Hello!

Gary Teetzel alerted us to an old car commercial making the rounds on Facebook, posted by ‘garyp11111.’

It’s for the ‘Plimley Chrysler-Dodge Dealership’ of Vancouver. The explanation is that the monster on view is a homemade suit built around a Don Post Mask. In this lo-res remnant, the suit looks pretty good. We doubt that anyone had a widescreen TV in the 1970s, though … this could have been produced to show in local theaters.

‘Plimley Motors’ was real. Performing due diligence, we came across a ‘two hungry blokes’ webpage with the full history of Plimley Motors. The man in the ad is listed. He’s Basil Paul Plimley, the third generation of Plimleys to run the firm, which was founded in 1893.

The description given of Basil’s interests is incomplete … in addition to ‘music, art, horses, golf, antiques and all things to do with William Shakespeare’ they should have added  ‘classic movie monsters.’

This is Gary Teetzel’s replacement title, not ours:

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson