The Official Classic at Pismo Beach Cruise, the day before Father’s Day 2009. (3 of 5) This video is for my dad, and all the dads who wanted to go to this show, but couldn’t because they’re unable to walk & stand like the old days. It’s getting old and nothing lasts forever. Thank you GM & Chrysler for making some incredible machines, and works of art over an amazing time in history my dad lived through. And these cars! Just like my pops, theyll never be anything like em…
The Pismo Beach Classic is one of the largest classic car and street rod shows on the
West Coast and ‘one of the finest.’ Pismo Beach, California, is the host city for this classic
car show, now in its 24th year. This show, held annually on the 3rd full weekend of June,
pulls in 1000 classic cars and street rods and over 125,000 spectators over three days.
GENERAL MOTORS
General Motors (GM) was founded on September 27, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant. It acquired Oldsmobile later that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland (later known as Pontiac) and several others. Also in 1909, General Motors acquired the Reliance Motor Truck Company of Owosso, Michigan, and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessors of GMC Truck. Durant lost control of GM in 1910 to a bankers’ trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in its acquisitions coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales. A few years later, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor car company and through this he secretly purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant took back control of the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American business history. Shortly after, he again lost control, this time for good, after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred Sloan was picked to take charge of the corporation and led it to its post war global dominance. This unprecedented growth of GM would last into the early 1980s when it employed 349,000 workers and 150 assembly plants.
CHRYSLER
Chrysler was founded by Walter P. Chrysler on June 6, 1925. The Chrysler was a 6-cylinder automobile, designed to provide customers with an advanced, well-engineered car, but at a more affordable price than they might expect. (Elements of this car are traceable back to a prototype which had been under development at Willys at the time that Walter Chrysler was there).[18] The original 1924 Chrysler included a carburetor air filter, high compression engine, full pressure lubrication, and an oil filter, at a time when most autos came without these features.[19] Among the innovations in its early years would be the first practical mass-produced four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a system nearly completely engineered by Chrysler with patents assigned to Lockheed, and rubber engine mounts to reduce vibration. The advanced engineering and testing that went into Chrysler Corporation cars helped to push the company to the second-place position in U.S. sales by 1936, a position it would last hold in 1949.
FORD
The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge (who would later found their own car company). Henry’s first attempt under his name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902. During its early years, the company produced just a few cars a day at its factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the world’s largest and most profitable companies, as well as being one to survive the Great Depression. As one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
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Photographs of cars racing on Forreston Rd, turning into Norsworthy Rd, in the Adelaide Hills, Australia.
Quite a few cars had difficulties to say the least handling this particular T-junction, due to the road size and camber.
The video includes a GT that approaches the corner way too fast and misses the corner and nearly cleans-up a TV camera man, and also the car of Gary Tierney and David Carra, whose Porsche wrapped around a tree.
All due respect to them and their families. Reast in peace.
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Volvo Cars, or Volvo Personvagnar AB, is a Swedish automobile manufacturer founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently owned by Ford Motor Company.
1944 Safety cage
1944 Laminated windscreen
1954 Defroster vents for windscreen
1956 Windscreen washers
1957 Anchor points for 2point safety belts front
1958 Anchor points for 2point safety belts rear
1959 3point front safety belts standard
1960 Padded instrument panel
1964 First rearwardfacing child safety seat prototype tested
1966 Crumple zones front and rear
1966 Safety doorlocks
1967 Safety belt rear seats
1969 Inertia reel safety belts
1971 Reminder safety belt
1972 3point safety belts rear
1972 Rearwardfacing child safety seat
1972 Childproof locks on rear doors
1974 Multistage impact absorbing steering column
1974 Bulb integrity sensor
1975 Braking system with stepped bore master cylinder
1978 Child safety booster cushion
1982 “Antisubmarining” protection
1986 Threepoint safety belt centre rear seat
1990 Integrated child safety cushion in centre rear seat
1991 SIPS Side Impact Protection System
1991 Automatic height adjusting safety belt
1992 Reinforced rear seats in estate models
1995 Integrated child safety cushion outer rear seats
1997 ROPS Roll Over Protection System (C70)
1998 WHIPS Whiplash Protection System
1998 IC Inflatable Curtain
2001 SCC Volvo Safety Concept Car
2002 RSC Roll Stability Control
2003 New Front Structure called Volvo Intelligent Vehicle Architecture (VIVA) (S40, V50)
2003 Rear seat belt reminders (in S40 and V50)
2003 IDIS Intelligent Driver Information System (in S40 and V50)
2003 Inauguration of Volvo’s Traffic Accident Research Team in Bangkok
2004 BLIS Blind Spot Information System (in S40 and V50)
2005 Introduction of DMIC (Door Mounted Inflatable Curtain) (new Volvo C70)
2006 PCC – Personal Car Communicator (S80)
2006 CWBS – Collision Warning with Brake Support (S80)
2007 PPB – Power Park Brake (S80)
2007 DAC – Driver Alert Control (V70, XC70)
2009 City Safety – Automatically stop car at speeds below 19 mph if obstruction is detected in front of car (XC60)
Volvo was originally formed as a subsidiary company to the ball bearing maker SKF. It was not until 1935 when Volvo AB was introduced on the Swedish stock exchange that SKF sold most of the shares in the company. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group.
Volvo produces models ranging from SUVs, wagons, and sedans to compact executive sedans and coupes. With 2,500 dealerships worldwide in 100 markets; 60 percent of sales come from Europe, 30 percent from North America, and the other 10 percent is from the rest of the world.
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This Video is Dedicated to JP Import owners & Ricer’s which they are 2 different thing’s. This video is to show you all what we are made of , and that you all dont have nothing on Us.
Always talking about American Car’s with in CORNER’S?? Which who ever say’s about CORNERS about American Car’s Shows how ignorants you all are with in the Lack of Knowledge about Car’s.
JP Import’s are so OVER RATED by These Fast & the Furious Movies that make you all think your Superior in Performace In General from Power to handling , Cornering etc etc. You all need to stop watching Fast and The Furious Movies 3 Times a Week and RACE your self or STOP PLAYING NEED FOR SPEED GAMES.
WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD.
AVOID STUPID RICER EXCUSE COMMENTS SUCH AS:
#1) You can only Go for Straight Lines – Do your research and shut the up. ANY CAR CAN TAKE CORNERS: its all about a proper limited slip differential with in a proper tweaked transmission to a softer suspension.
#2) Gas Mileage – has Nothing to do with Racing !!
That only seems you aint got to say.
#3) The U.S Economy – Which has nothing to do with Racing also.
#4) Calling us Rednecks – when first of all im Not even white to begin with , How Stupid would it sound for me to say that JP Import owners are all ASIANS???
Very Stupid huh?? That Only means thats the only thing u can say when you loose the conversation.
SAVE STUPID COMMENT LIKE THOSE AND BELIEVE ME THAT YOU WILL SOUND SMARTER.
SALEEN , SHELBY AERO TT, FORD GT , VIPER ACR , GT500KR , CORVETTE ZR1 SUPERIOR TO JAPAN TOP CAR’S IN PERFORMANCE IN GENERAL FROM POWER POINT G CORNERING , AERDYNAMIC , STABILITY, BREAK PERFORMANCE . HECK EVEN BETTER LOOKING.
OOH AND YEAH TRY GOING 0-300 IN 3 TO 4 SECONDS ON QUARTER MILE. SUCH THINGS DONT EXIST !!
PEACE !!
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This classic Corvette in Malaysia being pampered with the Ultimate Quik Wax for a wax booster! The shine and look to this Corvette looks amazing!
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The Official Classic at Pismo Beach Cruise, the day before Father’s Day 2009. (1 of 6) This video is for my dad, and all the dads who wanted to go to this show, but couldn’t because they’re unable to walk & stand like the old days. It’s getting old and nothing lasts forever. Thank you GM & Chrysler for making some incredible machines, and works of art over an amazing time in history my dad lived through. And these cars! Just like my pops, theyll never be anything like em…
The Pismo Beach Classic is one of the largest classic car and street rod shows on the
West Coast and ‘one of the finest.’ Pismo Beach, California, is the host city for this classic
car show, now in its 24th year. This show, held annually on the 3rd full weekend of June,
pulls in 1000 classic cars and street rods and over 125,000 spectators over three days.
GENERAL MOTORS
General Motors (GM) was founded on September 27, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant. It acquired Oldsmobile later that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland (later known as Pontiac) and several others. Also in 1909, General Motors acquired the Reliance Motor Truck Company of Owosso, Michigan, and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessors of GMC Truck. Durant lost control of GM in 1910 to a bankers’ trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in its acquisitions coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales. A few years later, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor car company and through this he secretly purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant took back control of the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American business history. Shortly after, he again lost control, this time for good, after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred Sloan was picked to take charge of the corporation and led it to its post war global dominance. This unprecedented growth of GM would last into the early 1980s when it employed 349,000 workers and 150 assembly plants.
CHRYSLER
Chrysler was founded by Walter P. Chrysler on June 6, 1925. The Chrysler was a 6-cylinder automobile, designed to provide customers with an advanced, well-engineered car, but at a more affordable price than they might expect. (Elements of this car are traceable back to a prototype which had been under development at Willys at the time that Walter Chrysler was there).[18] The original 1924 Chrysler included a carburetor air filter, high compression engine, full pressure lubrication, and an oil filter, at a time when most autos came without these features.[19] Among the innovations in its early years would be the first practical mass-produced four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a system nearly completely engineered by Chrysler with patents assigned to Lockheed, and rubber engine mounts to reduce vibration. The advanced engineering and testing that went into Chrysler Corporation cars helped to push the company to the second-place position in U.S. sales by 1936, a position it would last hold in 1949.
FORD
The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge (who would later found their own car company). Henry’s first attempt under his name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902. During its early years, the company produced just a few cars a day at its factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the world’s largest and most profitable companies, as well as being one to survive the Great Depression. As one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
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The Official Classic at Pismo Beach Cruise, the day before Father’s Day 2009. (2 of 5) This video is for my dad, and all the dads who wanted to go to this show, but couldn’t because they’re unable to walk & stand like the old days. It’s getting old and nothing lasts forever. Thank you GM & Chrysler for making some incredible machines, and works of art over an amazing time in history my dad lived through. And these cars! Just like my pops, theyll never be anything like em…
The Pismo Beach Classic is one of the largest classic car and street rod shows on the
West Coast and ‘one of the finest.’ Pismo Beach, California, is the host city for this classic
car show, now in its 24th year. This show, held annually on the 3rd full weekend of June,
pulls in 1000 classic cars and street rods and over 125,000 spectators over three days.
GENERAL MOTORS
General Motors (GM) was founded on September 27, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant. It acquired Oldsmobile later that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland (later known as Pontiac) and several others. Also in 1909, General Motors acquired the Reliance Motor Truck Company of Owosso, Michigan, and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessors of GMC Truck. Durant lost control of GM in 1910 to a bankers’ trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in its acquisitions coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales. A few years later, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor car company and through this he secretly purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant took back control of the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American business history. Shortly after, he again lost control, this time for good, after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred Sloan was picked to take charge of the corporation and led it to its post war global dominance. This unprecedented growth of GM would last into the early 1980s when it employed 349,000 workers and 150 assembly plants.
CHRYSLER
Chrysler was founded by Walter P. Chrysler on June 6, 1925. The Chrysler was a 6-cylinder automobile, designed to provide customers with an advanced, well-engineered car, but at a more affordable price than they might expect. (Elements of this car are traceable back to a prototype which had been under development at Willys at the time that Walter Chrysler was there).[18] The original 1924 Chrysler included a carburetor air filter, high compression engine, full pressure lubrication, and an oil filter, at a time when most autos came without these features.[19] Among the innovations in its early years would be the first practical mass-produced four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a system nearly completely engineered by Chrysler with patents assigned to Lockheed, and rubber engine mounts to reduce vibration. The advanced engineering and testing that went into Chrysler Corporation cars helped to push the company to the second-place position in U.S. sales by 1936, a position it would last hold in 1949.
FORD
The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge (who would later found their own car company). Henry’s first attempt under his name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902. During its early years, the company produced just a few cars a day at its factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the world’s largest and most profitable companies, as well as being one to survive the Great Depression. As one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
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The classic car run from the Spirit of Dunboyne Motor Festival, which took place on the 4th of October 2009. This was shot from my position just outside of Mulvaney’s pub, on the main traffic island there.
The commentator/announcer box was a little further down the road, hence the details being head after they go past! Also, I went quite late and didn’t get any footage of the bike run (damn you F1 rerun on BBC1…)
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