Old Auto Ads

[Paul Dobbin]

 

 

Wild Old Auto Ads

It's a miracle we survived our childhoods !!!!

  

 

 

 

 

[John_S_in_Penna]

Most of the ads were legitimate for their times.

However, the first one (insecticide for ants) and

I think also the Pontiac legroom ribaldry are simply

jokes made later.

[CHuDWah]

Hot rodders still buy or build flame throwers.

 

Re the children sleeping in cars, when we were kids, Dad built a bench that fit between the front and rear seats across the width of the car.  It had a foam pad so on long trips, we could nap on it and the rear seat.  And I remember Mom, before seat belts, stretching her right arm across us when she braked.

 

When I was 3 or 4, I had a bad habit of standing up in the seat - this was before kid seats and I wanted to see out.  Anyway, my aunt had a car with a buzzer that sounded if a preset speed was exceeded.  She'd set it just above the speed she was driving.  When I stood up, she'd speed up just enough to set off the buzzer and say that was the car telling me to sit down.  I never could figure out how that darn car knew I was standing!  🤣

[dei]

I clearly remember riding in grandad's Dodge sitting on the pull down arm rest in the front seat between him and grandma going to the cottages.  

Seat belts, we don't need no stinkin' seat belts.

[plymouthcranbrook]

When I was about 5 or so I was standing up in the backseat of my Dad's 40 Plymouth 2 door. He had to make a quick stop and since locking seat backs were in the future I was slammed into the metal dash. Still have a bent nose now 64 years later.

[zepher]

Much like that one picture, I remember sleeping on the package tray above the back seat.

It was the best place in the car to nap with the warmth of the sun coming through the window.

[John_S_in_Penna]

One older friend of mine, now 99, grew up

with his family's Cadillacs in the 1920's.  He says

the small children in the family liked to ride atop

the back-seat storage compartment (beside the

back seat) so they could see out the windows.

 

An interesting anecdote from the 1920's--

good to be preserved.  Here's a general picture to

show the back seating arrangement:

 

[28 Chrysler]

A bit more humor.