Bob, I and another contributor to the Internet Movie Car Database now have all eight of the squad cars on that site, 1960-67, and identified.? He contributed the '63 and '64 and I chipped in the rest.
Here's what we have, according the info contributed by the site's regulars: 1960 Ford Fairlane 1961 Ford Fairlane 1962 Ford Galaxie 1963 Ford Galaxie 1964 Ford Custom 1965 Ford Custom 1966 Ford Custom 1967 Ford Custom There was never ever a '68, in fact the '67 can even be seen over Andy's shoulder at the train station, in the 1968 finale, "Mayberry R. F. D." The 1960 was used for part of the 1960-61 season then replaced by the '61.? From there they appeared to go by calendar year until the '64, which premiered about a third of the way through season four and stayed on for all of season five. Season six used the '65 Ford Custom, the first to be seen in color.? Season seven began with the '66, then switched halfway through the season to the '67 which stayed on through the end of the next season/series in general. So the least used squad cars would probably be the '60 and '66 models (we never even saw the taillights of the '66).?? And the longest/most used were probably the '64 and '67.? For my money the '61and '63 are the most memorable, because of their many juicy roles from dramatic (running lights and siren after the lady speeder and the gold truck) to the hilarious (Barney's "citizen's arrest," and the time he escorted that lady to the post office right across the street). Here's the page: http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=53479 Dixon _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
