Chevy cuts nuclear bomb from Silverado ad

Jalopnik previewed Campbell-Ewald’s upcoming campaign for the Chevy Silverado this week, and saw some interesting imagery in it. Using the tagline “Our country, our truck,” the launch spot featured a new John Mellencamp song played over images of America in the past half century: shots of Vietnam, the towers of light from the World Trade Center site, dirty hippies, etc.—and a mushroom cloud, with kids cowering under their desks. Jalopnik received cleaned-up versions of the ad later in the week, with the mushroom cloud and the 9/11 imagery cut out.