Television & Movie Vehicles: Part One

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Pink Flamingos!

Another classic by John Waters, this has several good car scenes. In the movie, Babs Johnson (played by Divine) is living in the woods of Phoenix, Maryland in a small trailer. Her nemesis, Raymond and Connie Marble (David Lochary and Mink Stole) live in Baltimore and cruise around town in a '59 Fleetwood 75 limo driven by their chauffeur Channing. Babs drives a '57 Coupe de Ville. One of my favorite parts of the movie shows Babs and her son Crackers heading to the city in the Coupe de Ville, once there Babs goes for a walk and does some shopping. The link shows her walking down the street and passing a Datsun 510, first series Barracuda fastback, VW Beetle and a Chevy Nova.  Waters was on a tight budget so this was not a studio shot, instead he just sent Divine out in full costume to walk down the street and then filmed the result from his car - all those surprised shoppers are very real!

 
from the wonderful movie Vertigo...

...the 1956 DeSoto Firedome Sportsman Hardtop Coupe that Jimmey Stewart drove around "old" San Francisco was certainly not shabby...part of Chrysler's "Forward Look" not to be confused with Frigidaire's "Sheer Look" the following year ;-)

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ok, just one more and I'll stop...

...the 2003 Ford Thunderbird Jinx/Halle Berry drove around on the ice in the James Bond thriller "Die Another Day" was totally cool. Every so often you see one of these special edition 007 Thunderbirds for sale on ebay. I'd love to have one but I'd need to rob a bank first...I'm a "Bond" movie freak too.

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I won't name the movie...

but I would have outbid Hoke for this baby once Miss Daisy got the new car. Gawd, I love this car!

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I Have Three and All Are Obscure...

My first is the 1958 Desoto convertible driven by Joanna Moore in Monster On The Campus

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Third is...

The 1960 Mercury Commuter Wagon from The Absent Minded Professor. Always cringe when I see the old Flubber car banging away on the roof of this beautiful wagon, and even worse when it gets rained in and fill with water in the sequel movie.

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