Subj : Cars (was: Re: PC's and cars)
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 08:13:20

  Daryl queried --

> JM>  Joe (as the old slogan went "Visit your DeSoto dealer tomorrow, and tell 
'em Groucho sent you".)
> 
>   Did he ever do used car commercials?? I can imagine him as a
> salesman!!

  When De Soto was sponsoring You Bet Your Life, he was in some
commercials.  I recall his being in the latest model De Soto and waving at the 
camera
as he drove off.  
  Then at the end of the show was a large De Soto logo with him opening an
O telling people to be sure to tell the dealer Grouch sent them, with a
wiggle of his cigar and eye brows.
  Trivial side.
  When The Marx Brothers were the toast of Broadway in the '20s, Groucho
bought a house on Long Island and needed a car.  His first car?  A 1928 De
Soto.  
  And now you know a part of the rest of the story!
  Good day!
  Joe (in my best Paul Harrr-vee impersonation) 



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