Amazing Restored 1966 Footage of Big Red Turbine Truck from Ford Archives
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- After The Drive located Ford's original "Big Red" experimental turbine-powered truck, which had been lost for decades, Ford Motor Company digitized and restored a documentary film about the futuristic semi (circa 1966). Thanks to Ford for releasing this cool piece of history from the archives!
"The whole world is on the threshold of a golden age in transportation."
Music:
"Fast-moving orchestral theme with atmosphere of activity." The Queen's Hall Light Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Alwyn. 1961. Chappell Recorded Music.
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Cannot wait for the "Golden Age of Transportation" to arrive
I mean, compared to what it was like to travel long distances before the interstate system....we are in the golden age.
Self driving cars so all the shitty drivers can get off the road 🌚
Actually in terms of Trucking. The TEU system is beyond golden age, that's into extreme effectiveness.
Tesla working on that now.
@@Gerarghini No, self driving cars will mark the end of the golden age.
Back when the future looked bright and exciting...
And not just electric SHIT
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 Don´t mind man, we (Austrians and Germans) are fighting back. E-Fuels are coming and in a big way. Sales numbers in Germany for E-Vehicles aren´t rising, and interest in E-Mobility is in general low forcing the EU to change strategy in their envioronmental legislature.
This leads to less restrictive, more realistic emission norms. Euro-7 will be less idiotic than Euro6 d-temp which wasn´t really a form of regulation but a form of idiotic restriction to make the lifes of engineers worse.
The ICE is not dead, and will not go anywhere. There are people like us who would rather die than miss the sound of a 250 GTO blasting up a mountain.
@@unfound23 :)
@@unfound23 this is true! Grützl from a swiss car geek.
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 Wait, what's wrong with electric cars? They are also bad ass. The technology to make em didn't even come out till recent times, and they can do some pretty amazing stuff. They have some of most insane acceleration of any car, going toe to toe with sports cars! Just wait till we can get high powered EVs, they could just instantly jet off!
I find them quiet amazing, but the environmental stuff is also pretty important. Can't ignore what's been happening lately, despite all the level 5 hurricanes back to back, wild fires, and arctic winters from splitting ice caps! We still haven't seen what climate change can really do, and probably won't till we are long dead. We shouldn't ignore that for the people who have to live with it after us.
EVs for everyday use, gas cars for fun, everyone wins.
Wish I had an engineering job from the 40's through into the 60's. What a exciting time of seemingly unlimited possibilities. The future seemed hopeful.
make sure to bail before the 70s lol
@@Basti5792 my great uncle was an engineer at the port authority of new york during this time. he engineered the vibration systems in the original WTC and revolutionized train axles with his work on the PATH train.
No you don't. There were thousands of them, each one sketched by hand some tiny component or did math in a board. The company structures of the time were also highly hierarchical, meaning you had no input whatsoever
My Dad was an engineer during that time. Great advancements were made in all sorts of technology.
The future is hopeful. So much of the tech that we have today was unimaginable 60 years ago. Back then people were worried that a politician hitting the button could result in nuclear annihilation of the world in an instant.
I absolutely love these 50s/60s videos, can watch them all day, I don't know if it's just the way people spoke or the music but I can't help but to smile when I watch ad videos from this time period.
I agree this films are never boring especially with all the technology that I never knew existed back then.
It’s the sense of optimism, excitement for the future. We don’t see that much anymore. It’s all doom and gloom now.
I believe the music has a lot to do with it. It's not this repetitive crap we hear in pop music today. The music flows and changes and drives forward and that helps the tone of the ad a lot. Especially when talking about a new futuristic technology.
@@DSK123 I would say SpaceX's team share that inspiration for sure. Failure after failure has led them to some successful accomplishments in the end
We were entering the “space age” and everything was going to be possible through science was the attitude back then. I was born in ‘55 so I got a heaping helping of this attitude. You’re right, it was great time because our Country was full of optimism in spite of our, and the Soviet’s, threat of nuclear war.
Happy to report Big red still exists and has been paintakinsgly restored to her former glory 707 turbines and all!
Move creature comforts than most vehicles today. Perfect for the co-driver set up.
I miss the future of the past...
Hey mom... come here to see what I found. An underrated comment with just 12 likes.
I'm already nostalgic about the future we never had!...
Optimism with not even the sky as the limit is a lifeline for the imagination!
As a truck driver, I can't wait for them to figure out how to bypass the cities...
Trains, they are called trains.
As a car driver I wish truck drivers would learn to not use the left lane to try and pass another truck while going up hill.
did u hear? it's come out that BIG OIL, BIG AUTO, BIG GAS, BIG INSURANCE bribed Dem-PUBlicans to CREATE THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM AS CRIMINAL SHAM on taxpayers and the public! (Shocker.)
THEY WANTED TO FORCE 100% OF AMERICANS TO HAVE TO BUY A CAR ETC!!
BIG OIL and co even went so far as to BUY TRAIN LINES AND TROLLEY LINES AND SHUT THEM ALL DOWN and tear out the tracks etc! (well there's umpteen tracks still visible all around america!)
And millions of americans DIED b/c of this capitalist GREED.
#HANGemALL
I'm sure he was referring to trucks having to share city streets with cars before the national highway system was created.
@@theexmann when are they going to create such a highway system that would keep trucks off local streets?
"What will tomorrow's truck be like" (shows C series truck that remained in production till the 1990s)
I have I think a 1990 C Series 800 Ford .. only 54,000 miles on it wanna buy it ? Huge Tool Body with a man lift .. 3208 Cat Turbo 5 speed allison automatic .. PTO .. Hydralics for vibrators jack hammers inveter for 120 volts like new
@@mikeskidmore6754 offer up and Facebook market seems like a better place man.
@@mikeskidmore6754 sounds awesome... post it somewhere else than a youtube comment section.
@@AndrewKidd14145 Sorry D u m b ASS some one comted on this thread that the Ford C-
Series Truck is the greates truck ever .. thus I offered to sell it to him. Sorry for your Ignorance..
@@blooiefps9304 .
Sorry D u m b ASS some one commented that the Ford C-
Series Truck is hte greates truck ever .. thus I offered to sell it to him. Sorry for your Ignorance..
"the world of tomorrow" used to be much better back in those days than it is now
It’s just the music, makes everything seem futuristic
!
Before computer nerds took over the world. ;) If you read a newspaper or even looked at early webt news sites, the Technology section was 90% non computer related. Now, it's 100% computer related, as if there is no other technology than computers, software and all they entail. Ludicrous. We've stitched ourselves into this 'web' of reliance on software and forsaken all other technology. Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineering are almost a dirty words now. It's software engineer or nothing. Good luck, world.
Intentionally sabotaged
Big Red certainly looks like the Mammoth Car from the old timey cartoon "Speed Racer".
WONDERED WHICH CAME FIRST.....
@@geraldthompson4633 Obviously the artists drew inspiration from it, especially since the Mammoth Car is red!
Scrolled down to see if anyone else noticed this.
Yasssss I was thinking this, that is my all time favorite S.R. episode, it freaked me out when I was younger
@@lonotiki Same here! there's something about the Mammoth Car's airhorn that it was very unsettling for my toddler mind, decades later and it still freaks me out!
This thing could be re-engineered today as a power unit, combining a power provider gas turbine with an electric system and a small amount of batteries. This could provide high efficency and good performances (If you are a truck driver, imagine to have motors on the trailer wheels too, helping in steering, braking and off course cruising)
7:45 -> "Cab floats free from the tractor for remarkebly comfortable ride"
Meanwhile, the driver almost shakes out of his seat 😂👍
Yeah I was like: ,,Damn that guy has to kinda fight that steering wheel a lot and it doesn't seem that comfortable at all" 😂
@@ted5569 That "was" a comfortable semi tractor, in 1966🤣
Vibrating massage seats... no extra charge!
Imagine what they were replacing if the drivers give that high marks for comfort!
"Try our new 1965 Mack Truck Asscracker! Like riding on a cloud.... during a thunderstorm!
Modern trucks are the same, and they use the same floating cab that Ford did then.
@@wisenber But now we have seats that float on air as well. Making the difference. I was a truck driver for 10 years :)
I really love these 50s and 60s films about concept vehicles. The styling and engineering is brilliant.
Jay Leno must own this thing, I mean he owns everything else.
the dude is not even top 50 collector. Its just looks like it for the poor people.
Stolen comment....
@@hagestad lol, dude...being anywhere close to the top 50 aint too bad for a comedian...
people own more expensive collections but if you can name one person with a COOLER collection let me know because I want to check it out asap!
@@hagestad it’s looks like because he shows and drives his collections for the public and very few major collectors do either.
I can’t wait for these to get into production. 😉
Yes along with those flying cards 😀
@@chrisvig123
You should see me shuffle, the cards are always flying. 😉
@@imannpc2562 exactly, don't know why but today's modern design felt too robotic. We need these kinds of designs back again!
Doesnt Elon have a truck thats supposed to be doing this already?
@@gavinhassett479
Doing what already?
I am amazed!!! Just a lost for words right now. Someone at some point actually cared about us truckers and some of our needs. Wow!!!
And then, employers came into the game..
@@dan_6915 Exactly.
Telling us when to sleep, when to take a break, what route to take (even if it isn't the best for semi's (gps), all from behind a desk 😅🤣🤣! Let's not even mention rolling all night now since "Covid", don't get hungry, etc...I guess it looks good on paper when you haven't experienced this life first hand. Goodness; I see why they want these trucks to drive themselves now. They gonna have to if this keeps up. Yes, it's really changed!
@@alethiasmith4586 “covid”. Tell me you’re a tRump humper, without telling me you’re a tRump humper. 💁♂️ GTFO 🤡
@@brycmtthw what you saying?
Video style: calming, relaxing, optimistic. THAT is the way to go!
For some reason such videos in US and USSR as well as Europe had similar vibe and mood! So did the films of that era.
Modern are trying too hard to look cool and aggressive.
Thanks for posting this! I remember reading about this truck in book I found as a kid. I'm glad that the truck wasn't sent to the crusher and preserved by someone who appreciated it.
The engine was truly ahead of its time. So amazing!
turbines are only efficient in a narrow operating range, they are simply not flexible enough for street vehicles, a piston engine may be heavier, but the consumption is lower with only partial load. Turbines are also way more expensive than a piston engine.
So amazing nobody bothered with them!
@@simonm1447 well, couple the turbine engine to a CVT or turbo-electric drive unit with regenerative braking system. Use the tractor for highway operation, and electric drive tractor for local routes. There would always be the problem of matching drive system to load and operational needs, but it might be workable between transportation hubs. Use the electric drive units in built up areas and the turbines on the highways. If nothing else. You’d shift the pollution source away from congested areas, and you could run on biofuel to reduce CO2 emissions.
I don’t know, just some ramblings.
Let’s be careful out there.
@@jameshickman5299 this turbine truck would never be economic.
You can build a diesel engine cheaper, and with a lower fuel consumption, and you could also couple the diesel with a hybrid drive train.
The main advantage of the turbine (the weight) isn't that important for a truck, because the difference today with a diesel engine build with a aluminum block isn't that big, but the costs would be.
This is the reason why you find a turbine in a helicopter (where costs are less important, but weight everything), but not in a truck.
Of course manufacturers desire a light truck with much payload, but not for the price of a hugely expensive turbine drive train.
The diesel would also run on biologic or synthetic fuel, or with a modified engine on different sorts of gas.
@@CaptainScarlet1961they were ultimately installed in tanks, so they did find a use
It amazing how well they called the future of the cab. The only thing they really missed was better sleeper arrangements. (and they were still on the right track)
And the toilets?
@@YaoiMastah Hmmm....just Depends😬
@@cat637d ROFL! I see what you did there!
I love the out of sync wipers!
,😂
That's that great FORD engineering quality!
If I remember correctly, back in the day, they where separately controlled. If you didn't have someone riding shotgun, you never turned that side on.
@@la-z-guy170 Tru that
Your articles on tracking down the current whereabouts of this truck have been fascinating, as was this old documentary. Well done!
Thanks!
I never heard about this truck before I read the article about them finding Big Red. I ended up reading the whole thing because it was just so interesting.
I just love 50s and 60s futuristic design so much
I worked at the Ford Rawsonville, MI plant in the summer of '72. They had a truck fleet and had a number of the Turbo powered trucks in the fleet. They were amazing, as said quiet. All you could hear was the driver shifting gears of the transmission.
Drive where have you been! You are playing with our emotions.
Yawn! Slept like a rock. What year is it?
@@drive oh a lot has happened when you were asleep, you've been asleep for almost a year. Don't worry too much about what you've missed though, many of us humans are still here to have a good time!
@@drive May as well be 2020 still
@7:44 - "The cab has a separate suspension system... for a remarkably comfortable ride" as you can clearly see the driver getting bounced around like crazy.
Ford’s model CL-9000 had that type of cab suspension back in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. I did not like them at all! Always had problems with the leveling valves and air bags.
Yup, looks like the cab suspension is a recipe for motion sickness
It's basically what we have in Europe, and although the ride is very comfortable, it can make some people a bit queasy on their first time. I don't know about big red, but obviously we have better air cushion seats which would smooth it out further.
Love the Future Tech from the mid century.
Anyone else remember the old Speedracer Cartoon series and the 3-parter of the race with the Monster Car... looked suspiciously like this truck. Very cool
7:44 "A remarkably comfortable ride" - Shows driver bouncing around like a tennis ball.
You should try a truck without a floating cab.
You absolutely HAVE to get an interview with someone on that team. Especially the drivers.
Sadly the math isn't in our favor. If one of those drivers was 45 years old then they'd be 100 now.
I'd like to know where Big Red is now.
@@teddarwin24 You would? Well have I got a website for you. www.thedrive.com/news/37925/we-found-fords-incredible-turbine-powered-semi-truck-big-red-thats-been-lost-for-decades
They all dead by now
I want to thank you guys for the AMAZING work you guys did in tracking this truck and documenting its history, disappearance and rediscovery. Anyone who hasn't read the story should check out The Drive's website!
I'm pretty sure this is the only time you're gonna see a long haul truck driver wear a button down shirt and tie.
Or get paid for merit, ability and professionalism.
Notice how the highways had that dark streak in the middle from all the oil leaks cars had back then. 😂
Yup really ad draft. Tubes
That's blow buy from diesel engines if you look you'll see it in slow lane where trucks run most of the time .
At that time carmakers produced a lot of nonsense promotional videos displaying ideas they knew already would never work in actual life.
@@krollpeter Actually a lot of the ideas in this concept are reality now or subject of research. Using double trailers to reduce costs of prime movers and reduce carbon footprint is an actual theme right now. The map is now your navigation and the oven and fridge are also reality.
@@bertv.374 Can't wait to start seeing RM doubles nationwide instead of just in Colorado. That'd make life more interesting.
damn those concept drawings look like theyre straight from fallout 4 :) very cool and funky designs.
I did not know of the existence of this prototype. In those years, there was a lot of experimentation, both mechanical and aesthetic. Thanks for sharing this video 👍
this reminds me of the movie "The Big Bus" "she's breaking wind at 90! she's breaking wind at 90!"
i just commented the same thing then saw this lol
this is actually pretty close to a modern day european EcoCombi. A cabover with double full-size trailers.
@@kulaak-krii And the self tracking trailer was invented in the Northern Territory (for those who don't know, its where Crocodile Dundee was filmed).
@@kulaak-krii We have double trailers here in the US too, use to see up to 4 but those kind of got phased out nearly 30 years ago. But the US has a lot more varied terrain to deal with and not just long fairly flat roads like down under so only in certain areas do you find the double trailers.
@@kulaak-krii its easy to have big trucks when a solid 80% of your land mass is basically dessert. Not a lot of population centers.
@@kulaak-krii but the vast majority of all transport is by truck right? meaning yall need such large trucks because its only 1%. Yall need to carry the most capacity you can. Im sure you guys have restrictions on the roadtrains in urban areas, just like the US.
@@wrecker8236 I believe sweden and finland run "super ecocombi" double full size trailers on main roads with very varying territory and conditions and very much into urban areas. They navigate normal road network just fine and look a lot like that ford, but probably carry more weight up to over 100 metric tons.
Back when companies took pride in what they sold. Not so much anymore.
Sounds like you are buying from the wrong xompanies
It's about the cash.
You got some, you get quality and luxury in return.
Lol ford sold shit back then too. Same as all the manufacturers. They never gave a shit about you.
@@headcas620 they only sell vehicles if they attract customers...do you _honestly_ think they dont consider potential customers wishes when making a vehicle for them?
the cynical pseudo-intellectualism here is nauseating...
Um, Ford never *sold* this, so your comment makes *ZERO* sense.
Wow 👌 I'm so impressed 👏 even more modern than today's truck with 600hp!!!I wonder what happened to this awesome truck and why it was never mass produced?...
this truck is more comfortable than new trucks
You've obviously never seen the inside of a modern truck & therefore don't understand the insanity of your own comment🤦♂️
Man I'm working for the wrong trucking company! I want an expresso in my truck not to mention the built in oven!!😮
Well you can buy 12/24v coffee makers, and you can get microwaves fitted.
already got one its called the exhaust manifold
As an Atlanta native, I loved seeing the shots of the city.
I've stayed at the Atlanta Cabana :-)
Was that a Krystals across the street? Because I miss eating at Krystals. 😥
@@BagoPorkRinds I don't know where you're at, but there are 10 Krystal's within 50 miles of my house here in Georgia.
@@righttorecord3538 I live in WA state but I grew up in Augusta and haven't been back in decades. IMO Krystals is better than White Castle.
@@BagoPorkRinds Krystal burgers are a little bite of heaven, but I have never been in a White Castle, so I cannot compare. Sorry to hear you live in Washington state. You have my condolences.
AH THOSE TIMES. everything looked soo beautiful. unlike today
BEST thing I've seen all day! So rad!
The passenger laying down is just a meat torpedo waiting to happen.
Meat torpedo? IDK. They looked cordial with each other but I dont think they were THAT friendly. Never know tho. Any port in a storm.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
“Negative. I am a meat popsicle.”
What about bikes and motorcycles riders?
@@CapablePimento 😂😂😂🤟
I love the way there is map in the back, on a wall - early sat nav? Overall it just looks beautiful, wonderfully art deco.
Banquet TV dinners , top quality right there my man.
I get a kick out of how the narrator says that it rides comfortably and handles exceptionally, meanwhile the driver is flopping left and right, up and down whilst hugging the steering wheel that rotates freely like it has a bad ball joint.
Lmao
The golden age now is sitting in dealership waiting rooms while another recall issue is fixed.
Ford has recalls?
@@Stevesbe Ford has a broken transmission.
Dear God, let me spend my remaining lifetime from the 70s on. 2021 there is no future to look forward to.
😥 it's like a nightmare that I can't wake up...
Actually. this decade looks too much like the 70's.
i love the way rear axles are spaced for maximum tire wear
All metal TV Dinners! Those were the days. Love the "express map" of the US mounted on the back wall, but a TV in front.
I like how you can have drinks on tap behind the driver’s seat. Fill one with a lager, the other with a stout and make yourself a Black and Tan while you’re driving to your next delivery spot.
That's extremely unsafe and illegal. I love it.
What an awful name for a drink.
@@rossflaherty5595 Ha! I take you’re Irish? I believe they call it a half & half there instead.
Life although not perfect was a lot better than today.
I have no idea how you could say life was better in 1966 than 2021. In 1966, few vehicles had seatbelts and the entire population was being poisoned by lead in both paint & gasoline. Racist abuse by cops was perhaps worse than today, and the nation was heading into the Vietnam War. Fewer people had TV's or appliances, and women were forced into domestic servitude. Bikes didn't have electric motors, and long-distance phone calls were expensive. Congress was less dysfunctional. One point to the good.
@@Nphen Preaching the exceptions as the rule. AAAAAh.
People had hope and was excited about tomorrow now they just hate life
For a "big rig," that one is beautiful!
I love seeing old-timey computers and knowing that my bicycle has several orders of magnitude more computational power than they had access to.
Notice the oil stains on the highways! Everything leaked back then.
American build quality was pretty crap back then. “If it ain’t dripping, you’re out of oil” was a saying back then.
That’s why the Japan decimated the car and bike industry with their small, cheap, efficient and reliable vehicles that didn’t leak like sieves. They did the same to the British motorcycle and car manufacturers.
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 is that why so many American cars of the 60s are still running while 95% of the Japanese ones have rusted back into the earth?
@@Shakshuka69 probably because japans air and rain is much saltier than places like california or texas.
or because most us cars at that time were built on massive chassis where it would take extreme amounts of humidity for enough rust to render them unstable.
or because of much bigger displacement engines that were subjected to much lower material fatigue than small economic japanese or european cars of that time.
but you get a point, from the 60s to 70s the japanese were struggling with making their cars more resilient to rust
@@Shakshuka69
What % of the 65 million cars on the road in the 60’s are still running as built with their original drivetrains transmissions etc?
Of the few that are left, how many have been rebuilt more than once (Have you heard of The ship of Theseus) and are only in existence because of nostalgia due to reaching iconic status due to a movie or TV show? They owe their existence to the nostalgic (and neuralgic) boomers (like me) that have a rosy (some may say distorted) memory of how great things used to be and because of that aftermarket for modifying them with everything from engines, transmissions, wheels etc has kept them alive and made into vehicles that suck less than they did when they were originally built. None of this is because they were well made in the first place.
Japanese cars were almost never iconic, they were the vehicular equivalent of white goods and just worked, and when the end of their life came, like with probably 99% of all other cars they were scrapped and recyled.
@@911epic they were struggling until the early 2000s regardless of climate, save for arid deserts. My Miata and Tacoma are both highly susceptible to corrosion.
Absolutely amazing.
This video gave me strong nostalgia even though me and my parents never existed at this time
An oven serving TV dinners !
A coffee makers & fridge.
A tilting bed seat for the passenger.
But no seatbelts !!! WOW
Big Red is cool and all, but my main takeaway from this footage is that older cars must have leaked more than a bit of fluids when new as evidenced by all those black strips in the middle of each highway lane.
I was thinking the same haha
Before PCV systems were created, engines vented crankcase pressure through downdraft tubes that leaked oil directly onto the road.
@@movinmetal2596 never knew that,
A similar engine is used in the US military tanks M1 Abrams...
and russian T-80
They use mammoth amounts of fuel I believe. Not saying it's a bad thing. Moving 70 odd tons around at up to 60kph would take mammoth amounts of fuel.
@@lesflynn4455 well yeah, but gas turbine can run on everything that burns - gases, liquids, even low dispersed particles like carbon dust.
It consumes roughly twice the fuel of a diesel engine.
@@Itsjustme-Justme then what's the point of using it in US tanks?
I love the way old highways were bright concrete things with massive oil slicks down the center of each lane.
Showing how shit old cars actually were, without the rose colored glasses.
The absolutely oblivious, blissful optimism of these videos always gives me the chuckles.
Edit: got to the part where a microwave meal is shown, with the equally optimistic name "banquet". Oh god...
OVEN, not microwave.
@@lt4324 Right, right. At least they had that better than today's ready meals.
The Mammoth Car from Speed Racer was definitely inspired by this.
That was the first thing I thought. its a real life Mammoth car from Speed Racer
Am I the only one noticing the similarities this thing has with the mammoth car from gen 1 speed racer? Always wondered where the inspiration for the mammoth car from the show came from
I love the video. Brings back memories of me being a teenager back then. Thank you for posting this video.
this is brilliant desing, truck desing and idea much better than 2020 trucks
that thing is so top heavy it would blow over in about 5 minutes driving on a windy day.
Nah. The weight is at the bottom. Re-watch the engine installation portion of the video.
Guys I don’t know how to break it to you...but that is The Mammoth Car from Speed Racer!
Really, why is nobody talking about it? Clearly, the Mammoth car was inspired by the Big Red
@@ccutter2
Fun fact actually, every car aside from the Mach 5(which was a combination of different cars) were all inspired by real cars that existed at the time!
Thanks for showing this.
Loving the crazy ideas of Ford from back then.
impressive how much of this truck was acctually used in modern trucks
exactly
"all city traffic will be bypassed" haha :) edit: cool truck!
Ford Designers in the 60's: *creates truck for golden age of transportation*
High Winds: "Allow us to introduce ourselves,"
13' isn't much higher than normal trucks tbh. I pull 16' high trailers and it's fine. You just have to be careful on open roads or near the coast when it's windy.
What a beautiful truck.
A really close look to modern trucks
life was just better then. The future looked bright. If only they knew then, what would happen to our world in a short 55 years; they wouldn't have bothered.
So we can now confidently conclude that 55 years from now things are not going to be what we expect them to be...
If they could have met their grand children they probably wouldn't have bred at all.
Things are so much better, black people have rights now and so do women.
Cars don’t need water in the radiator every time you get to the top of a hill either
Yeah, getting polio, watching our heroes get shot, and our fellow citizens blasted with firehoses... still, clips like this do give me the warm fuzzies of optimism.
Life was definitely not better. Quite a bit worse for most people. But the sense of optimism surrounding discussions of the future is something I wish persisted into the present day, not to mention corporate dedication to pushing the limits of technology.
Now? Between the steady march of climate change and the borderline (or outright) authoritarian world leaders popping up everywhere, discussions of the future now tend to end with "we're all screwed". Car companies like Ford tend to sit on proven tech instead of experiment with things, with a few rare exceptions.
I wouldn't last 5 seconds in the 60's. But sometimes I wish I had a time machine.
I was fifteen years old in 1966, had just gotten my first kiss while watching the Flintstones..
What a special moment in every mans life in which he will never forget.
Damn i feel like such a virgin. 45 years old and I still have never been kissed ...while watching the Flintstones.
konskift yeah you might want to sort that out
Reminds me of the TV Series The Highwayman, when restored BigRed and its counterparts of that era could easy play lead character in a good sci-fi / futurist genre series / film 🎥 🍿
Wow that technology back then was game changing just imagine all the new things they had back then I would love to spend a month in the 50s as a child’s experience and then an adults view this truck looks like something you would see in a cartoon like the jetsons
Impressive one this - they got an awful lot of it right and today's trucks do indeed incorporate many of these then-novel features - just not the power unit!
Like what?
@@snek9353 Cabine, suspension, shape, engine layout. It's basically the template of a European truck.
@@edouardxi130 And you think that didn't exist already?
@@snek9353 Have a good day
Just a few years ago peterbilt built a truck for Wal-mart that used a gas turbine to run a generator to charge batteries in a hybrid system. Freightliner's last cabover truck, the Argosy had a stair system that extended out when the door was opened.
that banquet meal looked fireee
Truck is ultra cool. The video, of the truck? Even better. What a gas! Fantastic mid-century optimism.
love those quirky windshield wipers that work totally independent on each other :)
That's actually very common on aircraft and commercial vehicles today :)
Looks so cool, really wish it was in ETS
*ATS
It would be nice to know what actually happened to this piece of Automotive History.
It is in private ownership and restored to new.
This truck looks absolutely awesome it's like a work of art and the way they designed it was brilliant why don't we have this around today
Because companies wouldn't make any money running trucks like this🤦♂️
you gotta love the futuristic looks of the 60s
That thing is crazy looking but cool too bad it never happen
I'd love to see the computer that designed Big Red
50 KB of RAM. Futuristic!
@@dcxxxx and it took up the entirety of a good sized room and needed its own industrial sized cooling system.
I think it was the one smoking a pipe?
@@blairvoyach5705 thats fucking alien technology from roswell
@@dcxxxx It's unlikely it had even close to that.
there should be a word for when something this old looks all futuristic and cool, the concept art especially just looks really ahead of it's time but such design was never realised except maybe the Cybertruck
Absolutely amazing!!! The jet era on trucks!
8:08 someone build this and make it into some type of retro-futuristic camper 😎
You’re back :0
Ahh, the days of cheap fuel and retro-futuristic styling!
Excellent bluid 👏
I read the title as amazing restored 1966 Ford Big Red truck and I was thinking oh cool, they even have the original promotional video while I kept waiting for the reveal of the restored truck today haha.
Drive that on a Plains state highway during a brisk crosswind.
No different to a Road Train across the Nullabor for wind, but did you notice how much the driver was having to correct all the time, especially when the cab floated after the chassis went over a bump or join?
@@PiDsPagePrototypes maybe too short wheelbase
All that tech and engineering, yet they can't get the windshield wipers to move in sync.
The wipers were separate, there was no link between them. Pretty common on older tractors. My first cabover had wipers powered by compressed air, it was pretty much off or super fast, nothing in between.
And they only covered a tiny portion of the windshield.
Yay! A panoramic glass with the driver visible to everyone head to toes, nowhere to hide... Every trucker's dream. ;-))) And apparently there was a 'concealed toilet', too!
Fantastic! It makes me feel small in my 1960 Ford F-100.....