Back In The Day

Back in the day we had so many different dealershipscompetition will help bring that spirit back to us,
building special muscle cars, that the spacial cars wereeverybody watches the Olympics, and this is because
almost a common thing, we had Baldwin Motion,of the spirit of competition that it displays, the "Made In
Nickey Chevrolet, Yenko Chevrolet, and quite a fewThe USA" idea is the some kind of thing.
more, what ever happened to the competitive spirit theBack in the day, it was the good old boy syndrome,
the dealerships used to have, out of the competitionwe need that to happen again, we don't need to
sure came a lot of cool cars, car the likes of whichdownplay our American cars, we need to up-play
would not be seen today, or even after the 1960's,them, it needs to be over the top, how to you think
these cars would become a thing of the past.that the imports are doing it, it's the way that they
Making them worth millions of dollars today, justappeal in the advertising, they have captured a good
recently they had an L88 Corvette that went on theportion of American appeal in their advertising, take the
auction block, and the bidding reached $150,000 dollars,latest ad for the Toyota Tundra, the ad aims at the
the car did not sell, it never reached it's reserve price,people who buy trucks, the men, the ad says that they
and this kind of thing is happening more and more allasked the men what they wanted in a truck, and there
the time, hemi mopars are going in the millions of dollarswere three things in-common in all responses from
at almost every auction that their in, not to mentionthem.
some of the Ford products, any car with the nameThe men had answered the three this that they
Shelby on it will command an ultra high price on thewanted, were power, power, and more power, and
auction block.with the they also need to be able to stop all this
The glory days of muscle car are gone forever, butpower, so Toyota has enlarged their four wheel disc
I'm sure that the big three still have a few surprises upbrakes on the Tundra, they load it with 10,000 pounds
their sleeve's as far as Detroit muscle goes, well atand run it up a hill to show off the power, and this
least we can all hope that they do, we can all hopeappeals to men, and the run it down the other side and
that the big three haven't lost their heart, we can allshow off how good the brakes will stop a 10,000
hope that there is still a competitive spirit of some kindpound load, once again showing the men what the
left, and I'm not talking about MPG competition either,truck can do, this pushes the ideal of buying a Toyota
I'm talking HP competition, more power, who's the king,in to a man's head, you'd better believe that some men
the old I want to the man syndrome, we need it back,have went to the Toyota dealer and taken a test
if noting more, so we can do competition with thedrive because of this commercial.This is what we
imports.need to see more of in the commercials for American
Back in the day we didn't have any problemtrucks, is the competitive spirit, Toyota is rubbing it in
competing against the imports, and it's not becauseour faces with that commercial, and it's working,
there is more of them here now, we have lost ourbecause men have a spirit of competition in them, this
competitive edge, we have lost the will to be the best,kind of advertising will always appeal to the American
and we've lost the "Made In The USA" spirit that weman, and we need more of it from our big three
once had, and it's not because their better then us, it'smanufactures, don't let them continue to show us up,
because we don't care any more, and a goodmake them feel the power of "Built In The USA".