TG57Roadmaster Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I had put this in the "dumbest lines in for sale ads" thread, but thought it deserved its own place, 'cuz there are sure to be more.From a couple of Mercury brochures...The kids have stocked up at the sporting goods store (been in there at least an hour), and are heading to the beach in their '68 Montego MX. Must not have seen the curb...Ordering your '73 Montego MX Brougham is easy, just check the boxes for the options you want...Or need, in the case of the steering wheel.TGPS, To be fair, it's called the deluxe steering wheel in the brochure's other dash illustrations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 My favorites, a store flyer advertising a "Blowout Sale" on tires (no wonder they want to get rid of them) and another offering a "Blockbuster Sale" on antifreeze (they must have watered it down). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I just got a pair of ice traction "slip ons". :eek: Hmmmmm..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rohn Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I had put this in the "dumbest lines in for sale ads" thread, but thought it deserved its own place, 'cuz there are sure to be more.From a couple of Mercury brochures...The kids have stocked up at the sporting goods store (been in there at least an hour), and are heading to the beach in their '68 Montego MX. Must not have seen the curb... nor did the art director see the reflection of the Rambler in the window ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 How about "Cars Detroit Never Built"? The 1977 Olds brochure features the Toronado XSR on its cover. Car was supposed to have power retracting T-tops (and a wrap-around backlight), but the option was deemed too expensive and never went into production - instead, it was replaced by a sunroof (and the wraparound) and the production car was called Toronado XS (which I always felt was too close to "excess"). There was one XSR prototype built that still exists (I helped to restore it) but a lot of mystique surrounds it, no doubt in part because of the brochure. Will see if I can dig one out and scan it, but the brochure car is air-brushed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 My favorites, a store flyer advertising a "Blowout Sale" on tires (snip)Bald Eagle GTs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_padavano Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Here in the D.C. area, there is a regular Craigslist ad for "guaranteed used tires." Yup, the tires are guaranteed to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rohn Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) How about "Cars Detroit Never Built"? The 1977 Olds brochure features the Toronado XSR on its cover. Car was supposed to have power retracting T-tops (and a wrap-around backlight), but the option was deemed too expensive and never went into production - instead, it was replaced by a sunroof (and the wraparound) and the production car was called Toronado XS (which I always felt was too close to "excess"). There was one XSR prototype built that still exists (I helped to restore it) but a lot of mystique surrounds it, no doubt in part because of the brochure. Will see if I can dig one out and scan it, but the brochure car is air-brushed.I saw one that was at an Olds dealer at the time.The salesman demonstrated the power t-tops for me, it was on the Olds dealer showroom on Maple Road in Troy Michigan (north side of the street I recall), it may have been the only one made, but I was so amazed that someone would do POWER t-tops that it is vivid in my mind stillI can't remember what color the car was, i want to say white with maroon interior, but I have no faith in my memory of the color of the car Edited January 7, 2011 by Jim Rohn (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TG57Roadmaster Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Thanks for posting those Paul. Off-topic, Tomica made an XSR in 1/78th scale for their Pocket Cars series, dated 1978, in a pearlescent white...TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Gawd, I thought I was the expert on the XSR, but I had no idea of the Tomica diecast! I humbly step down! (Yeah, Paul, thanks for posting the brochure stuff.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 It's a "true" classic - sez so right in the brochure! (*KABOOOM!*) :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ply33 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 It's a "true" classic - sez so right in the brochure! (*KABOOOM!*) :eek:At least they did not use "full classic" so they didn't have to answer to the CCCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 I saw one that was at an Olds dealer at the time.The salesman demonstrated the power t-tops for me, it was on the Olds dealer showroom on Maple Road in Troy Michigan (north side of the street I recall), it may have been the only one made, but I was so amazed that someone would do POWER t-tops that it is vivid in my mind stillI can't remember what color the car was, i want to say white with maroon interior, but I have no faith in my memory of the color of the carASC (American Sunroof) did the prototype and I _think_ they were to do the production cars but the cost added too much to the price of the car... Olds wanted to destroy the prototype but ASC nixed it because they had a bunch of money in it and wanted to try to market this system at trade shows and the like. Car eventually got into private hands but you could very well have seen it in Troy... it was/is "carmine" with a black interior. As you can see, the one in the brochure is white with maroon. Guy in NJ has the original now - owner who had it restored when I worked on it lived in Connecticut and passed away several years ago now. Buddy of mine has a picture of it taken back in 1976, will email him this weekend and ask him to send it to me again.AAH! Go to Google images and put in Toronado XSR! A lot of what comes up is from the brochure, but there are pics of the red car as well... I took at least one of them. Also see Toronado Owners AssociationThere may be more of them out there, but I need to see the gun camera film. I did have some correspondence years ago from a man in AZ or southern California who said he had a Cadillac Eldorado with the same setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Silverghost Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) Very Neat idea~~~They should have put this Olds Toronado XSR option into production; or at least had an outside contractor do the power T-Top factory conversion like GM did with later T-Top cars & Convertibles you could order from your GM dealer ! Edited January 7, 2011 by Silverghost (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINC400 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) Gawd, I thought I was the expert on the XSR, but I had no idea of the Tomica diecast! I humbly step down! (Yeah, Paul, thanks for posting the brochure stuff.)I own one of those Tomica diecasts Edited January 7, 2011 by LINC400 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldsfan Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 How 'bout this from the '64 Olds brochure...The Starfire convertible - it has window cranks on the doors AND power windows switches (even for the ventipanes) on the console.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldsDoug Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 The rare manual power window option. Good one, Paul - you know I bet I've looked at that picture a hundred times and never picked up on that. Will have to dig out the '63 brochure, seems to me there's a similar picture in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG57Roadmaster Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Paul, that's just too cool. Good old GM redundancy at its best! I wonder if you showed a similar car, would the brochure image be "proof" that such equipment existed? TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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