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Old 10-03-2021, 06:43 PM
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Default Watching old Beverly Hillbillies show and 64 Pontiac Convert

Watching show for laughs. Usually they have Chrysler products. This was a white 64 Pontiac looked like a Bonneville convertible(long quarter panel). In front of front door looked like 421 flags. Episode ,A Man for Elly. Quirt Marly.

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Old 10-03-2021, 07:23 PM
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Oh...the awesomeness of that show!!!

One of her wanna be suitors name was Dash Riprock....LOL, sounds more like a Flintstones character...

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The actor who played Quirt was Henry Gibson, later of Rowen and Martin's "Laugh In" fame.

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Interesting - I always watched the show but don't remember seeing that car. Turns out it had originally belonged to country western fashion designer Nudie, who later sold it to Roy Rogers. https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/n...-mobile/182097 He also customized a car or two for country western star Webb Pierce.

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Nudie did a couple dozen cars at least, I’ve seen photos of Pontiacs by Nudie from ‘58 to ‘70. Don Keefe probably has more info.

I saw a ‘64 some years ago on display at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Muscle Shoals.

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In the Country Music Hall of Fame, there is a '61 Bonneville convertible formerly owned by honky tonker Web Pierce. Saw this a few years ago when we were visiting Nashville. They also have one of the Smokey and the Bandit T/A's.


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^ That's a 1962 Bonneville.

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Old 10-04-2021, 06:54 AM
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I just found it funny that Kid used the same car in one of his Vids
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Old 10-04-2021, 07:07 AM
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This is soo "KOOL"!

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I thought I watched a program that talked about the cars that were used in shows like the Beverly Hillbillys & bewitched where the cars
were some of the early product placement advertising between the automakers & producers. I know for sure it happened on bewitched.
Remember all the scenes where somebody would come to the house & would be a great shot of the car rolling up, parking at the curb &
the driving heading to the front door.

Never thought anything of it back when I was a kid watching those shows.

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Its really surprising to me that a show which was almost entirely Chrysler would allow a Pontiac to have a role. Possibly the ad men refused to have on of their cars turned into a caricature. Great to see that the car survived.

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It was great show.

It and others like Gilligan's Island and Petticoat Junction are part of the reason I turned out so well........

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In the Country Music Hall of Fame, there is a '61 Bonneville convertible formerly owned by honky tonker Web Pierce. Saw this a few years ago when we were visiting Nashville. They also have one of the Smokey and the Bandit T/A's.

Its been awhile, maybe the same car? But there was one very similar in the Roy Rogers museum when it was in Cal. I believe the one there was Roys car.

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Roy's car was the 1963 Bonneville was used on the Beverly Hillbillies show in the first post. The one at the hall of fame is a 1962, it was Web Pierce's car.

Roy Rogers was actually something of a gearhead, if you go back and look at issues of Hot Rod magazine from the late 1950s / early 1960s he attended a lot of racing events.

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I thought I watched a program that talked about the cars that were used in shows like the Beverly Hillbillys & bewitched where the cars
were some of the early product placement advertising between the automakers & producers. I know for sure it happened on bewitched.
Remember all the scenes where somebody would come to the house & would be a great shot of the car rolling up, parking at the curb &
the driving heading to the front door.

Never thought anything of it back when I was a kid watching those shows.
When Bewitched was a prime time show, the opening credits with a cartoon Samantha flying out of the moon, the moon was a Chevy bowtie.

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You're right it was a Chevrolet Bowtie logo, but it morphed into the round moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gen8d_Vbt7w

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Old 10-05-2021, 06:31 PM
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