If you think a broken muffler will keep your mother-in-law away.....! (1982)

 Here's a clever ad from Midas, circa 1982. Ronnie Schell (ex-Gomer Pyle, USMC, Good Morning, World) plays an executive who is so sure his wife won't get their car fixed in time for a dinner date with her mother, he brags about it at work.

James Harder (Big Fig from the Fig Newton ads) is the narrator.

Not sure if this was before or after Harder worked on the Bet'cha Don't Know spots produced for NBC that same year.