. so guys like Scotty didn't really have a lot of real friends and they never knew who they could trust. This is probably why "Scotty" hung around to shoot the sh*t with some of you guys as he got to talk with "real" people who didn't want anything from him other than his time and stories. You all weren't trying to take advantage of his money or anything about his career like wanting him to put in a good word with someone for them. Granted, James was quite a bit more popular than the average character actor, but that notoriety probably didn't really start happening until the mid 80s. And even then, it would have just been the Trek Fans rather than the average person.
@nickatbasel I totally forgot about the good old days when you got new carpet for some time the static electricity build up would shock the crap out of you until the carpet broke in.
I personally own a 1998 Camry with half a million miles on it. Still going strong. My wife owned a Corona, purchased brand-new in 1977. It was a nice car.
I sold my 2012 Toyota Prius in 2022 and when I turned over my folder of service records to the private buyer, I pointed out that not a single repair had ever been made! I did all the recommended maintenance, but nothing had ever actually broken.
And to say nothing of the deafening, bombastic noise (some may call it music), and all the actors screaming at the top of their lungs in utter desperation to catch viewers' attention.
Because a commercial like this would not work anymore audience has changed. It’s just like a commercial from the early days of television from the 1950s did not work in the 60s a commercial for the 1960s did not work in the 70s radio commercials for the late 1920s 1930s did not work on radio in the 1940s of 1950s Things change.
True. It's perfect for what they were selling. Inexpensive, value focused, car. Those were the days when advertisers new their market. Now, they just insult their customers implicitly or explicitly.
@@misterwhipple2870 He wasn't technically part of the RCAF. He was a pilot in the Royal Canadian artillery. He was called the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air force after slaloming telegraph poles, just to prove it could be done. He was also part of the Juno Beach landing.
Awesome retro view ! I had 2 of those Coronas both 4 doors. Solid & unassuming. Utterly reliable. A 1967 & 68. One was Auto & the other a Manual but a Column shift - a "Three on the Tree" which was definitely an oddity ! We also had a family Deluxe wagon - a fully optioned 1973 Toyota Corona Mark 2 Station Wagon - as loaded as they came with A/C, a big straight 6 engine - same as in the Land cruisers - power windows & door locks etc. Our family logged 130,000 miles on it in 6 years - great memories we criss crossed the USA every summer in it. Eventually electrical gremlins cropped up, probably it just needed some electrical contact cleaner - back then the harness connectors weren't gasket sealed like ALL cars are today. Thanks for posting this !
@@chuckintexas What's funny is I still prefer Station Wagons to sedans. Have a 2018 Regal TourX AWD 5 door (An Opel Insignia built in Germany) it's a worthy successor to that early Toyota Corona Mk 2, lol !
@@chuckintexas Indeed. The rise of mini vans & crossovers has infringed on them, but a few remain. They're partly distinguished by having a sedan referent.
He did most of the voices that weren't the main cast on the animated series. The original idea was for only nimoy, shatner and doohan to work on the animated series but nimoy protested.
I'm 65 and I remember these even though I wasn't yet driving.. Many on the road and a station wagon version, too. They had the Corona Mark II. Toyota was beginning to build its strong reputation as a dependable solid vehicle growing & growing.
My Mom was a secretary here in KC and commuted to work. When my sisters needed a car Mom said "no Volkswagens - they impede traffic" but also "Hey there is a little car that keeps up with traffic real well and it says "To-Yo-Ta" on the back. 1966 Corona 1850CC four door automatic-on-the-column. First of about 20 new and used Toyotas.
Back in '68, there was still something of a stigma attached to things that were "made in Japan." Fortunately we overcame that prejudice, especially when we saw that many Japanese products were actually better than American products and cost a lot less, to boot.
@@silverhammer7779 Yes, ESPECIALLY if your father was a WWII vet (automatic distrust of anything from Japan) and also a big 3 auto employee to boot (GM here.) No matter what positives you heard about Toyotas and other Japanese models the discussion just absolutely slammed to a halt if this was brought up. Must not hear, disloyal, must loyally buy crap. And then in the early 70s dad started buying GM vehicles like a '75 Nova that had the bench seat in the rear detached when it was delivered to him. No comprehension of quality of the brand vs life span ... he had a GM employee discount and could make money off of each new GM lemon he purchased so he never thought more than a year ahead on reliability.
@@silverhammer7779 Oh, that stigma you speak of... I remember it well. Back then, as kids, whenever something broke, we'd always jokingly say, "Made in Japan!"
My first car in 1975 was a 1965 Corona, but it had a bench seat and 4 speed manual, column shift. No seatbelts. 95mph flat out. The most loveable death-trap a 17 year old could hope for!
My dad owned a 1970 Corona Mark 2 in special Hawaiian blue paint. 4 speed manual transmission and an 8RC engine. 2 door. I drove that car as a teenager until enlisting in the Navy 1983 from Kanehohe, HI. Fun automobile, had a very cold A/C. 🥶.
Few people know that he's a Canadian war hero. A paratrooper if I'm not mistaken and he was shot 4 times. He used the Scottish accent in Start Trek because he said that in WWII the Scottish engineers were the smartest.
@@shawnr771 Doohan was hit by machine-gun fire when returning to his command post after enjoying a cigarette; a jumpy Canadian sentry fired on his lieutenant mistaking him for the enemy. Four rounds hit his leg, one passed through his right middle finger and one hit him in the chest, deflecting off the lucky cigarette case given to him by his brother. Later, his right middle finger would have to be amputated, an injury he would often conceal on-screen throughout his career.
My first car was a used Toyota Corona, which I bought for $700 in 1978. Not automatic (nor "fully" automatic). I spent a day in an empty parking lot, teaching myself how to drive a manual transmission. Next day, I drove it to work. Great car.
Shatner sitting in the passenger seat of that Corona, Doohan sitting in the driver seat, on their way to an important meeting with the Paramount studio heads with Shatner back seat driving demanding Doohan go faster. "I'm giving it all she's got!"
pretty sure that was the year {DATSUN } they came back ,,I was into modifying the earlier Datsun 510s,,I remember how excited I was when they announced they were coming back and how bummed I was when they did ,,looked nothing like the originals
My husband bought a used Datsun truck with a standard transmission. Coordinating the gas, brake and clutch pedals was a new experience for me. Stalling when trying to get it to go was a normal thing for me for the first 3 months. If I found out stopping on a hill was part of the journey, I would go another way. Still makes me shudder just thinking about it 34 years later.
Toyota Corona was my first car. One of my high school friends stuck a 0 to 60 in fifteen minutes sticker on the bumper. My brain so wanted to hear him say that.
James Doohan grew up in North Vancouver into an Irish Canadian family, later to fight (and be injured by friendly fire) on Juno Beach during the Normandy invasion; fixing the warp drive was probably one of his lesser achievements. :)
My mother traded in a beautiful dark blue Ford Falcon convertible with a high performance 289 for an early Toyota Corolla and I still haven’t forgiven her entirely.
We briefly owned a Toyota Corona with the Toyoglide 2-speed automatic. There is definitely a reason that the video cut out at the point where Scotty is about to tell us what the 0 to 60 time is... On the bright side, one only needed to learn 2 throttle positions, idle and floor! 😁
I am STILL USING THE WRENCHES that came with our '67 Corona. It had a teeny 12 volt drop light pugged in a socket in the glove box. Used the jack cam out of it for 40 years. It had a new rubber garden hose for washing the car. A guy showed me his '65 he bought in Italy AND IT HAD A CRANK you could use if the battery died!
we love Toyota cars. Had a 77 Celica, 92 Corolla, a 95 Camry and an 04 Solara for various family members over the years. The 77 survived 12 years before meeting its end at the hands of an inept teenager who did not understand car maintenance; The 92 suffered a fatal accident at the tender age of 16 and the 95 is still going strong getting about 28mpg in general. The 04 is just hitting its stride with about 250k miles on it. In our family, if it’s a car - it’s a Toyota and if it’s an SUV or a truck it’s a Chevy.
@@coolhand1964 I walked off my ship being discharged and went straight to a church movement I had just joined. It kept me very busy, especially doing photography of famous people and covering hundreds of event in 50 countries and most of America.
That was my first car in 1980. Buddies dad traded a lawnmower for it. He spent the summer rebuilding the engine then I bought it for $75. It had ‘3 on the tree’ shifter and that’s how I learned to drive standard. Drove it my first year on college!
My first new Toyota was a 1986 "beancan" pick up truck with the 22R 4-cylinder engine, that had nearly 300K miles on it when some nimroid stole it, and was never recovered. I've boughten five new Toyotas since, and wouldn't consider buying anything else. I never knew Scottie had pitched for them, but they must have considered it a real coup to get the Enterprise's Chief Engineer to do a commercial for them.
I had one, same year, dark brown. At 120k miles it seemed to lose power. When I lifted the valve cover I noticed it had two valve springs for each valve. Almost every inner spring was broken. Replaced them all.
At this time he'd already be "known" as the engineer from Star Trek. Toyota must have wanted to convey the message that they were built well and were looking towards the future.
Notice how you never get a clear look at Doohan's right hand.. He was part of a Canadian regiment that landed at Juno Beach on D-day. That night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The finger had to be amputated.
In the early 80s, I bought an old Toyota Corona for twenty bucks. The reverse gear didn't work, so I had to open the door and push backwards with my feet. It didn't weigh much, so that worked. All in all, twenty dollars well spent.
My pop had one of these in the late 60's and all through the 70's. A 1966 4 door with 3 on the tree. He nursed it for 450,000 miles before selling it and getting a Rotsun station wagon. He always regretted selling it. I drove it a lot in high school, friendly easy driving car. We overhauled the engine a couple times - the bottom end was solid, but the top end needed refreshing every 150K or so.
@randydewees7338: That was pretty much standard with Toyota's of the day. Domestic vehicles-we replaced head gaskets every 100k or so. I remember one Toyota that I rebuilt the engine on and at 200k, the second ring was only half scuffed. That bottom end would have gone forever if the oil ring hadn't coked up from overheat.
@@postulator890 Primative oil combined with not enough oil changes! We beat on that Corona, if old Randle Sr had changed the oil every 1500 miles I think we could have saved one rebuild. We would at least plastigage the mains, always pulled the pistons. On domestic cars we usually dropped the crank on the assumption it needed a grind. Pop usually had an idea of the state of the cam from operation. These weren't high class rebuilds. I'd get the memo from pop midweek - we were going in starting early Sat morning. We'd get the head to the neighborhood machine shop by about noon, get it back Sunday noon, have it all back and running Sunday night ready for work Monday morning. We did that with every car, import or not, from when I was a little kid in the early 60's till the 90's, when you started to just kind of throw them away at 300K. I left the home in 75, but I'd throw in on a rebuild if I was around, good times.
And all this time I actually thought he was Scottish, his accent is so convincing! Love all the hanging components in the beginning- groovy. Cool old Toyotas too. Thanks!
I lived in PR when these cars came to the west; our neighbor had one, I loved the new car smell and how well it cornered , how comfortable the ride was...
I think the factory rating was 0-60 in SIXTEEN seconds and with an automatic and a small four cylinder that was VERY impressive in the late 60's. Today's Camry is something like seven. Those old Toyotas were bullet proof and ran trouble free for 150k.
Note the selling point: 'fully automatic'. They were in a market with things like the 'manumatic' beetle that you still had to shift even if you didn't have to clutch.
That line about "fully automatic" is a dig at Volkswagen who had a semi-automatic transmission in 68. I loved the old VWs but the Toyota is much more car for the money.
Are we sure this commercial is from 68? I had a 66 Corona Deluxe while stationed in the PI. It looked much like the 4 door in this video. It was right hand drive and three speed on the floor. Primer grey and wasn't a panel on the body that wasn't dented or had a ton of bondo on it. What fun.
And "SMILEY FACE" intersectionality and special effects . If THAT'S what you need to _sell_ your product you're TEACHING that _your_ product has NO value to anyone .
I had a Toyota "Corona" obtained for $50 from the police impound auction, it only ran on 3 cylinders but she did indeed run. I never did figure out what was wrong with it, probably something simple. I committed the worst crime ever with that car, I was first at a red light & when it turned green, I stalled it. Started it, tried again, stalled again. Fired it up again, tried another time, stalled. I kept stalling & stalling and the light went red again, nobody made it through! (When it turned green again I savagely slipped the clutch and made it through first time, but you can bet everybody behind was pretty hot about that. That was more than 30 years ago, seems like yesterday!)
We lived in Charlotte and bought our first Corona in 1968. We bought several Toyotas over the years and right now I drive a 2012 Toyota Scion iQ. The car before that was a 2005 Pontiac Vibe, which is essentially a Toyota Matrix with a Pontiac logo. The Vibe went 325K miles before I finally traded it in.
@mikee1967, that's antimatter. Second, the Millenium Falcan can only do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs... I know what a parsec is, folks, 'cause I is a nerd😋
The collision of matter and antimatter is what creates the energy for the warp field. The diluthium crystals control the explosion in the chamber. Spock went into the irradiated room to manually push in the dilithium control rods to stop the warp core from exploding. In Generations the mad scientist used trilithium to collapse the fusion reaction of a star to alter the course of the Nexus.
James was extremely nice with his fans . He invited me at a con years ago in the 90,s to sit with him while he signed autographs back in the 90,s . I was still a police officer back then and we spoke a lot about family work and his military service for probably an hour in between the guests . He was so nice to each and everyone. So easy to speak to . Once in a lifetime meeting I’ll never forget .
He fought in D-Day, 2nd wave as part of the Canadian army. Almost lost his life to friendly fire!
I’ve heard stories that he really cared about the fans of Star Trek and of Scotty.
Man what a great experience. Thank you for sharing. God bless!
He had a great sense of humor too. Way back in the 80's, my brother and I were waiting in line for an autograph. When it was my brother's turn, he said "Mr Scott, what happened to your accent?" Mr Doohan had a look on his face like "what are you talking about?" Then he broke into a huge grin and said (in Scottish accent): "Oh, I only do that when I get paid! Now you owe me $500!"
Loved his singing at a convention party (the night before). He had such a beautiful baritone voice and sang the tune his chr, Scotty sang on one of the episodes of the "Star Trek Animated" series.
If Scotty recommends it. It must be good.
I have been a loyal Toyota customer since 1984. I bought a 2004 Toyota Tacoma truck with 8 miles on the odometer.(Brand New) I put 385,000 miles on it in 13 years. I put 244,000 miles on a 1984 Toyota Truck. They are good.
I currently have a 2022 Tacoma with 67,000 miles on it.
Scotty is right.
Which Scotty? Kilmer or Montgomery? 😅
@@toandoan1967, both!🙂!
You can’ee beat the money from making a commercial cap’in!
Captain, I'm giving it all I can, me foots planted in the floorboard, she won't make warp 7!!!
Aye, laddie . If Toyota had made the Enterprise it would never have broken down .
They do break downs though.
@@Art-is-craftaye. But not that often laddie
The what?
@@Mabeylater293 The USS Enterprise. It's the galaxy class exploratory starship that Doohan's fictional character "Scotty" served on as the chief engineer.
@@Mabeylater293 The starship Enterprise from the Star Trek series . Ever watch tv ?
Every new Toyota sold that year came with two free tribbles!
Strange, I've got twenty two now...
@@DkSchadow That's the trouble with Tribbles.
Aye lad
You don't need two to get Em going.. They're born pregnant!
Toyota's are still banned in the Klingon Empire for that reason :p
No "flash screens." No pulsing music. No fast cuts and shaky camera and in and out, extreme close up panning. Human attention spans used to be much, much, longer than they are today.
So, it's not just me disgusted and disappointed by directors and editors these days.
@@michaelisaacson9735 SAME
Oh come on. You know you wish there was an interracial gay couple with everyone but a straight white man like Doohan in it. Commercials are to indoctrinate us, don’t you know?
@@michaelisaacson9735 SAME AGAIN, but it's weird to hear his real accent.
What!? (Distracted by bright, shiny object)🤣
One thing people weren't aware of. Back in the 60s & 70s Toyota equipped their cars with not only a wheel jack but tool kits to change spark plugs, a socket wrench set, screwdrivers, all standard equipment. That's how serious these people were back then.
Speaks to the level of practical competence people had then too, maintaining and repairing your own car is well beyond the huge majority of motorists now.
Every Italian and British car from that era that I have seen in 30+ years in the business had a jack and tool kit. The Owners' Manuals are works of art- with engine disassembly shown! Original tool kits are big money these days as restorers want originality, as do buyers.
It’s a combination of increasing complexity and car companies getting greedy by forcing people to go to & pay dealerships by purposely making routine maintenance more difficult and inaccessible.
"Every Italian and British car from that era...had a jack and tool kit."
Like saying every asthmatic and diabetic I have seen, carries an inhaler and insulin. Therefore everyone should be carrying these.
"...equipped their cars with not only a wheel jack but tool kits...That's how serious these people were..."
People in 2024 are just as "serious" about being prepared. In 2024 there is far lower occurrence per mile driven, of the need for emergency roadside self-service. Internet-dispatched road service like AAA is much cheaper and practical than in 1968. And EVs have maybe 10% as many moving parts to go wrong vs ICE vehicles
And cars go much longer between service intervals.
In 1968 the average spark plug replacement interval was 12k miles. In 2024 it's 100k - 200k miles.
In 2024 about 30% of cars don't even have spare tires, to save weight and volume, which decreases energy consumption.
Read about James Doohan's war record. Extremely impressive.
He's hiding his right finger here too.
Imagine getting ashore and making some progress on D-Day with little injury, only to be cut down a bit later by friendly fire! Ouch!
He was Canadian, which makes it even more impressive. They aren’t known for much
@@vitesse_arnhem Canadians are known for being Canadian,which is plenty!
@@loganperry5167 I mean militarily. The USA doesn’t even bother militarizing their border
Scotty to the ad producer: "I'm giving it all I've got!"
"She canna take no more o' this, Captain! She'll blow for sure!"
@@selfdo LMAO!
its going 43mph... and she's buckling!
Not once but twice, he calls the Corolla a Corona. One to beam up.
@@selfdo "I canna change the laws of physics, I need '0 to room for 5'!"
R.I.P. James,
You were one of the best characters on Trek.
Great to hear Jame's Doohan's real voice, not "Scotty's". He sounds like a Canadian from small town Ontario, which he was. He was born in Vancouver but moved there as a young boy. When Star Trek started many Canadian viewers already knew him and William Shatner because they had acted on CBC Television shows and many Radio Dramas.
Then why did he have a Scottish accent in this commercial?
His accent sounds weird... Like he's faking it. Perhaps because as a non native English speaker I'm used to hearing only US and UK accents.
That's what you call the "mid-Atlantic accent." All the American movie and television personalities in the 1940s were trained to speak that way, so that both U.S. and British audiences could easily understand them. If you ever wondered why people on TV talked so strangely back then, this is why. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
@@jmd12127 Huh - never knew that. Never noticed. Those people talked :just like we did" or due to the influence of television WE TALKED LIKE THEY DID.
@@jmd12127 and that was why Cary Grant, Vivian leigh etc. had a smooth transition into Hollywood because Americans can understand them.
I met Mr. Doohan at a convention back in the day. He couldn't have been a nicer human being. We went on stage and did his thing and after the show when the people left, he stuck around with a few of us and chatted for a while. I just have warm feelings thinking about that encounter given that the gig was over and he was cool enough to hang "off the clock". I'd worked other conventions with TOS cast members that weren't like that at all.
Ah, you should have gone to that Galaxy Quest convention with Jason Nesmith... what a jerk...
Same here, he was tickled pink to sign my copy of Mr Scott's guide to the enterprise.
I met him at a convention, too. Nice guy.
My Father-in-Law, who is probably the biggest actor/director of the last 50 years used to tell stories about the "Character Actors" he had worked with and he said that many of them were mildly famous and often some of the loneliest people you would ever meet.
They never obtained the celebrity success of the lead actors and as such, they really didn't make a lot of money back then either.
Many of them had other jobs such as construction, teaching, or temp jobs. Often people would hang around them to just "take" what they could whether it was money, acting connections, etc. so guys like Scotty didn't really have a lot of real friends and they never knew who they could trust.
This is probably why "Scotty" hung around to shoot the sh*t with some of you guys as he got to talk with "real" people who didn't want anything from him other than his time and stories. You all weren't trying to take advantage of his money or anything about his career like wanting him to put in a good word with someone for them.
Granted, James was quite a bit more popular than the average character actor, but that notoriety probably didn't really start happening until the mid 80s. And even then, it would have just been the Trek Fans rather than the average person.
@@thomasjoseph5876Good points. 😊👍
Room for five, nylon carpeting, automatic transmission, fully automatic, warp drive.
0 to warp 6 in sixty seconds.
"I just canna do it, Captain! I'm giving it all she's got!"
@@Duke_of_Prunes”Saints preserve us! The main energizer’s been hit!”
"Captain, I can't reverse the laws of physics!!"
The static from the nylon carpet charges the dilithium crystals.
@nickatbasel I totally forgot about the good old days when you got new carpet for some time the static electricity build up would shock the crap out of you until the carpet broke in.
Legend has it that very same Toyota is still running and kicking
It probably is.
@@golfnovember Where? I don't see too many Coronas around.
I personally own a 1998 Camry with half a million miles on it. Still going strong.
My wife owned a Corona, purchased brand-new in 1977. It was a nice car.
I sold my 2012 Toyota Prius in 2022 and when I turned over my folder of service records to the private buyer, I pointed out that not a single repair had ever been made! I did all the recommended maintenance, but nothing had ever actually broken.
@@scvcebcit is just waiting for the new owner Lol J/K
"And if she had wheels she`d ba a waggon!"
How handsome Jimmy looks in a suit, James Bond material there me thinks !
Before he let himself grow that Pot Belly.
@@misterwhipple2870 Ah, but Scotch is such a bonny good drink!
@@jeffpiatt3879 At the end, he looked like he had been drinking Haggis smoothies.
He looked like a fat Captain Kangaroo in the end. Hard to believe the gluttony he committed upon his body.
He would have been Q ..
Simple but very effective commercial unlike today’s nonsense showing vehicles going over waterfalls and going up mountains.
And to say nothing of the deafening, bombastic noise (some may call it music), and all the actors screaming at the top of their lungs in utter desperation to catch viewers' attention.
Because a commercial like this would not work anymore audience has changed. It’s just like a commercial from the early days of television from the 1950s did not work in the 60s a commercial for the 1960s did not work in the 70s radio commercials for the late 1920s 1930s did not work on radio in the 1940s of 1950s Things change.
True. It's perfect for what they were selling. Inexpensive, value focused, car. Those were the days when advertisers new their market. Now, they just insult their customers implicitly or explicitly.
This car ain't going over mountains or waterfalls!
Yeah, nothing like a Rémy Julienne Fiat commercial from the seventies. Oh, wait...
Back when cars were built out of transparent aluminum, Laddie!
That's the ticket
How quaint...
ALUMINIUM
Last time he tried to talk to a computer. Who would think that would be possible?
Not exactly phaser proof but it will do.
Canada is proud of Doohan and Shatner ❤
We're they both Canadian's ?
Of course.
@@brianpentecostaldeplorable9841 Scotty served in the RCAF. Yes indeed.
@@misterwhipple2870 He wasn't technically part of the RCAF.
He was a pilot in the Royal Canadian artillery. He was called the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air force after slaloming telegraph poles, just to prove it could be done. He was also part of the Juno Beach landing.
@@andrewdonatelli6953
That's true.
He was wounded on D-day.
My sister-in-law had a Corona years ago. Solid car, reliable, very economical. 0-60 . . . eventually.
RIP Scotty
👍❤👌 !
Awesome retro view !
I had 2 of those Coronas both 4 doors.
Solid & unassuming. Utterly reliable.
A 1967 & 68.
One was Auto & the other a Manual but a Column shift - a "Three on the Tree" which was definitely an oddity !
We also had a family Deluxe wagon - a fully optioned 1973 Toyota Corona Mark 2 Station Wagon - as loaded as they came with A/C, a big straight 6 engine - same as in the Land cruisers - power windows & door locks etc.
Our family logged 130,000 miles on it in 6 years - great memories we criss crossed the USA every summer in it.
Eventually electrical gremlins cropped up, probably it just needed some electrical contact cleaner - back then the harness connectors weren't gasket sealed like ALL cars are today.
Thanks for posting this !
GOOD days 👍 !!
@@chuckintexas
What's funny is I still prefer Station Wagons to sedans.
Have a 2018 Regal TourX AWD 5 door
(An Opel Insignia built in Germany) it's a worthy successor to that early Toyota Corona Mk 2, lol !
@@psalm2forliberty577 - Yeah , the station wagon _is_ a VENERABLE classic !👍!
@@chuckintexas
Indeed.
The rise of mini vans & crossovers has infringed on them, but a few remain.
They're partly distinguished by having a sedan referent.
I would love to have one of these cars today...
Scotty did car commercials before joining the Federation. He was the ship's chief engineer because he knew about cars...makes sense.
Good one ! LOL
Season four of twilight zone was in one of the episodes good stuff
Works for _me_ 👌👍 !!
@@americafirst2159He was also in The Fugitive (1960s)...played a doctor.
Toyota warp cores are better than Tesla warp cores. And spare parts are available on any colony world
I have never seen this commercial. Even back then! WOW! That was fun! Thanks!
Just realized how great a voice James Doohan really had, can see why he was chosen for this Toyota Ad.
Many of the voice-overs during the series were done by him, Majel Barrett, Barbara Babcock and Bart LaRue.
He did most of the voices that weren't the main cast on the animated series. The original idea was for only nimoy, shatner and doohan to work on the animated series but nimoy protested.
I'm 65 and I remember these even though I wasn't yet driving.. Many on the road and a station wagon version, too. They had the Corona Mark II. Toyota was beginning to build its strong reputation as a dependable solid vehicle growing & growing.
My Grandmother bought one in the early 70's. Good car.
My Mom was a secretary here in KC and commuted to work. When my sisters needed a car Mom said "no Volkswagens - they impede traffic" but also "Hey there is a little car that keeps up with traffic real well and it says "To-Yo-Ta" on the back.
1966 Corona 1850CC four door automatic-on-the-column. First of about 20 new and used Toyotas.
Back in '68, there was still something of a stigma attached to things that were "made in Japan." Fortunately we overcame that prejudice, especially when we saw that many Japanese products were actually better than American products and cost a lot less, to boot.
@@silverhammer7779 Yes, ESPECIALLY if your father was a WWII vet (automatic distrust of anything from Japan) and also a big 3 auto employee to boot (GM here.) No matter what positives you heard about Toyotas and other Japanese models the discussion just absolutely slammed to a halt if this was brought up. Must not hear, disloyal, must loyally buy crap. And then in the early 70s dad started buying GM vehicles like a '75 Nova that had the bench seat in the rear detached when it was delivered to him. No comprehension of quality of the brand vs life span ... he had a GM employee discount and could make money off of each new GM lemon he purchased so he never thought more than a year ahead on reliability.
@@silverhammer7779 Oh, that stigma you speak of... I remember it well. Back then, as kids, whenever something broke, we'd always jokingly say, "Made in Japan!"
Captain, we need more power.
Captain! If I give herrrrrrr any morrrrrre, she'll blllllllloooooooooooowwwwww!
"Captain! I cannot change the laws of physics!" 😁
I'm giving her all she's got captain!
I'm imagining a skit with the crew in a Toyota driving around town for "adventures".
@@potato9832😂
"Captain, I canna change the Laws of (a 1960s) Toyota." 😂
My first car in 1975 was a 1965 Corona, but it had a bench seat and 4 speed manual, column shift. No seatbelts. 95mph flat out. The most loveable death-trap a 17 year old could hope for!
War hero , good people . And a great entertainer , loved and missed .
My dad owned a 1970 Corona Mark 2 in special Hawaiian blue paint. 4 speed manual transmission and an 8RC engine. 2 door. I drove that car as a teenager until enlisting in the Navy 1983 from Kanehohe, HI. Fun automobile, had a very cold A/C. 🥶.
They were excellent cars, I drove a '68 from 1978-83, a 4-speed, and it just kept running.
I had like that too. It just kept running. A new ignition switch fixed it.
I learned to drive on a manual Corona when I was 14, sitting on a phone book.
Few people know that he's a Canadian war hero. A paratrooper if I'm not mistaken and he was shot 4 times. He used the Scottish accent in Start Trek because he said that in WWII the Scottish engineers were the smartest.
He went ashore on Juno beach.
He did not jump with the Canadian paratroops on DDay.
He was wounded in the hand and lost a couple of fingers.
@@shawnr771 Yeah, I was going from memory. Thanks for the clarification.
@@shawnr771 Doohan was hit by machine-gun fire when returning to his command post after enjoying a cigarette; a jumpy Canadian sentry fired on his lieutenant mistaking him for the enemy. Four rounds hit his leg, one passed through his right middle finger and one hit him in the chest, deflecting off the lucky cigarette case given to him by his brother. Later, his right middle finger would have to be amputated, an injury he would often conceal on-screen throughout his career.
My first car was a used Toyota Corona, which I bought for $700 in 1978. Not automatic (nor "fully" automatic). I spent a day in an empty parking lot, teaching myself how to drive a manual transmission. Next day, I drove it to work. Great car.
Shatner sitting in the passenger seat of that Corona, Doohan sitting in the driver seat, on their way to an important meeting with the Paramount studio heads with Shatner back seat driving demanding Doohan go faster. "I'm giving it all she's got!"
My parents bought a new Toyota Corona just like that in 1968.
It was a good little car.
I met him in the 1990s. He was very nice!
I saw him in the late 80s. Yeah, he was a really great guy!
There's an interview on UA-cam where he tells how he changed a suicidal young woman's life, so that she eventually became an electrical engineer.
@@ZilogBob Yes, and she's still the senior engineer on Enterprise G.
@@ZilogBob I saw that interview. He's told that story many times. I think it was one of the most meaningful and impactful moments of his life.
@@johnjorgensen6882 I agree. It says a lot about his character.
Quite interesting to hear James Doohan speak with his native accent.
It's obvious he's deliberately affecting an AMERICAN accent. No "a-boots" and such!
Great to see Scotty on Earth. Thanks for sharing. Cheers. 😊
If we push it too hard captain, she'll blow apart!!
That's what happened to Ladas - at least your hands could get warm. (If you know, you know.😉)
Ah cannot be responsible for the ship!!
@@chrismaguire3667 THAT CAR WON'T BLOW APART IT'S A TOYOTA
then blow apart! Dam it scotty I need 43mph right now or we're all DEAD!
yes captain sulu. oh sorry capitan i forgot i accidentally sabotaged the warp drive.
James, of course who played Montgomery Scott in Star Trek actually was d day veteran on Juno Beach, a Canadian true trooper.🇨🇦🏴🇬🇧
my Mom had one of those, white with blue interior, you never see them on the road anymore.
I love old Japanese cars. I have two old Nissans. My first car was a 1978 Datsun 510 hatchback in blue.
pretty sure that was the year {DATSUN } they came back ,,I was into modifying the earlier Datsun 510s,,I remember how excited I was when they announced they were coming back and how bummed I was when they did ,,looked nothing like the originals
My first car was a 78 Celica with a 20R motor and a 5speed...indestructible!!
My husband bought a used Datsun truck with a standard transmission. Coordinating the gas, brake and clutch pedals was a new experience for me. Stalling when trying to get it to go was a normal thing for me for the first 3 months. If I found out stopping on a hill was part of the journey, I would go another way. Still makes me shudder just thinking about it 34 years later.
So glad James never got to see the way we sell cars today.
JaGuAr
"A car that goes from 0 to room for 5". That must have been a big selling point.
Good catch.
that's because 56 years later it still hasn't hit its top speed yet:)
Toyota Corona was my first car. One of my high school friends stuck a 0 to 60 in fifteen minutes sticker on the bumper. My brain so wanted to hear him say that.
@@inlandbott I cannah doh it. I dont have the powah.
0 to room for 5 'sounds like a commercial from the Simpsons starting Doug Mclure as the pitchman.
Scotty's got a wee bit of Jameson's in the glove compartment. Also a few cases in the trunk. If it isn't Scottish IT'S CRAAAP!
Let’s go places Scotty!!
I took driving lessons in high school in a Corona. I liked that little car.
James Doohan grew up in North Vancouver into an Irish Canadian family, later to fight (and be injured by friendly fire) on Juno Beach during the Normandy invasion; fixing the warp drive was probably one of his lesser achievements. :)
Went to school in Ontario. He knew how to work a transporter
My mother traded in a beautiful dark blue Ford Falcon convertible with a high performance 289 for an early Toyota Corolla and I still haven’t forgiven her entirely.
We briefly owned a Toyota Corona with the Toyoglide 2-speed automatic. There is definitely a reason that the video cut out at the point where Scotty is about to tell us what the 0 to 60 time is... On the bright side, one only needed to learn 2 throttle positions, idle and floor! 😁
Its main competition were cars like the VW Bug-- which only had around 50 horsepower at that time.
Each Corona came with its own bottle of Scotch stowed away in the glove compartment.
I am STILL USING THE WRENCHES that came with our '67 Corona. It had a teeny 12 volt drop light pugged in a socket in the glove box. Used the jack cam out of it for 40 years. It had a new rubber garden hose for washing the car. A guy showed me his '65 he bought in Italy AND IT HAD A CRANK you could use if the battery died!
we love Toyota cars. Had a 77 Celica, 92 Corolla, a 95 Camry and an 04 Solara for various family members over the years. The 77 survived 12 years before meeting its end at the hands of an inept teenager who did not understand car maintenance; The 92 suffered a fatal accident at the tender age of 16 and the 95 is still going strong getting about 28mpg in general. The 04 is just hitting its stride with about 250k miles on it. In our family, if it’s a car - it’s a Toyota and if it’s an SUV or a truck it’s a Chevy.
He recovered very well from his wounds on D-Day.
notice all his hand motions are with his left hand, to conceal the finger he's missing on his right.
From what I have read I don't think that he ever recovered from the emotional wounds.
Most don't. Audie Murphy went into acting to help him cope with it.
@@kenowens9021 I restore old motorcycles to help me cope with it.
@@coolhand1964 I walked off my ship being discharged and went straight to a church movement I had just joined. It kept me very busy, especially doing photography of famous people and covering hundreds of event in 50 countries and most of America.
That was my first car in 1980. Buddies dad traded a lawnmower for it. He spent the summer rebuilding the engine then I bought it for $75. It had ‘3 on the tree’ shifter and that’s how I learned to drive standard. Drove it my first year on college!
My Aunt Nell bought one of these and put 389,058 miles on it before selling it.
My uncle bought a Toyota Corona in the late 70's. That car lasted a good 10 years.
his son chris was on star trek continues..awesome
And reprised his dad's role BEAUTIFULLY 👍 !!
He exudes competence and technical. A good choice for a car ad narrator.
Owned a 1969 Crown. Absolutely flawless.
I sat in one at our neighborhood dealership. And a 2000GT also !
My first new Toyota was a 1986 "beancan" pick up truck with the 22R 4-cylinder engine, that had nearly 300K miles on it when some nimroid stole it, and was never recovered. I've boughten five new Toyotas since, and wouldn't consider buying anything else. I never knew Scottie had pitched for them, but they must have considered it a real coup to get the Enterprise's Chief Engineer to do a commercial for them.
I had one, same year, dark brown. At 120k miles it seemed to lose power. When I lifted the valve cover I noticed it had two valve springs for each valve. Almost every inner spring was broken. Replaced them all.
At this time he'd already be "known" as the engineer from Star Trek. Toyota must have wanted to convey the message that they were built well and were looking towards the future.
Notice how you never get a clear look at Doohan's right hand.. He was part of a Canadian regiment that landed at Juno Beach on D-day. That night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The finger had to be amputated.
In the early 80s, I bought an old Toyota Corona for twenty bucks.
The reverse gear didn't work, so I had to open the door and push backwards with my feet. It didn't weigh much, so that worked.
All in all, twenty dollars well spent.
Hah sounds like the Flintstones model.
Good thing you didn't have to go uphill in reverse.
@stevensenator4804
I always parked with the nose facing uphill.
@@stevensenator4804😂
Often when I tell people that I had a Toyota Corona back in the day, they say, "Don't you mean 'Corolla'? Corona is a beer."
My pop had one of these in the late 60's and all through the 70's. A 1966 4 door with 3 on the tree. He nursed it for 450,000 miles before selling it and getting a Rotsun station wagon. He always regretted selling it. I drove it a lot in high school, friendly easy driving car.
We overhauled the engine a couple times - the bottom end was solid, but the top end needed refreshing every 150K or so.
@randydewees7338: That was pretty much standard with Toyota's of the day. Domestic vehicles-we replaced head gaskets every 100k or so. I remember one Toyota that I rebuilt the engine on and at 200k, the second ring was only half scuffed. That bottom end would have gone forever if the oil ring hadn't coked up from overheat.
@@postulator890 Primative oil combined with not enough oil changes! We beat on that Corona, if old Randle Sr had changed the oil every 1500 miles I think we could have saved one rebuild.
We would at least plastigage the mains, always pulled the pistons. On domestic cars we usually dropped the crank on the assumption it needed a grind. Pop usually had an idea of the state of the cam from operation. These weren't high class rebuilds.
I'd get the memo from pop midweek - we were going in starting early Sat morning. We'd get the head to the neighborhood machine shop by about noon, get it back Sunday noon, have it all back and running Sunday night ready for work Monday morning.
We did that with every car, import or not, from when I was a little kid in the early 60's till the 90's, when you started to just kind of throw them away at 300K. I left the home in 75, but I'd throw in on a rebuild if I was around, good times.
Mine burnt a valve at about 90k. Simple as a lawnmower to repair.
GOOD days 👍 !!
@@muddywater6856 - GOOD days 👍 !!
My brother had one of those as his first car. A Very well-built car.
And all this time I actually thought he was Scottish, his accent is so convincing! Love all the hanging components in the beginning- groovy. Cool old Toyotas too. Thanks!
James Doohan was Canadian, as is Shatner.
@@lorrainefiel9103 I see thanks.
TTTT the only way this connects to me is that the first Japanese car I ever saw was a Corona, in June 1964-around Indianapolis.
Imagine all the people seeing this in 1968 who thought he really was Scottish.
I lived in PR when these cars came to the west; our neighbor had one, I loved the new car smell and how well it cornered , how comfortable the ride was...
anyone else notice the edit? It 0-60 in.... never mind.
If Scotty came with the car it would never break down.
Thank you Gene.
Good catch. I noticed that he said it goes from Zero to Room for Five. What does that mean? Was it an early transformer?
I think the factory rating was 0-60 in SIXTEEN seconds and with an automatic and a small four cylinder that was VERY impressive in the late 60's. Today's Camry is something like seven. Those old Toyotas were bullet proof and ran trouble free for 150k.
I doubt that it was an edit. It was probably just a glitch in the master copy and if so, it's unrecoverable.
I was wondering what they cut out. Too bad they didnt leave it unedited.
@@ront769 at 60mph all the passengers get sucked out the windows
The early ones were push-rod engines, then later an overhead cam. The later had more power.
Note the selling point: 'fully automatic'. They were in a market with things like the 'manumatic' beetle that you still had to shift even if you didn't have to clutch.
Honda had a similar no clutch 2 speed.
The manual transmission was faster and more fun.
That line about "fully automatic" is a dig at Volkswagen who had a semi-automatic transmission in 68. I loved the old VWs but the Toyota is much more car for the money.
0:12 0-60 is 17 seconds. It was powered by a 1077 cc engine with 60 hp. Sorry Scotty, this model does not come with warp drive.
"She's givin' it all she can, Cap'n!"
Scotty! “I can’t do it Captain!”
Long Remember James Doohan.
If anyone could spot good engineering, it was Scotty.
you cant hear his Scottish accent
Not as nice as America cars and were allowed to cut regulation corners.
@@Art-is-craft - There were regulations in 1968? Certainly if a company couldn’t comply back then they weren’t trying very hard.
@@-Stop-it
Not in one year but decades.
Apart from terrible rusting, Americans would soon discover that Japanese made reliable cars. America not so much.
I had forgotten about the corona ... they should bring it back 😊
That production value looks way ahead of its time.
Are we sure this commercial is from 68? I had a 66 Corona Deluxe while stationed in the PI. It looked much like the 4 door in this video. It was right hand drive and three speed on the floor. Primer grey and wasn't a panel on the body that wasn't dented or had a ton of bondo on it. What fun.
Back before ads felt that yelling at us is somehow a selling point. I can't STAND being yelled at.
Yeah, if you're yelling at me I'm not buying. Can't stand that tactic.
And "SMILEY FACE" intersectionality and special effects . If THAT'S what you need to _sell_ your product you're TEACHING that _your_ product has NO value to anyone .
I learned to drive in one of these. Our Corona was a standard transmission. Super reliable car and very well made except for lack of rust protection.
Most died from rust before mechanical....
He's slightly speaking in his Scotty persona.
Nope. That's his natural voice. His parents were both Scots.
I owned a '72 Corona. Yellow, same as the one in "Up in Smoke".
It was what I could afford.
I owned that 4-door Corona model back in 1968. Great car! 🚙
I kept waiting for him to mention the dilitium crystals
My wife sold one of those in the 90’s. The guy still drives it. 😂
"...with room for three shuttlecraft in the trunk."
Room for two dead Klingons in the trunk.
Or 39 Tribbles
My parents had that same Corona, same year and color.
I love Toyotas.
I had a Toyota "Corona" obtained for $50 from the police impound auction, it only ran on 3 cylinders but she did indeed run. I never did figure out what was wrong with it, probably something simple.
I committed the worst crime ever with that car, I was first at a red light & when it turned green, I stalled it. Started it, tried again, stalled again. Fired it up again, tried another time, stalled. I kept stalling & stalling and the light went red again, nobody made it through!
(When it turned green again I savagely slipped the clutch and made it through first time, but you can bet everybody behind was pretty hot about that. That was more than 30 years ago, seems like yesterday!)
That was *you!?!?!?!?*
(Car at 45 MPH) "I'm given her all she's got, Captain!"
In my Corona you could tell how fast she was going by the vibration in your teeth....
We lived in Charlotte and bought our first Corona in 1968. We bought several Toyotas over the years and right now I drive a 2012 Toyota Scion iQ. The car before that was a 2005 Pontiac Vibe, which is essentially a Toyota Matrix with a Pontiac logo. The Vibe went 325K miles before I finally traded it in.
Those ran on dilithium crystals
35 parseks to the nanogram 😊
@mikee1967, that's antimatter. Second, the Millenium Falcan can only do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs...
I know what a parsec is, folks, 'cause I is a nerd😋
Oops,that should read 'Falcon'.
The collision of matter and antimatter is what creates the energy for the warp field.
The diluthium crystals control the explosion in the chamber.
Spock went into the irradiated room to manually push in the dilithium control rods to stop the warp core from exploding.
In Generations the mad scientist used trilithium to collapse the fusion reaction of a star to alter the course of the Nexus.
@@shawnr771 Whatever happened to the old reliable in-line six :-)
My cousin had one of these. Lasted for over 40 years
If anyone should know about engines it's the chief engineer of the Enterprise.
My Grandfather had one of those.
He called it the PuddleJumper.
It couldn't drive through a puddle. It had to drive around it or jump over.
Ancestor of the Camry.
I remember our mechanic recommended we buy a Toyota. I rode on one like this my dad test drove it. A great little car.
Jimmy Doohan was a wonderful person. His kindness to fans was legendary. Many engineers cite Scotty as inspiration for their careers.