Red/Blue car

[Heather74]

The red car and the Blue car had a race, what was it an advert for? tunes been driving me mad for weeks??

[sixtyten]

CoCo Pops??:confused::confused::confused:

[Heather74]

Nah dont think so that doesn't sound right :( Will have to check :)

[sixtyten]

Milky Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXJL2hL6kI

[Heather74]

Thats the one :) Cheers Daz. I could only ever remember the first few lines.

[Cal]

and all red wanted to do was stuff his face ......aparently!!:D

[davidthomas27]

From an old issue of Look-in:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w309/huggie74/MilkyWayAdvert1DYR.jpghttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w309/huggie74/MilkyWayAdvert2DYR.jpg

[Heather74]

:cool:, thanks.:)

[Woffski]

I know its a little late but i havent had lots of time to surf...but

i remember these lyrics :-

The red car and the blue car had a race
And all red wanted to do was stuff his face,
He eats everything he sees, from trucks to prickly trees
But good old blue he took the Milky Way !


Probably a little mixed up but the lyrics went something like that :-)

Woff

[davidthomas27]

And from the Christmas 1991 issue:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh151/david5_2008/MilkyWaycomplow.jpg

[barnsleyjon]

i had the whole song on cassette single back in '92. one side had the milky way song the other had some christmassy version with altered words about wanting to get home for christmas day

[matt]

Hi guys,

Don't know if anyone has seen this also but I was just watching ITV and during the ad break they showed the brilliant "Red Car & Blue Car":eek:. See YouTube - Milky Way - Anim - Red Car & Blue Car - 1989 - UK Advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9nkpVHzrY) if you cannot remember this.

They really don't make TV like they used to...this one will always be a favourite.

All the best,

Matt

[Richard1978]

I saved up those tokens for a gift voucher, but didn't spend it before it expired.

[glam_racket]

Hi all, I'm new here!

In the reissued Red Car/Blue Car ad, they've changed the lyrics, the original song reminding us eager consumers that it did not 'ruin your appetite' now tells us that it 'tastes just right'.

I prefered the original.

Can't they leave well enough alone?

[Kiop]

Makes me wonder why they 'dug up' this advert and started reusing it again. Don't get me wrong, it's great to see it back on our screens again, but it seems odd practice.

Hoping they 'dig up' some other golden oldies soon :). Anybody remember the Quosh alien?

[jimbo100]

LOL Ive just dug deep into my 45s and dug out the single what a crazy tune. I think it reached just the top 50 though should have got higher :p

[Palazzo]

Haha I saw this advert pop up on ITV the other night, it really took me back to when I was younger. I didn't realise they had changed the lyrics either, well spotted glam_racket and I agree, they should leave these things well alone!

[matt]

Only saw the very end of the ad...didn't realise they had changed the lyrics...the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" leaps to mind.

Matt

[danbakuk]

This advert is back on tv - i have seen it twice this week on Living!

[NostalgiaFreak]

Yeah I was surprised to see this advert a few days ago. The last time I saw it was way back in about 1989 or something.

It does look new though for some reason, so I don't know if it's the exact same advert being re-shown or whether it's the same advert but re-made.

[Morcar]

Yeah I was surprised to see this advert a few days ago. The last time I saw it was way back in about 1989 or something.

It does look new though for some reason, so I don't know if it's the exact same advert being re-shown or whether it's the same advert but re-made.


I think it's the same one but they have changed the lyrics a bit.

If I remember the original said '-cause he knows it won't spoil his apitite'
and the new one says something like "-cause he knows that it will taste just right'

Has there been a revelation that Milky Ways will spoil you appitite after all these years of us believing I cold eat as many of them as I like? :mad::mad:

[zofo1961]

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that ad is brill about the two cars, its werid back on our screens again, then you wont see it again for ages, what decade was it first shown? anyone know?:)

[Richard1978]

We mentioned this a few weeks ago, I remember saving the tie-in tokens up in the summer of 1990.

[eddie m]

It was for Milky Bar Chocolate i am sure - one of the cars took the wrong road and the other took the "Milky Way"

[steve242526]

Am i right in thinking they also changed the lyrics from 'but smarter blue he took the milky way' to 'but good old blue he took the milky way' ? Because it bugs me when you get the original lyrics in your head for so many years just for them to change it for no reason what so ever !

[big kid]

when i first saw that this advert had come back on t.v. i was grinning from ear to ear. the grin soon faded when i realised the part where red falls through the broken road was missing from it. :mad: