So Much Better Than Vinyl Car Wraps
Published: March 12th, 2011
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German advertisers of the 1950s turned the Volkswagen Transporter into some of the best rolling marketing art ever.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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My favorite (so far) is the butcher shop on wheels. Perhaps I could open a shop like that? That gives me an idea: make deep fried food in a Dodge Sprinter diesel, and at the end of the day, pour the old veg oil into the fuel tank and drive home!
There's a perfectly good coffee table book in those pictures.
I've wanted to `art car' my slab-sided Vanagon for quite some time. I don't want to get caught up in the undying retro fashion and I don't care to be sued for product trademark infringement ... what to do ?
I hear this sort of styling translates well to early Dodge Vans....