The 5th Dimension: Chevrolet Impala commercial

[Videoskooter]

Thanks to Marky I remembered that this one is online:

The 5th Dimension - Chevrolet Impala commercial 1969

[KoolChris]

Wow! I remember how that car (model & year) was popular with my friends' older brothers as a kid!! They'd have the chrome 5 spoke Cragar rims, gray primer, and they'd be lowered until the chrome bumpers were all scratched underneath from dragging on the asphalt. They're classics up to today...

[Videoskooter]

And the way this car is advertised here is cool. Looks like a pre-MTV clip!

[remicks]

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Fascinating ad!!:icon_biggrin:

But I thought the commercial seemed sort of shady ... ghost rider in the night ... No romantic drive along the coast on a winding road on a sunny day sappy kind of stuff for this one !!

Who are they trying to sell to ??
drug dealers?? pimps?? drive by shooters ???? :icon_eek::icon_mrgreen::icon_razz:


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[KoolChris]

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Fascinating ad!!:icon_biggrin:

But I thought the commercial seemed sort of shady ... ghost rider in the night ...
Who are they trying to sell to ??
drug dealers?? pimps?? drive by shooters ???? :icon_eek::icon_mrgreen::icon_razz:

...Exactly those who ended up riding them from the mid-'70s!!!!!

In my memory, you either saw these in pristine condition from new, driven by nice little grannies on their way to church, OR beat-up, covered in gray primer, and lowered to the max, ridden by tattooed-up cholos wearing gray Dickies pants, white tank-tops worn over a white T, black Ray-Bans, and hairnets keeping their combed-back hair in place, to somewhere maybe a little more dubious, as they drank from brown paper bags...