Would you buy a used car from this man?

[George K]

Link to video

[Aqua Letifer]

I have questions that will never get answered.

[Copper]

There is no way that is real, it is fake.

[taiwan_girl]

@Copper said in Would you buy a used car from this man?:

There is no way that is real, it is fake.

Agree.

[George K]

@Copper said in Would you buy a used car from this man?:

There is no way that is real, it is fake.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5383/is-the-ralph-williams-angry-car-salesman-clip-real

If you google, Ralph Williams you also see a similar commecial for a dealership in Seattle by the same name but not quite as funny. Same actor. Definately fake because he could not have made two of them in two cities unless it was a big publicity stunt, high risk high reward. Doubtful in the late 60's. This certainly was out takes or a roast to the owner that they actually liked. –
user5663
Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 4:29
Having spent 40 years in the advertising/marketing business this ad is what Used to be called the "corporate version". It was tongue in cheek, always funny and called the corporate version because it was something that would never be sent to the corporate headquarters. At least that's what I think this is. –
user22398
Commented Oct 9, 2014 at 22:29
Chick Lambert and his dog Storm were for real in the early 1960's in Southern CA. He sponsored movies with few comm'l interruptions and was well respected. He went to work for Ralph Williams in the late 60's=early 70's. Williams is infamous for taking Ford Motor Company for tens of millions of dollars in a staged corporate bankruptcy. –
user29988
Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 3:14

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 was fired afterwards. Makes for a good story, but sadly, it’s not true.

Here’s the comment left by the Youtube poster:

"This “gag” commercial never aired of course. The pitchman was well known in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s-70s. While taping commercials for the dealership in 1968, the pitchman made this gag take to poke fun at his boss. Ralph Williams owned many California car dealerships and had quite a notorious reputation."

No one did live commercials back then on location, as the equipment to do so was prohibitive. Standard procedure was to shoot on 16mm film, until affordable portable (3/4″ Umatic) equipment came along in the late 70s. Generally the only live commercials were done in the studios, where the pros could deliver them without a hitch, mostly.

[jon-nyc]