This ad was about the engine, which you can't see here. The Trophy was different, because Pontiac was different. You could have chosen a Buick or an Oldsmobile from GM, but Pontiac was sporty, and John DeLorean, Pontiac's director of advanced engineering, thought it should be more economical.

From this distance, I guess a lot of that must have been understood, because you certainly don't see it in the ad.

Somewhere in America, though, mom and dad picked up a Pontiac Bonneville like this one and drove it home. And while the ad today makes me think a kid must have seen this car in the next year or two and thought his parents were the Jetsons -- look at that windshield -- this was a bad artistic rendering of flat glass.

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