"The long underslung rear...."

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

1915

Comments

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I really like these Overland ads. They're pretty and I especially the marketing to women and not in a too insulting way. Cars were rather difficult to deal with then so maybe their target was also men who could say they bought the car as a courtesy to their wives.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

That's a really pretty ad.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

It's such a beautiful ad I didn't know at first it was for a car.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

I love this ad! Sooo pretty! And the controls in the steering wheel are awesome! And it was almost a hundred years ago. But then, in 1904, St. Louis had car makers who made cars running from batteries. Pretty wild.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful!

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous ad, but I can't help but wonder how much money that is in today's dollars. Cars were expensive back then.

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that too, so I went and found this handy calculator:
http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1%2C050.00&year1=1915&year2=2012

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's not bad at all--plenty of new cars cost that, don't they? (I seriously wouldn't know, I don't drive and I don't watch TV or anything that would expose me to car ads....)

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I love the trees in the background.