Re: IML: The Cold War and Chrysler's Forward Look hit piece

["Neal Herman" <chrycordoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspected that the brochure might have had something to do with a trade
show, but didn't recall Nixon's trip.  I wonder if GM and Ford produced the
same types of "propaganda"?

I stumbled across this brochure last fall from an eBay seller in Minsk,
Belarus.  It took over three months and about a dozen e-mails to get it.  I
think she purposely delayed shipment to allow the 3-month time limit for
feedback to lapse.  I knew that it would be a terrific addition to the
website, and thanks to Kenyon and Mark for using their computer skills to
create the mint-appearing images.

Neal Herman
1959 Imperial
1966 Imperial
et al.


> [Original Message]
> From: David Duricy <desotobravo@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/27/2005 1:12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: IML: The Cold War and Chrylser's Forward Look hit piece
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> Perhaps this brochure has something to do with the
> Nixon trip to Russia in 1959:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/newsid_2779000/2779
551.stm
>
> What better manifestation of the American Dream than
> the gentle rise of a Forward Look fin?
>
> Dave Duricy
>
> --- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Every once in awhile you come across something
> > really
> > special.  That's the case with the latest 1959 item
> > posted to the club website.
> > 
> > 
> > Here we sat, at the height of the Cold War, in the
> > middle of the Jet Age and just at the beginnings of
> > the Space Age.  Things are frosty as ever with our
> > scary neighbors over on the other side of the Iron
> > Curtain, and we are just months away from the Cuban
> > Missile Crisis.
> > 
> > What better time to let the Godless Communists KNOW
> > that they're holding onto the short end of the
> > stick? 
> > 
> > 
> > How Can Chrysler Help?
> > 
> > How about a nice little print item that shows the
> > best
> > sides of our society's technological and cultural
> > advantages as a backdrop to the most cutting edge,
> > FORWARD LOOK cars being produced on this side of the
> > world?
> > 
> > If you've never seen a Trabant up close, which was
> > the
> > car being built for the People of Russia at the
> > time,
> > it is such a far cry from western cars as to be
> > laughable.  The one that I inspected in the early
> > 1990's was a relatively recent 1985 model and it had
> > totally mechanical rod linkages that operated the
> > braking system.  It's my understanding that as with
> > Checker Cabs, they designed them and then just ran
> > the
> > assembly line forever without much change.  
> > 
> > Anyway, that's what was going on over there. 
> > 
> > 
> > Now, you're sitting in your office in Moscow in
> > 1959,
> > a powerful official, having arrived at work in your
> > chauffered ZIL limousine, and you get a special
> > russian language brochure from Amerika.  
> > 
> > Inside you find what must certainly be the most
> > spectacular pack of capitalist lies and propoganda
> > yet
> > created.  Certainly this is trumped up hype.  You
> > glance around furtively, but open it anyway - can't
> > hurt to look:
> > 
> > http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1959/59Russian/index.htm
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > How jealous would our former enemies have been about
> > this?  The text is REALLY interesting, as Chrysler
> > probably wasn't planning this item as a prelude to
> > selling cars there.  Who thought it up?  Who was it
> > sent to?  What did they think?  It's fun to imagine
> > the "what if's".
> > 
> > =============
> > 
> > A quick note about what you don't see:  These pages
> > all came out of a brochure that was scanned one page
> > at a time.  Most of the spreads are actually two
> > pages
> > with a break in the center of the photo that were
> > electronically blended together using photoshop and
> > a
> > good number of hours to "create" each one.  Despite
> > looking so good as you glance through this, the
> > things
> > that look easy usually aren't.  
> > 
> > I'd like to take a moment to say thanks to our
> > Webmonster Volunteers, and Mark Evans in particular.
> > 
> > This brochure is a special one, and it looks really
> > dynamite.  The folks that work on the website and
> > the
> > admin list to help keep things lubricated tend to be
> > a
> > quiet lot.  Thanks for doing such nice work for free
> > so that this sort of thing is available for public
> > consumption.
> > 
> > Kenyon Wills
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