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Re: 1100 advert

To: BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM
Subject: Re: 1100 advert
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:32:02 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996 BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM wrote:

> 1959 Chevrolet in beautiful black and white. The next commercial fifteen 
>minutes 
> later knocked me out of my chair. 
> 
> An add for the new MG Sedan. They never ID the car as an 1100. The ad starts 
> showing an 1100 with no back wheels! The car is then driven about with five 
> passengers (Queens Guards no less) explaining the virtues of front wheel 
>drive 
> and liquid suspension. After the car travels its route etc, the passengers 
>exit. 
> Remember the car is floating entirely on its front wheels. The add notes that 

Yeah, right, floating on its two front wheels.  You do realize you're a 
day late with this?

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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