{"id":16326,"date":"2015-05-21T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/watch-grace-jones-hilarious-safe-work-80s-car-ad\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:45:25","slug":"watch-grace-jones-hilarious-safe-work-80s-car-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/watch-grace-jones-hilarious-safe-work-80s-car-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Grace Jones’ Hilarious, Safe-for-Work ’80s Car Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watch: Grace Jones’ Hilarious, Safe-for-Work ’80s Car Ad<\/h3>\n

\n By Qimmah Saafir<\/span> May 21, 2015<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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In honor of Grace Jones\u2019s 67th birthday earlier this week, the incomparable icon\u2019s vintage Citro\u00ebn CX French car commercial has surfaced. <\/p>\n

According to Shadow and Act<\/a>, the car was available in the United States in the the ’60s but disappeared from the market due to a 1974 saftey ban by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The car landed overseas, and in the mid-80s, Citro\u00ebn partnered with Grace Jones and her beau, the (often<\/a> problematic<\/a>) director\/artist Jean-Paul Goude. The company sought to jumpstart their sales and promote their latest model, the CX GTI, in an avant garde campaign. And no one does avant garde (read: metal eyelids) quite like Jones. <\/p>\n

The ad was reportedly banned in several countries for depicting \u201cexcessive speeding.\u201d <\/p>\n

Watch the full commercial above.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Queen “Pull Up To The Bumper” revved up a campaign for the French Citro\u00ebn CX car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,16412,3344,6145,16415,7453],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}