Sal Collaziano
April 3rd, 2007, 11:41 AM
Filed under: Time Warp (http://www.autoblog.com/category/timewarp/), Convertibles (http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/), Coupes (http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/), Marketing/Advertising (http://www.autoblog.com/category/marketing-advertising/), Videos (http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/), Pontiac (http://www.autoblog.com/category/pontiac/)
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It's been a while since I threw an old TV spot up for your enjoyment (though Dan has done a fine job serving up tasty nostalgia (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/14/video-when-good-ideas-go-bad/) nuggets (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/23/video-corvair-to-nader-kiss-my-unsafe-quarter-panel/#comments) of late), and John's post on Winding Road's pie-in-the-sky Firebird Trans-Am future-fantasymobile (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/23/should-pontiacs-rwd-coupe-be-the-gto-or-trans-am/) had me flipping through my YouTube faves for something related to our fine flaming-feathered friend from Pontiac.
While that hypothetical TA clearly looks to the 70s for inspiration, I'm going back to the previous decade for today's bit of retro-marketing fun. It's got everything you'd expect: great old cars, entertaining period voice-over work, clever needling of the competition from Mercury, Ford, and Plymouth, plus a soundtrack that somehow lends the whole affair a sense of urgency. In fact, after viewing this I felt a strong desire to fly home in a magnificent new Pontiac Firebird...tonight.
Enjoy! The video's after the jump.
[Source: YouTube]Continue reading VIDEO: The Magnificent 5 from Wide-Trac Country (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/24/video-the-magnificent-5-from-wide-trac-country/)
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/magnif_5.jpg
It's been a while since I threw an old TV spot up for your enjoyment (though Dan has done a fine job serving up tasty nostalgia (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/14/video-when-good-ideas-go-bad/) nuggets (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/23/video-corvair-to-nader-kiss-my-unsafe-quarter-panel/#comments) of late), and John's post on Winding Road's pie-in-the-sky Firebird Trans-Am future-fantasymobile (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/23/should-pontiacs-rwd-coupe-be-the-gto-or-trans-am/) had me flipping through my YouTube faves for something related to our fine flaming-feathered friend from Pontiac.
While that hypothetical TA clearly looks to the 70s for inspiration, I'm going back to the previous decade for today's bit of retro-marketing fun. It's got everything you'd expect: great old cars, entertaining period voice-over work, clever needling of the competition from Mercury, Ford, and Plymouth, plus a soundtrack that somehow lends the whole affair a sense of urgency. In fact, after viewing this I felt a strong desire to fly home in a magnificent new Pontiac Firebird...tonight.
Enjoy! The video's after the jump.
[Source: YouTube]Continue reading VIDEO: The Magnificent 5 from Wide-Trac Country (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/24/video-the-magnificent-5-from-wide-trac-country/)
Permalink (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/24/video-the-magnificent-5-from-wide-trac-country/) | Email this (http://www.autoblog.com/forward/839622/) | Comments (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/24/video-the-magnificent-5-from-wide-trac-country/#comments)
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