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Old video of a 59 Chevy being made Start to Finish


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Plays with sound for me Harry.

Do you have your speakers on? B) Sorry had to ask. B)

Yep, speakers on. I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching/listening to music and movies and stuff... but for some reason no sound on this video. The video plays just fine, but for me it's a "silent movie." :(

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I wonder if you can find it on youtube. This video silent is no fun. I like the clothes the people are wearing and the fact the painters are not wearing a mask!

Mask, schmask! That was in the days when men were still men and women still wore skirts! :lol::P

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Ok... I went to YouTube and clicked on the video directly. The commercial that plays first... sound is fine. The video itself... silent.

It's not my computer, because the sound on the commercial was fine.

Are you guys seeing this video with sound?

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Ok... I went to YouTube and clicked on the video directly. The commercial that plays first... sound is fine. The video itself... silent.

It's not my computer, because the sound on the commercial was fine.

Are you guys seeing this video with sound?

:blink:

Are you using Chrome or Mozilla Or IE? I have sound and I'm using Chrome.

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Notice when they do show the clay model, it's mainly the '59 Buick. The Buick design proposal is the one General Motors based their new B and C body cars for '59 on. All share the common Buick front doors. Once the basic Buick body was agreed upon, all other divisions designed their front and rear clips to fit this design. For cost savings all '59 GM cars shared the same bodies. In 1958, Chevy and Pontiac shared the A body. Oldsmobile and the small Buicks were based on the B body. The big Buicks and Cadillacs, the C body. For '59, the A body was dropped. And the C became basically a stretched B body. Fleetwood 75s were built on a so called D body. As in the past, this was basically a modified C body. This saved General Motors a lot of money. The 60's changed all of this again, as other size cars, requiring other bodies came on line. But, for 1959, there was basically one GM body that year.

Scott

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I thought I knew old cars and engineering, but I had no idea that so much hand work still went into U.S. cars in the late 1950s. The interior cut / sew line really surprised me, as did the extent of jigs and fixtures assembled and dis-assembled around the structural units, and the human dimension-checking of the glass openings. Absolutely fascinating.

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