Indeed, the "freeze frame" at the end was probably actually the last frame of the film, which lets us know they were probably rolling out the extra film (audio on a separate system). When filming-- and it looks as though the amount on the roll not gonna provide enough time to safely do another take-- instead do a joke take (or a random high frame rate take, for slow mo) till it fully rolls out, then get somewhere pitch black to cap it & load new film. We used to do it all the time with similar 16 mm commercials and shorts. Sorry I waited 9 years to reply lol
By the time I saw his ads, the dealership was in his wife's name because he was barred by the state from selling cars. Instead he was just the "pitchman"
My uncle was a Korean war vet AND a used car salesman.... choked me up cause he talks EXACTLY like him... they had that real gift of gab...RIP UNCLE HERB
You can hear laughter in the background at the end. They were goofing around. I doubt this particular commercial aired, but I do remember the legit ones.
Wow, you’re brilliant. You figured out all by yourself that a commercial where the guy talks about fucking you over, fucking, getting fucked, fucks, sons of bitches, and prostitutes didn’t air on 1968 network television? Genius.
Well it was like 18k back then not cheap at all I paid $800 for a 61 t bird in 68 and $1200 for my wife's 65 mustang convertible in 72 So he was being honest in saying he is going to screw you
@@mgman6000That country squire was no 18k back then. Did I misunderstand what you were referring to? This Wagon is awesome, btw. My mom had one when I was a child. This is one of the absolute coolest looking wagons ever!
Dad loaded the family into our 66 Tempest first thing on a Saturday morning in 1972 to buy a 70 Challenger that Ralph was advertising on his late night commercial for $1266. The salesmen tried everything they could do to hide the car and sell dad something else, but he found it parked about a block away and came back and menaced the sales manager until he finally succumbed and sold it to him. $1266 plus tax and license for an R/T with a pistol grip 4 speed. Thanks for the great memory!
Back in 98 I bought a 65 dart for $1100. Mostly mint with the slanty. In the glove box I found the owners manual, the warranty page, and the ORIGINAL window sticker from 65. Optional am super radio plus $15. Rear seat belts removed minus $20. Sticker price new $1699. Selling it was a mistake made in 06.
@@bufordtjustice8630 sounds about right. We had a 65 Valiant. The optional (bigger) slant six, heavy duty suspension and heater. $2000 bucks out the door, IIRC.
with out his ability to lie and make 8x profits he must have went out of business in less than 1yr? NO! He just made a reasonable amount of profit and committed self delete, (avoiding RUclips censors),
Hah! I remember Ralph Williams, one of the most crooked car salesmen ever. His commercials were all over the TV when he was selling cars in Southern California. He got fined big-time for crooked car deals, eventually got run out of Washington and California for his shady shit.
@@harleydude-xo8pu I remember watching Cal's adverts in Phoenix sometime in the late 70's after he got run out of California. What a....not stable person. "I'll stand on my head and eat a bug".
Well, it couldn’t really “leak” back then. There was no internet, no tv station would ever broadcast it. It would probably be passed around by broadcast folks for a chuckle, as intended.
_Take a [expletive] car like this - a 1966 Ford Country Squire 9-passenger station wagon. Don't worry about the equipment - think of all the fun you can have in the back._ Financing a $1866 wagon at $100/month for five years! That's an APR of 61.03%! (Remember, this was in the late sixties, when someone who made $5,000/year was doing fairly well.) And, no - the commercial never appeared on any TV broadcast. The pitchman on the video was Chick Lambert, with his dog Stormy. (Actually, Stormy was a stage dog rented for the commercials.) At his peak Ralph Williams had 23 car dealerships ranging from Seattle to LA. Particularly in southern California, William's ads in the mid-sixties to the seventies were ubiquitous; so much so that Johnny Carson brought him to national celebrity. Ralph Williams didn't end well. In the seventies, Williams ran into deep legal trouble for, among other things, misrepresenting sales contracts, rolling back the odometers on his used cars, and defrauding Ford Motors. Williams lost all his dealerships; many of which were acquired in the late seventies by Cal Worthington (who himself flooded the airways with his own car ads).
I remember the Ralph Williams and the Cal Worthington commercials. I had a 1966 Ford Country Squire station wagon just like that one when I was in high school. I made a pretty cool hot rod out of it. Cruised Van Nuys Boulevard every Wednesday night in it. Some good times in that car back then.
I had a 1960 Ford Country Sedan wagon. [My first car.] BBF V8. The Gas Gauge was synchronized to the Speedometer. As the Speedo needle went up, the Fuel indicator went down.
@@xaenon Oh, no. I mis-guessed the displacement. It was a Big Block Ford of less than 400 CI. As a high school kid w/o an afterschool job, it burned more gas than I could afford.
My friend back long, long ago had a 58 Ford Fairlane with a 454 police interceptor engine, and 2 four barrel carbs. Ya wanna talk watching the speedometer needle go up as the gas needle goes down? He'd toss a $20 on the floorboard in front of me and tell me if I can pick it up before he hits 100 I could keep it. I could not bend over from the acceleration.
@@longbowshooter5291 My Dad had a '73 Lincoln with a 460 BBF. I used to run a '67 Chevy K/10 Suburban with a ['78] 454 BBC. Don't remember what kinda mileage the Lincoln got, but it was a tuna boat... The Sub, I called White Fang because it had a big dog's appetite for gas. 6 City, 8 Highway. Did your friend's Fairlane have a Chevy engne? I know Chevy/GM engines of the '60s and '70s. Not up on other makes. Chevy's 292 was an L6. Ford's 292 was a V8. Lots of quirky details that over half a century later get clouded.
There was a car dealer in the Charlotte area named Louis F. Harrelson that did cheap commercials like this with his dog on the hood on a car. In each commercial, he would say, "Hi, Spot". This just reminded me of that, sorry for going down memory lane.
Wow! I never saw this commercial... then again during the 70s I lived in SoCal and this looks like something that would have aired locally up North. Wow! That was hilarious.
This guy worked harder on the bloop than he did on the real commercial! Reminds me when George on Seinfeld was working harder at keeping his unemployment benefits than getting a real job.
Cal Worthington did this type of commercial up until the 90s. The catch phrase was “here’s Cal Worthington and his dog spot“ but spot was never a dog. It was always some other animal. Cal Worthington at dealerships mostly in Southern California ruclips.net/video/8hT2oP--NSU/видео.htmlsi=56f4E6PMSXzUqUyh
@@mildredpierce4506 Yes! I loved his jingle "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal." At least one of big cats that portrayed "Spot", a tiger, has retired and is living at the big cat rescue in Dunlap, California. A number of their rescues were formerly used in the entertainment industry.
LOL!!! This is funny. I remember Ralph Williams when I used to visit relatives in southern California. All of his prices always ended in 66 dollars. It's possible this commercial may be on a bloopers compilation tape or DVD. I'll have to look for it.
I see they’re versed in the same sales tactics as Big Bill Hell’s Cars in Baltimore. Very effective; I time traveled all the way back to the 80s just to buy one of their cars
Obviously, this would NOT have made it by Standards & Practices, but as correctly noted by another responder, it was certainly an outtake. If they had bleeped him, then MAYbe...and his honesty would've been refreshing!
I grew up seeing these ads when I was a kid. He made new ads every week. He always had some crazy animal with him like a lion or a bear. This dude must have been fun at cocktail parties.
If only commercials were more sincere like this maybe people would pay more attention to them. Not constantly having mixed couples and generic boring advertisements lol
I'm sure the scene in smokey and the bandit 3 where the disgruntled used car woman goes off on her sleazy boss during a live commercial and then storms off the lot was influenced by this ad.
Fan-frickin'-tastic!! I laughed my ass off. What was this, 1969 or 1970? In 1968, it happened on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. That show was filmed live, and the "Sock-It-To-Me!" stunts were getting bolder and bolder. They were pulling people's clothes off (with simple cloth covers underneath), throwing buckets of water on them and dropping them two feet through trap doors. It was bound to happen, and one night it. They socked it to Judy Carne, yanked her dress off, threw five gallons of water on her and dropped her, and the cloth apron flew up and she was NAAAAAAAAAKED underneath, and the American public got to see her, uh, "Kitty-Cat" on live TV. The FCC went ape and fined ABC $500,000, which was a sh*t-load of money back then. I was watching it with my mother, who was very indignant. I was nine years old, I was not indignant at all! We need more TV like this!
How easy is it to get a TV license, what did they learn and how did they learn it, and how do you know. Until YT starts fact-checking, you can - I guess happily - get away with this. At least someone wasn’t lying about DT. I know the guy who did the voice replacement, but please don’t ask me for his name. Shotgun Tom from San Diego was his friend.
Yeah, glad it was kept......and he went to prison for fraud. The crap he pulled at his Ford dealership in the valley was unbelievable........... My Dad's secretary.....back when they had those, was a recipient of his fraud with her new mustang.
What a very weird thing to be sentimental about. "Yes, once upon a time everyone spoke in midwestern accept in northern California. How I miss the swearing the rude gestures."
Finally, an honest car salesman.
Beat me to it. 😂
😅
About as rare as an honest lawyer.
They're extinct now. 🦕
Definitely check out “Used Cars” movie from 1980, it’s like a movie length version of this commercial.
Clearly an outtake after the 'REAL" commercial was filmed. But I'm glad someone saved it!
Indeed, the "freeze frame" at the end was probably actually the last frame of the film, which lets us know they were probably rolling out the extra film (audio on a separate system).
When filming-- and it looks as though the amount on the roll not gonna provide enough time to safely do another take-- instead do a joke take (or a random high frame rate take, for slow mo) till it fully rolls out, then get somewhere pitch black to cap it & load new film. We used to do it all the time with similar 16 mm commercials and shorts. Sorry I waited 9 years to reply lol
just like the outtake from an early 90s Ford truck commercial, it's full of cursing, and I died laughing
I used to have this on vhs but was in black and white. Yes, this was an outtake, but funny as hell!
@@baird5776mullet 1968.
@baird5776mullet and that is why he said " just like " . Words mean things.
I trust this guy more than the last car salesman I spoke with.
$1,866.00
5 years...$100.00 a month 😲 🙈 😟
But he's dead
(j/k)
I want to buy a car from him. But I want one of the ones he had on that lot from back then!
Too bad I can't.
That Country Squire though.
Now THAT was a station wagon.
Many "accidents" happened in the back.
The OG Family Truckster!
@@tangofett4065 have you seen the real CW Griswold? Car and all?
@@tangofett4065if you think you hate it now, wait till you drive it
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 lol naw
Now this is the kind of auto salesmen that I want to see today on T.V.
Especially the prices...
SOLD! 😂
But the FCC won't let them be. For now. It's definitely on its way.
@@masaokakihara9316😅😅😅
If you knew who Ralph Williams was, you would know that this was a Public Service Announcement!
By the time I saw his ads, the dealership was in his wife's name because he was barred by the state from selling cars. Instead he was just the "pitchman"
I remember Ralph, and his successor, Cal Worthington. My fave Cal Worthington quote was, "We do our own financing, so we can do whatever we want..."
And he was the inspiration for The Fire Sign Theater parody "Ralph Spoilsport Motors." Ah, living in California back in the day...
I grew up on Firesign Theater records my dad would put on. Hilarious and on par with Monty Python
He was also the pitchman for Felony Ford, oops I mean Friendly Ford, in Huntington Beach.
My uncle was a Korean war vet AND a used car salesman.... choked me up cause he talks EXACTLY like him... they had that real gift of gab...RIP UNCLE HERB
You can hear laughter in the background at the end. They were goofing around. I doubt this particular commercial aired, but I do remember the legit ones.
Wow, you’re brilliant. You figured out all by yourself that a commercial where the guy talks about fucking you over, fucking, getting fucked, fucks, sons of bitches, and prostitutes didn’t air on 1968 network television? Genius.
IF, and that's a big if, it somehow made it to air, the got HEAVILY FINED by the FCC
@patmandew22 The FCC would have gone nuts.. 😂😂 Even today they would fined him into bankruptcy.. I highly doubt this made it to air.. 😂
I want to go back in time just so I can buy this fucking car.
Well it was like 18k back then not cheap at all I paid $800 for a 61 t bird in 68 and $1200 for my wife's 65 mustang convertible in 72
So he was being honest in saying he is going to screw you
Fuck yea!
All of them
@@mgman6000That country squire was no 18k back then. Did I misunderstand what you were referring to?
This Wagon is awesome, btw. My mom had one when I was a child. This is one of the absolute coolest looking wagons ever!
@1SqueakyWheel it was equivalent to 18 k now I don't think there were too many 18k car back then even a Cadillac was about 5k
I don't care if it aired or not. This is a sidesplitter.
"Don't worry about the equipment" Don't worry about the nail scratches on the hood from Storm.
I have a habit of checking Google maps whenever I see or hear an address in an old piece of media, and this location is now an Enterprise Rent-A Car.
345 El Camino Real,
San Bruno, CA, 94066
Victory Honda
im a better person now for knowing this
@@dntfrthreapr
From u.k.
And so you should be!
I’m a nosey sod myself!🧐
I checked and it’s a Honda dealership…
Me too!
Inside the heart of every car salesman, that we never see.
That’s a man with integrity.
Dad loaded the family into our 66 Tempest first thing on a Saturday morning in 1972 to buy a 70 Challenger that Ralph was advertising on his late night commercial for $1266. The salesmen tried everything they could do to hide the car and sell dad something else, but he found it parked about a block away and came back and menaced the sales manager until he finally succumbed and sold it to him. $1266 plus tax and license for an R/T with a pistol grip 4 speed. Thanks for the great memory!
Yes! I remember the late night commercials. A cheaper rate for the little guys to plug their businesses.
I understood nearly all of that.
Cool car. 383 or 440?
Cool dad.
@@arcade85_ I was too young to know that kind of stuff, just thought that the pistol grip 4-speed and the RT on the grill was pretty darn cool!
$1266. You gotta love inflation. The days when everyone could get a job and afford a car, home, food.
The wagon had 1866 on the windshield. I’m glad someone saved it.
and it only costs 100 dollars a month for five years or $6000. LOL. Over 4100 in interest.
Back in 98 I bought a 65 dart for $1100. Mostly mint with the slanty. In the glove box I found the owners manual, the warranty page, and the ORIGINAL window sticker from 65. Optional am super radio plus $15. Rear seat belts removed minus $20. Sticker price new $1699. Selling it was a mistake made in 06.
@@bufordtjustice8630 sounds about right. We had a 65 Valiant. The optional (bigger) slant six, heavy duty suspension and heater. $2000 bucks out the door, IIRC.
Finding parts for that "fucking car" is next to impossible these days.
Great spoof real. You can hear the crew laughing in the background. He's actually right on the money.
Reminds me of a Twightlight Zone episode where a used car dealer bought a possessed car and could never tell a lie after that. 😂
Yes, just aired the other day on METV with Jack Carson!
Saw that episode and the car was sold on the cheap to a Russian politician.
I never liked Twightlight Zone
@@Conradlovesjoythis tidbit really helped propel the thread forward
with out his ability to lie and make 8x profits he must have went out of business in less than 1yr? NO! He just made a reasonable amount of profit and committed self delete, (avoiding RUclips censors),
I actually remember this guy on TV when I was a little girl. This is hilarious. This is the dictionary definition of an honest commercial.
Puts me in the mind of that early 80's curt russell movie "Used cars" . Funny shit!!
That may have been inspired by someone who saw this footage, "Miles of Cars!"🤩
That’s a classic
I was a projectionist for many years, and I was a film booker when Used Cars came out. It was the funniest movie ever made.
I’ll have to check that movie out. “The Goods” is probably the car sales movie of late that I can remember.
Airport Lanes
Best salad bar in town
Holy s*&#! This is the best f÷@%ing sales pitch I ever saw!
Unlike many other posts here, at least you covered parts of the expletives! Thank you for showing some class.
@@lukenheimer8190 Dis de fukn internet boi, git rite, or gtfucko
@@Mrfallouthero We BOTH have a right to our own opinions.
No s#!t! That's f÷@king integrity!
Hearing the guys in the background laughing makes it even better! 🤣
This reminds me that movie "Used Cars" from the 80's
"We are literally blowing the living shit out of high prices"
Me too! Anyone with any
common sense would know
this thing is fake. Yeah, TV
was becoming more liberal
with the use of expletives
but not that much.
One of my faves and released 44 years ago tomorrow in 1980...
"I'M Fuchs god dammit"😮
This may very well be the funniest fucking minute and a half of my goddamn day.
Check out "Irish Wanking Bankers - An Irishman Abroad"
Same truth telling w/hilarity
Hah! I remember Ralph Williams, one of the most crooked car salesmen ever. His commercials were all over the TV when he was selling cars in Southern California. He got fined big-time for crooked car deals, eventually got run out of Washington and California for his shady shit.
Reminds me of Cal Worthington
@@harleydude-xo8pu And his dog, Spot!
"If you need a car or truck..."
@@harleydude-xo8pu I could sell you a car for a dollar down and a dollar a month if I wanted to.
@@harleydude-xo8pu I remember watching Cal's adverts in Phoenix sometime in the late 70's after he got run out of California. What a....not stable person. "I'll stand on my head and eat a bug".
Truer words were never spoken. Remember, seeing this with my dad and he couldn't stop laughing. Priceless!
In your dreams only…this never appeared on American television
Here are truer words typed: Vulgarity is no substitute for wit or marketing.
another liar.
I remember in the 80"s when I was walking by his dealership in Huntington Beach watching as the FBI raided his place. That was the last of Ralph.
Why an FBI raid??
Mad men style. This guy is old school bad ass. You can’t do this shit anymore.
I can do whatever I want.
Yes, I can.
Well, it couldn’t really “leak” back then. There was no internet, no tv station would ever broadcast it. It would probably be passed around by broadcast folks for a chuckle, as intended.
@@dmrr7739 I like the f yo u Baltimore one !
@@2steaksandwiches665 You mean Big Bill Hell's?
This came up in my feed. I am glad it did. This was hilarious!!!
_Take a [expletive] car like this - a 1966 Ford Country Squire 9-passenger station wagon. Don't worry about the equipment - think of all the fun you can have in the back._
Financing a $1866 wagon at $100/month for five years! That's an APR of 61.03%! (Remember, this was in the late sixties, when someone who made $5,000/year was doing fairly well.)
And, no - the commercial never appeared on any TV broadcast.
The pitchman on the video was Chick Lambert, with his dog Stormy. (Actually, Stormy was a stage dog rented for the commercials.) At his peak Ralph Williams had 23 car dealerships ranging from Seattle to LA. Particularly in southern California, William's ads in the mid-sixties to the seventies were ubiquitous; so much so that Johnny Carson brought him to national celebrity.
Ralph Williams didn't end well. In the seventies, Williams ran into deep legal trouble for, among other things, misrepresenting sales contracts, rolling back the odometers on his used cars, and defrauding Ford Motors. Williams lost all his dealerships; many of which were acquired in the late seventies by Cal Worthington (who himself flooded the airways with his own car ads).
Thanks for the history lesson!
According to many of the other comments around here, and the fine gentleman in the clip, Williams was a prick.
AN honest man. We need more like him.
I remember the Ralph Williams and the Cal Worthington commercials.
I had a 1966 Ford Country Squire station wagon just like that one when I was in high school. I made a pretty cool hot rod out of it. Cruised Van Nuys Boulevard every Wednesday night in it. Some good times in that car back then.
This guy went on to be GM of the Houston Astros sometime in the mid 90s
Truth in advertising, it's a beautiful thing. 😂
I had a 1960 Ford Country Sedan wagon. [My first car.] BBF V8. The Gas Gauge was synchronized to the Speedometer. As the Speedo needle went up, the Fuel indicator went down.
A 1960 Ford wagon with a Pontiac engine? I'd like to see THAT build sheet at the factory.
@@xaenon Oh, no. I mis-guessed the displacement. It was a Big Block Ford of less than 400 CI. As a high school kid w/o an afterschool job, it burned more gas than I could afford.
My friend back long, long ago had a 58 Ford Fairlane with a 454 police interceptor engine, and 2 four barrel carbs. Ya wanna talk watching the speedometer needle go up as the gas needle goes down?
He'd toss a $20 on the floorboard in front of me and tell me if I can pick it up before he hits 100 I could keep it. I could not bend over from the acceleration.
@@longbowshooter5291 My Dad had a '73 Lincoln with a 460 BBF. I used to run a '67 Chevy K/10 Suburban with a ['78] 454 BBC. Don't remember what kinda mileage the Lincoln got, but it was a tuna boat... The Sub, I called White Fang because it had a big dog's appetite for gas. 6 City, 8 Highway.
Did your friend's Fairlane have a Chevy engne?
I know Chevy/GM engines of the '60s and '70s. Not up on other makes. Chevy's 292 was an L6. Ford's 292 was a V8. Lots of quirky details that over half a century later get clouded.
@@HootOwl513 As far as I can remember it was a Ford engine. That was a long, long, LONG time ago.
"5 Years at $100 a month, you can't get even" 🤣He killed me with that line.
There was a car dealer in the Charlotte area named Louis F. Harrelson that did cheap commercials like this with his dog on the hood on a car. In each commercial, he would say, "Hi, Spot". This just reminded me of that, sorry for going down memory lane.
He was convicted on federal charges for falsifying loan documents.
@@sidecar7714 Yep, I read up on it.
A California Institution! Thanks for this!
what a great world this would be if we had commercials like this.
👍😃
Yeah, truth in advertising would be refreshing!
That is TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, that's the way ALL commercial should be presented.
Wow! I never saw this commercial... then again during the 70s I lived in SoCal and this looks like something that would have aired locally up North. Wow! That was hilarious.
It was an outtake, never aired: ruclips.net/video/vh3Di3LY6Ns/видео.html
Cal Worthington he isn't! "GO see Cal, go see Cal..."
Rest in peace dude you had a hell of a sense of humor wish I could have hoisted one or two with you sir RIP
5 years, $100 a month! We need those types of terms again.
That's 6 grand for a $1866 car, LOL.
That dealership is now a Honda dealer.
This guy worked harder on the bloop than he did on the real commercial! Reminds me when George on Seinfeld was working harder at keeping his unemployment benefits than getting a real job.
“Let’s make a deal or I’ll club this baby seal!”
- UHF
Commercials are not run live. No one would air this. They would lose their FCC license. But it could have been the greatest commercial of all time.
You were still a spot in your
daddy's underwear when this ad ran. Now get back to your crib!
I miss the style of the commercials from the late 1960s and 1970s.
Cal Worthington did this type of commercial up until the 90s.
The catch phrase was “here’s Cal Worthington and his dog spot“ but spot was never a dog. It was always some other animal.
Cal Worthington at dealerships mostly in Southern California
ruclips.net/video/8hT2oP--NSU/видео.htmlsi=56f4E6PMSXzUqUyh
@@mildredpierce4506 Yes! I loved his jingle "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal." At least one of big cats that portrayed "Spot", a tiger, has retired and is living at the big cat rescue in Dunlap, California. A number of their rescues were formerly used in the entertainment industry.
I trust this guy more than any politician right now
LOL!!! This is funny. I remember Ralph Williams when I used to visit relatives in southern California. All of his prices always ended in 66 dollars. It's possible this commercial may be on a bloopers compilation tape or DVD. I'll have to look for it.
Also on a Firesign Theater lp.
Now this is how you sell a car.
Truth in advertising.
I see they’re versed in the same sales tactics as Big Bill Hell’s Cars in Baltimore. Very effective; I time traveled all the way back to the 80s just to buy one of their cars
The man is an artist.
Like he cut a wrestling promo 😂
Love how they have the dog sitting on the hood giving no fucks either. MWAA 👌!!! Chef's kiss 💋 .
That is the greatest Commercial i've even seen. I almost pissed myself when he started swearing. 🤣😂🤣
🤣 "Id buy that for a dollar! Haaaaahhh!"
I like brutal honesty. Sold!
There is an “I Dream of Jeannie” episode featuring sleazy used car salesman “Carl Tucker” who I’m sure was patterned after this guy.
This has got to be the most
hilarious commercial ive seen up to date! I laugh so hard i almost went into a asthma attack... holy smokes!
I believe The Firesign Theater did a spoof on this guy.
Ralph Spoilsports Motors - factory air conditioned air from our fully factory-equipped air conditioned factory
@@ragtowne Thank you!
@@ragtowne YES!!! Ralph Spoilsport: The undisputed master of double-talk! That a hilarious skit!
Obviously, this would NOT have made it by Standards & Practices, but as correctly noted by another responder, it was certainly an outtake. If they had bleeped him, then MAYbe...and his honesty would've been refreshing!
The reel has been around since the beginning of RUclips.
Ralph was in rare form that day! 😂
I used to live in San Bruno back in those days.
I have seen that ad on TV hundreds of times.
And as bad as he said that car was, it's still better than cars built today.
At least you can work on that wagon with having to kidnap a computer hacker. A minor accident wouldn't total it out, either.
And to think this commercial is probably the only thing for which this man will ever be remembered.
Hey, at least he's got that! In a hundred years nobody will have known or care that I was ever here. It is what it is.
@@richarddube3290 100 years? I feel that way about you right now, :)
@@kevinmach730 obviously not, you commented.
@@richarddube3290 haha just messing with ya man
I was living in San Bruno when this ad was made. It's a Honda dealer now.
I love how, during the outtake, you can hear people laughing in the background!
An $1800 car turns into a $6000. Now that's American economics right there 😆
You mean $60,000
That interest really kills you, car cost $1,866. You can finance it for 5 years at $100 per month works out to $6,000 for the car
For sure. I looked it up in my Ford book and the wagon listed brand new for $3289 ($77 more for a 9 passenger)
ya cant get even
61% interest!
That included free tire rotations tho.
I grew up seeing these ads when I was a kid. He made new ads every week. He always had some crazy animal with him like a lion or a bear. This dude must have been fun at cocktail parties.
July 2024 - anyone else?
I grew up in San Bruno I remember that salesman and dealership.
Then you must also remember Frank Verducci of Serramonte Ford and the Dodge Dealer with the fake sheriff at the Whipple Ave. exit.
never gets old.
He said, "Don't worry about that equipment."
If only commercials were more sincere like this maybe people would pay more attention to them. Not constantly having mixed couples and generic boring advertisements lol
"...imagine all the fun you can have in the back seat of this $%$&^ car!!! And you WILL have to push the sonofa#$&^% home!!!"
I laid some pipe in that station wagon back in the day.
😂
'66 Ford country squire wagon was a damn nice car. I had a '64
I'm sure the scene in smokey and the bandit 3 where the disgruntled used car woman goes off on her sleazy boss during a live commercial and then storms off the lot was influenced by this ad.
So YOU’RE the other person who saw “Smokey and the Bandit 3”
@@JamesQMurphy lol many times. I had a VHS copy recorded off WGN in the 90s that even had the gas station deleted scene and the longer burt cameo.
Fan-frickin'-tastic!! I laughed my ass off. What was this, 1969 or 1970?
In 1968, it happened on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. That show was filmed live, and the "Sock-It-To-Me!" stunts were getting bolder and bolder. They were pulling people's clothes off (with simple cloth covers underneath), throwing buckets of water on them and dropping them two feet through trap doors. It was bound to happen, and one night it. They socked it to Judy Carne, yanked her dress off, threw five gallons of water on her and dropped her, and the cloth apron flew up and she was NAAAAAAAAAKED underneath, and the American public got to see her, uh, "Kitty-Cat" on live TV. The FCC went ape and fined ABC $500,000, which was a sh*t-load of money back then. I was watching it with my mother, who was very indignant. I was nine years old, I was not indignant at all!
We need more TV like this!
Laugh-in actually aired on NBC
Clapper on another video says Sept 1968.
Comedy that's Perfect, even when it ain't.
Geez, Boris--you lie so much your nose is poking its way through my window.
Dog is like “I heard this speech 6 times on the way here this morning.”
That's fucking hilarious.
That is hilarious. I thought it was fake at first. 🤣
"i mean we all know no one actually listens to car dealership commercials, they'd let it pass"
Lol!....ahhhh...this reminds me of the movie "Used Cars" with Kurt Russell. What a great movie.
So George Carlin was wrong... You can say those words on TV.
You can do ANYTHING, once . . .
And depending on what it was, you may never do _anything_ again.
It ran once, late at night, because the station was not in the habit of pre-screening. They learned.
BAHAHAHA, Awesome Right There....
How easy is it to get a TV license, what did they learn and how did they learn it, and how do you know. Until YT starts fact-checking, you can - I guess happily - get away with this. At least someone wasn’t lying about DT. I know the guy who did the voice replacement, but please don’t ask me for his name. Shotgun Tom from San Diego was his friend.
I’d buy a car from him in a minute! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
He later moved shop to Baltimore where he rebranded as “Big Bill Hell’s”
We need to bring this back
Hahaha I like how he advertises vehicles 😂😂😂
Ralph Williams sure sounds swell.
“5 years payments of $100 a month” sounds waaaaaay less threatening today
Yeah, glad it was kept......and he went to prison for fraud. The crap he pulled at his Ford dealership in the valley was unbelievable...........
My Dad's secretary.....back when they had those, was a recipient of his fraud with her new mustang.
These days these guys go into mega churches.
This was seriously parodied in the movie used cars.
There's no way any TV station agreed to air this. The FCC would have pulled their license so fast their heads would spin.
Nobody speaks like this in CA anymore and it's sad
What a very weird thing to be sentimental about. "Yes, once upon a time everyone spoke in midwestern accept in northern California. How I miss the swearing the rude gestures."
@@davidfulton179ugh🙄😒
@@davidfulton179 @JueputaGuebon is just one of those ignoramuses who shit on California.
wonder if the car is still available?
Hahahahaha!! Good one. 🤣
It was junked about 40 years ago and the guy who bought it died about 10 years ago, but his children are still paying on it.
That laugh in the BG gives it away.
The most shocking thing about this commercial is the prices on those windshields.