Avis Car Rental, 1960s-1970s
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| - | And there on the same aircraft was Faversham, | 0:02 |
| out to get the same American contracts I was after. | 0:04 | |
| Time was of the essence. | 0:07 | |
| But I have discovered a super new way to travel | 0:09 | |
| called Fly Avis Nonstop. | 0:11 | |
| - | Avis the rent-a-car people? | 0:13 |
| - | Right, you see before boarding, | 0:14 |
| I stopped at the Avis counter | 0:16 | |
| where they filled in my Fly Avis rental form, | 0:17 | |
| and I was off. | 0:19 | |
| - | What? | 0:20 |
| - | Now, here is the aircraft. | 0:21 |
| - | You mean a flying machine? | 0:22 |
| - | Here is the Avis counter. | 0:23 |
| Here is the Avis parking area, | 0:25 | |
| and here is yours truly. | 0:27 | |
| (men laughing) | 0:30 | |
| Now, upon landing, | 0:31 | |
| I went directly from the aircraft, | 0:32 | |
| past the Avis counter, | 0:34 | |
| to the parking area | 0:35 | |
| where the Avis Agent escorted me to my marvelous new Dodge, | 0:36 | |
| and I was off in the flash, | 0:39 | |
| leaving Faversham still at his rental car counter. | 0:40 | |
| - | Oh, clever, clever. | 0:43 |
| - | By the time | |
| he got (indistinct), | 0:45 | |
| I was already lunching with the president, | 0:46 | |
| contract signed. | 0:48 | |
| - | Well done. | 0:49 |
| - | Thank you. | |
| But do you know | 0:50 | |
| that Americans still drive on the wrong side of the road? | 0:51 | |
| - | Dear, dear. | 0:54 |
| - | Do they? | |
| Narrator | Fly Avis Nonstop | 0:56 |
| between Logan and LaGuardia in New York, | 0:57 | |
| and National in Washington. | 0:59 |
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