For most of the first few seasons, the Daytona used was actually a Corvette based replica, as tearing up a rather expensive original for stuntwork would have been pointless. The replica influenced me enough in the late '80s that I built one to advertise my fabrication shop, and it ended up getting used on one of the last episodes of "Max Headroom": Fun car, for a 1:1 scale model.
I can't believe no one mentioned Frank Bullitt's '68 GT and the Charger R/T. I still want a green fastback! What about the RHD Blown 1956 Belair from "Dead end Drive In"
Simply becuase nobody has said it yet and the movie is a classic John Hughs flick.... 1961 Ferrari 250 California GT! "Ferris Bueller.... you're my hero!" Well.... at least it falls in the year catagory of the HAMB, and nobody has mentioned it yet!
i cant beleive you forgot the a-team van here i am 22 years ago in univ/studios in cali pickin it up with one hand!!! i pity you fools the merc in grease is killer..along with all the other ones in the movie!!!
Does anyone else remember "My Mother the Car"? I don't know what kind of car that was, something from the brass era...
A 1928 Porter. A product of TV Land. No such car was ever made in reality land, the world existing outside of TV Land. I think it built from a Model A but I'm probably wrong, wrong, wrong. Mother's voice was actually that of sexy Ann Sothern as seen here: Viva Black and White!
The Beverly Hillbillies truck...... On episode No. 210 "The Hot Rod Truck" cousin Jethro (Max Baer) traded the old family jalopy for a new and more powerful hot rod truck (constructed from a 1925 roadster found in Arizona) equipped with a 1969 Olds 442 muscle car engine and painted candy apple red with yellow racing stripes. .......... A friend from Detroit and I delivered the "new" hot rod truck to the movie set. Was either 1966 or 1968. Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were all on the same lot.
We're confusing TV cars with movie cars here! And we're confusing flashy crap that caught everybody's eye with actual machinery! Stop and consider things for a minute -- Bullitt? It's a movie with stock showroom stuff (although admittedly the best chase sequence ever filmed). Kookie? by far the most iconic shift of what a So-Cal youngster drove. But any use of it other than cruising the parking lot? The “Dragnet” roadster? maybe the nicest roadster on all three networks, but when Sgt. Friday said, "You took a two-thousand pound weapon and hurled it at a 135-lb woman", it kinda took the edge off of the sport. My pick? the Tony LaMasa roadster featured on "Ozzie & Harriet". Now called the "Rick Nelson roadster", it was a finished piece of automotive art used as an indication of what the ideal SoCal teen drove in the 1950s. If only it were true.
TV cars from my childhood, in no particular order, all of which made an impression on me. '63 split window vette from the show Stingray. Panch's Firebird from CHiPs. Knight Industries 2000, KITT, Trans Am from Knight Rider. Firebird from Rockford Files. Daisy's Jeep CJ from Duke's of Hazard. Dodge Powerwagon from Simon & Simon. Ferrari from Miami Vice, even if it was really a vette. BJ's and Hammers trucks from BJ and the Bear. Ford PU from Sanford and Son. Coyote from McGiver. Music video honorable mentions ZZtop Eliminator Ford 3 window. Sammy Hagar's I can't drive 55, Ferrari.
i liked the car sly stalone drove in in that movie cobra and the fury in christine and the ghost busters wagon
Coyote from McGiver. Mac Gyver drove a jeep. Hardcastle and Mc Cormack had the coyote. The first one, the second one looked fake.
they couldnt show enough of ralphs car on happy days. the car from the green hornet was pretty nice too. but who knows, im still a kid.
Killing time here, Lois Lane's Nash Rambler convertible from "Superman". The show had a deal with Nash some seasons and Chrysler during others.
damn straight, that truck ruled, every time I ride/drive an old pickup I always end up humming the S&S theme KARR was KITT's evil twin and the Vette in stingray was a 65
ELpolacko, I'm remembering the car is a cabriolet and not a roadster. I saw that episode recently and I looked closely at the car and it looked like a cabriolet. We're big Andy Griffith Show fans here at my house. We have the third season on DVD and I'm looking for the other black and white seasons. The final color season was not any good without Don Knotts.
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