DiamondEcho wrote:How about the Esso ad campaign 'You've a tiger in the tank', which came with tiger striped textile things to hang out of your car boot that rather looked like Tarzan's willy-warmer!
Ah yes, what a brilliant idea that was. Persuade people to stick a wick into the ends of their petrol tanks, and hope that nobody struck a match after they'd just brimmed the pipe with fuel. (Bearing in mind, of course, that many tank caps leaked like sieves in those days.)
My favourite recollection of that motoring era was the fashion for decorating your windscreen with stick-on bullet holes. Could look very 007 if it was done well. Which, sadly, it very rarely was....
The 18 year old lad across the road from us won a Hillman Imp Rally Sport in a national car magazine competition, just weeks after they first came out. He had it for a whole weekend before he rolled it and terminally stuffed it while trying to do something vaguely rally-ish. Easy come, easy go. I expect it was fun while it lasted?
BJ