Showing posts with label vintage automobile advertisements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage automobile advertisements. Show all posts

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Beyond car




1950 Buick




Beauty!




1951 Hudson Hornet




Ditto (likely copied from identical image above)




1940 Oldsmobile




1942  Oldsmobile




Really old car




1938 Packard




Mid- '30s Packard (guess)




Gaspingly beautiful car (probably Packard)




Beyond car.


Cars I just happen to like. In no particular order. I like turquoise cars with lots of chrome trim (whatever happened to chrome? People used to brag that their cars had "lots of chrome".) I picked vintage magazine ads because they reminded me of Mad Men, but I cropped out most of the cars so I could use them as Facebook covers. Plus the ads are pretty repetitive, with too much text. I do like the backgrounds on a lot of them, but many of them have a sort of Dick and Jane quality, wholesome, indicating a "family car". (A couple of them are "artistic" in a way that is frankly gorgeous.) Interesting that the two Hudson Hornet ads depict identical cars, reminding me of the Harold Lloyd caricature which was obviously copied from a photograph. Maybe even traced.

I guess you can see I favor late '30s to early '40s. Cars were bulbous tanks then, with a certain erotic quality. You could get up to a lot in the back seat.