11th May 2010 / Comments (0)

Viva Del Monte

Woman's Weekly: 19th April 1967

Horray! It's another old school competition! This one is all about listing the supposed features of the car, plus a tie-breaker, although this article shows that this ad 'talks up' the car to an alarming extent. There's a famous story about the Vauxhall Viva's rear fuel tank exploding when the car took a shunt from the back, but I can't find a citation on the internet. I'd love to know what the winning tie-breaker sentence was!


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