My friend Tom works at the Firestone plant in Bloomington, IL. The History Channel did a segment about the enormous mining equipment tires he helps build. Pretty cool stuff.
One of many commercials featuring the California Raisins, a group of motown-singing anthropomorphized raisins made out of clay Peter-Gabriel style. If I looked down and saw my raisins walking out of the box and dancing around, I don't think I'd ever eat another one. From 1987.
This jingle rocks out compared to all the other junk I've posted. This is a generic spot for Pontiac's whole 1987 auto line with the "we build excitement" jingle.
We interrupt tonight's presentation to bring you the following special report! It doesn't need any more introduction than that. You'll probably have to watch this one twice... once for the dialogue and again to read the news ticker at the bottom of the screen.
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"The Great American Road" jingle! Full-sing, tailored just for the Regal. In my mind, 1987 is when a lot of GM cars started to look more stylized and contemporary and less boxy, and this is a good example. My parents had both an '86 and an '87 Olds and they were very different from each other.
A :15 "talkie" commercial for the short-lived, oh-so-ordinary 1986 Pontiac 6000. "Hey let's pick really high numbers for the names of our cars so they sound better than the boxy low-budget poopers that they really are!"
After 2 years, Jon's '79 CJ-5 finally moves under its own power. Upgrades too numerous to mention... mainly a new cage and the rear axle has been moved back using springs designed for a Cherokee.
Yet another commercial for the original 8-track-based 2XL educational "robot". It was basically a glorified 8-track deck with some cleverly-produced (but horribly-voiced) tapes. For more info on 2XL visit http://www.pickletre ats.com/2xl/
One of many classic '80's commercials for Wrigley's Doublemint Gum that seemingly ran for years. The premise was the same on all of these: hot female twins purchase gum and flirt with a pair of men. Hooray for GUM!
![Jon\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/mDOw9Qrt4vs/2.jpg "Jon\")
![Wrigley\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/xo2ILkPP1W4/2.jpg "Wrigley\")
