With the discovery of the giant GM Futureliner for sale on Craigslist comes the natural thought process of thinking about other promotional vehicles built by car and truck companies to build their brand and sell more cars. The famous stainless steel 1936 Ford was an early example with Mopar’s famous “Rapid Transit System” group of cars being popular attractions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One off, or limited edition promotional cars have always been a part of the sales scheme in both automotive and truck markets. Big rig manufacturers would roll out trucks of “the future”, they showed stuff like turbine powered rigs, and the car companies did much of the same (Turbine Chryslers anyone?)
We want to know what the best promotional vehicle built by a major auto or manufacturer is. Something you saw once and it stuck with you for a long time in the sense that it was bitchin’, not that it sucked!
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Been The Best Promotional Vehicle Built By A Major Manufacturer?
Mid 60’s Pontiac Banshee
Dodge – Little Red Wagon – gets my top vote. Especilly considering longevity and appeal
Any of the Hurst Olds promo vehicles is a close second – especially if Linda is draped over it
Plymouth Super Bird!!!
How about the 1957 Corvette SS?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Corvette+SS&id=A87EDAA9EF0F8FCAF9C73AB26EBF1C38918B67B6&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=C32D42245D01B91E82A7F54D51E185F3BAB1C34B&selectedIndex=2
AMC’s AMX/3!
Hemi under glass was pretty cool, any of the altered wheel base mopars, A990 cars and any of the factory super stock cars from the big 3 for drag racing.
The transparent cars GM built for the 1940 world’s fair!
I am LOVIN’ that Duster! Never seen that pic before.
Years ago there was this bank that advertised auto financing I think it was DIME savings,they had these cars called “anycars” built from all different cars. Pretty cool. Looked like the car from that Johnny Cash song.
I think Firestone’s involvement in the original Bigfoot Monster Truck was pretty effective for the early 80s and 90s. I remember going to those rallies as a kid and loving it. The lift kits on those things are what got me working where I am today, and I think it may have had the biggest effect on me.