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Model Specific Discussions => Trans-Am Camaros => Topic started by: SMKZ28 on February 12, 2017, 09:06:32 PM
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Found a couple of interesting pictures on the Revs Institute Library web site taken at the Herald Traveler Challenge Trophy Trans Am event held at Bryar Motorsports Park in Loudon, New Hampshire on July 20, 1969. The first picture shows a row of new 1969 Mach 1 and Shelby Mustangs in the Mustang Corral outside of the Ford tent. On the Shelby GT350 closest to the photographer you can see a bumper sticker placed on the front quarter panel between the wheel arch and the drivers door that states, "FORD SOCK IT TO EM!" The funny thing is at the bottom of the second picture you can see a 1968 Camaro Z28 with an altered version of the same Ford produced sticker posted in the rear window that states, "SOCK IT TO FORD." The clever owner obviously got one of the bumper stickers, cut it in half and stuck it to his window in the altered way, leaving out the "EM!" Pretty funny! The only way to see these bumper stickers is to click on to the following links, then click onto the actual picture and use the magnification buttons to zoom in as close as possible.
1) https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/qx970jd0643
2) https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/vt518ry3325
3) http://picclick.ca/Ford-Bumper-Sticker-Vintage-Late-1960s-152276559143.html
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The pictures are great, but the background you provided is priceless--especially to those of us not around back then. Thank you very much for posting!
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Both Javelins had the modified sticker (Sock it to Ford) on their dash during the '69 season.
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Oh, did that remind me of the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In show with Judy Carne, the "sock it to me" girl.....
Mike
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Oh, did that remind me of the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In show with Judy Carne, the "sock it to me" girl.....
Mike
You be your sweet bippy!
By the way they are now showing the full one hour episodes of Laugh In, in chronological order, on the Decades Channel. Here in Chicago it airs twice a day. Once at 5:00pm and a different episode at 8:00pm. They are currently in the fall of 1970 without many of the original cast like Carne, but it's still funny!