First Burma Shave signs I've come across

Give Hand Signals
To Those Behind
They Don't Know
What's On
Your Mind

Great variety of fun stuff over at Tamerlane's Thoughts, not all car stuff though, lots of travels

the above Land Rover advertisement is brilliant, go see the world and get your passport stamped
Who know Sammy had a Delorean?
The source of the above XJ220 Jag's tail lights? the below Rover... huh

Wow, rare Jeep FC 170 and Civil Defense with the old license plates!

these two were photographed at the Sonoma Marin Concours
all this variety is from just the only http://karakullake.blogspot.com/

Brilliant advertising method by Honda

Photo found on Autowriters.com Newsletter May 2011, taken by Vancouver photographer Maurice Li http://mauriceli.com/ which I went to his Flikr page for http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauriceli/5673376660/sizes/o/in/photostream

Hotwheels advertisement ... brilliant

Ad campaign for Hot Wheels by Ogilvy & Mather via http://www.kox.sk/?cat=16

Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Loosing Viewers and Advertising Dollars

Donald Trump may have had a good reason to go after Obama about his birth certificate – public relations.

While Trump seems to spew on about how his show “Celebrity Apprentice” is the most popular show on NBC, the truth seems quite different.

Trumps recent display of hatred toward Jerry Seinfeld and Robert De Niro, along with his bizarre conspiracy about Obama’s birth certificate, may be destroying his reality show.

In fact, the numbers look really bad, with viewers 18-49 down over 40% this year, and advertising revenue far behind last year. And with all the Meat Loaf and Gary Busey shenanigans this year one would think the show would be a runaway success.

Advertising Age says “Apprentice” ad revenue is down for a couple of reasons.

First, Trumps uncertain Presidential run and poor handling of the birth certificate issue has driven advertisers away. The latest? - Groupon, who has pulled their ads from the Trump website.

Another reason traditional advertisers are passing on Trump is the increase in product placement during the show. Arby’s, for example, pays a hefty fee when Trump issues a challenge relating to a new menu item or ad campaign.

One ad exec says,

“The product placement has become so ‘in your face’ that the entire show is starting to look like Trump is a sellout. The show looks more like a 60 minute infomercial than a prime time realty show. The constant product placement distracts from the usual commercials.”

Sweeps are coming up next month so it benefits Trump to drive as much attention to himself and the show as he can – how convenient there is a political race with his name in it to stir up a little face time.

Lastly, the contracts for both Trump and executive producer Mark Burnett expire after this season so there are questions whether NBC will be interested in another season or not.

An NBC exec says there are no problems at all,

'The Apprentice' is in a very challenging time slot on Monday nights and it's responded with consistently good results, including the most upscale audience for any unscripted show in prime time. ... It remains a key series for our future."

But when advertising execs are asked you get a different story,

"The Apprentice is generally on the decline. The move to Monday from Thursday nights had a negative effect. But that's not the big issue. It's the content of the show. It's matured. People are looking for other ways to be entertained. They don’t want to watch D-list celebrities sell hamburgers, pizza or wedding dresses."

Trumps last tirade came yesterday at his hotel in Las Vegas where he gave a speech riddled with the F-word and other obscenities to a crowd of over 1000.

Unless there is a spectacular race to the finale during sweeps next month, and if Donald can’t keep his mouth shut about Barack Obama and others, then look for this to be the beginning of the end for “The Apprentice”.

At least we can still laugh at his bad hair.

Jamaica; street signs are objects to put advertisements on

This Burger King globe is very similar to the old gas pump globes

The middle two photos are just to show the surroundings of the street signs

Fengtastic strikes again

Captioning an ordinary image, with humor! See the others at http://www.fengtastic.com/ Thanks Steve!

The cars of movie stars and celebrities before 1980

Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger

Found on http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/sets/72157622042954004/with/4055125292

The latest from BMW engineering, dog repellent rims

via: http://www.norcalminis.com/

For other great april fools pranks: http://www.norcalminis.com/2011/04/some-great-auto-related-april-fools-day.html

1969 Mopar advertising art

I've posted some like this before, but more is better,

For Road Runner advertising art like this: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/road-runner-advertising-i-cant-recall.html Some cool photo art: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/cool-mopar-advertising-from-voiture.html for the Scat Pack Bee art: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/dodge-scat-pack-bee.html

The Barnum and Baily "Dip of Death"

Found on: http://www.atomicantiques.com

good advertising

Found on http://autoadvert.tumblr.com

You have less than a second to see the biker... Click on the image to see the full size first

Too late, next time slow down and be careful, it's the only way to see better... Ducati advertising found on http://autoadvert.tumblr.com/

The new ad campaign for Coca Cola delivery trailers

MuscleCarDreaming.Tumblr.com focused on photography of great musclecars

and all the cars I posted, to let you know they have cool photos, are Mopars. Huh. Stange how that happened. See Fords, Chevys, and all the other types also at http://musclecardreaming.tumblr.com/