Ad of the Day: Chevrolet’s heartfelt holiday film tells tale of love and restoration

The Drum ^ | 12/14/21 | Amy Huston

[Impala64ssa]

Video at link. Beautiful 1966 Chevy Impala SS 396, with a cool storyline. My dad bought a 1979 Pontiac leMans wagon from a dealer in Paramus, NJ. They had on display a Bandit edition TransAm and a fully loaded 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix that looked like it never left the showroom floor. More attention was drawn to the Grand Prix than the TransAm. Interesting how the "big three" need to draw on the nostalgia angle to get people interested in the new stuff

[NohSpinZone]

I was just shocked that GM would actually run a commercial where one of its actors utters “Merry Christmas, Dad”. That should get a nice rise out of the wokesters.

[Deaf Smith]

Much better than the commercial of two old hippies seeing and buying a old VW Camper Bus.

[Gahanna Bob]

My screen got blurry.

[telescope115]

I DID see this already, I just don’t remember what channel, but it must’ve been over the weekend, I think.
Beautiful commercial, it got me teary for my Dad, but it was a commercial, nonetheless.

[conductor john]

Best of the year award ( by me, old film student). Cried like the baby I still am. We had that car in so cal. Dad ( still alive 101!) would decorate it with Pom poms and crepe paper for the annual rite of spring little league parade. My team was dodgers, so blue crepe. The town by the sea would briefly shutdown to our cherished children. That was a wonderful time.

[laweeks]

I like this year's stupid GMC pretentious commercial that is as dumb as last year's.

In this one, a young couple is out in nowhere, and he whistles for a new dog for his loving wife (how did the dog get out there in nowhere-ville).

Then she tops that gift by showing him a horribly expensive GMC brand new truck, probably over $50,000 that she bought without telling him, that suddenly bursts over the horizon, which is driven by somebody, but we don't know who (probably her boyfriend that he doesn't know about).

[Impala64ssa]

When that 1966 Chevy rolled off the assembly line, Brandon was plagerizing his way through college.

[ealgeone]

you mean gm is running a commercial where white folks are the idiots and white males aren't bumbling buffoons??

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Nice ad, but _______________ opposed to car dealerships and I have several valid reasons. Anyone who walks into one gets what he/she deserves.

[Rowdyone]

I had a hardtop 1965 SS 396/350HP with Saginaw 4 speed from 1970 to 1974. White with a black leatherette interior. The wife drove it and I drove my 1969 SS 396/375HP Camaro. Gas was cheaper then! The ‘65 and ‘66 were very similar with 3 taillights per side on ‘65 and a solid lens on ‘66. Heavy car but had a great ride. I would welcome a return of either of them for Christmas!

[Dr. Sivana]

The problem is that I cannot buy the ‘66 Impala (4 door hardtop with front bench, please).

The last thing they called an Impala was kinda sad.

[JennysCool]

It’s a tremendous ad. A tribute to the kind of things real Americans do every day, at least in our small towns where people still look after each other.

[JennysCool]

Merry Christmas to you and your Dad!

[leaning conservative]

Yes, absolutely beautiful.

[Chode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-oyBnknHk

[ro_dreaming]

Uhm... This has got to be a commercial from the 80’s or before, right?

It was “mom” and “dad”, with a daughter, and a dog.

The local car buffs were of different ethnicities, but no obvious homosexual anything — actually refreshing in there was NOTHING sexual about it.

I can’t believe ol’ Government Motors actually made that commercial.

Kudos to them - they know “go woke, go broke”.

[Carriage Hill]

Mine, too.

[Tupelo]

Interesting commercial.
Makes me curious though; if he loved that car so much, why did he park it for the rats and mice instead of simply taking care of it?
I don't understand "car love". But then, I have only loved living things, not inanimate objects

[Bigg Red]

Lovely.

You are so fortunate to have your father still.

God bless both of you.