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The Grand Prairie Story

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@stevemartin61445 күн бұрын

Was the narrator at the beginning a gas station attendant, the breadman or the diaper service guy? Perhaps that good Samaritan truck driver?

@johnnycash57816 күн бұрын

by the time they find a pencil and paper write down the plate and get to a pay phone the guy has already bought and sold the car for a newer one and has two kids lol

@jamesdarcy3902Ай бұрын

This was the "golden age" of drink driving, no reliable breathalyzers until 1969 and alcohol limit of .15 which was hard to determine. It didn't start to significantly change until the late 80's when the body count got high enough.

@tommyplays1314 ай бұрын

Its fake

@The1trueking19662 ай бұрын

Prove it

@MsKeebe6 ай бұрын

I think it was mighty smart to double up on some of services. Who knew how brave the town’s milkmen could be at an accident.

@jordancoleman24026 ай бұрын

The guys the beginning 😅 couldn't remember 8 lines and how he looked at every word before he said it 😅😅😅😅😅

@user-xr2vl1vq2i7 ай бұрын

Todays cars wouldn’t stand a fighting chance to those metallic beasts of yesteryear..no competition whatsoever.

@stevenkovler51337 ай бұрын

Kid in the front seat ! No Seat Belt … boy where we stupid back then !

@alshotrodsandratrods87807 ай бұрын

I like how the 1953 Plymouth sedan turned into a 1950 Plymouth three window coupe with minor front end damage after the accident and the 1953 Cadillac turned into a 1939 Willys. Those two guys at the desk had a bit of stage fright.

@knackerEv6 ай бұрын

Quite the narrators they were. Reminds me of growing up going to school in Dallas. Couldn't tell you how many times I had to ask, wott? Ya lost me.

@02chevyguy7 ай бұрын

Oh, man! The music in this video is HORRIBLE!

@chrisdaigle35887 ай бұрын

OHHH jeez, they still can't read a script, like the films in school......two pictures.....BING......two pictures........BING........

@darrylturner26117 ай бұрын

No mirrors on the cars? I knew they were doomed!!

@andrerodriguez76037 ай бұрын

No wonder those cars had good bumpers back than. Being a stick shift, he popped the clutch leaving the motel, and banged the car in front of him. 😅

@b.wiggins7147 ай бұрын

All the fire dept guys were smiling as they carried the kid out on the stretcher - trying to act as if this whole thing was real. 😂

@occultustactical61387 ай бұрын

My dad had a 59 Chevy. During the summer he'd take all of the local neighbor kids to the dairy queen. I would stand on the front seat as a 4 year old. I'm not sure they even had seatbelts??

@oldmandan3758Ай бұрын

They didn't. My first car was a '54 Chevy 4 door. I bought it as a teenager in 1975. No seat belts. I wish I had that car now.

@jamesdarcy3902Ай бұрын

There is a crash test on KZread, 1959 Chev Belair vs a 2009 Chef Malibu..........

@rongreen89628 ай бұрын

Dallas and Tarrant Counties were building like crazy in the 1950’s, building some of the most deadly road designs in the world: wide lanes, clear zones, lots of driveways. But this film blames the bottle.

@clazza658 ай бұрын

2023. People still having crashes and bots presenting it.

@theresaroda8 ай бұрын

I love the naration at the begining and end. 😂 It was obvious these were real peolpe and not actors.

@3ppcli8 ай бұрын

2 rules I've had since i received my drivers license 50 years ago. 1) trust no one. 2) expect anything.

@MM3ScubaSteveUSN8 ай бұрын

Pretty sad, indeed. Now, due to technology, we have ANOTHER wonderful driving distraction that didn't exist back then - Android and iPhones.

@eutimiochavez4158 ай бұрын

U didn’t even have to lock ur car back then !

@eutimiochavez4158 ай бұрын

We watch these movies I. The 50s

@yourroyalhighness76628 ай бұрын

Reminds me of an old instructional film entitled “Smegma on the Dashboard” or something close to that. Ah, those were the days….

@02chevyguy7 ай бұрын

😆😁

@yourroyalhighness76628 ай бұрын

Words fail me.

@christophersanders50078 ай бұрын

This film was nothing compared to the old 1950's drivers ed films they used to show us in high school. When I was in high school all the muscle cars from the late 60's and early 70's where being sold off by the original owners as used cars, so there a lot of kids that had really fast cars in those days.

@msweaver618 ай бұрын

Those cars were also steel

@jimgriffin99248 ай бұрын

The wreck was so bad it completely changed the cars into older vehicles of different makes and models

@TedBronson19188 ай бұрын

I remember watching these kinds of films in school. I always thought the narration was as criminally negligent as many of the drivers the films demonstrated. Talk about wooden ! Couldn't they practice delivering their lines a few times ? Anyway, I'd say that they should show videos like this to school kids nowadays except they'd probably get sued for showing the kids the truth and traumatizing them.

@MikeLawson-cj4kt8 ай бұрын

The two at the desk sound like graduates of the Evelyn Woodhead Spedriddin' Course.

@TedBronson19188 ай бұрын

@@MikeLawson-cj4kt haha ! yep !

@fbksfrank47 ай бұрын

Don’t believe they’re onboard with this idea.

@TedBronson19187 ай бұрын

@@fbksfrank4 Actually, I bet they are. The thing is they weren't professional actors/narrators. Those cops didn't have the time to go through multiple takes, and they basically just read their lines off a script board and that was it - done.

@fbksfrank47 ай бұрын

@TedBronson1918 I was thinking about the media, I'm not sure they were behind it...of course they could have just gotten to work and then the boss man rolled in with a special project.

@headspace83388 ай бұрын

Ahh..the meat wagon! No aid, just throw you in and hope you survive the trip! 😂

@miapdx5038 ай бұрын

When I was teaching my kids how to drive, I told them to assume that many drivers are impaired. Because they are. Defensive driving saves lives.

@ryancraig27958 ай бұрын

The guy talking at the beginning is stiffer than the bodies they hauled away.

@andsoitbegins464Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@davep1538 ай бұрын

Love the music that goes with this. No seatbelt for the kid either. Remember dancing and hopping in Grandpa's back seat of Cadillac listening to music on 8track tape😁

@MattGuzman-ng2yx8 ай бұрын

No, there were no seatbelts then. Seatbelts were on option not available to all car manufactureres. 😢

@miapdx5038 ай бұрын

I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seatbelts...we bounced around like pinball. If someone hit the brakes you slammed into the back of the front seats. I got a bloody lip once. It's just the way it was...scary. Also my folks were alcoholics who often drove drunk. It was terrifying, especially in the Rocky Mountains. 😐

@yvette84928 ай бұрын

Seat belts became the law in 1969. Just got my first VW.😊

@michaelleamon27148 ай бұрын

Its amazing how many vehicles back then had BALD tires !!! 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚓🚓🚓🚓

@lebowskiduderino898 ай бұрын

Also, how would you like to be on diaper detail?

@lebowskiduderino898 ай бұрын

It turns out that one of the police chiefs was an early version of a robot. Try and guess which one!

@aurynaichi70308 ай бұрын

Nice typical re-creation film for educational purposes.

@matt_wiggins268 ай бұрын

wow, cool classic cars. wonder what they would be worth today in mint condition.

@patrickmcgoldrick82348 ай бұрын

I'm guessing a mint.

@alshotrodsandratrods87807 ай бұрын

In mint condition the Cadillac would be $50K to $60K at auction. The 53 Plymouth isn't a popular car with collectors so it would be maybe $20K in good condition. (I have a 54 that I got for $3K) After the accident the Plymouth became a 1950 three window coupe. worth around $30K in good condition. The Cadillac became a 1939 Willys. I couldn't tell if it was a sedan or coupe. I don't have any idea what they are worth but the coupes are sought after for drag cars. The sedans are less valuable. After that horrific head on collision the Plymouth only had minor front end damage. The Willys had none.

@trent38728 ай бұрын

That cop looking around before he pilfers that wallet😂😂😂

@danielsmith50238 ай бұрын

When I got my licence in outback Australia I was 16 . The Sergeant of police in Marburg QLD stood on the veranda with a cup of tea and said drive around the town for 10 minutes , nobody with me . When I got back He said , you didn't have a smash up , come get your licence young fella .

@Edward-bd8iy8 ай бұрын

As a Yank who had to go through a lot of hoops to get there, I must say I admire the Outback and/or Walkabout way of doing things...Shout-out to the land of Michael Hutchins and INXS, the land of Malcom and Angus Young, the land of Footy...Oh What A Feeling!

@danielsmith50238 ай бұрын

@@Edward-bd8iy hahaha good on ya mate 👍. I have been a professional shooter culling Roos ferrel dogs and Razorbacks pigs for over 30 years . But I also lived in Glendale Arizona for 2 years back in the 90s , and loved it . I drove a truck doing brick deliveries out of Phoenix Arizona . I made a few mates and we use to ride our horses into Mexico every now and again . Great days . You have a good one mate and knock back a couple of tubes for me , I drink xxxx beer myself . It's a Brisbane brew , it's been around since 1888 .

@MattGuzman-ng2yx8 ай бұрын

@@danielsmith5023 Stay Thirsty, Mateys! 🫡😉🍻👍

@danielsmith50238 ай бұрын

@@MattGuzman-ng2yx bloody oath , there's not enough beer in Queensland to douse my thirst on a hot dusty summers day mate 👍 I recon I have made a few publicans rich in my life .

@philliplozano73269 ай бұрын

I remember Drivers Ed. when I was attending Austin Senior High, I remember having to watch "Blood on the Highway", oh man-to-man that was a good one!!

@alterman156channel9 ай бұрын

Two things to point out here. The driver of the Cadillac was definitely driving while he was intoxicated. He simply abandoned all caution while he was driving in that state. The driver of the Plymouth was in a hurry and also abandoned caution. That was a recipe for a tragic accident that did not need to occur. It is important to driver carefully. This way you're much more likely to avoid an accident. Never drive when one's ability to drive is impaired by alcohol, drugs or a medical condition.

@damoshort768 ай бұрын

Thankyou for the sermon

@user-kf7nz6pz8l8 ай бұрын

So true. But the accident shown involved at least one totally different car. We can't really see anything but the bottom of the car on it's side. But the other car certainly isn't the '50 Cadillac Coupe DeVille driven by the drunkard. Instead it's a possibly 1950 Plymouth Coupe. So that's a poorly made film. At first I thought that guy at the desk on the left was a cardboard cutout.

@jimgriffin99248 ай бұрын

@@user-kf7nz6pz8l at the end you can see the front of the overturned vehicle. It looks like it's from the 1940a. Clearly two junkers pulled from the scrapyard just to create a wreck without actually damaging any cars.

@user-kf7nz6pz8l8 ай бұрын

Pretty phony but at least they didn't wreck the Caddy cnvt. I might have seen it wrapped around a telephone pole in another video on '50s wrecked cars.@@jimgriffin9924

@michaelcarlos86867 ай бұрын

I see no evidence in this film the dude was drunk.😂

@boataxe46059 ай бұрын

Homer Simpson - “ It’s funny cause I don’t know him”.

@meatpopsicle15679 ай бұрын

All that carnage, and not a seat belt in sight for the next twenty years!

@Edward-bd8iy8 ай бұрын

And the automakers fought like hell against it... Even Lee Iacocca resisted SRS for the Chrysler Corporation minivan products until the new designs came out. Got to have that profit... and trade-in incentive selling points...