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Old Sep 11, 2024 | 04:01 PM
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I think that I'm confusing two different commercials. I found the one with the old man and his grandson, and I remember it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...tisement&hl=en
The one that really inspired me to buy a Harley was similar... An old man sitting on a porch by himself, drinking a glass of lemonade(I think). He's reminiscing, out loud, about all the things that he'd done in the past; like wining and dining the girls on the French Riviera. All the while that he's talking, you can hear the distant rumbling of a Harley and it keeps getting closer. In his closing line he says " If there's just one thing I wished I'd have done, is to have bought me that Harley-Davidson". Just then, the Harley roars past with a bone chilling rumble.
I don't know if you're still following the chat, but I've bveen looking for that ad for decades. My recollection is that it was kind of a gruff 60-year oldish Clint Eastwood kind of guy. In a rocking chair. "I've danced with the damsels in Denamrk. I frollicked with the frauleins in Frankfurt." (Something like that.) "But if I had it all to do over again, I'd a got me that Harley-Davidson motorcycle." I thought it was done by Carmichael-Lynch Advertising out of Minneapolis, but they can't find anyone who remembers it. It was done around the same time as the one with the two blind black guys ("Nice Hawley.") and the "Respect" series. Google them.



 
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I've been looking for that one for years! As I recall, it was kind of an old Clint Eastwood-looking character sitting in a rocking chair on he porch of an old country cabin. The audio went something like, "I've danced with the damsels in Denmark. I've frolicked with the frauleins n Frankfurt... But if I had it all to do over, I'd a got me that Harley-
Davidson motorcycle." I think Carmichael Lynch out of Minneapolis was the ad agency, but no one there seems to be able to locate it.
 
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