1972 Plymouth Cricket TV Commercial Chryster Hillman Avenger Dodge 1500

This is an TV advert for the 1972 Plymouth Cricket. The features the TV-Radio- Movie Personality, Arthur Godfrey was the spokesperson on TV for Chrysler and Plymouth for a number of years. This car was marketed in the UK where it was manufactured by the Rootes Group, a division of Chrysler as the Hillman Avenger, Rootes was a Chrysler 100% owned subsidiary since 1967. They spent a lot of money on this commercial to give the illusion that the car was manufactured by Chrysler in the USA. They had to fly Mr. Godfrey into the UK to get him into one of these cars on the assembly line. These were also produced and sold in Argentina as the Dodge 15001`.Chrysler would actually end up manufacturing these cars besides thr Chrysler UK in Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand and Iran. It's tools and dyes were sold to VW who built in the VW1500 until 1988. There was even a ute version sold in Columbia for a few years.1

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• Plymouth
• Cricket
• Hillman
• Chrysler
• Avenger
• Dodge
• 1500
• Arthur
• Godfrey
• 1972
• werbung
• advert
• pub
• publicite
• publidad
• argentina

[txmcxlx]

Any company that hires Arthur Godfrey to do car commercials should be closed down without a pension.

[OsbornTramain]

If it makes you feel any better, They haven't made Plymouths or even Rootes cars in years.

[joh2]

The Avenger / Cricket was a good car (handling, ease of maintainence) - unfortunately it was hampered by suspect build quality, lack of underseal (esp as it was sold in places where salt was utilized in winter!) and unreliability...

Something now - the Cricket came with front disc brakes, while most of the larger Plymouths of the time had front drums!

[hayaboosta]

I had 2 of these back in the 80s. At the time, nearly impossible to find parts. Reliable engine as I beat the living crap out of mine(actually started out as my mother's). Only had a little over 100k when sold. Still ran after that for another 10 years and another 100 miles.

[OldcarsNmusic]

@txmcxlx That was a Sundance and 1993 was the last year for it...the Neon replaced it. The Voyager carried on with the Plymouth name in 2001 and maybe the Breeze, but 2000 was basically the last year for Plymouth.

[johneddy98033]

You're right, OsbornTramian, When Chrysler experience its first financial crisis, it sold its European operations to French-based Peugeot, and as a result, the Talbot brand would be used for a few years.

[txmcxlx]

No way, I saw a new car the other day. It was a Plymouth Sunflower or whatever.

[aKiwiJoKeR]

just scrapped my '78 yesterday - tear in my eye! (see my vids)

[loganxrandom]

I have a friend who drives a 75 plymouth cricket now,to this day! (crazzeh) It's a Mitsubishi make rather than british,like this one. You can imagine how hard it is for him to find parts! I might be abble to post a video of it. However he got screwed over on a paint job so I'll have to see if he's okay with it. (It looks like it was colourd with crayons)