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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]
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 ...
Carroll and the commercials attained further cultural significance during the 1980s, with the commercials sometimes appearing in the background of contemporary motion pictures. An example is the frightening first sight of a television receiver with a typical Jerry Carroll commercial on screen by Daryl Hannah's mermaid character in Ron Howard 's ...
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Their debut in television commercials on May 1, 1995, featured talking cars done in clay animation, with a variety of car colors each with different personalities.The commercials themselves, done in a similar fashion to the animated film and television series Creature Comforts, were crafted by Aardman Animations and used to promote Chevron with Techron.
The stunning modern masterpiece set in the middle of 150 acres of picturesque hills and vineyards in Northern California’s wine country is now for sale for $6.5 million.
This week’s challenge started as an innocent search for the strangest car commercial, but it veered into the bizarre and outlandish.
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.