Daily 70s Spot: Aurora ‘Red Dunes – Sand Vans’ Model Race Cars (1972)

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These Sand Vans are so fast even the power supply has a racing stripe! (Aurora 'Red Dunes' model race cars set, 1972)

These Sand Vans are so fast even the power supply has a racing stripe! (Aurora ‘Red Dunes’ model race cars set, 1972)

“Aurora. We’re for real.”

Let’s lay down some track and slot in our Daily 70s Spot. Today we have an Aurora model race cars commercial featuring the groovy ‘Sand Vans’ of the ‘Red Dunes’ set. Spot aired in January of 1972.

Daily 70s Spot #182: Aurora ‘Red Dunes – Sand Vans’ Model Race Cars Commercial, 1972

Previously on Daily 70s Spot: Bird’s Eye Wisconsin Style Vegetables (1975)

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Daily 70s Spot: Aurora ‘Red Dunes – Sand Vans’ Model Race Cars (1972) — 2 Comments

  1. Aw, come on! How about a little truth in adversting? Anyone who had one of these knows that the first thing you did after getting the track set up was to mash down on that trigger as hard as you could to see how fast the cars would go, just to see them fishtail and fly off the track at the first turn.

  2. Yeah, but…their little headlights come on in the dark and…they look cool!