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you know Alan...

...of all the things I loved and remember about "Bewitched" including the beautiful Frigidaire appliances and the wonderful Elizabeth Montgomery, Larry Tate's yellow Corvette was one of my favorites. I used to think "how cool to have an executive job like that and drive a Corvette"...I'm sure GM wanted everyone to feel the same.

I guess I'm over-posting on this thread...SLAP!

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hydralique...

I watch Perry Mason every weeknight @ 11:30 (that's very late for us here at the "home") and the cars are one of the best parts of the show. Mr. Mason obviously had good taste in automobiles.

One of the reasons Lt. Tragg disliked Perry so much was that he really wanted a fancy-schmancy Cadillac convertible but couldn't afford one.

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I can't believe, I mean cannot fathom, that no one has mentioned Scaramanga's flying AMC in Man With the Golden Gun!!!!

I seem to remember Maj Nelson have a Firebird and Grand Prix convertibles (which Jeannie drove while invisible, mayhem ensues)? A few years ago Barbara Eden judged a Jeannie look-alike contest at a restaurant near our office and a bunch of us went. She looked great (checked her hands, no wrinkles) and we waited for her to leave and took her picture as she was driven off (I think she liked it that we were that big fans) but the funniest thing was that she was driven off in a regular ole' blue Accord sedan, when you might have expected a limo or something.

Wasn't the much-maligned Mustang II a bigger sales hit than even the Mustang I (queries the guy who's Dearborn residing grandparents didn't own a Dearborn made car - their Ford came from Dagenham, their old car was a turquoise and white Metropolitan, my grandfather only drove British cars)?

Glad I'm not the only one who liked Trip Tucker & John Steed (though I always preferred Mrs. Peel's apartment) too!
 
Didn't Beth Broderick have some kind of very late 50's Cadillac 4-door hardtop in Psycho Beach Party?

Wasn't there a tricked up Dodge Aspen in Polyester too? It was BoBo's car, which Jean Hill flattens the tires of with her bare teeth and then proceeds to rip the door off of!

Desperate Living also has a lot of cars - Peggy Gravel has a big Mercedes and Muffy St. Jacques had some sort of big "personal luxury" car - can't remember which though. John Waters hates certain cars with a passion, Le Car being one (and one would guess and assume he hates Prius' too).
 
Davey7...

..."Psycho Beach Party?", "Polyester" & "Desperate Living?"...you have semi-warped tastes in movies like me ;-) Tab Hunter drove a flashy white Corvette in "Desperate Living"," the one and only movie ever filmed in ODORAMA.

My unscratched reproduction ODORAMA card...John Waters said "and #2 smells exactly like what you think it smells like" (the scene where Francine Fishpaw/Divine has a flatulence episode in bed with her husband.) Laughing is good for you.

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Polyester!

Tab Hunter wasn't in Desperate Living, he was in Polyester and did indeed drive the white Corvette. Polyester was also the first film to be produced in Odorama as noted above. Link below to the famous scene where Jean Hill bites the tire on BoBo's tacky Dodge.

 

BTW, Diving was not in Desperate Living. Waters had wanted to cast him as the lead, but he was working on Broadway at the time so Liz Renay was given the part.

 

The Caddy in Psycho Beach Party was a '59 or '60 flattop Sedan de Ville; that's another fine movie and one of my favorites.

 
Sorry, "Polyester" & "Desperate Living" are in the same DVD box and I got confused. It's much safer to make a mistake on your income tax form than it is to post one on here.
 
Diving, Driving or Divine not in Desperate Living? *grin* I think only Divine can be excluded "if it's good enough for Gertrude Stein"
 
In this clip, we see a rather lecherous man driving an Edsel Villager station wagon and picking up Dawn Davenport (Divine). She's rather upset over not getting her so wanted shoes with cha cha heels for Christmas.

 
928

there is the 928 porsche driven by Tom Cruise in "risky buisness";noticed the one
that went in the drink had rusty rotors and seemed to be sitting a little high in
front(no engine apparently)The 928 engine sound in the movie was authentic though.
 
P.S. VACATION flick:

I forgot:

If there's one thing better than the WagonQueen Family Truckster on VACATION, then it's definitely the Oldsmobile Cutlass Vista Cruiser that sadly goes to the crusher, right when the Griswolds are disappointed in the new station wagon & want to go back to the old wagon, which they can no longer drive!

-- Dave
 
For an even more obscure reference, the Norwegian film O'Horton features a DS driving around Oslo (with a blindfolded driver who dies at a stop light).

A tidbit about MTM and the washing the Mustang in the credits - Mary had NO idea how to wash a car and had to be shown what to do....
 
Dagmars . . . lots of 'em

Here's a pic of British film and TV star Diana Dors in front of the famous Pinewood Studios in England with her '56 Coupe de Ville convertible. I'm not sure if she ever used it onscreen, but she was known for having distinctive luxury cars . . . I'm sure it was more than a little distinctive in mid '50s England. Somewhere I saw a press photo of Diana and friends driving down a tiny country lane in the Caddy which completely obscured the road below, heaven forbid if even an Austin Seven had tried to squeeze past her!

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I recall reading that she was the youngest owner of a certain Rolls Royce model in the 50's (can't remember which).
 
oh lord! another one of Twintub's stories...

That photo of Diana Dors reminds me of a similar shot of the late Hollywood "star" Dagmar. Down the street from me is an aging mobile home park called The Colony (occasionally people remove the "Y" from the stone wall at the entrance.) When built decades ago it was strictly high-class. You had to have sizable assets in order to slap a home on one of the rented spaces. Lesser-known movie stars had winter bungalows there, including the "well-endowed" Dagmar. The Colony had two white Rolls Royces similar to the one us oldsters remember from "Burke's Law." The cars were used for picking up residents at the airport...one for people and one for luggage. There's a great photo of Dagmar next to the Rolls in a tight white gown and a fur over her shoulders displayed in the Colony's once elaborate clubhouse. I have a few friends that own "trailers" (god they hate that word) in the park and it's rather nice, but sadly the Rolls are long-gone along with the stars and VIP's that once rode in them.

Here's an old publicity shot of Dagmar looking very much like the front of Perry Mason's Cadillac which I posted elsewhere on this thread.

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guess I just don't want this thread die...

Hazel's boss Mr. B in his 1964 Ford Galaxy XL convertible...the "XL" stood for "Extra Luxury"...such a pretty car.

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Andy Griffith's recent passing reminded me:

There's the Ford Galaxie 500 Squad car on the ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW! And all those other classic Ford vehicles (and an occasional Lincoln) which were often mostly TRUCKS!

Of course, fast forward to the Ford LTD Crown Victoria on MATLOCK--Andy drove that, too!

-- Dave
 
Happy Toyz

Now this wasn't one of Stephen King's best as far as him directing, but the movie wasn't THAT bad. Especially when the first time you see it is when you're 7 years old at the drive in. This movie spooked me as a kid lol.

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