Check it out! Burt Reynolds and Jamie Farr in the original Cannonball Run movie.This is my 1970s Memorabilia of the Day™. It is ERTL's diecast version of the car that Jamie Farr's politically incorrect character of The Sheik drove.
The Rolls Royce Silver Shadow is still in the box. From what I can see of the car through the packaging - I'm keeping it in the box! - the detail is pretty good. The only weird thing is the car's beltline doesn't run straight but curves down as it flows through the rear door and up again over the rear wheel. That's how the two door Corniche is designed, not the foor door saloon.
So, ERTL got a detail of the car wrong. Hey, at least it has the movie's title stamped on its side.
About that movie, anyone remember The Cannonball Run? Quality-wise it falls below Smokey and the Bandit but is way above Stroker Ace.
Long live Dom DeLuise.
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the photo of Burt alone makes this collectible simply priceless.
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