Star Cars!

24T42 · March 24, 2003

This weekend I posted a new section to the Junior AACA web page called [color:"red"]Star Cars , which highlights the cars of movies and television that became stars in their own right. I have included show trivia, theme song audio clips, car coloring pages, and information and trivia about the cars. I went on-line with the Batmobile (TV), General Lee (Dukes of Hazzard), Herbie (The Love Bug), and the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.

I have started a list of future cars to add later like K.I.T.T from Knight Rider. My question is - what cars do you think I should include in my Garage Hall of Fame? Thanks in advance.

March 24, 2003

Was it a Hillman that Columbo used to drive?

How about the T-bird that Dan Tanner used to cruise around Las Vegas in?

Speaking of T-birds how about Susanne Summer's 56 in American Graffiti?

Car 54 Where are You? - the show was named after the 61 Plymouth cruiser.

Makes me think of Steven King's Christine - 58-59 Dodge or Plymouth - can't remember

If you have the Batmobile - how about the Munstermobile?

Kookie's 'Vette from 77 Sunset Strip!

I think it was a 28 Porter in My Mother the Car.

Just some quick thoughts off the top of my head!

DizzyDale · March 24, 2003

Dear 24T42,How about the Sunbeam Tiger from Get Smart,the 68 Mustang and 69 Charger from Bullit.diz <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

DizzyDale · March 24, 2003

Just remembered another one, Aston Martin DB 5 or 6 in Goldfinger.diz <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Amphicar BUYER · March 24, 2003

How about the Amphicar from Pontiac Moon?

Or the Amphicar that was never in any James Bond movies I keep hearing about? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Or better yet, My Amphicar in the next Austin Powers movie? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> (A guy has gotta dream!)

1937hd45 · March 24, 2003

The 1934 Ford three window that was THE star of "The California Kid". Most of the featured cars in "American Graffiti". The car in "Bearcats" was a Barris built Stutz lookalike.

March 24, 2003

Was it the Monkee's that drove the GTO? How about Don Johnsons (Miami Vice) Ferrari that was actually a corvette.

Joe

Steve Moskowitz · March 24, 2003

How about the 1921 Oldsmobile truck on the Beverly Hillbillies and the George Barris custom Toronado on Mannix!

March 24, 2003

How about The Rockford's File Firebird, or Dan Mathews 55 Buick, 10-4 10-4, or Darin Stevens 64 Malibu convertible.......

March 24, 2003

I am pretty sure that columbos car was a little peugeot convertible.....but i stand to be corrected <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wardy........ '64 le sabre, out of winter hibernation this very day <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Centurion · March 24, 2003

The '49 Buick Roadmaster convertible from "Rain Man" seems like another candidate.

The Ford Model T touring car used by Fred MacMurray in "The Absent-Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber" might also qualify.

Other thoughts: What about the '55 Pontiac Star Chief convertible that Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethyl drove on their famous "I Love Lucy" trip to California? The purchase of the car was the central theme of one of the episodes.

The step-down Hudson sedan was a key character in "Driving Miss Daisy".

tomchaney · March 25, 2003

I also like the Beverly Hillbillies' Oldsmobile! Don't forget Kookie's Model T roadster, The Leslie Special from The Great Race and the reproduction Stutz Bearcats from the short-lived TV series. Anyone remember Mike Anthony's Packard from "The Millionaire", Car 54, Where Are You? or Lois Lane's snazzy Nash convertible?

March 25, 2003

How about my favorite movie DB from "It's a Wonderful Life" - the Christmas classic. The tree it crashed into was ruined according to the irate homeowner. And some of my favorite hogs - Peter Fonda's chopper and Marlon Brando's bike. And the dozens of Model Ts driven and wrecked in Laurel & Hardy classics (hi there PH)! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

March 25, 2003

We mustn't forget Nellie Bell, Pat Brady's Jeep on Roy Rogers. Let's go all out and say Skykings plane....... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> or the upside down bathtub Nash's they used for police cars......

Dave@Moon · March 25, 2003

Every car in American Grafitti! That flying thing in Grease. Bullit's Mustang, the Charger it chased, and the '66 Impala that nearly killed both of them when it got on to a closed road (it dives to the right as both cars make a right turn onto the canyon road). The cars from Two Lane Blacktop, White Line Fever, Vanishing Point, Macon County Line, and any other of those early '70's drive in classics. Dennis Weaver's Valiant in Duel.

And as the "the Boss" says, Even Burt Reynolds and that Black Trans Am all gotta meet down at the Cadillac Ranch!"

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Ooops, I forgot the '59 Caddy ambulance from Ghostbuster's and the '74 Polara police car in The Blues Brothers (honorable mention goes to the Pinto wagon! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)

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And I forgot the stretch limo Pacer from Wayne's World!

Dave@Moon · March 25, 2003

That was movies, now for TV:

Magnum's Ferrari 308. The (very symbolic, especially now) '59 El Camino from the first episode of The Wonder Years. The Saint's Volvo P1800. Mr. Bean's Mini. Route 66's Corvette. The '69 AMC Ambassador stretch limo that always carried communist dignataries in Mission Impossible. Any Adam 12 or Highway Patrol car. "Huggy Bear"'s purple pimp ride from Baretta. The Munster's cars. Any of the Dodge pickups that appeared in Lassie. The Partidge Family bus (OK, so I like schlock!) <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Colombo's car was a '61 (roughly) Peugeot 403.

Dave@Moon · March 25, 2003

Music videos:

The ZZ Top's '34 Ford. The '60 Buick from the Go-Go's "Our Lips are Sealed". The '56 T-Bird from Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire".

Dave@Moon · March 25, 2003

Since this is largely for children, there are a few cars they'll be able to relate to very fast because they're from movies and shows they know:

The Rugrats' Citroen DS19. The '46 Packard frequently featured in Hey Arnold!. The flying '64 T-Bird in the Robin Williams version of Flubber. The blue VW bug used as a weapon in Lilo and Stitch. Austin Powers' Jaguar E-Type. The Porsche 356 from Disney's The Kid (the best movie in this list, I reccommend anyone with a father rent it immediately!). The Delorean in Back to the Future. The Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The 1956 Ford Mystere dream car used as the villian's ride in Toy Story (very few kids know that it was based on a real car and are shocked to see pictures of it). The '51 Chevy truck and the '51 Hudson that gets half-eaten in The Iron Giant (the best movie for kids in this bunch!). The '51 Studebaker from The Muppet Movie. And finally whatever that Australian truck was that was used in Babe.

March 25, 2003

Don't forget Bob Mitchum's Ford in "Thunder Road". And the 48 Packard convertible in "Back to the Future".

YFAM, Randy Berger

Amphicar BUYER · March 25, 2003

The Boss Mustang from the original "Gone in 60 Seconds" (not the terrible remake) would be a good one. The car still runs and still has the "ding" in the side!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is and always will be my favorite car. One of the original 5 and one of 2 that ran, lives in England and tours occasionally.

John

March 25, 2003

Wardy

YOU are absolutely correct on Lt. Columbo's car ... following from Columbo official web site ...

In the show, Columbo has referred to it as "a 1950 Peugeot". In reality, there have been two cars: a 1959 and a 1960 Peugeot model 403 cabriolet.

I stand corrected - sorry.

March 25, 2003

From the still pictures I saw of 'Car 54' on an "A&E Biography" of Fred Gwynne, the Car 54 squad car was a '62 Plymouth Savoy or Belvedere.

Other "star car"nominations: the Muntz Jet driven by Robin Williams in the movie "Toys";

Jack Benny's Maxwell touring car (I can hear the questions already: "Who's Jack Benny? What's a Maxwell?"); the Green Hornet's 'Black Beauty'...Amos 'n Andy's "Fresh-air Taxicab"....

The Joad's Hudson Super Six car/truck from "The Grapes of Wrath".

Any of the old Plymouth and Dodge coupes that Humphrey Bogart drove hard in films like "High Sierra" or ______________ (brain burp....the one in which he played "Philip Marlowe".)

Also, the '31 or '32 Chrysler phaeton used as the dictator's staff car in Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".

RE: Disney's "Chitty-chitty" cars: is there a web site that has info about them? Who built them? What were they agglomerated from? From what I remember of the movie, the car sounded like it had a pretty hefty six in it, yet I count four side pipes?

I would also nominate the red Pierce-Arrow roadster from "Thoroughly Modern Millie".

Planes? The Curtiss Jenny from "The Great Waldo Pepper", and just about anything in "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines".

(I guess that pretty much shows where MY pop-culture influences came from... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />)

And, last but not least, "Pop" Cunningham's '48 De Soto Suburban from "Happy Days".

Amphicar BUYER · March 25, 2003

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">RE: Disney's "Chitty-chitty" cars: is there a web site that has info about them? Who built them? What were they agglomerated from? From what I remember of the movie, the car sounded like it had a pretty hefty six in it, yet I count four side pipes?</div></div>

They actually did have a V-6 automatic in them! check out the Chitty-ist site. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

March 25, 2003

Boy! I can see many people with alot of time on their hands <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Who remembers the 58 Buick Century Caballero wagon on Rescue 8. It was always parked out in front of the station. It was one of the stars car. Ward Beaver's 57 Ford, and Wally's 40 Ford convertible. How about Miss Landers, (Beavers teacher's) boyfriends 57 Dodge Royal convertible. Also Sgt. Carters 57 Dodge convertible that Gomer set on fire. Then the sgt. got a new Dart convert. How about all the cars, way too many to mention in It's a Mad, Mad, world......

DizzyDale · March 26, 2003

Dear SkyKing,Thanks for reminding me,Its a Mad,Mad World,my favorite movie of all time,how about Jonathan Winters on the bike.diz <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

March 26, 2003

Ops, I meant Ward Cleaver, the guy on the other post is going to give me a demerit for bad spelling....... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

March 26, 2003

Yea, and Phil Silvers going through the water in the 46 Ford

March 26, 2003

Does anyone remember a dective show from the early to mid 70's that was set in the 20's or 30's? I don't remember what it was called. It doesn't seem like it was on for long. I remember watching it as a kid, because I liked the old cars on it.

ronbarn · March 26, 2003

What about the Hudson in "Driving Miss Daisy"? And Brando's Harley in "On the Waterfront"?

March 26, 2003

To bend the subject just a little, how many of us on the forum have had cars we own used in movies? By this I mean cars that you owned when the movie was made and not a car that was bought later and alleged to have been a movie car.

I believe buickman had a car in Tora, Tora, Tora. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

hvs

rocketraider · March 26, 2003

None personally, but I know a couple people who do. In "Love Field" you can see a 2-tone green 1955 Oldsmobile sedan owned by a Mid Atlantic Olds Club member from Durham NC, and in "Crazy People" the red 1954 Chevy ragtop is a local car that got tore all to hell during filming in Chatham VA. Even though the film company paid for all repairs, sez the owner, "Never again".

The Buick Club of Minnesota got film credits for supplying Buicks for "Crossing the Bridge" in which a 1965 Electra sedan was central to the plot.

March 26, 2003

Glenn ~ Based on buickman's and my experience in movie making with cars, "tore all to hell" is about par for the course. Hollywood types exhibit little or no respect for other people's property. After all, why should they? They are "Hollywood" and that places them above we mere mortals. Doesn't Martin Sheen think HE is President of the United States because he plays one on TV? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Your local guy was lucky that he was reinbursed for damage done to his car. Most people get little other than screwed.

But then that is just my opinion based on personal experience. Been there and had that done to my cars and those of friends. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

To be fair though, working for a major studio on a quality movie can be a much better experience <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> than working for a schlockmeister on some low budget piece of crap. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Again, that is based on personal experience.

hvs

Dave@Moon · March 26, 2003

The TV movie The Temptations was shot in 2000 mainly in Coraopolis, PA about 5-10 miles from my old house. I knew several people who supplied cars for the movie, all for background shots although several were featured in multiple scenes as next-door neighbor's cars, etc. I must say that from what I was told that crew treated the cars and their owners very well. I didn't hear a single complaint from any of the people who lent cars.

If you want to see it, the movie airs on VH1 in repeats every few months.

March 27, 2003

Checkout Clint Eastwood's "Bird" a movie about the great jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. There are a lot cars from 30,s 40, and 50s all thru the film.

seyman · March 28, 2003

I mistakenly thought you meant "cars of the stars" eg: 1959 Cadillac convertible owned by Alan Ladd. Morbidly, death cars of stars or notables draw a lot of attention, such as Cadillac convertible Hank Williams died in, Kennedy Lincoln, Bonnie & Clyde Ford, Jayne Mansfield Buick, any others?

March 28, 2003

Following that thought, how 'bout the runabout that dancer Isadora Duncan met her demise in? (Her long flowing scarf supposedly got caught-up in the spokes of a rear wheel and she was strangled as a result... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> How 'bout THAT one, OSHA?)

March 28, 2003

Don't forget the 1955 and 1965 Cadillacs in the movie and the late 40s Chrysler that Miss Daisy wrecked in the beginning of the movie. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

1937hd45 · March 28, 2003

Frank, Isadora Ducan was killed in an Amilcar, not a Bugatti as ledgend has it.

March 28, 2003

What about Ms. Hathaways's Dodge convertible on Beverly Hillbillys. She always had the top down with the boot applied. I bought my wife a new 89 LeBaron convertible, which she still drives today. I think she put the top down 3 times on her own, never mind applying the boot too! She wouldn't know how... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

March 28, 2003

Yes Bob, but isn't a Bugatti much more romantic and image building. Like in Hollywood and the media, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Didn't Jayne Mansfield die in a mid '50s Cadillac. A '55 would have suited her image perfectly, when you consider the front bumper.

I believe Ben Hogan had his near fatal accident in Texas while driving either a '48 or '49 Cadillac. I also believe the vehicle he hit head on was a Grayhound bus.

hvs

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