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Calvin Coolidge Worthington (November 27, 1920 – September 8, 2013) was an American car dealer, best known in Southern California and other locations along the West Coast of the United States for his offbeat radio and television advertisements for his Worthington Dealership Group, a car dealership chain that covered the western and southwestern U.S. at its peak, and later for his minor ...
Joe Isuzu was a fictional spokesman who starred in a series of 1980s television advertisements for Isuzu cars and trucks. Created by the ad agency Della Femina, Travisano, and Partners, and directed by Hollywood director Graham Baker, [1] the segments aired on American television in 1986–90, reaching their zenith in 1987 after the character was featured during Super Bowl XXI.
An example of a matchbook ad for Muntz car lots in the 1950s. In 1934, Muntz opened his first used car lot, in Elgin, with a $500 ($11,000 in 2023) line of credit. [8] He was only 20 years old, and his mother had to sign the car-sale papers because legally he was too young to close his own deals. [7]
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The 1985 commercial was filmed in a residential area near the salvage yard. It starred Bob Zajdel, a shaggy-haired young man who had been working for Victory at the time. In the commercial, Zajdel attempts to enter his noticeably old and run-down car, but his car door suddenly detaches from its hinges and falls to the ground.
In South Dakota, he appeared in commercials for Lewis Drug. In Houston, he did commercials promoting Channel 2 News KPRC-TV. In 2005, five years after Varney's death, the Ernest P. Worrell character returned in new commercials as a CGI cartoon, created by an animation company called face2face and produced by Ernest originators Carden & Cherry.