Oldsmobile 88 Commercial with Diana Lynn

Thanks for posting - Who says that there wasn't heavy drug use by advertising agency execs in 1958? - Surreal Always good to see Diana Lynn, though.

This is also a 1950 ad, like the one with Mel Torme.

This is in the era of "My Mother The Car". "Talking" things were a novelty in the 1950's...cars, horses...etc!

ive done alot of research on the rocket 88 - GMC was the first to experiment with smaller angle heads. this made for better flow numbers, more combustion efficiently with no recessed dome combustion chamber and it also upped the CR. the blocks were different too - i want to say something with the water jackets? cant remember off the top of my head. great car - way before its time. now small degree heads are all over the place for aftermarket drag racing and performance.

The sexual innuendo and double entendres show the repressed 50s at their best--and the woman riding on the huge phallus is, as someone else commented here, "surreal"

you're bent imagination working overtime pal

oh no it isnt...my comments are right on the money. This is just something you dont know anything about and indeed if you did it wouldnt be as effective! Its about using subliminal sex messages in 1950s advertising to sell things. Go off and read Vance Packard's book from the late 50s "The Persuaders" or the recently published "The Secret Sales Pitch" by August Bullock. Or just google "subliminal sex messages in 1950s advertsing"

your reading matter gives me an insight into your problem. But I'm afraid I don't have any answers. Maybe a good shrink could solve your dilemma.

I'm only looking at this because of Joan Didion's book 'Blue Nights' chapter 12 . Interesting.

I read Joan Didion's Blue Nights and just had to go look for this ad... I remember friends growing up with me whose parents had the Olds 88... neat car.

Diana Lynn was a Godess

Yes, sex sells. Now AND 1950. But the Olds was a car far ahead of it's time with the 303 overhead valve V8. They were winners on the NASCAR circuit. I've done a lot of reading on them mainly cause I have a 52 Olds Super 88 sitting in my garage

Diana Lynn was a pretty hot little number herself. Watch "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944) and you will see her at her sultry best when she was still just a teenager.

Wow! A talking car. It was way ahead of its time.

Had to be 1949 or 50. Diana.... yummm.

Hi Joan.

Lynn died of a stroke in late 1971; she was supposed to star in the 1972 movie Play It as It Lays.

I just love the idea of Joan watching this.

Diana Lynn= our queen and goddess <3

Of course here from blue nights as well.

I love how In My Merry Oldsmobile was their nuke from the 30s to the 60s.

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