I remember going to the "thrill show" as a kid with my dad and brother! When the drivers needed a break, motorcyclists came out and put on a show too! Very cool!
I recall seeing the show too. I saw it sometime around 1978, maybe 1979ish. I want to say it was the Tim and Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. lol It made me want to learn how to drive on 2 wheels. I did end up racing a class 10 desert car for a while but never learned to drive on 2 wheels. Gotta add that to my bucket list. Never mind, my back says "no way" lol
They have giant sweepers that rake the beach and collect anything much bigger than a grain of sand. And glass particles that are sand-sized would be indistinguishable from sand to a beachgoer.
HERPY, The US Interstate Highway system was built in the late 50's, the normal speed limit was 70 mph.. It was way back in the 20's and early 30's when 70mph was super fast. mainly because there were very few paved roads and still a lot of Horses on the road.. If you speed by a Horse drawn wagon, You got your ass kicked,, Inner city roads were cobble stone or sometimes, Concrete, outside of cities , just packed dirt.. Cars in this Video were very capable of much more than 70mph.. 70 was normal, if the road was worthy.. These cars did NOT even have seat belts, it wasn't until the late 60's that seat belts were mandatory.. People were much Braver back then,, No Whiners or Cry babies.. Nobody sued the Car Company, If you died in a car crash,, it was your fault for driving stupid..
4:45, the exact frame the glass shatters is when they decided to make the cut for some odd reason. but when it's "rolled over perfectly fine" it has no glass at all.
I cringed at frame 8:08 when they wreaked that model T or A car that is now worth a mint. back then it was seen as junk..sorta how i see all modern cars in 5 years.
Kind of like how cars like the 2000 Honda civic or Toyota corolla from the same year are treated. They're seen as junk now, but one day they'll be seen as classics.
@@dumdum7786 lol...yeah...that is hard to imagine...I know i get it, at the time it was a considered a cheep pile of junk, but I was talking about my own feelings around it. I would love to own an old model t,,
My father bought one brand new in Levittown, PA. It was a two-tone green post coupe. Silent color home movies survive to this day, as he drove it in a parade with his fire company.
Do you really expect a car to roll over and not have a single mark on it? The point was you can roll over and not crush the whole top it. Go roll a modern car and see if all you get in a couple small bends.
Didn't you study history at school? The whole world was black and white back then! And for decades before this, people didn't even speak, they communicated with captions over a musical score. The world looked grainy and moved in a jerky fashion. Evolution made everything colourful in the 1950s, and the human race finally evolved in to colour. Just ask your grandparents. They probably remember waking up one morning to find they'd changed to colour overnight! Don't they teach this stuff in schools anymore? 😁
..good times great cars ..but boy did they ever rust! ..had a 57 Chevy 4 door sedan ..was fun to drive that's for sure ..had lots of holes in it ..mud flicked up from the passenger side rear wheel well and came through rust holes in it and got the passenger in the back of the head who was sitting in the front seat! ..had a lot of laughs at the time ..not so much from the unlucky passenger sitting in the front seat though ..hahaha! ..I sure do miss those simple times!
A lot has changed in 60 years. But historically, American cars have generally been big, wallowing boats, effectively designed for straight line cruising over long distances. Yes, there have always been exceptions, and yes, many modern cars have shifted priorities... but big cars, big lazy engines, super light steering and more bounce than a porn star's silicone enhanced mammaries has been the order of the day. God bless America... 'cos nobody else will. 😁
Roads like 6:47 were pretty common back then when you left the cities. There were no interstate highways back then. Yeah, we were starved for entertainment too.
Chevrolet stopped building cars like this at the end of the 1950's, By the 1960's unibody construction was the name of production. No ABS braking, no seat belts, no restraints, an all steel dashboard, some with no AC depending on where customers lived. AC was only available as an "Option" at your Dealer's pricing. And, the only radio in the 1950's was A.M. FM did not come until much later. Think about this. Be thankful we live today.
modern cars would be just as reliable if people would actually take care of them instead of just drive them and have jiffy lube change their oil 2k miles after its due
"Robust" doesn't begin to describe a 1950s Chevy from the looks of it, darn. Though at the same time they're a lot easier to die in if you mess up. Key word "if", you can of course choose to not mess up.
Well, I'm guessing they wouldn't bounce uncontrollably like a logo stick on steroids, they would stay on two wheels for more than 2 seconds after leaving the ramp and you wouldn't have a turning circle of 100 feet. Oh, and you'd use 1/50th of the fuel. And the Kia wouldn't need a suspension rebuild after every show. The crowd might have been entertained too, instead of thinking if watching paint dry might have been more fun. Other than that? 😁
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@@another3997 The kia would stall as soon as it came off the ramp. the inertia and attitude info would shut the fuel off.Not to mention the panel adhesive would probably tear free with an overage of body torsion.
CLICK BAIT!! The lead picture shows 2 1960 Falcons doing the same stunts. A Falcon?? Really?? They wouldn't hit a curb without bending something. ...didn't know GM made the falcon in 1956? Hmmm.
@@JimmyLoose By closer to the boat I mean living closer in time to family that came off the boat from Europe. It's a metaphor I use to express how people seem to change as time passes.
3:57 I don't know what car that is but that "jalopy", heh heh... It doesn't look so bad from a distance but at the same time with the oil they had then it may have had a heavily worn engine even if it got to 50,000 miles. What would a person have needed to do then, to keep a car in good shape with the oils they had available? Change the oil every 500 miles? (especially with straight grade oils, oh my...) I know the idea for a toilet paper oil filter would have been not so far away then, people did use them and they were really amazing filtration for the 1950s; perhaps do that? But it looks like the jalopy in subject is from the 1940s, maybe 1951/52 at latest? It wouldn't have seen a T.P. filter very early if my understanding of history is right; T.P. filters were used when again?
Propoganda at its finest. To be an honest review they would have run side by side with Ford and Chrysler which would have done just as well as these Chevies. I like how they leave out that the rear shocks mounted to the underside of the package tray. You know that little shelf just below the rear window. A few more jumps and the audience would have witnessed shocks exploding into the passenger compartment. Now that was some genius engineering. Chitwood must have made a bundle off this crap.
that movie is really just a bunch of b.s. , it is just g.m . trying to make their cars look better than their competitors' a ford or plymouth handles just as well and the frames are just as strong and the roof is just as strong . you notice how much body roll there is when their doing the stunts ? that is when they started calibrating the spring rates for a softer ride , in the mid- fifties
And the other 2 major corporations were stubborn. The dangerous "I beam" suspension continued on until 1963. The tradeoff was the unibody design that some GM vehicles went to that Ford and Dodge used first.. Now, almost everything is unibody and still has the control arms and coils, in the form of Ford & dodge's strut design. Still , THIS chevy influence can be seen on all makes. And Chevy trucks are still using this 1950s tried and true design. Just disc brakes have been standard since the late 1960s. William C. Durrant was a genius that doesn't get talked about very much anymore. Of course, this is a dealership hub bub video. William C. Durrant was "The man."
Nash pioneered Unibodys in the US in 1941. Citroën in France pioneered them in Europe, in 1934. GM first used them on the Corvair in 1960. I- beam front suspension was only used on trucks, after 1949, and it was dangerous only on cars with transverse leaf springs ( Ford/Mercury, through 1948). However, Chevrolet did pioneer the MacPherson strut suspension, on a compact car that they decided not to produce, in the forties. And W.C. Durant (only one r) wasn't a genius, only thing he pioneered was combining companies to form a multi tier sales company to provide a wide price range of vehicles, under one corporation, but failed miserably in managing the result, resulting in his investors taking it away from him (twice), leaving him broke. Later management finally achieved, what he wanted to accomplish. Your Chevy bias is not based on real facts.
I remember going to the "thrill show" as a kid with my dad and brother! When the drivers needed a break, motorcyclists came out and put on a show too! Very cool!
I recall seeing the show too. I saw it sometime around 1978, maybe 1979ish. I want to say it was the Tim and Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. lol It made me want to learn how to drive on 2 wheels. I did end up racing a class 10 desert car for a while but never learned to drive on 2 wheels. Gotta add that to my bucket list. Never mind, my back says "no way" lol
now for some reason I want a 1956 chevrolet
I’ll take a ‘57.
Yup, gotta go with the '57.
traso...I'll sell you my 1956 Belaire for $50,000 ..all original with the 289 V8 ( rebuilt in 1990 ) with 30,000 miles
Everyone and their grandma wants a 57 Chevy… if you buy a 56 “thrill drivers car” you buy a Chrysler 300. Stock car champ
@@ProjectLawnDart I drove all three, comparison proves it's Chevrolet for me!
I like how they cut it out at 4:44 so audiences don't see the A pillar get completely destroyed.
Claude Mountain "take me word for it" and where did all that glass go? back to the beach?
May as well...finely-ground glass is, essentially, sand, and is ecologically inert, to boot. Your generation worries about the stupidest shit!
#bcubed72 stupid shit like glass in your foot? and explain 'your generation'
"Burburbur, DANG MILLENNIALS!"
They have giant sweepers that rake the beach and collect anything much bigger than a grain of sand. And glass particles that are sand-sized would be indistinguishable from sand to a beachgoer.
5:55 makes leaf springs sounds like a new gift from god
This man is a real announcer
Lol IKR🤣
Yup. It’s funny cause now I look at every other suspension system as “inadequate”
This car can spin on the dime and give you a nickels change
That ought to have cost a pretty penny.
Dimes must have been pretty big back then.
And a nickle could buy you a cup of coffee or a full sized candy bar.
Driver: Gentle roll on sand.
"A" pillar: Ok, I'm outta here!
roll cages were overrated at their time..
Hamdan Alharbi when 70 mph was considered dare devil
Hamdan Alharbi when a car weighs 3 tons all steel thats if you can flip it
HERPY, The US Interstate Highway system was built in the late 50's, the normal speed limit was 70 mph.. It was way back in the 20's and early 30's when 70mph was super fast. mainly because there were very few paved roads and still a lot of Horses on the road.. If you speed by a Horse drawn wagon, You got your ass kicked,, Inner city roads were cobble stone or sometimes, Concrete, outside of cities , just packed dirt..
Cars in this Video were very capable of much more than 70mph.. 70 was normal, if the road was worthy.. These cars did NOT even have seat belts, it wasn't until the late 60's that seat belts were mandatory.. People were much Braver back then,, No Whiners or Cry babies.. Nobody sued the Car Company, If you died in a car crash,, it was your fault for driving stupid..
The point was to demonstrate how an unmodified car right from the showroom floor would handle different situations.
no roll cages or bars in these.
weighed 3200
4:45, the exact frame the glass shatters is when they decided to make the cut for some odd reason. but when it's "rolled over perfectly fine" it has no glass at all.
lol kinda lame that they don't show the whole rollover at 4:40. How can we tell that it's the same car driving away?
It's 100% not the same car. They cut the footage right as the A pillar started to collapse, after that, car's a pancake.
if you were watching in a 15 inch black and white TV, you probably would think you missed the rest
Listen to his voice, hear what he is telling you and he shows you. You can trust what he says is the truth, he is a real person, not a actor.
Because the front of the roof is crushed some. Just as you woulf expect from the way it hit
It’s the same car you can see the crushed a pillar and dented front fender 5:01
I cringed at frame 8:08 when they wreaked that model T or A car that is now worth a mint. back then it was seen as junk..sorta how i see all modern cars in 5 years.
Kind of like how cars like the 2000 Honda civic or Toyota corolla from the same year are treated. They're seen as junk now, but one day they'll be seen as classics.
Its not model T or model A(You mean Model B?). But doubtless it is a *1931 chevrolet*
Haven't seen a mint condition 1956 Chevy in a Chevy shiwroom in 64 years. All they have today is either cheap Korean crap or overpriced outsized SUVs
@@dumdum7786 lol...yeah...that is hard to imagine...I know i get it, at the time it was a considered a cheep pile of junk, but I was talking about my own feelings around it. I would love to own an old model t,,
@@MonsieurSquidward I'm sure you are right,,just reminded me of one. That style of car was made by a lot of companys back then.
it's a great suspension UNTIL you compare it with the citroen of that year, tge DS.
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That's some killer slow motion camera work for 56' - smooth as butter.
I’m surprised they didn’t drive off a 20 story building, then right as the car hits a brand new Chevy magically bounces once and drives off.
Pretty cool. I had a '56 210 after high school. Loved it.
My father bought one brand new in Levittown, PA. It was a two-tone green post coupe. Silent color home movies survive to this day, as he drove it in a parade with his fire company.
My great uncle had a 150 the REALLY cheap one thing was so basic but it got towed when he was in nam
Old cars have cool engine sound.
3:15 And now Saudi Arabians can change a tire doing that lol.
Lol so true🤣
yeah, when i ride my quad and do bicycles the tire can pop off the rim,, it sucks ( that why u get bead lock rims )
LOL this is not sponsord by Chevrolet at all
Truth in advertising was obviously worse back then! That A pillar was smashed!
You see the car in the next shot and it's the same one he jumps over the vic, look at the dr. side a pillar, bent somewhat. Smashed no.
Even the front fender on the driver side is mashed up pretty good. Hence the far away shot to mask it
Do you really expect a car to roll over and not have a single mark on it? The point was you can roll over and not crush the whole top it. Go roll a modern car and see if all you get in a couple small bends.
Chevrolet: we lie about how well our cars are built. That's why we pulled several ads recently when people called our shit lol
@@solunaqua3475 way to miss the point.
Back when 'stock' cars were just that. Stock.
Is this from the olden days when You Tube was black and white?
Didn't you study history at school? The whole world was black and white back then! And for decades before this, people didn't even speak, they communicated with captions over a musical score. The world looked grainy and moved in a jerky fashion. Evolution made everything colourful in the 1950s, and the human race finally evolved in to colour. Just ask your grandparents. They probably remember waking up one morning to find they'd changed to colour overnight! Don't they teach this stuff in schools anymore? 😁
Chevrolet cars: Oversteer you can count on
Also 3:36 "No excess weight"
lol
3:45
Robust frame!
No crossmembers 😝😝
Pops had a 55 Belair. Green with a white roof. The roof was painted by a local body shop. Mom's idea.
I bet that looked pretty good.
Stunt driving cars with no seat belts, no helmets and old leaf spring suspensions.
they had belts and helmets in shows
I have our family 1956 Chevy Bel Aire my dad passed to me in 1977 when I graduated from high school
That's awesome. Do you drive it or is it currently in project status?
im putting a 350 in my mazda truck
Wonder how much these shows cost GM. Makes you laugh given technology today.
5:25 so even if you pass like a jerk, cutting back in 10 feet ahead of the slower car, the Chevy has got you covered!
the big 3 would never do that with their current fwd mid size cars
Ahhhh the joy of sloppy bias plies...
Alex Powers we call them cross plies in England but yeah they're pretty shit compared to radials
Yeah, the only thing stopping a rollover is the lack of grip..
You could do burnouts until a full tank was empty and only use like 4 miles of tire life.
Lol damn things were like stones.
I really wish I could live in 1950s America. It seems so perfect.. too perfect.
Perfect if you were white lol
@@sladegerman probably the only catch.
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 and most likely you wouldn't have had AC assuming you were an average Joe.
At 8:17 you can see that son of a bitch laid over in the passengers seat!! Haha slung his ass all over the front seat!! Thats chevy durability!!
..good times great cars ..but boy did they ever rust! ..had a 57 Chevy 4 door sedan ..was fun to drive that's for sure ..had lots of holes in it ..mud flicked up from the passenger side rear wheel well and came through rust holes in it and got the passenger in the back of the head who was sitting in the front seat! ..had a lot of laughs at the time ..not so much from the unlucky passenger sitting in the front seat though ..hahaha! ..I sure do miss those simple times!
How long you've been alive for🤨
@@black.pewdiepie415 not long enuf ..been around since47'
@@doug.a.2665 lol
These prings were too soft and dampers subcritical thus that bounce effect. And unefficient sway bars.I wouldn't trust these cars.
All the american cars floated like boats back then... A smooth corner, let it lean and take a set and it was fair. and alot of tire squeel.
@@manitoba-op4jx
Exactamundo!!!
A lot has changed in 60 years. But historically, American cars have generally been big, wallowing boats, effectively designed for straight line cruising over long distances. Yes, there have always been exceptions, and yes, many modern cars have shifted priorities... but big cars, big lazy engines, super light steering and more bounce than a porn star's silicone enhanced mammaries has been the order of the day. God bless America... 'cos nobody else will. 😁
I do trust these cars
back when chevy was actually good
Good but not safe. Crumple zones for all cars were not government mandated until the late 70’s. Although they been around since the late 50’s.
A pack of cigarettes in every pocket..... LOL
Roads like 6:47 were pretty common back then when you left the cities. There were no interstate highways back then.
Yeah, we were starved for entertainment too.
Chevrolet stopped building cars like this at the end of the 1950's, By the 1960's unibody construction was the name of production. No ABS braking, no seat belts, no restraints, an all steel dashboard, some with no AC depending on where customers lived. AC was only available as an "Option" at your Dealer's pricing. And, the only radio in the 1950's was A.M. FM did not come until much later. Think about this. Be thankful we live today.
But at that time most repairs could be done with common tools, or a hammer if the body had to be fixed.
yep, lots of jumps on roads back them days . but it can't drive in the water like the Sunbeam Amphicar
I guess it's a boat that can't float. Maybe where the term land yacht came from. We might find out when I'm done building mine.
modern cars would be just as reliable if people would actually take care of them instead of just drive them and have jiffy lube change their oil 2k miles after its due
"Robust" doesn't begin to describe a 1950s Chevy from the looks of it, darn. Though at the same time they're a lot easier to die in if you mess up. Key word "if", you can of course choose to not mess up.
But you can't choose what other drivers do
I like how at 7:50 they pretend that the driver's front wheel wasn't just totally destroyed.
I wish I had one of these cars. At least they had some style
Try these stunts in a modern kia and see what happens!
With or without the check engine light on? LOLOL!!
Well, I'm guessing they wouldn't bounce uncontrollably like a logo stick on steroids, they would stay on two wheels for more than 2 seconds after leaving the ramp and you wouldn't have a turning circle of 100 feet. Oh, and you'd use 1/50th of the fuel. And the Kia wouldn't need a suspension rebuild after every show. The crowd might have been entertained too, instead of thinking if watching paint dry might have been more fun. Other than that? 😁
@@another3997 The kia would stall as soon as it came off the ramp. the inertia and attitude info would shut the fuel off.Not to mention the panel adhesive would probably tear free with an overage of body torsion.
every morning i check oil, coolant, break and clutch fluids
Clutch fluid?
Joie Chitwood back in the day. Wow.
What America once was
What a blast from the past. Great video.
I drove all three..... 🙂
CLICK BAIT!! The lead picture shows 2 1960 Falcons doing the same stunts. A Falcon?? Really??
They wouldn't hit a curb without bending something.
...didn't know GM made the falcon in 1956? Hmmm.
Gee-whiz, look at all those clean cut white people. The 1950's sure seemed like a "cleaner" time.
Everyone was closer to the boat.
@@freemansgarage I don't understand that reply at all
@@JimmyLoose By closer to the boat I mean living closer in time to family that came off the boat from Europe. It's a metaphor I use to express how people seem to change as time passes.
so is that daytona beach?
The B-52 entered service in 1956. lol
this is laughable by today's standards.
I liked the part where he talked about how good chevrolet was.
i wished I existed at this time
Es tremendamente buena máquina
English please.
What a stupid ass car show. I’d rather sit around at home and get stoned. I guess people back in the 50’s were easily amused.
3:57 I don't know what car that is but that "jalopy", heh heh... It doesn't look so bad from a distance but at the same time with the oil they had then it may have had a heavily worn engine even if it got to 50,000 miles. What would a person have needed to do then, to keep a car in good shape with the oils they had available? Change the oil every 500 miles? (especially with straight grade oils, oh my...) I know the idea for a toilet paper oil filter would have been not so far away then, people did use them and they were really amazing filtration for the 1950s; perhaps do that? But it looks like the jalopy in subject is from the 1940s, maybe 1951/52 at latest? It wouldn't have seen a T.P. filter very early if my understanding of history is right; T.P. filters were used when again?
+Austin Lucas These probably had the 265 sb most never had an oil filter wasn't till late 56 that they added one
Moved all that equipment-no fork lift. Today you need twice the people and forklift.
I would like to see one of these in today's "moose test"
Beautiful!!! How i love this 50-s.
absolut.
Most educational advert I’ve seen.
It's the flex seal guys dad! That's a lot of damage.
They dont make em like this anymore
really ?
Really.
Good ole Chebbies mang..
Chevy used to be good
used!
Propoganda at its finest. To be an honest review they would have run side by side with Ford and Chrysler which would have done just as well as these Chevies. I like how they leave out that the rear shocks mounted to the underside of the package tray. You know that little shelf just below the rear window. A few more jumps and the audience would have witnessed shocks exploding into the passenger compartment. Now that was some genius engineering. Chitwood must have made a bundle off this crap.
The top of the shocks are mounted in the trunk floor. They'd have to be 4' tall to reach the package tray. I'm buidling a '56 right now.
No seatbelts and nobody died. It was better before we had nanny to tell us how to live.
Take a drink every time they say “Chevrolet”
@ 4.40 test rollover on sand.
Real People Not Actors
No, you could call them actors since they were in the show business.
oooooo oopps - think we'll make it?
1956 Chevrolet cars were very rust prone, that is why they are all gone. Most people didn’t take care of them.
They're still around. You just have to look for them.
that's fucking garry's mod
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That poor old car gets destroyed 😞 8:00
Looks like a big Trabant
What is the exuct model name of this car?
210
i really dislike the 56 57 ,they took the beautiful 55 and hollywooded them up its 55 or nothing for me
I can see that. But after owing a 56 for a while it's become my favorite.
7:48 the sweetest panel truck ever!
1:55 he’s a time traveler
that movie is really just a bunch of b.s. , it is just g.m . trying to make their cars look better than their competitors' a ford or plymouth handles just as well and the frames are just as strong and the roof is just as strong . you notice how much body roll there is when their doing the stunts ? that is when they started calibrating the spring rates for a softer ride , in the mid- fifties
Nice 56s
Was it as lame back then as it is now
Thrill drivers choice.
True ! There was no CGI then .
Seen the TRILL SHOW...at Islip speedway in the late 60's ... WOW !!!
They probably ran Moonshine as a night job
The traveling car show could've been how they transported it discreetly.
I wish someone would make America like this, again.
Agreed.
The Bowtie Angels
Today Chevrolet's legacy is its past!!
It's about electric now
ar minute 2.44....Ths invention of "The Rockford" !...😃
I think I’ll stop by the dealership an pick me up a new 56 bel air
And the other 2 major corporations were stubborn. The dangerous "I beam" suspension continued on until 1963. The tradeoff was the unibody design that some GM vehicles went to that Ford and Dodge used first.. Now, almost everything is unibody and still has the control arms and coils, in the form of Ford & dodge's strut design. Still , THIS chevy influence can be seen on all makes. And Chevy trucks are still using this 1950s tried and true design. Just disc brakes have been standard since the late 1960s. William C. Durrant was a genius that doesn't get talked about very much anymore. Of course, this is a dealership hub bub video. William C. Durrant was "The man."
That's a very astute observation.
Nash pioneered Unibodys in the US in 1941. Citroën in France pioneered them in Europe, in 1934. GM first used them on the Corvair in 1960. I- beam front suspension was only used on trucks, after 1949, and it was dangerous only on cars with transverse leaf springs ( Ford/Mercury, through 1948). However, Chevrolet did pioneer the MacPherson strut suspension, on a compact car that they decided not to produce, in the forties. And W.C. Durant (only one r) wasn't a genius, only thing he pioneered was combining companies to form a multi tier sales company to provide a wide price range of vehicles, under one corporation, but failed miserably in managing the result, resulting in his investors taking it away from him (twice), leaving him broke. Later management finally achieved, what he wanted to accomplish. Your Chevy bias is not based on real facts.
@@freemansgarageNot too astute, almost all incorrect.
Chebby junk....yawn.
4:45 when advertising bulsh*t started but low-key
I miss cars that didn't explode if you farted too hard
Stunts with no proper safety gears 😐😔
Hard to believe they did it.
Alright sign me up, I'm buying one !
What's crazy is I'm rebuilding one right now & I had no idea I'll be able to do this when it's done.
and nowadays, cars adverts are mostly loan adverts