Around '94 or so I went w/friends to a rod run in Crosset Arkansas near Louisana. That night we were invited by one of the club members over to his home shop to see his project car. It was a Bonnie & Clyde fake car. He had restored the body so you couldn't tell it had been shot up. The story was a fellow from Louisana got pictures of the real car & shot this one up as close to real as he could. He then toured it all over anywhere there was a crowd willing to pay to see it, and made a lot of $ with it. He got into legal trouble over this & hid the car & trailer in the swamp where it sat for many years until it was finally sold to the man who had it in '94. He showed us a faded handbill advertising SEE THE BONNIE & CLYDE DEATH CAR! he said was under a seat in the car. He was making a resto rod type car & had found a potters trunk to go on the car as there was not one on the car when he found it.This may be the car w/o trunk some of you mentioned. He also said he used up all the lead in Arkansas filling up the holes!
I took too much advantage of the .99 heinikens and took it upon myself to climb over the velvet ropes at the casino just inside the Nevada border.even though alot of of people laughed as I assumed Clydes slumped position the bouncers werent one of them. I got escorted out in a most unceremonius fashion and invited to never return. My friends didnt see me and took about an hour to come looking for me. It sucked, alot,but i have a good story
What MOEFUZZ said about the car being in Atlanta in the 50's is true it was owned by Toddy Motion Picture co. I worked for them taking the car on a flatbed truck to different theaters and they would show a film of Bonnie and Clyde,Dillinger and Ma Barker and all the others, we set up in the lobby, display cases with pistols, hand cuffs, slap jacks and stuff with holes in it, we all so put up full size posters of them, by the way the guns in the case were fake. We would stand out front of the theater and pass out flyers with a drawing of the car and a pitch for them to come and see the movie it was a good job for a 15 year old kid...........
Dont hold any of this against me, but I have done Bonnie and Clyde reenactments in Gibsland, La. I did it for a few years. We had real Thompsons and B.A.R.s.. We were on The History Channel several times. Jim Knight is a guy in the club, that I dont belong to, that has restored a 34 sedan just like the one Clyde stole and was driving when the two were shot. The "death car" in the casino is the car that they were killed in. it has been studied by serious historians and really weird guys that are fantatics. There is the car from the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde. It is in very bad shape machanically speaking. the brakes dont work and the motor barely runs. We actually used it in a reenactment and it was a death trap. If you would like to see us shooting at each other at on of them just say so and ill upload it. The last show I did I played Clyde. There is A TON of info at Bonnie and CLydes Hideout , Make sure you turn your speakers down its has crappy audio playing.
Doc in the context of the time, the Victoria Police were a hated instittution in Victoria, esp by rural dwellers. Normal, common everyday folk did'nt trust the police of the day and it was well known that they were abusers of privelige. It was also well known that people supported the Kelly Gang and helped them escape on many occasions. Now, to my mind, this does'nt happen unless people hate the Feds. So in essence they were seen as heroes by many "little" people of the time becuase they didnt take any shit from the Feds/cops etc. Indiscriminate killing though is a different issue in itself. Yeah the good old days where the cops would actually take out/shoot crims and lo lifes are long gone. These days they get investitgated by Internal Affiars for removing a firearm from its holster at a crime scene. Hahaha Rat
now why is it sick sick sick... it happened and there are people that dont like the cops, and tend to indentify with the short side of the law. Plus it is history and it did happen. and if you read alot of history, alot of the cops were as bad as the criminal they chased. just saying.
You are all wrong. The REAL Bonnie and Clyde car is in Longview Washington, their actual 1936 Ford Tudor.....
Considering they were killed in 1934 i dont think that they were driving a 1936 Tudor. Maybe you should read most of the posts before you say something stupid
I remember seeing the "real" car, as well as the Hitler car, in a trailer back in the mid seventies. As far as the Mansfield car exhibit, Jay Ohrburg "sp" had that death car museum from what I remember.
Maybe you should turn your sarcasm meter back on. There was a restaurant in Longview called Bonnie and Clyde's and they have a '36 Ford Tudor hoisted on a big light pole and the city made it a historic landmark because they thought it was the real car. So there is a '36 Tudor pigeon motel rotting away in Longview.
G'day Frank, I know the Kelly family story, both the fact and the myth that has grown up around it. Yes the family were hard done by, by a law system that was an absolute failure. The Kelly family and the Kelly gang were then, and still are wrong in their actions. It is the myth that makes them out to be the morally righteous and fighting a corrupt law force. They still broke the law, they killed for no good reason. That is wrong and not someone to be admired for it. The people of Australia (And I guess the world) need to read the history, NOT watch the movies and think they have a handle on what happened. Believe me, I have been there, killing is not something to be admired. Cops of today are hard done by in the 'internal affairs' dept. My old house mate was a cop for some 23 years. He was investigated for uncliping his side arm but not removing it from the holster when attacked by a knife wielding crim. That ended his career! Tables have turned huh! Doc.
The Bonnie and Clyde movie car....as well as John Dillingers actual car are in the Crime & Punishment Museum in D.C. Awesome place to be honest
creepy car whether it's the real one or not. got a "thing" about being in cars connected with a death. don't even like salvaging parts off 'em.
when i was a kid , a guy blew his brains out in a corvette . people tried everything for yrs to get the smell out , finally destroyed it . ............ steve
Saw it a couple of months back here in San Diego at the Air & Space Museum in the old FORD building in Balboa Park.
good pix ! did anyone else find the tail lites to be wierd ? license plate brackets in paticular ............. steve
Great thread. Moefuzz seems to have it all laid out and correct. Daddyfink's pictures do it justice. Looks like an easy fix. If I can find that left over drivers door I think is still in the back shed and get another bucket of bondo-- then all's I gotta do is--.
So, where's the B400? Everytime I see something about this subject, I think of that question, and have yet to hear if anyone has this car. From texashideout.tripod.com (and posted on the HAMB in the past): "Used as the backdrop to many of the popular photos taken by Bonnie and Clyde, it was one of the three vehicles in use by the Barrow gang during the Joplin hideout raid. It was one of 1105 B-400 convertible sedans built in 1932. The Bonnie and Clyde B-400 was registered to R.F. Rosborough of Marshall, Texas. Stolen in March 1933 and believed to have been abandoned shortly after the Ruston Caper. After the Barrow gang's Joplin escape, Detective Ed Portley began an investigation into this fancy Barrow automobile. The sheriff at Carey, Kansas answered Detective Portley's all-points bulletin stating that at around six p.m. on April 13th, while making his rounds, he spotted a dark colored mud spattered 1932 Ford turn south off of the dirt road leading from Joplin. It was traveling through Carey at a speed of 40 mph and accelerated to 60 as it headed toward Oklahoma's Cookson Hills. After Mr. Rosborough got his prize vehicle back, it had an extra 3,000 hard driven miles added to it's odometer and was minus it's tags. He then traded it in on a new 1933 V-8 Coupe." By the way the "R." in R.F. Rosborough stands for Robert, so the B400 was owned by Robert F. Rosborough.
According to the History Channel, most historians agree that the letter was a fraud (did not come from Clyde Barrow)...some even think that FMC actually wrote the letter as a publicity stunt.
If my memory serves me correctly, I've seen the movie car (Beatty and Dunaway 1967. I have the original soundtrack on L.P.- my fellow old folks know what L.P. is. ) and the real car. I think one was on tour and the other was on display at "wherever". As a coincidence, I watched a car chase on FOX news this morning. Lasted 45 minutes or so. The cops finally rammed HER and pinned her in from all four sides. No shots fired- but after that long chase, I bet some cops wanted to shoot. Tim.
tim , the chase was pretty kool . donuts on the freeway ! bet the cops stopped for the donuts . lucky no one got hurt ............... steve
Worked with a guy in the 70's that claimed he drove for them. He said he was Bonnie's cousin. His name was Frank. I don't remember his last name. He did 6 years in prison when a bank robbery went bad and Frank got shot in the hip. They got away but left Frank to fend for himself. Frank was 14 at the time. Frank said they were both crazy killers and was glad to be caught.
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