Re: [FWDLK] FWDLK cars in movies/50's TV

[Ross Klein <tailfins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anybody remember the actor Kirby Grant? He played Sky King, proprietor of
the Flying Crown Ranch. When he wasn't piloting "The Songbird", he was often
seen driving his '56 Chrysler Windsor Town & Country wagon.

Ross Klein
'56 Imperial sedan, two-tone green
'Life's too short to drive 'ordinary' cars"
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From: "brian" <xm2cars@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] FWDLK cars in movies


> And in the movie, "Chris Cross" the family drives a normal looking green
57
> DeSoto 4dr sedan down in southern FL.  Car shows up in several scenes of
> the movie.
>
> Another movie "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Elizabeth Taylor features a
yellow
> & black 57 CRL convert with all the ornaments removed.  Car is a player in
> the movie and in several scenes.  The car was in good shape too - I know
> because I bought it!
>
> And from the great days of 50's TV, do many of you remember the 57 Dodges
> and Buicks that Broderick Crawford used in "Highway Patrol"?  Or how about
> the 56 (?) Chrysler station wagon that had the rifle holsters used by
Chuck
> Conner in his pursuit of justice (before he became the Rifleman) - or the
> Studebakers in "Mr. Ed"?
>
> Brian
> D500s in MI
>
> Mike Sealey wrote:
>
> > A primered and otherwise rough-looking '61 DeSoto
> > appears in the movie "Mississippi Burning".
> >
> > Apparently nobody told the movie folks that was an
> > unnaturally rough appearance for what would've been a
> > 4-5 year old car at the time the movie is supposed to
> > have taken place...
> >
> > =====
> > Mike Sealey, San Francisco CA
> > '57 Plymouth Sport Suburban
> > '64 Chrysler 300-K 2dr Hardtop
> >
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