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newVideoPlayer("/72_Cocoa_Puffs_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Gramps pushing Sonny The Cuckoo Bird 's horseless carriage across the wasteland, where their carcasses will soon become food for birds that eat rotting corpse flesh rather than artificially flavored and colored breakfast cereal… but wait! Gramps whips out some Cocoa Puffs and pure liquid methamphetamine milk, and the resulting frenzy bounces the Model T all the way to the nearest gas station. This ad was much more successful than the one in which Sonny slaughters an entire NVA division in Quang Tri.
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newVideoPlayer("/72_NissanSkyline_JDM_476.flv", 506, 423,""); This is apparently one of the famous "Ken and Mary" Skyline ads, which were so popular in Japan that the car was actually known as the Kenmari. And hey, you can see why! Check out Mary's kinda-now-kinda-wow headband, which shows that she's tuned in . And Ken's hair... well, we can see where James May got the inspiration for his own look. We lust for that beautiful blue Nissan in a big way, though the sight of the automatic shifter comes as something of a disappointment.
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newVideoPlayer("SSPs_1972_476.flv", 463, 387,""); As a young proto-hoon, I was more of a fan of the Smash Up Derby SSPs than of the "standard" SSP cars; since all SSPs were going to bash into baseboards, ankles, etc. at parent-enragin' velocity (which is probably the reason they're no longer made) the ones that featured parts flying off at impact were more entertaining. Still, it's impossible not to love the Railbird, the Flapjack, or the Dodge Super Stocker. If only there had been some way to combine SSPs with Lawn Darts!
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newVideoPlayer("72_VW_Floating_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Yes, we know the joke: if Ted Kennedy had had a Beetle instead of an Olds 88 , Mary Jo Kopechne would be alive today and he'd have been elected president in 1972. Actually, the Beetle would have sunk just as fast as the Olds, because all the rust holes in the floorpan caused by New England weather would have let the water in plenty fast (13 pounds of paint or no). Now, if Ted's Chappaquiddick drive had involved an Amphicar ...
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