All photos are frame grabs from video below.
Our favorite quote of the day is from the sternly parental and maddeningly condescending voice-over by Mike Wallace – journalist, game show host and (nearly two decades on) one of the original correspondents of CBS’s 60 Minutes fame, who reminds us “…that every child is the makings of an emergency.” Newsflash: All those who have raised a family already know this, Mike.
Children, automobiles, tires and wet roads are the key elements in this not-so-subtle advertisement from the good folks at General Tire and Rubber Company. Lucky for us it also offers some primo carspotting opportunities.
We’re offered numerous nasty examples of where – even with good brakes – skidding tires can land a car, its occupants, or those who cross paths with the car a prominent place in the evening news, complete with gruesome, spinning headlines.
Not to worry: General’s Super Squeegee “wriggle action” tire, made with a new and revolutionary (yet unexplained) “JET-C-M-” rubber compound, is available to safely and confidently stop you every time — and we have the film footage to prove it.
To the R&D department’s credit, if you must slip-n-slide a 1949 car in the name of science, you could do far worse than choosing a stylish Lincoln Cosmopolitan 6-Passenger Coupe with wide whitewalls.
Now, be careful out there and watch for those kids near the street.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
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