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Make Money- Customize Cars, Vans, Cycles, Buggies: Inside & Out! Learn How & It's FREE!!!!!

Another vintage comic book ad, this one is for the Customizing Center, Newport Beach, California. This 1/2 page ad will be familar to a lot of you comic fans from the 7os. This is from a Marvel book circa 1976. I love the headlines done in van-tastic fonts, some awesome flames, and a cool dude wielding an airbrush! Again, this ad has a lot of text that is impossible to read- all smushed and muddy (especially the bold font- point size 5, maybe- on the pink background). And that photo of the inside customization- I could never tell what the heck it was a photo of !?!?

"We show you how to do everything so easy you can't miss.... fading, fogging, flames, scallops, lace, cob-webbing and other special effects? and it's all Free!"

What's with the 'lace'- are we gonna customize Stevie Nicks party van? And I just want to know who wanted the chariot art that is pictured to the left, eh? Sparticus?

All Free.... Man, what's the catch? I wonder if in the following year, 1977, there was so many new van customizing shops in the country that the business was overran with beginners and the cost to customize your dune buggy was dirt cheap? Was 1977 the year everyone had crappy flames on the cars? I don't remember, I was only 11 years old...

Customizing Center ad, click here to view.