Awesome Car ads Pt. 1 (many pics after gap)

"Bandit" (2bandit) 09/25/2013 at 17:33 • Filed to: awesome ads

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Pictures I took of ads I found in some magazines that were hiding in the back of a closet at my school. Even though I wasn't alive during this period, I sort of miss ads objectifying women (such as a VW ad below) and ads that down play a competitors product. Ads of this era just seem more... friendly (or something)

desertdog5051 > Bandit 09/25/2013 at 17:37

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God, I feel old. I remember most of those ads.

phenotyp > Bandit 09/25/2013 at 17:42

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The "hand you this line" ad is super interesting. It's pretty much a direct copy of the German one, but the line in German is a double entendre about the Iron Curtain, literally translated as "how long can we hold this line." Both a line about how long VW can keep selling a very old car, and how much longer the West could hold off the Commies.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Bandit 09/25/2013 at 17:45

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Great ads, here's one of my favorites:

Also:

They knew what it was even before it became famous as one.

Somethingwittyer likes noisy > Bandit 09/25/2013 at 17:50

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Oh blatant 60's sexism. Your so lulz.

Bandit > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 09/25/2013 at 17:51

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I have this ad hanging on my wall. My dad cut it out when he was a kid.

PowderHound > phenotyp 09/25/2013 at 18:02

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Old VW ads were just fucking genius. I love them.

wkiernan > Bandit 09/25/2013 at 18:06

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Safety comes first! Come on, darling, let's get in our seatbelt-free, drum-brakes-sporting, 389-cubic-inch GTO and see how fast Mommy can get this baby to go!

phenotyp > PowderHound 09/25/2013 at 18:06

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The best. I generally hold advertising in pretty low regard, but DDB's VW ads are pure beauty. Fucking genius pretty much sums it up.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > Bandit 09/26/2013 at 05:36

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Safety comes first at GM. Hence, GTO being used as a family hauler.