'Retro' Sells!

My favourite ads date well before the cinematic style big budget ads of today. I found this one with the green cross code man (anyone remember the campaign?) public information films...

There's 2 marina's, a princess, a maxi and mk3 cortina and MK1 Fiesta in the ad...and a really bizarre robot.

Its right at the bottom of the page....




tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/adverts.htm


There's another public information film on the same page, I fondly recall asking you 'to keep your lights nice and bright', the creators of this baffling ad recommend that you paint your push bike white. I was never gonna paint my Chopper white.....er if you catch my drift.

There's an avenger, a mini, a 610 Datsun bluebird, and a VW 1600 fastback... but can't make out the others!

Remember this.
A Marina I thought???
Could be wrong though.

That is marketing, not capitalism

Capitalism rocks.

*n

how mad is the ad where the dad pulls up in a 504 with a new r reg plate on it argh

and the lad robs the bank sos he can get a 206 **choke**

or the 307 with all the older better pugs in it

305 into the filed lmao

I think that these "trade in your old car for a nice new shiny one" ads have their origin in a quote by Maggie Thatcher, in which she said that any man over 30 still catching busses is a "failure". Also there is the problem of conformity. By making everyone look the same, dress the same, drive the same cars etc, eventually you end up controlling their aspirations and that helps to keep the masses "in line". By also getting all these people to take out loans in order to finance their "correct" aspirations, you also make a large percentage of the population in debt. When the public are in debt, they are more "obedient"
If you don't believe me, look at the last recession, no strikes, no trade-union activity. Everyone is afraid to rock the boat.
People such as us (not just car fans, I'm talking about anyone who's into non-mainstream stuff e.g.music), worry the powers that be, because they can't control us. We are our own people. They do not control us, and they don't like that, therefore they find little ways to make our life harder, thinking that we'll come round to their way of thinking. Well we won't, and the sooner they realise that the better. They're wasting far too much time, energy and money (OUR money!) antagonising us, for no useful purpose. I'm not singling out any Political Party here, because they're all as guilty as each other. The problem being that politicians have such an inflated view of they're own importance that they honestly believe that life is better today than it's ever been, and they've made the world a better place, justifying their own exsistance. they daren't admit that things were ever better in the past as it will totally destroy their ego's. Sad really.
Sorry about the rant here, I'll get off my soapbox now.

I notice there have been a couple of rantish posts besides mine on this thread, 104ZS and Moggyman especially, and well done to both of you, it's nice to see that I'm not the only one who'se not happy about us becoming an army of nameless, faceless sheep in the capitalist machine, too afraid to do what we want or speak out against the norm because we've had it taught to us from a young age that if you don't do what the rest of the sheep do then you'll be a failure and a waster and you'll never be happy until you start doing what you're told again, being bled dry all the way to the grave, "buy a new car or you'll be a social outcast", "wear Kalvin Klein and Nike or you'll never make anything of your life", "listen to what MTV wants you to listen to or you're nothing but a rudderless disgrace who'll never get a good job" etc etc etc.

And the really clever part is that years of this kind of seasoning has convinced people that by not being normal they're doing something wrong. The Cold War taught people in the West that if you have a left wing perspective on things you're nothing but a "no good commie" who'se no better than a stalinist and will only ruin the country, or so we're told. Anyone who doesn't actually give a damn about climing the corporate ladder, who doesn't believe the curse word that by starting off as the boy who makes the tea, and remembering to worship the boss night and day, say "yes sir" a lot, lick his boots and kiss his a*se, that someday you too can be a top exec, that you're something special, even though you're really nothing more than a corporate drone who'll never progress any higher in the corporation than some sinecure like vice deputy sub-assistant to the something or other supervisor designed to make you feel like a thrusting young executive while giving you no extra power or authority within the firm, and that you're "going places" in the business world, when in actual fact you're there till you die and when you're gone the company won't notice. And yet many of these corporate sheep are so well trained that even though they're ripped off, lied to and bled dry by their government and their way of life, they'd gladly die for it to protect it from socialism!

"That was a Party Political Broadcast by the Loonie Leftist Nutcase Party. And now for the news and weather.";D ;D;D ;D;D ;D

*This isn't a dig at anyone on here by the way, for a start I can tell that corporatism, capitalism and consumerism haven't got their hands round anyone on here's necks because you're into old cars, so they obviously don't have that much control over you or you'd have a dull modern hatch and sneer at retro cars because you were supposed to! *