x rated advertising part 6, the ridiculous use of double entendre to sell tires and mufflers

there was so much of this, and I find it amusing, so I've posted a lot of it: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rated%20R

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Thrush pipes and mufflers advertising of the early 70's

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The ridiculous and rated R ads have been added to,

For the posts that have been added to about the bikini models endorsing mufflers: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Mufflers and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rated%20R

Some of the posts fall into both catagories, some only belong in one, like the Shelby parts ads, or the rims and wheels ads

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Doug Thorley mufflers, the Muffettes and The Super Muff QT (who would be interested without the double entendre and bikini model?)

Also see http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/doug-thorley-headers-amusing-twist-to.html

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Doug Thorley Street and Show Tubes, proof that advertising is knowing your audience, using bikini models to sell exhaust systems to hot rodders

For more advertising with bikini models: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rated%20R

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When automotive parts advertising used sex to sell car parts... naked women sell clutches? Really? (Rated R part 5)

For more take a look at the "Parts with appeal" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/parts-with-appeal-its-been-referred-to.html
and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-ads-were-rated-r-part-3.html
plus http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-ads-were-rated-r-1st-of-3.html http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-ads-were-rated-r_21.html ,and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-ads-were-rated-r.html

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"Parts with appeal", it's been referred to many times. It might have been the "pin up" girl appeal to the Korean War soldiers and hot rodders

From the 1954 Hot Rod magazine issues

From the 1953 Hot Rod magazine issues

Above: Mamie Van Doren (discovered by famed producer Howard Hughes 1949 on the night she was crowned Miss Palm Springs. Hughes launched her career by placing her in several RKO films. 1951, she posed for famous pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas, the painting of Van Doren was on the July cover of Esquire Magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Van_Doren The above is from 1953

Above: Merry Anders (actress "How To Marry a Millionaire")

From the 1952 Hot Rod magazine issues

This last one is the segue into the next post, about the record business Hot Rod Magazine went into

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