In Chicago, GM and Ford dominated as well. Our first family car was a Ford, but my dad was truly an independent thinker, so he followed up with a Rambler, than a couple of Oldsmobiles.
I grew up lusting over automobiles made in Detroit, and as a young adult had success racing machines that at least looked like big three products, but that early fondness for things Motown was torn asunder in later years. My first jobs in advertising were for the Europeans, Jaguar and Mercedes, at NY agencies. Ford's Lincoln/Mercury agency, Young and Rubicam, talked me into coming to Detroit as creative director on the Lincoln business in the early nineties. At the time, Ford's style of management was "shit flows downhill," and the ad agency was at the bottom of the hill. The two years I spent on that business were the most miserable of my life. A couple of years at GM's Buick agency, McCann Erickson, were slightly better, but I wasn't really comfortable in the Motor City until I got on the Dodge account at BBDO. That was a great place to work, and Dodge was a great client. Of course that piece of business went to hell when management sold their souls to a devil named Daimler, but I had ten great years there. After 23 years in metro Detroit, I've grown accustomed to this place. These days I work primarily as a journalist, and the car companies that once beat me up go out of their way to make me happy. And that's as it should be:-). Nice pic. I would clone out the distracting background elements and replace them with the tree lines, blurring as necessary. But I'm a clone-tool whore. Paul On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > Pretty much the way it was around where I grew up - north Jersey - with an > occasional Chrysler fan thrown in just for diversity. My family was totally > FORD ! > > When I interviewed G.M I was totally turned off by their attitude - > especially Chevrolet - making me feel priviliged if they offered me a job. I > interviewed Ford and was offered the job during the interview and from that > time till now my family has been a Ford family. > Back in the late 60's there wasn't much significant differences between Fords > or Chevies except for the styling. > > Alot has changed over the years. > > I like the image you captured BTW, I just wish the background was more out of > focus - it detracts from the vehicle. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Guthrie" <shark50...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re:Vintage Car > > >> In these parts you were either Ford or Chevy. I was Ford my brother was >> Chevy. Now we both drive Toyota. I kinda favor the Black & White also. >> Thanks for the look. >> pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: >>> Message: 11 >>> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:11:55 +0200 >>> From: "Alan C"<c...@lantic.net> >>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<pdml@pdml.net> >>> Subject: Re: Vintage Car >>> Message-ID: <4A781D29BBC743B5BA8D793604F80293@AcerTM5744> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >>> reply-type=response >>> >>> A Ford fan? I prefer the B/W versions. The bakkie actually looks in good >>> shape apart from the (original) paintwork. >>> >>> Alan C >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Don Guthrie >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:11 PM >>> To:pdml@pdml.net >>> Subject: Vintage Car >>> >>> Cleaning & sorting don't think I posted this one anywhere so to remedy >>> that here it is. >>> C&C as always. >>> >>> http://donspix.smugmug.com/Cars/Vintage-Cars-1 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
