adam1982 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 couldn't get away with that today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfair Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Do you mean a car that is cheap and easy to fix??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Hit a shopping cart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 (edited) http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.123117727.jpg No just can't do this type of thing.D. Edited November 15, 2011 by helfen (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl e rizer Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Those VW ads were well known back in the day as being very clever and cutting edge.ala "Mad Men". Can you imagine the uproar it would cause today IF it ever made it past the "PC" police? There would probably be a "Occupy VW headquarters" movement as well as a retraining program for the copywriters or an all out firing! Just shows how much the world has changed since I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) Here is another one of the time (and a 2nd cousin to VW) that would not pass muster in today's too PC world. It illustrates how things change. What was just a figure of speech, now means something much different. Edited November 19, 2011 by Amphicar BUYER (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 It's true that at one time this kind of humor was acceptable and VW's were cheap to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Backburner Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Compared to fixing up a 31 DB or a 68 Chevelle they are still cheap.I recently purchased a set of new repo running boards for my 63 Bug for the paltry sum of 60.00 dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 But can you stand on the $60 Brazilian running boards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_steve Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 But can you stand on the $60 Brazilian running boards?Good point. Some of them should come with a warning sticker: "Not To Be Used As Running Boards." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Backburner Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 But can you stand on the $60 Brazilian running boards?Didn't plan on standing on them anyways.Volkswagen running boards are purely decorative in my opinion, even though the ones I purchased are of good quality and appear sturdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Didn't plan on standing on them anyways.Volkswagen running boards are purely decorative in my opinion, even though the ones I purchased are of good quality and appear sturdy.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- They are very useful keeping the ft. tire from splashing the body sides and the rear fender of water and mud. They are really too narrow to stand on anyway.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_steve Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Volkswagen running boards are purely decorative in my opinion, even though the ones I purchased are of good quality and appear sturdy.Quite often when I was a kid, when my dad got home from work, he'd let me ride on the running board from the end of the driveway up to the house, while holding onto the open window frame. Those were original VW Bugs, back in the day (his last one, which I remember the most, was a '63), and there were no JC Whitney 'cosmetic' running boards on the scene (yet). Granted, I probably wasn't a huge kid at that time, but the running board was perfectly adequate for me to stand on while he drove up the driveway, and for my dad to feel safe allowing me to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ply33 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Didn't plan on standing on them anyways.Volkswagen running boards are purely decorative in my opinion, even though the ones I purchased are of good quality and appear sturdy.Back when I had a 36hp '57 VW Beetle I came the conclusion that the running boards could best be described as vestigial:Biology (of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution : the vestigial wings of kiwis are entirely hidden.I think the ad photo in the original post must have been a precursor to the later unsuccessful "drivers wanted" campaign that VW had. I say unsuccessful as it seems no one I see operating later model VWs actually seems to know how to drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Didn't plan on standing on them anyways.Volkswagen running boards are purely decorative in my opinion, even though the ones I purchased are of good quality and appear sturdy.I'm 230 pounds when dressed for work and stand on mine to polish the roof. Couldn't do that with my old VW with the Brazilian running boards. This car has the German ones.Same goes for the Brazilian bumpers that can be dented by backing into a rubber traffic tube. I bet the Brazilian fenders look like the subject of this thread when confronted with beach inflatable's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm 230 pounds when dressed for work and stand on mine to polish the roof. Couldn't do that with my old VW with the Brazilian running boards. This car has the German ones.Same goes for the Brazilian bumpers that can be dented by backing into a rubber traffic tube. I bet the Brazilian fenders look like the subject of this thread when confronted with beach inflatable's.________________________________________________________________ You must have very tiny feet!:eek:BTW what are those things doing on the rear fenders??D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lebowski Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Here's some more.... :eek: :eek: :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PeoplesCar Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Very cool I started collecting VW ads a little while ago; I currently only have four, but they're my four favorite ones. They ran during a campaign from the late 1960s until the 1970 model year I believe.I used to have a bumper sticker in the rear window of my '71 that said "It's ugly, but it gets you there." My vanity tags (before I changed to antique registration) were "SO BUGLY." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Those old bugs are eye candy compared to the eye bleach worthy crap everyone makes now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PeoplesCar Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Everything today is too generic ... beige boxes with wheels, they all look identical.Is it a Jetta? A Taurus? A Civic, Cobalt, or Avalon? To me, if it's not a classic, it's just a Genericar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 ^ Precisely. They're not cars anymore. They're just appliances.:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINC400 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Everything today is too generic ... beige boxes with wheels, they all look identical.Is it a Jetta? A Taurus? A Civic, Cobalt, or Avalon? To me, if it's not a classic, it's just a Genericar.That is not true.You can't get them in beige anymore. Only sliver, black, and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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