Car ads of the 80's

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Car ads of the 80's

#1 Post by Grumpy Northener » Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:31 pm

Just found this:

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/motoring/m ... 3924488832
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#2 Post by 52classic » Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:31 pm

There's a caption missing from the final frames..... "No Montegos were harmed in the making of this advertisement!"
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#3 Post by JPB » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:46 pm

:? WTH? That's the BT public access wifi homepage! :x
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#4 Post by Hawk » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:28 am

i remember that advert :)
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#5 Post by JPB » Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:57 pm

Hawk wrote:i remember that advert :)
Funny looking advert..
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#6 Post by TerryG » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:07 pm

John, BT have just got a short article but the highlight is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHXg5s7wv8
you will have seen it 100 times but it's still good.
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#7 Post by Grumpy Northener » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:25 pm

Opens fine for me without any of what John is viewing - have you kicked your PC recently John ?
1937 Jowett 8 - Project - in less pieces than the Jupiter
1943 Jowett Stationary Engine
1952 Jowett Jupiter - In lots of peices http://Jowett.org/
1952 Jowett Javelin - Largely original
1973 Rover P6 V8 - Original / 22,000 miles
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#8 Post by Mitsuru » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:46 pm

He should be using the vacuum cleaner on his pcs fans and cpu heat sink to clean the dust/dirt
clogging up the cooling system and not for sucking up the drool off the old car adverts!
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#9 Post by rich. » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:06 am

Mitsuru wrote:He should be using the vacuum cleaner on his pcs fans and cpu heat sink to clean the dust/dirt
clogging up the cooling system and not for sucking up the drool off the old car adverts!
the voice of experience? ;)
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Re: Car ads of the 80's

#10 Post by ian65 » Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:09 pm

A very clever and entertaining advert from back in the day...... how to make a low spec rep mobile seem appealing.... I like the way they emphasise the fact that it comes with a radio cassette.... these days we take it for granted that a car comes with a decent stereo, back then, it was very hit and miss wasn't it.... Jap cars nearly always came with them but loads of cars still didn't.... I remember going to look at a BMW 320 back in 1984 and was surprised to find that it had a worse spec than my MK4 Cortina... everything was on a menu and the original buyer of this car had just bought the basic car with no options.

Anyone remember this ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-U86y1LMo

Good fun cars whose engines seems to last only slightly longer than the advert :) .... 50,000 miles and they were knackered.
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