Falfa and Milner

The 32 easy choice. Never had one, never will. I can still afford a55.

 

you may be right on that .but it was owned by a guy in york pa years ago dunkan was his last name .

 

From Street Rodder archives;
Universal felt it was time to retire the old warhorse once and for all. The occasion was highlighted by a sealed-bid auction, won by Steve Fitch who had previously acquired rights to the movie's black '55 Chevy. A couple years later, after persistent offers by a young die-hard American Graffiti fan named Rick Figari, the car changed owners again. It turns out that ever since Figari as a boy of eight-years-old saw the movie, he had been infatuated with the coupe. When Fitch made it available for sale in 1985, the young man from San Francisco, California, had the dough. Figari was only 20 years old at the time, and his acquisition probably assured that the coupe would be preserved as the American Graffiti coupe for years to come. Among the first orders of business was to contract Roy Brizio's shop in South San Francisco to make the car roadworthy again.
Indeed, Figari spent the next few years actually driving the car, and it became a fixture in the Bay Area street rod scene. That is, until Figari, who owns and operates his own saloon in the city, concluded that the car's special historical and financial significance justified it as more than just a daily driver. And so, once again, the American Graffiti coupe was parked, this time in honor of its heritage.

The car currently is available for display at car shows and events across the nation. Figari maintains a website in its honor--www.milnerscoupe.com--and the car now is officially known as the Milner coupe. But everybody who is familiar with this bright yellow five-window highboy knows it as the American Graffiti coupe. After all, this is the hot rod that many of today's street rod enthusiasts cut their teeth on. Just ask Rick Figari, the owner of the most recognizable hot rod on the planet.

 

If my only choice were one of those 2, hands down Milner's 32, if we can choose anything from the movie, the mercury...it was the coolest!

 

the 32 with out a doubt that car is just bad but the color ouch!!!

 

I'd rather ride the blonde in the T bird at the end.

 

She has not aged as well as either the 32 or 55 has.....

 

would love to have the 32, but it wont pull my airstream, so i've gotta be practical and go with the 55.

 

milner's coupe

 

no question for me.

 

Now what can you say? How could anybody pick anything over this.......o man now im drooling on myself at work,....not cool.....Thank you John Milner for changing my life, i mean that

 

I'd rather have Milner's 32. The last time I saw the '55 it was upside down and on fire.

 

Well, I had a yellow 55, so I chose both.

I bet Falfa had a baby hemi in there.

Lost in the detailing of the Falcon model are two 55 chevy chassis. I guess the model builders put them there as a joke.
I was on a model site years ago and spotted them in a Falcon replica thread. I knew what they were because I spent a lot of time on my back looking at the bottom of my 55.

 

John Milner,1942-1964-------RIP just a bit of trivia that was in the orig script that never made it in the film,at the end they said when he died but not born...................

 

agreed! I first saw the movie at the drive inn it blew me away! I've never been the same since........

 

How can that be homoerotic ? ... I mean, c'mon they'll be getting lotsa ... well ... um ... you know ... boobies ...

 

And there is a wrench hang off the bottom of it ... next time you watch it do a slo-mo and you'll see it as they pan across the bottom of the car.

 

I would like to own "Kit" from knight rider...it is just as gay as being horny for any fictitious movie car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxUiVYHDR-8

 

Is that a cross between piss yella or puke green?? Falfa rules!

 

the 32' for sure...

 

The 32..but I'm biased.

 

the 55 for sure, my first model car i built was a 55, my first car was a 55 and still own it 1975 age 14

 

Milners coupe for me.That '55 was just a field car.

 

"Field car? What's a Field Car?..."

 

Milners coupe....

 

THE REAL 55 CHEVY from the movies American Graffiti and Two Lane Blacktop. Ive seen this car in person at NORWOOD TOWING SERVICE in Baltimore and it could be put back to movie condition in just a few days of hard work if you had the supplies on hand. Those rumors of the car being turned into a unrecognizable show car or not true. I'm sure that statement came from a non car person!

I have a few hundred photos & video of the car from every angle and of every known movie detail, I'm thinking of making a clone that is so close that only a REAL car guy could see the difference. Just an Idea.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBlpNVDcxM

Vince

 

Milners coupe! After I painted it any color but yellow!

 

i'd rather be Falfa than Milner today...but the vote goes to the one that's " a cross between piss yella' and puke green"

 

Black always looks good ....

 

Toad did get laid. Go back and watch the movie.