I have a solid collection of automobile magazine ads from the 1950s and '60s, back when advertising was art and people like Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman created dramatic car illustrations. One of ...
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Cool Car Ads of the 1980s

The 1980s brought us some brilliant car ads—and a few that were pretty awful. The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads.
Chrysler Corporation appeared doomed as the 1970s came to a close, kept on life support by federally guaranteed loans squeezed out of Congress by Lee Iacocca. Few wanted to buy bloated Cordobas or ...
The 1975-1977 Chrysler Cordoba personal luxury coupe was perfect for its time, selling around 150,000 units for each of those three years with smooth-talking Ricardo Montalban as pitchman. For 1978, ...
Snopes was unable to determine when and where the advertisement first appeared. However, The New Yorker published it in 1994 and 1995 issues of its printed magazine, according to the publication's ...