Speaking of ’80s Honda Elite pitchmen, Adam Ant was arrested and committed to a psychiatric hospital this week. Does anyone out there have a copy of his Honda Ad? Listen to Dirk Wears White Sox and hope for a speedy recovery!
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Didn’t Miles Davis & Lou Reed also ‘shoot’ Honda
scooter ads after frying their brains on heroin?
I say “stay away from burnig Plastic.”
As far as I know;
Lou Reed
Adam Ant
Grace Jones
Jim McMahon
Devo
Miles Davis
all did Honda ads. I remember TV commercials, one featuring Lou Reed (was Miles with him, maybe?) and one with Grace Jones and Adam Ant together, where Grace bit Adam’s neck and it stretched out uncomfortably far. I remember my girlfriend in college had a poster of the Adam Ant print ad (several years after it came out). I’ve seen the Devo one on a Devo video, and I didn’t know about the Jim McMahon one until Chad sent it.
Does anyone know of any others?
I was too young to drive then, but all the cooler, older kids in my neighborhood had Tomos and Puch mopeds, and nothing would have been cooler than a Honda Elite. Laugh if you want, but that campaign sold a lot of scooters, and had a lot to do with Piaggio leaving the US market.