Mr. Ed Short Opening Studebaker Sponsor

This is the extremely short opening for Mr. Ed. Not the long version with the famous Mr. Ed Song. Studebaker Dealers are sponsoring the show. There is a commercial for the Studebaker Wagonaire. It features a the song "Atchnson Topeka and the Sante Fe. but with different Lyrics. About 12,000 Wagonaires were produced in 1963

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Mr.
• Ed
• Studebaker
• Wagonaire
• 1963
• Commercial
• advert
• pub
• publicite
• werbung

[coolanddark]

The first Mini Van! I wish Obama was around then to bail out Studebaker! They built some cool cars!

[OsbornTramain]

@coolanddark They did make some nice cars...but actually..they didn't need a bail out..they just decided to stop making cars...they had many lines of profitable businesses...they even owned Mercedes-Benze of North America. It was a true Conglomerate. Studebaker-Worthington Leasing is still in business operating in Texas..that was the finance company Studebaker owned.

[OsbornTramain]

You are correct. I was tired when I put it on line and really didn't listen to the song closely. Clearly, you are right. Thanks, changed made on description.

[skiggley]

You have to remember that this commercial was done back when the United States used to be a free country...

[Annefry]

Wow how times have changed. Today you would get a ticket for letting kids ride like that in a car. Ah how I miss my childhood. We rode in open pick ups, stood on car seats didn't wear seat belts and I lived! Imagine that.

[50zcarsman]

@travis7310 Studes weren't bad cars -- just prone to rust. As an independent, Stude had to innovate in both styling and mechanics, or die. They were ultimately killed by high labor costs -- their unionized workers were among the top-paid in the industry -- and by ruthless price-cutting by the Big Three beginning in 1954. Once folks got wind of Stude's difficulty in securing add'l loans to tide them over at one point in the early '60s, sales dried up b/c nobody wanted to buy an "orphan."

[justpassnthru]

@OldsVistaCruiser Manual drum brakes... that was the anti-lock braking system of the day! :^D

[JOHNINCOLUMBUS]

GM brought back the sliding roof on their SUV Trailblazer a few years ago, but only produced it for a few years, Studebaker had it 50 years ago. And the step to get into the back, Ford just indroduced it on their "F" series pickups about a year ago...hmm, not very inovative, just borrowing from the past that no one remembers, except a few of us.

[strop001]

kids in the back unrestrained those were the days when the only airbag in the car was the wife.

[oliva77]

I'm convinced- I'll trade my Volvo V70 for a Lark Daytona Wagonaire.

[1L6E6VHF]

However, a 21" round tube color TV, with monaural sound and no remote control, cost more (even adjusted to minimum wage) that a big screen HDTV plasma TV today.

In general, compared to today, necessities (other than food) were cheaper, but luxuries were more expensive back then.

[thatgoofball]

Those were the good old days of commericials, before sex was in every commercial!

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Oops - I messed up somewhat. I meant the first American manufacturer to offer front disc brakes. German manufacturers offered them in the 1950s.

The '69 Vistas had front discs as an option - out of the three I've owned, only one had the option.

A member of the GM Skywagon Club in Michigan owns another '69 Vista Cruiser (the same year as the car on "That '70s Show") - it originally came equipped with MANUAL drum brakes - SCARY!