Goodbye Ricardo Montalban....

[trapin]

He's off to the big Cordoba in the sky.

....lets just hope the seats are soft Corinthian leather.

vIL3fbGbU2o

[icebird84]

RIP Khan aka Ricardo Montalban
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/01/ricardomontalban9-1.jpg

[vanzuuk1]

Hey I had a proturing cordoba and magnum...godspeed ricardo.

[vanzuuk1]

Holy crap that ad was funny..."the small chrysler"...

[vanzuuk1]

"at a most pleasant price"..."I have what I need"

[JEFFTATE]

All the classy people are passing away.
He was soooo cool.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/01/2hn40tw-1.gif

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/01/kahn-1.gif

[Damn True]

How cool would it be if the coffin were lined with "Rich Corinthian Leather"?

[mdprovee]

Bye Ricardo, and bye Fantasy Island. RIP

[dropit69]

RIP ..you was one of the good guys !!

[Roger M]

RIP Mr. Roarke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqREPgEtsYQ

[mpozzi]

Okay guys ... I need to know if it was "RICH Corinthian leather" or "FINE Corinthian leather?" I remember it as being "fine" but I think my memory isn't what it used to be as everyone else thinks it was "rich."

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

[dhutton]

Okay guys ... I need to know if it was "RICH Corinthian leather" or "FINE Corinthian leather?" I remember it as being "fine" but I think my memory isn't what it used to be as everyone else thinks it was "rich."

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

It was rich as I remember it.

[vanzuuk1]

watch the video... SOFT...

[maldo]

awww he will be missed

[thedugan]

Great line in a movie
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"

[icebird84]

Great line in a movie
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"
indeed
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[Mr.VENGEANCE]

so exciting!

[bigvegan]

I thought it was rich too, but apparently the phrase is "Soft Corinthian leather"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_leather

Corinthian leather was a phrase invented for marketing use to describe the leather used in certain Chrysler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler) luxury cars in the 1970s. In this case, "Corinthian" does not actually indicate any relationship with Corinth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth), nor any specific type of leather and was added simply as a linguistic cachet.
The first use of this term was to describe the leather in the 1974 Chrysler Imperial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Imperial), but the best known use of this term is from the advertising campaign for the 1976 Chrysler Cordoba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Cordoba), featuring celebrity spokesman Ricardo Montalbán (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Montalb%C3%A1n).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_leather#cite_note-sevenload-0)
Although many misquote Montalbán as saying "rich Corinthian leather" or "fine Corinthian leather" in the commercial, he actually says that "soft Corinthian leather" is an available upholstery option for the car.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_leather#cite_note-sevenload-0)
Corinthian leather is a marketing term that does not actually indicate any particular type of leather. Montalbán confirmed this during an interview with David Letterman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman)[when? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29# Chronological_items)], admitting that Corinthian leather means "nothing." According to one reference[who? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words)], Chrysler's "Corinthian" leather was mass produced in a plant in Newark, New Jersey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey).

[mpozzi]

Hey John,

We're BOTH wrong ...

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi