Daily 70s Spot (Bicentennial Week): Rally Car Wax ‘Oh, Really?’ (1976)

Hello and welcome to July! With the 4th of July holiday fast approaching I thought we’d celebrate here by instigating a Bicentennial Week. All of our posts for the next 7 days will be related to July of 1976 – … Continue reading

Daily 70s Spot: Buick Opel 1900s (1970)

“Buick’s foreign economy car.” Time to visit the showroom for our Daily 70s Spot. Here we have a Buick commercial for the “new” line-up of Opel 1900 vehicles. Spot aired in November of 1970. Daily 70s Spot #169: Buick Opel … Continue reading

Daily 70s Spot: Firestone Tires ‘Dangerous Ice’ (1970)

“You go through ice, mud or snow or we pay the tow.” Time to scrape the frost off of our Daily 70s Spot. Today we have a commercial for Firestone Tires featuring “Asymmetrical Town & Country Studded Winter Tires” for … Continue reading

Daily 70s Spot: Fram oil filter ‘Junkyard’ (1977)

“Sooner or later they all come to me…” Time to put today’s Daily 70s spot out to pasture. Here’s one for Fram oil filters featuring a junkyard mortician. Unfortunately, I don’t know the actor’s name in this spot but I … Continue reading

Daily 70s Spot: Goodyear Tiempo Tires (1978)

“Rain tire. Sun tire. One tire. Tiempo does it all.” Yesterday we had a look at the Chevy Chevelle. For our Daily 70s Spot we’re going to shoe the horse, so to speak. Here’s a Goodyear tire commercial for the … Continue reading

Daily 70s Spot: Chevrolet Chevelle (1972)

“Chevrolet. Building a better way to see the USA.” Time to hotwire our Daily 70s Spot. On this fine Monday we have a Chevrolet commercial for the 1972 Chevelle featuring a humorous, family theme. I like this one. I think … Continue reading