OTHER NEWS - Dec. 14, 1991
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Goodyear Changing Color of Blimps: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s silver-colored fleet of blimps will be redone in Goodyear’s corporate colors of yellow and blue, Chairman Stanley Gault said. The basic silver look of the blimps has been largely unchanged since the post-World War II era when Goodyear was satisfying military specifications in the building of Navy blimps, spokesman John Perduyn said. The new blimp look is part of the company’s heightened marketing efforts and will debut on network television Feb. 16 when the Spirit of Akron appears above the Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Some silver will remain on the blimps, Perduyn said.
