my65riv Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 When you look at today's marketing though more hi-tech,it still doesn't match with the older stuff.I personally like watching the old car commercials and the way the announcer would tell you about the car.Especially the ones that bombed in the marketplace.Everyone knows the phrase "corithian leather".what is your favorite commercial/slogan?Jeff MealerMt. Juliet,TN1965 Buick"ask a man who drives one"Riviera1965 Pontiac Bonneville1960 Cadillac "car with no brakes right now"(my slogan)Coupe DeVille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 One of my very favorites is the one where the guy drives the (I think it was a Jeep product) through a very muddy area and the vehicles "shakes off" like a dog until it's clean. It of course splatters everyone standing there with mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 53Bob76R Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Maybe showing my age...........but I can still vividly picture the Chevy commercials with the Bonanza theme in the background as the new cars sat on top of the mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50jetback Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 My favourite is an Australian 2007 Toyota Hilux ad.Tried to put in a link but wouldn't work so if you Google <span style="color: #FF0000">Toyota Hilux 2007 Australian Cows</span> you should be able to view it on YouTube.Have a look and see what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Back when I was a kid the local International Dealer use to be right on Main Street near the High School (around the corner from my house). He had the office in the house, and some of his cars were across the street from his house parked in a vacant lot. He used to have a big sign that said "<span style="font-weight: bold">SLOW DOWN, SCOUT CROSSING</span>" You'd be amazed at how many out of town people hit the brakes looking for the kid crossing the street only to find an International Scout parked there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elmo39 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Susan we had the same ad here, and it was a jeep ,although it was probably changed a bit to suit New Zealand conditions. Stuart i googled the toyota ad it was exactly as we saw , one of my favourites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elmo39 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Also Happy New Year to every one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Although not an old car, the following commercial always stuck in my head. 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGaIe-4-2yg&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGaIe-4-2yg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 For those that prefer older car commercials here is something more to your liking. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFXEps2KMJg&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFXEps2KMJg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curti Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Oh, my favorite is the recent Cadillac ad, that maybe still running in some venues which goes like this:"In today's luxury game, the question isn't whether or not your car has available features like a 40-gig hard drive. It isn't about sun roofs or Sapelli wood accents, popup nav screens or any of that. No, the real question is: When you turn your car on, does it return the favor?" You need to hear her voice. Walsh sounds a little bored, her words slightly slurred, as if she were two pomegranate martinis into the evening but with her wits totally about her. For instance, though she first dismisses the significance of luxury-car features per se, she still manages to list the highlights. And they're duly registered -- right up to where she mentions erotic stimulation and floors the gas pedal in her high-heeled sandal. Sure enough, suddenly the GPS system doesn't seem to matter. And prostate patients everywhere feel hope. (And so will women, who are sure to see this brazen foxiness as empowering -- and maybe more than that. Unless I am grossly misinterpreting her last line, this sounds like an ad for a $40,000 vibrator.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old gto Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 <span style="color: #3333FF">Not real old, but Suburban Auto Group`s "Trunk Monkey" commercials are hilarious.</span> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest windjamer Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 The hit parade Dina and see the USA in your Checrolet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxops Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I also loved the "Corinthian Leather." Can everyone say "Corrrrdooooba?" Ricardo Montalban was great for that ad. My favorite slogans are: "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?" and "The Lark, the Lark, the Studebaker Lark..." I thought that for modern ads, Cadillac goofed when they showed the 1955 or 1956 Cadillac convertible and then the modern Cadillac thing driving up alongside it. The audience would be thinking...."that red convertible, wow! Which one would you rather have?..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Peter, after watching 60 minutes and 22 seconds of that video I'll argue with the best as to which times were better.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Yep, me too.That movie got me interested in Fisher Body, which gave me some newsletter ideas, and wishful thinking about investments! Fisher Body Web Site! <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Top of the line models were these silver coaches trimmed in gold. Fisher Body authorized the sale of 1,200 of these coaches during the division's 50th Anniversary of the coach logo in 1973. They were available with or without horses. Costing $2,000 without horses, the purchase then would have been a great investment. One with horses was recently advertised on e-Bay by an Arizona owner with an opening bid of $55,000. Only 1,000 models were to be built and the main offering was to GM dealerships. </div></div>I'm waiting to hear from Mr Moskowitz, as to how many of these he has in his closet! ++Wayne++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I always liked the "See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call" Chevy ad campaign as well as "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?". Chevy's "Jet Smooth Ride" thing was neat too.For me own favorite cars, 1965's "There's a Rocket to fit your pocket" and 1970's "Escape from the Ordinary" stand out in Oldsmobile's ad campaigns. Their WORST campaign? "This is not your father's Oldsmobile". It damn sure wasn't, and it 1)backfired on them with the traditional Olds buyer and 2) became an object of ridicule among the buyers they thought it would attract. The ad agency and the GM poobah who OK'd it should both have been beaten soundly about the head.My Grandma was a big Lawrence Welk fan, so I got to see a lot of early-60s Dodge commercials when I'd stay with her Saturday nights. I remember not being able to say "Dodge Dart" as a small kid. It always came out "Dodge Dodge" . I find myself watching old TV shows to see the (then-new) old cars. Sometimes I wish TV Land and DVD sets could figure out a way to insert the original period commercials in the shows. I'm sure TV commercials were as annoying then as they are now, but it seems to me advertising had more style back then. I haven't seen a car ad that made me want to go out and buy that particular car in over 20 years. Cadillac came close with their Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll" ads, but I thought it stupid to turn loose of that much money on a new car. Ah druther spend it on the <span style="font-style: italic">old</span> cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Glenn, I received a "That Girl" DVD for Christmas. It also included vintage TV ads/commercials. Of course, Marlo Thomas was my heart throb in those days of old. She still looks pretty good at 70, too! Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 "That Girl" is <span style="font-weight: bold">70</span>?! Umph. Maybe 51 is older than I thought it was... she caused some adolescent fever for me too. Let's stray a minute and remember which car companies sponsored which shows, or used "product placement" to sneakily advertise their product.We already know Chevrolet sponsored "Bonanza", but they also sponsored "Bewitched" and had new Chevys liberally sprinkled thru that show."My Three Sons" and "I Dream of Jeannie" ('nother hottie there, Barbara Eden) showed Pontiacs all over the place.Chrysler furnished cars for "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Brady Bunch", and "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hazel" featured Fords.Help me here, folks. As many great and not-so-great shows as there have been, all of 'em needed cars which the carmakers were happy to furnish for viewing time and mention in the credits- subliminal advertising? Hey, those cool TV folks have a new ####, let's buy one!Even TV was better in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Wayne, a good friend of mine recently acquired one of those. I haven't seen it yet but he claims it's in real nice condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rocketraider</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My Grandma was a big Lawrence Welk fan, so I got to see a lot of early-60s Dodge commercials when I'd stay with her Saturday nights. </div></div>Glenn, Welk used to give all his employees a new Dodge each year. I don't know what he did when his sponsor changed to Geritol......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I like the way British Leyland still managed to market and sell their cars even after the popular car magazines of the day were throwing rocks at them with terms like "an antique you can buy today" or "charming, but terribly outdated". BL used their $50 advertising budget and countered with: "From the land of British Racing Green, the classically British Triumph TR-6" and simillar ads for their stuff.I could see myself in one of those, but not in the nimbler but soul-less first wave of Japanese imports. By the time I finally got my TR-6 it was a quasi-collectible, and I always got attention even going around the block. I think that may be in part due to the fact that the then 15 year old car looked much older.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxnard Montalvo Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 "Hey Javelin!""I've got a bowl of goldfish on the front seat." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They go together in the good old U.S.A, Baseball, Hot dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet. That 1970's TV jingle still echos in my mind! Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novaman Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My all time favorite has to be the 2000 ad for Subaru. I know it's not a GM or Mopar product but....I went to school with one of the ladies in it!The ad features Navratilova along with three other female athletes: the golfers Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon and the skier Diann Roffe-Steinrotter. Diann Roffe is from Williamson, NY and a year younger than I. I did a double take the first time I saw the ad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersix Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 53Bob76R</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe showing my age...........but I can still vividly picture the Chevy commercials with the Bonanza theme in the background as the new cars sat on top of the mountain. </div></div>I also remember the Chevy commercial on Bonanza, I believe 1963, of the Chevrolet driving on the surface of the water of the streets of Venice! Classy commercial. Totally different than the abstract car commercials of today showing blurred, skidding cars, identity unknown until the name is flashed at the conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Does anyone remember the AMC Pacer commercial where they drive a Chevy Nova inside it to show how wide the interior was?Wells Fargo advertised 58 Buicks......the B58My Three Sons advertised Chevys before PontiacsEd Sullivan advertised Mercurys the Big MGroucho Marks (You Bet Your Life) advertised Plymouth/DeSoto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 There was an old commercial for Plymouth Barracuda where an old woman couldn't pronounce the name, eventually calling it "Bananawagon". All through high school that's what we called every 'Cuda. I also remember the Javelin ad with the goldfish. As for the TR6, there's a guy on eBay selling a dvdr of Triumph ads and TV commercials. Most are for the Spitfire (about 12), and only 2 are for TR6. None of them were aired very often (at least whre I grew up), and they're great to watch. If you're into TRs it's a treasure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1926pack Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My two favorites are both VW bug ads. The first was a TV ad. Showed a howling blizzard, you could hear a plow grinding away. Then the headlights, then the plow. It pulls into a shed. The announcer says "Ever wonder how the guy who drives the plow..." Then the familiar sound of a bug firing up, followed by the announcer saying "gets to the plow?" The bug scoots out the other end of the shed and vanishes into the blizzard.The other VW add was a pring ad. Had Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain standing behing a bug. The caption over it said "They said it couldn't be done". The caption below it said "They were right". Seems Wilt did not fit into a bug.'Course, there's always the most famous "Ask the man who owns one". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My first car was a used 1967 VW Bug. In winter I had studded snow tires on the back and regular snow tires on the front. And for really bad days I had V-bar chains that I put on it. Never missed a day of work due to bad weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest windjamer Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Anyone see the one super ball sunday I think about two years ago. A new shiney car leaves the car wash and a swarm of birds try to catch it to dump on it they race for the garage the door shuts and one bird sticks bill first in the door. Dont remember the car,but cant forget the add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I can't remember the company, but the ad involved dogs and the slogan "Dogs like trucks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I am looking for a copy of a Pepsi "Come Alive" Ad where an Amphicar is launched at 55 MPH. Anyone have a copy?Here are some others of mine...This would not be good in todays "PC" world! The original hand drawn artwork... And the final version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Nissan had two awesome Super Bowl commercials that stay in my mind.#1 was a Z racing across the desert with a voiceover: "First they tried to catch me with a car." [Police car chases Z unsuccessfully]. "Then they tried a motorcycle." [Motorcycle zooms past camera]. "Then they called in some help." [helicopter chases car]. "Finally they got serious." [Ground-level camera in the road as Z blasts over the camera. Moments later, an F-14 fighter jet flashes over the same camera about 20 feet off the ground. They only showed this commercial once due to protests from safety & insurance groups.#2 was, of course, GI Joe jumping into the toy Z and picking up Barbie at her Dream House to the tune of Van Halen's "Girl, You've Really Got Me." Love the smirk on GI Joe's face as he drives away and Ken stands broken-hearted at the Dream House. Best. Commercial. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Also, Ford of Europe had a pair of awesome ads for their SportKa. Don't watch these if you're an animal lover, though I'm certain they were faked (but watch for the cat's head inside the car--hilarious). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 On the Groucho Marx show sponsored by Desoto and the tune, "It's delightful, it delovely it's Desoto..." I'd follow this with Dinah Shore in 2nd with, "See the USA in your Chevrolet..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I liked the Ford truck commercial that ended with, "Besides, who wants a truck that drives like a rock?" I only saw it once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beep Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Maybe I dreamed this commercial as no one can remember seeing it, Help me out if you saw it. thanks. but it was in the 60s or 70s and it showed a japanese car, (dont remember what brand), and a jet car (maybe Art Arfons) at the light tree at a drag strip the japanese cars lights got to green first and the japanese driver is trying to shift as fast as he can down the strip, mean while the jet car driver is waiting for the green, the little car is half way to the finish when the jet gets the green and burns out of the chute he snape the after burner switch and just catches up to the car when the dragstrip announcer says " and now for the stop test!" the jet driver is heard under his firesuit muttering the question "STOP TEST ???" the japanese cars slams on the brakes and wins as the jet flys by with his chute rolling out the back. the driver of the japanese car gets out and dances up and down in victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 beep, I sent a copy of this by e-mail do Dizzy Dale. He very well might know about this ad. I am sure he will respond to the e-mail or come here and respond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 I always thought that Whippet missed a great slogan. Never used, but should have been. "You can't beat it. Whippet." David Coco Winchester Va. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 beep, I heard back from Diz. He doesn't remember the ad that you mentioned. He drag races antique cars so I thought he might. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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