1968 AMC Javelin Commercial Richard Dryfuss Vic Tayback

[70Kenny]

It's too bad AMC is no longer around to offer us a modern version of the Javelin or AMX to compete with the modern Mustang, Challenger and Camaro. If AMC was still here, I hope that this '68-'70 body style would be the model they would emulate. Don't get me wrong, I do like the '71-'74 Javelin body style (I owned a '72 SST in the early '90's) but the Gen One Javelin is just, well, more attractive.

[OsbornTramain]

@70Kenny Totally agreed. I own a 73 AMX with a Pierre Cardin interior. That style would transform well in this generation. You never know.....Chrysler still owns all the rights to the AMC designs and names and heritage.

to recent experimental Dodges were named, Matador and Hornet. there's still a real corporate heritage with in Chrysler for AMC.

[OldcarsNmusic]

@70Kenny AMC is not able to offer such a car but in about 2 1/2-3 years, a new conpany will. It'll be 41/2 inches shorter than a '70 Barracuda; have the same wheelbase as a '70 Challenger; it'll be nearly as wide as a Chrysler Pacifica, with roughly the same front and rear tracks; and be as tall as a Porsche Panamera.

The top-line coupe and convertible models will be called CMXs.

[70Kenny]

@OldcarsNmusic I'll certainly look forward to the debut of THAT car!

[gojoe283]

Vic Tayback was in a Star Treck episode, "Piece of the Action." He played Boss Jojo Crako...

[squidaudio]

your audio is fucked up!

[jason75]

This was after American graffti.

[greenfuzz13]

@jason75

This was about 6 years before American Graffiti.

[ginsunh]

"Quit playin' with yourself, Hooper!" Any guesses?

[angelfandan]

@ginsunh Jaws, Quint yelling at Dr. Hooper, great movie!

[angelfandan]

@ginsunh ,Jaws, Quint yelling at Dr. Hooper, great movie! from 1975

[partystatus77]

So glad i bought this car a few months ago!!!. Workin on restoring it.

[Seattlecarnut]

Richard Dreyfuss wasn't a well known actor by the time this commercial came out, was he?

[greenfuzz13]

@Seattlecarnut Dreyfuss was a successful working actor at that time but not well known to the public. American Graffitti and Duddy Kravitz were his big break.

[Seattlecarnut]

@greenfuzz13 I've never seen Duddy Kravitz, but I have seen American Graffiti. At the time, I didn't recognise him, he had more hair on top of his head.

[Seattlecarnut]

I didn't know Richard Dreyfuss did commercials. Cool.

[OsbornTramain]

for what ever reason, AMC used an Advertising Agency that loved to use good actors. Robert DeNiro did a 69 AMC Ambassador commercial, it's on youtube....i've seen it. Many other famous Charactor Actors can be found in AMC commercials.

[TheCanine2]

Wow, I remember that commercial. That car was extremely cool, better looking than the camaro, but Richard Dreyfuss as a street punk??? I'd say some casting director was in the wrong line of work.

[Fruth37]

"Hey punk, get awat from that car!" LOL

[798389]

One of my favorite all-time cars.

[trainluvr]

jeebuzz check out RD's unit!

[steffidude]

Javelin much more stylish than Mustang and Camaro.

[andersport]

@steffidude But not as reliable. Go to any hot rod show or car cruise. You don't see any Javelins. They're all rusted out in junkyards unlike Mustangs and Camaros.

[greenfuzz13]

@andersport

You are completely incorrect.

[kolbpilot]

@andersport Just as reliable, just not treated with kindness in its first thirty years of life & therefore payed a heavy price. Javelins rusted no quicker than others. The basic Javelin was just that, a basic Javelin. The 390 cubic inch ones were no joke.

[OldcarsNmusic]

@kolbpilot Exactamente, amigo! Because they were looked upon as "off-brands" they were abused and neglected when they fell into the hands of Rustang and Comodo fans.

[OsbornTramain]

@andersport I would submit one reason why you dont' see them is due to the salves volume being significantly lower than Mustangs or Comarros. Mustang made a half million cars in 65 and always posted high sales figures. There was only one year where the Javelin beat one of the Big Three in sales, in 74, they sold more Javelins than Barracudas.....

[MiddleMadMen]

@steffidude AAAMEN

[600SELV12]

aah...american graffiti Y'all.

[psfirst]

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]

Vic Tayback died in 1990.

[mrceleb2006]

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".

[ethicomm]

Quite a prolific actor. Had he been still living the his list of credits would have likely much longer.

[bongomanfromdalou]

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...

[frankd1965]

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]

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!

[Zenith1987]

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

[JJGSeven13]

wow richard dreyfuss was young!

[FrankDamage]

love these old commercials. thanks