Grandpa Passed Away

**PeteLeathersac** · #1 02-07-2006, 05:55 PM

Didn't Grandpa build the casket-rod to race and win back the family car after Hermie lost it dragging for pinks....it's been a few years? . Where these both Barris cars and do they still exist? . Thanks for the laughs Grandpa. ~ Pete

DarrenX33 · #2 02-07-2006, 06:25 PM

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Didn't Grandpa build the casket-rod to race and win back the family car after Hermie lost it dragging for pinks....it's been a few years? . Where these both Barris cars and do they still exist? . Thanks for the laughs Grandpa. ~ Pete

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Yes! In the episode titled "Hot Rod Herman"

Here's a link to some cool pictures.

Filming at Lions Drag Strip.

Mr. T · #3 02-07-2006, 07:12 PM

Al Lewis was actually 95 when he passed away, not 82. What a classic tv show, that is still popular today.

**PeteLeathersac** · #4 02-07-2006, 07:17 PM

Hermie and Grandpa were together on Car 54 too. . I never watched this as much but remember it and Hermie without makeup. . Herman's been dead a few years already....I recall seeing him appear as a Judge in some show 10 years or so ago....Cousin Vinny maybe? . Man I love those Firestone slicks on the casket-rod! ~ Pete

DarrenX33 · #5 02-07-2006, 07:19 PM

Car 54 was a great show. Wish the still showed it in reruns.

**hvychev** · #6 02-07-2006, 08:42 PM

It seems that Grandpa may have been an old nut. There is a popular radio show in Chicago called Mancow's Morning Madhouse where Grandpa would make frequent appearences. He would frequently talk of drugs, sex with young grils, etc. I believe that he was even a regular at the Indiana Ponderosa Sun Club's "Nude Stock." He was definitely quite a "character!"

Canucklehead · #7 02-07-2006, 08:45 PM

Yes both cars still exsist and Barris brings the munster mobile to many different events

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