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PONTIAC GMC + MAPLE LEAFS FANS. A RARE COLLECTIBLE AND CONVERSATION PIECE.
THIS IS A HIGH QUALITY REPRODUCTION OF AN 86 Year Old GENERAL MOTORS FULL-PAGE CAR AD promoting the latest model Pontiacs.
This is very cool.
Read how the Leafs players promote different features of the car.
I love how the goalie promotes there\'s enough room in the trunk for all his gear.
U-Frame. The print is properly shipped in an art tube.10 Toronto Maple Leafs players pose along side their new Pontiacs in the snow. Players promote different features of the car.
They all bought Pontiacs \'because it was all they could ask for in an automobile\'...\"so we bought Pontiacs.\"
*I\'ll refund $16 Shipping fees if you pick up your copy from the Staples of your choice.
The 10 players from the 1934-35 Toronto Maple Leafs are...
From the caption in the ad:
Ten Maple Leaf Hockey players are seen above with their new Pontiacs. The group includes: “Happy” Day, “Hec” Kilrea, “King” Clancy, “Red” Horner, “Andy” Blair, George Hainsworth, “Flash Hollet, “Pep” Kelly, “Joe” Primeau and “Bob” Davidson.
Happy Day was the captain. George Hainsworth was the goalie (no back-up!).
Full ad copy below...
Everyone who has seen the original says it\'s very cool - even Montreal fans!
The printers say this has reproduced really well. I had it scanned at a museum with large format printing, highest quality scan setting.
Skip the shipping option. I\'ll refund you shipping cost if I can send your print to your nearest Staples, for you to pick up. Then we both save on postage and the cost of good packaging. But, if you need shipping, I\'ll buy a quality tube to send it in. I also follow Best Practices for selling and shipping. I\'ll aim to have it out within 2 days and in your hands by next week.
This is a print of the original newspaper ad in the March 9, 1935 SATURDAY NIGHT, Page 9. This 86 year old advertisement is part of my vintage newspaper advertising collection.
This is the same size as a full page ad. Print only. You\'ll have to frame yourselfbut at least you get to choose something that works for your decor. This would look really cool in any sports room or your office... it is definitely a conversation piece. Plus, it\'s always interesting to see what advertisers said back then, and what the new great product features were of the day.
Here\'s the ad copy:
“… so we bought New Pontiacs”
10 Maple Leaf Hockey Stars
Take Delivery of Their 1935 Models
It takes a hockey player to appreciate style – speed – gameness and endurance. It took 10 members of the Maple Leaf team only a few moments to recognize a combination of these qualities – in the 1935 Pontiacs. These athletes looked for, and found in Pontiac, all they could possibly ask of an automobile. And as they put it themselves, “… so we bought Pontiacs!”
Wherever Pontiac – a new low-priced Six, and a big Straight Eight – goes on display, it literally “steals the show”! Motorists are attracted, first of all, by the distinctive and please streamline design. They are acquainted with Pontiac’s reputation for rugged construction, reliability, and long, trouble-free life. They talk to friends who own Pontiacs and thereby discover that all the fine things said about this automobile are true. Then they re-estimate their existing ideas of motor car values, using as a gauge, the definitely low price of the new Six.
What the Maple Leaf player are getting from their Pontiacs: what so many motorists are discovering for themselves: we invite you to experience in person. Go to your nearest Pontiac dealer’s. Check out the new models inside and out. Drive them on the hill, highway or country lane. Let Pontiac show you how much to expect for your automobile investment of 1935.
Generous allowance on your present car, plus the convenient financing arrangements of GMAC make ownership an easy matter.
Headline picture caption
Ten Maple Leaf Hockey players are seen above with their new Pontiacs. The group includes: “Happy” Day, “Hec” Kilrea, “King” Clancy, “Red” Horner, “Andy” Blair, George Hainsworth, “Flash Hollet, “Pep” Kelly, “Joe” Primeau and “Bob” Davidson.
1. Top Left… pointing to front of car
“Happy” Day, Captain of the Maple Leafs, admires the unique front-end design of his new Pontiac.
2. Below Happy… sitting in driver’s seat
“Bob” Davidson is impressed by the Fisher No-Draft Ventilation unit in his car.
3. Below Bob… squatting for close up at front bumper level.
“Hec” Kilrea knows it’s Knee-Action that takes the jar out of bumpy roads.
4. Below Hec… looking under the hood.
“I didn’t think an engine could run so smooth” say “Pep” Kelly, with an ear to the power plant of his new Pontiac.
5. Below Pep… posing on passenger side.
“Flash” Hollet takes time out from a rushing, body-checking life to pose beside the new Pontiac which “gives me everything I could expect of a motor car.”
6. Below Flash… posing from passenger side from an angle
“Andy” Blair, who stands over 6 feet in height, is particularly enthusiastic about the generous leg and head room in his new model.
7. Beside Andy… opening driver’s door (opens on left side)
We asked “Joe” Primeau, of the famous “Kid Line”, what he liked best about his Pontiac. “Everything,” replied “Joe”, but he made special mention of Pontiac’s hydraulic brakes.
8. Above Joe… foot on step on driver’s side
A man as solid as “Red” Horner would be interested in the solid steel “Turret-Top” Body by Fisher.
9. Beside Red... checking out the trunk
“Look at the size of that luggage compartment”, points out George Hainsworth, the goalie. “You could pack my big pads in there with me in ‘em and have room to spare.”
10. Bottom right corner… opening door to the back seat
“King” Clancy knows that you can actually estimate a car’s all-over value by the quality of workmanship and materials used in its interior.”
PONTIAC FOR 1935… A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE
