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"Cosmic Car Rental" Manuscript
[ca. 1976]. A handwritten advertising pitch by Hoffman for Bundy Rent-a-Wreck on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles, which begins: "If you can keep up with O.J. Simpson or get your rocks off on that sanitized smile behind the airport lobby stand then maybe Hertz or Avis are your security wheels away from home...." A full legal page, plus a few lines on the verso, more than 300 words, signed by Hoffman. Folded, with staple holes in an upper corner and a bit of dust and creasing to the upper margin; very good. Simpson's campaign for Hertz began in 1975; Bundy Rent-a-Wreck is apparently still in business. Hoffman's humorous pitch belies his anti-commercial reputation, but his description of Bundy's business is rife with hippie/yippie values, promoting authenticity, quirkiness and, in the end, cars that run better if you talk to them. [#032291] SOLD

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