American Motors, Pt 1

Thanks, John ! A very interesting program and filled with great visuals. "What-if" situations are always fascinating to imagine.

I loved this clip; extremely interesting!

Thank-you John ! I really enjoyed watching this. 
Steve

Interesting...Thanks John.

This is a wonderful series. Thanks!

This documentary is very well done; I'm surprised I hadn't seen it before.    Thanks for sharing!   

I love documentaries! Let’s us see how we ended up here.  
Did not miss the 33 mph!  What happened!  We could use that today for sure.  
Family at the other end of town had a mid to late cross country wagon.  By the time I got interested in it they had pushed (and I do mean pushed) it into the alley behind their home and on the side of the garage.  Poor thing was so abuse I could not tell what the original color was (probably dark blue coz it was sort of purple). Funny at the time (mid 60s) it didn’t look compact but there were small cars around from the big 3 at that time.  Their 64 ambassador sedan was even smaller. 

In addition, the thought that these would make great second cars was a bit early.  At the time most family cars were the family wagons.  Men drove the sedans to work and left the wagons for the wife for groceries and kids.  Now that I think some of aunts were very skilled in parking the wagons with a bunch of us untethered in the back. Also some families would keep their older car as the second car when money was tight. My mom never drove till I was 15 so our “ good Sunday go to church” car stayed in the garage and my dad used pickups and our second car for work in strip mining coal.

My paternal grandfather had Ramblers, most likely because that was the town's only car dealership.  Country folk didn't travel thirty miles for a new car, when George was right up the street.

thanks John, well made piece on an interesting motor history story. "Not a small car, a compact car"

- I got hooked, and binge-watched, more or less, the entire 3 hour (6 part ) series.   Thanks again John, I enjoyed it!   😎 

Very educational. Thanks, John.