Comments by "OldsVistaCruiser" (@OldsVistaCruiser) on "King Rose Archives" channel.

  1. Or a huge 1976 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser "clamshell" wagon, the last year for the GM behemoths! 455 cubic inches under the hood!
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  2. And unions were strong. Every worker in this film was UAW.
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  3. Sad to think that the youth of then are now collecting Social Security today. A 16-year-old in 1966 is now 70 in 2020.
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  4. Introduced on the 1940 Oldsmobile and Cadillac.
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  5. At 0:49 Dinah says that "it's the best-looking car in the whole world." False advertising. In 1953, the Studebaker was far better looking, and it looked like it could have been a 1961 model.
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  6. Had Studebaker-Packard merged with AMC, I think that there would have been a Big 4 today.
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  7. The 1960 Galaxie was absolutely beautiful. The Falcon didn't become attractive until '64. The T-Bird didn't become attractive until '65.
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  8. There was a recession in '58. It killed Edsel and DeSoto.
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  9. Willem-Alexander, the king of the Netherlands, is rated on the Fokker 70 and the Boeing 737! He used to moonlight as a first officer for KLM Cityhopper.
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  10. I would nominate the '61 Lincoln as the best design of the '60s. It got even better by the mid-'60s, and its timeless lines look fresh in 2022.
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  11. That problem was corrected for the 1965 model Corvair.
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  12. "The most-beautiful car"? Sorry, but the Studebaker for '53 was much better looking. It could have actually passed for a '63!
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  13. King Rose Archives - I have heard the Edsel front treatment referred to as "the car with a (c-word) in the front."
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  14. Mylan Miller - DeSoto lasted just one more year than the Edsel.
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  15. The car appears to have used the Lincoln Highway east of Salt Lake City, as the Pennsylvania Turnpike didn't open until 1940. Imagine what kind of gas mileage could have been attained with modern highways!
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  16. I was cruising at 80 mph yesterday in my 1992 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon, which has a 180 hp V8. It has an aerodynamic shape.
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  17. They killed it in 1960, after they got rid of the (rhyming vulgar word for a part of the female anatomy) in the front. The '60 should have saved the division. Ford didn't give the new look a chance. It was absolutely beautiful.
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  18. Cadillac was a step down from Packard. Packard was America's answer to the Rolls-Royce in that day.
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  19. That identical range also appeared in "Bewitched" for the first 6 seasons, until a 1970 fire destroyed the set.
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  20. Chevy had one body. At that time, they had three trim levels. 150 was bare-bones. 210 was basic. Belair was the "fancy" Chevy.
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  21. GM had reverse past low until 1964. Studebaker must have been buying Hydramatics from GM.
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  22.  @billpressler5319  - In '64, Rambler had PRN21L. I guess that Studebaker was getting their transmissions from GM! In 2, the car started in 2nd gear. In 1, it went through all 3 gears.
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  23.  @billpressler5319 - I thought that Borg-Warner transmissions were PRND21.
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  24. Part of the air conditioning has to be in the trunk? Nash would introduce the dashboard-mounted A/C system that we all know the following year.
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  25. "High speed"? It looked like that car didn't break 35 mph. There was no such thing as high speed on an American highway in 1976. The maximum speed limit was 55 mph.
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