Word: nascar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a kind of advertising peculiar to the NASCAR circuit. If you look carefully enough, you will see some 40 four-by-six-inch ads for oil, gas, rubber, and equipment crammed onto the front fenders of these racing machines. The stickers are the same on almost every other car, which may mean that these products are the "official" products of NASCAR...
...last blank car to win a NASCAR race was when Greg Sacks drove an all-white TRW research-and-development car to an upset victory in the Firecracker 400 on national television. Next week, of course, the TRW car was sporting corporate logos on its body...
Then there's the sponsor of the NASCAR circuit itself--a cigarette manufacturer. Though cigarette advertising is banned from the airwaves, the sponsorship of an entire event is a clever way of getting around...
This is the latest model of what might be termed the Burt Reynolds Formula One Vehicle. The sometime bandit is a respectable NASCAR driver in Stroker Ace. That means that the skids and scrapes in which he defies death without losing his good-ole-boy aplomb take place on such premises as the Daytona 500 race track. He is also amiably mystified to find himself drawn to a woman (Loni Anderson) who is as tenacious in defense of her virginity as he is in pursuit of a championship. That, however, completes the list of the film's novelties...