In the TV commercial what was significance of Four Aces hotel?

[bitzman]

a fw months ago I saw a TV commercial featuring

Kelly (I already forgot her last name but she became

famous on American Idol) driving the red GT500

It starts in a seedy hotel called the Four Aces

and she walks out and gets into a new GT500 and somewhere along the way

a GT500 from the Sixties comes alongside. It looks like her driving that

only she has different color hair. I was wondering what drove the choice of the Four Aces. Maybe it's a famous hotel used in a famous movie but puzzles me.

[Super Snake]

do you have a link to the commercial

I haven't seen it

Great question

[SLB8SNK]

First place Shelby was laid? Ops sorry... wrong forum...

[ColdwaterHotrod]

a fw months ago I saw a TV commercial featuring

Kelly (I already forgot her last name but she became

famous on American Idol) driving the red GT500

It starts in a seedy hotel called the Four Aces

and she walks out and gets into a new GT500 and somewhere along the way

a GT500 from the Sixties comes alongside. It looks like her driving that

only she has different color hair. I was wondering what drove the choice of the Four Aces. Maybe it's a famous hotel used in a famous movie but puzzles me.

 

The Four Aces is a film set on a public road in the desert north of Los Angeles (Palmdale, CA). It is a lonely desert gas station/cafe/motel, and appears in film, television, and advertising. It is one of a few of these romantic desert gas station oasis type places, sometimes referred to a "Last Chance Caf?s"

 

Warning: this is a very isolated location. If you go choose to go there, make sure your car is in very good running condition, bring drinking water, and don't go alone. Exercise reasonable caution

 

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA6089/

http://www.seeing-stars.com/OC/DesertMotel.shtml

[SLB8SNK]

The Four Aces is a film set on a public road in the desert north of Los Angeles (Palmdale, CA). It is a lonely desert gas station/cafe/motel, and appears in film, television, and advertising. It is one of a few of these romantic desert gas station oasis type places, sometimes referred to a "Last Chance Caf?s"

 

Warning: this is a very isolated location. If you go choose to go there, make sure your car is in very good running condition, bring drinking water, and don't go alone. Exercise reasonable caution

 

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA6089/

http://www.seeing-stars.com/OC/DesertMotel.shtml

Good answer, can I have geographic locations for $500 please...

[HSURB]

First place Shelby was laid? Ops sorry... wrong forum...

 

 

That would have been his first ACE.

 

HSURB

[SLB8SNK]

That would have been his first ACE.

 

HSURB

I think you spelt that wrong, it's two s's!

[DDT]

But seriously;

4 ACES= The best poker hand.........

07 Shelby GT 500 = The best new performance Musle Car????????

[KCMO-GT500]

it was a music video; never a tv ad to my knowledge. do a google seach for kelly clarkson, gt500 and her song "go" and it should come up with a video site; I'm at work and can't get to the you tube sites, etc.

[VNMOUS1]

it was a music video; never a tv ad to my knowledge. do a google seach for kelly clarkson, gt500 and her song "go" and it should come up with a video site; I'm at work and can't get to the you tube sites, etc.

 

It was produced as a "long form" tv spot.

 

bj

[Son of GT]

BTW, Kelly's last name is Clarkson, and indeed the song is called "GO" and it was orginally aired during American Idol about a two years ago now.

 

It's a very catchy tune and I like the video because it's a showcase for the Shelby. Oh jeez, I almost sound like a pimply faced teenager rating a record for Dick Clark on American Bandstand back in the sixties.

 

Hey! Maybe we should detour the birthday caravan over to the Four Aces on the way to LV in January.

[aobrien]

Cool Video, I like that fact that it shows heritage. Thanks for posting.

[mciarochi]

Did you check out the driving gloves?

 

Did you check out the matching driving shoes?

[SLB8SNK]

I do recall this come to thing of it, as a short Ford commercial. I like the video.... pretty cool how they got both cars!

[egm253]

Thanks for posting the link. I've never seen that.

[YZD263]

Cool video. I saw it a few months back on youtube but did not realize this was actually used as a Ford commercial. The only ad I have ever seen on tv for the GT500 is the autobahn commercial.

[joshua484]

That was cool, thanks for posting!

[SVT-GT500]

That's neat.

[aobrien]

That a great quote " No, I couldn't find a speed limit I liked in America"

[ColdwaterHotrod]

That only applies to Performance White cars with Vista Blue stripes because

they are the FASTEST!

 

the rest of you can drive your cars here because they are slower

[ColdwaterHotrod]

come on up you'll love racing in the SNOW!

['69fstbk/'07gt500]

 

 

I love that commercial.....

[JRGT500]

The only ad I have ever seen on tv for the GT500 is the autobahn commercial.

 

As I understand it, the 'autobahn' commercial was filmed in British Columbia. The dock scene is in Vancouver and the 'autobahn' is actually B.C. Highway 19 to Duke Point just outside Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. I read a piece somehere about the actor who played the owner of the car. He said he was working in LA and suddenly was called away to Canada to do this commercial. If all this is true, they did a fantastic job of production. If you slow down the commercial and watch it frame by frame, even the highway signs are in German. Anybody know anything about this for sure?

 

The 2005 Mustang Steve McQueen/Cornfield commercial was also filmed in B.C. just 15 miles east of where I live. They actually cut a swath thru a cornfield and paved it. When they were finished they ripped it all up, trucked it away and restored the field. The guy who played Steve McQueen standing on the road is a local actor who is a mirror image of McQueen. The image in the Mustang was actually a digitized image of the real Steve McQueen.

 

These 2 commercials are classics.

JR

[Alloy Dave]

The Four Aces is a film set on a public road in the desert north of Los Angeles (Palmdale, CA). It is a lonely desert gas station/cafe/motel, and appears in film, television, and advertising. It is one of a few of these romantic desert gas station oasis type places, sometimes referred to a "Last Chance Caf?s"

 

Warning: this is a very isolated location. If you go choose to go there, make sure your car is in very good running condition, bring drinking water, and don't go alone. Exercise reasonable caution

 

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA6089/

http://www.seeing-stars.com/OC/DesertMotel.shtml

Thanks for the factoid , but I don't see anything romantic about a gas station in the desert.

 

Edit: No Bill, a factoid is NOT a cross between a fact and a hemerrhoid.

[Alloy Dave]

Good answer, can I have geographic locations for $500 please...

 

 

Joker, Joker, Joker

[Alloy Dave]

That would have been his first ACE.

 

HSURB

Depends on whether it was Rosie O'Donnel or Heather Locklear.

[Joe G]

This one is good also...

 

 

That commercial is FAKE!

 

That car had NO wheelhop!

[svtkeith]

Thanks for the factoid , but I don't see anything romantic about a gas station in the desert.

 

Edit: No Bill, a factoid is NOT a cross between a fact and a hemerrhoid.

 

 

[rpretzel]

That commercial is FAKE!

 

That car had NO wheelhop!

 

I think you may be incorrect. If you pause the video at about 21 seconds, you will see some pretty extensive inconsistency in the skid marks. Looks like there was quite a bit of wheel hop.

[Joe G]

I think you may be incorrect. If you pause the video at about 21 seconds, you will see some pretty extensive inconsistency in the skid marks. Looks like there was quite a bit of wheel hop.

Upon further review, you are correct. I was going by the last burnout shot...