Italian VersionThe American Automobile Timeline 1899-1970
The American Automobile 1899-1970
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1963
The JFK killing in Dallas is the event of the year.
The first emission controls are mandated.
Chevrolet introduces a new line of smaller cars, the Chevy II.
GM produces its 75,000,000th US-made vehicle (March 14 ).
Tilt steering is optional in General Motors cars.
Alfred P. Sloan's book, My Years With General Motors, is published.
Chrysler offers the industry's first 5 year or 50,000 mile warranty on drive train components.
This year Chrysler purchases 40 percent of the shares of the Spanish car company Barreros.
In 1963, under Love's leadership, Chrysler introduces the Chrysler Turbine Car, designed by Ghia. The vehicle is powered by a turbine engine, similar to today's jet engines. Only 50 of the vehicles are manufactured for consumer research and testing. The Turbine Car never goes into full production, but the research results will be incorporated into defense vehicle technology. The Federal government allowed the Turbine Car's bodies (hand built in Italy by Ghia) into the country on a visa for five or six months. Chrysler would not pay the duty if they destroy them before the visa expired. They could have shipped them back to Italy but... perhaps for economic reasons, most end up as blast furnace food.
May 1: Arjay Miller is elected Company President of the Ford Motor Co.
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1963chevy-vette-ad-bw944.mov
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Producer: GM
Chevrolet TV ad.
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1963ChrysTurbCarDriversGuide.mov
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Manual QT Slideshow Audio/Visual: silent, C Quality: # # # # #
Filetype: Quicktime interactive movie Filesize: 1,8 MB
Manual slideshow. The 1963 Chrysler TurbineCar Driver's Guide pages.
1963HeritageOfSplendor.mpeg
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Heritage of Splendor (1963)
Producer: Higgins (Alfred) Productions
Why we must preserve America's great natural resources from the consequences of littering. Narrator: Ronald Reagan. Great sequences of roads, highways, and cars.
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1963ford-atesting-lab03264.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad. Fragment.
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1963FordFalcon-AD04-6312.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad filmed in Montecarlo.
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1963FordFairlaneSquire-AD04.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963Fordgalaxie-AD04-6312b.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad filmed in Montecarlo.
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1963FordGalaxie-AD0420.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
1963FordSpotHT-AD04-6312.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963FordTBird-AD04641.mov
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963Ford-GalaxieCAT-TVAd0321.mov
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Ford TV ad.
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1963GreenwichVillageSunday.mpg
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Village Sunday (1963)
Producer: Wilensky (Stewart)
Exploration of the colorful counterculture of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Narrator: Jean Shepherd. Director, producer and screenwriter: Stewart Willensky. Beat life-avant-garde poetry and music: Charles Mills.
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1963jfk-zapruder.mpg
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Producer: Zapruder
Amateur movie. The killing of JFK in Dallas, Tx.
1963Mopar-ChryslerAD0402.mov
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Producer: Chrysler
Chrysler-MoparTV ad filmed at the Pomona Drags.
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1963new-vette-cv01001.mov
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A 1963 Corvette. Actual footage.
1963Oldsmobile98Commercial.mpeg
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Producer: GM
Oldsmobile TV ad.
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1963PlymouthFuryWag-AD04.mov
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Plymouth TV ad.
1963PlymouthTVAdSC01
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Plymouth TV ad.
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1963PlymouthTVAdSC01
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Plymouth TV ad.
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1963PlymouthTVAdSC01
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Plymouth TV ad.
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1963PlymouthTVAdSC01
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Plymouth TV ad.
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1963PlymouthTVAdSC01
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Plymouth TV ad.
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1963police-simulatedaccident1.mov
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A police simulated accident.
1963police-simulatedaccident2.mov
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A police simulated accident.
1963police-simulatedaccident3.mov
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A police simulated accident.
1963Rochester.mpeg
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Rochester: A City of Quality (1963)
Sponsor: Rochester Gas & Electric
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Tour of the area, concentrating on redevelopment and economic activity.
Presents a survey of the city of Rochester, N.Y., its history, culture and economic advantages. Explains the role of good planning in the city's development.
The high point of this film occurs at its beginning, when we see Rochester's gaudy "clock of nations" in action in its modern Midtown Plaza. Beyond this, all Rochester seems to offer is "stable people" and "plenty of convenient parking". Some interesting epoca cars sequences.
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1963SpecialDelivery.mpeg
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Special Delivery (1963)
Sponsor: Superior Coach Corporation
Producer: Safety Enterprises Corporation
How Superior Coach Co. school buses move children safely to and from school, told through the experience of Mickey Miller, who is just a bit too young to ride the bus to school and yearns to do so. Dramatic film in Ektachrome which uses closeups well. School bus driver: John Butler (police chief of Mansfield, Ohio, where this film was produced).
1963StudeAvantiR2INCAR120Mph.WMV
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A 1963 Studebaker Avanti in-car video.
1963StudeLark-WagonaireAD454.mp4
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Studebaker Lark Wagonaire TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC02.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC03.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC04.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC05.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad with Tsa Tsa Gabor.
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1963StudebakerADSC06.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC07.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC08.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC09.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC09.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerADSC09.mp4
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Studebaker TV ad.
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1963StudebakerColFilmSC.mp4
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Studebaker Film for internal use.
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1963Drive-InCartoonSC05.mp4
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Drive-In Ad
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1963ChevroletCorvairADSC.mp4
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Chevrolet CorvairTV ad.
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1963thompsonmcdonaldvettest.mov
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Producer GM
Testing the 1963 Corvette on the GM's track with pilots Thompson and McDonald.
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1963turbinecar-family-amateur-movie.mp4
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Here is a short history of the Chrysler Turbine Car.
Chrysler's chief engineer of research and development, George Hubner, started the Turbine Cars Project in 1954.
These experimental engines have been mounted on dream cars and on normal bodies, for long term driving tests, and the evolution of the research proceeded constantly for nearly ten years.
In 1963 the Chrysler Corporation built over 50 gas turbine-powered cars. Incredibly, they then lent them (free of charge) to normal citizens to drive for three months each, with comments and feedback encouraged at the end of the period.
So, almost 40 years ago, a number of people in the US were literally driving jet cars around on public roads - taking them to the supermarket, commuting to work, and probably parking them at drive-ins! And these weren't just 'pretend' jet cars, they were the real thing. Engines revving at speeds of up to 48,000 rpm and with exhaust gas temperatures of 2800 degrees Celsius. They were certainly the only cars on the road that had tachos going to 60,000 rpm.
Released to the press in New York on May 14, 1963, the Chrysler Turbine Car used a body produced by Ghia with mechanicals made by Chrysler. Except for the revolutionary driveline, the rest of the car aped typical US contemporary car practice. But that jet-like exhaust note (said by some to have been deliberately left loud) was like no other family car on the block...
The Fed. government allowed the bodies (hand built in Italy by Ghia) into the country on a VISA for five or six years. Chrysler would not pay the duty if they destroyed them before the VISA expired. They could have shipped them back to Italy but as this video taken for the Federals shows, most ended up as blast furnace food between 1967 and 1969.
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1963turbinecar-destruction.mp4
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The destruction of the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car bodies filmed in 1967.
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1963wheelsOfTragedy.mpeg
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Wheels of Tragedy (1963)
Producer: Higgins (Alfred) Productions
Wheels of Tragedy (1963)
Producer: Highway Safety Films, Inc.
Gory, drivers education "shock" film from the makers of Signal-30.
Wheels of Tragedy was Highway Safety Films' first attempt to use actors in recreating the "before" scenes of a real accident. It is said that local coffee club "talents" were used
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1963Ford-HardtopTVad.avi
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963FordTbirdNew002:avi
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963FordHazelTV-Ad.avi
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
Ford TV ad.
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1963MercuryMontereyTVAD.avi
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Producer: Ford Motor Company
MercuryTV ad.
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1963StudebakerWagonaire-MrEdTV-AD04.avi
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Producer: Studebaker
Studebaker TV ad.
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