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Best TV car ad ever (Original Post)
safeinOhio
Mar 2018
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cloudbase
(5,532 posts)1. Volkswagen had some good ones back in the day.
I like the trunk monkey ads as well.
PJMcK
(22,074 posts)2. That's fantastic!
You'd never see an ad like that today since every car has to be super-duper-turbo-overcharged. Except for the Smart car!
LisaM
(27,863 posts)3. To me, it's hands down Eminem's 2013 Super Bowl ad - Imported from Detroit
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. I liked Dustin Hoffman in the VW Fastback commercial
My goodness, automobiles used to be the most awful death traps.
Cartoonist
(7,326 posts)5. Best Tire ad
There were several like these
flotsam
(3,268 posts)6. This
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)7. 6′ 5″ Sterling Hayden loved his 'beater' Karmann Ghia
Check out the single working windshield wiper.
Different Drummer
(7,681 posts)8. This is my personal favorite.
flt rsk
(92 posts)9. I had a 1963 Ghia,
when I was in college, in the mid to late 70s. Ugly yellow with a black plastic nterior. It had a thirty-four-horse power engine and a six-volt electrical system. When it rained, water would leak onto the fuses and onto my leg. It never shorted out but the fuses would corrode. In the winter the clutch cable would freeze in its outer housing. The wipers were vacuum powered and would stop when I accelerated, if you call 0 to 50 in 16 seconds acceleration. Oh, how I miss that car.
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)10. Oh, no no no
(FWIW the address in this commercial is now a Chrysler products dealer.)
Somehow I get the feeling Ralph Williams lived to piss off his ad men.