Perhaps this brochure has something to do with the Nixon trip to Russia in 1959: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/newsid_2779000/2779551.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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com > ----------------- > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing > List. Please > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your > response will be > shared with everyone. Private messages (and > attachments) for the > Administrators should be sent to > webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to > http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm