An advert for the Hillman Imp showed one going round a curve in the road. The caption was "Tear round (or was it along?) the dotted line".
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Have free video from a classic car magazine showing the new Austin All Agro's being put through there paces in what looks like a old quary bouncing all over the place
I would be interesting to know how many actualy made it & out of the quary under their own steam!
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I would be interesting to know how many actualy made it & out of the quary under their own steam!
I think I know which one you're on about. I'm sure I read in
another magazine (or possibly the internet) that during the shoot, one of them got a bit carried away, and upon landing after one of the more enthusiastic 'yumps', the chassis bent quite considerably in the middle!
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and upon landing after one of the more enthusiastic 'yumps', the chassis bent quite considerably in the middle!
As the Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee did quite often! You had to be quick to spot it before they changed the shot.
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For good adverts that go on for years the gold medal must go to VW - Golf/Passat even the original Beetle were "works of art"
In many cases the adverts are/were better that the TV programmes that interrupted the adverts
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Peugeot 206: one with the young lad remodelling his Hindustan into a 206 with the elephant.
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Was Charles {P} but someone c o p i e d my name with spaces.
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The VW Polo add, where the dropped one from a height, with a guy stood next to it,.... I always wondered if they did that within one shot, ir it took a couple of takes if bits fell off it when it landed....i didnt want to be the guy that stood next to it.
I also liked the golf add where he was driving along, hearing this squeeking, trying to figure out where the noise was coming from took it to a garage, turned out to be the passangers ear-ring.
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1983 (A) Vauxhall Astra 1.3L
1993 (K) Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0i GLS
1999 (T) Renault Laguna 1.6
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Going back a bit, and a poster rather than a TV advertisement, my favourite amongst many MG advertisements was the one showing a black MGB GT - with the black rubber bumper! - and the slogan "Psychologists say a saloon car is a wife and a sports car is a mistress".
As the actor Ian Richardson used to say in "House of Cards", "You may say so, I couldn't possibly comment."
Rather nice to have both - types of cars I mean ....
Jack
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