Motion Pictures "Life of Riley" 1956 "Jr. gets a Hot Rod" Co-Staring Wally Parks

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - Road Race

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The Nelson 32 is pretty much inspiration for my Roadster build that I'm gonna start soon.. I have watched these^^^^^^^^ a few dozen tims in the past.. I'm gonna pull some stills from them a post it later..


Anyone have info on the Riley Roadster I posted above????

 

I remember watching that episode many many years ago, probably as a re-run in the early 60's on one of the 2 TV channels we had back then (we were truly living large)...

-Great post and a great thread to boot,

Thanks for taking the time to post

moe


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Take a close look at stance, bike fenders, channel...Could the primered roadster Junior and pal drove off in be an earlier version of the Tony LaMaz ("Nelson roadster", later restored by Don Orasco) a year previous to the Nelson appearance?

One more thing: Anybody remember the 'Highway Patrol' episode with the Olds powered roadster 'getaway car' used in the restaurant stickups?

 

CooooooooooL..........!!

 

Wow Ozzie and Harriet, Cornball as good as it gets!
When life was easy, your TV was in color.... if Black and White are colors!
Boy do I miss those days.

 

Thanks for posting the videos Harms Way. I loved these shows as a kid. Great seeing them again.

 

I actually posted that same thing.. but deleated it cause I found a few earlier photos of the Neslon car and it had a few things that could easly been changed but the plates were different...again I don't know if they changed that...

 

This must be later... bigger windshield ... weird back fender?? But that was my fist thought too...

 

The channelled '32 in the 'Life Of Riley' episode isn't the LaMasa roadster. LaMasa had bought it from Ray DeFillipi. Hop Up had featured it April 1952 and it had many of the distinctive features like the hood bulge hoodsides and '40 dash.

 

Thanks.. That's what I thought...

 

Yeah, I remember those old Life of Riley radio shows...

 

I was looking thru Hot Rod magazine I knew I had seen that roadster before here is the article from March 1956 HRM

 

That was fun made me smile.

 

That was a fun 20 min.

 

I remember the show growing up but had not seen this episode....thanks....may be corny but i still refer to people having it easy as having "The life Of Riley" ........the younger gen looks at me like I have three heads.......a different time ...a different world.......miss the ole days.

 

Thanks for posting this. This was always one of my dad's favorite shows and, naturally, we all watched it together. Good times!

 

Is this Tom Mcmullens roadster in the lower left of this page ?

 

Yes.

 

Thanks Jimmy, I thought it was . Those split & drilled bones are unmistakable.

 

Yes, Don Hudson built that car,actually his employees did with him. He owned Don's Trim Shop in Norwalk,CA. Both Bart Root's 29 and the 32 were trimmed there. A studio employee must have seen those cars out there and thought "What a good storyline for a episode".

Tom found the 32 there like in 1957 or so. It's so funny how many incarnations that iconic 32 has gone through. To be used as Jr's Hot Rod 1st I think was pure Hot Rod! you can see that the studio sprayed that dust all over it to cover it's black hue

I wish I could remember what happened to the original chassis that was under that car. I seem to remember that when Chuck Lombardo's CSR-HB took that re-build on, I think the chassis was replaced with a Deuce Factory unit? Very good looking car from the gett go!

Do notice how HRM Editor Wally Parks did his job of PR and made sure that episodes actors and cars hit the cover,even got a positive plug in the NHRA-Pre-Professional Drag Racing!

 

The McMullen Roadster when it was still the Don Hudson Roadster.




And when it appeared in "Lassie"

 

Great Shots of that Car! Last one is a McMullen LARC event or movie?

 

The McMullen Roadster was used in a episode where some Hot Rodders ran over a raccoon pal of Lassie,.... Been looking for the show on line for you guys,... but ran into a brick wall,.... I would love to see it,.. if any of you guys could find a link.....


Lassie, Season 8, Episode 17
"Lassie's Protege"

Some stills,.............

 

I have that Lassie show.It's called Lassie's Protege and Tommy Ivo is in it also.

 

I would love to see it,... I've been looking for it on the internet with no luck. If any of you guys can find it (or up load it) it would make a great contribution to this thread.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

I can't do it with this webtv .... wish I could !!!

 

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