So there’s this gaijin with one-piece injection-molded plastic hair, like Ken, and he’s firing up the Tredia in some Delysidic maze. Then he sees these, uh, geese…
My Cordia/Tredia obsession has reached an alarming level, which means I’m scouring the Internetz for ads for the nearly-extinct-in-North-America Mitsubishis. This one, for the Japanese-market ’82 Tredia, features “Mr. Tredia.” Where Mr. Tredia goes, that’s where happiness grows; it’s sort of like the Edison Lighthouse song, only with abducted children and geese laying eggs in Mr. Tredia’s car. What does it all mean? It means I need to start shopping for a clean Tredia, of course!
Was that a Van Patten?
Yes, it’s Vince Van Patten, star of Rock ‘n Roll High School.
no, they’re 2 ducks.
I think that is a Van Patten.
Vince was the tennis star and Mr. Tredia is shown in tennis garb and flipping around a tennis racket.
So, I think it is Vince Van Patten.
And that is real hair.
Is there something wrong with me that I sort of like the look of the early-80s sloped hood japanese cars? Like the early Subies that people actually bought in the US…They have a sort of oddly classic if futuristic design to them.
Not to mention fantastic visibility. It was on Civics of that era and the first generation Integra, too.
The 90’s Crown Vics also had a similar sloped cheese grater face and I did have tremendous visibility of the road. Driving around in a 2nd gen xB is the same effect but with an inverse technique.
Is there something wrong with me that I see the front view and think DeLorean?
I’m not knocking the look, just saying that you can “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” from any car to any other car if you look at them from the right angle.
“Where Mr. Tredia goes, that’s where happiness grows”
Sorry, but Ford handled that theme much better back in 1968:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOessDtf_U
Here’s the 3:00 version…even better, if you have the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQR8vyxQft0&feature=related
As for Edison Lighthouse, lead singer Tony Burrows was also White Plains (My Baby Loves Lovin’, 1970) and The First Class (Beach Baby, 1974)…an accomplished studio musician.
you’re all wrong… that’s a young Donald Trump
My new favorite car commercial.
A great commercial but what happened to the little boy who was accompanying Goose Girl? Did Mr. Tredia just abduct her and the geese and leave him behind? Is he in the trunk witht the goslings?