So last evening this olelongrooffan was hanging out at the Taj Mahal enjoying the consumption of some hurricane supplies and looking through my image library to try and scrounge something up for Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. It’s been since my trip to the Corvette Museum that I had seen any cool longroofs.
Before I could find any cool longroofs to honor this day, I did find some cool old longroof ads and thought my fellow Hoons would enjoy them.
This ad is so great in so many ways. Please comment the first thing that comes to your mind.
Kamil’s recent run of vintage ads inspired me to pull the few I have out of my collection and share them with the Hooniverse.
Since I was a small child, the GT350 has been my favorite car of all time. I don’t have much more to say, because the ad says it all.
Kamil’s recent run of vintage ads inspired me to pull the few I have out of my collection and share them with the Hooniverse.
The gorgeous shape of the Aston Martin DB4 coupe, a photo of it’s creator, Mr. David Brown, and some long copy; How could this advertisement get any better? The mention of Aston’s retirement from racing, I found particularly interesting. As if motorsport is just a bit too plebeian for a company of the caliber of Aston Martin.
Kamil’s recent run of vintage ads inspired me to pull the few I have out of my collection and share them with the Hooniverse. It looks like Nurburgring lap times mattered, even in the 1960s. By the way, this is a tease of the stuff you get as the $20/month as a Hooniverse Gold subscriber… avert your eyes plebeians, this content is not intended for you!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you properly advertise a car. No pop-stars, no models, no happy people going camping, no family sing-along, no bull shit.
Simple black ink on white, important bits in red, picture of the car. No opinion, just facts: this is what it is, this is what it does, this is who it’s for, and this is what it looks like. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.
The ad does one more very important thing – it hits the target audience. Busy business man, well established, not the micromanaging type, confident, only wants the best. At least that’s what the reader thought they were and that’s what they thought they would be getting with the Studebaker Gran Tourismo Hawk.
If manufacturers explained the differences between their models this way today we wouldn’t have to figure out where the Altima ends and the Maxima begins.
Remember when you had to change your spark plugs every 15,000 or 30,000 miles? Don’t forget to gap them! And a little anti-seize goes a long way too. One day this old’e Kamillian will tell you a story of how he accidentally used lock-tite instead of anti-seize.
Just look at that list of features and options. When was the last time you saw the compression ratio stated in an advertisement?
Remember when they were just called “Truck”?
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