http://videos.streetfire.net/player.aspx?fileid=6CE770CC-DE3B-4978-8B45-E5CC50E97C7C
I just got this from the tape my dad made of the 1983 base ball All Star game. Enjoy (it should work in a few minutes keep checking back):D
I put this up 6 hours ago and it still doesn't work :mad:
"Video is being optimized. Check back in a few minutes."
I'm also still getting the same message.
Its just not loading for me
I am getting this error from Quicktime:
"The URL is not valid."
HTH
Guess you'll have to reload it if you want us to see it.....
Upload it to putfile.com
I fixed it!!!! I put it up on putfile and now it works!!!!!!!! Enjoy :D
http://media.putfile.com/1983-Ford-Thunderbird-TV-add
Interesting.....No vent windows.....
Has TRX rims too. I don't think it was a Turbo Coupe either.
cool i have a 83 . paul to my knowledge 83 did not have vent windows but 84 did
Weird... I coulda swore '83's had vent windows. Badbird do you have power windows? Maybe if you got hand cranks you got vents?
other than the lack of vent windows and the rims it looks like my car.
awesome man...nice find and nice post...it love too find one for the 87-88 turbo coupes as well...that would be awesome. wouldnt mind finding one i remember for the mark viii either...
Wow that was pretty cool. I was thinking, and I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial for the Thunderbird or the Cougar. They just kind of stopped airing them after the early 90s I guess.
IM not good with computers, can someone tell me how to SAVE it to computer.
That is totally cool! That video should be saved and put on CoolCats somewhere!
Jim: there was an ad for the 1989 Cougar XR7 that played, to the best of my knowledge, one time only. It was during some award show on MTV...maybe the Video Music Awards? Lincoln-Mercury was a sponsor of the show. All I remember is that the car was red, and it was going through a slalom of orange cones in a parking lot, and the words "SUPER CHARGED" flashed on the screen in black and white. Of course I didn't have the VCR running at the time.
I do remember a Buick ad that claimed the new FWD Regal 'cost less than T-Bird or Cougar' and was priced 'hundreds lower than LeBaron'. This would have been late-1980's as well. It was an indirect reference but obviously the Cat and Bird had Buick riled up a bit, and rightly so.
Typically, L-M has a very high initial budget for a new car launch, and then...nothing. No TV ads, no billboards, and few (if any) magazine ads. Next year at this time, try to find a Mercury Milan ad anywhere! Sad to say but this all seems to have started with the launch of the 1989 Cougar. Surprisingly the LS was pushed quite a bit, but Ford obviously recognized that the supercharged XR7 was THE flagship of L-M division, and the successor of its performance heritage. So most of the ads from around that time touted the XR7. It was a huge image car for the division. And then, when it was an IMSA GTO race car, wow...there was quite a budget for that. Amazing. I doubt we will ever see those days again, but at the very least I'm proud that the XR7 made the biggest dent and opening splash in advertising in recent memory.
heres one for the mark viii
http://www.leocerruti.com/lsc/TVad.html
Very cool.
that is exactly the one i remember and was talkin about...awesome man! THANKS!
so where can i get a copy of that video?
Which one? If you want the 83 Tbird one I could send it to you. I *think* I can send it. If I remember correctly it's about 30 or 32 mb and I don't remember if my email will send something that big. Just send me a PM with your email.
Heres the link. you then go up to flie and click save
http://x1100.putfile.com/videos/a5-5121525462.avi