Jag or Brougham – you make the call (Ford commercial, 1972)
“Quiet is the sound of a well-made car.”
Let’s push our Daily 70s Spot down the hill and get things jump-started. Here’s a commercial for the 1973 Ford LTD Brougham with a comparison to the Jaguar. Spot aired in November of 1972.
*Note: The LTD spokesman looks a lot like Gavin MacLeod, but after watching a Mary Tyler Moore episode from the mid-70s and comparing a number of photos, I’ve decided the actor just looks a hell of a lot like Captain Stubing, but isn’t him. If you feel differently let me know.
*UPDATE: Astute Bionic Disco reader, Steve H. has identified the actor as Alan Oppenheimer, whom you may remember from The Six Million Dollar Man. That’s it! Thanks, Steve.
Previously on Daily 70s Spot: Amana Radarange With Barbara Hale (1976)
I believe that the man you think is Gavin MacLeod is actually actor Alan Oppenheimer. I remember him as a calvary officer in “Little Big Man” and as a scientist in “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
Ah! I knew I knew him from somewhere. Thanks. Never realized how much alike they looked in the mid-70s.