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Your Family Will Die. Buy Our Tires.

Posted May 30, 2013 8:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: advertising auto Tire

Today, tire advertising is whimsical and fun for the entire family, often relying on cartoons and computer-generated woodland creatures to sell product. In the 1960s, however, selling tires was a far more serious affair, as this Jam Handy-produced General Tire advertisement clearly illustrates. In fact, its message is equal parts clear and terrifying: Each and every time you climb behind the wheel, you're less than two arm lengths away from a horrific death, and choosing the right tire is the best way to up your (slim) odds of survival.

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05/31/2013 4:03 PM

That's back when I put Pirelli's on my Truimph!

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06/05/2013 2:54 PM

And is somehow implied that in contrast, today's methods of marketing and advertising are fare and honest? Deceiving your client has become a science long time now. By the way, tire technology on safety was not back then what it is now, not by far. S.M.

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