This past year we bought a very used 1969 RAF Land Rover Lightweight Air-Portable Half Ton. Contemplating the green beast with lots of chipped paint, I chose NOT NEW, just to be certain there’s no confusion. Just sayin’…
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Another favorite: A full-page ad in newspapers following a lunar landing, showing the Lunar Rover. The headline simply said, "It's ugly, but it gets you there." No text, just the VW logo.
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The Rolls Royce ad is truly a classic, but I also like the one that says, "Shouldn't your second car be a Rolls Royce?" It discusses build quality and resale value retention in the Seventies.
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Handsome, and most important, unlike anything else. I recall Mad Magazine once did a photoshop to parody the then-new fad for compact cars. Believe it may have been this model.
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Never cared for Birds until I found a beautiful turquoise ‘66 Town Hardtop. New springs and heavier anti-sway bar up front made it a very stylish cruiser.
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Grew up in a Nash/AMC family. We had a chartreuse Ambassador, among a dozen or so other company cars. As for the pickup, there’s a turquoise bullet Bird out there somewhere that looks a lot better. cid:BB2EB03B-CB40-4C35-8164-91D1CA6CDCD7
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Well, we had a ‘69 Cougar XR7 and loved it in the Seventies. Just bought a very striking turquoise original 1966 Thunderbird 390 V8 Town Coupe with lots of chrome and those sequential turn sigs. And we’ll under $20k
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Japanese trucks offer the same versatility in 3-cylinder models with drop-down sides. 25-yr old ones are imported to the USA and can be had for $6-9k.
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