Richard Atherton (Entex) wrote:
>
> I was watching CBUT TV out of Vancouver B.C. and they were
> running a segment about cars, so I was interested in what they were
> talking about. It was about some place in Vancouver that rents Exotic
> cars. They had Viper, Farrari's, Porche's, Cobra replica's. Durring
> the segment, they showed some TV commercials about these cars, and
> talsked about the love some people have for the automobile, and they
> showed some old ads from the fifties and sixties. One ad that cought my
> eye was one for the Hillman Minx, Product of Rootes. It showed a nice
> looking convertible, and the voice over said "Hillman, the Surprise of
> the Sixties". At this point I had an idea.
> If there are other TV ads out there, archived at some TV
> station, these Must be preserved by our group(s). I'm sure that there
> is someone out there who has a video capture board in their PC, who
> could capture ALL of the ads that we could find, and put them in a AVI
> or quick Time format and then they could be posted on the web. Wouldn't
> this be cool? There's probably even a national television archive
> somewhere that we could find.
>
> I'll check with my local TV stations to see if they have
> anything like this, or where they could be found. Can someone up in
> Vancouver B.C. check with CBUT. I don't know if this was a national
> Canadian segment (CBC) or local, but CBUT aired it just a couple of days
> ago. It was about a place in Vancouver.
>
> Rich
Rich , I think you are going bonkers??? or just a relapse. This sounds
like a heck of a project , but if you can put it to gether i am sure
i'll probable sucker in for a video,, good luck,
chuck ~(8=; series ll
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