{"id":4747,"date":"2011-05-24T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2011-05-24T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:13:01","slug":"video-steve-mcqueen-in-1970%e2%80%99s-honda-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/video-steve-mcqueen-in-1970%e2%80%99s-honda-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Steve McQueen in 1970\u2019s Honda commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American actor Steve McQueen (1930-1980) was an avid motorcycle enthusiast, and when he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he performed many of his own stunts. For those who don\u2019t know him, here is a commercial in which he promoted the 1973 Honda CR250 \u201eElsinore\u201d for one million dollars. As for the music, this commercial was only advertised in Japan for Japanese people. Five minutes of pure viewing pleasure after the jump.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8nJvgSlSiM\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Honda CR250 'Elsinore' commercial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>via Youtube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American actor Steve McQueen (1930-1980) was an avid motorcycle enthusiast, and when he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he performed many of his own stunts. For those who don\u2019t know him, here is a commercial in which he promoted the 1973 Honda CR250 \u201eElsinore\u201d for one million dollars. As for the music, this commercial was only advertised in Japan for Japanese people. Five minutes of pure viewing pleasure after the jump.<a style=\"white-space:nowrap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/video-steve-mcqueen-in-1970%e2%80%99s-honda-commercial\/\">&ensp;Read the full article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[3195,31,3196,3197,3198,279,1973,406,3199],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-1973-honda","tag-honda","tag-honda-commercial","tag-honda-cr250","tag-honda-cr250-ad","tag-mbikebrandhonda","tag-steve-mcqueen","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-ad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}