Kinda off topic, but do any of you other old guys remember a car commercial in the 80s where a car was mounted on a rotisserie, and they put a ball bearing in the door gap and rotated the car around letting the ball roll in the gaps?
I remember being impressed at the time.
Tried to find it online, but couldn't.

One of our very own FYIFORD members was the one they used to work over the gaps on that car for that commercial.  Take a bow, Greg.

Thanks!   Lexus made the original famous commercial.  The company I worked for parodied that commercial.   I hand set 5 pearl white cars that were used for the commercial, and the magazine ads and the Motor Trend or Car and Driver test vehicle.   I was even given a ball bearing when given the assignment.  (and a dial caliper)  and like I mentioned the other day, everyone on the body in white assembly line was issued a taper gauge.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUoRNU17JyE     

I cant find the ball bearing commercial, but pause it at 17 seconds and look at those door gaps, baby!


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhT6DBtyIM   
Its possible this was the final version of the ball bearing parody idea.   I just got the cars ready for the media.  I had no further involvement.  I didnt watch a lot of tv back then, because I pretty much lived in there, so I never even saw this commercial until tonight.   


 

Last edited by Greg B (2/24/2014 10:26 PM)

They did a parody on SNL around that time.  The marble went into a hole on the fender, clanked around for about 30 seconds, then came out the bottom.  Good stuff.

Alan wrote:

MustangSteve wrote:

I took dimensions of the 65 GT fastback I was going to buy because all the panels seemed to line up really well.  Well... the factory apparently was not too concerned with getting them all perfect, but they did it to where the car looked straight.  The car presents well, but man was I surprised at the data.
DTE = door trailing edge
DLE = door leading edge.
I also was surprised at the gaps between the cowl and the fenders.
Dimensions are in inches.  Sorry about the sloppy handwriting.  It was windy out there and hard to write using a knee as a desk.
Hope this helps you with your next build.

Does the trunk really go from .156 to .010 or did you write that wrong. I can;t believe that it would go from 5/32 to almost nothing. Or am I reading something wrong?

 
That was the dimension.  The decklid was way different each side. Weird thing was it aligned perfect with both quarter end caps across the back.   I think I actually padded that number a bit.  It was actually less than. 0.010" on that side.