Car In Billboard - Cool City Scene

[chutton01]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bluepuma

Just remembered a cool scene from 50's - 60's - in Los Angeles, near McArthur Park, there was on the south side a 2 story or so building with a sign on top, which contained a REAL CAR in a billboard frame cutout box, the wheels rested on a angled platform, rear high compared to front, the rear of the box was closed with background. The car was a Cadillac I believe, can nearly see a '56/'57 there. The road along that end I think goes on crosstown to the Miracle Mile. Wondered how they got the car up there, hoisted with a crane, it could be seen good across the open space, impressinve. Make quite a model.

Actually using cars as signs is common (and mounted on signposts as opposed to just being painted with advertising), I can think of several instances on Long Island, the first one I remember (decades ago) being a Volkswagon Beetle (in rather poor shape - I think they stripped the lights and windows out) mounted on two steel columns (about 10' tall) in front of a body shop - the body and paint were in good shape, of course).
Since then I have seen billboards with actual cars mounted on the billboard (as if climbing the billboard), and of course I can't find an image of that on google (I think another billboard had the actual wreck of a car involved in a DUI accident where an entire family was killed - there are mentions of this everywhere on the web).
One oddity seen by hundreds of thousands of LIRR commuters passing through Jamaica station is, perched on the roof of containers in the yard of a Fence Installer to the West of Staples, a late 20s woody station wagon, in pretty good looking shape - not entirely sure if there is an advertising angle, but it's been there for years now and still catches my eye...

[bluepuma]

Just remembered a cool scene from 50's - 60's - in Los Angeles, near McArthur Park, there was on the south side a 2 story or so building with a sign on top, which contained a REAL CAR in a billboard frame cutout box, the wheels rested on a angled platform, rear high compared to front, the rear of the box was closed with background. The car was a Cadillac I believe, can nearly see a '56/'57 there. The road along that end I think goes on crosstown to the Miracle Mile. Wondered how they got the car up there, hoisted with a crane, it could be seen good across the open space, impressinve. Make quite a model.

Was thinking of cars on a turntable in a dealer or out front, rotating.

Jeeps or trucks on a inclinded ramp in front of a dealer.

Got to be other cities with things like that or other outstanding scenes.

Hooverphonic was named as my favorite band, but no train songs, but an interesting variation of a Henry Mancini tune in the song No More Sweet Music on a new dual CD set of the same name. Lujon is (I think) the original tune from 65 or so on a Latin music album.