By Jim Brennan
Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post, returning from an extended vacation through the holidays. This is a series of postings that are set to go off at this time almost every Tuesday, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising or brochures, and it is your job to provide a humorous, snarky, or thought provoking caption that is some how tied in with the image. Let’s see you try and come up with a clever caption for this week, and if you haven’t participated, isn’t it time for you to do so?
Last time, we had an image of a Woman flagging down a ride with a Broken Shoe, and we received the highest number of comments ever for this series (Well done!). One of our longtime fans, $kaycog, actually came close to winning the contest this time with this great caption: “Out of gas, Boris? You’re such a heel to make me walk to the gas pumps. What a soulless loafer you are.” Of course, this lead to a series of puns, and was one of the most entertaining series of banter ever. Way to go $kaycog!
However, our old friend Alff came up with the winning caption this time, with this great comment: “A woman waving her shoe at a Skoda. One is reliable communist transportation technology … the other is a Skoda.” Congratulations Alff on coming up with another brilliant caption.
It’s now time to take a look at this weeks illustration. This is an advertising image for the 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Coupe, with a rather handsome woman tossing her hat onto… well, you know it’s the 1960s, since this particular piece of lawn art isn’t around anymore. This is a great period piece of advertising, since the Corvette is always thought of as a Man’s car. Obviously, this is a woman of means, either by her own making, or by marriage. So, is this really a good image to sell a Corvette? (You can click here to see the full size image)
You have the next five days to come up with a great caption. The editors will deliberate entries, and after having the Mrs. abscond with our sports car, we will pronounce a winner. So, get to work and create you’re own caption for this intriguing image.
Photo Credit: The Old Car Manual Project
Kamil Kaluski 
Robby DeGraff
You dumb broad, that's obviously not my hat!
Mrs. Benny got sick of Jack's penny pinching and took him for a ride in the divorce even going so far to take half of Rochester with her.
Lady, I'd be showing you a different finger if I wasn't made out of stone.
Yay, Alff! Here's a Skoda for you. I hope you like red!
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Image: flickr – tatraskoda
Thanks! I like a little junk in the trunk.
<img src="http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2008Hildene_8064_resized.jpg"> Congrats Alff! So you like Czech junk in the truck, okey-dokie and here's some reliable communist transportation for your garage while I'm at it. <img src="http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/diypolishtractors_resized.jpg">
That is some very pretty junk!
The followup to "Lars and the Real Girl" didn't get very far into production.
awesome movie!
Here Shinoda, hold my hat. I can't see anything trying to back up with this big bar in the middle of the window. These cars will never catch on.
I saw this old witch driving a Sting Ray, and told her such a powerful car was probably too much for her.
She turned me into a lawn statue, and all they found was my hat.
All I can think of is Randy Newman's song "You Can Keep Your Hat On'.
"Ma'am, he's letting you drive his Vette? That's the last straw…………………..hat."
Are you trying to top last week's pun thread and be the toque of the blog again? This topic could be a bit of a challenge, but I'll try to bowler you over anyway…
Pith helmet.
I must confez, this would be a hard one.
You guys are fedorable. Don't beret me for this, but I love these pun threads.
No one can Top that.
Indeed. Excuse me while I scarf down a sandwich and a bowler of soup.
Would you like a pork pie with that?
Excellent! That's using the old beanie.
Apparently you missed the advisory that the puns detract from the point of this contest.
Very well, herr Capotain. No more puns, apparently you're quite fez'd up with them. Mitre I ask why, though?
The author didn't put a lid on the pun threads. He said that it gave him ten gallon of happiness.
I feel as though I am brimming with things to say here. Maybe we need to kippah a limit on the puns though?
There is no reason to limit it to three points or something.
Its a big hat. Its funny.
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No bee in my bonnet. I just prefer a more sombrero tone to the posts.
You make me tiara up in shame. I'll try to put a cap on it.
Kepi your head up. Don't let him brow beat you, this is turbaning out to be a great thread.
I'm getting a headache. I'll just reach into my pillbox for an aspirin.
Is the headache from the thread, or did you have a few too many nightcaps yesterday?
I think the reason might reveil too much.
The statute of limitations on her stealing the car had just ended when this shot was taken.
The statue of limitations on her stealing the car had just ended when this shot was taken.
FTFY! 😀
Yeah that was what I was going for but I was hoping people would read between the lines 🙂
Judy's increasingly extreme attempts to prevent her husband from driving their new Corvette would soon draw the suspicion of her neighbors.
Turns out this made sense only to me (and actively annoyed someone else). It was trying to play off the tagline and for some reason I thought about her turning her husband into a statue…
Alright it doesn't even make sense to me anymore, I'll cop to that.
A candid shot from outside the Romney residence in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan circa 1963.
But wouldn't they be driving a Marlin or an Ambassador?
This was during his rebellious youth.
As she discarded the last piece of evidence while driving away from the Men's Club, Joanna knew that she would no longer be called a Stepford wife.
Nicely played.
Introducing the 1963 Stingray … for the street racist in all of us.
Mo sooner, mo betta.
In all fairness, "lawn jockeys" such as the one shown here did not start out as racist symbols but as a way for underground railroad houses to signal that it was safe to enter. This article does a nice write up. http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/question…
That said the connotation definitely works in this pic so your caption earned an up vote from me!
Interesting, I did not know that. I would venture that those who display them today (yes, I still see them from time to time) are probably unaware of their history as well.
The last one I saw had been repainted Caucasian, but even that was the early eighties.
Some of the cranky old timers in my last neighborhood had them in the late nineties, and there's a house a few miles away that still has one. Leaves me shaking my head.
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And this wasn't the only hat trick Cecilia found she could do with her new Corvette. I'd like to tell you about them, but those stories are all blue.
After tossing his hat outside and checking his makeup in the mirror, Lou's costume was complete and he rolled off to the local 1/4 mile track to teach those doubters the real meaning of 'drag queen'.
I thought I'd destroyed the last of those negatives…
But, when I say I'm in the pink, I'm talking slips.
Good thing that I'm a rich woman with a Corvette in 1963, because racial sensitivity means nothing to me.
By honey, hope you have a good trip. Tell your mother sorry I couldn't make it this time…oh don't forget your hat.
Gwyneth was the life of the Grosse Pointe Junior League. Her Magical Levitating Hat trick, for example, was just superb.
Wax on, hat off!
Before bra burning became popular amongst the women's lib activists, throwing hats at lawn jockeys was briefly considered.
Autocrosses at the Birmingham Country club were a little different. Hitting the cast iron lawn jockey did a lot more than just add two seconds to your time. But if you could retrieve the hat your time was reduced by 10 seconds.
"It's a footman's car"
You have to love the models of those cars back in the day. The post cards are classic and the print-ads for those are going early in auctions.
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