The Greatest- and Sexiest- Car Ad of All Time: 1980 Black Gold Datsun 280ZX!
The latest crop of Super Bowl car ads boasted some high-production-value salaciousness, but no car advertisement will ever come close to the perfection of the Quaaludes-and-disco Black Gold Man and Black Gold Woman and their gorgeous 10th Anniversary Edition 280ZX. Yes, many of you have seen this ad before, but I will not rest until all have experienced Black Gold (plus I’ve included a few Bonus Sexy Malaise Era car ads after the jump).
The only 10th Anniversary Edition Black Gold 280ZX I’ve ever seen in person was about to get crushed, and I was still in junior high when this car was new, but I still crave a car so lavishly appointed that there are virtually no options. Driven to the ultimate!
A few years before there was Black Gold, there was a very slinky Farrah Fawcett and her pet cougar taking her ’75 Cougar XR-7 to the beach. Glove-soft vinyl on deeply padded bucket seats! Poised opera window!
For ’78, the Cougar had Cheryl Tiegs in her padded-tire-deck-equipped XR-7… and an appropriately disco soundtrack.
The competition sort of gave up, once Black Gold Man and Black Gold Woman roared into a Martian sunset in their 280ZX; here’s the ’81 Mustang and its white-powder-fueled 90-pound driver heading to the disco.
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Wait a second, they took all the instruments, and put them in a cluster?!?! Genius!
Around 1975 or so disco descended upon the USA landscape and the format change among so many FM radio stations was all-too-obvious. Many of the warship's crew lamented the change and cassette tapes became increasingly popular and communal vinyl record "burns" were conducted across the USA instigated by still-rockin' FM stations and other sundry groups. Not that rock-n-roll "died" but disco was rather intrusive. A cultural change was also occurring; from the quasi-unique late 60s and early 70s "radicalism" to a new fun-seeking climate. Underground newspapers disappeared. Some head shops closed. Various changes. Many historians believe the end of the military draft was a BIG cultural changer within the USA and I, the Disgruntled One, agrees. Of course, one's geo-cultural-political location within the USA was mightily influential. The kin within rural Nebraska still existed at what many would consider a pert-near pre-industrial era. Those of us floating across the heaving seas were well-aware that the Cold War was still ongoing despite the lack of so many mostly-minor events receiving little to no media coverage in the "real world." Crazy times, kids.
i got a nosebleed just watching these videos.
Is that an arm or a leg alongside the 280ZX passenger seat near the end?