Adwatch UK

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

A picture ad from the Ford Motor Company circa 1977 urging plumbers, builders and the like to customise their trusty Transit vans with bubble windows, chromed wheels, blocky decals and black paint applied to the vehicles' bottom six inches, in order to impress women:



Yes, British women in the 1970s did wear skirts like the model's :D

Comments

[tiajuanabible.livejournal.com]

I WANT THAT VAN!

[albear.livejournal.com]

OMG! they had that ridiculous fad there also? I hate the American customized panel vans, but I gotta say I hate this one even more! It's hideous!

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The one in the picture is quite tame by 1970s customising standards. Check out this one:

[albear.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Dog! someone poke out my eyes! They had some awful ones like that here too, unfortunately I remember them.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

They might have looked flash, but no thought was given to the vehicles' long-term survival- they rusted just as badly as the average builder's van, so most were in the scrapyard by the mid-1980s ;)

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Is that a trophy behind the driver's seat? Dang, must've been some serious makeout sessions going on in there if he won an award!

Fetish

[salenelle.livejournal.com]

It... makes me want to have raunchy 8-track-tape sex in there, indeed it do.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Isn't that vulture from Disney's Jungle Book? It totally is.

This is the best vehicle ever. It reminds me of why I really want a VW bus.

[nonsense-at-all.livejournal.com]

I'd wear that skirt too!

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say that. It's fabulous!

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Me three, I love the skirt. I'd run a mile from that van, or anyone in it though.

[thremma.livejournal.com]

Yes - don't care a bout he car, but i love that skirt.

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

I can't believe no one's made a "livin' in a van down by the river" comment yet.

[albear.livejournal.com]

LOL! the ULTIMATE chimo van! look at that cushy velour sofa bed, wood paneling and shag carpetting interior! ;)

[arylkin.livejournal.com]

I think that van is kind of adorable.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Some of the 1970s street vans were quite nice, but the majority of them (especially home-built ones) were pretty appalling and over the top.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

She looks fabulous and she has boobs too, which is unusual for the 70s. I too would like the skirt.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

I love that skirt.

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

She isn't that impressed with the van. She's just holding on so she won't fall into the pond and get her pretty (?) skirt wet.

[avis-avis.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful skirt! :)

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

And here I thought party vans were primarily a North American fad.

I almost want to see one of those with some airbrushed wizard or unicorn on it.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I recall seeing one with a unicorn on it in a book once :)

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Ah, but in the US the preferred make was Chevrolet (http://www.metrolyrics.com/chevy-van-lyrics-sammy-kershaw.html). (That's Vauxhall across the pond.)

SIN BIN

[salenelle.livejournal.com]

Is SHE the one who's gonna love me in my Chevy van (and that's alright with me)?

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Can I just...have her skirt? I er, I need it...for...my wife. >_> Yyyyyeah.

(goes off to bellydance in his new skirt)