State Farm commercial

Kid gets handed down Roadmaster wagon....oh the horror....room for 6 friends, 25 mpg, LT1 power, rear wheel drive burnouts, big safe car, etc.

Of course he wants a little SUV that he can flip over.....

 

I strongly dislike that commercial. It shows the entitlement and disrespect of the youth today. I'd have been thrilled to have that car. My parents made me buy their old car as my first. Rusted out 73 Pinto. To me it was the baddest thing on the road!

 

Just bought this 70 estate wagon and told my 14 year old granddaughter that I am fixing for her when she turns 16 .
Her reaction " HA HA , That's Beige Betty " !!!
Bill

 

I agree with this, except my parents never made me buy a car from them. I would have been ecstatic to have any car that would run.

 

My first car was a 1971 impala two door custom with a 400 small block.
I had the money and was with my father at a used car lot and wanted to buy this 340 dodge demon 4 speed. The car lot owner a lady told my father it would not be a good choice for my first car.
So I picked out the impala and took it for a test drive with my father around the block.
I stopped dead in the middle of the road, looked at my father and floored it and burnt rubber halfway down the block, it was a peg leg single track, He said do you like it?
I said I will take it, paid 900 bucks for it.
It was dark green with light green interior and a two barrel rochester carb.
My older step brother helped me install a 373 posi & 2500 stall converter.
I beat many mustangs & other cars with it.
The good old days, that was 1979.

 

But that wagon has 8 cup holders; (for the kids' brewski's).

 

I bought my first car at age 14. With my own money earned working for local farmers. Paid 300 bucks for it and I still own it.
Went through various transformations ending up being my GSX drag car... Which is being updated again.

 

Still have mine, too. Bought my Mach 1 at 12 with my own money in 1992. Lucky my Dad is a car guy and wanted us to have something cool, although we all paid for our first cars. Older brother Lance's was a '74 Nova, little brother Layne's is his '87 Grand National. He's still got that as well.

 

The ad would have been better with a POS Ford Country Squire wagon from the 70s or 80s. A wallowing barge....

I love when people into tailgating me in my RMW on exit ramps and see them almost lose it in little SUVs. (I added 17in SS wheels and sway bar in rear). They ASSume they can handle better.....
Then they get pissed off and try to pass.......

 

My dad never gave me a car (or a bicycle, or just about anything else). Bought my first car when I was 14 with money I earned hauling hay. I wasn't going to buy beige Betty that was for sure. Of course, my old hot rod was a permanent fixture on the side of the road... I learned early how to hitch hike to school due to my cool-looking car's reliability issues.

 

I agree, being given any car that would safely get me where I wanted to go would had been great, I bought my first cars as well. I worked almost 2 years changing tires and mowing yards, went cheap on my driver 86 dodge 200......did have the turbo 2.2, but wanted my buick too and I paid twice as much for it as my driver

 

I was 9 years old, in 1969 Our house was struck by lightning and caught fire during nasty storms July 4th. We lived in the Oak Park Motel for 16 weeks while repairs were made. This is where my belief in Karma started. My parents were volunteering and working at the Church Carnival and bought tickets for numerous raffles and put all the kids names on tickets. I am the oldest of 6 kids My Mom hears my name called and is thinking I won a baseball glove or one of the bikes they are raffling off. She leaves her post at the booth she is working and people she know are yelling her name and really excited for her. She gets up by the main stage and wonders why they are handing her keys for a bike. My name was drawn for a New 1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88 two door. Well I was 9, and Mom and Dad had never owned a new car at that point in there lives. That was the family car for quite a few trips and vacations and never any baby seats or booster seats. When I turned 16 years old 7 years later I did not get the Old's Delta 88. I did get to drive it to work for repairs. I did buy Grandmas old 1967 Chevelle 300 Deluxe and drove the wheels off that for High school and college. I still remember finding a used set of 60 series snow tires and that Chevelle went a lot of places it should not of even during the Blizzard of 78. At 15 I started working at a Sohio station Pumping gas, changing oil and tires. I did help maintain that Old's with oil changes, tune ups , rocker arm replacements. I even took it to Autoshop and rebuilt the 350 turbo transmission. One of my sisters drove it for a while once the family got a station wagon. Tony

 

Motel on wheels,..

 

Given a car? GIVEN a car? I had to work to buy my own car, (and it was a real POS!) but was allowed on my parents' insurance., until I was 18 and in the U.S Navy. I got my first RELATIVELY new car (Only two years old, from my sister. 1975 Chevy Monza Town Coupe. Vega 140 engine, 1 barrel, three speed manual. Took FOREVER to even get up to 55 (The NATIONAL speed limit. ).

 

No Beige Betty's here, I guess you could call them the Betty White's . lol
My first car was a 63 Corvair Spider , it was given to me by a neighbor, had a blown up trans. I replaced it and drove it for years. Had like 4 Corvairs after that.

 

State Farm is trying to play "catch" up to the other insurance companies with their more developed characters and ad themes. Liberty Mutual with a large flightless bird (and Doug), the Geico lizard, Farmers skits, and of course the Progressive characters.

 

I certainly can relate having an all black(no wood grain) RMW tow car that my wife isn't excited about because it reminds her of a hearse. However this is the best commercial. Hits close to home from my younger and not so younger days. "Wanna go bro?"

 

I wouldnt even waste my time trying to goat some guy in a little econo box into a race. Now a big smoky burn out to totally engulf his car for no real reason other than "cause I can" would be a totally different story.

 

Woooooooooooooooooo! My favorite commercial in years. Laugh every time it comes on.