This seemed like a good idea to at least 2 people... the accordion player, and the record company producer (until he went out of business trying to sell this garbage)

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!&p=84793615&viewfull=1#post84793615

in 1954 Kaiser put out an LP to radio stations with the commercials on it to play on

http://www.urbanarcheologist.net/2019/04/for-record-you-really-should-be-careful.html

I wonder if there is a good story / reason why they used this car for their album cover photo, album was produced in 1967-68

Steve foud out pdq. 

According to Revolvy, "The cover is styled after one of the promotional photographs for the movie Bonnie and Clyde that showed the gang holding machine guns." Well, the movie Bonnie and Clyde premiered in LA the same month that the Peter, Paul and Mary album came out and the soundtrack cover was this:

Both albums and the movie were produced by Warner Brothers

Oh, and according to http://www.popspotsnyc.com/forthcoming_new_york/ the cover for PPM's Album 1700 was shot at 70 Bedford Street between Commerce Street and Morton Street, New York:

https://www.discogs.com/Peter-Paul-And-Mary-Album-1700/release/1433047

as with most photo shoots, more than one photo was taken then, and this other was used on the "Best Of" album cover
 https://recordsale.de/en/artists/peter-paul-mary/albums/the-best-of-peter-paul-and-mary

Car companies and dealerships used to appeal to consumers with music.. whatever happened to that?

Florence Henderson signing "Oldsmobility" Ridin on the Range and "Gotta get a Car"

both Ford and Chevy went with famous celebs of the day... and sent these to the public at large http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/

This one I photographed at a local car show

Minnie Pearl, a semi truck, and a motorcycle cop... country and western was getting crazy in the late 60's!

found on http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com

The Challenger message board is talking about memorabilia, here's some cool stuff that's been shared

check it out and add to it at http://challenger.mpoli.fi/board/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7281&sid=49ad4709f4ed284407d8776b6bb376ec

The LP that will get the record player out of the deep depths of the storage garage, Carroll Shelby, The Career of a Great American Racing Driver

Here is an odd coincidence.... I found these two images minutes apart from each other, of the same one of a kind custom show car

The full car photo was taken at the 19th Annual Autorama at Cobo Hall

above photo via http://chromjuwelen.tumblr.com/
below image of the record via: http://flaviendachet.blogspot.com/

http://www.mostuffsthlm.com/Msidan/Mostuffsthlm/Nyheter/Poster/2012/10/5_Lite_Reklam!.html

Great advertising photo of the optional record player in a 1950's car

Via: http://thisisnthappiness.com/

Did you know Ed Roth made a record or two? Rods and Ratfinks was the album

The song Ed sang was "Rods and Ratfinks"- under the name Mr. Gasser and The Weirdos

They weren't really Gary Usher projects, but he did sing background vocals and the music was by Hal Blaine, Jerry Cole & Peter and Bob Klimes, produced by Jim Economides. There is a double CD that came out in 1995 on One Way Records that collects them all. INFO via: http://bomplist.xnet2.com/0007/msg01499.html

http://jukebox.au.nu/instromania/miscellaneous/hot_rod/mr._gasser_the_weirdos_1963_hot_rod_hootenanny/

Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos: The Rat Fink Collection LP Releases:

Hot Rod Hootenanny - Capitol ST-2010 [LP] (1963);
Rods and Ratfinks - Capitol ST-2057 [LP] (1964);
Surfink! - Capitol ST-2114 [LP] (1964);

CD Release: One-Way Records 18319 [CD]; Released May 30, 1995
Disc: 1
1. Hot Rod Hootenanny
2. Fastest Shift Alive
3. You Ain't Nothing But A Honda
4. Mr. Gasser
5. Mad'Vette
6. Termites In My Woody
7. Eefen It Don't Go Chrome It
8. 1320
9. Weirdo Wiggle
10.Dragnutz11. Chopped Mash
12. My Coupe Eefen Talks
13. Three Kats In A Tub
14. T.J.T.
15. Hey, Ratfink
16. 1947 Avanti
17. Cherry-Top Charlie
18. Lonely Stocker

Disc: 2 1. Ballad Of Eefin Fink 2. Cool, Cool Rod 3. Hearse With A Curse 4. Waltz Of The Ratfinks 5. Fink Rod 409 6. Surfink 7. Well, I'm Goin' 8. Surfer Ghoul 9. Doin' The Surfink 10. Little Fink Surfs Again 11. Ratfink High 12. Phantom Surfer 13. There's A Dog-Gone Ding In My Ding-Dong Board 14. Big Bad Surfink 15. Surfink Blues 16. Finksville U.S.A. 17. Santa Barbara 18. Midnight Run

In 1964, Gary Usher left producing the studio bands that had gained him notoriety and jumped on the commercial bandwagon with this triple-LP collection of songs which were tied into the creations of illustrator Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, whose warped characters were all the rage during the mid-1960s, gracing decals, posters, t-shirts, and eventually were made into a very popular series of plastic models. In the best traditions of corporate greed, it was decided to expand the characters into the music market, and this trio of albums was quickly made, and Gary Usher, Columbia Records local hod-rod music impresario, was tapped to help write, produce, and sing on these hot-rod themed platters. While not breaking any new ground musically, the albums definitely have a sense of fun, with the first album Hod Rod Hootenanny sporting a redneck aura and songs like "Termites in My Woody" and "Eefen It Don't Go, Chrome It" which have a sly humor tied to groovy surf 'n' drag music which ranks among the best of the era. Unfortunately, the albums themselves have no information on who sings or plays on these tracks. The songs are generally bright invocations of car worship, with the unique addition of prominent female vocalists in the backing vocals. "Cool, Cool Rod" which is about a supercharged ice-cream truck, the frenetic instrumental "Surfink," the very funny Beach Boys parody "Surfer Ghoul" and the rocking "Ratfink High." One-Way Records released all three LPs on a double CD set in 1995, which has since gone out of print, and is ridiculously over-priced, but unlike the later "Big Daddy" Roth tie-ins below, this set is actually worth checking out.

first image found on http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com

(from the late 60's, before 1000 channels of cable, unlimited interent, and ipods) Enjoying auto racing on vinyl records

and of course http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/records-are-obsolete-now-but-in-50s-and.html for a couple full color ones and Roth's http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/did-you-know-ed-roth-made-record-or-two.html

Hot Rod magazine tried to get into the music business in 1952

The guy holding the sheet music at the top of this.. is Scatman Cruthers. That is cool!
The top article explains it