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D500Jim
Posted 2008-12-16 9:59 AM (#155680)
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I thought it might be a good idea to make an inventory on ForwardLook cars in movies.
To kick it off, I placed all the forward look footage of the movie ‘The Lineup’ on YouTube. It features a 1957 Dodge Coronet D500, a 1957 Dodge Custom Royal and a 1947 Plymouth (don’t know the model for sure).
Because it’s rather much (large), I’ve placed three versions:

Dodge only:

Plymouth only:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJeG5jUiptg

and both together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRxTcxuMkM

Funny to see they’re like keep changing cars during a trip or chase! One shot they’re in a Coronet D500, the next shot, in the same scene, they’re in a Custom Royal.
The Custom Royal doesn’t seem to have the correct quarter panel side center moldings, they should be wider. But what’s correct? I wouldn’t know why the car is like that, but it’s not very plausible they did that for the movie. I would say it came like that. So, I guess the next Custom Royal without the wide moldings on eBay could be real…

So, if you know of any movie featuring ForwardLook cars, let me know, and I’ll see whether I can get a copy and get the ForwardLook footage on YouTube.
I already have a copy of ‘Gypsy Moths’ at Neil’s, which I’ll pick up when I’ll visit the US and Neil again, shortly.



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57burb
Posted 2008-12-16 2:46 PM (#155716 - in reply to #155680)
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I heard there was a movie about an old red Plymouth that kills people!!
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:00 PM (#155722 - in reply to #155680)
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I don't want to hear a word about that one... never...

I'm sure I saw something in Any Which Way But Loose when I watched it the other night.
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:25 PM (#155729 - in reply to #155680)
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The Movie ( VERTIGO = JAMES STEWART AND KIM NOVAC ) has Forwad Look
cars all over. James Stewart evern drives one ( Chrysler or Desoto ) don't remember which.
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:27 PM (#155730 - in reply to #155680)
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A few years ago I watched an old Frank Sinatra movie. It showed him getting out of "I think" a 1960 Plymouth taxi cab.
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:30 PM (#155731 - in reply to #155680)
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The movie "California Kid" (got a bad headache, neck, shoulder & foot been bothering me for a while so I'm not remembering so well right now) wasn't the police car driven by Vic Morrow a Forward Look? Been too long since I've seen it to remember the year car, but it did have fins.
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:36 PM (#155732 - in reply to #155680)
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Tthe Movie (IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD = SPENCER TRACY ) They have all sorts of
forward Look cars at the end of the movie in the last car chase.
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:38 PM (#155733 - in reply to #155680)
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Yeah... that movie is full of good stuff...
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Posted 2008-12-16 4:48 PM (#155734 - in reply to #155731)
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SavySavoy - 2008-12-16 9:30 PM

The movie "California Kid" (got a bad headache, neck, shoulder & foot been bothering me for a while so I'm not remembering so well right now) wasn't the police car driven by Vic Morrow a Forward Look? Been too long since I've seen it to remember the year car, but it did have fins.


Yep ,,Martin Sheen had the Hot Rod and the Cop Car was a 57 Plymouth.. ( Blue and White i think )
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Posted 2008-12-16 5:03 PM (#155741 - in reply to #155734)
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SavySavoy - 2008-12-16 9:30 PM

The movie "California Kid" (got a bad headache, neck, shoulder & foot been bothering me for a while so I'm not remembering so well right now) wasn't the police car driven by Vic Morrow a Forward Look? Been too long since I've seen it to remember the year car, but it did have fins.


Yep ,,Martin Sheen had the Hot Rod and the Cop Car was a 57 Plymouth.. ( Blue and White i think )


OK,, Let,s try this.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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Posted 2008-12-16 5:17 PM (#155744 - in reply to #155680)
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The master touch (1972) car chase



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Posted 2008-12-16 5:39 PM (#155747 - in reply to #155716)
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57burb - 2008-12-16 7:46 PM

I heard there was a movie about an old red Plymouth that kills people!! ;)


Not Sure , Is it something Similar to this.................

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Posted 2008-12-16 6:21 PM (#155751 - in reply to #155680)
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I've long suspected that fifties/sixties film makers contracted with certain auto makers to supply new models for their films. A win/win deal, the film makers get free cars and the car makers get their cars seen.
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Posted 2008-12-16 6:26 PM (#155753 - in reply to #155680)
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And the TV shows... they wrote that up in the credits at the end... 'Cars supplied by Chrysler Corp' etc...
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Posted 2008-12-16 7:08 PM (#155758 - in reply to #155751)
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yeah, like in bewitched, all chevy's... one car park scene theres just a massive line up of every chevy model for the year, a little amusing to say the least...

ok, back to forwardlooks...

blue hawaii: 61 plymouth suburban

seripco: 61 plymouth cop car

crime story: 300c ragtop, 61 plymouth ragtop, 62 imperial

the errand boy: (short glimpse, 61 plymouth ragtop)

cars that ate paris (lol): aussie delivered 58 desoto firesweep

all i can think of off the top of my head...

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Posted 2008-12-16 9:50 PM (#155777 - in reply to #155680)
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1958's "King Creole" (Presley) - near the end:

Carolyn Jones ("Ronnie") drives just about the slickest set of wheels I'e seen a prostitute own - a 1958 Chrysler New Yorker ragtop.

And Walter Matthau ("Maxie Fields") gets driven to Ronnie's hideout in a black 1958 Imperial Crown sedan.
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Posted 2008-12-16 9:52 PM (#155778 - in reply to #155729)
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RoyalGate - 2008-12-16 2:25 PM

The Movie ( VERTIGO = JAMES STEWART AND KIM NOVAC ) has Forwad Look
cars all over. James Stewart evern drives one ( Chrysler or Desoto ) don't remember which.


Yep - James Stewart drives a solid white 1956 DeSoto Firedome 2 door hardtop in it.

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Posted 2008-12-16 10:53 PM (#155783 - in reply to #155778)
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1) "Take Her She's Mine" 1963, Jimmy Stewart goes to Paris to track down his daughter (Sandra Dee?) and there is a 57 or 58 Dodge.
2) "The Gazebo" 1959, Glen Ford and Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner is the neighbor and drives a beautiful Imperial convertible.
3) The last 2 or 3 seasons of "Superman" (TV series) were shot in color and featured 57/58 Dodges and Plymouths.
4) "Cape Fear" (1961 version) Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum and a bunch of '61 Chryslers
5) "The Misfits" 1961, Marylin Monroe (saved the best one for last...) and Clark Gable, one or more '61 Chryslers.

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Posted 2008-12-17 9:08 AM (#155815 - in reply to #155680)
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There was a movie a few years ago "Big Fish" that had a 57 Plymouth in it for a little while. Then there was the first scene in "Cat's eye" where that red Plymouth showed up that was in that other movie about a red Plymouth.............What was the name of that..............?
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Posted 2008-12-17 10:09 AM (#155819 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2008-12-17 4:27 PM (#155847 - in reply to #155680)
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On a more modern note the 1990 film Havana featured a green '58 wagon, can't remember if it's a Chrysler or DeSoto.

Lots of fifties cars in Cuba.
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Posted 2008-12-17 5:11 PM (#155853 - in reply to #155847)
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mystery date real nice 59 firesweep conv
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Posted 2008-12-17 6:23 PM (#155861 - in reply to #155680)
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Oh I know the red car your talking about its that 60 plymouth in Riding The Bullet by Stephen King
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Posted 2008-12-17 7:21 PM (#155870 - in reply to #155680)
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I get a kick out of this: Every two or three months there is a new "FL Cars in Movies" thread!
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Posted 2008-12-17 10:59 PM (#155888 - in reply to #155680)
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You guys should check the " www.imcdb.org" . yes, Internet Movie Cars Data Base. pretty good site, and you can add to it. Not sure if it was mentioned above (I may have missed it) but that movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" has I think a 57 plaza at the end. It's a taxi cab...
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Posted 2008-12-18 10:29 AM (#155917 - in reply to #155680)
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This is great thread.
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Posted 2008-12-18 5:25 PM (#155962 - in reply to #155888)
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tuske427 - 2008-12-18 3:59 AM

You guys should check the " www.imcdb.org" . yes, Internet Movie Cars Data Base. pretty good site, and you can add to it. Not sure if it was mentioned above (I may have missed it) .


SUPERB SITE.. Can spend Hours checking it out..

http://www.imcdb.org/

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Posted 2008-12-18 5:47 PM (#155966 - in reply to #155888)
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Playboy's Wet and Wild 2 has a '58 Dodge in a carwash getting a buff 'n' shine. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Unquestionably the best MoPar movie ever.
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Posted 2008-12-19 2:37 PM (#156096 - in reply to #155680)
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This message could be its own little thread, because there's not a whole lot of FWDLK'ers in it (did see a baby blue
61 Belvie convertible, with black top, in one quick shot), but, last nite Turner Classic Movies showed "The Model
Shop", from 1969, with Gary Lockwood, and Anouk Aimee [from A man & Woman fame] starring in it.

What makes it so special [certainly, not the self-conscious acting/dialog, which makes "Gone in 60 Seconds" seem like Hamlet] ,
is that the French director used one principal-camara, in Cinema Verite fashion, to record and document the REAL L.A. Hollywood-area, in 1969, complete with MANY scenes containing real-world views of cars and buildings [not like the set-pieces, in "Bullett", and "Gone", etcetcetc, where the car merely drives up to a place, and parks in front of it, or where the 'action' is tightly controlled and choreographed] , as seen by Lockwood, as he drives around the area in his MGTD (which gets reposessed, at the end of the flick), with the camara mounted to the car, as he drives around town.

The movie is a real time capsule, not unlike "The Lineup", but, instead of high speed pursuits, the viewer can sit back and
enjoy the views of the area, and, there are no gratuitous 'freeway' scenes.

Lockwood is an unemployed architect, who lives in a dumpy-rental house, next to an oil rig, who learns from his wealthy
mutually-estranged parents that he just received his Draft Notice (remember THEM??) and that he has to report for
induction 'next week'.

Pretty-good Hippy-scenes, which are, also, not played over-the-top, like Peter Fondas movies, were.

One surprising thing, in all the many car-scenes, is that VERY few VW's or other furrin cars are seen, in the city.

There's an overwhelming amount of domestic cars on the streets, in 1969 L.A. , and the director definitely wanted "the car" to be a featured character in this clearly "L.A." movie.

If you can find a copy of this flick, it's well worth watching (with the sound turned-down). Speaking of sound,
I just realized that there is no background music played in this movie, but, there is some lame generic music
that Lockwood brings up, on the car's radio.

I should say that there IS actual (KRLA, mostly) L.A. disc jockey dialog and news-accounts played on the radio, however, regarding the staus of the ongoing Vietnam War peace negotiations, which IS of some real
interest, to Lockwood, and other contemporary film viewers.

At the end of the movie, TCM's host, Robert Osborne , came 'on' to state that originally Harrison F-rd was supposed to get the lead role, but, then, he was not well known as a leading man; Lockwood had just starred in "2001", so, he
was considered to be a 'hot' actor, who definitely plays-down his role, here, not unlike the way that Steve McQueen
would have played it.

This is a car-spotter's DREAM movie, and a nice piece, for fans of the 60's "commercial-strip" architecture.
The "Carolina Pines" Googie restaurant is seen in several scenes.

This ends my movie review. Get/see (but don't listen, much, to) this flick!






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hemidenis
Posted 2008-12-22 1:39 PM (#156418 - in reply to #155680)
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Unfortunately the movie “the Model Shop” it is not on Netflix or Blockbuster. But I saw a Plymouth in the openings; they may play it again on TV.



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Posted 2008-12-22 2:08 PM (#156421 - in reply to #155680)
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And one of my favorites all time tv scenes, definitely Plymouth are FL cars, Director’s choice

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d500neil
Posted 2008-12-22 4:08 PM (#156431 - in reply to #155680)
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Denis, from what show are your screne images, above?

"The Model Shop" MIGHT be available in France/Europe, as its director was French, and this was his only Amerian
flick.

If so, even in French, or with subtitles, it's the car-watching that is important, not the dialog.

BTW, that beach-town-looking surface street was used in several shots, including the one where I saw that 61 PLY convertible,
seemingly parked in just about the same place as your 60 4-dr hardtop---lololol...








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Posted 2008-12-22 6:41 PM (#156449 - in reply to #155680)
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That shot if from Crime story. Lots of FL in that fantastic TV series.
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Posted 2008-12-23 5:38 PM (#156523 - in reply to #155744)
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This clip is hilarious, and painful.
It begins as a chase between a Cortina? and a 57 Plymouth, but as they get further into demolishing the cars, the Plymouth turns into a 1960 Dodge, with big fake-looking tailfins pasted on! Fun to watch them switch back and forth bewteen the Plymouth and Dodge, but sad to watch them wreck both.
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The above comment was in reference to Rebel 59's post on page 1, called "Master Touch".
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Posted 2008-12-23 5:45 PM (#156526 - in reply to #155680)
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Roger, I recall seeing the film clip that you're referencing, but, is 'this' 60 PLY (with the Ram Air hood scoop on it)
a part of your film-reference?

I thought that your-film was shot in BxW; I can't believe that the custom-yellow car appeared in the "Crime Story"
TV show, but, was waiting for someone else to comment on its appearance, somewhere.

OOPS; you posted right before I did (OK; "Master Touch" is in 'color' !)

So, is this old-yeller a feature car in the late 50's "Crime Story" show?









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Posted 2008-12-24 12:09 AM (#156559 - in reply to #155962)
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Rebels-59 Coronet - 2008-12-18 2:25 PM

tuske427 - 2008-12-18 3:59 AM

You guys should check the " www.imcdb.org" . yes, Internet Movie Cars Data Base. pretty good site, and you can add to it. Not sure if it was mentioned above (I may have missed it) .


SUPERB SITE.. Can spend Hours checking it out..

http://www.imcdb.org/

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I agree completely, and, have done exactly just that. I do what I can to contribute my car info for correcting improperly named cars and have spent many a lunch hours doing so. What I also find fascinating on this site is how it's not just a USA only site- it's open to cars and vehicles from all over the world. A real eye opener to what's out there, regardless of personal preferences in cars.
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Posted 2008-12-24 2:59 AM (#156565 - in reply to #155680)
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I cant believe that screamin' yellow zonker is from Crime Story. It has been over twenty years, but I didnt miss a single episode. They would have never used something with a dopey hood scoop like that.

Another thing; the first season was set in Chicago, the second was in Vegas. So there could have been vehicles with California plates, but not BLUE plates as pictured. They didnt start using those until '71 and the detail folks for Crime Story were pretty darn good.
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Posted 2008-12-24 12:17 PM (#156605 - in reply to #155680)
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Reading the last posts I can see that my credibility in this forum is ZERO, that is what I love of it…lol
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Posted 2008-12-24 12:23 PM (#156606 - in reply to #155680)
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Good points, Doug, but yaknow? That 'Zonker's' license plate is NOT a CA blue-plate special with its "chrome yellow"
lettering/numbering.

It may be a vintage plate, but, I don't know from what state 'that' was.

Wasn't 'Zonker' one of the optional 300F colors ?




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Posted 2008-12-24 11:51 PM (#156670 - in reply to #155680)
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Neil-- your monitor is a lot better than mine, they look like regular Cali blue plates to me.

Something else, I just noticed the zonker has chrome sidepipes.
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Posted 2008-12-25 11:18 AM (#156702 - in reply to #155680)
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They are not California plates they are Nevada ones, the mechanic changed them later. Wonder where is that car now.

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Posted 2008-12-25 3:43 PM (#156724 - in reply to #156565)
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forwardlookparts - 2008-12-24 2:59 AM

I cant believe that screamin' yellow zonker is from Crime Story. It has been over twenty years, but I didnt miss a single episode. They would have never used something with a dopey hood scoop like that.



i think you are right. i have that scene on tape somewhere iirc i believe thats a scene from "quantum leap" with scott bacula.

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forwardlookparts - 2008-12-24 2:59 AM

I cant believe that screamin' yellow zonker is from Crime Story. It has been over twenty years, but I didnt miss a single episode. They would have never used something with a dopey hood scoop like that.


For all you non beleivers, yeah, it is from Crime Storys. I have an article home in my dad's book or 60 plymouth info whit a write up all about that car. I'll see if I can get a copy up, or if it's even legible.
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Yes, I am a non-believer until someone comes up with proof. Naturally, I HAVE been wrong in the past, but I would just be surprised that the tech advisors would let a monstrosity like that slip by. Isnt that a seventies vintage super stock hood scoop?
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Posted 2008-12-27 9:15 PM (#156994 - in reply to #155680)
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My 58 Plymouth was in this movie years ago and even in the preview! HAPPY MOTORING!!
Its a movie called "Looking for an Echo" I tried to download the u-tube preview so you can see it.

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Theres at least one FL car in American graffiti, A white 59 Plymouth
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old mopar guy - 2008-12-27 9:15 PM

My 58 Plymouth was in this movie years ago and even in the preview! HAPPY MOTORING!!
Its a movie called "Looking for an Echo" I tried to download the u-tube preview so you can see it.




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Posted 2008-12-29 7:50 AM (#157098 - in reply to #157078)
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I see at TV and it was a black/white movie The Gazebo from 1959
Start seeing from the middle of the movie And in a short movie frikvens runing a Windsor 59 conv upp. It was my first time I see one in a movie.
Have any see this movie before? Do you see same car at first time at Movie?



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Posted 2009-01-03 10:07 PM (#157724 - in reply to #156702)
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i found the 60 Ply in a old VHS and yes it is Crime story confirmed (the missing FL car), i will post this in youtube soon.

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Posted 2009-01-27 10:32 AM (#160614 - in reply to #155680)
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In the Jim carrey movie "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" is a cool semi retro future Imperial limo.

I dont know what else to name that car. look at the interior

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Posted 2009-01-27 5:33 PM (#160664 - in reply to #155680)
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Never saw this movie, it is a 60 Imperial limo
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Posted 2009-01-27 6:41 PM (#160671 - in reply to #155680)
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It's a Ghia limousine, but, this snippet is titled "Foley Project" , a foley-artist is a sound engineer who, inside a studio, creates 'fake' noises, like the telephone, and those push-button sounds and the rattling bottles, and the train noises, etc, which appear in this film clip.

The poster of this clip very cleverly omitted the 'noise' of the actors, so you only hear the background/incidental, and artificially created sounds, which create the drama in these scenes.






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Posted 2009-01-28 8:54 AM (#160778 - in reply to #157724)
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Posted 2009-01-28 11:30 AM (#160784 - in reply to #157098)
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I saw "The Gazebo" at a drive-in movie theatre 45 years ago. I remember the plot but I don't remember the cars that may have been in it. I have never seen it on TV since. It was a mildly amusing comedy about an advertising executive who thinks he's killed a blackmailer and buries the body in the foundation of a gazebo he's building in his back yard.

"Monster On The Campus" (1958) is a horror picture like so many others of that era. It does however have a few FL cars in it. The story concerns a mild-mannered anthropology professor at a small university who is transformed into a slobbering cave man by being bitten on the hand by a coelocanth fish. His girlfriend drives a 1958 DeSoto Fireflite and his gal Friday drives a 1958 Plymouth convertible. Even the cops drive a 1958 Plymouth Plaza.

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theres a shot of a blueish gray 58 plymouth in one of these H.B. Halikis movies, I forget which one though.



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Posted 2009-01-28 11:57 AM (#160792 - in reply to #155680)
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Theres also a green 4dr 1957 plymouth in this original late 1980's hairspray movie.



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Posted 2009-07-07 9:36 AM (#180727 - in reply to #155680)
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Not movies but TV shows, "Leave it to Beaver" used Plymouth's after the first season(Ford's in 1957). In the opening credits there is a car driving by (58 Chrysler?). Another show "Batchelor Father" uses an Imperial conv.
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Posted 2009-07-07 11:00 AM (#180730 - in reply to #155680)
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The new transformers 2 movie has an abondoned 56 dodge in one scene
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Posted 2009-07-08 9:24 AM (#180839 - in reply to #155680)
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In the movie JFK there was at least a 59 Plymouth . My car was said to be the one in the movie , BUT , the guy who sold it to me had no proof . My car was black when I got it .

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Posted 2009-07-08 9:32 AM (#180840 - in reply to #155680)
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Yeah, I remember - near the beginning.

Solid black '59 Belvedere 2 door hardtop. Sitting outside of "Napoleon's" bar, where Garrison and one of his assistants were catching live coverage of the shooting.
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Fins/413 - 2009-07-07 9:36 AM

Not movies but TV shows, "Leave it to Beaver" used Plymouth's after the first season(Ford's in 1957). In the opening credits there is a car driving by (58 Chrysler?). Another show "Batchelor Father" uses an Imperial conv.

Correction I think its a DeSoto in the opening for "Beaver"
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Posted 2009-08-15 6:22 PM (#185229 - in reply to #155680)
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If you don't blink, you'll see my 57 Plymouth in "Waiting for the Light". I took my 55 Imperial to be used in the movie"Dogfight", but they used my 57 Ford truck instead. Geez, that's been a long time ago.

And for those my age and older, the old "Tammy" movies featured quite a few of the mid fifties FL cars.

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Posted 2009-08-16 2:42 AM (#185267 - in reply to #185229)
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James Bond Meets The Forward Look, Most Recent Edition: This is a chase scene from the 1974 Bond film, The Man With The Golden Gun. Our favorite spy is chasing the bad guy again, but he's not driving the '56 Plymouth in this picture. Intsead, Agent 007 is passing the Plymouth in that red AMC Hornet. The Plymouth is merely a background vehicle in this shot, and is supposed to be a taxi. It's also supposed to be a Plaza, but there's no trim or series name scripts on the car. U.S. cars mingle with vintage Asian cars in this shot, not suprising as this is Bangkok in '74. And although the Plymouth's driver is supposed to crash in the storyline, the producers substituted a '55 Shivvery in the actual crash sequence, thereby saving the FL Plymouth from any harm (breathe a sigh of relief here). This is the last encounter to date between James Bond and the Look, Forward Look. Most likely, the producers saw to that.



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Posted 2009-08-16 8:55 PM (#185372 - in reply to #185267)
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How about television cartoons, such as "Huckleberry Hound"?



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Posted 2009-08-18 3:44 AM (#185494 - in reply to #155680)
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The officer approaching the '59 Coronet in this picture may have his back to you, but my, he sure looks familiar. Surprise, it's actually actor-turned-politician and future U. S. president Ronald Reagan in the very last role of his acting career before going into politics full-time, in the 1964 film The Killers. It's the only one of The Gipper's movies in which he played a bad guy (and reportedly hated it), and the Coronet is the only FL car that we see up close in the film. Reagan doesn't have any problems impersonating a cop in this scene, looks like he did it quite decently. Although FL vehicles are sparse in this film, seeing a future U. S. president play a criminal seems to make it fun to watch. Read my lips, no more stereotypes!




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Posted 2009-08-19 12:49 PM (#185623 - in reply to #157098)
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Not sure if it was already mentioned but a 1958 Elvis movie, Kid Creole, has many Mopars including a '57 New Yorker convertible
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Posted 2009-08-19 5:47 PM (#185643 - in reply to #155680)
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They're all here......most of em anyway.

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Posted 2009-08-19 8:20 PM (#185655 - in reply to #155680)
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That website didn't show the 57 CRL convertible which was prominently featured in "The Gypsy Moths", or the eye-blink yellow/white 57 sedan which passes by outside the diner where Tim Roth firsts meets up with his undercover supervisor, in "Resevoir Dogs"

The yellow/black CRL convertible featured in Quantum Leap was sold out of a TX used car dealership, so, it still
exists.

The "She Monster" car shows a good(?) example of the careless dash panel painting, that MT complained about, in its 1/57 CRL D500 review...my car has a bit of that, too, where/when the glove box door was installed and slightly mis-aligned so that a lower corner of it scraped across the still fresh lower paintwork on the dash, and, the masking taping was a bit ragged, too.

Finally, one way-earlier photo-posting question is answered, identifying a race segment featuring a 57 Coro 2-dr HT (apparently-) about to pass a 57 Roadmonster: it is from the 2002 Cuban documentary: "Yank Tanks" .






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Posted 2009-08-19 9:15 PM (#185671 - in reply to #185643)
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They're all here......most of em anyway.

http://www.imcdb.org/


Sweet link..... had me find this catastrophe..... OMFG is all I can say!!!

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Posted 2009-08-20 2:19 PM (#185727 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2010-01-05 9:57 AM (#203886 - in reply to #155680)
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Saw part of a movie over the weekend "Fireball 500" had a 60 Dodge ? and a 4 door Plymouth (57-59). Many big teen star of the period some decent race scenes.
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Posted 2010-01-05 12:30 PM (#203906 - in reply to #155680)
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Just for Adriana, here are some shots of 1961 Plymouths in an episode of the situation comedy "Leave It To Beaver". It looks like Mayfield (the town where the show was set) had an aggressive Chrysler-Plymouth dealer as all of the cars appear to be either Chryslers or Plymouths. There are a few Dodges too and one Imperial.




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Posted 2010-01-05 12:37 PM (#203909 - in reply to #203906)
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That show is on a local staion everyday at 1230. Still a good show. The Cleavers always had a Plymouth except for the first year (57 Ford). At least from the shows I've seen.
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Posted 2010-01-05 8:32 PM (#203968 - in reply to #155680)
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If you look at the old TV show Car 54 were are you? The exterior is a 61 Plymouth and the interior and dash is a 57/8 Plymouth! Only one of us would notice this HAPPY MOTORING! Victor..
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Posted 2010-07-02 6:23 PM (#230779 - in reply to #155680)
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I almost forgot about this movie



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Posted 2010-07-02 7:34 PM (#230788 - in reply to #155680)
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alllright - fwd look cars in movies - the ones i know

it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world - last night i saw it in full color on tcm with the overture intermission and closing

theme! (1963) -

cpt. culpepper (spencer tracy) 1962 dodge dart sedan

milton berle - 1962 imperial crown conv. powder blue

sid ceasar - 1962 fury wagon

sylvester (momma's boy) oh, man, i'm really really mad man! whoa!!! 1962 dodge polara 500 conv. red

the film was relased in '63 but was filmed in '62 - showing all 1962 cars

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Posted 2010-07-02 7:37 PM (#230789 - in reply to #155680)
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i did world for ya well you guys got it covered ! including monster on the campus!
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Posted 2010-07-02 11:37 PM (#230834 - in reply to #155680)
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There was a vehicle in the animated movie Cars called Flo. It was said to be modeled after Jay Leno's 60 Adventurer. Jay was one of the creative consultants for this Flick.
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Posted 2010-07-03 1:33 AM (#230846 - in reply to #230788)
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Couple of additions/corrections to "It's a MMMM World". . .

Berle's Imperial was white. (at least on my TVs!) Also some of the B&W and unmarked police cars were 62 Dodges and some were 62 Plymouths. Jerry Lewis (in a cameo appearance) swerves his 62 Chrysler convertible to run over Spencer Tracy's hat.

And don't forget the 2 59 Plymouth taxis in the climactic chase scenes along the PCH.

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Posted 2010-10-26 6:50 PM (#247147 - in reply to #155680)
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I was looking for Bob Hope's car in Bachelor in Paradise-I know it was mentioned on a thread but I couldn't find it.
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Posted 2010-10-26 7:48 PM (#247156 - in reply to #155680)
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This one was a pleasant surprise when I watched it w/ the kids. Go to 9:17.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrr-9pwbITY&feature=related

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Posted 2010-10-26 8:23 PM (#247163 - in reply to #185267)
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mrtester - 2009-08-16 2:42 AM

James Bond Meets The Forward Look, Most Recent Edition: This is a chase scene from the 1974 Bond film, The Man With The Golden Gun. Our favorite spy is chasing the bad guy again, but he's not driving the '56 Plymouth in this picture. Intsead, Agent 007 is passing the Plymouth in that red AMC Hornet. The Plymouth is merely a background vehicle in this shot, and is supposed to be a taxi. It's also supposed to be a Plaza, but there's no trim or series name scripts on the car. U.S. cars mingle with vintage Asian cars in this shot, not suprising as this is Bangkok in '74. And although the Plymouth's driver is supposed to crash in the storyline, the producers substituted a '55 Shivvery in the actual crash sequence, thereby saving the FL Plymouth from any harm (breathe a sigh of relief here). This is the last encounter to date between James Bond and the Look, Forward Look. Most likely, the producers saw to that.

What vintage Asian cars?,I only see a red AMC, a yellow Ford Zodiac Mk 2,The Plymouth and a red Triumph 1300 and at the far left it looks like the rear fender of a 1966 Pontiac.



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Posted 2010-10-26 8:33 PM (#247165 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2010-10-26 9:16 PM (#247176 - in reply to #247165)
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vedette - 2010-10-26 8:33 PM

this looks like it may be from a movie


Gomer Pyle.....not a good ending in that episode.
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christine-lover - 2010-10-26 9:16 PM

vedette - 2010-10-26 8:33 PM

this looks like it may be from a movie


Gomer Pyle.....not a good ending in that episode.

I see what you mean Matt,it was also used in a 1968 episode of Mod Squad



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Posted 2010-10-26 10:17 PM (#247187 - in reply to #155680)
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at least we know that the car survived the explosion.
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hemidenis - 2010-10-26 10:17 PM

at least we know that the car survived the explosion.


... but probably not the hippies.
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hemidenis - 2010-10-26 9:17 PM at least we know that the car survived the explosion.

I am sure it was used in Mod Squad first and then destroyed in GP.

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Rebels-59 Coronet - 2008-12-16 4:17 PM


The master touch (1972) car chase



Huh! The more you beat up a 1958 Plymouth, the more it starts to look like a 1960 Dodge! Whaddya know...
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The Movie ( VERTIGO = JAMES STEWART AND KIM NOVAC ) has Forwad Look
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Yep - James Stewart drives a solid white 1956 DeSoto Firedome 2 door hardtop in it.






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redvettemike - 2010-11-14 10:00 PM

The red/white '61 Desoto that I am restoring had a small roll in the movie 'Mississippi Burning'. I have never seen it but a friend recently saw it again and was on the lookout for the car. The car is in the movie twice.


Wow, I remember that one scene from when I saw the movie in high school about 7 years ago. Here's some photos.



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Posted 2010-11-15 7:31 PM (#249655 - in reply to #155680)
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Here's some photos of 58 Plymouth Convertibles from TV/Movie.



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Posted 2010-11-15 8:12 PM (#249659 - in reply to #155680)
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Hey folks!! A really excellent film with a ton of FL cars is the 1958, "Girls on the Loose". I own a copy of it, I found it online, kind of expense but well worth it!! It's a classic 50's movie with woman attacking eachother with knifes, and chasing eachother in FL cars.
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redvettemike - 2010-11-14 10:00 PM The red/white '61 Desoto that I am restoring had a small roll in the movie 'Mississippi Burning'. I have never seen it but a friend recently saw it again and was on the lookout for the car. The car is in the movie twice.

I saw that when it first came out. That's one of the few things I remember about the film !

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vedette - 2010-10-26 8:33 PM

this looks like it may be from a movie


Gomer Pyle.....not a good ending in that episode.

I see what you mean Matt,it was also used in a 1968 episode of Mod Squad


I haven't seen this in years, but I mistakenly remembered the car as being a '59. I did notice, however, that the car, being driven appears to have "straight out" tail pipes. The underside shown when the car caught fire seemed to have the stock curve at the end of a visible tail pipe. But I am probably ,mistaken about that, too.

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The tv movie In Cold Blood had a black and white 57 or was it a 58 Plymouth convertible.

Another movie I like called Shadow of the Hawk that was filmed in Canada had a 58 Plodge.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/19585.jpg

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In the movie batman forever(val kilmer,tommy lee jones,jim carrey,nicole kidman)bruce wayne is in town(daytime scene)in what looks like a british sports car.as hes getting out of the car , a gold and white 57 belvedere goes by behind him.dont blink you might miss it.
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Posted 2011-02-11 10:50 AM (#260585 - in reply to #155680)
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There was a 1957 plymouth police car in the movie "The Blob"
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Posted 2011-02-11 4:56 PM (#260618 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2011-02-11 7:47 PM (#260655 - in reply to #155870)
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forwardlookparts - 2008-12-17 7:21 PM

I get a kick out of this: Every two or three months there is a new "FL Cars in Movies" thread!



I thought this subject had been covered before too!
If I recall correctly the old post had videos and scenes of the lineup as well.
We should just keep adding to the first thread on Forward Looks in movies so it will grow with more info like the forward looks in old postcards thread does.

Don't forget all the Forward Looks in the Jerry Lewis films like "Hollywood or bust" and "visit to a small planet"..there's a flying Plymouth in that one.

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Posted 2011-02-11 7:59 PM (#260659 - in reply to #180727)
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Fins/413 - 2009-07-07 9:36 AM

Not movies but TV shows, "Leave it to Beaver" used Plymouth's after the first season(Ford's in 1957). In the opening credits there is a car driving by (58 Chrysler?). Another show "Batchelor Father" uses an Imperial conv.


I'm pretty sure "Leave it to Beaver" wasn't sponsored by Chrysler until 1959,that's the first season Ward drove a Plymouth,prior to that they were all Fords.

There is one episode where Beaver is playing in Wards 1961 Plymouth four door and it rolls into the street,if you look closely at the interior shots where Beaver and his friend are inside the car you can tell it's one of the Fords and the shoved boards into the Plymouth to make it less noticeable when it rolled into the street as the ford was a post model (sedan)

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Posted 2011-02-11 8:05 PM (#260661 - in reply to #180947)
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Fins/413 - 2009-07-07 9:36 AM

Not movies but TV shows, "Leave it to Beaver" used Plymouth's after the first season(Ford's in 1957). In the opening credits there is a car driving by (58 Chrysler?). Another show "Batchelor Father" uses an Imperial conv.

Correction I think its a DeSoto in the opening for "Beaver"


Correct,the car is a 1959 DeSoto,but it's in the closing credits.

"Leave it to Beaver" was sponsored by Ford for 1957-1958.

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Posted 2011-02-11 8:15 PM (#260664 - in reply to #203906)
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58 DESOTOS RULE - 2010-01-05 12:30 PM

Just for Adriana, here are some shots of 1961 Plymouths in an episode of the situation comedy "Leave It To Beaver". It looks like Mayfield (the town where the show was set) had an aggressive Chrysler-Plymouth dealer as all of the cars appear to be either Chryslers or Plymouths. There are a few Dodges too and one Imperial.


These shots are from the episode "Beaver takes a drive" that I was talking about.
The prop dept used a Ford rigged with a Plymouth steering wheel for the shots where Beaver was inside pretending to drive the car,then when the car rolled into the street they showed the 1961 Plymouth again,but since it was a four door hardtop they shoved pieces of wood in between the doors to make it appear the car has pillars like a sedan.

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Posted 2011-02-12 7:15 AM (#260710 - in reply to #155680)
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It's probably in one of the other threads, but a '58 Imperial Crown convertible figures prominently in "High School Confidential." Great opening titles, with Jerry Lee Lewis performing on the back of a truck...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpb5OvJc_Fk

The Imperial shows up at 1:22 and again at 2:17 into the clip.

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Posted 2011-02-12 9:19 AM (#260724 - in reply to #155680)
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Another solid Ford show was 77 Sunset Strip...

I wonder what effect it might have had on buyers if they'd had Chrysler products for the boys there? And a genuine Hemi in the Kookie Byrnes hotrod, of course.
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Posted 2011-02-12 10:04 AM (#260729 - in reply to #155680)
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Hello Forward Look Movie Fan's

Other movie's with the 1958 Imperial are:

Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman ...
King Creole ...
The Godfather - Part II ...
High School Confidential ...

http://www.imperialclub.com/Movies/1958.htm



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Posted 2011-02-12 10:54 AM (#260730 - in reply to #260724)
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Another solid Ford show was 77 Sunset Strip...

I wonder what effect it might have had on buyers if they'd had Chrysler products for the boys there? And a genuine Hemi in the Kookie Byrnes hotrod, of course.


Andy Griffith was the same way a town of nothing but Fords!
There were a few early episodes though where you'd see other makes.

I've always wondered why more shows werent sponsored by Chrysler back then.
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Posted 2011-02-25 5:50 PM (#262501 - in reply to #155680)
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In "Animal House" there's a 57-8 Plymouth four door sedan in the front yard.
In the original "Hairspray", the family car is a 57-8 Plymouth four door sedan.
In "Tammy and the Bachelor" there are new 56 Plymouth, DeSoto and Chrysler convertibles. Also a Dodge four door sedan I think. The Chrysler is one shade of light pink, don't know what it's called. Anybody?
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Posted 2011-02-25 6:13 PM (#262506 - in reply to #156096)
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Posted 2011-02-25 8:28 PM (#262524 - in reply to #155680)
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Remember in "Godfather 2" when michael shuts the door in kays face without saying a word? There's a 57 dodge taxi waiting for her outside.

In "Goodfellas" a quick shot outside of a bar shows a red 300, 61 or 62?

It's mobster movie week on AMC.



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Posted 2011-05-04 5:50 AM (#271043 - in reply to #155680)
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Some really good ones in, "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," 1958, whose star, Yvette Vickers,
was just found in her L.A. home, apparently "mummified," after being dead for about a year.

In the campy flic, the former Playboy Playmate towered over the '58 Imperial (in a great chase scene)
and Plymouth Sport Suburban, below.

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Posted 2011-05-04 5:55 PM (#271118 - in reply to #155680)
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Commercial vehicle insurance "Raggare" from 1979 Sweden

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hey guys, how about the cab in the last scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's?

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Ray Bell - 2011-02-12 9:19 AM

Another solid Ford show was 77 Sunset Strip...

I wonder what effect it might have had on buyers if they'd had Chrysler products for the boys there? And a genuine Hemi in the Kookie Byrnes hotrod, of course.


Andy Griffith was the same way a town of nothing but Fords!
There were a few early episodes though where you'd see other makes.

I've always wondered why more shows werent sponsored by Chrysler back then.


Most of the shows that used cars were not sponsored by auto manufacturers but if you watch the credits at the end you will see "Automobiles Furnished By XXXX". Chrysler furnished cars for Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres but did not sponsor either show. They sponsored the Bob Hope show but never supplied cars as the show was done on a stage. Same with Lincoln-Mercury and the Ed Sullivan Show. Perry Mason used Ford products but no Ford commercials. Perry's practise must have improved over the years as he drove Fords in the first couple of years and then Lincolns in the 1960's.

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In "Imitation of Life" (1959) look for lots of shots of a Gauguin Red '57 Chrysler 300C convertible

In "Love Field" (1992) a film using the Nov 22, 1963 JFK assassination as its beginning, look for a red 1961 Chrysler 300G hardtop
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I got the complete "Crime Story" set for christmas

Lots of FL cars in that

I have only watched the first few episodes so far (paceing myself) and you see a 61 Plymouth a fair bit

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Posted 2012-01-02 4:41 AM (#301829 - in reply to #301736)
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Another solid Ford show was 77 Sunset Strip...

I wonder what effect it might have had on buyers if they'd had Chrysler products for the boys there? And a genuine Hemi in the Kookie Byrnes hotrod, of course.


Andy Griffith was the same way a town of nothing but Fords!
There were a few early episodes though where you'd see other makes.

I've always wondered why more shows werent sponsored by Chrysler back then.



Most of the shows that used cars were not sponsored by auto manufacturers but if you watch the credits at the end you will see "Automobiles Furnished By XXXX". Chrysler furnished cars for Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres but did not sponsor either show. They sponsored the Bob Hope show but never supplied cars as the show was done on a stage. Same with Lincoln-Mercury and the Ed Sullivan Show. Perry Mason used Ford products but no Ford commercials. Perry's practise must have improved over the years as he drove Fords in the first couple of years and then Lincolns in the 1960's.



I'm sure it did,after all he never lost a case! I always like Paul Drakes T-Birds best.I can't remember if the ever showed what Della drove or not.
There are lots of Forward Looks in "The Twilight Zone" as well.If you watch the episode "Nick of Time" with William Shatner there is a 1958 Belvedere 2dr hardtop parked in plain view in the park scene.
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Is the ambulance in Ghostbusters a Forward Look car?
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Is the ambulance in Ghostbusters a Forward Look car?


'59 Miller-Meterior Cadillac
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Dan C - 2011-02-25 5:50 PM

In "Tammy and the Bachelor" there are new 56 Plymouth, DeSoto and Chrysler convertibles. Also a Dodge four door sedan I think. The Chrysler is one shade of light pink, don't know what it's called. Anybody?


The '56 DeSoto (or is it a Chrylser?) pulls up at 8:19...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uul2d67PEqY&feature=related


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At 5:36, we see the hood ornament. Pretty car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwBocIdCKo&feature=related

At 6:24, we see the rear of the car with Chrysler spelled out on the trunk lid.

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Jacques Tati in "Mon Oncle" a brilliant film from 1958 about the old fashioned Monsieur Hulot who goes to stay in his sister's Modern World..

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a little bit more of "Mon Oncle" dropping of the kids at school and going to work at the modern plastic factory

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Monsieur Hulot lighting his pipe (not in a FL)


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I see some pre-FL Vedette, Berlieu or Versailles in there, and a few FL period Arondes...

Is the De Soto (?) the main target?
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I see some pre-FL Vedette, Berlieu or Versailles in there, and a few FL period Arondes...

Is the De Soto (?) the main target?

the two DeSotos are for me,a '57 Fireflite 2dr and the '55 Sedan.What about the 403s?and there's a Panhard too.
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Touch of Evil is a great atmospheric thriller with lots of FL convertibles,the Mexican bandit has a nice '57 Custom Royal convertible
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The 203 sedan in the parking lot is worth a dozen 403s...

Panhards? Can you handle the 2-cyl vibrations?

Great stuff! When are we going to see some Highway Patrol clips?
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here's the baddy in the white '57 Custom Royal convertible chasing the '56 DeSoto Fireflite convertible and the cops come along in the '57 Plymouth Plaza.



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Some cards from the movie "Bachelor in Paradise" (Swedish translation) The movie from 1961
Also saw a red Chrysler 300G conv but did not take cards.
Saw a little of the film on TV this morning.
Maybe there are more FL cars in the movie?



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Posted 2012-11-16 6:59 PM (#347455 - in reply to #155680)
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In the 1972 movie 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds', Joanne Woodward toodles around town in a big ol' 4 door 59 Desoto- I don't remember the model. And one 'couldn't sleep' night I was watching some old bw Italian movie with subtitles when out of the blue the main characters drove away in a nice 56 convertible Desoto. I have no idea what the name of it was.
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Posted 2012-11-17 9:01 AM (#347511 - in reply to #155680)
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The movie Back Street from 1961 was on the air a couple of days ago, and there were many scenes with FL cars, and a couple of superb scenes with a dark green 1958 Chrysler New Yorker convertible, but I can't seen to find any footage of it online.

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Posted 2012-11-17 1:04 PM (#347529 - in reply to #155680)
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A 1957 Teen "B" hot rod movie Teen age thunder has 57 Plymouth police cars and a 57 Imperial 2dr hardtop in it. I believe there is a movie with Bob Hope and Lucy that had a 61 300G or a New yorker in it along w/other FL gems.

Hollywood or bust w/Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis has a beautiful red 56 New Yorker as the main car w/many other FL cars in the background
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Posted 2012-11-17 1:04 PM (#347530 - in reply to #155680)
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A 1957 Teen "B" hot rod movie Teen age thunder has 57 Plymouth police cars and a 57 Imperial 2dr hardtop in it. I believe there is a movie with Bob Hope and Lucy that had a 61 300G or a New yorker in it along w/other FL gems.

Hollywood or bust w/Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis has a beautiful red 56 New Yorker as the main car w/many other FL cars in the background
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Posted 2013-08-14 3:25 PM (#391239 - in reply to #155680)
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I don't know if this was in this thread before, but this is Donn Knotts in a 59 Sport Fury. Since the movis from 1971, and they really focus on the car, I think it's making fun of the car... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBed-RJqg0o



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Posted 2013-08-14 4:14 PM (#391252 - in reply to #155680)
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I recently re watched 'The Misfits'. A few in the opening scenes + the rent a Chrysler wagon which features a lot. Sorry if this has been mentioned on page 1 or 2.
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Posted 2013-08-14 5:41 PM (#391260 - in reply to #155680)
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Riding the bullet, 1960 Fury

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Posted 2013-08-14 8:48 PM (#391307 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-08-14 9:29 PM (#391323 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-08-14 9:34 PM (#391325 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-08-15 3:58 AM (#391362 - in reply to #155680)
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There was a 1960 Dodge Polara Convertible used in the cult monster movie Equinox. I extracted the good car clips from it and put them up on you tube. Anyone know this car? According to the commentary in the movie it was owned by a friend of the guys making the movie and the owner was a "car nut" and even at the time they made the movie they realized it was a rare car. Hopefully it's still around somewhere. At the very beginning of the clip they refer to it as a Desoto but it's obviously a Dodge.

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Posted 2013-08-15 10:11 AM (#391395 - in reply to #155680)
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What's the option package that allows the car to fly above traffic?

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Posted 2013-08-15 7:45 PM (#391459 - in reply to #155680)
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Chitty Chitty option, I believe its fitted to most vehicles

Exceptionally rare to find one in good working order, an example of one that does appear to work correctly (in most cases) would
be the "Dukes of Hazard" vehicle that seems to fly at the drop of a hat

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Posted 2013-09-02 9:18 PM (#394950 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-09-07 7:43 PM (#396176 - in reply to #155680)
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About every time I see a movie on TCM from the late fifties to early sixties, there's always plenty of Forward Look MoPars and a various assortment of finned cars in the background. Neglected to see anything with a FL as the star, except that one red car... Shoot, already forgot it again!

Funny how MOST "car people" would neglect to give any credit to these style of cars; I wasn't born in those days, and never really was around MoPars in general, so me actually liking these finned beauties was my own personality showing. I always spend my spare time fixing something, or looking at evidence that these were cars on the road at one point in time.
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Posted 2013-09-07 8:48 PM (#396195 - in reply to #155680)
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Prior to the 57 and up models I don't recall seeing anything in the way of Mopars in movies except the Chrysler Corp taxi's in the movies of the 30's and 40's. The first "modern" mopar I can recall seeing was in Citizen Cane when Orson Wells drives up/off in a FL convertible. My favorite scene in the movie.
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Posted 2013-09-07 9:22 PM (#396200 - in reply to #396195)
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Wouldn't it be nice to go back to those days? You could go to the theatre and see good movies with these cars in them and then see them in the parking lot when you leave.
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Posted 2013-09-07 10:12 PM (#396212 - in reply to #155680)
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My mind is clouded by cars... Even though it's not a FL one of my other movie memories was some epic Liz Taylor type movie with Troy Donahue or similar actor in it in which he comes driving up to "the big house" in a 1960 Lincoln Continental Convertible. I just love the way those big convertible cars of the late 50's dominated a scene. When you arrived in a cloud of dust in one of them everyone knew you HAD ARRIVED!!!

Just googled to see what I could find and ran across this on AMAZON.....

5.0 out of 5 stars PARRISH, November 24, 2009
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Troy Donahue drove our Lincoln convertible in this motion picture. My father had just bought this car from the Lincoln show room window in Wethersfield, Conn. when the movie producers drove by and saw it. We were very pleased to know that they wanted Troy drive it in a movie. (and Claudette too) When we got it back, everyone took turns sitting in the drivers seat where Troy did. It is still an experience to see him drive it in this film even today. I was just 5 or 6 years old but I have a vivid recollection of this time period. When we drove this car with its top down, people would stop what they were doing. They would look as we drove by just because it was probably the most beautiful car of its time.
The movie was rich in music and color. The scenes are classic Conn. and its Tobacco industry. Mystic Seaport, Tara Mar Marina and Hotel where many movie stars docked their yachts for a few days. Many times we visited when Frank Sinatra docked, Marlon, Katherine Hepburn and countless others. Connecticut in the 60s was a nice era.
Thank you Troy Donahue and Director and Claudette for being such a happy part of our lives.
Hann family, Conn.
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Posted 2013-09-07 11:19 PM (#396226 - in reply to #391362)
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jimntempe - 2013-08-15 12:58 AM

There was a 1960 Dodge Polara Convertible used in the cult monster movie Equinox. I extracted the good car clips from it and put them up on you tube. Anyone know this car? According to the commentary in the movie it was owned by a friend of the guys making the movie and the owner was a "car nut" and even at the time they made the movie they realized it was a rare car. Hopefully it's still around somewhere. At the very beginning of the clip they refer to it as a Desoto but it's obviously a Dodge.

http://youtu.be/IEFDQb_jfQQ


Very good clip of a beautiful car, but notice they talked about the driver grinding the gears at 2:00 in the clip!!! How can you grind the gears in a Torqueflite!!
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Posted 2013-09-07 11:37 PM (#396227 - in reply to #396200)
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Wouldn't it be nice to go back to those days? You could go to the theatre and see good movies with these cars in them and then see them in the parking lot when you leave.


Yes it would. I never really was around finned cars a whole lot when I was young, I was born into the "new" generation- where all the of the kids my age still think a "Lamborghini" is cool. I can still remember clear as day, stopping to see a red 1959 Cadillac convertible when I was little; after that it all seemed to come together.

But then again, I still believe in vacuum tubes, records, white wall tires, and space age design. Each to his own.
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Posted 2013-09-08 2:21 PM (#396319 - in reply to #155680)
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Here they tended to be regarded as something of an excess... our cars were generally considerably smaller and the big fins were way more outlandish than the styling cues on the cars around them...

But they were here - though only in small numbers - and we had some Fords and Chevs as well. And we saw them on television, the outstanding show being Highway Patrol, and didn't The People's Choice (or was that 'Peeple's') have them too? And in Leave it to Beaver and a few other shows.

Last night I was up late and saw an episode of Naked City so I got my camera out:



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Posted 2013-09-08 2:42 PM (#396324 - in reply to #155680)
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The tv series Mr. Lucky starring John Vivyan & Ross Martin also had lots of Forward Looks. I have the whole series on DVD and will try and make some screen captures to add here.

I agree Chrysler was the only company to really push the styling envelope and embrace futurism and huge fins! Ford and Chevy were far more conservative,Ford always having the smallest fins. Ironically Ford's Fairlanes and Comets still wore small fins for 1963,long after Chrysler had moved away from them.
After seeing Chryslers Forward Look cars with their futuristic dashes,low sleek rooflines and huge upswept fins you have to wonder why anyone would have bought a Chevy or a Ford?




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Posted 2013-09-08 2:49 PM (#396325 - in reply to #155680)
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We never had that show here...

Another one that featured cars strongly was 77 Sunset Strip, but they had Fords IIRC. What about Perry Mason?
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Posted 2013-09-08 3:16 PM (#396328 - in reply to #155680)
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"Date With The Angels" starring Bill Williams and Betty White was sponsored by Plymouth for both seasons of its run (1957-1958). The opening credits had a cool animated sequence showing angels driving a cloud that morphed into a 1958 Plymouth,and the end credits showed the couple driving a real '58.

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Posted 2013-09-08 3:30 PM (#396329 - in reply to #155680)
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Heres a 1961 Chrysler wagon in the Coopers driveway from the tv series "The Wonder Years".



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Posted 2013-09-08 3:52 PM (#396338 - in reply to #396325)
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Ray Bell - 2013-09-08 11:49 AM

We never had that show here...

Another one that featured cars strongly was 77 Sunset Strip, but they had Fords IIRC. What about Perry Mason?



There were some Forward Looks in Perry Mason. heres a link to a site that lists them.

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Posted 2013-10-12 11:23 AM (#403093 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-10-16 10:21 AM (#403930 - in reply to #396325)
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Perry Mason had many shots of cars in it. Someone has even started to compile a list of the cars that appeared in it - the web site url is posted above. I thought it was interesting that Perry couldn't make up his mind whether he liked Cadillacs or Fords as he drives both in the episodes I've seen from the DVDs (Seasons 1 through 3) If I were a rich attorney I know what I'd want to drive and it wouldn't be made in Dearborn. 

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Posted 2013-10-16 1:07 PM (#403971 - in reply to #155680)
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When I first saw this picture I thought it was a FL...although with some Hawaii Five O work found out it was a '54 Dodge...close but not cigar



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Posted 2013-10-28 5:35 PM (#406743 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2013-10-28 5:55 PM (#406750 - in reply to #396319)
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Ray Bell - 2013-09-08 2:21 PM

Here they tended to be regarded as something of an excess... our cars were generally considerably smaller and the big fins were way more outlandish than the styling cues on the cars around them...

But they were here - though only in small numbers - and we had some Fords and Chevs as well. And we saw them on television, the outstanding show being Highway Patrol, and didn't The People's Choice (or was that 'Peeple's') have them too? And in Leave it to Beaver and a few other shows.

Last night I was up late and saw an episode of Naked City so I got my camera out:



Dodgen do not look right fin and only one taillight per wing.
Is it a ford 58 (check roof) faith? as they have done on a Dodge? anyone know?
Maby I have wrong?

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Posted 2013-10-29 8:33 AM (#406900 - in reply to #155680)
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I just saw this on Ladies Man with Jerry Lewis. I had to keep rewinding and watching this scene. Beautiful car.


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Posted 2013-10-31 12:50 AM (#407403 - in reply to #155680)
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Those 60 Polara 2 Dr HTs were one of the nicest looking cars ever made.
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A Polara with dog dish caps!!!! WOW!!!
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jimntempe - 2013-10-31 12:50 AM

Those 60 Polara 2 Dr HTs were one of the nicest looking cars ever made.


I'll agree with you there!
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Was the finned car in one of Michael Jackson's videos a FL?
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In Thriller it was a 57 Chevy, of course, since it was the only car made in the 50's besides those 59 Cadillacs. Though we all know better don't we?
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jimntempe - 2013-10-31 12:50 AM

Those 60 Polara 2 Dr HTs were one of the nicest looking cars ever made.


I love 'em too - especially those fins!


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I am sure these Youtube clips are in this forum somewhere but thought I would share them again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0YL503HN4 "You're on the Test Track -1957" Great 28 minute comparison of 1957 FL to GM cars
For a more humorous video, try “1958 Comparison of Ford, Chrysler, GM” at http://youtu.be/IR6N81VqKYw These guys must of had fun!! What are your favorite comparisons of FLs?






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Posted 2014-01-17 4:07 PM (#422584 - in reply to #155680)
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Joakim is right. That Dodge from Naked City doesn't make sense.
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Just caught a bit of "Grease" (the movie) on TV, relaxing after getting my D500 started again. I caught the start of the race scene down in the concrete LA river channel. A 56 Dodge Custom Royal, white, black and red shows up to watch. I have the DVD so I will have to find those scenes and do a screen capture and post them up.

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Didn't have time to review the Grease DVD but the car is a 56 Custom Royal Sedan, driven by one of the "Pink Ladies"

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_14117-Dodge-Custom-Royal-1956.html

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Posted 2017-02-20 1:45 AM (#534384 - in reply to #155680)
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That is hilarious. I tried and tried to get a good screen shot of when the 56 Custom Royal and the three Pink Ladies arrive at the Drive-in in Grease, I think I end up with the almost same shot at I found on the internet. Chapter 13 1:18:56 for mine. Still looking for more.

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A couple more:

56 Plymouth 2dr Hardtop on its way to the Frosty Palace burger/milkshake joint (with a 55 or 56 Chrysler Windsor (?) in the background) and the 56 Custom Royal in the Highschool Parking Lot




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58 DESOTOS RULE - 2013-10-16 10:21 AM

Perry Mason had many shots of cars in it. Someone has even started to compile a list of the cars that appeared in it - the web site url is posted above. I thought it was interesting that Perry couldn't make up his mind whether he liked Cadillacs or Fords as he drives both in the episodes I've seen from the DVDs (Seasons 1 through 3) If I were a rich attorney I know what I'd want to drive and it wouldn't be made in Dearborn. 


It wasn't a case whether he liked a Cadillac or a Ford, but who was supplying the cars, either General Motors or Ford. When GM supplied the cars, it was a Cadillac. When it was Ford, Perry drove a Ford for the 1957 to 1960 model years and then Lincoln 4 door convertibles. Guess Perry was making a lot more in 1961 than when the show started. His Ford for 1959 was the retractable steel roofed Skyliner convertible. Paul Drake got a Corvette with GM and a Thunderbird convertible, with swing away steering wheel. from Ford.

GM supplied the cars for the show's last year.

During 1961 one show (done in the fall) had Perry dropping by a movie studio. As he went to the office at the back of the lot, he passed by a brand new, white, 1962 Studebaker GT Hawk. The only Studebaker I can recall in a Perry Mason show, other than on a street scene. It had wide white wall tires as used in 1960, and not the narrower tires that became common in 1962. But a beautiful car none the less.

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Here's the 56 Custom Royal arriving at the "Thunder Road" LA River race at 1:30:59 in Grease.





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Posted 2017-03-14 8:46 AM (#535917 - in reply to #155680)
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Hidden Figures is a good movie and it's full of Forward Looks...

There's a '59 Plymouth 2-door which features in the background of a lot of scenes, but it's my no means the only one. Set in 1961, though I'm sure there's a couple of 1962 cars have sneaked into the sets, it's ripe for the Forward Look cars. One that surprised me was, I'm pretty sure, a 1961 De Soto.

I recommend movie, both as an entertaining and interesting story and also as a chance to get a glimpse of these older cars.
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Watched the movie last night with my wife. Just about shouted out when I saw the many Mopars. There are lots. A 1961 Chrysler 4dr hardtop plays a major role and has lots of screen time. Many others. I've captured two from the trailer.

(Movie was okay but not great, even at Pay for View prices)



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Ray Bell - 2017-03-14 8:46 AM Hidden Figures is a good movie and it's full of Forward Looks...
There's a '59 Plymouth 2-door which features in the background of a lot of scenes, but it's my no means the only one. Set in 1961, though I'm sure there's a couple of 1962 cars have sneaked into the sets, it's ripe for the Forward Look cars. One that surprised me was, I'm pretty sure, a 1961 De Soto. I recommend movie, both as an entertaining and interesting story and also as a chance to get a glimpse of these older cars.



hemidenis - 2017-07-23 10:27 AM
From the movie "Hidden Figures"
This Plymouth is mostly parked in the NASA parking lot, but it was used a few times in another scenes, actually all the same cars are used in different parts of the movie.


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Posted 2017-07-24 6:35 AM (#544715 - in reply to #535917)
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Ray Bell - 2017-03-14 8:46 AM

Hidden Figures is a good movie and it's full of Forward Looks...

There's a '59 Plymouth 2-door which features in the background of a lot of scenes, but it's my no means the only one. Set in 1961, though I'm sure there's a couple of 1962 cars have sneaked into the sets, it's ripe for the Forward Look cars. One that surprised me was, I'm pretty sure, a 1961 De Soto.

I recommend movie, both as an entertaining and interesting story and also as a chance to get a glimpse of these older cars.


An excellent movie, thanks for the recommend. The movie is set in 1961 and yes a '61 DeSoto appears in a couple scenes--MY old DeSoto!!

The flick was filmed in Atlanta, and the DeSoto was used as a police car (along with a '64 Ford--I know, I know, it's supposed to be 1961). The current owner of my old DeSoto has a fleet of old cars that he rents out to movie makers locally.

Needless to say, I was stoked to see old "Shadow" in the movies! With her original black and white paint, she is a likely candidate for a police car "clone".
By the way, I added the Chrysler dog-dish hubcaps--she originally had the full DeSoto wheelcovers.
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Neat! And I doubt anyone noticed that those are Chrysler caps instead of DeSoto
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58 plymouth cvt vs 58 plymouth 4 d ht. check out the other episodes richard diamond driving a 59 desoto cvt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKf6zTcl_Y
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1960fury - 2017-07-31 9:03 AM
58 plymouth cvt vs 58 plymouth 4 d ht. check out the other episodes richard diamond driving a 59 desoto cvt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKf6zTcl_Y


Chase starts around the 19:00 mark.

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Posted 2017-08-01 5:24 PM (#545317 - in reply to #545240)
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1960fury - 2017-07-31 9:03 AM
58 plymouth cvt vs 58 plymouth 4 d ht. check out the other episodes richard diamond driving a 59 desoto cvt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKf6zTcl_Y


Chase starts around the 19:00 mark.

:)


check out the next episode of 3/13/1958 you can see the result of that collision between the 2 58s, a bent bumper or wing, either left that way or poorly fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6cwBacdkMc

okay, maybe not, it looks like it was bent before, but i refuse to believe that this is how they rolled off the assembly line.

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I finally got some info from the son of the fellow I bought my car from (who had Alzheimer's by the time I bought my car from his wife). The son tells me that my car was used in several Vancouver BC-area shot films and TV productions including:

Max Glick,
Deliver Them From Evil,
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (TV),
Steven Spielberg's "Taken",
Stephen King's "It" and
This Boys Life (with Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DeCaprio).

I have a Film Production window cards for Deliver them from Evil and the Sam Neil version of In Cold Blood (shot in Alberta) but I haven't found my car in either of those two. Now I get to try to find it in the other ones. Hope that NetFlix has some of them.

If any of you have those on DVD and have nothing to do over the holidays.....;)

So far I have found the shooting locations for "It" (1990 version) included my City (New Westminster) as well as Vancouver

It Locations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/locations?ref_=ttfc_sa_4



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a black cup of coffee - a girl in a coma state - and we get to see how 58 Plymouths perform! he wrecked the conv.

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I was able to find DVDs for "It" (2009) and "This boy's life" at a local library. Put them on hold. Can't get them until the 27th. So I will be looking for my car in them next week.

But I am not too hopeful. Didn't find anything in the Internet Movie Car Data base (IMCDb) for either:

It: http://www.imcdb.org/movie_99864-It.html (at least I recognize street scenes from New Westminster BC where the car lived (and still does).

Boy's life: http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=108330



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56D500boy - 2017-12-24 5:58 PM

I was able to find DVDs for "It" (2009) and "This boy's life" at a local library. Put them on hold. Can't get them until the 27th. So I will be looking for my car in them next week.
But I am not too hopeful. Didn't find anything in the Internet Movie Car Data base (IMCDb) for either.
:)


Watched both movies (bad) all the way through (boring) and did NOT find my car in any of the scenes. Bummer man.

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Apparently this came after the Long Long Trailer. Released in Feb. 56, there was evidence that the vehicle was a 56 Sierra but on second look, based on the front badge and "V", it must have been a 55 Sierra (two-tone dark blue on light blue).

The You-tube link to the movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7YjIYw5DU

Some info (note the last image - the back cover of the Vol 21 No. 2 of Dodge News that featured the story about Lucy and Desi and the Dodge (wagon) - nice product placement boys).



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56D500boy - 2018-01-09 5:16 PM Some info (note the last image - the back cover of the Vol 21 No. 2 of Dodge News that featured the story about Lucy and Desi and the Dodge (wagon) - nice product placement boys).


Ooo Ooo. It got better. In the middle of the same Vol.21, No.2 as the Lucy/Desi article, there is a 56 Sierra in the same colours as I believe the Forever Darling movie 55 Sierra was painted. *REALLY* nice work there boys (the "Mad Men" ad boys)



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56D500boy - 2017-12-24 5:58 PM

I was able to find DVDs for "It" (2009) and "This boy's life" at a local library. Put them on hold. Can't get them until the 27th. So I will be looking for my car in them next week.

But I am not too hopeful. Didn't find anything in the Internet Movie Car Data base (IMCDb) for either:

It: http://www.imcdb.org/movie_99864-It.html (at least I recognize street scenes from New Westminster BC where the car lived (and still does).

Boy's life: http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=108330

:)


The 1954 Dodge Coronet in the "Boy's Life" clip is actually a Canadian 1954 Dodge Regent. You can see the Plymouth taillights and the non-wrap around Plymouth rear window. The Pontiac by the curb is a 1953 or 1954 Canadian Pontiac Fleetleader. Red car waiting for the train to go by is a Canadian 1946-48 Dodge D25. No FWL models in site.

Scene was shot at Powell Street and Victoria Drive in East Vancouver. Cannot cross the railway tracks any more due to increased security access to the docks area after 9-11.

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"That Night" with Juliet Lewis has her driving a nice red 1958 DeSoto at several points in the movie, and don't forget the 1957 DeSoto in the used-car lot in an absolutely great movie, "The World's Fastest Indian", at about the 53 minute mark. For 1957 DeSoto fans, "Chiefs" is the best, as a main actor (Billy Dee Williams) drives a nice blue Firedome Sportsman 2-dr HT. I have met the folks who own that car, and there are pics of it on my web site at the 2003 National DeSoto Club convention.
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Chrycoman - 2018-01-10 5:50 AM
56D500boy - 2017-12-24 5:58 PM
I was able to find DVDs for "It" (2009) and "This boy's life" at a local library. Put them on hold. Can't get them until the 27th. So I will be looking for my car in them next week.
But I am not too hopeful. Didn't find anything in the Internet Movie Car Data base (IMCDb) for either:
It: http://www.imcdb.org/movie_99864-It.html (at least I recognize street scenes from New Westminster BC where the car lived (and still does).
Boy's life: http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=108330

The 1954 Dodge Coronet in the "Boy's Life" clip is actually a Canadian 1954 Dodge Regent. You can see the Plymouth taillights and the non-wrap around Plymouth rear window. The Pontiac by the curb is a 1953 or 1954 Canadian Pontiac Fleetleader. Red car waiting for the train to go by is a Canadian 1946-48 Dodge D25. No FWL models in site.
Scene was shot at Powell Street and Victoria Drive in East Vancouver. Cannot cross the railway tracks any more due to increased security access to the docks area after 9-11.


There was at least one FL car in the movie (56Chrysler):



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d500boy - you were around back then? I remember the long long trailer rel. in 54 year I was born had a 54 merc conv

pulling the trailer..lucy and desi are legends.. when I was 14 it was dino desi and billy! 1968
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56D500boy - 2018-01-10 1:22 AM
56D500boy - 2018-01-09 5:16 PM Some info (note the last image - the back cover of the Vol 21 No. 2 of Dodge News that featured the story about Lucy and Desi and the Dodge (wagon) - nice product placement boys).

Ooo Ooo. It got better. In the middle of the same Vol.21, No.2 as the Lucy/Desi article, there is a 56 Sierra in the same colours as I believe the Forever Darling movie 55 Sierra was painted. *REALLY* nice work there boys (the "Mad Men" ad boys)
:)


Forever Darling came out 9 February 1956 (USA) REF: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049225/

Some mainstream Feb 56 Magazine had this 10" x 13" advert. How convenient. (and I just obsessively bought it)



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Cmangeot - 2018-01-13 10:52 AM
1993’s, The Sandlot had some FL’s too


Yup. You're right.

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_108037-The-Sandlot.html

A couple (there are more in the link above)




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Posted 2018-01-14 6:50 PM (#556245 - in reply to #155680)
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If you guys get a chance look up a 1980 movie called "Border Cop" starring Telly Savalas and Eddie Albert as border patrol agents on the California/Mexico border. Telly and his partner start out in a circa 1971 Chrysler that gets destroyed. As punishment, supervisor Eddie Albert assigns him a dusty 1959 Dodge four door hardtop (less than thirty minutes into the movie BTW) . The thing is - it's got 59 Plymouth style rear fins. I think it's a '59 Canadian Dodge! If you have Roku you can watch the movie on "My Retro Flix" in their ironically titled "new releases" section otherwise you can watch it for free on Youtube. On Youtube the '59 shows up @ 25:34.



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Posted 2018-01-14 7:37 PM (#556248 - in reply to #556245)
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Actually it was more like at 26:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-bFrqX_YRU

Canadian Dodge Mayfair (Plodge)?





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Posted 2018-01-15 1:22 AM (#556264 - in reply to #155680)
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No, it's not a Canadian Dodge.

The side trim shown was used on Plymouth Belvedere (MP1/2-M), Dodge Mayfair (ME1/2-M), Dodge Kingsway Deluxe (ME1/2-M) and DeSoto Diplomat Deluxe (MF1/2-M). The last two were export models built in either Canada or the U.S.. although the Canadian plant built only Belvedere, Kingsway Deluxe and Diplomat Deluxe 4 door sedans for export. The U.S. plant built all Plymouth models as export Plymouth, Kingsway and Diplomat models.

The 1959 M class 4 door hardtop was built in the U.S., but not in Canada, with production totalling 5,713. Thus there never was a 1959 Dodge Mayfair 4 door hardtop or Canadian Belvedere 4 door hardtop.

As the film was shot on the border with Mexico, the car was undoubtedly a Dodge Kingsway Deluxe from Mexico. CKD units were shipped from Detroit to Mexico where Fabricas Auto-Mex, a Mexico City distributor and assembler of Chrysler products, assembled the vehicles. Fabricas Auto-Mex was founded in 1938 and Chrysler International acquired a minority interest in the firm in 1959.

Do not have 1959 Plymouth production broken down by U.S / Canada / Export, but export Kingsway production totalled 5,476 (1,551 6 cyl and 3,925 V8) and export Diplomat production totalled 2,364 (1,309 6 cyl and 1,055 V8).

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I just watched "Cars 3" the animated film by Disney/Pixar
Doc Hudson races "the rookie" - a C300 sponsored by Re-Volting, a rebuilt alternator company.

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That Hudson wouldn't stand a chance against a C300. Those cars annihilated all the competition when they came out.
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I wonder if the 'Faraday' name is also a play on words...

Faraday being a name associated with electricity in the early days.
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The Chrysler Kid - 2013-10-28 5:35 PM
56 Mayfair Convertible in Dr-Dolittle--Million-Dollar-Mutts 2009.


Movie was filmed in the Vancouver area. The left hand shot was taken at Casa Mia on SW Marine Drive - very old house (1920's Spanish revival mansion). I presume the right hand shot is downtown Vancouver.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1080926/ http://www.imcdb.org/movie_1080926-Dr-Dolittle--Million-Dollar-Mutt...



As it happens, I phoned a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy to talk 56 Dodges. I ended up talking (locally) to the owner of that 1956 Mayfair Convertible (Plodge - Belvedere convert with 277 Poly /Powerflite and Dodge front clip, etc).
Except I didn't realize it at the time, he just said he had a 56 Dodge Mayfair Convert supposedly once one of 25 in Canada (back in 1956). He invited me to visit sometime.
When I googled his name to confirm his address, I bumped into several mentions of him and his museum/shop.

Here are a couple of photos from a newletter that featured his shop.



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Posted 2018-01-21 1:26 PM (#556679 - in reply to #556071)
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Forever Darling came out 9 February 1956 (USA) REF: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049225/
Some mainstream Feb 56 Magazine had this 10" x 13" advert. How convenient. (and I just obsessively bought it)


Got the advert in the mail the other day. I was from the Saturday Evening Post.

Here is the detail with Lucy and Desi. (She's got "A lot of 'splaning to do").

I see they added the side wings to the bumper and the bumper bar between the bumper guards.



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Posted 2018-01-26 1:01 PM (#556964 - in reply to #556624)
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As it happens, I phoned a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy to talk 56 Dodges. I ended up talking (locally) to the owner of that 1956 Mayfair Convertible (Plodge - Belvedere convert with
277 Poly /Powerflite and Dodge front clip, etc). Except I didn't realize it at the time, he just said he had a 56 Dodge Mayfair Convert supposedly once one of 25 in Canada (back in 1956).
He invited me to visit sometime. When I googled his name to confirm his address, I bumped into several mentions of him and his museum/shop.


Here is the same Dr. Dolittle car from a few years ago when they had a Gastown Vancouver invitation-only car show (car is at 13 Water Street as far as I can tell):



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Posted 2018-02-03 10:09 AM (#557433 - in reply to #155680)
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1960s educational film https://youtu.be/Oril-NKqvUQ



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Posted 2018-02-03 2:50 PM (#557450 - in reply to #155680)
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how many guys on here take a bus or ever drive one? that film brings back my childhood dad had the car mom and I

took the bus fare boxes transfers tokens don't exist inn the flower power days no cash put a flower in there peace!

gm automatic... our bus had a stick shift ralph kramden tho on the show you never saw the bus. you have a electronic

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Posted 2018-02-03 4:01 PM (#557453 - in reply to #155680)
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That's a lot of 2dr Chrysler products in a row, a Chrysler 300, a Packard?, a '57 Dodge 2dr hardtop, a '58 Plymouth 2dr hardtop, and a 2dr '56 Plymouth wagon in the next scene. And the other scene with the '57 DeSoto or Dodge wagon has another '56 Chrysler or DeSoto wagon behind it. The van there might be a Dodge too, but I'm not sure. Makes it seem that Chrysler helped pay for the filming and inserted some advertising.

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Posted 2018-02-03 7:24 PM (#557464 - in reply to #557453)
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I don't know if this qualifies as a movie but I know I would buy a DVD copy if it was available. A 1hr 09 second visit to the WP Chrysler Museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk19maa76Fs&t=2s

Naturally, the D500 at 16:33 caught my eye

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Posted 2018-02-18 4:44 PM (#558350 - in reply to #155680)
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not really a movie, but i like to watch old documentaries and news and spotted this, is this a 59 plymouth at 2:37? swiss 1967:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEISIV3as8

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Posted 2018-02-18 5:01 PM (#558351 - in reply to #155680)
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1960 sports suburban, one of 3333 built, iirc and i think i see a fender (GC) scare badge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKnfwiNpYYo
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Posted 2018-02-18 5:33 PM (#558353 - in reply to #558350)
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1960fury - 2018-02-18 4:44 PM not really a movie, but i like to watch old documentaries and news and spotted this, is this a 59 plymouth at 2:37? swiss 1967:


This one?





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Posted 2018-02-18 5:36 PM (#558354 - in reply to #558351)
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1960 sports suburban, one of 3333 built, iirc and i think i see a fender (GC) scare badge.


This?



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Posted 2018-02-18 5:37 PM (#558355 - in reply to #155680)
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Posted 2018-02-18 6:10 PM (#558359 - in reply to #155680)
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58 plymouth. whats the problem of that roadster guy? scary. i couldn't pull fast enough away from him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIC-AXA3ICY&index=6&list=LL0gdUx4gf2...

okay, got the answer in the yt comment section, and i didn't notice the waving girl

"All of that part of this video with the cars driving on both sides of the road and weaving back and forth is footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and the Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed for the filming and all of those cars and the people driving them are part of the movie".?

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Posted 2018-02-18 6:24 PM (#558360 - in reply to #155680)
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61 desoto coupe! + 61 dodge, chrysler. 1960 detroit auto show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps5uS0ZmVdk

detroit chrome, steel and glass glowing in the sun (note 60 fury cvt, 60 belv coupe, 61 ds 4dht and large desoto sign):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64tdYbmyh0Y

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Posted 2018-02-18 7:14 PM (#558363 - in reply to #155680)
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0:56 and yet another fl plymouth in switzerland. learned while watching these old films, that they did not have a speed limit on highways in switzerland in the mid 60s!


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Posted 2018-03-02 9:15 PM (#559124 - in reply to #156421)
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Do you know which episode of Crime Story the yellow 60 fury was in? I believe I am the current owner and would like to see if the damage on it was from the show.

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Posted 2018-03-02 10:47 PM (#559126 - in reply to #155680)
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Butterfield 8 has a some cars. the 58 Plymouth was a chase car and im most car scenes in the end. It turns into a 59 ford there for a second and back. and it is all over the place after that.


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Posted 2018-03-03 9:02 AM (#559138 - in reply to #155680)
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Looks to be a Dodge in Drive Angry, Anyone see it?
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Posted 2018-03-03 10:49 AM (#559141 - in reply to #559138)
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Looks to be a Dodge in Drive Angry, Anyone see it?


This "Drive Angry"?

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=1502404

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Posted 2018-03-03 1:55 PM (#559148 - in reply to #559141)
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Looks to be a Dodge in Drive Angry, Anyone see it?


This "Drive Angry"?

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=1502404

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Yes that's the one, looks to be a white 59 Dodge in back of garage scene.



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Posted 2018-03-04 2:04 AM (#559172 - in reply to #155680)
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I mentioned this movie in 2011 but here is the 1957 Belvedere Convertible from In Cold Blood 1996 is on IMCDB.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_43415-Plymouth-Belvedere-1957.html
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Posted 2018-03-04 10:27 AM (#559188 - in reply to #559172)
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I mentioned this movie in 2011 but here is the 1957 Belvedere Convertible from In Cold Blood 1996 is on IMCDB.


There are more FL cars in that movie. I bought and watched (mostly on Fast Forward) that movie on DVD because there was some indication that my 56 Dodge Custom Royal was in it. Never found it. BUT there were these:

57 Desoto and 55 Canadian Dodge Mayfair. Most of the movie was filmed somewhere in Alberta outside Calgary.

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Posted 2018-03-05 6:01 PM (#559296 - in reply to #155680)
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lots of detroit iron incl fl's 50s swiss motorshows 14:20 + later a 55 belvedere convertible in a swiss junkyard about to be crushed in 1964

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Posted 2018-03-06 4:20 PM (#559352 - in reply to #155680)
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LA traffic 1973. How many FL's do you count? Watched it once and spotted 3. A 56 FURY, 60 Desoto and a 58 Plymouth wagon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mnW3QR7ec

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Posted 2018-03-09 4:11 PM (#559536 - in reply to #559352)
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LA traffic 1973. How many FL's do you count? Watched it once and spotted 3. A 56 FURY, 60 Desoto and a 58 Plymouth wagon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mnW3QR7ec


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Posted 2018-03-12 8:39 PM (#559778 - in reply to #155680)
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i guess i was distracted by the fury, good eyes, can you do better here too, watched it only once and spotted only 2 fls:


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Posted 2018-03-14 8:08 AM (#559862 - in reply to #155680)
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Here is a new movie trailer with a FL car in it. Guess what it is? I havn't watched the movie yet.
Steve.


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Posted 2018-03-14 8:26 AM (#559863 - in reply to #559862)
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60 Imp - 2018-03-14 8:08 AM Here is a new movie trailer with a FL car in it. Guess what it is? I havn't watched the movie yet.Steve.


Jeez I was going to say 59 Imperial but then I saw your screen name there Steve, so I guess I will have to go with "What is a 1960 Imperial, Alex?"

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I watched the movie. The 1960 Le Baron gets lots of air time, very cool to see. Movie is OK too!

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Posted 2018-03-19 7:55 PM (#560174 - in reply to #155680)
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already by 1965 fl cars were rare. i spotted 2 in this video from 65 chicago. one seems to be a 58 desoto convertible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6iHXm_3Jw

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Posted 2018-03-19 10:25 PM (#560180 - in reply to #560174)
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Only the briefest of glimpses at 0:49

Still, it looked to my eye to have a flash of tourquoise on the black car with a black top.

I only know of one like it today: Bill K's NY junkyard find purchased and restored by Max S - but that was a Firedome.

Impossible to tell what model this is.





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Posted 2018-06-12 8:26 AM (#565073 - in reply to #155680)
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Stupid Sam, from one of my all time favorite films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0X2jzI4jTA

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I have been waiting for a few "round tuits" to post the following movie still photos found in a friend's estate.
Are these of the same car and movie as the last post?



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Are these of the same car and movie as the last post?


Yes
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Posted 2018-07-05 5:58 PM (#566073 - in reply to #565881)
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Here is the german intro of Kojak! I watched it as a 5 year+ old and always wondered about the weird looking blue coupe. Note, at the same time there is a 60 Dodge in the picture.

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Spotted a 58 Chrysler town and country, desoto and a convertible 300D i think.

https://youtu.be/fPC7oNJyXeU?t=1h8m29s




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Posted 2018-07-14 11:26 PM (#566619 - in reply to #155680)
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<p><img src="https://media2.giphy.com/media/tfX9G7UQJ329i/giphy.gif" border="0" /></p><p>How about a Forward Look door in a movie with John Wayne and a MAC10? </p>

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56 Dodge in one of the several episodes of Highway Patrol:

For fun, I found an episode of Highway Patrol from the 1950's that featured a 56 Dodge "Highway Patrol" car.

The car is in several scenes throughout the episode. Some of the longer ones are at 8:07-8:37, 12:47-13:05, 17:19:17:42, 19:00-19:16 and 19:25-19:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGfvUHcRlR0&list=PLxX_AJ8DFfaMo-voUy...







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i know I've posted on this movie before,but no case nobody caught it the first time around. This is the ultimate FL movie IMO. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pit+stop+1969&&view=detail&mid=...

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Here's the original movie trailer. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pit+stop+1969&&view=detail&mid=...
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If you don't like the PIT STOP vids then don't watch this!!!!! If you do like the pit stop vids then here ya go. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pit+stop+1969&&view=detail&mid=...
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Great Collection of photos. Would make a great collage/poster for a Mopar nut to hang on his/her shop wall. Hint hint.

But before I go, we have to remember it's a bit Chicken and the egg as to where the name came from (first). For example, I'm pretty sure that the Savoy hotel in London is not named after the Plymouth.




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If these theater buildings still exist,it would be cool to park a same name car under it for a photo shoot.
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Broderick Crawford as Dan Matthews in Highway Patrol in a 57 (?) Plymouth



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I’d have to say it’s a Dodge based on the chrome molding that would be at the front of the fin just behind the driver’s door.
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Viper Guy - 2018-12-27 11:12 AM
I’d have to say it’s a Dodge based on the chrome molding that would be at the front of the fin just behind the driver’s door.


The photo was labeled "57 Plymouth" but I have to agree with you.

Could be this 59 Dodge:



Not likely this 57 (because of the lack of chrome) but it could be this 58 (I *think* I see some chrome):



This supposedly ex-CHP 58 definitely has the chrome:



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Moonfire movie 61 Plymouth at 122.12 to 130 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8wpjUMvyc

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Fireball 500 1966. 60 dodge https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fireball+500+1966&view=detail&m...
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Attack of the 50ft woman trailer. Imperial conv and 58 ply cop cars https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=attack+of+the+50+foot+woman+195...
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Car 54 where are you. Lots 61 Plymouths and a 61 300 vert. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=car+54+where+are+you+tv+show+ep...

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Gomer Pyle 60 sky hi dodge https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gomer+pyle+episodes&&view=detai...
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Another goner Pyle episode chocked with FLs https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gomer+pyle+episodes&&view=detai...
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Another goner with right hand drive Plymouth? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gomer+pyle+episodes&&view=detai...
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Ring of fire 1961. The first 20 mins are driving around in a 61 Plymouth police car. Very worthwhile watching. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ring+of+fire+movie+1961&&view=d...
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I would say that is a Dodge and not a Plymouth judging by the door handle and the chrome trim. It could be a 1957-59 model, but there's no way to tell for sure.  I don't know if you noticed it, but Broderick Crawford is handcuffed to the door frame. Yikes! What is that all about?



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58 DESOTOS RULE - 2019-07-23 7:25 AM

I would say that is a Dodge and not a Plymouth judging by the door handle and the chrome trim. It could be a 1957-59 model, but there's no way to tell for sure.  I don't know if you noticed it, but Broderick Crawford is handcuffed to the door frame. Yikes! What is that all about?


We've previously been around (and around) on this photo before. Please scroll up this page a bit and see the answer. (Not Plymouth)



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Oh I know it's not a Plymouth in spite of what the picture title says. The door handles are a giveaway. Plymouth used refrigerator door style handles. What I'm wodering is does anyone know why Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) is handcuffed into his car? Was he just clowning for a publicity still or was it a plot line from one of his epsodes?





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The birds 1963 lobby card. 57 Plymouth



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Also this clip from the birds. At 2.00 there is a great scene with a 60 dodge wagon with 61 Chrysler in the background. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+birds+1963+part+1%2f11&&vie...
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Also this clip from the birds. At 2.00 there is a great scene with a 60 dodge wagon with 61 Chrysler in the background.


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Found this 57 Plymouth car chase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qMwzYkxi4
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Here is the german intro of Kojak! I watched it as a 5 year+ old and always wondered about the weird looking blue coupe. Note, at the same time there is a 60 Dodge in the picture.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoLOpUQPbQ

Sorry for commenting on a post that is over a year old, but I couldn't resist. The bulk of the intro features stock footage taken in NYC in the mid 1960s.That's why you see a 1960 Dodge and 1961 Plymouth (among other old cars) driving around the mean streets of Manhattan. Most of those cars were gone by 1973-74 when Kojak was set. He used a 1973-74 Buick colonade sedan as his personal vehicle - I think it was the Century or Regal. I drove one back in the day, but it wasn't very fast.



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58 DESOTOS RULE - 2019-09-28 11:43 AM

Here is the german intro of Kojak! I watched it as a 5 year+ old and always wondered about the weird looking blue coupe. Note, at the same time there is a 60 Dodge in the picture.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoLOpUQPbQ

Sorry for commenting on a post that is over a year old, but I couldn't resist. The bulk of the intro features stock footage taken in NYC in the mid 1960s.That's why you see a 1960 Dodge and 1961 Plymouth (among other old cars) driving around the mean streets of Manhattan. Most of those cars were gone by 1973-74 when Kojak was set. He used a 1973-74 Buick colonade sedan as his personal vehicle - I think it was the Century or Regal. I drove one back in the day, but it wasn't very fast.



Yes, I guessed that because of the other cars in that scene. Early/mid60s, NYC at its peak! During the Kojak episodes you can watch the WTC raise in the background. I always thought that Kojak Buick is ugly, for an American car.
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This is the best I could do to get the Plymouth

I guess the Dodge is in the left foreground (??)

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Posted 2019-09-28 5:11 PM (#588095 - in reply to #155680)
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Watched the movie last night. Lots of Forward Look cars in The Irishman. Lost track of how many but 56 Plymouth Belvedere and 57 Plymouth Savoy or Plaza come to mind.

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Found some of the cars on imcdb:

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58 Plymouth and 59 Dodge







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56 Dodge in one of the several episodes of Highway Patrol:

For fun, I found an episode of Highway Patrol from the 1950's that featured a 56 Dodge "Highway Patrol" car.

The car is in several scenes throughout the episode. Some of the longer ones are at 8:07-8:37, 12:47-13:05, 17:19:17:42, 19:00-19:16 and 19:25-19:43

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Supposedly a guy out here in California owns one of the 56 Dodges used in “highway Patrol”. I’ve never seen it though. I’ve only seen Gary Goltz driving his Buick replica.
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Apollo 61 - 2019-09-16 11:59 PM

Also this clip from the birds. At 2.00 there is a great scene with a 60 dodge wagon with 61 Chrysler in the background.


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There’s also a beautiful 1960 Dodge Polara four door hardtop wagon in “Mr. Hobbs takes a vacation”
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Fender skirted 56 Plymouth coupe in a road race in this one:

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Stupid Sam, from one of my all time favorite films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0X2jzI4jTA


I love this one too! “Hollywood or Bust” is my favorite Martin and Lewis film. I like them all though.

Anita Ekberg is my neighbor....good ol Dean!
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Don’t know if this ones already been posted,but Johnny Cash drives a 57 Dodge in “Five Minutes to Live”. Merle Travis is in the film too.

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58 DESOTOS RULE - 2019-07-23 11:19 AM

Oh I know it's not a Plymouth in spite of what the picture title says. The door handles are a giveaway. Plymouth used refrigerator door style handles. What I'm wodering is does anyone know why Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) is handcuffed into his car? Was he just clowning for a publicity still or was it a plot line from one of his epsodes?



Supposedly this was a gag photo taken by the crew and Broderick that was presented to Frederick Ziv (the “Fred” in the inscription) the producer of “Highway Patrol”. It was an inside joke,Broderick had placed himself under arrest for driving with a suspended license. Crawford had a problem with drink and had several DUI’s and was on thin ice with Ziv and the Highway Patrol. They supposedly had to film scenes of him driving on private roads and being towed by a camera car once they discovered his license was suspended. that’s also why in some scenes he’d have another officer drive for him or he would leave his car and ride in another officers car.

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“Crawford's heavy drinking increased during the filming of Highway Patrol, eventually resulting in several arrests and stops for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), which eventually gained him a suspended driving license.[While representing the California Highway Patrol as "Chief Mathews", Crawford was known with considerable embarrassment by the CHP as "Old 502" due to his habit of driving under the influence of alcohol ("Code 502" was the CHP police radio code for drunken driving). According to the show's creator, Guy Daniels, "We got all the dialogue in by noon, or else we wouldn't get it done at all. He [Crawford] would bribe people to bring him booze on the set." The show used their CHP technical advisor, Officer Frank Runyon, to keep the actor sober: "I was told to keep that son of a bitch away from a bottle. I think his license was suspended. Some scenes had to be shot on private roads so that Brod could drive." Eventually the drinking strained the show's relationship with the CHP as well as Crawford's relationship with ZIV.”


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A 61 Newport CVT getaway car, 61 Plymouth Patroller and 61 Fury 4 DHT, that miraculously turns into a crushed 61 Belvedere coupe in "The adventures of Superboy" from 61:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3F_G2A3V4

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My son just finished the book "Holes" and wants to see the Disney movie based on it. When he showed me the trailer I saw the back end of this '58 Saratoga.



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Took me awhile to find this. Back in the 90's my wife did a lot of background and stand in work for the movie industry. Right before
I sold my Windsor it was used in a scene of a 2 part mini series called The Siege at Ruby Ridge starring Randy Quaid and Laura Dern.
my wife was Laura Derns' stand in for the filming of the movie. Got to meet a lot of the actors and hang oout at the after party with them
Some different characters in that industry...

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My son just finished the book "Holes" and wants to see the Disney movie based on it. When he showed me the trailer I saw the back end of this '58 Saratoga.


The owner of that 58 Saratoga was a member on the forum here for quite a while. I think he has since sold the car.
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From 1963 movie, "Violent Midnight"
1960 Polara hardtop wagon, with dog dish hubcaps and blackwall tires. Looks like it has 15 inch wheels

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"Hot cars" from 1956 great movie with lots of 1rst gen FL's filmed at Big John's used car lot in Culver city Did they really have night shifts at used car lots?

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Lots of Forward Look cars in the Highway Patrol TV series. This episode is called "Stripped Cars"

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Highway Patrol: "Motel Robbery"

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Highway Patrol: "Motel Robbery"
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That was a good one. Full of 56 Dodge Coronet 4dr Lancer Hardtop and 56 Plymouth Belvedere Convertible. Too bad it was in Black and White.

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Not a movie, but from the Twilight Zone, Someone can post the photo. Such a beautiful car, and a very rare sight even back then. 286 made of these beauties.



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Surprisingly many FLs in this film from April of 1969:

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My subconscious thought that the car used for the trunk hideout in Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome, was a Packard because of the added fins & the unrecognized rear bumper. But looking at it recently, I realized that the quarters are from a '56 Plymouth and the added fins are likely from a '57-'58 Dodge. Not sure what the bumper is from, but maybe a '56 Dodge?



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That's a Chrysler Royal AP2, a specific australian model.





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Yep, that makes more sense now. Odd how the upper fins are just tacked on like that.
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AdamZuN
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