Never saw "My Mother the Car," though I'd heard of it.

I always assumed somehow that it was from a little longer ago than the mid-'60s.

It isn't so very bad. I saw someplace in looking it up today that it had a laugh track when it aired, but posted video of it on youtube & hulu doesn't.

Here's the pilot (and first episode):

Poor ol' second-fiddle Jerry Van Dyke. Alcoholic like his brother, I seem to remember hearing.