Description
VW Bus – Full color 9 1/2″ x 13″ ad for the fact that this is more than a one-dimensional vehicle or, as the ad headline puts it, “It goes a lot further than the A. & P.”. The ad has a picture of a VW Bus that has zebra-stripes painted all over the body stopped in a vast plain so that the passengers can view and take photos of a small herd of Zebras that do not seem to mind their intrusion. The ad explains that in Kenya the United Touring Co. has 160 of these painted VW Buses to transport their passengers through “man-sized grass, seas of mud, craggy mountains, clammy jungles and an extinct volcano”. The claim is made that the reliability of this bus and the fact that it is air cooled make it a perfect choice for this job. The ad also says that “It gets wild mileage on 50 cent-a-gallon gasoline when it can find it”. It ends by saying that, for them, “anything less than a Volkswagen is just beating around the bush”. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
Source: June 23, 1967 Life magazine.
