We went trolling through the BangShift archive over the weekend and snagged a couple late 1960s copies of Car Life and Motor Trend Magazine. In those mags were some fantastic old ads for everything from spark plugs to muscle cars abd everything in between.
In our opinion Chrysler really had the advertising chutzpah back in the day. Their ads were brash, bold, and not shy about promoting the fact that they were selling stuff meant to haul ass and destroy the competition. It is also fun to see who was used as “celebrity” spokespeople back then. Former Indy 500 winners were still big stuff in the 1960s so you’ll see lots of them in the gallery as well as racers from other forms of motorsports as well. Stirling Moss pops up several times.
Hit the link below to see the gallery and step back in time to when piston ring companies advertised in Motor Trend!
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Love this stuff…here’s a blog
http://goldberg60.blogspot.com/2014/05/1964-when-madmen-ruled-car-magazines.html
featuring the 1964 edition of MT Mag…