trainluvr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

jeebuzz check out RD's unit!

steffidude (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Javelin much more stylish than Mustang and Camaro.

600SELV12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

aah...american graffiti Y'all.

mrceleb2006 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Of course, he was 60 when he passed out after a heart attack. BTW, Richard Dreyfuss went on to be one of the top movie stars of the 1970s, and Vic Tayback played Mel in the 1974 movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", which was the inspiration for the long-running CBS TV sitcom series "Alice".

psfirst (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Dreyfuss did a lot of TV in the '60s & early '70s... BEWITCHED, THE BIG VALLEY, GIDGET, THE MOD SQUAD, GUNSMOKE, THE NEW DICK VAN DYKE SHOW (w/Hope Lange, anyone remember it?), etc. He started working as a professional actor when he was 15 & his first movies were one-line parts in THE GRADUATE & THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, what he likes to call the best & worst movies of '68. He was 20 when this commercial was filmed.

jackiehallam62 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Vic Tayback died in 1990.

bongomanfromdalou (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

you're right! Had the pleasure of meeting Vic Tayback at a chili cook-off in St. Louis in 1977, and he was great fun!

frankd1965 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Vic Tayback was the actor who played the cantankerous Mel Sharples on the 1970s sitcom "Alice" and Richard Dreyfuss he was great on the goodbye girl and jaws

bongomanfromdalou (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And little did anyone know that by 1975, both Richard Dreyfuss and Vic Tayback would go on to bigger and better things, while the Javelin went on to auto heaven...

Zenith1987 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Amazing, my favourite actor Dreyfuss advertising the old family automobile!