Godzilla / Dr. Pepper AWESOME TASTE Mail-Away T-shirt (1986)

 

Here is the end of a long quest....just ten years ago on this very blog, we looked at this vintage Diet Dr. Pepper can from 1986:

This kicked off a long-standing sidequest, namely, to find this shirt in question.  It, of course, is based on the extremely memorable Godzilla/Dr, Pepper ad campaign:

Amazingly, all you needed to do was to send them $4.95 before December 31, 1986, and you would receive your shirt.  No proofs of purchase, receipts, or anything! You could've literally copied down the address in the grocery store, gone home, and ordered this fantastic shirt!

There simply can't be too many of these shirts out there (honestly, I bet the can is even rarer than the shirt), especially in decent condition. After all, you can't blame anybody for wearing out a shirt like this! I'm glad to finally put this one to bed, and it has now taken its permanent place in a T-shirt frame, on the wall of The Sphinx!