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TMI ABOUT CAL WORTHINGTON (AND HIS DOGS SPOT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_BHHY5A8M No, that’s not a typo. I said ‘dogs’ plural and I meant ‘dogs’. Cal Worthington, budget car dealer extraordinare, saturated the Los Angeles late night airwaves throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s with ads like the three contained in the above video. ‘His dog Spot’, as you’ll see, was

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DUSTIN HOFFMAN SHILLS FOR ITALIAN COFFEE

Yesterday I posted a late 1960s Volkswagen TV ad featuring a young (and very funny) Dustin Hoffman. Apparently, fifteen or so years later, Hoffman remembered the ease with which he’d picked up a few shekels by pimping himself out for a car he would never drive and put the word

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DUSTIN HOFFMAN SHILLS FOR VOLKSWAGEN

The VW Fastback Sedan–a car you simply never see on the road anymore–received a big boost when newly famous star of ‘The Graduate’ Dustin Hoffman became the car’s key pitchman. Hoffman is still so close to his ‘Graduate’ persona that watching the commercial makes it seem like Benjamin Braddock found

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