The product is a rare vintage '1980s Maxell windshield sun shade featuring a unique design inspired by Steve Steigman's "Blown Away Guy." This sun shade was bundled with a case of Maxell cassette tapes, and is still in the original plastic wrap and has never been unfolded. Although originally intended for car windshields, this is now collectible art.
The first 2 photos are of this sun shade. The 3rd photo is of a sun shade that I had previously, so you can see what it looks like when unfolded.I found this background information on the web:
In the 1980s, Maxell became an icon of pop culture when it produced advertisements popularly known as “Blown Away Guy” for its line of audio cassettes. The campaign began as a two-page advertising spread in Rolling Stone magazine in 1980. The photo shows a man sitting low in a (Le Corbusier Grand Confort LC2) high armed chair in front of, and facing, a JBL L100 speaker. His hair and necktie, along with the lampshade to the man’s right and the martini glass on the low table to the man’s left, are being blown back by the tremendous sound from speakers in front of him — supposedly due to the audio accuracy of Maxell’s product. The man is shown desperately clinging to the armrests but defiantly looking ahead at the source of the music through sunglasses, though calmly catching his drink before it slides off the end table.The ad campaign was conceived by Art Director Lars Anderson. Steve Steigman was the photographer. Steigman wanted a male model with long hair in order to show the effect of the wind, but when such a model could not be found on the day of the shoot, they used the makeup artist who was hired for the shoot, Jac Colello.
