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newVideoPlayer("/69_AMC_Rebel_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Back in the late 1960s, American Motors didn't just focus on cheapness in their ads. Oh no, they wanted potential car buyers to realize that you could beat the living crap out of their cars and they'd still stay in- more or less- one piece. We think the actor playing the driving instructor here should have won an award for the "I can't turn while you're looking at me" sequence!
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newVideoPlayer("/60s_SuBARu_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Back when Malcolm Bricklin decided to import the 66 MPG Subaru 360 to the United States, there was just one selling point: cheapness! This trio of ads, featuring a bell-bottomed babe and painfully dated flute-and-harpsichord soundtrack, gave no hint that one day SOO-bar-oo would sell huge quantities of somewhat less tin-can-esque vehicles in North America. When was the last time you saw a car ad trumpeting the cheapness of spare parts? Thanks to SOS10 for the tip!
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newVideoPlayer("/Honda_1300_JDM_476.flv", 506, 423,""); The Coupe 9 version of the Honda 1300 now resides in the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage (as well as in Junkman's garage ), but the standard 1300 sedan was a pretty interesting car as well. You got an air-cooled engine with four carbs and dry-sump oil system sending 100 horses to the front wheels and styling that must have made Soichiro proud (though maybe he wasn't so proud of this headache-inducing TV ad).
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newVideoPlayer("69_Impala_5thDimension_476.flv", 463, 387,""); We thought it couldn't have been possible for a car commercial to out-cheeze Ford's '69 Torino ad , but we may have a contender here from The General. The Fifth Dimension, of "Up, Up, and Away" and "Age of Aquarius" fame, have put on their flammable outfits and are ready to move some iron off the lot. Move along with Impala by Chevrolet!
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newVideoPlayer("69_Torino_476.flv", 463, 387,""); So Ford grabbed the same incredibly wholesome dancers they used to sell the '69 Mustangs when it came time to try to move some '69 Torinos off the showroom floors. Compare the nauseating perkiness of this ad to the worldly white-collar hoon in the '68 Torino ad. But look at all the engine choices you got! Make ours a 428 Cobra Jet fastback with 4-speed, please.
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newVideoPlayer("69_Mustang_Mach1_476.flv", 475, 376); Let's say it's 1969 and you've turned on the TV. What do you see? Why, this singing, dancing group of well-scrubbed young people who don't remind you one little bit of those dirty, stinking, VW-driving, war-protesting hippies! You'll be geared up to run right down to the nearest Ford dealership and buy yourself the way out- but way in - wild one! Yes, the Mach 1, with a 428 Cobra Jet engine and a poke-through air cleaner that jumps when the engine cries! This is truly a Mustang that Richard Nixon- hell, even Bebe Rebozo- would love. This lengthy ad also pitches the Mustang Grande and some kind of six-banger machine that seems awfully unappealing coming after the Mach, but those cars are neither way out nor way in. Now, is this ad as groo-oovy as the Petula Clark Plymouth Fury ad?
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