1982 Dodge 400 Convertible brochure ( oh the styling- shudder).

I don't know if this was ever a big thing.... but according to this mid-60's advert you could save money by buying abroad.

After traveling with your new Euro car in Europe this service offers to ship it back to the US following your trip. Sounds awesome.

1964 - 1965 Plymouth Barracuda colours.

Image source: http://www.retronaut.com/2014/04/plymouth-barracuda-colours-2/

1960s ad for Chase Manhattan Bank featuring Duesenberg, Hispano, Mercedes, Cord and Packard.

So bad it's good. 1982 Buick model catalog.

Including:
-Rivera
-Electra
-LaSabra
-Regal
-Skylark

1979 MG Midget brochure.

Dodge 1979 sales Brochure

"BUY OR LEASE A DODGE, AND SAY, "HEY THAT'S MY DODGE!"

"The Whole Dodge Car Catalog." Cover image of a 1979 Sales Brochure.

Duesenberg Straight Eight, "Built to outclass, Outrun and Outlast any car on the road"

Published:1921-1926
A Duesenberg Model A on display in dealership window.

Brought to you by the Library of Congress. Check out their website full of historical images sans watermarks!

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

Southwest Airlines with matching 1976 AMC Pacers.

1973 Advert for a German made Zündapp motor bike.

"The first Zündapp motorcycle was the model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle for everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was produced in large series. Zündapp's history of heavy motorcycles began in 1933 with the K-series. The "K" refers to the type of drivetrain that these models used, 'Kardanantrieb' meaning enclosed driveshaft with two universal joints."

Text source and more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zündapp

Image source: http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/2011/12/retro-cool-motorcycle-adverts.html

1975 Kneissl-Toyota Freestyle Ski Team.

Members: Donovan Phillips, Penelope Street, Chris Thorne.


Image source: http://www.epicski.com/t/69076/more-retro-memories/5790

A lovely winter advert for a Skoda.

From Wiki:
Škoda Works was established as an arms manufacturer in 1859 and Škoda Auto (and its predecessors) is one of five oldest companies that began producing cars and has an unbroken history (together with Tatra, Daimler, Opel and Peugeot).


Check out more Euro ads of woman and cars: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/01/girls-cars-european-vintage-ads.html

Text source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda_Auto

1934 FIAT ad with an uncredited sportswoman depicted as the driver.

Image Source: http://simanaitissays.com/2013/04/27/le-bellezza-della-fiat/

"Woman wanted to become Motor Drivers. Enormous Demand. The British School of Motoring, Ltd. Largest instruction works in the world - Motor Driving - Mechanism and - Running Repairs. For one small fee. Call or write B.S.M., 5, Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, W."
- From a Programme for the Islington Empire in 1917.

Image Source: Old Advertisements.co.uk: http://www.oldadvertisements.co.uk/

There is an automotive graveyard is filled with attempts to capture women buyers.

Quoted from Jalopnik user ATX211 -- This is how many a marketing board meeting might have gone down:

-"How do we market to women?"

- "Talk down to them."

"No that doesn't work. Tried it."

- "Make it pink?"

"Bingo"

- "Chicks dig everything pink. Probably make them want to drive."

"Don't call them chicks. Broads hate being called chicks."

Source: http://jalopnik.com/how-do-carmakers-decide-whats-a-car-for-women-1471427566

"At launch in 1961 the E-Type Jaguar cost $5,595 for the Roadster or "OTS" (Open two-seater) and $5,895 for the Coupe or "FHC" (Fixed head coupe) this included standard wire wheels. Adjusted for inflation in 2011 dollars, the E-type would cost about $41,000 for the roadster and $43,000 for the coupe."

Image source: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/01/girls-cars-european-vintage-ads.html
Text source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/01/jaguar-celebrates-50th-birthday-of-e-type-sports-car/1#.Uo_ua8Skrl8

A milestone in advertising catered to women, is this 1923 ad for the Jordan Playboy, art by Fred Cole, from the Saturday Evening Post, June 1923.

"Somewhere West of Laramie there’s a broncho-busting, setter-roping girl who knows what I’m talking about. She can tell what a sassy pony, that’s a cross between greased lightning and the place where it hits, can do with eleven hundred pounds of steel and action when he’s going high, wide and handsome. The truth is- The Jordan Playboy was built for her."

Image & text source: http://simanaitissays.com/2013/04/27/le-bellezza-della-fiat/

"The advertising firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach was responsible for one of Volkswagen of America’s most memorable advertising campaigns. Starting in the late 1950s and continuing at least through the mid-1970s, they were very unique and clever, so much so that VW has brought this advertising style back several times."

See more clever VW ad's from this period: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/vw-advertising-in-the-seventies-from-classic-ddb-to-a-new-direction/

1925 Fiat Advertisement for the 509 Model.

Fiat’s advertising message during this period was voluptuously into the Flapper Era.

Image thanks to: http://simanaitissays.com/2013/04/27/le-bellezza-della-fiat/
Commentary by: Cesare De Seta and Emanuele Pirella

"Sex sells, but you can never mix business with pleasure. The free and funky spirit of the 60s was seriously stifled by 1970s bureaucratic camel-colored turtleneck wearing boringness. And a little thing called OPEC....."

Read more about the rise and fall of the E-type: http://retropopplanet.com/2009/12/03/jaguar-e-type/

A 1919 Ad for Fiat.
This advertisement is by Golia (Eugenio Colmo) who was an accomplished Italian caricaturist, illustrator, artist and potter.

Image and text source: http://simanaitissays.com/2013/04/27/le-bellezza-della-fiat/

More about the artist Golia: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/eugenio-colmo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Late 1930's German KDF propaganda (Kraft durch Freude = Strength through Joy).

A family playing by a river with a KdF-Wagen and radio receiver."

Image & Info Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146II-732,_Erholung_am_Flussufer.jpg

The Fiat 124 was also produced under license in Turkey, sold under the name "Murat 124". Production total 134,867 between the years of 1971-94.

From what I can tell....this is a Turkish commercial depicting in a VERY strange way the interior space of the car.

Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_124 &
Gürses Oto @ youtube.com

Took me a minute to get over the jacket, then I noticed the Auburn.

1979 Mini Special color choices. Source: http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/ (free european brochures) & http://www.brochuremuseum.nl/museumentrance.htm (another free brochure website)

A NYC Packard advertisement In 1904. "The first year that Longacre Square tried on its new name Times Square, it was still populated with horse-related services like carriage shops and stables. But it seems the horse-less carriages were represented too. The Packard Motor Car dealership, had its address at 1540 Broadway.

The Ohio-based car company would spread out several dealerships throughout the New York area, but made a go of it at this location from 1904-1907. As the fate of Times Square as New York's entertainment focal point had not yet been solidified, it probably seemed natural to sell cars here. By 1907, they moved to the less chaotic corner of Broadway and 61st Street.
Today, the Bertelsmann Building consumes that entire block" Source: http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2010/12/trip-to-times-square-1904-packard-motor.html

Brochure for a Duesenberg Model A 1922. Image courtesy of Juan Jose Escobar Soto from Argentina.

1975 MG B GT period advertisement, with a Hispano-Suiza Type Alfonso XIII in the front left corner!

A sponsor of the 1912 Auburn High School Year book.

"Forty years of experience" Here we have the Eckhart Carriage Co. another sponsor of the 1912 Auburn High School Yearbook.

Chassis image from an advertising brochure for a Bucciali TAV 12. Want to know more about this make? visit http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13389/Bucciali-TAV-12.aspx

"Auburn 115 Horsepower Straight Eight" advertisement from Home & Garden magazine.

Italian made Bianchi 12-20 H.P. Advert from Autocar Dec 10th 1921

"1922 will be a Studebaker year" according to this "light six" advertisement from Autocar Dec. 10th 1921.