Hot Rods Lily Munster goes car shopping

Yep. Hot rods are dangerous….

Is that a V8-60 front axle? Kinda blurry on my phone

 

I copied this from the site. HRP

Specifications
Only one Koach was made for the television series and feature film. It was made from three Ford Model T bodies and is 18 feet long. The 133-inch frame was made by hand, as were the brass radiator and fenders. It has blood red interior and black pearl paint. It took 500 hours to hand-form the ornate rolled steel scrollwork. The front end had a dropped axle, split radius rods and T springs. Its design featured a custom hearse body.

AMT produced a plastic model kit of the car during the series run. It has been reissued several times since. Johnny Lightning has also produced a 1/64th scale die-cast model of the car.

An unauthorized reproduction Koach was built on speculation and presented to Barris, but he declined to buy it. Tubbs Johnson, Barris' paint man, purchased the unauthorized Koach and later sold it to Jay Orhbach. Barris auctioned the original Munster Koach in 1982 with oversized gas lights and different tires and wheels. In 1984, Barris wanted a Munster Koach for the Hollywood Christmas Parade. He had Dick Dean build a second authorized Munster Koach. Dick Dean's son, Keith Dean, helped build it. This Koach was restored in the summer of 2011 with new black pearl paint, pie crust cheater slicks, new brass lantern lights, torque thrust mag wheels, smaller skull radiator cap, and had the dummy crank lever removed and sealed. They did not have Bobby Barr Headers, and there is a wide opening where those headers were located on the original.

There were five walnut blocks between the spokes of the mag wheels in rear. The rear slicks were Firestone eleven-inch pie crust slicks. The Astro mag wheels were painted blood red just on the outside of the five spokes. There was no skull radiator cap on the original Munster Koach in the 1960s. Only later did the Munster Koach get a skull cap. Both reproduction cars have been restored, but the original has not.

Series star Fred Gwynne never sat in the seat to drive the Munster Koach. Instead, he sat on the floor on the ermine-fur rugs. During the time of the television series there was a song released as a single by Decca, called "Here Comes the Munster Koach".

The engine was a 289 cubic-inch Ford V8 originally configured for installation in a 1964 1/2 Mustang.[1] It was built with Jahns high compression pistons, 10 chrome plated Carter WA-1 carburetors, an Isky cam, and had a set of Bobby Barr racing headers. It had a three-speed toploader manual transmission.

 

I had a good conversation with Butch a few years ago at the Mopar Nationals .
He stated how all of them got along well,,,and it was really like a family atmosphere .
He still keeps in touch with Pat,,,,,he spoke highly of all of his cast mates .

He had a copy of the Dragula car with him,,,,,really cool .
This pic was in August, 2017 .

Tommy

 

Yvonne DeCarlo drove some hormones in her day! just sayin'...

 

She had nothing on Evon Decarlo!

 

Ran that front set up on at least three of my T's. No problem. You just had to know it's capabilities. Since the front tire contact patch was the size of a silver dollar, and the light weight of the car, I never could justify the expense, or the unsprung weight, of front brakes.

 

In 'The Old Days' I would stop by Dick Dean's shop and it seemed his major work was building 'copies' of all the famous movie/TV cars,,, Moinkie Mobile (which was made from GTO's) the Munster car, cars from The Great Race, You want a copies of a great car, lets us know,,, and write the check... And he may have done a Batmobile,,,

 

Damn!....

 

In case you didn't realize, that's not real. It's a photo-chop.

 

So? Still looks great to these old eyes!

 

Ok, for the "Older" crowd!

 

Now we know where Linda got that move...

 

Oh I'm sure the younger crowd will be oooooaahhhing too...Hot Lily...​

 

I have a bunch of model T's, and I find it hard to see a model T body part on Herman's car. Doors are too square, cowl doesnt look rite, etc

 

How many years wore the Model T namesake?...maybe very early Ts

 

Try the 26-27 T. JW

 

It was here in Illinois in July.

 

Lilly Munster or Morticia Addams?

 

Morticia. The Addams family is on every night at 6:00. I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid because it was too stupid. Now I'M in charge and I watch every night.

 

Dragula to the tune of Rob Zombie is awesome.......A little over the top.....still awesome........

 

How many clones of the Coach are out there?

 

Morticia....

 

Weird....

 

X2!

 

I think that this is the body they used.

 

Original? Doesn't even have the same cowl.

 

There was a story where the entire cast was in the Coach for a scene, and Fred Gwynne, on a humorous whim, drove them off the lot for a ride around town, leaving the confused filming crew waiting for them to return to the set.