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  • 89th8 Online
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    LOL

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    • MikM Offline
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      VW had the best commercials in the later 60's. They were all understated like that one, and in a similar format. My father was in advertising, so we were made aware of that sort of thing.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        Can you imagine that ad running today? "Women hit things?"

        OTOH, can you imagine this ad running today?

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        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          "Women hit things?"

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          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          • MikM Mik

            VW had the best commercials in the later 60's. They were all understated like that one, and in a similar format. My father was in advertising, so we were made aware of that sort of thing.

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            @Mik said in Heh:

            VW had the best commercials in the later 60's. They were all understated like that one, and in a similar format. My father was in advertising, so we were made aware of that sort of thing.

            The above smacks of Ogilvy. That'd be my guess.

            Please love yourself.

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              IIRC, VW Beetle fenders use a fender welt, like American cars in the 1940's.

              Their engines were super-easy to rebuild, too. My wife's uncle had a shop that specialized in VW's. They could pull a VW engine, mount it on a rotating frame they had made and sit in one place while rebuilding the motor. Took them about 90 minutes from pulling the motor to having it back in.

              We need a vehicle like that, today.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • MikM Mik

                VW had the best commercials in the later 60's. They were all understated like that one, and in a similar format. My father was in advertising, so we were made aware of that sort of thing.

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                @Mik In the '7os VW put out a full-page print ad, a black and white photograph of the Lunar Module Eagle that took up the whole page including the margins, with a bottom caption that redd, "It's Ugly, But It Gets You There." At the bottom of the page there was a white strip with the VW logo centered. That was the whole ad.

                It was incredibly striking.

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                • 89th8 Online
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                  • JollyJ Jolly

                    IIRC, VW Beetle fenders use a fender welt, like American cars in the 1940's.

                    Their engines were super-easy to rebuild, too. My wife's uncle had a shop that specialized in VW's. They could pull a VW engine, mount it on a rotating frame they had made and sit in one place while rebuilding the motor. Took them about 90 minutes from pulling the motor to having it back in.

                    We need a vehicle like that, today.

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                    @Jolly said in Heh:

                    IIRC, VW Beetle fenders use a fender welt, like American cars in the 1940's.

                    Their engines were super-easy to rebuild, too. My wife's uncle had a shop that specialized in VW's. They could pull a VW engine, mount it on a rotating frame they had made and sit in one place while rebuilding the motor. Took them about 90 minutes from pulling the motor to having it back in.

                    We need a vehicle like that, today.

                    They were. I was a VW mechanic for a few months. Four bolts to pull the engine. If you had aa lift and a hydraulic floor jack it was even easier.

                    I wasn't a very good mechanic, but even I could rebuild one.

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      That's the one!

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