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SWEET!!! Ken Nordine!
Pontiacs and Olds.
The stering wheel of the first cadillac looks like the wheel from an old beetle.
While driving my dads 2 yr old '64 Pontiac a motor mount broke pulling the transmission into low and stretching the throttle linkage wide open just like you said.. Gets your attention pretty quick!
Love your content! Take a look at the Buick banjo steering wheel. Unique and well worth at least an honorable mention.
The '65 Impala sold almost 1.1 million units. This was in a much smaller population and a much smaller economy. That record stands today, across all marques, domestic and foreign. To compare, the original 1965 Mustang sold about 500,000 units. Of course, the Mustang was a specialty car, so the comparison was loose, but still. Like the '65 Mustang, the '65 Impala was never improved upon. The '66 Mustang was virtually identical to the '65. By '67 the Mustang was different, not in a good way, just to be different, and would lead to the lumbering turnpike cruisers of the early '70s. Remember, in this era almost every new model year had new sheet metal. The '66 Impala was devolution, harkening back to the '64, and the '67 was simply anachronistic. My family had two '65 Impalas at the same time, a white four door and a maroon two door. I'd give anything to have either one today.
I think the Corvette C2 interior also should be included in the top 10.
I have a 2024 Cadillac and the shifter is counter intuitive to my Mercedes Benz shifter. My wife has to rethink the position when switching between cars..🤣
DESSERT ONLY is for making ice cream.
That's not an ambulance.
Stupid me, I always thought the ‘59 Impala’s steering wheel was meant to mimic the instrument cluster.
Sad most people don't realize chevrolet is french, the men that formed the company were not americans but rather frenchmen, so chevy is a french brand, it's not an american car, it's roots are from france. No wonder they always "stink". lol
The "Twin-Port Intake" design really fit on the Firebirds. Couldn't stop the image of them from overpowering the design sketch results shown here, at least that is how my mind worked. The F-bodies really highlighted that design. My '71 Firebird holds the mantel for this subject of the '71 schnozz!
Wonderful and informative presentation. Thank you.
4 speed automatic? 9:15
The 4.OH/4.6 that is in the 2004 and older land rovers is a 1930s or 40s GM design that was all alum, GARBAGE. I don't care for alum blocks they don't hold shape nearly as well. This was just a stunt to make renoylds more money out of the auto industry it sure isn't a upgrade.
Ford said, "Hold my beer..." A 1977 Ford wagon with the 460 V8 cruise control would not cancel with a brake application when a brake light bulb burned out. My old boss found that out when he attempted to exit the highway after driving some distance with the cruise control on.
I think that you are SPOT-ON, with one exception, I feel the ‘65/‘66 did it better than the ‘67/‘68 for the reasons as follows: The ‘66 has the highest quality materials of any modern Cadillac with the possible exceptions being the ‘58 lineup. But I’m speaking more of the Fleetwood Sixty Specials for ‘66 and ‘58, of course there is the ‘57/‘58 Eldorado Broughams, which are in a league of their own. The seating materials and the door panels in the ‘58 Fleetwood are almost without equal, I wish there had been some wood trim used, but as is true of most ‘50’s era cars, there is no wood trim. Personally, I think the door panels on the ‘58 Fleetwood and Eldorado, are the most beautiful ever created. The redeeming aspect of the ‘66 Fleetwood’s interior are those thick slabs of walnut on each door panel, as well as the hideaway desktops. The ‘65/‘66 Fleetwoods also marked the return of the 3-inch longer wheelbase, spanning an incredible 133 inches, the first time since 1958. When considering the advances made in engineering to the more powerful engine, better braking, better transmission, etc, the ‘66 is my pick, especially since I hated the redesign of the ‘67/‘68 models with the leading edge of the front fender, being longer on the top than the bottom, giving an angled look the was similar to the 1st Gen. Riviera, but what worked for a sporty two-door, didn’t translate well to a full-sized luxury car, perhaps because the headlights were contained therein, which in the Riv. they were not (the ‘65 Riv. notwithstanding, but the headlights were concealed on the ‘65), in my opinion. I also hated the rear quarter window treatment for the coupes, and the stitch patterns of the seats, looking to me a bit rakish, and not a classic look at all.
From what I understand of the Vega engine, it wasn't specifically the lack of cylinder liners as a couple other issues. The valve seals, at least on the early engines, often leaked which burned oil. Also the early cooling systems were undersized and had no overflow bottle. And since they were cheap econo cars, owners rarely checked fluids, meaning most of the early cars were often low on oil and coolant, causing hot spots or overheating. And lastly I think it was an open deck block, so when getting hot the cylinders would warp and get scuffed, and that was the end. Would an iron liner or iron block have fared better? Almost certainly, but it was kind of a combo of several issues. As in a lot of GM cases, the concept was sound, but the execution was botched (V8-6-4 is another example of that).
A Cadillac is a car in which you'd rather sit in the back seat and let your chauffeur agonize over poorly designed cruise control switches. Show off the shark fins to your golfing buddies, and leave GM's ergonomic nightmares to the hired help.
Now let's get down to the machinists thoughts on the 400 sbc & details to further their longevity!
This is quite a video. Super weird at the beginning, that animation is really awful, yikes! Rest of it is just alright. Thanks for posting!
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Those car's we're way to small
She is a Beautiful beast
Cobalt ss turbo...
i had a 67 bird,i loved that interior,real wood,teal leather ,nice
You know you didn't have to be like all the other click bait tubers and wait til almost to the end before showing the dangerous car design, most like me just like seeing old cars of the way they looked and features, so I watched the whole video. I can see how that cruise-control would be a little dangerous, owners must had to developed muscle memory real quick to avoid a panic situation...... Seems like the 50ss and 60s was the golden age of car designs, but then soon after that car designs went to crap and I know why, it's the same reason this whole country is going to crap.........
I enjoyed your timeline. I found the no longer available CT6 full size sedan did pull off a 'why not both?' ability to provide a luxurious road trip feel and be sporting (for it's size of course) on winding back roads. It's a shame Cadillac didn't keep it around longer.
Hard to believe this went from creative, to production and then client approval. Frankly, it’s awful.
I wonder if the touch screen would have been better received, if Buick would have incorporated a volume knob, tuning knob and a bank of radio preset buttons.
The great Ken Nordine at his finest! Word Jazz!
Giving the consumer the controls to do exactly what they wanted without installing limiting features. What a time to be an automotive engineer
I have a friend who drove his 1964 Catalina with the slim Jim trans 227000 miles and was never serviced.
While you did not have to worry about the evaporator freezing you did have to worry about you freezing!!!😀
classic cars with AC are very strange to me- In Germany cars didn''t have AC until the late 90s- and it didn't come as standard until the mid 00s. So for me it is something modern and I am always surprised to see it in vintage cars, when in reality AC in the US was available shortly after the phillips screw was invented..
The Lincoln’s may have appeared to be dated back in the late 1980’s, but over the long term, their styling has proven to be pretty much timeless. It’s a design language that comes right back after it goes away. That’s because, in truth, it’s far more elegant and classy than the proverbial jelly bean styling that so many other cars are stuck with. Between the Cadillac and the Lincoln’s, the Lincoln’s have proven themselves to be much better built than anything coming from General Motors. I just purchased a 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V because of its fantastic looks, more powerful engine, and very high quality that’s simply not available in any Cadillac, especially from that time period.
Wow. That was some stoopid crap. 😂😂
Old, not your father's car.. 442 and toros used the same mill. Olds engines are the lighted gm big block, it's the reason you see them in jet/ ski boats. In 1970 Olds had a TWIN OHC BIG BLOCK!. It made six hundred hp with two quadrajets, and 800 h.p. injected., it was ready for production but due Chevrolet bitch so much corvette this Corvette that. Olds was the first company who snuck a big blk in midsize cars in 68, Hurst / Olds. Oldsmobile has won more Wally's then any manufacturing company , DRCE blocks used for NHRA. Olds made the first b.b. in 59, for g.m. the 394, it placed first at the first Daytona 500 race. The 5.7 diesel blocks converted to gas are indestructible and can be bored and stroked to 455,these high nickel blocks are bulletproof. Olds was the first to produce automobiles before Ford, known as R.E.O. First to make the V8 over head valve engine in production in 1948 putting it in a rocket 88, big engine in small car was done way before the Pontiac GTO. In 1952 Detroit autorama show Olds designer Harley Earl made a concept car made of fiberglass called rocket 88,, it was or named to be the Corvette, All were destroyed but one, Harley Earl sent that to his friend on the west Coast a guy named Cord, who made cars,also. The rocket sat in a dusty warehouse in a box until twenty years ago, and went to auction and got i believe three million, but they called it a 1954, Olds was gonna make theirs in fifty three with the new 303 ohv V8 but Chevy complained so much and had only the blue streak inline six corporate gave it to Chevy, they sold the most cars, but to change history that's b.s.
Almost bought one in 1972 but bought a 2300 cc all iron Pinto wagon 4 speed.....By '72 the running joke in car mags was Vega's dash board "Need new Engine light" !!! ....Steered away from GM & never (Like never Needed to return to dealer for probs) had any troubles with the Pinto wagon or used 2nd hand slant 6 Duster.....
Never been a fan of fins; ridiculous looking to my eye. Over the top; but the rest of the car looks more well balanced.
On that last photo... what was the difference between defog and defrost? I would suspect defog to be compressor on, but allow face or floor vents while defrost only directed air to the windshield, but you stated there were no actuators or flaps in the system.
Back in 1960 my grandparents had one of these… they had had a bit of money back in their days!! They had many Cadillacs through the years.. funny thing is in 1988 they purchased a brand new Honda Accord LX-I and they thought it was the best car ever!!! I remember the Accord was pretty cool as a kid in the 80s with flip up headlights and the huge windows!!! Love watching these old reviews!!! I wish had gotten to ride in one of those old Cadillacs
As I recall the AMC Matador 2 gen had a similar extended payment front end that was wider and not pointed.
I think the 1972 is the better looking of the 2 years, especially the grill area and the tail lights enclosed in the bumper. Thanks Adam.
Thank you. I find your presentations informative, enjoyable, and professionally presented (had a bit of a chuckle with your demolition derby comment [18:00]). Keep up the fine work.
I was interested in the cruise control but after six minutes I've only heard it mentioned once. What is your video about? Styling, or cruise control? If the scripted info doesn't relate to the topic at hand, leave it for another video!
How did that cruise control work? What did the slider control?
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Have you done a video on GM’s “Bi-Level” setting? I recently discovered it still works in my ‘84 Fiero. Love these videos on the minutiae of car design. Keep up the good work!