Re: IML: The Cold War and Chrylser's Forward Look hit piece

[David Duricy <desotobravo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps this brochure has something to do with the
Nixon trip to Russia in 1959:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/newsid_2779000/2779551.stm

What better manifestation of the American Dream than
the gentle rise of a Forward Look fin?

Dave Duricy

--- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Every once in awhile you come across something
> really
> special.  That's the case with the latest 1959 item
> posted to the club website.
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> Here we sat, at the height of the Cold War, in the
> middle of the Jet Age and just at the beginnings of
> the Space Age.  Things are frosty as ever with our
> scary neighbors over on the other side of the Iron
> Curtain, and we are just months away from the Cuban
> Missile Crisis.
> 
> What better time to let the Godless Communists KNOW
> that they're holding onto the short end of the
> stick? 
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> How Can Chrysler Help?
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> How about a nice little print item that shows the
> best
> sides of our society's technological and cultural
> advantages as a backdrop to the most cutting edge,
> FORWARD LOOK cars being produced on this side of the
> world?
> 
> If you've never seen a Trabant up close, which was
> the
> car being built for the People of Russia at the
> time,
> it is such a far cry from western cars as to be
> laughable.  The one that I inspected in the early
> 1990's was a relatively recent 1985 model and it had
> totally mechanical rod linkages that operated the
> braking system.  It's my understanding that as with
> Checker Cabs, they designed them and then just ran
> the
> assembly line forever without much change.  
> 
> Anyway, that's what was going on over there. 
> 
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> Now, you're sitting in your office in Moscow in
> 1959,
> a powerful official, having arrived at work in your
> chauffered ZIL limousine, and you get a special
> russian language brochure from Amerika.  
> 
> Inside you find what must certainly be the most
> spectacular pack of capitalist lies and propoganda
> yet
> created.  Certainly this is trumped up hype.  You
> glance around furtively, but open it anyway - can't
> hurt to look:
> 
> http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1959/59Russian/index.htm
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> How jealous would our former enemies have been about
> this?  The text is REALLY interesting, as Chrysler
> probably wasn't planning this item as a prelude to
> selling cars there.  Who thought it up?  Who was it
> sent to?  What did they think?  It's fun to imagine
> the "what if's".
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> A quick note about what you don't see:  These pages
> all came out of a brochure that was scanned one page
> at a time.  Most of the spreads are actually two
> pages
> with a break in the center of the photo that were
> electronically blended together using photoshop and
> a
> good number of hours to "create" each one.  Despite
> looking so good as you glance through this, the
> things
> that look easy usually aren't.  
> 
> I'd like to take a moment to say thanks to our
> Webmonster Volunteers, and Mark Evans in particular.
> 
> This brochure is a special one, and it looks really
> dynamite.  The folks that work on the website and
> the
> admin list to help keep things lubricated tend to be
> a
> quiet lot.  Thanks for doing such nice work for free
> so that this sort of thing is available for public
> consumption.
> 
> Kenyon Wills
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