Looking at the brochure showing my '67 Cadillac - they stretch the photographs to make them look longer. I see this even today is some dealer ads.
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Website - old American Cars brochures and ads
Website - old American Cars brochures and ads
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Re: Website - old American Cars brochures and ads
I've got to send the riviera brochure to my brother.
Out whole family went to the Buick dealer for a new car. Dad wheeled and dealed like a madman to get a brown one, until my mom reminded him that we were a family of 5, and brought him back to reality. We ended up with a 72 Electra (same 225 engine), but with none of the personality. When my brother found out, he locked himself in the back seat of a riviera on the showroom floor, and we couldn't get him to leave for about an hour :p
Out whole family went to the Buick dealer for a new car. Dad wheeled and dealed like a madman to get a brown one, until my mom reminded him that we were a family of 5, and brought him back to reality. We ended up with a 72 Electra (same 225 engine), but with none of the personality. When my brother found out, he locked himself in the back seat of a riviera on the showroom floor, and we couldn't get him to leave for about an hour :p
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Re: Website - old American Cars brochures and ads
Great find!
My dad bought a new '58 Mercury Monterey 2dr hardtop when I was 6. That's the first of car I really remember, and looking through the first 58 Mercury brochure link really brought back memories!
Many of the brochures of the 50's and 60's were hand-drawn color illustrations, and the designers often used their imaginations to enhance the real or imagined proportions of the cars to make them look bigger, longer, lower, wider.
Watching the online streaming of the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auctions this weekend, I was amazed at how I've misremembered the proportions of so many cars I grew up with and thought were beautiful at the time. Many are far less comely that I remembered!
And yet the 1969 Camaro, even in a fairly modest build like this, http://www.autoweek.com/storyimage/CW/2 ... o-1969.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is still an absolute work of art with the gentle sweep of the top of the front wheel opening flared across the front fenders and into the door, (fake) louvers on the leading edge of the rear wheel opening, and the top of the rear wheel opening flared across the rear quarter panels. Not a modern styling sensibility, but IMHO, still nicer than the current generation Camaro.
No wonder resto-mods built on these Camaro bodies are bringing over $200,000 from my generation of recent retirees seeking to, uh, 'drive' some pleasure out of their hard-earned retirement funds!
Thanks again, Jake.
My dad bought a new '58 Mercury Monterey 2dr hardtop when I was 6. That's the first of car I really remember, and looking through the first 58 Mercury brochure link really brought back memories!
Many of the brochures of the 50's and 60's were hand-drawn color illustrations, and the designers often used their imaginations to enhance the real or imagined proportions of the cars to make them look bigger, longer, lower, wider.
Watching the online streaming of the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auctions this weekend, I was amazed at how I've misremembered the proportions of so many cars I grew up with and thought were beautiful at the time. Many are far less comely that I remembered!
And yet the 1969 Camaro, even in a fairly modest build like this, http://www.autoweek.com/storyimage/CW/2 ... o-1969.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is still an absolute work of art with the gentle sweep of the top of the front wheel opening flared across the front fenders and into the door, (fake) louvers on the leading edge of the rear wheel opening, and the top of the rear wheel opening flared across the rear quarter panels. Not a modern styling sensibility, but IMHO, still nicer than the current generation Camaro.
No wonder resto-mods built on these Camaro bodies are bringing over $200,000 from my generation of recent retirees seeking to, uh, 'drive' some pleasure out of their hard-earned retirement funds!
Thanks again, Jake.
My 2003 Vibe Base Auto 2-tone Salsa "SalsaWagon" was built in May 2002. I acquired it in Feb 2004/Traded it in on a 2016 Honda HR-V in Feb 2018.