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Filming the TV show Route 66

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1959 Cadillac Starlight concept

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Gurney, Cobra, Sebring, 1964

Lee.. Any idea where that picture was taken? We had a Colonial Chev dealer here in Ontario..

Does anyone know the history of where this car ended up?

My local repair shop owner friend has a customer who owns a well used but still driven 62 that is now black but shows fawn beige/tan underneath with evidence of a luggage rack and camera mounting points in the car. He always wondered if it was the Rte. 66 car.

Sorry, no idea as the photo had no caption

The show was never filmed on sound stages - all location shoots. As soon as a car reached 3000 miles, the car was returned to Chevrolet who provided another brand new Corvette. They went through 3 or 4 cars a season. So the customer may have one of the cars used in the show. Like most OEM cars used for movie or TV shows, they would be sold to a local dealer who would sell them as untitled slightly used cars. Very rare if the petigree was made known to the customer. That would either be up to the OEM or the dealer to reveal it's prior use.

Fawn/Beige was chosen because the show was filmed in Black & White and that color combo proved to be the best as far as light absorbtion and non-reflection.

----Interesting 56/57 prototype! Notice the 58 trunk spears. Exhaust is pretty cool, but obviously that didn't make it to production.

----Thanks go to Lee for straightening me out on the history!!!.....Bill S

----I started to laugh at Shelby's hair until I realized it was the tree behind him. Still funny as it sort of looks like the tree is growing down to his forehead.....Bill S

1956 CORVETTE GM DESIGN

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Bill:

It was your guess that the car was a prototype that led me to search that and found the backstory on the car.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

K

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Prince Bertil of Sweden behind the wheel with Harley Earl standing next to the car

Bah! I was going to comment on Ol' Shel's hair.

I thought I was going to have hair like that when I got to be this age. I'm not sure what happened.

K

At least they didn't have to put a bump in the roof of this car to clear his helmet.

K

Seeing this photo I am reminded that they found an AMX walled up within the assembly plant in Kenosh (?) many years after production of the Javelin/AMX was completed.

They stripped the car down and ran it back through the production process in order to rebuild it.

The car was in the Chrysler Museum at one point (I do not know where it is now).

K

Impossible to tell from this view, but I'm inclined to think the car was intended to represent 1967 content but they forgot to update the grille texture (ie, "Wrong grille").* Would need to see the side view or rear view to verify.

Any layperson proofing the shot can read the plate, but not everybody knows the difference between a '66 and a '67 grille, especially prior to production.

K

*Although it does have '66 seats in it. Did they miss that too?

Like this:

Keep in mind that those that took the photos that would be used for the brochures, PR photos and ads - that happened months before actual production started.

I have posted many PR photos where previous year details were on a current year car - like the 1965 Rally I wheels on a 1966 GTO:

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Yes - I used to review the promotional materials for (truck) engineering, to make sure they were accurate and substantiable, before they were published.

So I know mistakes got out...

;)



I was looking for Mike Noun's website of Pontiac factory brochure mistakes, to link it here, but I couldn't find it quickly for some reason.

K

That is a 1966 GTO.

66 Nose (header panel).
66 grills and park lamps.
66 Full dash pad (extends to the windshield).
66 standard inside rear view mirror.
66 seat covers.

Chris

----Thanks so much, Lee! I have seen that car and remember it and it's history now. I think I might have figured it out if I could have seen the grill and I don't think I have ever seen a color pic of the car......Bill S

Understand that the companies hired to take the photos often staged their shoots with whatever they were given. They are testing background, colors, lighting and most of all, reader reactions. Seeing as how the differences were minor between a 66 and 67 GTO, as opposed to a 67 and 68, they simply stuck the plate on a 66 because they weren't given a 67.

Remember this photo from a few pages back? It's from a photo shoot. What it is? It has GS on the front grille but it's not a GS. And there are no Skylark emblems on it either.

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Ever see a 1970 Chevelle SS with a 6 CYL engine in it?

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Chevy PR Photo. Those wheels (RPO N66) were cancelled at the end of December 1968.