ABC commercial breaks - October 11, 1971

[@Wildstar40]

The good thing about the Pinto is if it breaks down on you in the middle of winter you can just hit the back bumper with a sledge hammer to start a nice warm fire until help arrives.

[@brentmann2988]

4:08 the great Bob Landers for Sears. He was a popular New York City disc jockey on WNEW-AM in the early to mid 60s.

[@jeffreybaker100]

it's so sad to see those commercials for Sears and their Automotive tires and Die Hard Batteries. Today Sears is pretty much History

[@watershed44]

Yes, it is there were the go to place for lots of folks back in the 70s! They also did decent work for a chain store, which wasn't common at all back then. Diehard batteries, and Sears Duraguard tires were excellent products at very reasonable prices, and best of all 100% satisfaction guaranteed or money back! That was their policy until the early 90s or so.

[@ericlindenmuth7517]

I know people hate him now, but The Juice was a great player!!! I remember when I was young watching Bills games just to see him play!!!

[@districtline]

I had 2 Pintos and loved them both. By the time I get my 2nd one they had fixed that pesky exploding gas tank problem 😂😂

[@pattibrooks1907]

I was 15 and in 9th grade when these aired on TV Loved them .

[@jonathancreveling8699]

This was around the time Town East Mall opened, it opened in August 1971

[@toddwacha5108]

Hey, there's Jim MacKrell for Dow Super Coolant Antifreeze! You know him from one of the best game shows of the 1970s, Celebrity Sweepstakes!

[@tomservo56954]

You ever see the razor ad where he's in drag? Actually, you can ask him yourself...he's on Facebook.

[@kingporter67]

Awesome October 11, 1971 ABC commercials!!

[@winsome879]

Oh my goodness! That guy driving the Pinto at 5:12- 5:16 looks just like Jim Moorison driving his Blue Lady.

[@philipmiller2412]

The old station wagons are the prelude to the SUV . The difference is the station wagons sit low and the SUV sits up high . Almost the same gas mileage .

[@lestersabados1306]

I wish I had the 1969 marquis wagon...

[@bryansnyder9218]

Crazy, I was 6 months old on this date.

[@BogattheMoon]

'72 Torinos...yesss.

[@MMAfighter38113]

Why buy a Torino when you can buy a Pinto???

[@daemonwhitebeard6590]

The Ford Pinto, unsafe at any speed. Remember Ralph Nader? My Grandmother owned one of these Four wheeled rolling fire bombs when I was a child. Pull up any rear-end collision videos on this death trap. Not pleasant. Many were burned alive as a result. Both in It and the vehicle that hit It.

[@fromthesidelines]

3:38- Ernie Anderson, announcer.

[@smittykins]

A TWO-bladed razor? What will they think up next?

[@fromthesidelines]

ROBERT KING: "'The Triple-Trac'. Because.....you'll believe anything." -"NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT" ad parody, 1975

[@Zoomer30]

"Let's go some place and smoke smoke smoke..."

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

8:08 - 1971: Gillette ‘Trac II’ - the world’s first two-blade cartridge razor. 2023: Gillette ‘Leonidas’ - the revolutionary new 300-blade system disposable: “cuts down to the last man”.

[@fantom5894]

4:39 CAUTION! THIS CAR EXPLODES ON IMPACT

[@erickellogg1704]

my parents had a 75 torino squire

[@watershed44]

My friends parents had....a 75 Torino Squire too! LOL A really odd Dark mustard color!

[@kathiec1333]

My parents had a 73 Pinto Squire, the ad back then called it the Country Squirt.

[@timanny1]

Pinto. Different where it counts. When you're hit from behind.

[@annapaulikonis2433]

Manny Silveira KaBoom.

[@steveb7310]

Go Bash, go Boom.

[@ccSkydog]

my 1st birthday (full year old) 1970..crazy year.. and i feel were definatly still rolling downhill...

[@DavidfromBA]

Exactly one year behind you (this was the day of my birth), and I agree with your assessment.

[@shanewhitefeather6298]

Love The Tall & Slim Cigar commercial. Notice how much the hot young lady is into the smoker. True, smoking does make you more sexy.

[@Zoomer30]

So RC is basically flat cola?

[@luisreyes1963]

And they had O.J. Simpson shill for it. No wonder he turned out the way he did...

[@shellybellysf3911]

Pretty much

[@toddwacha5108]

O.J. Simpson shilling for RC Cola. Now, he's doing time.

[@jsilence418]

It was really good of those people who made" Tall and Slim cigars" to say l " You don't have to inhale" to enjoy" Giving you the choice,if you don't want lung cancer you can get tongue and lip cancer too !

[@Zoomer30]

Yeah, I just want to smack people who claim cigars are safer than cigarettes. How the hell do you take smoke in but magically not get it in the lungs? And cigars are a lower temperature burn, which means more gunk. I don't smoke, never have, never will.

[@spy4863]

Likewise here! Did you ever even try smoking? I never did. My dad smoked for about 70 years. He died of emphysema-that is, COPD, but he had cancer too. But it was the emphysema that actually killed him, not the cancer. He smoked around us kids too. For years I thought the claims about second-hand smoke were just fear tactics until I realized that I get bronchitis two to three times a year-much more often than the average person. That's when I realized that it was probably due to second-hand smoke. I never said anything about it to my dad, of course, because I didn't want him to feel guilty.

[@lestersabados1306]

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