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Old 05-02-2003, 12:39 PM   #1
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Arrow Coolest. Ad. Ever.

One of the engineers here at work sent me this:The second link explains how they did it. Calling Rube Goldberg!
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Wow....that is SO damned cool! Thanks for pointing that out.

(off to watch it a couple more times)

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That is cool.
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Old 05-02-2003, 03:21 PM   #4
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That's ... incredible. Thanks Shake.

Are they showing this ad at all in the States? Cuz I haven't seen it on TV.
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Must be Euro only. But it's awesome. Thanks.
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It looks like a Japanese or Euro only ad - the car is right-hand drive and the Accord wagon isn't even sold in the States.
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I saw that before, and I thought it was CG.
And heh, the part that I thought gave it away (rolling muffler) WAS CG.
Pretty cool.
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Around take 575 or so they had to be getting SO CLOSE to the end... I can just imagine the crew...

"Yes... yes... yes.. YES... YES... YES... YES.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" as the radio turns on and the spring misses the target.
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I've seen this a while back but I still wonder where the tires are getting all their energy from. I mean, tires with caps and rims in them are heavy enough, but a simple bump like that wouldn't give them the energy they need to go that far up an incline with that amount of force, right?
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It looks like a Japanese or Euro only ad - the car is right-hand drive and the Accord wagon isn't even sold in the States.
Ah, well spotted on the right-hand drive dealie. I was overlooking the obvious.
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