Guest Skyking Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 HVS, I'm preety sure Jane Mansfield died in a 66 Buick Wildcat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Skyking ~ No doubt you are correct. I checked, and she died in 1967. I thought it was earlier than that. It must have been the Dagmars that addled my brain. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />Maybe it was a mid '50s Cadillac that cost Sammy Davis Jr. his eye. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />hvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 It was a '66 Electra 225 if my memory serves me correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Jayne Mansfield did indeed die in a '66 Buick Electra 225.And, yes, I also heard the stories about Sammy Davis Jr. losing his eye from the domed steering wheel hub of an early to mid-50's Cadillac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Centurion ~ I have always been more than a little concerned about that bullet in the middle of the steering wheel when driving my '55 Century. Why Buick saw the need to go to that pointed design from the previous flat steering wheel center, Lord only knows. Another example of flash over function. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I guess that is why I recall the Sammy Davis incident.hvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 I've heard years ago that the tail fins on 59 & 60 Caddys caused problems with people getting hurt on the points of them....Has anyone information on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Ralph Nader's book, <span style="font-style: italic">Unsafe at any Speed</span> described in gory detail several incidents when pedestrians and bicyclists had been impaled upon Cadillac tailfins. There were also a couple of lovely stories about pedestrians being caught up and dragged into and under "spinner" wheel centers. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I don't know of any other examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter J.Heizmann Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Sky, relative to Dave's input, I have heard from more than one source, that our Government banned "knock-off" hubs on British cars, thus, their demise. As the story goes, a lady in England was tooling along in a car, of which, I cannot recall the marque. She sported a long scarf that became entangled in the left rear knock-off, and, decapitated her. I can accept that this could happen, but...How true this is, I have no idea.Regards, Peter J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Peter, The gal in question was dancer Isadora Duncan,the accident was in 1927 in France with an Amilcar.There are several websites with information about her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearchoclatetown Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 yea, but it was also proven he faked the film of the Corvair and the Falcon. i don't believe anything he says. all the things he messed with in the name of safety and they still didn't fix the worst thing of all. the nut behind the wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Concerning pedestrians getting impaled by wheelspinners and tailfins, we truckdrivers have a saying....If you can't stand our driving, stay off the sidewalk!! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter J.Heizmann Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Bob, thank you for the clarification on the "knock-off, decapitation story". Was this, in fact, the reason for the demise of knock-offs? The reason I ask is it is obvious they were used well into the '60's, long after 1927. Sorry, getting off the original thread subject, however, appreciate the info.Regards, Peter J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tin_knocker Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I waited patiently for someone mention James Deans 49 Merc in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. After that movie every teenager wanted one. Mine was dark blue. That old flathead with glass pacs was the sweetest sound on earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DeSoto Frank Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 With regards to "Driving Miss Daisy": the car that Jessica Tandy wrecks is a '46 to '48 Chrysler.However, the interior shots of her getting behind the wheel, and starting the car with the key switch on the left side of the steering column used a '49 or '50 Chrysler <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> ; '46 to '48 Chryslers still had a push-button starter! Where was the "continuity director"?(I saw the movie at our local drive-in, with my girlfriend, in my 1948 New Yorker!) Related story: after my wife and I purchased our 1917 house in Scranton, with 1940-vintage two-car garage out in the back, one of our new neighbors told us about the time that one of the two "old spinster ladies" that previously owned the house, was parking her Cadillac in the Garage and "something went awry" and she somehow managed to floor the gas and drove the car through the front wall of the garage, and into the back yard (quite an achievement, as the garage floor is about 2-1/2 feet higher than ground level in the yard!). Supposedly, the garage wall (clapboard) just tore loose at the bottom, "hinged" at the top as the car went through, and slammed back down, as though nothing had happened! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />It was not until that point that I realized that the exterior wall of the garage on that side had been re-done with T-11 panelling instead of matching weatherboard!The trust officer at our bank confirmed this story as true, as this was one of his trust accounts and the lady was insisting that she had to have a NEW Cadillac after this event, even though her car was repairable. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caf Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 I've seen a great photo of Clark Gable in what appears to be a genuine 1914 Stutz Bearcat. I don't recall the movie or actress with him, anyone out there know of this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Where was the "continuity director"? </div></div> One movie that hasn't been mentioned here as yet, probably because of it's wide time scale, is <span style="font-style: italic">The Godfather.</span> While not exactly a "car movie", it does have some of the best car spotting moments in movie history. However, if you follow the events in the story line and pay attention to the cars used, it isn't too hard to notice that the cars are consistently 2-3 years too new for the scenes they're in. They'll be '59 police cars in a scene that's supposed to be set in '57, etc. Hardly enough to ruin one of the great movies of all time, but it's an irritant after a while. Also, for those who spot cars in not-so-great movies. The original 1968 <span style="font-style: italic">Love Bug</span> has some of the best car scenes ever filmed, especially in the racing sequences (although they're usually sped up to mke the VW look fast to kids). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Where was the "continuity director"? </div></div> However, if you follow the events in the story line and pay attention to the cars used, it isn't too hard to notice that the cars are consistently 2-3 years too new for the scenes they're in. They'll be '59 police cars in a scene that's supposed to be set in '57, etc. Hardly enough to ruin one of the great movies of all time, but it's an irritant after a while. </div></div> Another irritating event in movies that bugs me is when a scene starts out with a particular model & year car and finishes the scene with a different year car. They do this often with police cars chases........ or a hubcap comes flying off and for some freak miracle get reattached to the car........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 This is a great thread that brings back alot of memories, let's keep it going. Do you remember the Mod Squard's woody Merc wagon? I think it was a 49". Perry Mason always drove Skyliners & Sunliners. Paul Drakes T'Bird was was a familiar car as well...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 SkyKing, I remember those shows. One of the shows that I remember was the TV show "the rookies" where it would show them going to a call in a Plymouth, the police car would turn onto another street and become a Chevy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DeSoto Frank Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Another "movie gripe"....At the performing arts center where I work (in a 1938 Art-Deco movie palace), we still run films- mostly so-called "art-films" that wouldn't be screened at the area's do-decaplexes.One of the neater films in the last year was "The Cat's Meow", which was a period-piece, set around 1925 (remember that year), and loosely based on a boating party on the yacht of William Randolph Hearst (played by Edward Hermann, from the Dodge commercials); at any rate, the opening sequence shows the boat docked at the pier, and the various guests arriving in their cars, including one lady being delivered in a 1930 or '31 Model "A" ! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> (oops!);Hmmm, 1931 Model "A", (dropping off a "blue-blood", mind you!) in 1925.....I guess they did their best... at least they had the Charlie Chaplin character arriving in a proper mid-'20's Packard limousine, complete w/ Japanese chauffer,and the yacht they used seemed to be "correct".....If you can get past the auto anachronisms, it's a fun film....Some other movie cars:The Buick convertible from "Rain Man", the yellow '48-'49 Packard convertible from "Back to the Future", and...the 1956 De Soto convertible( <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ) driven by Charlton Heston in the 1957 film noir: "Touch of Evil".And of course: Norma Desmond's Hispano-Suiza Landau from "Sunset Blvd"! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> (I seem to be favoring rag-tops!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 ex98, imagine if they changed cars from scene to scene in todays movies, we wouldn't know the difference,(as long as it was the same color) they all look alike! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24T42 Posted April 11, 2003 Author Share Posted April 11, 2003 I want to thank everyone who responded to my original question. I now have a long list to choose from. Since this is for the Junior AACA web page, I think I will stay away from the 'death car' angle and stick with cars that became stars in their own right.However, I am suprised that no one mentioned a particular series that was about a car and has been reviewed as "will forever be held up in ridicule as possibly the worst television series of all time."Well, thanks again. Junior AACA web page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 OK I give up - can you give us another hint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leadfoot Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 Yes 24T42, we overlooked the obvious "My Mother the Car". I wonder if anyone on the DF will admit they watched this TV show? For a flashback click on: http://www.tvparty.com/recmothercar.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadsterRich Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 Hey now... I watched My Mother the Car... course I was really young and impressionable back then too <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 Way back on March 24th (see first reply to this string) I suggested the 28 Porter in My Mother the Car!And ... yes I do admit watching it although it was only on for 30 shows from 65 to 66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 OK guys, who stared in the show??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyDale Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 Dear Skyking,The only cast member i can recall is Jerry ,never as funny as his brother Dick ,Van Dyke.diz <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 I was in first grade when <span style="font-style: italic">My Mother the Car</span> was on (1965), but I do remember watching it. There are some pretty amusing reviews of the show online. Seee especially: http://www.tvparty.com/recmothercar.html http://www.mymotherthecar.com/TV/My-Mother-01.html Cast for the show:Cindy Eilbacher - Cindy Crabtree Maggie Pierce - Barbara Crabtree Avery Schreiber - Capt. Bernard Mancini Ann Sothern - Gladys (Abigail?) Crabtree (voice) Jerry Van Dyke - Dave Crabtree Randy Whipple - Randy Crabtree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teamsterdug Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 How about the 1947 Chrysler Royal in "Driving Miss Daisy" that got wiped out in the first 2 minutes of the movie. It's the one that Jessica Tandy drove off the edge of the driveway. I came across it a while back on the Internet when shopping for a car. I see it's still for sale Miss Daisy Chrysler Royal and is located in Savannah, Ga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 Dave, I graduated in 65' and the only two I could remember were Jerry Van Dyke and Ann Sothern......the minds not as sharp anymore <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24T42 Posted April 12, 2003 Author Share Posted April 12, 2003 Dear Ts and As,You are right. You mentioned it on the 1st reply. My apologies. I can only say that I am finally old enough to claim a senior moment.I do not know if this will work or not but here is the theme song. My Mother the Car theme song - a wav file.Thanks again for the help. Be sure to check the junior page periodically to see a write up about some of the cars that have mentioned here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 24T42This was a fun string - thanx for starting it - it brought back a lot of memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24T42 Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 My sister, a movie buff, told me about this movie 'The Yellow Rolls-Royce." It is a 1965 British movie with a great cast - Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, George C Scott, Omar Shariff, and Ingrid Bergman to name a few.Synopsis: A fine cast in this story about the people who are linked together by their ownership of a yellow Rolls Royce, and how romance plays a part in each of their lives. The story is done in three parts.Car used in the movie is a 1930 Phantom II Sedanca de Ville. I don't remember this one but I am on my way to the video store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadsterRich Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Ya'll missed the VW Bug in Woody Allen's movie "Sleeper". The one he found in the cave that was 200 years old and started on the first turn of the key. I can't even get gas to last a year, let alone 200 years! Not to mention batteries!Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Awini Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 my vote goes to peter seller's three wheeler Morgan in "the party" mr bean's yellow Mini,and lets not forget the little Ford Anglia in harry potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynaflash8 Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 My vote goes for the green 39 Buick convertible coupe in "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" starry Jayne Mansfield, and the black 39 Buick convertible in Pat Boone's second movie, Bernadette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Gosh, You people are old. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Harlin Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 STARS CARS FOR SALEKlassix Cars Musuem Daytona Beach. auction tomorrow, Saturday ,starting 10:00AM.If you cant get there in time call 1-800-968-4444 from morning paper.Some are ones sent in to this topic.BATMOBILE------ DRAGULA (munsters)----FLINTSTONE---GREASED LIGHTNING--KITT (trans am David Hasselhoff Knight Rider) Gostbusters Ambulance (Bill Murry)filmExpecting $200.000 for Batmobile Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DeSoto Frank Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Well then,let's not forget all the anonymous Model "T"s that made the ultimate sacrifice for Laurel & Hardy, and the Keystone Kops !And in the 1926 silent picture "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court", where Merlin (?) invents "Ye Firste Forde"....And Ben Turpin's little "Magnet-mobile" from one of his shorts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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