Old car ads from magazines & newspapers

[Turbobanana]

P5BNij said:

"Of course, these little bitty ve-hicles from Europe have everything our good ol' yankee ones do as well, only much smaller. See here in the trunk you got... oh"

[P5BNij]

[South tdf]

1960’s Autocar

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Turbobanana said:

I got very close to working for them once, around 1993. I was a junior sales exec, bored with selling Peugeots. I lived about 15 mins from Colchester and when they advertised a Ferrari sales position I cheekily applied. To my surprise they seemed to like what I said in interview and invited me back for a second. This involved a maths test (which I passed easily) followed by a second short interview.

It fell apart when they asked me to quote the BHP of a Porsche 911 Turbo. I had no clue, and admitted as much. I queried why they were asking this, at an interview for a Ferrari position.

"Oh, we've filled that role - we're looking for a Porsche sales exec though".

Fairly predictably I never heard back from them. I often wonder what might have been if they had they told me I was being considered for a Porsche position and I'd had even a day or two to prepare for that...

I worked for a total of 17 years at Colchester Ferrari in sales, great times.

[bad company]

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I worked for a total of 17 years at Colchester Ferrari in sales, great times.

Was this you?

A few years ago a Ferrari salesman at Colchester managed to turn over one of the cars all on his own, couldn’t find a link for that one though.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/ferrari-te...

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bad company said:

Was this you?

A few years ago a Ferrari salesman at Colchester managed to turn over one of the cars all on his own, couldn’t find a link for that one though.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/ferrari-te...

No thankfully, the car that rolled coming off the roundabout to join the A12 was a 348, long before my time and no, I wasn't in the 458 Speciale when the customer ran out of tallent.

[P5BNij]

[bad company]

How’s this for misogyny? Can’t believe there were advertisements like this, lovely Capri though.

[P5BNij]

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 22 October 16:44

[P5BNij]

[Yertis]

I love those Ro80 ads, they're wonderful.

[Mr Peel]

bad company said:

How’s this for misogyny? Can’t believe there were advertisements like this, lovely Capri though.

There were plenty of misogynistic car ads, but this is a spoof.

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Edited by kjs62 on Friday 27th October 11:07

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