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The one old car commercial I haven't been able to find is for AMC Javelin. It has a teenager coming home with one and his dad asks him "What's that?" And the kid says "It's a Javelin Dad" Then at the end of the commercial he again pulls up with the Javelin all jacked up with mags and big tires and again his dad asks "What's that?" And his son answers "It's a supercharger Dad" And yes that is what's sticking out of the hood. Would love to see that again.
Yep, that brought back some memories, like my girlfriend cutting her ankle on one when we were going at it on the front seat, there's something else different about cars these days no bench seats. Ah the 70's, good times.
My mom got a 1977 Thunderbird and I remember it well. I ended up driving it across the country when they moved from California to Florida. It was very sluggish and got very poor gas mileage but it was one of the quietest cars I ever remember driving in and had a very smooth ride and still handled quite well. I drove 10 hours a day on the trip across the country and at the end of the day didn't even really feel that tired because of the smooth ride and quietness of that car. I think it averaged 16 miles per gallon on the trip and would get less than 10 miles per gallon driving around town, other than that it was a great car!
Thank you for including the 1977 and 1978 Thunderbird! My grandmother had a 77 Thunderbird that I loved. I learned to drive in it, so I still have fond memories of that beast.
A lot of people "dis" the Mustang II for being based off of an econobox platform (Pinto), Meanwhile the ORIGINAL Mustang was ALSO based off of an econobox platform (Falcon). And the now vaunted "Fox" Mustangs were based on the Fairmont. Also, the first-generation Isuzu Piazza/Impulse was...a Chevette!
@@ThisOldCarChannel That under the dash 8 Track commercial cracked me up, I tell young people about those things all the time and half of them don't believe it.
There was a Chevrolet Suburban commercial that ran sometime in the latter part of the 70s that was a country bluegrass/balladeer style ad that I can’t find on TH-cam. Anyone else remember that?
Yes Cheryl Ladd was in the T-Bird commercial and note how well placed that Clip was just after there was an ad for the new Mustang II Cobra very Charlie’s Angels ( the blue and white one ) that was passed on from Farrah Fawcett to Cheryl Ladd.
I worked at RS then. I sold a LOT of those $30 8-Track decks! Sold a lot MORE CB radios though. The CB "craze" was "Peak Radio Shack". Great place to work in the late '70s-early '80s! Too bad they started to go to shit in the late 1990s. (Yeah, I'm an old man...Still a radio "geek" though!".
Thanks for this! I was born in the early sixties and essentially grew up in the seventies watching the three networks. I guess commercials don't stick with me. I remember the Maxell commercial and the baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet jingle, but didn't recall the visual part. To this day I generally mute the commercials and ignore them
You forgot PBS, that made 4 channels, and there was a couple fuzzy channels on "the other knob" that you could watch Benny Hill and Ultra Man on, they were channels 53 and 22 in the Pittsburgh area starting in the late 70's, before that I could never figure what that knob was for.
I love watching the old commercials Cheryl Ladd was driving the Thunderbird I had one of those and I had a 72 Chevelle and I had the Montecarlo brought back a lot of memories. Good memories.❤
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple pie and BBCC. As a kid of the 70s I still to this day remember that jingle. That Olds Cutlas was one of the cars my father built when he worked at the Fisher Body plant in Michigan. I bought a ton of Maxell tapes in the70's n 80s all because of that commercial and sat for hours recording Casy's radio programs. Thats right kiddies, luxury cars was under $6000 and gas was under $1 The Pinto was a great little car. Just dont get rear ended. Thanks for the drive down memory lane. Looking forward to pt 3
The Pinto thing was a complete and total myth fabricated by a pack of scumbag lawyers who were trying to get a class action lawsuit going so they could get a cut of it. Not only was there never a single documented case of one blowing up from being rear ended but also the "Federal" safety film that showed one exploding from being rear ended that everyone saw in the news and juries saw in the court rooms was rigged to blow up with command detonated Dynamite, and it wasn't even from a federal testing facility like the NTSB, it was done by a private testing lab that the lawyers involved in the scam paid to get the results they wanted, people just assumed it was done by someone like the NTSB because of the target stickers on the car that federal agencies use for tests like that, which is why they were put there, to give people the impression that it was done by some official government testing facility, the worst thing is the lawyers gave the private testing lab something like 3 or 4 brand new Pinto's to get the results they wanted and even after doing things like poking holes in the gas tanks and leaving the filler necks disconnected on the tank of one that was filled all the way to the top they still couldn't get one to blow up when it was rear ended, so with only one car left they rigged it up with Dynamite and command detonated it just as it was rear ended. The Corvair roll over myth was the same thing, same deceiving tricks with the target stickers, after repeated attempts that couldn't get one to roll over on asphalt or concrete they had to resort to loose dirt for the wheels to dig into when sliding sideways to get it to flip. Both the exploding Pinto's and the rolling over Corvair's are both myths that were fabricated by bottom feeding scam ass lawyers looking to suck money out of the American car industry.
They DO contradict, but this was (is) common in advertising. It's more to "grab the ear" of the buyer who WAS actually committed to one size or the other, but hearing their affirmation MIGHT cause affinity for the BRAND. Such buyers subconsciously would "tune out" the OTHER ad as that was NOT the size that they REALLY wanted in the first place and would thus be "blind" to the contradiction. Source: Most family in marketing and retail. LOL.
That's what I grew up with that's the kind of cars I drove when I first got my driver's that's what we went on family vacations in God in heaven knows I miss the'70s and '80s
As a teen I did a days long road trip with two adults in one of those tiny old Honda Civics. We were squished in there like sardines and no one was comfortable.
Back in the seventies our family bought mostly general motors products. My mom had a couple of Chevrolet's back then and she got a Brand new Buick Electra in 1974 and in 1976 my parents Oldsmobile Delta 88. Mom traded in Electra for a new 77 Cordoba in white with the famous
72 impala. So much sleeker with fender skirts.Question..... 77 Thunderbird speedometer showed both miles and kms Was this a Canadian ad or did the American version show that too ?
American version. My 1977 Buick Electra had the same Mph/Kmh speedo. It was standard stuff then. In the US the Mph had larger numbers VS Kph, Reverse in Canada (and other non- US markets).
my parents were children/teenagers in the 70s in fact both of them received their driver's license June 1976 and March 1979 respectively so they definitely remember these commercials the first commercial I remember is for the 1990 Chrysler Lebaron the first print ad that sticks out to me for a car is a 1993 Cadillac Seville STS ad I saw in the August 1992 issue of Rolling stone magazine I saw at the Dr's office as a 7 year old for immunizations needed for school my childhood best friends father had a 1989 Seville STS for about 18 months until his arrest for his mob involvement 26th March 1990 oh and her mom drove a Mercedes Benz S Class buying a new one every 5 years for more than 30 years and the daughter currently drives a C Class Cabriolet Silver over brown leather interior
Rolling Stone magazine sucks and always has, the only thing they were ever good for was rolling joints on, tilt em back and let all the seeds roll off onto your lap, then trying to make sure you got all of them off your parents car seat before you took it home that night.
I love the 70s. The people were thin and petite and the cars were large and powerful. Today the people are fat and overweight and the cars are small and wimpy.
I had one of those Honda Civic, got every bit of 40 mpg all around driving. Nothing easyer to drive and park. They should be making those cars new today with gas pushing 4 dollars a gallon.
That's when cars were cars not like today all plastic fantastic... Old cars were built strong and hard to take all the abuse and still hold up.... Man I really missed those old cars
The cars that nearly put Detroit out of business. Horrible build quality and outdated designs gave Americans uncounted reasons to start buying imports. That Pacer ad, though, that was a hoot. As for the Pinto needing half as many oil changes as the imports, Ford’s ad writers apparently didn’t realize they were implying the thing would last only half as long.
Ok can I just say how unexpectedly dystopian that Honda commercial appears? Like, wow, “What the world is coming too?” Wow, that really captured the times as its read about, rather than watched or heard. There’s demand for more of these compilations to better understand how fitting “malaise” is for the era
Australia had "Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars" here,s me thinking it was our legendary commercial, but it looks like we stole it from America.
The best tape money could by...Hitachi Maxell or TDK super avilyn. The chrome tapes was my preferred for taping vinyl to.cassette. Radio Shack sold utter crap.
I don't remember any of these commercials except the Maxell one. And while the cars were certainly more stylish back then, the quality, ugh! The American cars made in the 70s and into the early 80s were absolutely some of the worst on the road. No wonder the imports came along and ate their lunch.
Compare these ads to today's versions and you can see why insurance rates have gone up. along with accidents. Todays ads look more like chase scenes from a movie. Problem is that youth of today think that's the way they are suppose to drive. We pay.
Big cars until 1973 oil embargo. Then everyone wanted fuel economy. And build quality went down the toilet. Especially the Plymouth volare and recalled for rusty fenders. Vegas for oil consumption. Amc wasn't as bad.
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The one old car commercial I haven't been able to find is for AMC Javelin. It has a teenager coming home with one and his dad asks him "What's that?" And the kid says "It's a Javelin Dad" Then at the end of the commercial he again pulls up with the Javelin all jacked up with mags and big tires and again his dad asks "What's that?" And his son answers "It's a supercharger Dad" And yes that is what's sticking out of the hood. Would love to see that again.
This episode was excellent no matter what car you disliked, hated, liked, or loved. Thank you,
The "Ford LTD" that became an AMC Pacer ad was awesome!
Lot's of fun, Thanks!! She was in the red T-Bird!
Cheryl Ladd was in the '77 Thunderbird commercial, while Casey Kasem was doing the voice over in the Nova ad - pretty cool! 🚗✨😊
Of course a Ford commercial. Ford supplied all vehicles for Charlie's Angels that were used by the entire cast.
I love the '70s GM stuff.
Crazy good times ;)
I went to high School in the '70s and drove my mother's '70 Nova. My first upgrade was an under dash radio shack 8 Trac
Yep, that brought back some memories, like my girlfriend cutting her ankle on one when we were going at it on the front seat, there's something else different about cars these days no bench seats.
Ah the 70's, good times.
Love these. I was a kid in the 70s and teen in the 80s, so lots of memories. It would be fun to see other decades.
My mom got a 1977 Thunderbird and I remember it well. I ended up driving it across the country when they moved from California to Florida. It was very sluggish and got very poor gas mileage but it was one of the quietest cars I ever remember driving in and had a very smooth ride and still handled quite well. I drove 10 hours a day on the trip across the country and at the end of the day didn't even really feel that tired because of the smooth ride and quietness of that car. I think it averaged 16 miles per gallon on the trip and would get less than 10 miles per gallon driving around town, other than that it was a great car!
The memories this brought back!! Thanks.
Love these car commercials from the 70s good memories and nostalgia
Thank you for including the 1977 and 1978 Thunderbird! My grandmother had a 77 Thunderbird that I loved. I learned to drive in it, so I still have fond memories of that beast.
Wow. These definitely bring a smile to my face. Thanks Boca Brothers!!!
Make this your year to really see the USA in Chevrolet Nova for '72. Now on with the countdown.
8:53 to 9:17 The iconic voice of Alexander Scourby.
A lot of people "dis" the Mustang II for being based off of an econobox platform (Pinto), Meanwhile the ORIGINAL Mustang was ALSO based off of an econobox platform (Falcon). And the now vaunted "Fox" Mustangs were based on the Fairmont. Also, the first-generation Isuzu Piazza/Impulse was...a Chevette!
Lots of fun memories from days gone by. Thanks guys for sharing this fun video!!! 👍👍🙂
Glad you enjoyed it
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That under the dash 8 Track commercial cracked me up, I tell young people about those things all the time and half of them don't believe it.
I grew up watching commercials like these. Thanks for reminding me of the good old days.
I was born in Detroit in 65. Those Pintos were on fire.
Literally 😆
There's a lot of sweet rides
Very cool!!!! 👍👍
Thanks 👍
i was born in Jan 1970. And yes I remember some of these commercials! Thanks BBCC ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
the Pacer,,for the guy that needed a green house AND a car.
haha!
There was a Chevrolet Suburban commercial that ran sometime in the latter part of the 70s that was a country bluegrass/balladeer style ad that I can’t find on TH-cam. Anyone else remember that?
I believe Casey Kasem was the voice in the 1972 Nova commercial. I believe Cheryl Ladd was in the Thunderbird commercial.
Yea she's in the 77 Thunderbird commercial, I forgot and wasn't listening for Kasem.
Yes Cheryl Ladd was in the T-Bird commercial and note how well placed that Clip was just after there was an ad for the new Mustang II Cobra very Charlie’s Angels ( the blue and white one ) that was passed on from Farrah Fawcett to Cheryl Ladd.
Thank you for the car commercials. I recall them. A good idea that got a good response.
8 track and Radio Shack, a couple of things that aren't even around anymore.
I worked at RS then. I sold a LOT of those $30 8-Track decks! Sold a lot MORE CB radios though. The CB "craze" was "Peak Radio Shack". Great place to work in the late '70s-early '80s! Too bad they started to go to shit in the late 1990s. (Yeah, I'm an old man...Still a radio "geek" though!".
Fun to see some of these ads again! A brief clip of that VW Beetle "torture test" ad is featured in the video for Everclear's "AM Radio"...
I think VW has eased up on its quality control over the years.
The Germans suck at quality
Thanks for this! I was born in the early sixties and essentially grew up in the seventies watching the three networks. I guess commercials don't stick with me. I remember the Maxell commercial and the baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet jingle, but didn't recall the visual part. To this day I generally mute the commercials and ignore them
You forgot PBS, that made 4 channels, and there was a couple fuzzy channels on "the other knob" that you could watch Benny Hill and Ultra Man on, they were channels 53 and 22 in the Pittsburgh area starting in the late 70's, before that I could never figure what that knob was for.
Love the old Cadillac ads
This was great. I remember most of these. Thanks for posting!!
Luv the big cars. So did my dad in the 70s.
Awesome video, memories
No Mercury Cougar ads?
Definitely a much different era
Casey was the Nova add. Loved his voice.....nice video too! Congrats!
Noticed a lack of VEGA commercials 🤣
I had a 73 Vega , most uncool car built by GM .
And I had an 8 track in it from RdSk ! Man was I a NERD !!!
Ty for the video 📹. Takes be back to better times.
Is it just me, or were car commercials a lot more entertaining back then?
No, you're not alone and you are right automobile commercials were far more imaginative and entertaining back then.
I remember a few of these car commercials
I love watching the old commercials Cheryl Ladd was driving the Thunderbird I had one of those and I had a 72 Chevelle and I had the Montecarlo brought back a lot of memories. Good memories.❤
Where’s the Widetracking Pontiac commercial !
What a RIP !
my dad bought a new chevrolet monte carlo on 1972 and still daily drive it with over 300K miles on original engine.
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple pie and BBCC.
As a kid of the 70s I still to this day remember that jingle.
That Olds Cutlas was one of the cars my father built when he worked at the Fisher Body plant in Michigan.
I bought a ton of Maxell tapes in the70's n 80s all because of that commercial and sat for hours recording Casy's radio programs.
Thats right kiddies, luxury cars was under $6000 and gas was under $1
The Pinto was a great little car. Just dont get rear ended.
Thanks for the drive down memory lane. Looking forward to pt 3
The Pinto thing was a complete and total myth fabricated by a pack of scumbag lawyers who were trying to get a class action lawsuit going so they could get a cut of it.
Not only was there never a single documented case of one blowing up from being rear ended but also the "Federal" safety film that showed one exploding from being rear ended that everyone saw in the news and juries saw in the court rooms was rigged to blow up with command detonated Dynamite, and it wasn't even from a federal testing facility like the NTSB, it was done by a private testing lab that the lawyers involved in the scam paid to get the results they wanted, people just assumed it was done by someone like the NTSB because of the target stickers on the car that federal agencies use for tests like that, which is why they were put there, to give people the impression that it was done by some official government testing facility, the worst thing is the lawyers gave the private testing lab something like 3 or 4 brand new Pinto's to get the results they wanted and even after doing things like poking holes in the gas tanks and leaving the filler necks disconnected on the tank of one that was filled all the way to the top they still couldn't get one to blow up when it was rear ended, so with only one car left they rigged it up with Dynamite and command detonated it just as it was rear ended.
The Corvair roll over myth was the same thing, same deceiving tricks with the target stickers, after repeated attempts that couldn't get one to roll over on asphalt or concrete they had to resort to loose dirt for the wheels to dig into when sliding sideways to get it to flip.
Both the exploding Pinto's and the rolling over Corvair's are both myths that were fabricated by bottom feeding scam ass lawyers looking to suck money out of the American car industry.
Awesome!!!
Funny how the Impala commercial 2:15 and the chevelle commercial 9:20 contradict each other, confusing to anyone deciding between a bigger car or not.
They DO contradict, but this was (is) common in advertising. It's more to "grab the ear" of the buyer who WAS actually committed to one size or the other, but hearing their affirmation MIGHT cause affinity for the BRAND. Such buyers subconsciously would "tune out" the OTHER ad as that was NOT the size that they REALLY wanted in the first place and would thus be "blind" to the contradiction. Source: Most family in marketing and retail. LOL.
That's what I grew up with that's the kind of cars I drove when I first got my driver's that's what we went on family vacations in God in heaven knows I miss the'70s and '80s
Miss those days 😞😔😢
Same here. That they were good. As the days run faster, I look back further back at my youth, trying to remember stuff we did back in the day.
I Loved my 73 Nova
As a teen I did a days long road trip with two adults in one of those tiny old Honda Civics. We were squished in there like sardines and no one was comfortable.
Would love to see the 60's Car Commercials. Can you do?
I miss my 72 Donk (impala/caprice)
Cheryl Ladd was the Thunderbird commercial.
Back in the seventies our family bought mostly general motors products.
My mom had a couple of Chevrolet's back then and she got a Brand new Buick Electra in 1974 and in 1976 my parents Oldsmobile Delta 88.
Mom traded in Electra for a new 77 Cordoba in white with the famous
from the previous comment Chrysler Cordoba with the famous Corinthian leather interior
When I saw t-bird accelerating at about 7:40 all I could think of was "get it up too 88!"
Cheryl Ladd was in the 77 thunder bird and Casey was in the 72 nova ad
My mom had a 72 impala new off showroom $4200 with gm employee discount was $3500. Impala custom coupe cream over midnight bronze
Can you believe $3500? That's not even enough for a down
payment !
Had one of these, remember Rusty Jones? Only way it wouldn’t rot out in 3 years. The beginning of the end of American car dominance
"Baseball Hotdogs Apple Pie and Chevrolet"
It's been years since I've heard that one.
It's the 77 Thunderbird commercial that Cheryl Ladd is in.
Cheryl Ladd was in the Thunderbird commercial!!!
Casey Kasum was voice over for Chevrolet nova
72 impala. So much sleeker with fender skirts.Question..... 77 Thunderbird speedometer showed both miles and kms Was this a Canadian ad or did the American version show that too ?
American version, Canadian version had kms in large numbers and mis in small numbers.
American version. My 1977 Buick Electra had the same Mph/Kmh speedo. It was standard stuff then. In the US the Mph had larger numbers VS Kph, Reverse in Canada (and other non- US markets).
@@danielulz1640 Dang! you beat me to it! LOL. Oh well, "Give 'em an Inch and they'll take 1.61 Kilometers." 😜
@@jamesslick4790 LOL !
They were trying to break us in on the metric system.
I had a feeling Sheryl ladd was in a Pinto ad ??
1972 Nova was Casey on voiceover. 1977 Tbird was Cheryl.
77 Thunderbird with Cheryl Ladd, I missed the Casey Kasum totally!!
Miss Ladd was the 77 Tbird ad
Pinto paint never needs wax?! That's because the car won't last lon enough for you to worry about the paint getting damaged! LOL
Those mustang cobras are so good looking even though they were not very good cars.
grad 76.. all i knew was muscle cars+
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Ladd was in the Thunderchicken
I like the chevelle in orange and the talk over ad
my parents were children/teenagers in the 70s in fact both of them received their driver's license June 1976 and March 1979 respectively so they definitely remember these commercials the first commercial I remember is for the 1990 Chrysler Lebaron the first print ad that sticks out to me for a car is a 1993 Cadillac Seville STS ad I saw in the August 1992 issue of Rolling stone magazine I saw at the Dr's office as a 7 year old for immunizations needed for school my childhood best friends father had a 1989 Seville STS for about 18 months until his arrest for his mob involvement 26th March 1990 oh and her mom drove a Mercedes Benz S Class buying a new one every 5 years for more than 30 years and the daughter currently drives a C Class Cabriolet Silver over brown leather interior
Rolling Stone magazine sucks and always has, the only thing they were ever good for was rolling joints on, tilt em back and let all the seeds roll off onto your lap, then trying to make sure you got all of them off your parents car seat before you took it home that night.
I love the 70s. The people were thin and petite and the cars were large and powerful. Today the people are fat and overweight and the cars are small and wimpy.
I had one of those Honda Civic, got every bit of 40 mpg all around driving. Nothing easyer to drive and park. They should be making those cars new today with gas pushing 4 dollars a gallon.
I want to see the oil commercials
Cheryl Ladd in red Thunderbird.
Pretty sure Stephen King directed the Honda CVCC commercial.
Why no Mazda rotary engine commercials.
That's when cars were cars not like today all plastic fantastic... Old cars were built strong and hard to take all the abuse and still hold up.... Man I really missed those old cars
The cars that nearly put Detroit out of business. Horrible build quality and outdated designs gave Americans uncounted reasons to start buying imports. That Pacer ad, though, that was a hoot. As for the Pinto needing half as many oil changes as the imports, Ford’s ad writers apparently didn’t realize they were implying the thing would last only half as long.
Casey Kasem and the Chevy nova
Cheryl always. Pretty evening in a crappy Thunderbird. My way I have two of them of that body style. Casey kasem course at voices iconic / 72 Nova
I forgot how much i hated that so many car commercials, and commercial in t general, had singing in them
Ok can I just say how unexpectedly dystopian that Honda commercial appears? Like, wow, “What the world is coming too?” Wow, that really captured the times as its read about, rather than watched or heard. There’s demand for more of these compilations to better understand how fitting “malaise” is for the era
Australia had "Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars" here,s me thinking it was our legendary commercial, but it looks like we stole it from America.
I miss the days before GM started letting "bean counters" design and build cars.
The best tape money could by...Hitachi Maxell or TDK super avilyn. The chrome tapes was my preferred for taping vinyl to.cassette. Radio Shack sold utter crap.
I don't remember any of these commercials except the Maxell one. And while the cars were certainly more stylish back then, the quality, ugh! The American cars made in the 70s and into the early 80s were absolutely some of the worst on the road. No wonder the imports came along and ate their lunch.
Compare these ads to today's versions and you can see why insurance rates have gone up. along with accidents. Todays ads look more like chase scenes from a movie. Problem is that youth of today think that's the way they are suppose to drive. We pay.
What? No Chrysler commercials? No Ricardo Montalban or Joe Garagiola selling Chryslers or Dodges with rebates?😣
My 87 Buick Century was the WORST car I ever owned
A reminder of how awful the cars were then.
Id take the Chrysler Cordoba over the Monte Carlo or Thunderbird.
Big cars until 1973 oil embargo. Then everyone wanted fuel economy. And build quality went down the toilet. Especially the Plymouth volare and recalled for rusty fenders. Vegas for oil consumption. Amc wasn't as bad.
Then Honda and Toyota showed up. They were all ridiculous