[DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel

[Sean Korb]

Heh!  So true!

Here's a 40 minute 1952 Oldsmobile Rocket commercial... for girls!
Bonus swimsuit footage!

http://av-geeks.tumblr.com/post/30529986856/lady-and-the-rocket-1952-an-entertaining-yet


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Roland Jaeckel <pantera874 at t-online.de> wrote:
> I can't imagine to live in a "free" country with a speed limit. What a waste
> of sheetmetal and horsepower...
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> From: "Sean Korb" <spkorb at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:36 PM
> To: "List Pantera" <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel
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>> I really can't.  I just can't imagine.  I saw an American Top Gear the
>> other day and they were tooling around in a Peele Trident.  The car
>> seats two, but honestly it only fit this one large American seated
>> squarely in the middle so the car wouldn't list one way or the other.
>> I'm trying to imagine a country populated by Austins, Fiats and
>> Citroens encountering a 1960 Desoto  with twice the sheetmetal in the
>> tail fins as the common European grocery getter.  And 5+ times the
>> motor.
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> sean
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mikael <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> In Europe it was called Opel Olympia, the lesser model (yes really) were
>>> called Kadett. It was top of the line Opel small car, did 100mph, 102 HP.
>>> Can you imagine growing up in a country where this was a quite fancy car,
>>> and then watch the cars in American movies?
>>>
>>> Mikael
>>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>>> Fra: Dave Londry [mailto:davel at emspace.com]
>>> Sendt: 30. august 2012 01:04
>>> Til: detomaso at list.realbig.com
>>> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel
>>>
>>> Now the guys at that ad agency smoked a ton of dope.
>>> dave
>>>
>>> On 29/08/2012 3:18 PM, Rob Dumoulin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> They had me hooked in the commercial.......especially with the chick
>>>> with angel wings.....until they touted the automatic transmission as a
>>>> primary feature :(
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> My buddy is digitizing 40,000+ 16mm and 8mm educational, safety,
>>>>> training, etc films.  This one came up and I thought you car buffs
>>>>> would get a kick out of it :)
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151377918645760
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think you have to be logged into Facebook to see their films
>>>>> if they're public, most of his stuff is on YouTube or archive.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's another one he digitized earlier in case you can't see the
>>>>> Facebook spot.  It's funny too... just not as weird.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgQT0AxgIkI
>>>>>
>>>>> sean
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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