Over the years these have been billboards around the Motor City. They still make me smile when I see them so I thought I'd share. Pistons are our basketball team in case you aren't a sports fan
Very cool, and shows how billboards in the day were actual thoughts and not a bunch of words. One of the rules of billboards and bulletins were to use 7 words or less to be the most readable. These are close. The cars of that era were and are the kings of style.
Thanks for posting those Denise..They contain a lot of truth for those of us that lived through the glory days of Detroit and the auto industry. Now, thanks to Washington and those running the show , they will just be a fading memory. Frank
Denise: Excuse me, are these really UP in the Detroit area? Kinda looks like a pamphlet or dealer-available fold-out. In any event, they are a very well done reminder of what's truly cool. Thank you.
I think they are absolutely fantastic!! Yet rather ironic. Find some modern samples from GM that should be put on those billboards in the same principle as the cl***ics. You'll be hard pressed to find them, including the new Camaro. GM knows that they produced great cars in the past but do they have any idea of what is produced today??? Great billboards Denise!! ******Knuckles
To answer your question, in case you don't go to the link that Chuck provided, yes they are real billboards and have been up at some point or another over the years. I've taken photos myself of some of them but I can't find them right now. They are extremely dramatic in full size.
One more reason to love the Detroit area. Most folks think I'm crazy, but I'll take suburban Detroit to most other metros, including Chicago. The town drips of American culture. There is so much more than the auto industry worth saving below the thumb.
Those are great ads. I never saw one up here in the boonies, .just truck ads up here. ..... I saw one for Dodge trucks yesterday that was good... It read "Any tougher and it would make its own license plates"
"Will people ever line the street to see what you drove?" That is a great tag line. Now only if the GM stylists had thought of that when designing cars for the last 20 years maybe we or our kids would be loving them in the future.
It would be fantastic if GM could talk up the product they are currently building, instaed of waxing nostalgically on how great they used to be.
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