Val, I wasn’t around, perhaps Janus can tell us ( 😉 ) but I don’t think that the Corvette was a ‘rich boys play thing”
I have a feeling that they got the pricing right, the target market spot on and sold millions.
Janus ha!
I saw this earlier and just had to share
Hah, those were the days. Wings, chrome – most cars today look like jellymoulds 🙂 (Or jello molds, if you prefer.)
I once saw a Ferrari in Marbella with a number plate that included the words Rich boys play things.com
Howzit Bravo
My first car was a Chevy 2.5l SS, (the coupe similar to the Opel) I remember taking her up to 100mph on our new Van Stadens Pass bypass. That was quick in those days (’75)
I remenber parking my Merc E320 (I’ve always had large cars) next to some midgets 3 series BMW who had the No. plate 4u2nv. Poor sod.
Val, don’t get the wrong idea, the cars in the billboards were all affordable (to the ‘average’ American, we aren’t talking supercars here)
I do know what you mean Soutie.
Ha, ha, my first car was a VW beetle – bought it for the equivalent of £20 in Germany then spent a couple of months doing it up – I was still a tank crewman then so we had access to a workshop and tools.
Never had a Beetle, did have a Kombi panelvan for 3 or 4 years (that was fun 😉 )
My Chevy was second (or 3rd) hand from my mother’s boss, cost R450 then (about £40 today, but closer to £150 in those days)
Hello Soutie: Great ads. I still have a “Detroit iron” fleet. I don’t like rice burners and the schnitzelwagens are too pricey for my taste. Few cars ever become icons, the ’57 Chevy is one. All of the cars shown were widely available and many are now fetching premium prices (old Corvettes and Chevelle SS’s from the sixties).
When I first arrived in Canada (on a bank holiday in 1969) I rented a car from Herz, they provided a brand new 1969 Pontiac 442 2 door hardtop, (V8, 7.5 litre) probably the ultimate “muscle car ” of the day. After driving underpowered BMC products in the UK I could not get it away from any stop without leaving a smoking trail of rubber behind me. I should have bought it from the rental company and put it up on blocks, it would probably be worth today twenty times what it cost new in ’69.
Hi Soutie, here is the ultimate ‘road song’ to go with these American icons.
Morning LW / Sipu
Nice video, do you think that’s a similar car to the one rented by LW back in ’69 (there’s another song)
Boadicea's Chariot 
Rich boys play things, lovely.
Real style, man! (Hums Chuck Berry – Rte 66)
Val, I wasn’t around, perhaps Janus can tell us ( 😉 ) but I don’t think that the Corvette was a ‘rich boys play thing”
I have a feeling that they got the pricing right, the target market spot on and sold millions.
Janus ha!
I saw this earlier and just had to share
Hah, those were the days. Wings, chrome – most cars today look like jellymoulds 🙂 (Or jello molds, if you prefer.)
I once saw a Ferrari in Marbella with a number plate that included the words Rich boys play things.com
Howzit Bravo
My first car was a Chevy 2.5l SS, (the coupe similar to the Opel) I remember taking her up to 100mph on our new Van Stadens Pass bypass. That was quick in those days (’75)
I remenber parking my Merc E320 (I’ve always had large cars) next to some midgets 3 series BMW who had the No. plate 4u2nv. Poor sod.
Val, don’t get the wrong idea, the cars in the billboards were all affordable (to the ‘average’ American, we aren’t talking supercars here)
I do know what you mean Soutie.
Ha, ha, my first car was a VW beetle – bought it for the equivalent of £20 in Germany then spent a couple of months doing it up – I was still a tank crewman then so we had access to a workshop and tools.
Never had a Beetle, did have a Kombi panelvan for 3 or 4 years (that was fun 😉 )
My Chevy was second (or 3rd) hand from my mother’s boss, cost R450 then (about £40 today, but closer to £150 in those days)
Hello Soutie: Great ads. I still have a “Detroit iron” fleet. I don’t like rice burners and the schnitzelwagens are too pricey for my taste. Few cars ever become icons, the ’57 Chevy is one. All of the cars shown were widely available and many are now fetching premium prices (old Corvettes and Chevelle SS’s from the sixties).
When I first arrived in Canada (on a bank holiday in 1969) I rented a car from Herz, they provided a brand new 1969 Pontiac 442 2 door hardtop, (V8, 7.5 litre) probably the ultimate “muscle car ” of the day. After driving underpowered BMC products in the UK I could not get it away from any stop without leaving a smoking trail of rubber behind me. I should have bought it from the rental company and put it up on blocks, it would probably be worth today twenty times what it cost new in ’69.
Hi Soutie, here is the ultimate ‘road song’ to go with these American icons.
Morning LW / Sipu
Nice video, do you think that’s a similar car to the one rented by LW back in ’69 (there’s another song)