Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/30/2020 at 09:22 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Good Morning, Oppo.

60s car ads were strange to begin with, but I’m trying to figure out the cannon and battlements in the background. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 09:35

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I prefer to think of it as a cannon bravely defending his’n’hers outhouses.

But more seriously, my guess would be that was the “flavor” of a larger tableau talking about American pride and tradition yada yada and the ad got cut down and kept the cannon.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/30/2020 at 09:39

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The artwork has a serious Schoolhouse Rock vibe to it. 

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 09:42

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The new Chevelle wagon.

Haul your cannon balls with style!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 09:43

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GIB NAOW PLEES

SiennaMan > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 09:45

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I wonder if it started as being to do with the centennial of the end of the civil war in the US?  

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 09:54

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All necrotic battleships need cannons to fight off the younger generation of even bigger and more stupid shitboxes...why didn't you know this?

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 10:01

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I’d blame the Canadians.

(It’s a Canadian Pontiac)

ttyymmnn > SiennaMan 04/30/2020 at 10:08

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Well, the Civil War ended in 1865, and this is a 1967, so....

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 10:38

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1967 was Canada's centennial.   That might be the answer, but the car is a '68.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:13

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4 across seating FTW. 

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 04/30/2020 at 11:15

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Well, that probably explains it then. There’s a lot of history to do with cannons in that part of the world. I’ve always wanted to take a tour up the East and visit locations from the War of 1812, the war nobody (in America, at least) knows about. I visited Ft. Ticonderoga when I was very young, and my Mom grew up in Burlington on Lake Champlain. Lots of forgotten naval history up that way.

SiennaMan > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 13:30

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They were late to copy because of a long bad acid trip..  lol