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I do remember a first-season episode where Rosie Greer was driving some a tiny Honda 600, and got mad and tore it up on the shoulder of the road. Either he got pulled over, or the car left him stranded, I can't remember which...
And then there was the infamous "M.A.I.T. Team" episode from the second season...at least it left a big impression on my childhood mind, because I think it was the first time people got killed in the car accidents on "CHiPs". It was actually some pretty spectacular stunt-work, for a tv show. One of the casualties of that show was a Mazda RX-2 that went under a tractor trailer...
That poor RX-2 got beat on in an earlier episode called "Return of the Turks", where its driver pissed off someone in an Olds, and the Olds ran it off the road...
The Olds ended up having its ignition, steering, and throttle stuck at the same time, and caused some mayhem on the freeway. Among the victims was that red Cougar.
I'd love to see the original, uncut version of that "Turks" episode of "CHiPs" In those days, a 60 minute tv show was about 48 minutes of program, 12 minutes of commercial. These days, to make room for more commercials it's more like 40-42 minutes. I'm convinced that some of the footage that was cut was from the action scenes involving the car crashes.
Another thing that I remember from that episode, is that they ended up hitting the same 1970 Catalina three different times. The Olds hit it during the first freeway demolition derby. Or, I seem to recall the Olds hit a '63 Impala wagon that hit the Pontiac. But there was another action scene towards the end, where the same guys got an old Montego and decided to play bumper cars, and they sent it down the embankment, twice!
Most of the cars they wrecked usually looked like they were a bit beat-up to begin with. But that Catalina looks like it was a nice car! But, by the time this episode was filmed (late '78) it was 9 model years old, so probably still a cheap car to get ahold of and wreck.
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For all I travelled with work, he's the only famous person I ever saw in an airport. I was on a plane once from Dallas to Chicago when Alan Hale, Jr., 'Skipper' from "Gilligan's Island", walked down the aisle, in a Hawaiian shirt, his 'Skipper' hat, and a big smile. There was about a twelve-year-old girl sitting next to me on the plane and I said, "Was that 'the Skipper' from Gilligan's Island?" and she replied, "Huh?". I did ask the flight attendant when she was near me and she said "Yes, he flies this flight often and loves it when people talk to him". Good for him, I thought.
I did have some conversation on two different occasions with Livingston Taylor near here.
I know these are all B-or-C-list celebrities, but that's all I could muster in all those years of travel.
But, daughter says her husband said Valvoline replaced the bulb "...for 25 bucks". If he told her that, and she heard him right, quite cheap I'd say.
That '70 Pontiac, above, is really making me think about '70 full-size Pontiacs lately, after disliking them when new and for a long time afterwards.
Totally unrelated, but ever notice on FB pages and other car forums, how many people will post something like, "I have a 65' Impala". Pet peeve. I want to say, "I know that's a big car, but 65 feet?!". I refrain though.
Seeing the Beetle in that pic, I think those had pretty decent resale compared to MSRP - not far to fall, and although a bit dated to put it nicely, I think they tended to be very well built, and cheap to fix. That was also an era when MBs had stupendous resale. I have KBB and NADA books from 1976, where a ~70 280SL booked at original MSRP and probably could be sold for more, due to inflation and exchange issues pushing up the prices of newer models.
The chapter on the 210 was interesting, and mentioned "CHiPs", as there was a lot of legal wrangling over a portion of the road being built, which prevented the freeway from opening and allowing the filming to take place.
Fascinating bit of trivia - how did the city of Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley get its name? The land the city is on was once a sprawling ranch owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the book.
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He seemed pretty happy.
I thought it was a bit unusual, but didn't think much of it.
Next thing you know, he's the UNC football coach.
Spotted Ben Nighthorse Campbell (former CO senator) at the gate in Dulles.
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I'm the same, BTW.
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They have it listed as a 1974 Toyota Corona Mark II.
It showed up a few episodes earlier in that second season, as well...
There's a custom movement out there, shows the hips:
The front makes me think just a bit of a '71 Barracuda with some Pontiac thrown in. Kind of a cute little car
An early Japanese import I thought was good-looking were those first Colt coupes sold at Dodge dealers.
While I can’t say I thought these were stylish, there was something about Datsun 510’s that I thought looked substantial.
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https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1969-mercedes-benz-w108-300-sel-6-3-crayford-estate
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Amusing that the site calls it a W108, as it is a W109 (assuming it started life as a 6.3). Also has been re-registered plate is from around 1990 (although I think an H suffix would be age-correct for the car).
They did BMWs too:
It also has the bump:
The BMW looks a bit more home-made, in my opinion. I think the biggest problem is that it's hard to work that little jig in lower front of C-pillar into a wagon design. Looking through pics of BMW wagons throughout the years, it looks like BMW themselves decided the same thing, and got rid of it for that body style.
These two look like they could have worked, with just a little more time and effort (and probably a lot more money), but that Benz 6.3 just seems like they weren't even trying. I know I've mentioned before that my Granddad's first "pickup" was a 1939 or 40 Plymouth sedan that he butchered up, sort of "Beverly Hillbillies" style. I've never seen pictures of it, but that Benz makes me think of what Granddad might have done, if he'd gotten ahold of a car like that, and decided he really wanted a wagon, and did it himself.
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And that's right, factory BMW wagons lost the Hofmeister kink.
I remember back in the 90s in the small town where I lived, someone had cut down a big late 70s Buick sedan into a pickup like that, and it was a very "Beverly Hillbillies" kind of job (I think the rear bulkhead area was wood).
Cutting cars into pickups is something that impacted MBs for some time, going back to Pontons or earlier. Even fintails aren't immune:
Used to be a first gen voyager near me made into a pickup. Cut down right behind the seats with a plywood (appearing) bulkhead. At least they stuck in a window. Didn’t actually look half bad. Probably very practical!
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I like the E46 wagon. I have seen people that have done those on their own. Not sure how accurate they came out.
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I stumbled across this on Facebook, and the ad only says it's been parked "20+ years". I let a friend store his '52 Benz in my back yard for a bit over 6 years once (March 2004-summer of 2010), and it was just sitting on the dirt, and its tires made just the tiniest of indentations in the ground.
The seller is asking $5,000 for this, which I think is just a tad...optimistic.
5K too much, so how much are you going to offer?
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All that said, if the windows on that thing have been down for any substantial timeline, it is surely rusted all to heck. Shame, really, as the car looks like it was in very nice condition with straight, clean body panels, glass, bumpers, etc., when they parked it there.
looks like surface rust due to the breakdown of the paint and primer over the years.
There doesn't appear to be rust from the inside of body panels.
The chrome looks good.
The rock may have been laid on soft ground and there just wasn't enough of a base
of fine rock that's been compacted to lessen the sinking of the larger rocks with the
weight of the car wheels on it.
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Looks like this brings up that pic I posted earlier, and you can use the arrows to the left and right of the pic to see the rest of the pics.
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That's some kind of carpeting (I guess tight-loop is a good description of it) where it gets sort of a lined pattern. I think it might be original, but I'm not sure. My DeSoto had a similar carpet, although it was sort of a washed-out red. My mechanic told me that what mine had was some kind of aftermarket carpeting, but now I'm not so sure. It's been awhile now, but I'm thinking my carpet might have had a subtle zig-zag pattern to it.
I'm not sure about '58, but for '57 I believe the Firesweep came standard with a rubber floor mat, like a work truck, and you had to pay extra for carpeting. I don't think I've ever seen one in person though, that just had the mat.
Despite being the entry level DeSoto, this car was still priced above the Buick Special, Olds Dynamic 88, and the Mercury Monterey. Its base price was $2819; whereas the Special was $2700. Heck, for $2820, you could get into a Special Riviera hardtop sedan! I can't imagine Buick, Olds, or Mercury cost-cutting and making carpeting optional on their base models...but perhaps they did?
This particular Firesweep looks like it's pretty basic, in some respects. Under the hood, I'm not seeing a power brake booster or power steering pump...unless they've been removed? But then inside, I'm seeing the pushbuttons for the extra-cost 3-speed Torqueflite. A lot of these Firesweeps just had the 2-speed Powerflite.
**Edit: Now I'm starting to question whether that's actually carpet, or not. In some of the pics, it does look like it's just some kind of textured rubber mat.
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