Great ad for a great car in a great country in a great time. What have we now? bland euroboxes, all conformist stodge. We'll never have this again, we'll end up driving electric boxes on wheels before too long...Thanks for posting!
I admire old cars as much as anyone, but keep in mind that back in 1957, all the cars had fins, wrap around windshields, lots of chrome and wide whitewall tires, etc...all the things that make them so unusual today. OHV V8s ruled, and unfortunately, handling of these understeering cars was pretty horrible.
I'm terribly afraid that if this was being offered on the Lawrence Welk show, I'da passed on buying one. "A one and a two and a ..." I quite simply couldn't STAND that show, even though they had some nice candy for the eyes. It was that queer voice of Welk... kinda made my skin crawl!!
When I watched LW in the '70s/early '80s, I thought I remembered seeing a lot of Cadillac commercials. Did Cadillac take over as a major sponsor in the show's later years?
I have never seen one of these cars before. Great way to sell cars. I get more from these old car sale commercials than todays so called commercials. The old commercials had more spirit of the sale.
I got news for you. Cookie-cutter cars are nothing new. If you take a vintage look back to the 20s and 30s, you will notice that ALL the cars looked almost exactly alike...even in color. Cars today may resemble each other but yesterday's cars (in the beginning) were almost exactly alike in every way.
My dad purchased a brand new 1958 Chevrolet Impala from Eddie Hopper Chevrolet in Brea, California. I was 14 at the time and got to drive it myself when I got my learners permit a year later. I was so in love with that car !!
The cars today are indeed cookie cutter but they are also WAY better built and more reliable.
I remember my family bought a new 56 Ford that rotted out in two years and was a constant rattling headache. They were fun to look at (I'd still love to have a 1959 TBird) but they were not the finest engineering.
At my work, in the parking lot, there is a row of little white cars parked in the same places every day -a Sentra, a Neon, a Civic, a Cobalt and I don't know WTF the last one is. They look like a goddam Whirlpool appliance showroom - if you parked any one of those cars in a refrigerator factory you'd never find it again.
When i was 5 tears old , i would walk along the curb next to the parked car's and run my hand along those big fins on the rear, they hust have been ten feet long .
I am so sick of the cookie cutter cars and SUV's they make today where you cannot tell one brand from another. I am seventy one and owned a 57 De Soto and loved that car. I don't love any cars now, bring back the fins.
@onebaud well , im not quite as old as you, but i agree with you 100%. all the cars since the 80s look the same and have no style. im olny 35 but my father owned a 1957 dodge sierra station wagon and that thing felt like a real CAR! i love just about all old cars , but i really love those fins .
@onebaud I agree, bring back the fins. Cars were so interesting then. I currently drive a 300C which looks less like the current cookie cutter cars. I also miss running boards and side mounts. And I always loved the 1948 Chrysler.
i suscribe to reminnese (know i spelled that wrong)I see photos of cars from the 50's in the early 60's and they are all rusted out.Knowing some of the pictures come from michigan where they use lots of salt on the road, but come on, I have a 15 year old rust free lincoln ,that never needs warming up, points ,and all of the other headaches of the old cars. I love them too on sunny fun driving days but they werent as practical as the cars of today.
@onebaud To me the old cars all look different and the modern cars stand apart from each other. It all as to do with how long you look at them and spend thinking about them.
@onebaud your not alone, i owned a 59 dodge lancer, probaly the best car i EVER! had. i too wish they would bring back cars that had personality & style. todays cars have many gadgets, but no sense of style.
@428sj..... actually, poor people could not afford anything like this......$2,500 was a boat load of money back then. The average yearly income was $5000. So.....it would cost you half a years "gross" pay to buy one. $2500 then was about like 25,000 is now
@haku8645 I had a 1962 chrysler that boasted of "total contact brakes"...... the front brakes had 2 wheel cylinders each instead of one.......and it was actually because the cars blew out top front brake cylinders alot so the put 2 in.....esentually an advertisment scam
My grandfather had a '57 2-door Coronet, gold and white, with the push-button transmission and a speedometer that was like a thermometer on it side. Clear plastic seat covers, of course, so your butt really stuck to them in the summer in Florida. He used to wash it with some kerosene in a bucket of water . . . never waxed it, and it always looked like new.
I grew up in san francisco, and remember my dad driving up in this new 1957 dodge. the seats were covered in plastic for protection. push buttons on dash. the car was fast and powerful. have footage of family and car in the northern california redwoods in 1964. my how time goes by. all young then. mom died young brain cancer, and now dads not well. and he was one of the strongest guys. anyhow--great memories. dad sold car for 300 dollars in the late sixties.
Had a 57 Coronet 4 door with the V-8 and Powerflite (2 speed) automatic. Drove from New Hampshire to South Carolina when I was in the Army. Great car, great times.
to cadrolls1: yeh, thats classic old Chrysler products....the ultra firm ride. Thats because they had "leaf spring suspension" in the rear instead of "coil springs" like GM had. My 1962 Chrysler was really tight and firm ....took railroad tracks nice
I had one of these with a 354 hemi engine; I miss that car, even today. Perhaps it had a high lift cam or something done to it before I bought it but it ran faster than any car I've had yet.
@WACOAGENTS When I met my wife she was driving a '56 Dodge with the big 4bbl hemi that set a stock American car record of 131mph on the sand that year at Daytona. I was driving a '57 Chevy with the 283ci powerpack option. We never got around to drag racing the two cars, but I'm pretty sure my Chevy could have taken her Dodge in the 1/4 mile, but definitely not at top end. Nowadays she gets scared if I go over 65 on the Interstate. Old age aint for sissies.
Man I miss those cars - I had a Dodge Polaris and it was longer than a whale. You could sleep 3 or 4 in the backseat.
bustacapinlutha 14 hours ago
Boy l could really use a car with swept wings.
idak12 1 month ago
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Great ad for a great car in a great country in a great time. What have we now? bland euroboxes, all conformist stodge. We'll never have this again, we'll end up driving electric boxes on wheels before too long...Thanks for posting!
atlantic1952 1 month ago
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atlantic1952 1 month ago
Tenka you boyz, vasn't dat nice?
terrryc 1 month ago
I admire old cars as much as anyone, but keep in mind that back in 1957, all the cars had fins, wrap around windshields, lots of chrome and wide whitewall tires, etc...all the things that make them so unusual today. OHV V8s ruled, and unfortunately, handling of these understeering cars was pretty horrible.
gojoe283 1 month ago
I'm terribly afraid that if this was being offered on the Lawrence Welk show, I'da passed on buying one. "A one and a two and a ..." I quite simply couldn't STAND that show, even though they had some nice candy for the eyes. It was that queer voice of Welk... kinda made my skin crawl!!
getdusty1 1 month ago
When I watched LW in the '70s/early '80s, I thought I remembered seeing a lot of Cadillac commercials. Did Cadillac take over as a major sponsor in the show's later years?
quirpco 2 months ago
I have never seen one of these cars before. Great way to sell cars. I get more from these old car sale commercials than todays so called commercials. The old commercials had more spirit of the sale.
gregory747 2 months ago
Why did I have to be 17 in this shit generation
iGalactiico 2 months ago
Grandpap says: Thank you Dodge for giving us a definition of bad taste.
SweetJaneofGoth 3 months ago
I got news for you. Cookie-cutter cars are nothing new. If you take a vintage look back to the 20s and 30s, you will notice that ALL the cars looked almost exactly alike...even in color. Cars today may resemble each other but yesterday's cars (in the beginning) were almost exactly alike in every way.
Handiman544 3 months ago
haha "years ahead styling"
noblepoorman 4 months ago
Autos of Jet Age. Futuristic styling. Color. Sculpture. Art. Optimistic & Free!
Boring cars today and SUVs all look alike. Transportation Appliances. Bahh!!
ThatMiserableCat 4 months ago
THAT CAR WAS 300 FT LONG!!! LOL!
sdh74 4 months ago
Old cars out of metal. Modern cars out of plastic.
P.S - "Shit does not rot and does not sink" (с)
=)
FarFarSea2 5 months ago
My dad purchased a brand new 1958 Chevrolet Impala from Eddie Hopper Chevrolet in Brea, California. I was 14 at the time and got to drive it myself when I got my learners permit a year later. I was so in love with that car !!
videooman1 5 months ago 2
I would have LOVED to live through the 50's!!!!!!
charliehockey78 5 months ago
Bring back tailfins!
Mogeclub 5 months ago
You can make five new cars from the metal used from one of these real cars!
mustang69m1 6 months ago
Fun stuff.
The cars today are indeed cookie cutter but they are also WAY better built and more reliable.
I remember my family bought a new 56 Ford that rotted out in two years and was a constant rattling headache. They were fun to look at (I'd still love to have a 1959 TBird) but they were not the finest engineering.
shafer9 6 months ago
At my work, in the parking lot, there is a row of little white cars parked in the same places every day -a Sentra, a Neon, a Civic, a Cobalt and I don't know WTF the last one is. They look like a goddam Whirlpool appliance showroom - if you parked any one of those cars in a refrigerator factory you'd never find it again.
horselips 7 months ago 9
I was born the following year
fokeil123 8 months ago
When i was 5 tears old , i would walk along the curb next to the parked car's and run my hand along those big fins on the rear, they hust have been ten feet long .
1952kid 9 months ago
a boat with wheels
ckrazzie 9 months ago
I am so sick of the cookie cutter cars and SUV's they make today where you cannot tell one brand from another. I am seventy one and owned a 57 De Soto and loved that car. I don't love any cars now, bring back the fins.
onebaud 10 months ago 32
@onebaud well , im not quite as old as you, but i agree with you 100%. all the cars since the 80s look the same and have no style. im olny 35 but my father owned a 1957 dodge sierra station wagon and that thing felt like a real CAR! i love just about all old cars , but i really love those fins .
yourallbrainwashed 8 months ago
@onebaud I agree, bring back the fins. Cars were so interesting then. I currently drive a 300C which looks less like the current cookie cutter cars. I also miss running boards and side mounts. And I always loved the 1948 Chrysler.
NoelVB 7 months ago
@onebaud
i suscribe to reminnese (know i spelled that wrong)I see photos of cars from the 50's in the early 60's and they are all rusted out.Knowing some of the pictures come from michigan where they use lots of salt on the road, but come on, I have a 15 year old rust free lincoln ,that never needs warming up, points ,and all of the other headaches of the old cars. I love them too on sunny fun driving days but they werent as practical as the cars of today.
honestbutugly 7 months ago
@onebaud you fucking old and u like those fucking slow boats!
ev125 6 months ago
@onebaud To me the old cars all look different and the modern cars stand apart from each other. It all as to do with how long you look at them and spend thinking about them.
thekkl 5 months ago
@onebaud I agree with you! I was kid when this car was new. Today's cars are ugly today and have no attention to detail. Plastic everywhere! Awful!
Idelia412 3 months ago
@onebaud I'm 37 today. And I can tell that I'm totally agreed with you. Today's cars are simply nosense plastic designed.
FURY1958 2 months ago
@onebaud your not alone, i owned a 59 dodge lancer, probaly the best car i EVER! had. i too wish they would bring back cars that had personality & style. todays cars have many gadgets, but no sense of style.
jollysincere 2 weeks ago
Gotta love the style of cars from the 50's. Cool!
GaryGranite 11 months ago
Back in THOSE days, poor people thought they were rich, buying a new car every three years, at $2500.00 apiece....
428sj 1 year ago
@428sj..... actually, poor people could not afford anything like this......$2,500 was a boat load of money back then. The average yearly income was $5000. So.....it would cost you half a years "gross" pay to buy one. $2500 then was about like 25,000 is now
inkey2 1 year ago
Total contact brakes? I'd certainly hope so. What's the alternative? Praying?
haku8645 1 year ago
@haku8645 I had a 1962 chrysler that boasted of "total contact brakes"...... the front brakes had 2 wheel cylinders each instead of one.......and it was actually because the cars blew out top front brake cylinders alot so the put 2 in.....esentually an advertisment scam
inkey2 1 year ago
My grandfather had a '57 2-door Coronet, gold and white, with the push-button transmission and a speedometer that was like a thermometer on it side. Clear plastic seat covers, of course, so your butt really stuck to them in the summer in Florida. He used to wash it with some kerosene in a bucket of water . . . never waxed it, and it always looked like new.
tpitman 1 year ago
I Love Cars From The 1950s
GerardSquires 1 year ago
i've gotta say thats one UGLY car!
richardsealion1 1 year ago
@richardsealion1 What the fuck's wrong with you?!
Tomofthemidwest 7 months ago
And the radio even gets AM!
tomperanteau 1 year ago
Thank you!.....Forward Look Mopars RULE!!
metalmaker43 1 year ago
I grew up in san francisco, and remember my dad driving up in this new 1957 dodge. the seats were covered in plastic for protection. push buttons on dash. the car was fast and powerful. have footage of family and car in the northern california redwoods in 1964. my how time goes by. all young then. mom died young brain cancer, and now dads not well. and he was one of the strongest guys. anyhow--great memories. dad sold car for 300 dollars in the late sixties.
jimmyd10100 1 year ago
does lawrence say 'join the swing to sweat-wing?'
VTMCompany 1 year ago
@VTMCompany - That's S W E P T WING- That's what they used to call the '57 Dodge due to it's massive fins. Reminded people of a jet fighter plane.
williamg2552 3 months ago
you could fit a few bodies in there...................not like you need to *looks around*
quingod22 1 year ago
That's a big dodge...
Tundraboy05 1 year ago
I WANT IT!!
IrishAmerican1234 1 year ago
Look at the size of that trunk, you could put a mini cooper in that big boy.
RobNLynchburgVA 1 year ago
It's awesome!!! I wandt it!!
Horseshowchamp 1 year ago
why is Dodge > Plymouth? Wasn't it the other way around?
polytechnickk 1 year ago
My God, what a beauty!
ottoelperro 1 year ago
Beautiful ----
GenericGene 1 year ago
that guys face looks like the car
thomasuras 2 years ago
Yes... he reminds me of the '58 Edsel...
cubantoro 1 year ago
And "fuil contact brakes!"
74LesPaul 2 years ago
Had a 57 Coronet 4 door with the V-8 and Powerflite (2 speed) automatic. Drove from New Hampshire to South Carolina when I was in the Army. Great car, great times.
bob55ford 2 years ago
...and all the greatest advances of 1857....
I LVOE this batman car !!
DAH-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-BATMAN !!
DancingSpiderman 2 years ago
large trunk, large engine and gasoline cheap as it ever was......great days !
granger18trains 2 years ago
Thanks tvdays for the vid. Baby boomers like me really do appreciate the blast from the past.
YeshuaHamashiach777 2 years ago
i always like watching things from this era,i think i lived in this era in my past life
nosecolombia 2 years ago
sure you can have one!!
...so what country are yah gonna invade next to get the oil to run the fukker??
geeze is there anyplace left?
spottydog4472 2 years ago
Whats the differece between laurance Welk and a Moose? With a Moose the Horns are in front and the Asshole is in the back!
Lanceisabeach 2 years ago
a-vun...and a two...and a tree....
berkeleyhome 2 years ago
man, I would love to own a "winged barge" like this monster.
inkey2 2 years ago
. . . join the swing to swept wing ! ! ! ! Thanks Ira, great stuff !
JustChiminin 2 years ago
I am from a different generation. I like visiting the past.
I also would have jumped in the car and chased Lawrence Welk around causing mass chaos.
Then my grandparents would not have tortured me every weekend by watching him.
MUHAHAHAHA!
darkwhitedirewolf 2 years ago
My Mother had a "57" Coronet 500. It had a lot of power but, it was noisy and rode too firm. Nice design though.
cadrolls1 3 years ago
to cadrolls1: yeh, thats classic old Chrysler products....the ultra firm ride. Thats because they had "leaf spring suspension" in the rear instead of "coil springs" like GM had. My 1962 Chrysler was really tight and firm ....took railroad tracks nice
inkey2 2 years ago
A friend of mine has one of these '57's with a 325 ci. HEMI in it
magnaflowedramx4 3 years ago
I had one of these with a 354 hemi engine; I miss that car, even today. Perhaps it had a high lift cam or something done to it before I bought it but it ran faster than any car I've had yet.
WACOAGENTS 3 years ago 2
@WACOAGENTS When I met my wife she was driving a '56 Dodge with the big 4bbl hemi that set a stock American car record of 131mph on the sand that year at Daytona. I was driving a '57 Chevy with the 283ci powerpack option. We never got around to drag racing the two cars, but I'm pretty sure my Chevy could have taken her Dodge in the 1/4 mile, but definitely not at top end. Nowadays she gets scared if I go over 65 on the Interstate. Old age aint for sissies.
minralb 1 year ago