Comparison of 1958 Cars Part 1

fail with big landing strips of concrete we have three truths here one to conduct the tests want to check the cameras and equipment but you can see we have to be able to shoot from high angles once in a while one to check every car to make sure it's at peak performance engines brakes tires everything [Music] right now are sending the cars out to see which ones have occurred it's acceleration when you need it thought you had might call us but gee I wonder test the gee I wonder 10 mm you ever pass the string of slow-moving cars and about halfway around another car coming right at you I'll say okay well I don't know about you but what happened for me I say yeah whatever I'm gonna make it oh I see the gee I wonder test that's pretty good actually it's for passing ability test this is where we find out what that extra horsepower is really for it's properly engineered we start with Windsor and Mercury across across the line at 25 miles an hour there are the drivers floor of accelerators 500 feet the Windsors two and a half line side [Music] but one of the starting this is the New York the Imperial on the Lincoln these are all one continuous run from one camera to the other the car shall more get up and go far than our competition well with Auto should I say passing interest well I see what you mean about needing quick power for emergency Pappy but some other emergency retest for over here [Music] this is the politest we're lining up for Windsor in the olds 88 and the Buick super cross the starting line is exactly 60 miles an hour if they're all even dusty we'll give them the signal to slam on the brakes we have set up a limitation tractor and hay wagon on the track and the officer gets to stop before they hit the wagon well then just a moment we'll see how wow it is because here they come the Windsor voles I'm doing super approaching 60 miles an hour the Lions are up a rated safe stopping distance and sexy you're always gonna like through one wagon well of your plows into another buzzer stops well back the ones around the mercury for Chrysler cars not only add more power they have better control of it again the Windsor stops short but mercury Mudge's the wagon all the Imperial with Lincoln and Cadillac Sam speed the brakes the Imperial comes to a safe straight-line stop the others can't stop in time the third driver looks as though he might have a lawsuit in this that has to say the least about the lesson a few chief nursing the Chrysler car seemed to be the best whether it's go power stop power let's see it set to turn power not that I know of one we set up these flies exactly 60 feet apart our cars are going to weave through them at 35 miles an hour [Music] the ones are graceful and humble and sure the older male the third slide feels we're on break slowly slides off the road the fourth line slides off my champion comes all you're at super I'm gladder same speed same room breakaway same loss of control [Music] [Applause] all the mercury it leans heavily it swerves well will slide off the shoulder this is so easy you'd think the Chrysler cars were glued to the road you I called master this Buick is equipped with airbags four springs extra cost but our backs don't seem to help much I'm leaves and spurs that's half out of control the Imperial is a long hard it'll negotiates the flags cleanly personally no no right away of the rear end the catalog in the imperial class develops considerable lean and swerve and the rear end fishtails there goes a little apply the driver has only partial control whilst the Lincoln it starts out alright but soon it's in trouble every single car so the crisis I have a mr. tire or at a flag there's another difference between for Chamara dog merit suspension coil springs are airbags I can see now there's more to power steering than just making it easier to park come on we're going out the mouth Whitney Road and do some more tests why don't you ride in the Imperial oh that did it let's go winds are on average super Costales 18 percent grade with transmissions and low gear this determines the breaker get out of an engine without using your brights right shoes too much on hills heat up and fade Buick but Donna flow transmission doesn't hold as well as the Wonder don't laugh that is the ones are they out [Music] this engine braking test is pretty much a test of transmissions how's the Chrysler torque light against Oldsmobile hydra-matic the torque flight holds better than the hydra-matic the Windsor TorqueFlite vs. Murfreesboro Manik this particular quality doesn't mean much of the level but then Chile driving it means a way over the law [Music] we're gonna use this sharper for another test it's the bullet Ian's hard turns establish safe speed around here was 25 miles an hour our drivers are gonna check it at 50 see how studies car can hang in there here comes the Windsor around the corner [Music] super [Music] they don't the Chrysler slide off the road the answer is torsion air [Music]

Channel: howsthat1959

Views: 126,140

Keywords: Chrysler, Lincoln, GM, cars

Id: YBNWBHYp41w

Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 23 2007