Car Commercials from The 60's ...

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The sixties was an era of horsepower, style and prosperity.
Some of us will remember these cars and their commercials.
I've owned six cars from the 60's.

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Chevrolet 'Shells Out The Bucks' To Move The 1967 Camaro

Chevrolet's Mustang fighter was a big deal when first unveiled, and The General figured they'd need to break out the big guns when it came to advertising the new '67 Camaro. Spare no expense!
So, of course, they hired a crew of cut-rate special-effects technicians from the set
of a made-for-TV monster movie and put together this fine advertisement.

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1967 Chevrolet Camaro Super Sport

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The kids back in '69 wanted fast cars and rock-n-roll

And those who weren't schlepping M16s in the Iron Triangle could get both with the GTO Judge.
We totally dig the grooo-oovy Paul Revere and the Raiders in American Revolution garb.


1969 Pontiac GTO Judge

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Not to be outdone by the all-out rockin' in the Judge ad

Ford put together an even more wholesome band for their ad for the special-edition '69 Mustangs.
Could you imagine anyone in this ad sucking on a big doobie packed with stems and seeds,
or catching scabies in a commune's beanbag chair?


1969 Ford Mustang

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The Goat gets a couple of kudos for this ad

Because it's impossible not to love the sight of lab-coated scientists bashing
the snout of a car with a sledgehammer while their peers howl with bloodlust.
Too bad the paint always flaked off those Enduraflex bumpers after a few years.


1968 Pontiac GTO

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AMC was all about cheap - Wait, I mean economical

And Abe Vigoda was proud to point out the ways in which the '67 Rebel packed standard features not found in such extravagant machines as the Ford Fairlane and Chevy Chevelle.
Wow!! A coil spring rear seat!


1967 AMC Rebel

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Sideburns! Petula Clark! Purple microdots!

I'm betting the last ingredient was sadly absent from the set when they filmed this ad,
which features the '68 Fury as a musical instrument.


1968 Plymouth Fury

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Well, that's it - for now.
Gotta go pig-out at the seafood buffet today.

C'ya later.
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I can barely remember some of the car commercials from back then, heck in 69 I was only 4 (didn't turn 5 till December of that year. But I do remember when Ford came out with the Talladega to compete with the Road Runner. The Talladega went over a hill and all you saw were feathers flying. Those were definitely the good old days.

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Not to be outdone by muscle-car ads
Lincoln decided on the capitalistic approach.


1966 Lincoln Continental

This informercial-length epic shows how the longer, wider, taller
'66 Lincoln Continental served as a patriotic statement,
with Commies pointing out its features.

Why, even the People's Commissar feels
compelled to mount dual machine-guns in the trunk.
(In case of attack by rival Politburo factions)
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Volvo Amazon

Is "luxury" the very first word that pops into your head
when you think of the Volvo Amazon of the 1960s?
Of course it is!

We've got a sexy Amazon driver with a breathy voice and bizarre enunciation
'splaining the whole thing for us ... in Swedish.

Were you a little puzzled by the sight of these left-hand-drive Amazons driving
on the lh side of the road in a US-market Volvo Amazon ad?

But a bit of research indicates that Sweden was a lh-drive country until 1967.

In any case, they do a fairly good job, here, of selling the plodding Amazon
as a classy machine packing berserker-style power under the hood.

I totally dig the wailin' hepcats on the jazz soundtrack, and ...
the breathy woman's carefully enunciated words just send me, BABY!
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Volkswagen Transporter

The Volkswagen bus of the early 60s was only 6" longer than the Beetle
(and powered by the same lawnmower-esque engine)

But just watch how it inhales huge stacks of boxes,
crowds of impatient German commuters, and painting equipment!

As long as it doesn't have to climb any hills with those loads, it's all gut!

Of course, with 36 horses clattering around in the back,
it wasn't going to move all that stuff very quickly.
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