Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad for Havoline Motor Oil sold at Texaco Dealers in all 48 states. This ad has a drawing of a smiling golfer hitting a wedge next to a tree and the ad starts out by saying “A star is Made, not Born”. It then talks about “Sam Snead had a nature-given ability to “belt a golf ball” even as a caddy, but it took years of practice and hard work to make him one of the all-time greats of golf. Nature provides talent but needs help to make a great star – and help in making a great motor oil like Advanced Custom-Made Havoline“. The ad continues by saying that “the best motor oil is Made, not Born” and that “Motor Nature produces fine oils but had to call for help when modern high-speed engines came along”.
Source: July 5, 1954 Life magazine.
