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

1960DesotoAdventurer - 2013-09-07 9:22 PM

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.

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?

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:

jimntempe - 2013-10-31 12:50 AM

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

jimntempe - 2013-10-31 12:50 AM

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

56D500boy - 2017-07-31 1:38 PM



Chase starts around the 19:00 mark.

:)