Thursday, March 5, 2015
Vintage WD-40 Ad From 1964
The members of The Royal Canadian Motorcycle Patrol appreciate the finer things in life. Carefully crafted beer and fine spirits, classic motorcycles and automobiles and WD-40. What shop or garage would be complete without a can of WD-40 sitting on a bench or tucked on a shelf in the corner? Need to free a sticking bolt? Need to de-grease some tools? Need to expel some water from a carb or electrical connection? WD-40 has admirably performed all those tasks and more. That is why The Royal Canadian Motorcycle Patrol would like to salute the manufacturers of WD-40 for jobs well done sir. Please enjoy this classic WD-40 advert from 1964. This is an original ad. We did not make this up.
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http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/wd40ad.asp
ReplyDeleteThis is a fake ad, never existed. Sorry to be a party pooper.
ReplyDeleteWD-40 Company does not believe that the ad that has been making the rounds on the Internet – and is purported to be an actual ad from the 1960s – is real. We first saw this document in late October, and have not been able to verify its existence through our internal records.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, there are several features of the ad that lead us to believe it is not accurate and has been created more recently. First, the paper in the ad appears old and wrinkled, but the type on the ad does not, which indicates the text is probably something that was added to a digital background. Second, we would have likely used WD-40 with a hyphen, which does not appear in the ad. And third, it is highly unlikely that WD-40 Company would have authorized such an ad, even in the 60s when ad standards were less stringent than they are now.
We do have some of our actual historical ads on our website at http://wd40.com/gallery under the Historical USA Ads tab.