# What kind of car is in this commercial?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 27, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064 "2002-05-27T17:34:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/1 "2002-05-27T17:34:22Z")

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There’s a commercial for some Quaker-State oil, or something like that. It shows this weird looking old guy with a really strange hat (Or maybe that’s his hair—i really dont know). And anyway it’s going around showing his collection of old classic cars and how he uses this oil for them. It shows this long, incredibly flat black car and I have no idea what it is! It shows the car 2 or 3 times and its the last shot in the commercial.

Anyone seen this commercial, or know what the car it?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/2 "2002-05-27T17:50:00Z")

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That’s one of the members of ZZ Top, forget the name. I suspect it is a highly modified hotrod that they are know for.

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/3 "2002-05-27T18:44:19Z")

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I know what you’re talking about. It’s the CadZZilla, as Telemark predicted, it is a HIGHLY modified 1948 Cadillac

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**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/4 "2002-05-28T20:04:45Z")

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Does anyone know where I can find pictures of it?

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**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/5 "2002-05-28T20:56:21Z")

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Google search, images “Cadzzila”.

I found some there.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-car-is-in-this-commercial/111064/6 "2002-05-29T05:42:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Spritle \*  
> \*\*Google search, images “Cadzzila”.
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> I found some there. \*\*

That reminds me…What ever happened to the Eliminator? I remember hearing they sold it about 10 or 12 years ago. Is it still around? Doing the car show circuit? Or walled up in some guy’s garage?