Her's a little fun fact: The Mississippi Valley Automobile Co. that probably made this ad, opened its doors in 1899 and was one of the first, and maybe the largest car dealerships in St. Louis, Mo. at the time. It's location (just west of Vandeventer and Olive close to SLU for all of you St. Louis people out there)…
This is the moment that launched a thousand bone-crushing copycat jumps across the South. It's been repeated everywhere from Dukes of Hazzard to Speed, but more than that it stood for a moment of 1970s Southern revival in American culture as a whole.
Skip Baelish
This picture made me really angry. I would wait outside the store for the person to come out, choke them with the scarf they are sure to be wearing and then tattoo a picture of Bill Gates on their chest.