cool vintage ad
 

I know someone will have the picture saved of when the cig mistress first came out in the 70's... and it is a black and white print with the boat profile and then a whole bit about it being a pun on performing like a mistress and how sexy she is when you push the throttles down to the dash!
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I think i have somewhere the original ad, bought on ebay some time ago...

This one is from a thread here on OSO. Unfortunately I can' find it right now :

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Love this ad

From Hockey Town, Red Wings & Magnum Marine.. :ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:

Great ad & to the point,, back in the day you had to have both. I bet they sold some Cigs with this ad.

I dig those old ads too.

Agreed, this is about as cool as it gets!

LOL Don loved this ad. He said it was his favorite picture.

Of course, that opened up the door for us to remind him that it took about 100 different shots by the photographer that day to get one good one.

Notice the side of the boat almost up to the rubrail. Don had to put on the word MAGNUM as the new owners of Magnum were threatening to sue because he built this boat under the Cary name. You can just see the last letter M.

Thats a great story Charlie, I had read about the Magnum thing somewhere.......I guess it is for the same reason why my Dad's boat used to have Magnum-Donzi written on the side........

I still have and use my Dad's old Lifeline jackets, the same as in the advert.........it looks great on Martini, shame we can't use open face helmets any more!!

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Lee...a better scan of that brown 28SS would be much appreciated.

Aaron

That boat appears to be sinking.... No???????

[shame we can't use open face helmets any more!!] When did that change ????????? Mark

Not sure exactly when it changed, it was several years ago. The UIM rules for Marathon Class open boats states no open face helmets. This does not apply to canopy boats.

Yes, the boat sank in 180' of water 1968 in Lyme Bay, South Coast of UK. The ballast tank delaminated............my father bought the salvage rights and rebuilt the boat. It was under water for 3 months.....had some of the only 482's in existance..........http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/c...garette-9.html

Speaking of ads, anyone remember the TV ads in the late 80's for HFC during the televised offshore racing series? The ad started with a closeup of a marker buoy floating on an open sea, then out of nowhere an offshore racer blasts by the buoy in slow motion washing it over with its wake, then the buoy returns upright to float on the calm sea. Ive proabaly got it on a vhs tape (talk about old school) somewhere, but i have no idea of how to resurrect it. Very cool. Cooler still was the fact that the series races were being televised- I think on ESPN.

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Heres some of my Magnum stuff

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