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Oh, Hello Up There: Cold Start

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I need to hop on an airship to head back home after the Great Autopian Business Synod here in New York, and since I’ll be aloft, strapped into the security harness on the wall of the airship, I figured now is a good time to show you one of my favorite car brochure conceits that involves looking up. Well, specifically, it’s almost always women looking up, through a sunroof or T-top. Not exactly sure why this was A Thing once, but it was.

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Chrysler seemed to be an especially big fan of this, though you see it from other marques as well. If they want to show some kind of opening hole in a roof, they’d take a picture from above, revealing a woman in the car, either with an “oh, hello, I didn’t see you there, hovering over my car” look or sometimes an “oh, you, floating over the car again!” look like the woman right above there.

Very rarely you’d see a different sort of look up type opening roof approach, where instead of the model looking up at us, floating above, we’re the ones looking up, from below, through the roof hole:

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Anyway, if you look up in a bit, wave, because maybe I’ll be there.

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Scott
Scott
10 months ago

Generally, the looking down through the sunroof shot will provide a somewhat more flattering result vs those of the low angle up-from-the-footwell variety (i.e.: “the upskirt”). Also, a down angle POV will have the potential for cleavage, which I imagine has helped sell more than a few cars over the years (abundant décolletage in a print ad or commercial, thus implying that the purchase of said vehicle might cause the owner to have more similar encounters (or at least the potential for it) in his daily routine).

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago

It is a sexist thing. Guy likes pretty girl looking up at him. Of course she is thinking why is this guy 10 feet ocer my head, thank god i am being paid for this.

Col Lingus
Col Lingus
10 months ago

As someone who “was there” at the time it was pretty well known that a hole in the roof actually eliminated the issue of a small interior. Especially for various non parent approved activities. Some of my happiest memories are related to the roofs of cars. “Ate more chicken than any man ever seen” Jim Morrison. I miss those days.
Thankfully we never had any kids…Enough said.

Last edited 10 months ago by Col Lingus
Iwannadrive637
Iwannadrive637
10 months ago

Because women are a joy to behold and men are grotesque.

Scott
Scott
10 months ago
Reply to  Iwannadrive637

Jeez, I agree SO much.

Boulevard_Yachtsman
Boulevard_Yachtsman
10 months ago

Why yes Chrysler, I would like to order a “come-hither” T-top edition Cordoba.

Vetatur Fumare
Vetatur Fumare
10 months ago

I thought of heading to Gray’s Papaya on 72nd Street for lunch yesterday in the hopes of spotting Torch in the wild, but my tummy got the better of me and I chose to east delightful Uighur food rather than doing celebrity stalking.

Sklooner
Sklooner
10 months ago
Reply to  Vetatur Fumare

Oh Two Guys from Karabalghasun is a great restaurant

OrigamiSensei
OrigamiSensei
10 months ago

Photos courtesy of Ceiling Cat…

Alan Christensen
Alan Christensen
10 months ago

I’m shocked and delighted the woman in the first photos isn’t the industry-standard fair-skinned blonde.

Vetatur Fumare
Vetatur Fumare
10 months ago

There was a moment in the early 70s when things seemed to be getting better.

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago
Reply to  Vetatur Fumare

Hey the sixties were buxom wide body brunettes. The younger generation went skim and trim blondes. It has been going on for centuries in the art world. SURPRISE.

Cyko9
Cyko9
10 months ago

Is she an actress? She looks familiar, but I can’t come up with a name. Marketing might’ve bucked the status quo if they were going for some name recognition.

Last edited 10 months ago by Cyko9
IRegertNothing, Esq.
IRegertNothing, Esq.
10 months ago

I want to call these pictures bird’s eye view, but I’m getting major wanker’s eye view from them.

MATTinMKE
MATTinMKE
10 months ago

Creeper’s eye view.

Ben Duke
Ben Duke
10 months ago

Bird’s eye view planning a California sunroof.

IRegertNothing, Esq.
IRegertNothing, Esq.
10 months ago
Reply to  Ben Duke

I had to Urban Dictionary that one.

Ben Duke
Ben Duke
10 months ago

I only knew that because of Better Call Saul.

MaximillianMeen
MaximillianMeen
10 months ago

Apparently photographers of the 70’s and 80’s were some real down-blouse fetishists.

Michael Beranek
Michael Beranek
10 months ago

Wow, did Bob Guccione shoot these ads? The brunette and the first blonde look like they want some 70’s style free love.

Droid
Droid
10 months ago

why hello there mr truck driver in the next lane

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago
Reply to  Droid

Hi.
Nice to see someone else in traffic that is paying attention instead of tapping away at some device.

Chronometric
Chronometric
10 months ago

Sun, fresh air, attractive woman sitting beside you. Sell the sizzle, not the steak.

CSRoad
CSRoad
10 months ago

Sun roofs are creepy.

Collegiate Autodidact
Collegiate Autodidact
10 months ago

“lets the sunshine and moonglow in…”
Guessing vampires weren’t in the target demographics but werewolves were?

DubblewhopperInDubblejeopardy
DubblewhopperInDubblejeopardy
10 months ago

“Moonglow” another euphemism for untanned ass-cheeks at night. And why does that lady look like she is being held captive by the Aqua Velva man.

Flyingstitch
Flyingstitch
10 months ago

The last woman has you bound and gagged and stuffed in the passenger footwell, and she’s about to take away your final view of the sky…ever.

Jack Trade
Jack Trade
10 months ago

B/c this is a car site, I’ll note that an epic Steve McQueen photo is also done this way. Him driving his Jaguar, shot from above.

One of the only images I can find:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/301706508069

Lokki
Lokki
10 months ago
Reply to  Jack Trade

I recognize why you chose this picture but I much prefer this picture of him in his Jaguar XKSS

https://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2011/10/steve-mcqueen-cars.html

Jack Trade
Jack Trade
10 months ago
Reply to  Lokki

Yeah, agreed it’s probably the best of them – I had that one in poster version in my college dorm room! Bought it at Tower Records!

MATTinMKE
MATTinMKE
10 months ago
Reply to  Jack Trade

Pretty sure both of those pics are of the XKSS.

Lokki
Lokki
10 months ago
Reply to  MATTinMKE

Last edited 10 months ago by Lokki
Canopysaurus
Canopysaurus
10 months ago

Be careful around NJ in that airship.

Marlin May
Marlin May
10 months ago
Reply to  Canopysaurus

Oh the Humanity!

Last edited 10 months ago by Marlin May
Lokki
Lokki
10 months ago
Reply to  Marlin May

I looked up through my Chrysler Crossfire’s sunroof pane
Cause as I drive round I look up now and then
A blimp fell down in a big fiery flash of flames

I was lookin’ through my sunroof as I pass, pass, passed
Jumpin’ Jack Flash that was some real flammable gas!

Last edited 10 months ago by Lokki
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