One of the greatest ad campaigns in GM truck history was the iconic “Like A Rock” campaign. The Bob Seger song was famous before GM got involved, but the ad campaign took it to another level. I mean, the commercials featured blue-collar Americans seriously beating their trucks to the smooth music. I’m pretty sure if I were an adult back then I would have rushed to a Chevrolet dealership for a truck based on those ads alone. Just watch:
David Tracy has been having a heck of a time with the GMT400 pickup that he once called one of the greatest trucks of all time. Yes, the irony has been hard to ignore. At first, David thought the truck’s V8 had blown up after a cold start gone wrong. As it turns out, the engine isn’t dead, but it’s taken some damage of some kind. You readers were savage. Alexk98:
So you’re telling us it’s just stuck there, dead on the road, immobile, like a rock.
Fred Flinstone:
Ran when parked.
JTilla:
Maybe it was the timing belt. /s.
Comments on David’s follow-up post remained awesome. Luxobarge:
Don’t see any white smoke.
Not surprising. Chevys rarely elect a new pope on the first ballot.
Baltimore Paul:
When I was a kid, my job was to hold the flashlight while dad wrenched on the old Jeep.
David might as well start the new baby on flashlight training as soon as possible
Lewin wrote a story about how taking a picture of a Volvo EX90 can kill a phone camera. TheDrunkenWrench:
Dr. Evil driving around in Volvos with Frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!
NewBalanceExtraWide made an interesting comment:
Here’s hoping these systems start frying speed cameras.
Bags added hilarity:
Volvo drivers, driving at 54mph and having perfect driving records going around destroying speed cameras and license plate readers is particularly ironic.
I have been out for a couple of days, and then I got sick, so I missed some awesome comments. Another one was by Harmon20, who made a simple change to David’s post about moving to California:
It was the summer of 2020, and I was in a deep, dark funk, crippled by regret.
*looks at lede image*
It was the summer of 2020, and I was in a deep, dark frunk, crippled by regret.
Fixed.
Have a great evening [Ed note: Morning], everyone!
So if The Eagles, Toto, Steely Dan, and the like, are yacht rock, does that make Bob Seger bass boat rock?
Glenn Frey got his start with Bob Seger. He’s on BGVs for Ramblin Gamblin Man. Both from MI.
And Bob Seger just turned 80.
Seger graduated from Ann Arbor Pioneer high school two years before Iggy Pop.
I just noticed that you blurred David’s Baby [not his real name]. Makes sense for his bride as she’ll likely have the same countenance for a while, but that baby will look different next week. Now I’m picturing a member of the Autopian faithful recognizing Tracy the Younger and accosting DBNHRN and ENHRN on the street to talk strollers.
I was a lot younger when the “Like a Rock” Chevy ads came out.
Even at that young age, it seemed obvious that a vehicle that stubbornly refused to move would not be a wise purchase.
Aww, I love that I comment kind of rarely here, but apparently when I do, I drop some real bangers. Thanks for the appreciation!
It’s not quantity but quality. A single banger puts you the Hall Of Fame (ask me how I know).
This is proof that lasers make everything better. Even comments.
“We’re popping popcorn with lazhers”
Oh shit, is that a Real Genius reference?
Mythbusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRCty3JUYzY
Not enough Val Kilmer.
Tory was probably quoting Val Kilmer. I never watched that movie so I wouldn’t know though.
Maybe a reference, but the scene is so ridiculous, I love it.