
1970 Chevrolet Impala
Robert De Niro was cruising the Boroughs of New York City long before he played a mentally ill cabbie in the 1976 Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver–six years before, to be exact. Taxi Driver hit theaters in 1976. De Niro, however, shows off an AMC Ambassador in this forgotten ad from way back in 1970.
Unlike Travis Bickle, the cab driver with an urge to “do something bad,” Ambassador-driving De Niro is, we learn from the commercial, a newly minted CPA.
Watch the ad below–it’s pretty great:
Amassed here are ten more ads from 1970, though these are of the print variety. For more classic-ad fun, click here for a collection of ads from every model year beginning with 1956.
AMC

1970 AMC AMX Ad
Buick

1970 Buick Ad
Chevrolet

1970 Chevrolet Impala Ad
Imperial

1970 Imperial Ad
Dodge

1970 Dodge Challenger Ad
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Ford

1970 Ford Torino Cobra Ad
Jaguar

1970 Jaguar XKE Ad
Mercury

1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator Ad
Oldsmobile

1970 Oldsmobile 4.4.2 Ad
Toyota

1970 Toyota Corona Ad
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