A 1965 Corvette TV Commercial from corvette1967.com

[TheIntruders]

Hey uploader, click the edit button and add Pernell Roberts and Bonanza to the title so his fans can find this.

[highwaystar148]

i sat in one and some fool put a sting ray in the seat

[Annihilator1111]

the 1963-1967 Chevrolet Corvette was assembled in

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

[kirbyyasha]

Mmmmmm, What a beautiful car. Gimme any year Corvette, I'll be happy. :)

[drippad]

Lets start taxing cargo containers . Bring manufacturing back to the USA

[mrearlygold]

@drippad

Better yet let's get taxes lowered to ZERO for Americans and American companies. That's the kind of government Ron Paul would bring. Ron Paul 2012 or more of the same and we can't afford more of the same!

[SteelCity1981]

lol the vette had disc brakes in all 4 wheels back in 65, it took 35 years after that for every car to come with 4 will disc brakes.

[MrRETEROROB]

great ad ! could Dan Blocker ( Hoss) climb out of a Corvette?

[1955Cal]

@MrRETEROROB Climb in maybe but not out,lol.

[Martobx]

@MrRETEROROB  NO WAY! but I bet he could eat one.

[Mrengineerwannabe1]

A guy in Florida has Alan Shepards Corvette, He sometimes brings it to a Nasa as an exebit

I've got loads of pictures to drool over home in -20 Canada

[claustrea]

Me llevo el auto, con todo y el conductor.

[froggie198120]

Forget the car, where do I buy an Adam Cartwright? ;P

[IRONSEAN7]

THE NEW SHERIFF IS A _-------BONG!!!!!!!

[galoon]

@IRONSEAN7 Hahaha--Blazing Saddles; I love that movie!

[Drogmir]

I had a 64 coupe and it was a great car. The only thing is it had drum brakes and let me tell you, that was a scary thing going down a hill with drums. I still miss it, I had it for 16 years.

[TheLizardKing1967]

RIP ROBERTS

[Stangwlf]

Are you sure that wasn't an 1865 Stingray!!!!!!

[StoneCold75]

Wow..Wild West Corvette

[Eddiemotor]

I want, an 63´Corvette split window, with the -65+ suspension + brakes, and the 69- 427 ZL1 with 4 speed manual transmission, all the good parts of the 60s performance and driveability in the most beatifull body ever, the 63 Split window.

Ye i know its cars you should keep in original shape, but hell ye at least its not ''style' or ''pimp my ride'' i want to do at one, keep it original at most stuff, but the best corvette stuff from the 60s in an 63 shell, that's what i want.

[sonidos5]

Bonanza - tv

[gaddyify]

Adam cartwight on Bonanza, and Trapper John MD.

[1400deadwood]

Kool commercial! American classical cars were always the best.

[galoon]

@brendabaloyan--That's not exactly true; at least not in SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) competition--the Corvette consistently won in its class in the 1950s and '60s. One year (I forget which) Corvettes took the top twenty positions in the SCCA series, beating even the Ferraris as well as the British makes.

[dshstudio54]

He was in Trapper John M.D. as well......(Pernell Roberts)

[1aceves]

This is actor Pernell Roberts from the TV series Bonanza making this 1965 Corvette commercial, for all of you who don't know.

[UPTHElRS]

he quit bonaza because he got tired of saying 'Pa' at his age.

[Neville6000]

@UPTHElRS: That and the scripts.

[lasuvidaboy]

$4,600.00 in 1965 dollars is around 50k today. A standard chevy cost around $2500 then and today one costs $25,000.

[82abnoff]

I bought a brand new XKE.. I had no problem.

[psgugrad]

762SLR762: can't say that I agree with your opinions on cars, but I certainly agree with some of your political positions...the PC left-wing media's really full of shit. Peace

[psgugrad]

762SLR762: For your information, 60's era British cars were dripping, leaking, rattling, squeaking, atrocities with electrical systems designed by Benny Hill. Even today, British cars are not competitive with the best from Germany, Japan, and even some of the better American cars. Great Britain is a great country, but they have never in their entire history offered a truly world class mass-produced car.

[katoomrp]

hahahahha electrical systems designed by benny hill!!!lmao

[1aceves]

My two realtor friends each owned Mercedes Benzes, and both of them would tell me of the horror stories of owning those cars, that they were the least reliable cars they had ever owned, with a lot of electrical problems & malfunctions, engines and transmissions acting up, and a lot of other glitches that made them very unreliable!..both of my friends finally got fed up of paying 2.5K-6K in repair bills that they got rid of those cars and are now driving Cadillacs with zero problems!..how's that?

[meerkat006]

4-wheel disc brakes? in 1965? wow, it is a great car

[brendabaloyan]

Japanese cars are the most Reliable cars in the World now!!! You don't have to smoke dope to know that!!!

[1aceves]

Really?...is that right??...I had a 1991 Chevy Silverado that I finally sold with 310,000 original miles on the clock!...it NEVER broke down on me, idiot!!...for your information, American cars are the most reliable vehicles in the world, MORON!!!...also, for your information, I have NEVER seen anybody restore a Japanese car like American classic cars like Chevy Bel-Airs, Impalas, Corvettes, Ford Mustangs, Dodges & Plymouth Barracudas, and many other muscle cars!!...THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING!!!!!

[leonardo302]

@brendabaloyan Your right Japanese cars are very reliable. That being said I find them very boring as well. I have a toyota corolla for my commuter car. Never given me any problems and is great on gas. But for fun, I am buying a corvette. With the exception of the Nissan GTR, Japan doesnt make anything as exciting as the Corvette.

[brendabaloyan]

Yep! They were very popular around the World!!! But not the best!!! Now they are among the worst!!!

[brendabaloyan]

When American cars were No. 1 in the World! This used to be a hell of a good country!

[w4grt]

@brendabaloyan used?

[galoon]

"new this year--disc brakes"----yeah, FINALLY! The Sting Ray's competitors like Ferrari and Jaguar had had them for about five years by this time! I've always wondered why GM allowed its only sports car to lag in technology for so long. I still love the Sting Ray, though--one of the coolest cars of all time! Great commercial--this is a nice find.

[Halftrac]

VHS was not invented untill the eary1970's. DAMN! People get your history RIGHT!

[mfreeman7821]

Little Joe Cartwright: Adam what is this thing?

Adam: StingRay bitch

[Century25]

Um.. they DID have VHS then.. and color TV goes back more than 10 years BEFORE this commercial.

TV had high quality VHS, professional quality tape. And I have seen some old, originals that are very sharp & clear. I think a lot of the TV we see now likes to portray any TV before 1998 as 'fuzzy & poor quality' stuff..

[Tracti0nAction]

If they didn't they would not get all those people blowing money for useless HD... Do we really need to be able to count the wrinkles on your favorite newsreporters face? NO!

[Century25]

That's for sure.. look at how people aren't buying into Blue-Ray. It is good, but so is plain old digital. There ain't a big diff.. not for my money..!!

[treb57]

Bob Crane the murdered actor had vhs

[antandant]

i wonder if he said: "air bag, abs, ebd, and turbo in this car!"

[dadsoldtapes]

How did people digitize these commercials if back then before the age of VHS it was very hard to record television? I'm guessing organized archives are all that can keep these old commercials?

[andersriedel]

It's probably just the networks that have these tapes of gold, so we only have a chance to digitize them when they are shown from time to time on television.

[DerekSkater11]

@dadsoldtapes

Somehow my grandad got a hold of a series of chevrolet commercials from the first commercialup until the late 90's on vhs. he did work at a chevrolet dealership for about 20 years so i guess he picked up then. but to get vhs digitalized, there is a device called a capture card that can hook up any kind of device like a vcr, tv, playstation etc, and can record it to your computer.

[dadsoldtapes]

@DerekSkater11 Yeah there are ways to convert reels of film into digital... a rather expensive process with sophisticated machines - thing was, until the VCR came about the tube was pretty much the only way for anyone to receive anything resembling a video in the home (unless you went to the movie theatres). The 1980s and the proliferation of home video led to a craze, and that is why most of my TV commercial postings are from that time period.

[RCwasHere]

Thats back when Vetts had class, and style. The new ones are OK, but they just seem to be missing something. You all know what I mean?

[andersriedel]

Exactly!

[w4grt]

@andersriedel NO!

[meego1234]

Couldn't agree more!!

[Raughwe]

@RCwasHere: Couldn't agree more. Cars, music, guns, and chicks ain't what they used to be. Many new cars are very good, but they aren't the finely crafted works of art they were. This era Stingray is just pure sex.

[408knw]

@RCwasHere -- Nobody could ever claim the Stingray looked like anything else on the road. No doubt about the car, its style and what that style signaled. Larry Shinoda and the other design team members outdid themselves. When my brothers and I were kids, any Stingray we saw was a big deal. Today's Corvettes put me in mind of Japanese cars like the Acura NSX --OK, and "swoopy," but very, very generic --- unremarkable.

[HitlerVsyouSnatchas]

@RCwasHere They lack the sexy shape nowadays....they care more about "performance"........

[Tarantino396L78]

"Looks like it means business."

For some reason, that made me crack up. It just came out of nowhere, and I've never heard someone say that about a car.

[bcarby]

lol a car like that would go for around $120,000+ today

[SanFran90]

@bcarby: Many top-notch Corvettes do sell for that much nowadays.

Truth is, though, $4,600 in 1965, would be only around $21,000 today.

[bcarby]

yes, but the appreciation is exponential

[SanFran90]

@Bcarby: I know. Probably because these cars are so well liked by so many people, I think.

[fordmustang51]

thats pernell roberts, from bonanza

[timbomcd]

Damn, I wish I was around when that car came out. Would have gotten me a 396 for sure! Woulda paid around $4,600 for it brand new!

[yelof355]

That may as well have been 120,000 bucks.

Back in 65, a lawyer made 10 grand a year.

Today, average 130,000.

Hmm, monthly payments on a midyear bb was about $200.

Salary $220 a week.

Then you eat and house yourself.

Naaw, sheeit, buy the vette and live in thre parents basement!

[Neville6000]

Better yet, don't buy a 'Vette-buy a Honda, Toyota, or Nissan sport model and tune the thing up, then customize it!

[galoon]

@timbomcd $4,600 was actually the base price. When you added in all the options like the big-block engine, AM-FM radio, close-ratio 4spd gearbox, etc. you'd be looking at a little over $6,000. Still, compared to that year's Porsche and Jaguar XKE, the Sting Ray was a great deal! I'd like to have a 396 Vette, too--who wouldn't? ;-)