1961 Ford Falcon Peanut Commercial

This is a Ford Falcon commercial feauring Snoopy, Linus and Pig Pen from peanuts. For visit http://www.61thriftpower.com

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Ford
• Falcon
• Peanuts
• 1961

[Sheri451]

How much was Gasoline in 1961? How much was a 1961 Ford falcon?

[61thirftpower]

@Sheri451

Base price was $2,236. Gas was 31cents a gallon!

[torgman]

That was Paul Frees talking to the kids, no?

[61thirftpower]

Yes it is.  Read the comments below.

[61thirftpower]

Before the documentary was completed, the three of them (with help from their sponsor, the Coca-Cola Company) produced their first half-hour animated special, the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning A Charlie Brown Christmas, which was first aired on the CBS network in 1965.

[61thirftpower]

The ads were animated by Bill Melendez for Playhouse Pictures, a cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Melendez became friends, and when producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a two-minute animated sequence for a TV documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown in 1963, he brought on Melendez for the project.

[BeatleBangs1964]

I love the Falcon.....that '61 was the coooolest car! That was the definition of a Better Idea!

[Srd1126]

Had one, only way to get 30 mpg is if 10 of the miles are downhill in neutral

[zumadale]

Respond to this video... It still costs a few dimes a gallon!!!! If you use dimes from 1961... they are 90% silver and worth about $2.00 each right now. Gas didn't go up. Our fake money (since 1964) is losing value. RON PAUL 2012

[zumadale]

@61thirftpower It still costs a few dimes a gallon!!!! If you use dimes from 1961... they are 90% silver and worth about $2.00 each right now. Gas didn't go up. Our fake money (since 1964) is losing value.

[verbusen]

The commercials back then were definetly full of bull excrement. That mpg number of 30 was in a car with no A/C and going downhill in neutral I'm sure. Also, I'm not so sure Linus is going to wipe Pigpen's boogers off the car with his sacred blanket. I used to go to school with a kid who had a early 70's Dart (similiar car) what a piece of pizza car, pretty embarresing to drive in that thing when all the rich Italian kids had their own corvettes and cadillacs, but I digress.

[Badchoicesmade]

30 mpg in 1961? On the Falcon?

[sr633]

My sister had a 61 white Ford Falcon. I did a 360 on ice with it, and lost and smashed 2 hub caps on a road divider. She was just ready to trade it in on a new Ford. What happened to the hub caps she asked ? Gee, I don't know where they went .... .LOL !

[RRaquello]

My mother had a Falcon when I was very young, back around 1967 or 1968. She bought it used. It was only 3 or 4 years old but was already almost rusted out. I love those old cars, but they weren't really built to last and a lot of them had real rusting problems. It was planned obsolescence.

[jsbach15]

@61thirftpower I'll go one better....gas stations in Detroit (on Woodward Ave.) would have "gas wars," which mean they would have competitive pricing. Gasoline was as cheap as 18.9 cents/gallon!

[BeatleBangs1964]

That is a very beautiful car and definitely a Better Idea! I love that car. I mean, I really love it.