Comments on: Classic(ally Bad) TV Commercials: What Will it Take for Me to get YOU in to this Car?!? http://www.affariedge.com/blog/2008/01/28/classically-bad-tv-commercials-what-will-it-take-for-me-to-get-you-in-to-this-car/ Discussion about advertising, marketing, and public relations... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: carlking http://www.affariedge.com/blog/2008/01/28/classically-bad-tv-commercials-what-will-it-take-for-me-to-get-you-in-to-this-car/#comment-146 carlking Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:36:14 +0000 http://www.affariedge.com/blog/2008/01/28/classically-bad-tv-commercials-what-will-it-take-for-me-to-get-you-in-to-this-car/#comment-146 Well, it takes a lot of stones to do that commercial. Although the word doesn't quite have the same meaning today, my father would have called this guy a true Huckster. Do you think anyone now-a-days could hammer on a car without leaving a dent? Seeing him do that gives me an uneasy feeling. Me being a classic car guy and all, seeing them more as treasures than slap `em through the sales line merchandise. Was that backdrop a sea container or were they shooting that at the edge of an underpass where the corregated sheet metal supports the dirt? Well, it takes a lot of stones to do that commercial. Although the word doesn’t quite have the same meaning today, my father would have called this guy a true Huckster.

Do you think anyone now-a-days could hammer on a car without leaving a dent? Seeing him do that gives me an uneasy feeling. Me being a classic car guy and all, seeing them more as treasures than slap `em through the sales line merchandise.

Was that backdrop a sea container or were they shooting that at the edge of an underpass where the corregated sheet metal supports the dirt?

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