Old car ads...

[msb]

Bit of a snowy day here today, so after shovelling the driveway and going up to the lake for a hike, I settled in and opened You Tube and up popped these old car commercials and reviews from Chrysler.  We don't have regular TV mostly because there's not much on and I hate commercials, but I do find it kinda interesting to look back on car and bike ads from the past. Watched a series of these performance reviews on late 60's,  early 70's Mopars this afternoon. The music is awesome and the descriptive terms the guy uses are hilarious at times, like "down the 1/4 mile route to Squeelsville". Also the first time I ever heard of a GTX referred to as a "Gittix". Kinda neat to have these clips available from 50 years ago though, especially for those of us who were into cars, bikes, etc back then. There's others for GM's and Fords too with the same guy narrating...probably find one for a car you owned.

https://youtu.be/QMWikI9L7T0

https://youtu.be/NqtbaQL8K9Y

https://youtu.be/UBSd2QvY7wQ

[Farside]

      

[klb]

  Budd Lindemann. I think I have watched every one of them.
Even made one like my old ford I bought in 1990.

https://youtu.be/bUrpigJXVM8

[Robert]

Here ya go some commercials some videos but all old cars pretty awesome

http://www.tvraaca.org/oldmovies.htm#movie

Just a sampling of the videos that are available

Down The Gasoline Trail - A Cartoon (1935)   
Women Driving in the UK (1937)   
Balance (in Design) (1935)   
The New Plymouth for 1937   
A Tour of the Chevrolet Assembly Plants (1937)   
A Tour Through the Ford Rouge Plant (1938)   
Fisk - America's Safest Tire (1935)   
What Stops Them (1935)   
Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)   
Oldsmobile Hydra-matic (1941)
                 Vintage Motorcycles (1890-1960)   
Oilfield Dodge (Before there were roads!) (1920)   
A Tribute to Pontiac Dealers   
Triumph On The Track (1950)   
Body by Fisher (1950)   
Dinah Shore Introduces the 1953 Chevrolet

My 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 Coupe   
My 1970 Olds Cutlass 4-4-2 Coupe

[BigInSeattle]

I prefer the old RV ads. 

VERY NSFW Language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWUWPx2VeQ

[John Schmidt]

I once had a '69 Charger RT with the 440 4-barrel and Hurst straight H shifter. Only thing it couldn't pass was a gas station. I got it for a total investment of $88.00. At the time my wife worked for the regional manager of a finance company and it was a repo done in Orlando. The car was bought in Reading, PA and the guy had made no payments for 6 mo. when they caught up to him. It required 3 bids and since it didn't have a/c there weren't any other bidders. My wife called me to fill me in so I told her offer $100, which was refused as I figured it would be. It went past the end of the year and still no sale so I told her to mention to her boss that I knew it had already been written off. A couple days later I got an acceptance notice for the $88. Seems the buyer can't be charged for the legal stuff involved. So in the end, I got it for $88 and it only had 45k miles on it. Had to install a new clutch plate and repair the exhaust, sold it a couple years later for a few hundred dollars. Wish I still had it, lots of fun. 

[Ramie]

Somewhere I have an issue of Popular mechanics from the 60's showing all the new model cars for the coming year.  I look at it once every couple of years.