Enjoy this old-timey stop-motion film about a bird that likes to devour car parts

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This is how Auto-Zone started, I’m sure of it.

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Aw, geez. That last line completely dashed my hopes of transporting a car overseas via emotional support chicken on an airplane. :pensive:

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An impressive short regardless of when it was made.

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The bird almost looks more realistic than the human.

You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don’t stop, you keep on eatin’ cars
Then, when there’s no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet

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Beat me to it!

And it was done a good 6 decades before Terminator 2. Suddenly I’m less impressed by James Cameron’s special effects.

This is only the last 3 min. of a 15 min. short featuring the comic and filmmaker Charley Bowers. Here’s the whole thing -

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music video 80s GIF by Apple Music

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