In the early 1980s Midas Muffler produced a series of commercials that riffed on the spaghetti western and tough-guy movie genres. Lee Van Cleef was the nominal star, joined throughout the ads by an amusing collection of great character actors.

Some time back I think it was Marty that posted the Midas ad guest starring George Kennedy. Here's that gem again, and two more:

The Competition

Moose

Brakes

Did these air only in Canada, because I don't recall ever seeing one in the U.S.?

OMG!!! I've never seen these either - thanks for the post, Robert!

These are actually the best roles that some of these guys had in the 80's...

They were produced in Canada and I suspect only ran here.

Pretty amazing casting in there. To further encourage readers to check out those links, the first one brings together the two actors who played Chris in consecutive big-screen sequels of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and the second reunites the two stars of DEATH RIDES A HORSE.