Art & Inspiration Long gone marketing terms for automotive gimmicks

BOSS

 

For 1957
The new shape of motion...
THE FORWARD LOOK !!!

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Back when you could look at a car and tell what it was

 

Esso gasoline and Kellogg’s

 

Yes!!! And when cars had actual names, Bel Air, Galaxie, Valiant. Now there just a hodgepodge of meaningless letters and or numbers.

 

jet-a-way trans

 

3/4 cam........full race cam!!
Seems I remember the Extra-Super-Full racing cam! Thank you J.C. Whitney!
6sally6

 

Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Futuramic

Dodge Red Ram with Gyro-Matic

 

My Mom's pink & black '55 Ford convert. sounded more "jet-age" as a Sunliner

 

I´ve got 710-15 Goodyear Power Cushion bias plys on my 65 Riviera, it has the famous Switch Pitch Turbo Hydramatic 400 too. The engine is a Wildcat 465, which is way more impressive than the Thunderbird 312 in the 34 or the Blueflame 235 in the 55 Chevy.

 

Buick "Dynaflash" 8, possibly backed by a Dynaflow trans.

 

Don't forget the "Ezy eye" gl*** for GM

 

1953 Ford V8 was the "Stratostar V8"....& how about the Milage maker Six....
Someone mentioned Turboglide...an uncle of mine had a 58 Impala with a 348 tripower turboglide
I was shocked at how fast it was !!!!!!

 

Fireball 8 = buick
Spitfire = Dodge
Red Ram = dodge
Pilothouse Truck = dodge
Sweptside = dodge
Fluid Drive = dodge
Green Diamond = international
Thriftmaster = chevrolet

 

Plymouth "Floating Power"

 

Some interesting illustrations from the 1952 edition of MOTORS manual showing hill holder and anti percolating unit. Mack trucks had some interesting names such as Econodyne and Thermodyne. The illustration for the Buick valve in head Dynaflash Fireball Eight is great art as well. The very cool shots of Harley Earl and the Firebird's from 1954 and 1956, the jet age had a big influence!

 

Double Eagle (Goodyear's tire in a tire)

 

The "Studebaker Scotsman".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Scotsman

 

Ford "gas clipper"

 

town and country radio
wonder bar radio

 

Fireball
blue flame 6

 

Dodge Gyromatic Transmission
Studebaker Jet Thrust Engines
Crosley also had a Sports-Utility in the Late 40s

 

Pontiac “Tri-Power” , Mopar “Six-Pack”

 

Super Sport, Turbo Automatic, Posi-traction, Power Pack, Six Pack, Stove Bolt, Split-Window, Bug, Pony,


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Rapid Transit, Super Bee, Golden and Super Commando, Wildcat, Max Wedge

 

Oil companies have always touted their gas additive packages as something new and miraculous and often named them with mysterious initials. Back in the day Shell's was called "TCP" which was universally known as Tom Cat Piss.
regards,
Phil

 

And from the same people that brought you TCP . . . there's "Platformate"!

 

I need me some a dat "Platformate"!

 

Vintage car commercial videos are filled with automotive buzzwords, catchphrases, taglines and other fancy nomenclature.

For 1955 !!!
Only Chevrolet has...
Quadra-poise suspension!
And...
Level-flight stopping!

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The brake pedal in my Javelin said...

COMMAND CONTROL

Wowee...

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