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Blk Mamba
03-08-2009, 09:00 PM
I was watching a few minutes of "Bewitched", and up drives Larry Tate in a bright yellow "Vette". I started thinking about all the cars in old TV programs. Bewitched always seemed to have a lot of nice chevys, I Dream of Jeanie, always a GTO, can you think of others from the muselcar era?

larryo340
03-08-2009, 09:07 PM
Do these count as a muscle cars?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/2095081942_c80f011b66.jpg?v=0

I took these at a local "Movie & TV" car show last year




http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm288/larryo340/MISC%20PCIS/100_3791.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm288/larryo340/MISC%20PCIS/100_3808.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm288/larryo340/MISC%20PCIS/100_3785.jpg

TAKEDOWN
03-08-2009, 09:40 PM
Got his signature and a bunch of pictures... Great guy!

Blk Mamba
03-08-2009, 09:44 PM
Those are great, I think I've seen them all but not in the same place. Those are some of them, I'm looking for cars in shows, not about cars. I wonder if some remember that "The FBI" only had Fords, every car parked, driving, everywhere, just like Hawaii 5-0.

a_d_a_m
03-08-2009, 09:51 PM
A lot of the classic TV shows actually had cars supplied by the big 3...I'm sure Bewitched was on that list.

Blk Mamba
03-08-2009, 09:55 PM
Darin (Darwood) always had a Z-28, SS something, or Etc.

Jolly Roger
03-08-2009, 10:02 PM
I remember the private eye show from the 60's (telling age) called Honey West where she drove an AC Cobra on the show.
I also watch the series 24, they seem to be using all Fords on that one.
Didn't the tv show Vegas with the feature P.I. named Dan Tana at first drive a 66 mustang 2+2?
Just a few.;)

UncleLar
03-08-2009, 11:42 PM
Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip had the coolest car.

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0703sr_t_bucket_history/photo_01.html

Marauderjack
03-09-2009, 03:44 AM
Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip had the coolest car.

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0703sr_t_bucket_history/photo_01.html


Post # 1000...WoooooHooooo!!!!!! :banana2:

I looked at the photo and it is a V8 but only 3 exhaust tubes on the left side??:confused: Wonder how that works "Unk"!!??:cool:

fastblackmerc
03-09-2009, 03:54 AM
The Green Hornet had a '66 Dodge Charger on some shows.

Joe Walsh
03-09-2009, 04:43 AM
'Get Smart' always had some really cool Fords.
Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger, and there were a couple of Shelbys, including a GT500 convertible.

Bluerauder
03-09-2009, 06:50 AM
'Get Smart' always had some really cool Fords.
Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger, and there were a couple of Shelbys, including a GT500 convertible.
At that age, I was more interested in Agent 99 than cars. Now, I don't understand why. :rofl:

SC Cheesehead
03-09-2009, 07:11 AM
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/3305/

:lol:

Vortex
03-09-2009, 09:16 AM
Though a bit more obscure, I always like Joe Mannix's Dart GTS ragtop:

http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828&g2_serialNumber=1 (http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828)

Blk Mamba
03-09-2009, 09:27 AM
Jane Hathaway always drove a hot Mopar in the Beverly Hillbilly's.

SC Cheesehead
03-09-2009, 09:46 AM
Though a bit more obscure, I always like Joe Mannix's Dart GTS ragtop:

http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828&g2_serialNumber=1 (http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828)
Sweet! Forgot all about that one.

Pops
03-09-2009, 09:47 AM
Anyone remember Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford! If I remember right they drove Buicks and the tires squealed when the peeled out in the gravel! :burnout: This was in the 50s for you young guys.

Bluerauder
03-09-2009, 09:50 AM
Anyone remember Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford! If I remember right they drove Buicks and the tires squealed when the peeled out in the gravel! :burnout: This was in the 50s for you young guys.
Seems to me that Broderick Crawford drove a '49 or '50 Ford Victoria with the bullet grill on "Highway Patrol". But they did squeal on the gravel. ;)

SC Cheesehead
03-09-2009, 09:53 AM
Anyone remember Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford! If I remember right they drove Buicks and the tires squealed when the peeled out in the gravel! :burnout: This was in the 50s for you young guys.

Yeah, I remember that! Chief Dan Mathews...."10-4, 10-4"!

http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/BrodWithMic.jpg

UncleLar
03-09-2009, 10:01 AM
Though a bit more obscure, I always like Joe Mannix's Dart GTS ragtop:

http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828&g2_serialNumber=1 (http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828)
Didn't Mannix drive a customized Barracuda convertible with twin wrap around windshileds for a while also?

UncleLar
03-09-2009, 10:04 AM
Though a bit more obscure, I always like Joe Mannix's Dart GTS ragtop:

http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828&g2_serialNumber=1 (http://avalonmm.tv/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.Download Item&g2_itemId=1828)
Didn't Mannix drive a customized Barracuda convertible with twin wrap around windshields for a while also?

Pops
03-09-2009, 10:29 AM
Yeah, I remember that! Chief Dan Mathews...."10-4, 10-4"!

http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/BrodWithMic.jpg

I bet this is a Buick!

jonroe
03-09-2009, 11:28 AM
Check out this link...............

http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/MotorTrend1997/

"Actually, during the series’ production from 1955 to 1959 (it’s been in reruns around the world ever since), Mathews drove everything from a ’54 Olds 88 through a ’59 Dodge Coronet; but that ’55 Buick personified the character as much as his crisp fedora and snub-nosed .38. "The first cars were actual California Highway Patrol units, borrowed from the CHP," explains Goltz. "They had the Special 48 coupe body, Century engine, and Roadmaster brakes. These were among the first cars built specifically for police use." Buick built 270 of these "Century 68" two-doors, half with three-speed column-shift manual transmissions and half with slushy Dynaflow automatics. All served with the CHP and just two are known to survive."

I clearly remember Mr. Crawford driving that Buick when I was a kid.

SC Cheesehead
03-09-2009, 11:34 AM
I bet this is a Buick!

Yup. Windshield post looks like its from a 55-57 Buick. I had a 56 Special (303 with a 3 speed on the column), what a tank, torquey old bugger.

Bluerauder
03-09-2009, 02:33 PM
I bet this is a Buick!
I stand corrected ..... obviously Buicks even in the artwork.

http://www.highwaypatroltv.com/image.cgi?image=siren-car-1.jpg

Vortex
03-09-2009, 08:56 PM
Didn't Mannix drive a customized Barracuda convertible with twin wrap around windshileds for a while also?

Looks like he had a strange looking Toronado at first:


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