Keep your eye on the D-500 . . . IT’S A REAL BOMB! (Sep, 1956)
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1956
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Keep your eye on the D-500 . . . IT’S A REAL BOMB!
These days, more and more of you guys who know and love cars are “talking up” the fabulous Dodge D-500. And no wonder! This D-500 is a real bomb!In official NASCAR acceleration tests at Daytona Beach, the Dodge D-500 licked all cars—regardless of size, price or horsepower.
This D-500 gets out of the chute like a jackrabbit. Hugs the road like a dirt track special. Hits the turns without any squeal. Handles like a gem.
Though it performs like an expensive custom job, this D-500 is actually the slickest-looking production car to come up Main Street. Under the hood is a 260 hp. mill rarin’ to go (with big 12-inch center-plane brakes to stop it)!
You can buy a D-500 at any Dodge dealership in the country in any body style you like. (Costs only slightly more than $100.00 over standard models.) And it needs only regular Dodge service to keep it in razor-sharp condition.
So get behind the wheel and drive a D-500 today. See your Dodge dealer.
Dodge D-500
AMERICA’S ACCELERATION CHAMPION
No wonder for years the CHP used Chrysler cars during the ’50’s and 60’s as patrol vehicles.
Now it is the Dodge Viper.
Comment by KD5ZS — January 21, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
That bomb word is a fine example, how the meaning of the words changes during the ages. I mean I wouldn’t buy a car described as a bomb.
Comment by Jari — January 22, 2010 @ 6:11 pm
Jari, How about “bad” or “sick”? Tha’s one BAD car you got there; the speed it goes is SICK! (It took me a while to figure out “sick” was a compliment on the Scion xB list I hang out on once in a while . . . . )
Comment by Don — January 22, 2010 @ 8:56 pm
Or drive such a car to an airport– tsa would have a fit!
Comment by KD5ZS — January 23, 2010 @ 3:49 pm
KD5ZS: Only if you try to drive it through the checkpoint?
Comment by Firebrand38 — January 23, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
Don: Exactly. I can’t imagine anyone saying “My GTLX-Turbo-VSOP gets out of the chute like a jackrabbit” in these days
Comment by Jari — January 23, 2010 @ 6:24 pm
Anyway, it seems that when this ad was made it was a common enough term that evolved over time.
Hot Rod Model A’s in the fifties picked up the moniker of “A-bomb” and the rest is history.
1952 Popular Science
1957 Life magazine
1963 American Motorcyclist (yeah, motorcycles)
2004 Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary
Comment by Firebrand38 — January 23, 2010 @ 6:50 pm
Okay, so that’s the origin of the expression. Thanks.
Hmm… I think I need to swith to Firefox, as Googlebooks doesn’t seem to work properly with Opera…
Comment by Jari — January 23, 2010 @ 7:45 pm
Then they detonated the real mccoy at bikini atoll providing inspiration for that bathing suit….
Comment by KD5ZS — January 24, 2010 @ 11:14 pm
KD5ZS: Nope, sorry. Operation Crossroads at the atoll (which inspired the bikini name) took place in 1946 but thanks for playing.
Comment by Firebrand38 — January 24, 2010 @ 11:35 pm