tune in to tv land wednesday at 10:00 pm to see their take on the top ten tv cars i saw the commercial today all the cars from the munsters to knight rider i am sure it will be gay but i am gonna check it out anyway barris came up with some cool cars
i'll betcha that at least half of those cars are barris cars. should be, at least.... i'll have to set the tivo for this one. thanks. -scott noteboom
My pics... #1 Munster Coach #2 Dragula #3 Norm Grabowskis T #4 Batmobile #5 Green Hornets Imperial #6 California Kid Coupe #7 Speed Racers Mach 5 #8 Ralph Mouths T-bucket #9 Monkeymobile #10 Flintstones car Well thats my list. California Kid should probably be higher,but it's so hard to choose!
Sorry but mines the General lee. That damn show infected my like a sickness. Question; did the producers choose the 69 Charger for the General because the Charger was so popular, or is the Charger so popular because of the show?
lol was i listening to pop music because i was depressed....or was i depressed because i was listening to pop music?
Mine favorite is without a doubt the Ralph Mouth Roadster Pickup. The feature on it in American Rodder was neat. I didn't know until then that Von Dutch had done the flames on it. They said the car had actually been a very nice finshed rod at one point in it's life.
lots of memories here, but the one that is my personal favorite is the "77 sunset strip" t-bucket driven on the show by "Kookie"/Ed Byrnes and built by crazy ol' Norm Grabowski.
Odd that if movie cars could be on the list why no one called Milners coupe out?? Wasn’t Ralph Mouths car an A bucket?? Doc.
Not necessarily in order of favorites, but my short list is; 1. Columbos '59Peugeot 403 2. Monkee mobile 3. Knght Riders KITT 4. Grabowskis Kookie T 5. Clampetts Oldsmobile jalopy truck 6. General Lee 7. Munster Coach 8. Maxwell Smarts Tiger 9. Dan Tannas 57 Tbird 10. Batmobile ETA His name is Ralph MALPH! Edited to correct Columbo's car...
I thought Columbo drove a Rambler convertable... You guys missed half the cars on The Waltons... Anywho, of all the cars I was mesmerized by as a kid... I'd have to say the Duke Boys' General Lee was right up there... right up there with BJ and The Bears' Kay-Dubya... Sam.
But your Mama would be prouder if you used the search engine: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32986&highlight=TV+cars
Columbo drove a 1959 Peugeot 403 convertible. It was rare, only 504 made. The Clampett's truck was a Hudson, or at least the radiator shell was. How about the vette from Route 66? Um, maybe... How about the Ferrari from Magnum P.I.? What you guys don't like bad hawaiian shirts and chest hair? Nahhhh. Nash Bridges fake Hemi cuda convertible? Nahhhh. One of my favorites is the Plymouth Sattelite black and white from Adam 12. They filmed that show all over the neighborhood I grew up in. Watching reruns is like having childhood flashbacks, except the cops weren't around, uhh much. Cheers, Kurt
I tried doing a search on the Peugeot.. and came up with 1958 403. Could only find a picture of a modelcar!
What about Nash Bridges' Hemi 'Cuda? not traditional, but a Hemi 'Cuda convertable is still pretty wicked in my book
It was a Jalopy... butI remember it being based on an Olds and this agrees... http://www.tvacres.com/trucks_clampett.htm I had a big case of brain-fade on the Peugeot, I knew it was a Peugeot, or Pegot like it says on California titles. Hell, I usta wrench on Peugeots, but they were 504's and 604's by the time I was working on them.
Can I edit my list? to include: 1. Simon Templar's Volvo 1800 2. Columbos '59 Peugeot 403 2. Steed's Bentley 3. Emma Peel's Lotus 4. Honey West's Cobra 5 Maxwell Smarts Tiger 6. Monkee mobile 7. Batmobile 8. Grabowskis Kookie T 9. Clampetts Oldsmobile jalopy truck 10. Munster Coach
There you go, screwed the pooch again, RALPH MALPH.... Guess I always had better things to do than watch the ideot box all the time. Having said that, what about the T coupe the oldest son was given in My Three Sons?? Bog stock and perfect and he complained................... THE FOOL! Doc.
How about the bitching roadster in one episode of "Life of Riley"? Or the one on "Father Knows Best"! Or the Barris Ksutom buick on the episode of Twilight Zone. (the Blue Danube, I believe)
my fav episode is when the oldest boy comes home with a nice 36 coupe. tears it apart to fix it and they end up giving it to the scraper.if they only knew...
Monkee Mobile is tops, followed by Mannix's Dart GT convertible, Mannix's 'Cuda's, and how about the woodie the Mod Squad drove?
The # 1 has got to be since you mentioned Adam 12 is the guest appearence of the 55 gasser from two lane blacktop. It was an abbanded car in an alley they investigated
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