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Curbside Classics Archives
tv ads and videos Archive
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![(first posted 12/12/2011) The real reason the Soviet Union imploded? No good advertising agencies! OK, these cute twins in the ZAZ 966 are fetching, but not exactly up to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/moskvich-412-001-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Classic Ad Classic : The Cars Of The Soviet Union – Nyet")
Classic Ad Classic : The Cars Of The Soviet Union – Nyet
Posted on September 11, 2020 | 85 Comments(first posted 12/12/2011) The real reason the Soviet Union imploded? No good advertising agencies! OK, these cute twins in the ZAZ 966 are fetching, but not exactly up to […] -
![(First Posted December 15, 2011) ED: Eric sent me this list of his favorite IH ads. I’m just going to let these speak for themselves, as they’re mostly pretty eloquent […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IH-1966-International-Ad-03.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My Favorite International Ads: Cornbinders At Work And Play")
My Favorite International Ads: Cornbinders At Work And Play
Posted on August 31, 2019 | 18 Comments(First Posted December 15, 2011) ED: Eric sent me this list of his favorite IH ads. I’m just going to let these speak for themselves, as they’re mostly pretty eloquent […] -
![Geelongvic sent me this, although not with the right commentary. He’d been led to believe told that this was a live commercial that went on the air (once), and the pitchman […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras162/images/thumbnail.png "CC TV Outtake: This Used Car Commercial Didn’t Make It On The Air")
CC TV Outtake: This Used Car Commercial Didn’t Make It On The Air
Posted on January 24, 2019 | 31 CommentsGeelongvic sent me this, although not with the right commentary. He’d been led to believe told that this was a live commercial that went on the air (once), and the pitchman […] -
CC TV: GM Toast the Midcentury Consumer Boom
Posted on December 25, 2017 | 17 Commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DYZHNL0Gw&t=0m36s Oh, wow! It’s “American Look”, General Motors’ 1958 paean to designers and stylists and, erm, planned obsolescence. There’s something for everyone here; if you love MidMod stuff, -
CC TV: A Blame Game Double Feature
Posted on September 7, 2017 | 76 CommentsThe US auto industry had massive drug use and absenteeism in their assembly plants in the 1960s and ’70s (at least). Working conditions were brutal and the workplace environment was […] -
CC Commercial: When Valiants Swarmed
Posted on March 26, 2017 | 53 CommentsNot a lot of people remember it now, but fifty-six years ago San Francisco was overrun with new 1961 Valiants, -
CC Commercial: Chrysler Qualitehh and the End of the Inundated Ignition
Posted on March 25, 2017 | 87 CommentsChrysler’s new-for-’71, standard-for-’73 electronic ignition system means the car is virtually sure to start—even if it’s wet and splashy out! We take such things utterly for granted nowtimes, but -
CC Commercial: Honda’s Ne Plus Ultras
Posted on February 12, 2017 | 16 CommentsOnce in a great long while there’s a truly smashing advert for something. Once in an almost-never it’s for a car. -
CC Commercial: Hallelujah, It’s the Chrysler Spirit!
Posted on February 6, 2017 | 9 CommentsAbout a decade ago, the idea of “world cars” suddenly got a lot more press and airtime, which was kind of weird because it wasn’t a new notion; it’s easy […] -
CC Commercial: Selling the New Chevrolet, 1977
Posted on February 2, 2017 | 47 CommentsThe new-for-’77 GM B-bodies are an evergreen topic, usually emblematised—then as now—by the Chev Caprice. These cars were big news, a game-changer, a harbinger, blahbitty blah, et cetera; if you’re […] -
![https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c60F8E3h9A&feature=youtu.be Last night, Steve65 left a comment at a post wondering if anyone could identify the two cars used in this current Listerine mouthwash tv commercial. I had a very […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Corcel-ad.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CCTV Ad: The Most Obscure Automotive Placement In A Modern Commercial?")
CCTV Ad: The Most Obscure Automotive Placement In A Modern Commercial?
Posted on May 19, 2016 | 15 Commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c60F8E3h9A&feature=youtu.be Last night, Steve65 left a comment at a post wondering if anyone could identify the two cars used in this current Listerine mouthwash tv commercial. I had a very […] -
![https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXh4WhINbA GM founder William C. Durant personally invested in Guardian Frigerator Company in 1918, renamed Frigidaire in 1919. It was owned by GM until 1979, when it was sold to White […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fridgidaire-plant.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Vintage Video: GM Really Did Build Imperials – The Frigidaire Imperial Line For 1957 (And More)")
CC Vintage Video: GM Really Did Build Imperials – The Frigidaire Imperial Line For 1957 (And More)
Posted on September 22, 2015 | 79 Commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXh4WhINbA GM founder William C. Durant personally invested in Guardian Frigerator Company in 1918, renamed Frigidaire in 1919. It was owned by GM until 1979, when it was sold to White […] -
Saturday Cinema: Ingenuity In Action – The Long Road To The 1959 NHRA Nationals
Posted on August 1, 2015 | 10 Comments(first posted 7/17/2011) Here’s a quarter-mile trip down memory lane. A professionally-made film documenting getting to and participating in the 1959 Nationals in Detroit, in the tail end of […] -
CC Cinema: The Dutch Know How To Have More Fun On Wheels, Backwards or Forwards
Posted on February 7, 2015 | 31 CommentsNote: DAFs, with their Variomatic belt-CVT transmissions, can go backwards as fast as they can forwards; which was destined to be put to good use. Hat tip to Wolfgang! -
CC Video: Ford’s Attempt At Rehabilitating the Mustang II Has More Shortcomings Than The Actual Car
Posted on February 4, 2015 | 100 Commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxg90JdtPFQ I don’t know how I missed this back in 2013, when Ford produced it as part of the Mustang 50th Anniversary celebrations. It’s a conscious effort to ameliorate the […]
