Dating over 60. Not sure I have a point, or just venting.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

And unlike the proposed name of Panther, the made up name Camaro starts with 'C', as in Corvette, Corvair, and Caprice.

And a Cliff Clavin moment... GM's marketing launch for the 1967 Camaro included pop songs, and six women's dresses available in department stores. (That women might care how cars performed was still a silly notion.)

I like the name "Cougar", but I guess it was already taken by then. Lol.

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[Dixie]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Etymology.

Entomology is bugs.

I could spend time deciding if it's a typo, or an autocorrect, issue. Truth is it doesn't entomology me enough to do so.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

I like the name "Cougar", but I guess it was already taken by then. Lol.

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I tell people I'm a leopard. That's a cougar with age spots. Haha.

[HobieMarty]

^^^Haha good one^^^ sounds like a fun game of connect the dots.

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[Bill Douglas]

I like these two kittens.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

Edit: Sugarwood, Would you kindly elaborate on how the entomology of this saying is relevant? I'm trying to avoid letting your prior responses to me taint how I'm processing your quoted post. I mean, at face value, you're restarting the obvious.

Maybe he’s channeling Cliff Claben

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

And a Cliff Clavin moment... GM's marketing launch for the 1967 Camaro included pop songs, and six women's dresses available in department stores. (That women might care how cars performed was still a silly notion.)
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GM’s early marketing of the Camaro seemed to try to appeal to women. The name itself sounds soft and non-aggressive - unlike Mustang, Cougar, Javelin, Firebird, etc. I had a girlfriend who had a first year Camaro that was 6 cylinder automatic and peach colored with a peach-theme paisley vinyl roof.

You would have loved it.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

GM’s early marketing of the Camaro seemed to try to appeal to women. The name itself sounds soft and non-aggressive - unlike Mustang, Cougar, Javelin, Firebird, etc. I had a girlfriend who had a first year Camaro that was 6 cylinder automatic and peach colored with a peach-theme paisley vinyl roof.

You would have loved it.

Honestly, I would like it. I think a paisley top would be a cool period feature. Unlike Chrysler, GM never offered mod-tops, but there was nothing stopping dealers from installing them.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

I could spend time deciding if it's a typo, or an autocorrect, issue. Truth is it doesn't entomology me enough to do so.

Or an incorrect usage of the word?

[MBAtarga]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I like these two kittens.

Joe Bob would avoid the batschit crazy redhead too!

[917_Langheck]

Ford had pretty good success with the ladies when selling the '64 Mustang. The link between 70s female ideal and Mustang was illustrated in TV shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Charlie's Angles. (Probably not an exhaustive list, nor even likely statistically significant with respect to reality vs. television fantasy, but that is a connection I recall from the period.) That GM would go after the same market, even with obtusely subtle conflations of femininity and a car in their advertising, should be a given. In the US it was Ford vs. GM, and serious money was on the line.

[Steve Carlton]

Years later, Ford took a subliminal hard turn into the ditch will the unfortunate naming of their new Probe.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

Joe Bob would avoid the batschit crazy redhead too!

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

GM’s early marketing of the Camaro seemed to try to appeal to women. The name itself sounds soft and non-aggressive - unlike Mustang, Cougar, Javelin, Firebird, etc. I had a girlfriend who had a first year Camaro that was 6 cylinder automatic and peach colored with a peach-theme paisley vinyl roof.

You would have loved it.

I'd never thought about it, but I suspect you're right. Not only is the Camaro song really bad, but it seems like the type of song people would think women enjoy.

Wait until I go to the next meeting and inform the guys they're driving girly cars. Haha

[Tobra]

Dixie, you are a gem. Never forget that

[Bob Kontak]

The first chord or two of the Camaro song had me thinking it was the Zombie's "She's not there", then it went very south. GM could have picked a catchier song but who knows what their budget was?

Cyrkle did Red Rubber Ball which is and awesome ditty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxRfbJvjsN8&ab_channel=TheCyrkle-Topic

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

I have to admire the skills of this captioner. So many possibilities for what she's thinking.

[Dixie]

Regarding marketing cars to women in the 1960s...

I think we need to remember that it wasn't until 1974 that a woman could open a bank account, or get a credit card, without written permission from her husband, father, or boss. And I bet a female getting a car loan was practically unheard of.

I'm sure the big three saw marketing to a group of people without direct access to money as unimportant.

[Seahawk]

https://www.spiral.us/blog/when-could-women-have-a-bank-account-a-short-history-of-financial-gender-equality-and-the-financial-road-ahead

[sc_rufctr]

Just get out there and have some fun.

1. IME there are always lots of quality ladies looking for a good man.
2. If she's interested she'll let you know.