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Vintage Pontiac Advertisements

I have been adding advertisement threads to forums, Chevrolet, Ford, Mopar, Olds, Pontiac,Yenko, Motion. The hope is our members will post vintage advertisements. I am making the thread a sticky so it stays at the top and easy to find. Some of the ads from back in the day are quite hilarious, and provocative!

The Stacked Headlight GTO’s

My personal favorites - 5,6,7.

Greatest Of All Time.

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Originally Posted by 60sStuff (Post 1609050)

Greatest Of All Time.

That's the Car and Driver GTO w/the b-pillar airbrushed out, and no engine, as borrowed from Mr. Sherman. Mr. Wangers said they had to add a little ballast under the hood to level it out for photo.

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Originally Posted by Tenney (Post 1609068)

That's the Car and Driver GTO w/the b-pillar airbrushed out, and no engine, as borrowed from Mr. Sherman. Mr. Wangers said they had to add a little ballast under the hood to level it out for photo.

My son is standing looking over my shoulder and I just told him that little tidbit.

Photo looks like it was taken at the GM Proving Ground in Milford. There is a small storage lot in the interior of the circle track, between the city course and the short East/West Straightaway.

Since it is near "Hyne Rd" (which is a real local road that bisects the Proving Ground) is is known as "the Hyne Rd Pad".

K

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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore (Post 1609080)

Jim said several of the original Goat guys didn't humor the new look all too much, and that this ad was among the measures quickly assembled to appease them. Don't know when it first ran, but if the engine was out at the time, shoot could've roughly coincided w/428 install ...?

Here are some more Pontiac ads.

Some of the options then.

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~ Pete

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https://images2.imgbox.com/ee/36/VDXXLO8M_o.jpg

The infamous ad that GM pulled only a month after it was in the magazines - it promoted street racing which was a no-no.

Back Story

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automo...lly-saying-it/

The Thom McAn shoe

Made for the GTO.

PS, I’m looking for a pair of these shoes if anyone knows of some.

I was reading an article the other day that stated the RAIV option became so rare because Pontiac was busy spending its time and money on the upcoming debut of the RAV and neglected the marketing of the RAIV because of it. Of course the RAV never made it into a car and the majority of buyers didn’t know much about the RAIV and on paper it’s as only a 10 Hp increase in the firebird .