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Nissan Datsun Trucks - Specific - (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Honda Scooters - Grace Jones "Make a radical departure" print 1985

Los Angeles, 1985 and Grace Jones is the most radically different woman alive.

Honda Scooters - Jim McMahon - (1985) :30

Honda Scooters / Elite 150 Grace Jones Baby II - (1985) :30

Another version of Grace Jones' baby wisdom. Oh Grace.

Honda Scooters "Walk on The Wild Side" (1985) :30 (USA)

Austin Rover - Designing cars - (1985) :40 (UK)

Ford Temp - Ski Trip (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Ford Thunderbird - Winning (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Hell Ford!

Michelin - Honey (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Babies and tyres. Because you want to give the best to those you want to protect.

Nissan Trucks - Cowboys (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Ford - On the Road Again (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Ford Thunderbird - Getting Here (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Nissan Sentra - Butler (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Butler and a maid

Nissan Trucks - Come And Get It (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

It's ready! Come and get it!

Ford - When Was The Last Time? (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

A blonde drives her Ford
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Nissan / Datsun - Name Change - Major Motion (1985) - 0:30 (USA)

Name Change - Major Motion

Honda Scooters Elite 150 - Grace Jones / Baby variant (1985) :30 (USA)

This is another version of Grace Jones "baby" advert for Honda Scooters.

Toyota MR2, Japan, 1984

"We would like to crystallize."

Toyota Corolla - Behold the doubting Thomas's (1984) :30 (USA)

The streets of San Francisco are lined by trenchcoat-clad doubting Thomas families - all equipped with a golden retriever each.

Toyota 4x4 Pickup - Turning the truck world upside down (1984) :30 (USA)

Toyota is turning the truck world UPSIDE DOWN!

Toyota Celica GTS - Dan Gurney at Willow Springs (1984) :30 (USA)

Changing tires on a Toyota Celica raced by Dan

Honda Scooters - Grace Jones & Adam Ant - (1984) :30 (USA)

Grace persuades Adam to try the Honda Scooter - this is the US daytime version where her nibbling of Adam's ear has been edited out.

Honda Scooters Elite 150- Grace Jones / Baby - (1984) :30

When we're born, we're all pretty much the same - yeah all except you Grace. When you were made god broke the mold.

Honda Scooters - Grace Jones & Adam Ant - Ear nibble variant (1984) :30 (USA)

Grace Jones biting Adam ants ear proved too sexy for daytime TV, so the nibble was edited out.

CX GTi Turbo - Grace Jones / 220 kph / "Un look démon" - print ads 1984

Jean-Paul Goude's press concept for the CX GTi Turbo was a simple silhouette portrait of Grace Jones.

Grace Jones Citroen CX - La Beaute Sauvage - (1984) :40 (France)

Grace Jones apparently parks her car in a giant model of her own head. Of course she does. She is Grace Jones after all.

Aamco - Wedding with delayed groom (1984) :30 (USA)

The groom calls to promise his bride that he'll be there in time "for our transmission - uh - wedding! You know I love you.

Goodyear - The new GT - (1984) :30 (UK)

Honda Scooters - "Keep up with the Jones" printad, 1984, USA

You want to keep up with the Jones?

VW Jetta - bigger, larger, wider - (1984) 0:30 (UK)

Chevy / Chevrolet Cavalier Wagon - Taking Charge (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

In the bright colourful desert!

Chevy / Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport - Taking Charge (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Racing around!

Chevy / Chevrolet Chevette - Taking Charge (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Check out the neon logo on this one.
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Chevy / Chevrolet S-10 Blazer - Tough (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Blasting through the desert!

Chevy / Chevrolet Trucks - Farmers (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Farmers need good trucks!

Chevy / Chevrolet Trucks - Tough (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

These trucks are tough!

Michelin - Twenty Million Miles (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

So many tyres!

Toyota - Dan and Evi Gurney (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Toyota Car dealership

Toyota - The Truck World On Its Rear (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Trucks get stuck!

Toyota - Takes Guts (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

It takes guts to redesign one of the world's most popular cars.

Toyota - Upside Down (1984) - 0:30 (USA)

Woops!

Porsche - "Nobody's perfect." - printad 1983

Out of the top 10 finalists of the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, only Sauber/BMW managed to break Porsche's winning streak with a re

Suzuki Gemma 50 Motor Scooter, print Japan 1983

Italian style! Suzuki Gemma 50 Motor Scooter!

CM Toyota Celica XX Grace Jones printads, Japan, 1983

These ads go with the commercial, Grace Jones

CM Toyota Celica XX - Grace Jones (1983) :30 (Japan)

This is quite possibly the most eighties ad ever. The music. The edit. The shiny neon. The cardboard cutout of Grace Jones.

Tom Raper Richmond Indiana mobile homes (1983) :30 (USA)

Tom Raper used mobile homes! Indiana regional ad only. 

Aamco - Total Lifetime Guarantee (1983) ;30 (USA)

When your Aamco dealer rebuilds your transmission - it will work - or he will fix it, free!

Nissan Jubilee sunny - Drive away - (1983) :30 (UK)

Peugeot Talbot Horizon - Takes two - (1983) :30 (UK)

Fiat Regata - The new - (1983) :20 (UK)

Suzuki - Statue of Libery (1983) 0:18 (Japan)

Vauxhall Nova - On Track - (1983) 0:30 (UK)

Allstate - Estimates (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

This guy gets more. and more tired, and his tie sinks lower, for each estimate that he hears.
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Allstate - Great Day (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Dodge - Big and Small (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Dodge - Dodge / Chrysler Compare (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Dodge - Fall In Love (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Falling in love!
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Ford Mustang - She's Back (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

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Ford Thunderbird - Before (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Hertz - Best of Both Worlds (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Honda Nighthawk - Just Hit Town (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Mazda 626 - Experience 1 (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Mazda 626 - Experience 2 (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Experience 2

Mercedes - Far Too Young (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

Plymouth - Made in America (1983) - 0:30 (USA)

This is a car built in America

Michelin - MX Tyres - (1982) :30 (UK)

Duckams - Engines choice - (1982) :10 (UK)

BP National - Rich and Poor - (1982) :30 (UK)

AA - Bumblebee dance - (1982) 0:20 (UK)

Texaco - Not half - (1982) 0:10 (UK)

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