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Speaking of Endora (yes, there's an old car connection), has anybody seen "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), with Bette Davis, Olivia deHavilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead? It's my favorite flick and has been creeping me out for 40 years! It's hard to believe this was filmed at the same time as "Bewitched" because Agnes ("Endora") is almost unrecognizable in this flick! BTW, there are a couple of gorgeous '64 Buick Electra 225 six-window sedans in the movie, as well as a '64 Buick Special.
Bill
Do any of these survive?
Did they differ in any big way from the others?
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Fvh2zswznrg#t=29
I thought it had gotten over-written, but the last time I checked, it's still there. Just to show how all over the map my tastes are, "Rebecca", "Gone With the Wind", "Cannonball", "Tentacles" (the older, plump, frisky version of Shelly Winters in hi-def is both amusing and frightening), a few episodes of "Still Standing", "Bewitched", and "Newhart". Oh, and part IV of "The Stand" (I heard Bobby Brady was in it briefly and wanted to see if I could spot him)
Good movie though. Modern audiences might find it to be slow and too devoid of gore, but I liked it for the moody atmosphere and sense of mystery and tension. Even though it was made in 1964, it still had a classic feel about it.
Initially, Henry-J's were built without trunklids to make them cheaper, so I guess you just had to access the trunk from the back seat area. I think Allstates always had trunk lids, though.
According to Wikipedia, the Allstate was only sold in 1952-53. 1566 in '52 and 797 in '53. A lot of people probably didn't like the idea of buying a car through a catalog, but another problem was that Sears would not accept trade-ins.
I know Paul Lynde had basically one 'shtick', but I always found him funny. That episode must have been prior to when he was on the show as a semi-regular, Uncle something-or-rather, I can't remember! He was a 'warlock' on the show.
Bill
Bill
I think the episode where Paul Lynde plays a driving instructor and is teaching Samantha how to drive was from the first season...one of the old black and white episodes. Those rarely get broadcast in reruns, although Nick At Nite used to show them years ago.
I always thought Paul Lynde was pretty funny, too. Often it wasn't his bad jokes or puns that were funny...they could be painful sometimes! But the other actors' reactions to him were what often made it work. And get a few martinis in him and put him on "Match Game" or "Hollywood Squares" and he could be a riot!
That got me thinking...what was the newest car they ever showed Samantha and Darrin having? The show's last season was 1971-72, but the newest car I can remember the Stephenses having was a 1970 Impala convertible. I vaguely remember a 1970 Bonneville convertible being used in the Salem episodes. And I recall a few 1971 full-sized Chevies used as police cars or taxis.
And for the most part, I believe they were a one car family, but there was one episode where they showed Samantha getting out of a white or pale yellow '68 Chevelle wagon, with fake woodgrain. However, this same car doubled as the Kravitzes' car in a couple episodes, as well.
Being a Chevy lover as a kid, I always remember looking forward to the commercials on 'Bewitched' and 'Bonanza'. I absolutely remember the teaser ads for the '69 Caprice on 'Bewitched', advising viewers to see the new models at their Chevrolet dealer's that very week's introduction night! I remember seeing a shot of the headlight washers that were optional.
The Mrs. Kravitz character was pretty funny. There were two actresses who played her over the years. That first woman sure had that 'disappearing chin' look!
Back to cars...I always remember Darrin's boss, Larry Tate, and his wife drove Caprices.
Bill
Sometime over the summer of 1970, a fire broke out on the Bewitched set, destroying mainly the kitchen area. The set was rebuilt, but not in time for the 1970-71 season, so a storyline was written in that put the cast and crew on location in Salem, Mass for a few episodes, until the set was rebuilt.
The easiest way to spot the rebuilt kitchen set is by the really fake looking staircase in the kitchen, where the closet used to be. Whenever it was viewed from an angle, you can tell it was built to a forced perspective, with the upper steps getting progressively shorter, and the top ones just having a little trim lip, but nothing to stand on. The kitchen was also enlarged and expanded out into the back yard, with a little dining area.
I think Darrin's parents also drove Caprices. Larry Tate was also seen occasionally driving a Corvette, of the '68-72 variety. I don't think he ever drove a '63-67 style. I think Larry Tate is the reason I tend to associate the '68 and newer Corvettes as midlife-crisis cars!
**Edit: I just went to the internet movie car database (http://imcdb.org) and looked up Bewitched. Here's a sequoia green 1972 Impala convertible parked in the Stephenses driveway! I don't remember seeing this car, though. That episode was on fairly recently, too, but I've been catching them on WGN, and they're heavily edited to make room for more commercials, so it might have been cut out.
A Youtube user made a couple videos detailing some of the cars seen over the years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iax-0rIiqgU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScoW9KveKqY
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836
There are 3 Parts, so you can waste a LOT of time watching this!
Some nice cars there, 50s style customs are much nicer looking than much of what came later.
On my street, I spotted an '85 (the owner told me, otherwise I can't tell) Fleetwood Brougham, white with tan top and leather interior, which is a nice combo on this, with sunroof (it's in OK shape but clearly has a pretty inferior repaint---for sale, $2000, which sounds about right if it's mechanically sound). Also, a '92-ish (it had the slotted wheels but was pre-E320) Mercedes 300CE, unusual around here (common cars in this 'hood are your typical ghetto cruisers: old Civics and Sentras, early '90s GM anything from Cavaliers to STS's, etc.). One neighbor has a '00-ish five-door SAAB 9-3, also a bit 'different' here.
Was this LTD a coupe or sedan? Didn't sunroofs (power or not) tend to be a coupe-only thing in the earlier days? Or maybe it just happened to be that coupes were more likely to be ordered with them?
The stuff of '70s teenage boy dreams...
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Pepper's LTD on the show was a sedan (that light yellowy-tan with brown top, power sunroof covered in vinyl), Andre. The only sedans I've ever recalled seeing with power sunroofs back then were MBs, Lincolns and Cadillacs, and even relatively seldom on the latter two. They weren't even that common on coupes, either.....sometimes on Eldos, Marks, Rivieras, Toronados, maybe? I'm guessing maybe a ten percent take rate on even those back then.
Lemko, I thought Andy always had Custom 300s or whatever the lower-line big sedan was at the time (later, probably Custom 500). I think they quit using the Custom moniker at all around 1973 or '74, when the Galaxie 500 became the 'base' big Ford (they drive a nice '73 four-door hardtop (real, not the pillared version), which I can't imagine happening, either, on 'Streets of San Francisco'). Lots of Fords-on-cop-shows back then (Hawaii Five-O and Charlie's Angels, too, of course).
So, let's say around $100K depreciation, plus running costs...around 50K miles...maybe close to $2/mile sounds good. Not cheap!
ford seeks out opportunities to be on film.
On Hawaii Five-O, a ridiculously fancy '68 Ford LTD, hidden headlights, finned hubcaps similar to Chevy's, again, light blue metallic with black vinyl top 4HT, used as a TAXI (light on top) in this episode. Uh, yeah. One of the best cars in that show (regularly, for the first season or two) was Danno's '66 Galaxie 500 four-door hardtop, 390 emblems clearly visible, black with HOT-[non-permissible content removed] red vinyl interior (kinda fancy looking combo), yet dog-dish caps. Also, just spotted a black with white top and red interior '63 Impala convertible, and a '68 black Fury four-door hardtop (inexplicably driven by Chin Ho Kelly, though all other 5-0 cop cars were Fords). Excellent.
In several early Five-O episodes, despite McGarrett's usual '68 Merc Park Lane Brougham, several scenes show him driving a '67 Merc Marquis 2HT, black with red interior. Also a few with another '68 Park Lane 4HT, but tan with tan interior (maybe when he was on Maui instead of Oahu, I dunno? I think I mentioned it already, sorry).
I'm cyber-stealing all those cars in my next life.
That would mean then, that you're on Dick #2 out there. Must be the time zone change, because out here I'm still on Dick #1. Darrin's still driving around in a pretty blue '68 Camaro hardtop. In one episode, Larry pulled up in a red '68 Caprice coupe.
Did Darrin ever get a '69 Camaro? I seem to remember an episode where Samantha was driving a green '69 with white stripes, but it only showed up once. She took it to some community meeting, and in the parking lot I swear there must have been about 7 or 8 Camaros of '67-69 vintage. It almost looked like a Chevy dealership!
I'd imagine those 4-door hardtops are very rare today. They didn't make a lot of them to begin with. While wagons and convertibles would have been rarer, I'm sure those had a much higher survival rate. One thing that's interesting about the '56 Mopar 4-door hardtops, is that they used the same roof as the 4-door pillared sedan. Mopar didn't have the money that GM did to make a completely dedicated 4-door hardtop, so they had to piece one together the best they could. With GM, the C-pillar was moved forward compared to the regular 4-door sedans, to allow for a back door window that went all the way down. This also created a car that was smaller inside than a regular 4-door, as the rear seat was moved forward a bit, too.
The 4-door pillared Mopars had a rear door with a roll-down window and a little spacer window in back, which would pivot on the nicer models. To compensate for the bigger back door and further-back C-pillar, on the hardtops, the little spacer window was attached to the main window, and as you rolled the main window down, the spacer would pivot down, out of sight. It's a really neat looking thing, but I'm sure they rattled and leaked like crazy!
Temps got into the 70's, and not a cloud in the sky! Perfect convertible weather. We've had other nice days, but this is the first time I've driven the convertible this year, other than moving it out of the garage about two weeks ago.
And one thing that was actually kinda refreshing...normally when I drive one of my old beasts to work, someone parks a Prius or some other hybrid or economy car near it, as if they're making a statement. But today, someone parked a monstrous F-250 crew cab 4x4 in this beautiful shade of a dark bluish-green. Made my car look downright tiny!
I am in Vancouver now...weather isn't so nice, so not many cool sights on the road. Did see a weird late 80s Mitsubishi SUV kind of thing, diesel, RHD, and a RHD Skyline. In the parking garage where I am, I am parked next to a stripper BMW E36 sedan, hubcaps and all...I don't think they were ever sold in the US in that spec...also in the same row is a B-class.
I had a '55 Royal Lancer 2D HT, yep. Sold it to a woman pilot and she drove off to Colorado with it. It ran great.
If the company asks about any youthful drivers, then you are obligated to reply, but until then, they are automatically covered. "Company doesn't ask, you don't tell."
If you sign a specific driver exclusion endorsement which names a specific driver, they will be excluded, but then some states have declared that to be invalid as far as the state financial responsibility laws are concerned.
My favorite full size Pontiacs are 58, 61, 63 and 65/66. I also like the mid sixties Lemans and the 69 vintage GP which I believe was actually an intermediate by then.