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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Let's start with the most famous person ever (ElvisLovingYou2.jpg) (ElvisLovingYou1.jpg) (ElvisLovingYou3.jpg) (ElvisLovingYou4.jpg) (ElvisLovingYou5.jpg) (elvis58NewYorker.jpg) (ElvisHawaii.jpg) (ElvisHawaii2.jpg) (ElvisHawaii3.jpg) (Elvishawaii4.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ElvisLovingYou2.jpg (15KB - 505 downloads) ElvisLovingYou1.jpg (15KB - 385 downloads) ElvisLovingYou3.jpg (23KB - 424 downloads) ElvisLovingYou4.jpg (22KB - 556 downloads) ElvisLovingYou5.jpg (18KB - 407 downloads) elvis58NewYorker.jpg (34KB - 402 downloads) ElvisHawaii.jpg (34KB - 379 downloads) ElvisHawaii2.jpg (28KB - 483 downloads) ElvisHawaii3.jpg (45KB - 383 downloads) Elvishawaii4.jpg (35KB - 388 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | another famous ForwardLooker http://www.carpentersfans.com/extra/carpenters-cars-01.html (RichardCarpenter.jpg) (RichardCarpenter2.bmp) Attachments ---------------- RichardCarpenter.jpg (47KB - 536 downloads) RichardCarpenter2.bmp (54KB - 413 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1918 Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | I'd totally forgotten about "King Creole" (B&W pic w/the NY ragtop). That's not only Elvis standing on the curb, but it's also Carolyn Jones - a.k.a. Morticia Addams of "The Addams Family" - sitting in the NY..... | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | hey where's the pic of elvis in the 60 plymouth taxi ? | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | richard petty | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 1960fury - 2008-02-09 9:05 PM hey where's the pic of elvis in the 60 plymouth taxi ? don't you have that one Sid?.Another famous ForwardLooker http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/ChryslerImperial_shell.shtml | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | vedette - 2008-02-09 9:13 PM 1960fury - 2008-02-09 9:05 PM hey where's the pic of elvis in the 60 plymouth taxi ? don't you have that one Sid?. no, its a scene in the movie "it happened at the worlds fair" from 1962. seeing that 61 dodge convertible... it has a 60 windshield, is that a pre production car? or had convertibles still the bubble windshield in 61? | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 313 Location: New Jersey | They had the bubble winshield in '61. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1207 Location: Ponder, TX | I recall reading a story about Gary Cooper. When asked what he did for fun, one of the things he mentioned was "canyon carving" in his '57 Fury. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1357 Location: Iowa USA | When you are talking about cars in movies you have to use this website! http://www.imcdb.org/ If you sort by make and year it makes it easier to find the cars http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=1&ma... Edited by roadkillontheweb 2008-02-10 10:10 AM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1357 Location: Iowa USA | Edited by roadkillontheweb 2008-02-10 10:12 AM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1357 Location: Iowa USA | Mad max! | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Elvis usually preferred Cadillacs but managed to get by in an Imperial. (ElvisLovingYou5.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ElvisLovingYou5.jpg (18KB - 382 downloads) | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Location: .Norfolk..Mafia.. ,England UK | 1960fury - 2008-02-10 2:25 AM vedette - 2008-02-09 9:13 PM 1960fury - 2008-02-09 9:05 PM hey where's the pic of elvis in the 60 plymouth taxi ? don't you have that one Sid?. no, its a scene in the movie "it happened at the worlds fair" from 1962. seeing that 61 dodge convertible... it has a 60 windshield, is that a pre production car? or had convertibles still the bubble windshield in 61? here you go Sid.. Not the one you refer too, But.. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Plymouth&page=22 | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 504 Location: southern Oklahoma | http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2610710420030961650EpOIrM marilyn monroe's 1961 dodge polara 500 convertible | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 1961savoy - 2008-02-10 1:36 PM http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2610710420030961650EpOIrM marilyn monroe's 1961 dodge polara 500 convertiblethat's a nice '61 Polara convertible Marilyn had,didn't she have a '57 Dodge too?.Another famous ForwardLooker,Led Zeppelin's front man Robert Plant ,his car was at this French Car Show and Auction(RetroMobile,Paris)with a rather low estimate,don't know what it made. http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3500.asp?id=13253 (alison-krauss-robert-plant.jpg) (Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg) Attachments ---------------- alison-krauss-robert-plant.jpg (60KB - 471 downloads) Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg (8KB - 371 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | roy orbison (60 chrysler convertible) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | vedette - 2008-02-10 4:35 PM 1961savoy - 2008-02-10 1:36 PM that's a nice '61 Polara convertible Marilyn had,didn't she have a '57 Dodge too?.Another famous ForwardLooker,Led Zeppelin's front man Robert Plant ,his car was at this French Car Show and Auction(RetroMobile,Paris)with a rather low estimate,don't know what it made. http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3500.asp?id=13253 http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2610710420030961650EpOIrM marilyn monroe's 1961 dodge polara 500 convertible
The website that describes this car is in error. They think it's a 1955 model whereas is is really a 1959 model - not the same thing at all. (Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg (8KB - 381 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 1960fury - 2008-02-11 8:29 AM roy orbison (60 chrysler convertible) Roy in action http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wKf3mfarV9M (Big O.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Big O.jpg (13KB - 353 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 58 DESOTOS RULE - 2008-02-11 10:29 AM vedette - 2008-02-10 4:35 PM .Another famous ForwardLooker,Led Zeppelin's front man Robert Plant ,his car was at this French Car Show and Auction(RetroMobile,Paris)with a rather low estimate,don't know what it made. http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3500.asp?id=13253
The website that describes this car is in error. They think it's a 1955 model whereas is is really a 1959 model - not the same thing at all. Robert Plant's Imperial convertible has been in England for a long time and it's definitely a 1959.Robert and Alison Rock n Rollin back to the '50s with an Everly Brothers song http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTo5Yf89P8 (alison-krauss-robert-plant.jpg) (Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg) Attachments ---------------- alison-krauss-robert-plant.jpg (60KB - 367 downloads) Robert Plant's59Imperial.jpg (8KB - 394 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats 1958 Dodge Custom.These last three artists I have seen "Live" in concert Roy Orbison in the early '80s at The Edinburgh Playhouse ( I was a kid and didn't really know who he was ,but when the curtain came up to the riff of Pretty Woman and the crowd went wild I Knew he was Special).I saw the Stray Cats at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1989 and Robert Plant and Lemmy(of Motorhead) appeared on stage by surprise and jammed with The 'Cats on Eddie Cochran's C'mon Everybody and Gene Vincent's Be Bop A Lula-Brilliant. Brian with friends Rockin This Town http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bLY-lkpklSs (setzer2a.jpg) (setzer12.gif) Attachments ---------------- setzer2a.jpg (9KB - 397 downloads) setzer12.gif (29KB - 368 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | NONONONONO...etcetcetc...! That red "D500" is a complete fraud. That car was a blue 361 car, that a certain person (Paul Garlick) created, over several years, in the late 1980's, to be the fake-D500, in red, with a fake provenance, to M.M. . Initially, the car was "rumored" (by Paul) to have belonged to someone 'associated' with M. M. . I have a photograph, taken on Xmas (forget the precise year it was taken) , with Paul grinning at the camaramen, sitting in that blue 361 Polara. Paul, also, famously, tried to pass-off a 1961 Plodge as being an export car, to Mexico--it's that very-nice looking turquoise Dodge with the PLY front end, and with a Toilet seat trunk. If not for quick contact to Hemmings Classic Cars, by a Daily List Server member, that car was all-set to have been featured in a major article in H.C.C. . which reportedly spent $2,000.00 on article-preparation work, on that car. As I've saved those discussions, I should be able to reference those thread discussions, for those who don't already read the messages to that "Mailing List" , which membership & Archives are found on the FWDLK's homepage masthead subject-listings. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Well Neil,please tell us about the Dodges Marilyn Monroe actually had,didn't her housekeeper have a '57 CRL (as seen on period newsreels on Marilyn's death)and she did have a '61 Polara conv?.Here she is post ForwardLook . (monroe62.jpg) (monroe62a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- monroe62.jpg (46KB - 351 downloads) monroe62a.jpg (22KB - 353 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Marilyn's secretary/house-keeper did own that all-white CRL hardtop, as seen in the newsreels. She did not own a 1961 Dodge convertible (and certainly not that particular blue 361-engined car.) Edited by d500neil 2008-02-11 7:44 PM | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13042 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Now this is a real nice thing we got going here Mark "Vedette", the music adds another dimension to this forum! I hit the links and browse the posts with the music in the background. I have not seen so much feedback yet - but I sure like it! Thanks | ||
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Wise Old Village Idiot Posts: 3591 Location: Dellslow, West ("By God") Virginia ! | Bob "entertain the troops" Hope, always use MoPars in most of his movies! Sid, you got any pictures of him? | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | alumcanTandThd - 2008-02-12 12:45 AM Bob "entertain the troops" Hope, always use MoPars in most of his movies! Sid, you got any pictures of him? I do, but they're post-1961: (Commit1Big.jpg) (Commit2Big.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Commit1Big.jpg (15KB - 373 downloads) Commit2Big.jpg (19KB - 338 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats 1958 Dodge Custom You have any more pictures of this car so we can see it in its glory? Anyone?
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | alumcanTandThd - 2008-02-12 3:45 AM Bob "entertain the troops" Hope, always use MoPars in most of his movies! Sid, you got any pictures of him? no, but a video tape/film showing him driving a blue 61 phoenix convertible, just like the one elvis drove... | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | well not realy "famous" but sirhan sirhan drove a 56 desoto | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Ricky Nelson's 1958 Plymouth Fury convertible(special order) there are pictures of it in either TV Star Parade 03/58,TV Radio Mirror 07/58,DIG 11/58 or LIFE magazine 12/58-but I don't have copies of them,anyone got any?. So here is his brother David Nelson in his '57 Dodge Coronet convertible with Ricky chatting up the girls. Ricky rocking http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=webW7qnk1Ow (tvstarparadeRickyNelson57Dodge.jpg) Attachments ---------------- tvstarparadeRickyNelson57Dodge.jpg (25KB - 369 downloads) | ||
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Expert ,, George Passed away July 28th 2021, He will be Missed Posts: 1295 Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | I saw Ricky at his home in Hollywood in 1958 and he was driving a candy metallic blue 58 Fury coupe.... not a convertible. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3153 Location: NY & VT | Ward Cleaver always drove a Plym, including a '61 Belvy 4 dr. Ozzie Nelson had Mopars too I think - BUT the Granddaddy of ALL Mopar movies is the classic 1962 flick "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" ... it's full of FL era Mopars of all kinds chasing each other and crashing it things all over the Wild West - a great, funny movie, with almost every big actor & comedian of the time - and a Mopar lovers dream!!!!! | ||
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Expert Posts: 3153 Location: NY & VT | Ward Cleaver always drove a Plym, including a '61 Belvy 4 dr. Ozzie Nelson had Mopars too I think - BUT the Granddaddy of ALL Mopar movies is the classic 1962 flick "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" ... it's full of FL era Mopars of all kinds chasing each other and crashing into things all over the Wild West - a great, funny movie, with almost every big actor & comedian of the time - and a Mopar lovers dream!!!!! | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Those late fifties TV shows were great for us here in Australia... we saw cars that weren't on our streets, and the ones that really made an impression with me were those cop cars on Highway Patrol! Unlike you, we didn't really get this show until they were using Dodges, so those were the cars we saw mostly even though it seems that Buicks in earlier years get a lot of attention from the websites now. The opening scene, IIRC, had a close up of a front wheel of the Dodge, tyre horribly distorted, doing a U-turn or something... and Broderick Crawford was a part of our lives. (highwaypatrol1.jpg) (highwaypatrol2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- highwaypatrol1.jpg (42KB - 391 downloads) highwaypatrol2.jpg (65KB - 338 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7385 Location: northern germany | Ray Bell - 2008-02-13 2:53 PM Those late fifties TV shows were great for us here in Australia... we saw cars that weren't on our streets, and the ones that really made an impression with me were those cop cars on Highway Patrol! yes, i watched every episode since i have em on dvd! great show. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Maybe I should get the DVDs too? Funny, you know, looking at some of the web sites, reading the outline for some of the stories, I remember at least one of them and it's 48 years ago and I only saw each show once! | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | chrysler300c - 2008-02-13 2:06 AM I saw Ricky at his home in Hollywood in 1958 and he was driving a candy metallic blue 58 Fury coupe.... not a convertible. Did you get any photos of it?sounds really flash in candy blue metallic.Since we're mentioning Highway Patrol we'd better mention Fred Gwynne and Joe E Ross in Car 54 Where Are You?... (Car54.jpg) (car54comicbooks.jpg) (car54whereareyou.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Car54.jpg (50KB - 355 downloads) car54comicbooks.jpg (78KB - 352 downloads) car54whereareyou.jpg (43KB - 360 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | firedome - 2008-02-13 12:13 PM Ward Cleaver always drove a Plym, including a '61 Belvy 4 dr. Ozzie Nelson had Mopars too I think - BUT the Granddaddy of ALL Mopar movies is the classic 1962 flick "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" ... it's full of FL era Mopars of all kinds chasing each other and crashing it things all over the Wild West - a great, funny movie, with almost every big actor & comedian of the time - and a Mopar lovers dream!!!!! Actually Ward Cleaver didn't buy MoPar until the third season. He was strictly a FoMoCo man in Season One and Two (1957 Ford). The 1957 Ford's tailfins were tiny in comparison to what was being offered by the 1957 Forward Look line. I agree with the recommendation of the movie "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, World." It was a 90 minute advertisement for Chrysler Corporation, and the plot was pretty funny too. | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | firedome - 2008-02-13 10:15 AM Ward Cleaver always drove a Plym, including a '61 Belvy 4 dr. He drove a '57 F*rd in some of the earliest episodes. K. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2932 Location: Lemoore CA | How about some pictures of Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) and some of the cars on his show? I don't have them otherwise I would post them myself, maybe someone else does. I just watched the great St Louis Bank Robbery with Steve McQueen, no one actually drives a Forward look car, but there is a scene where one of the robbers is doing a stakeout of the bank in a Desoto dealership lot, a nice rear shot of a 58. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | 5859 - 2008-02-14 12:06 AM How about some pictures of Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) and some of the cars on his show? I don't have them otherwise I would post them myself, maybe someone else does. I just watched the great St Louis Bank Robbery with Steve McQueen, no one actually drives a Forward look car, but there is a scene where one of the robbers is doing a stakeout of the bank in a Desoto dealership lot, a nice rear shot of a 58. You can find some clips of the "Peter Gunn Show" on the 59 Plymouth web site: http://www.59plymouth.net/ephemera/video/tvshows.html I don't think the stories hold up all that well but the cars are great. The series has been released on DVD. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2932 Location: Lemoore CA | Yes, I have the dvd set, it is fairly cheesy, but I enjoy it just the same! | ||
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Veteran Posts: 100 Location: Waterloo, IL (near St, Louis, MO) | I don't have a pic, but I've seen the movie a hundred times. In the Ed Wood "classic" Plan 9 From Outer Space, our hero drives a really nice-looking '57 Belvedere ragtop. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | David Janssen in his '59 DeSoto convertible,on the telephone. (DavidJanssen59DeSoto.bmp) Attachments ---------------- DavidJanssen59DeSoto.bmp (116KB - 370 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2244 Location: Yorba Linda, Ca | Ya know¿, I dont think they make , either cars or people , like those anymore!!!! Note the classic hats------not some fool kids-----that dont know the front of a hat , from the back | ||
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Expert Posts: 2932 Location: Lemoore CA | It was more of a grownups world back then, you never would have seen a grown man, in his 30s or beyond wearing a baseball cap unless he was playing baseball. | ||
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Wise Old Village Idiot Posts: 3591 Location: Dellslow, West ("By God") Virginia ! | Jimmy. in that Peter Gunn DVD set you have. There isn't a very early episode of him driving a stick shift '58 Fury is there? | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | 1959Dodge - 2008-02-14 4:37 PM Note the classic hats------not some fool kids-----that don't know the front of a hat , from the back :madman: True, but every generation has issues with hats. Look at the American and British kids who fought in WW II. They wore their uniform hats at all sorts of strange angles so they'd look "jaunty", but they defeated two of the most powerful military forces on the planet. Wearing their hats correctly did not help either the Nazis nor the Imperial Japanese! K. (cap_field_hbt_375.jpg) (cap_garrison_khaki_airborne.jpg) (caps_group_diverse.jpg) Attachments ---------------- cap_field_hbt_375.jpg (47KB - 354 downloads) cap_garrison_khaki_airborne.jpg (26KB - 358 downloads) caps_group_diverse.jpg (58KB - 352 downloads) | ||
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Expert ,, George Passed away July 28th 2021, He will be Missed Posts: 1295 Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | No pictures.... didn't expect to see him and they likely would have been in black & white anyway. It was stunning with that blue with the gold tone side trim. I didn't ask but I always thought it was interesting that blue & gold were the colors for UCLA, which Ricky was attending at the time. George | ||
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