Still images captured from video below.
Sponsored by Plymouth, this chunk of celluloid might be overlooked as just another ode to “safe and courteous driving in the modern era,” but this one has enough going for it, including some subtle humor, to warrant a 10-minute break from your daily grind. Which is about as much of the narrator as you’ll want to endure, so it all works out well.
Gasp! A two-car collision, due to misjudged braking distance. What are the odds that non-Plymouth cars would be sacrificed (is that a pair of 1932 Chevrolets?), and how did that state police officer arrive so quickly? Thanks to our own Jim O’Clair, we think it might have been his police-spec 1934-’36 Harley-Davidson VLD flathead.
The mandatory don’t-drive-like-a-jerk sequences include several of our faves, like crowding the center line, passing in all the wrong places and racing a highballing passenger train.
And there’s that pig-headed driver at the wheel of a 1934 La Salle Convertible Coupe, toddling along at nowhere near the speeds required when it was chosen as pacemaker for that year’s Indianapolis 500. An intentional GM slam? Nah.
Did we mention a series of stunt driving maneuvers that would make a Hell Driver for the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show proud?
Throughout, we find an abundance of 1936 Plymouth 5-passenger Touring Sedans, including one on the assembly line. But as the undated film signs off with a 1937 Deluxe model, we’re left to wonder when it all came together.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
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