Hot Rods Dobie Gillis builds a hot rod

Try this great episode of Dobie Gillis from 1959. Lots of scenes with hot rods being built and in action. Extra points if you can identify Dobie's engine.

 

Thanks Rusty...Just watching this now. I see Gilligan in it too and low and behold his name is Skipper. Back to the show...

 

The one in the hot Rod the one Zelda digs out of the lake because they're not the same.

 

Either one.

 

The one on the T bucket appears to be a Cadillac.

 

Thanks for posting this. Saw it first run as a little kid and have been trying to find it ever since with no success. Who spotted Norm's T tub in the background and is that the Grasshopper (#13) back there too ? Chatsworth's T really looks like the car Lindberg's Bobtail T model kit was based on. Something makes me want to say Pontiac for the engine in Dobie's 'T ,but didn't late 50's Pontiacs have siamesed center exhaust ports? I certaainly could be way off base. Shame seeing what had been done to the Chrisman coupe.

 

Great episode, I can't id the engine in Dobie's T bucket but his rivals bucket is Marty Hollmann’s 1915 T bucket featured in and on the cover of the March, 1961 Hot Rod Magazine, engine in that was a '49 Oldsmobile. Now the car that has its nose hanging out of the garage is the Dobie Gillis coupe XM:SC 210 customised by George Barris originally the Chrisman bros record setting coupe, in the show it had a fully chromed 324 Olds engine, it was featured on the August ’61 cover of Car Craft.

 

Looks like Dobie's running a 394 Olds....

 

That was a great episode, Lots of kool kars!!!!!!! Nice to see the cars mentioned above in the background. Sad that absolutely no credit was given to the car owners who furnished them .
Looking at the very last credits page, it showed 1960 on the copyright. Probably filmed in 59 though.

 

It's hard to tell from the grainy video, but my first guess, of course is Olds, probably 371 because of the time frame, but something looks odd about that starter area. My second guess is Studebaker, but I am not sure. Caddy had the starter on the other side (I think).

Trans looks like 37 Cad/LaSalle.


Don

 

That was great, thanks.

 

The Dobbie Gillis Show was one of my favorites when I was little. Gilligan was Maynard Krebs, I don't recall him being called Skipper but that could be an oversight on my part.

@Rusty O'Toole cool clip thanks.

 

I haven't saw that show since I was 8 years old, brought back alot of memories. I didn't realize at the time what a bunch of dick heads the actors were! But the cars were worth the watching of the corny ass show. Wonder if Dobie ever got any nookie after all he went thru with all the chicky babes?

 

You guys are sure old!

 

Yeah it's corny but that is what makes it so funny. Zelda gets mad, loosens one bolt and lifts the whole engine and trans out and wheels it away on her little red wagon lol ha ha now that's funny.

 

I am guesing Packard engine with a Lasalle trans and that brought back some great memories!

 

Maynard G. Krebs... for those of you scoring at home.

 

Bob Denver was the actor that played Maynard and Gilligan.
The Brunette was played by Jody Fair who stared in the movie classic "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow"

 

Anybody remember what the G. stands for in Maynard's name? Wait for it......Walter!

 

Dobie could not get lucky if you pushed him in the front door of a cat house with a $100.00 bill taped to his fore head!!

 

I saw that episode when it first ran..I win some'thin?

 

For me it would have been worse, fist full of hundreds!!!

 

I had a wagon like that..I don't think Zelda could have moved it with 600# plus on it!

 

Maybe old, but well seasoned !!

 

Thanks, beats reality TV any day

 

Didn't know it at the time, but was Dobie wearing a rag ?
Read somewhere that they had dyed his hair blonde and it was causing hair loss.

Hickman also appeared in Cat Ballou as a "man of the cloth"...he didn't get Cat either

Zelda was one of the weirdest names I'd ever heard; altho' my good friend's mother's name was Zepha.

 

I believe we have a winner. And near as I can tell the underwater motor was an old Polysphere Chrysler.

Did anyone else notice that Maynard was painting the firewall on a 23 T that magically turned into a 27 T?

 

And who would have thought Maynard G. Krebs would be a precursor to fashion ?
Surely he didn't..



I recall my Mom buying some BROWN ! denim jeans for me when I was a kid.
The knees were re-enforced with another layer of denim to prevent the eventual
"holes in the knees" situation.......she didn't like mending clothes at all.

 

Beaner right at the beginning of the episode Rusty posted they wipe out on a bicycle and when talking to a cutie pie after Dobie introduces himself. Maynard I'm pretty sure introduces himself as Skipper. Your right the rest of the time it was Maynard. I thought it kinda coincidental. The show was very reminiscent of Gilligans Island in a way. Same producer perhaps.