Vintage Advertising: British Motor Corporation won’t leave you in the dark edition.
This is one of the many 1970s automotive ads you will be seeing in the upcoming time. I’m going to leave them here with no comment of my own, expecting comments from you Hoons.
And I promise that the quality of these will improve in upcoming weeks. I tried, but unfortunately the quality remain the same. Clicky for bigger picy.
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This is false advertisement. A gentleman does not motor at night.
Very true. We get our minions to look after that sort of thing.
The British version remake of Christine was much scarier to audiences knowing that Lucas was really the devil incarnate.
That's not from the seventies, it's from the dark ages.
I simply won't tolerate this continuous mockery of Lucus and their products. Their science fiction movies were terriffic.
Especially that Dark Lord guy.
Oh, you mean Industrial LIGHT And Magic? Quite.
A friend bought a new Sprite in '62 after the salesman assured him they had $250,000 worth of parts in stock. When he found numerous problems after taking it home, the same guy told him to come back in a week after they get the parts. I thought you had a quarter million dollars worth of parts here, my friend said. Says the salesman, "we do, but none of them are for a Sprite."
Four BMC cars that had both their headlights going at the same time? That certainly was something to advertise. Looking back, why anyone faced with that choice would have bought anything other than the 3000 truly escapes me.
The Healey was by far the most expensive of the four. I can't speak for everybody, but price usually is a limiting factor for me.
Take a good look at this picture. What do you see? WHAT. DO. YOU. SEE?!?!?
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THE BRITISH CAR IS THE ONLY ONE WITH WORKING@#$% HEADLIGHTS!!!!1!
I see 2 cars with no headlights at all (or is that three?) 2 cars with pop-up headlights un-popped, headlight status unknown. 2 (or 3) cars with visible headlights, but due to natural lighting, am unable to determine workingness of said lights.
What was the point?
/insert knife, wiggle around, remove knife, wipe clean
I'll have to side with Pete on this one. The five rearmost cars don't have headlights (empty, empty, empty, blanked, and empty [at least on the left side]) and the other two apparently can't even get their pop-up mechanisms to work. Go Bee!
Yeah, what Crazy-Mike said. (Looks at gash in belly, defiantly yells "It's only a flesh wound!")
I can swear on the box of ashes that used to be my wife's favorite pet that the Bee's headlights worked ALL the way from SF to Vancouver WA & back, as can every on-duty cop in 3 states that followed me till 3am on 4th of July weekend.
The horn works too. Now, if only it still had a heater.
So, does the ad copy mean that I am likely to break down during the test drive, left in the dark looking for someone to give my battery a jump and hoping that the approaching headlights belong to a tow truck instead of a maniac looking to eat someone?
Is this a CAPTCHA? If I make an obvious Lucas Electrics joke, do I get kicked off the board because of anti-robot bigotry?
I for one applaud our total domination by the robotic overlords of Lucas Electrics. Until they all short out and burn when it starts to get dampish. It's almost enough to give one hope in the future.
I'm disturbed by the distinct lack of Triumph in that ad. Didn't the car make it to the shoot?
This is NOT a British Leyland ad. It's a British Motor Corporation ad and as such Triumph was not a part of the company. Remember that BL was the result of multiple mergers, the culmination of which included all but the Rootes group cars ( Sunbeam, etc.) as they became part of Chrysler Europe at about the same time.
Judging by the picture, it's an ad from the early 1960's as the MGA went out of production in 1962. Remember: British Leyland did not come into being until 1968.
I think it was from 1972 Road & Track.
The ad reads "If it's on the subject of sports cars for '62…."
* head scratch *
I didn't think they were THAT old… I picked up a random issue and just glanced at the date.
Reading the ad copy is definitely cheating.
I know, I know, but the discussion of other features pointing to an earlier date for this and for the previous Alfa ad didn't seem to be working.
I'll just leave this here.
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