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‘50s ads were prone to exaggeration. Like this one:
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W I D E B O I
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It was quite the Hu stler!
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Well, the B-58 didn’t have a patented Fashion-Aire™ Dynastar™ grille, so the Buick was better.
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“High maintenance costs, short service life and— assuming everybody ordered with Supreme Burrito with beans for lunch — a megaton of hot, fiery exhaust gases in the bomb cradle-pod /trunk”
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Absolutely identical in every respect!
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This car is one of those cases where the illustrated people in the car aren’t drawn exaggeratedly small to make the car look bigger - it really is that big. 58 Oldsmobuicks are pretty wacky, Cadillac that year seems elegant and restrained in comparison.
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It is an interesting reference to use in ANY consumer product ad— likely reflecting a mix of post-WWII-confidence and Cold War barely-concealed-angst.
Can you imagine the outrage if a consumer products titan , like say Apple, compared the sleek lines, advanced circuitry and comprehensive software of a new iPhone to the same attributes of, maybe , the new YAGM-180A paired with the newest W80-4 dial-a-yield warhead?
“Make your work problems disappear in a fiery cloud of productivity! ” “ Toxic followers on Twitter? Deserve a nuclear annihilation of Tweetstorms!”
A tad different than pairing Gordon Ramsay with a Costco food sample station. But the B-58 sure rocked... if briefly.
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