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BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

Toronado ad, 1968

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Toronado ad, 1968

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BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • ladicius@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Penis enlargement marketed as such.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      yup

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    …when cars looked cool, even the american ones. Though this stupid ad would’ve convinced me not to buy it.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      What, you weren’t sold on “massively male”?

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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        Rarely 😁

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    Never heard of this. I guess the marketing didn’t pan out or it fell to shit quickly.

    Edit: I was wrong. For some reason people seemed to like these and production went to ~1993. Weird.

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      Had to be all marketing. Those things were ugly AF.

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        25 year run and the originals are highly collected.

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    youngmobile.

    Someone got paid $500,000 for that idea.

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    deleted by creator

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      I guess you’ve never driven in snow. These were very popular in the Northeast. And the entire had huge room because no tunnel was needed for the driveshaft. Putting the heavy motor and driver at the opposite end of the vehicle drive wheels is the definition of stupid.

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      For some context, FWD was novel at the time - oldsmobile considered it a competitive distinction. Other american automakers did not have the tooling to build something similar. Further while Europe was doing transverse powertrains, this used a longitudinal layout front wheel drive, one of the few cars ever designed that way.

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    Wasn’t this Scaramanga’s car?

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