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  • '80s Ad Weekend Edition – Ford Sierra XR4 (Argentina)

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    Despite being available as only pretty shoddy quality upload – it’s been on YouTube since 2006 – this Argentinian ad for the Ford Sierra XR4 is very likeable. Sure, it’s dated and revolves around the idea that the Charlton Heston lookalike behind the wheel uses a black Sierra to woo an impressionable catwoman, but somehow…

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  • '80s Ad Weekend Edition – Peugeot 205

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    What a better way to start a 1980s themed weekend edition than posting a video dated to 1990? Well, to some people 1990 was still ’80s, and I haven’t actually even stopped living in the 1980s either, so I do think it’s all good. In any case, it’s likely this awesome piece of advertising was…

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  • Weekend Edition: The Pure Rambler Edition

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      So, a few years ago, this olelongrooffan was out and about at the Turkey Rod Run down here in the World Center of Racing. While there, I captured this image of some cool old Ramblers which their loving owners had brought out for my viewing pleasure. I thought this was pretty cool but should…

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  • The Toyota Land Cruiser is not a car

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    Read this ad. I have nothing to else to add to it. Well, I could add that I would give my left kidney, stone n’ all, for a brand new $3320 1970 Land Cruiser. Image source – I don’t remember, somewhere of GooglePlus me thinks. Sorry.  

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  • 1970 Plymouth Products: Through The Eyes Of A Returning Soldier

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    Gary had served two tours in Vietnam during the late 1960s.  He was a crew chief and a door gunner in a helicopter unit for his entire stint in the war.  Truly harrowing and heroic stuff.  For those three years, he saved his military pay, hazard pay, and combat pay.  Then, a few months prior to…

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  • It's Now Motorhome Monday? Did I Miss The Memo?

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    So, this morning this olelongrooffan checked in here in the Hooniverse, read yet another excellent Mr. Scroggs post and promptly headed out to meet my brother, thehorsefarmer, and his lovely wife, thebarngoddess. They are down here in sunny central Florida on a belated spring break from their farming duty up in the southwest Missouri Ozark…

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  • My, What A Big Camry You Have! (with bonus ad scans)

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    On the back cover of same 1983 issue of Omni from which I pulled a Honda CX650T ad for a post last fall, Toyota was pitching its one-year-old Camry nameplate. (Previously, the Camry name had been a variant in the JDM Celica line.) What’s doubly amazing to me is not only the original V10 Camry’s…

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  • Sonny Hill Insults Your Intelligence From Beyond The Grave

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    Back in the heat of July, Blake asked, “Who’s Your Most Hated Minor Celebrity Car Dealer?”. In the comments, I mentioned former Kansas City area car dealer Sonny Hill. Alff lamented that he was never able to suffer through view a Sonny Hill TV ad. Going through some old videotape recently, I found a typical…

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  • Last Call – The 1970s Will Never Die! Edition

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    If there was ever a finer time capsule that could express the 1970s in one beautiful, metaphoric illustration and encapsulate everything that the tumultuous, terrifying, triumphant decade gave us, then I’m afraid to find it.

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  • Stereotypes Ahoy! 1970s Holden Ad Explains Australians

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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ic3RqPIJo[/youtube] Ah, the 1970s. An era of unrepressed malaise, in which the atmosphere of boundless optimism was, itself, optimistic at best. This video, featuring completely irrelevant close-up shots of mammaries in small bikinis, seems to attempt to bring out the patriotism of Australians in spite of the general mediocrity of automobilia available to them, either…

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