Limited-edition (2500) collectible plaque featuring the cover artwork and a 24K gold-plated LP of the album which has been laser-etched with a silhouette of the featured Ford automobile.
Matted and framed in black metal. The presentation also includes a small plate inscribed with this item's serial number and the record’s title. Measures 18"H x 24"W overall. This is an officially-licensed ZZ Top collectible. Approx. 11lbs. shipping weight.
"The Eliminator" was Billy F. Gibbon’s customized red 1933 Ford 3-window coupe. Three videos from the album’s hit singles – “Legs”, “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Sharp Dressed Man” prominently featured the hot rod, which gained a degree of immortality when it was offered to kit-builders as a 1/24-scale Monogram model.
The car met an untimely-though-heroic death (saving a young couple from the forced of Evil) in the “Sleeping Bag” video from their follow-up effort Afterburner, after which it was modified to fly and was pictured on the cover of that album.
1983’s Eliminator was the band’s eighth studio album and, by selling in excess of 10 million copies, the band’s most-successful commercial effort. I was ranked #396 in Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Art direction was by Bob Alford.
Incidentally, the record’s song “Thug” was also recently used in the mega-hit video game Grand Theft Auto IV.