{"id":492001,"date":"2011-09-01T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=32728"},"modified":"2024-09-07T00:47:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:47:52","slug":"1955-fiat-8v-vignale-mille-miglia-000066","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1955-fiat-8v-vignale-mille-miglia-000066\/","title":{"rendered":"1955 Fiat 8V Vignale \u201cMille Miglia\u201d\u2008#000066"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1955 Fiat 8V Vignale<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWow, I could have had an 8V!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to promote its brand-new sports car with that mostly familiar slogan? Had Fiat done that, is there any doubt that thousands of units would have been sold? Instead, in 1975 Campbell\u2019s hired the soon-to-be-President to hawk their slurry of vegetables (replete with tomatoes, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress and spinach) that some came to regard as potable fluid. Campbell\u2019s sold millions of their aluminum-housed beverage, and Fiat sold less than 120 examples. Which begs the question: Is there any accounting for taste?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Instead, in 1975 Campbell\u2019s hired the soon-to-be-President to hawk their slurry of vegetables (replete with tomatoes, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress and spinach) that some came to regard as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":650704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1590,17177],"tags":[17178,1591,17189,21708],"class_list":["post-492001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiat","category-chassis-histories","tag-chassis-histories","tag-fiat","tag-fiat-chassis-histories","tag-fiat-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1955 Fiat 8V Vignale \u201cMille Miglia\u201d\u2008#000066<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1955 Fiat 8V Vignale \u201cMille 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