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THIS WAS GM'S YEAR. PONTIAC WAS "MOTOR TREND'S" CAR OF THE YEAR. It was beautiful ! So was the Buick. The Cadillac was the epitome of futuristic car design. A little over the top, but a real classic !

Girth has a lot of appeal

Not a fan of this commercial. It's silly to me. Not a way to present the Oldsmobile brand of car.

Inaugural Daytona 500 winner!

I'll take a brand new Olds Station Wagon, fully optioned, red paint.

Beethoven been real quiet since this dropped

Packard made good cars (even the "Jr."/low end, 200 series were reliable) That straight 8 was efficient and durable. Believe me you needed eight cylinders to haul that steel tank around!

I've always liked Packards, but my late father-in-law, a life long Studebaker mechanic, said they were great cars but couldn't pass a gas station. Gas hogs on steroids.

The way these two actors are talking in this commercial, they sound like they are doing a predecessor to rapping! They go well together in this commercial. If I was able to time travel to be able to live back in the 50's this is the type of car I would certainly go for. The cars back then were terrific design, works of engineering art, and of high quality. For servicing they were not extremely complicated as like today's cars that are technically rolling computers.

Driving or BEING STUCK OWNING a Nash was CLOSE to a NIGHTMARE! The paint (especially "Robin's-egg blue") was NICE! The cars were CRAP, though!

Yes, lets talk about a "rocket"

40 mph average speed? That sounds painstakingly slow even by 50s standards.

This commercial is a parody of the Music Man hahaha

This commercial is a parody of the Music Man hahaha

BRILLIANT!!!! LOVE & MISS THIS ERA! BEST Days of our BabyBoomer Lives!! REAL AMERICAN!!! REAL TALENT!!! REAL QUALITY!!! REAL INTEGRITY!!! AND....... ALL MADE TO LAST!!!!! TIME MACHINE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!🌠 Thank you so much! Just subscribed to your fab nostalgia channel!!!

Packard survived the depression by mass-producing a cheaper line of cars 110, 115, 120, 160, 180. These cars put Packard trying to compete with Cadillac and Lincoln's price ranges which had rich larger parent companies GM and Ford as cash sugar daddies. Packard being independent could not compete in this price range and it fell from grace at the end of the 40s. Another problem Packard was a conservative car. It was a car for Bank Presidents, High Society old money people, etc. Cadillac was the flashy glitz mobile for the nouveau riche who were legion in the prosperous 50s. That was the era where flash and gaudiness were in style. Packard never had a prayer. It got involved in a disaster of a merger with Studebaker and was gone by 1959.

My grandmother here in Australia owned a Hupmobile from new. It was, I think, from the earlier 1930s to replaced her first Hupp, which was her Mother’s hand-me-down present, also purchased new. Among her many later cars, Nanna always spoke most affectionately to me of her reliable Hupps; they were indeed a “good car” as befitting the Company slogan. After WW2 she moved on to the Humber cars from Britain, another well-engineered quality machine. For trivia, the other cars of Nanna and her well-to-do father from early last century were a smaller pre-war Buick from the early ‘teens’ then a big new Crossley shipped directly from WW1 England. Subsequent vehicles included her father’s enormous 1934 Buick Series 90 (this very car pictured in George Damman’s “History Of Buick” hardcover book). Then followed three Humbers - a post-WW2 Snipe, then the 1950s Hawk, with Nanna’s final car being a cute little ‘63 Vogue. But from our many talks of machines and early motoring, I gather that second Hupp (her first new car) remained her all-time favourite :-)

I want it !!

Nice Packerd advert!

My Dad had a Nash when I was 3 or 4. Even then I thought what an ugly thing. I wanted to ride in my Uncle Paul’s 53 Cadillac. Then one day my Dad came home in a 53 Ford. Right away I liked riding with Dad again.

This is the car of my dreams!

El mejor....

My word. What a tedious commercial. Who would buy one of those after being put through that garbage. I know it is a cheap rip off of part of the Music Man, and it is sickening.

Slipknot would do a sick cover of this.

Good Lord. No wonder the Soviets wanted to nuke us.

The first and only automobile modeled after a potato.

This was ripoff of the opening scene of The Music Man, 1957. Pretty clever. I didn't care much for whole '59 GM line when it came out (you literally sat on the floor in ALL cars!), but I liked the Olds' workaround of Bill Mitchell's "Buick door" dictum to all divisions. Worst GM mess that year was Cadillac, cleanest '59 GM car was the Buick, with Olds as a close second. The Chevy's rear end was laughable, and the Pontiacs introduced the rear "skegs" that proliferated in the '61 model year on Olds and Cadillac, another Bill Mitchell weirdness. Mitchell was Harley Earl's protege.

Superior car...Nash!!! 😎

Pretty mean right out the door. Didn't take much to shake out even more ponies on these bad-boys...

But a Tesla does drive itself. 😐

Packard made some great automobiles in its time. Too bad they went out of business.

I ain't gonna lie. The sheer width of the Pacer coupled with the exaggerated reactions of the dancers makes for great meme potential. I can't right tell how I'm going to harness its potential though.

We need Studebaker Automobiles.

The results were not to bad for such behemoths of cars. At the same time Europe had cars like the Morris Minor, the Austin A35, the Citroën 2CV, the VW Beetle, the Renault 4CV and Fiat 500. All those lightweight small cars would have outperformed the numbers mentioned in this video with ease.

Bully bully for stude .

Interesting now adays they should do More like this testing electric cars

dad had a 51 champion.flathead 6, 3 speed on column, but had a factory direct/overdrive box behind the 3 speed.thats probably what helped the studebaker win.a wider spread of available gear ratio's with a small cid engine.

Amazing video, Greetings from India

A friend went from CT to FL in a 59 Olds when he was a kid. Four doors, four adults, 5 kids, plenty of room.

I'm surprised they didn't show a three seat wagon with the side opening rear door with all those kids. Most wagons still had drop down tailgated with the rear facing third seat.

It's "Carol Brady"!! RIP Florence Henderson!!

I'll take a '53 Caribbean thank you 😁

The first RAPPER in the USA. 😆

Poor thing was Nash was introduced and recognized as economy-family touring car, got this stupid name from stupid people ""Bathing Tub"".. i think Nash were the most beautiful cars of that era!! a min before i was watching Hudson video but i said nahh Nash is more gorgeous!

Ramblers built during the 1950s might have been tough. However, AMC went to building flimsy pieces of shit in the 1960s. As a teenager, I had a 1967 2 door Rambler, which was in cream yellow...Not a bad looking car. Other guys my age I knew who had Chevys, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, Oldsmobiles, etc. would do show off driving: spinning wheels, doing doughnuts, hard acceleration, downshifting to slow down, racing and speeding, and despite their rough driving, their cars held up okay. I did only a fraction of the show off driving they did...Tried to spin the wheels a few times, but because my Rambler had only a 232 cubic inch inline 6, it would only chirp the wheels. I did do a few accelerations which was quick for a 6 cylinder, and downshifted a few times, and that's all it took to tear up the transmission. When the transmission was being rebuilt, the mechanic showed me the stripped gears...The gears were no thicker than a slice of bread...I kid you not...No thicker than a slice of bread...And the shaft the gears were on was barely the size of a broomstick, which incidentally was snapped in two. When I told someone at work how thin those gears were, he asked me, "Are you sure you weren't looking at the scyncronizers?" Those weren't the scyncronizers...I know what scyncronizers look like. I remember the mechanic lecturing me that a Rambler can't hold up to hard driving. He even advised me not to drive it over 45 mph. And to shift from 1st to 2nd at 12 mph, and shift into 3rd at 17 mph. No wonder AMC went out of business, and Chrysler later bought out their Jeep division

Over 700 miles at an average speed of 95 miles per hour _!_ That's _FLYING !_

I had a 1953 Cavalier - very roomy & comfortable - did a mechanical restoration - regret selling it

The rollover car was not a 49-51 nash

Loved my Nash Rambler used to take to Mexico to go surfing, the Rambler would go anywhere and always got me home. And I could smoke the VW vans.

real quiet car