TV Icon cars

Podcast Episode: 0241
Famous T.V. Icon Cars

      Join me on a nostalgic journey through the fascinating world of iconic TV show cars, as we explore the vehicles that have left an indelible mark on pop culture. From Steve Urkel's unforgettable 1960 BMW Isetta 300 in "Family Matters" to the classic 1921 Oldsmobile Roadster from "The Beverly Hillbillies," these cars 

​became more than just props; they became symbols of the shows themselves. We'll reminisce about how these vehicles contributed to the identity of their respective series and why they continue to capture the imagination of car enthusiasts and collectors worldwide.
 
      Listen in as I share personal memories and invite you to reflect on your favorite TV show cars, sparking a conversation that connects car enthusiasts across generations. Whether it's the quirky charm of the Isetta or the rugged appeal of the Chrysler New Yorker, these vehicles have a way of bringing us back to the joy of childhood television viewing. So, buckle up and get ready to celebrate the legacy of these iconic cars and their lasting impact on both television and our hearts.

​     When I was younger, I used to watch all kinds of television. Trust me, going back, I think it was grade 7 or grade 8, we went through how much free time you spend watching television and on an average day back when I was a kid, I'd watch about 8 hours of television a day, squeezing some in before I went to school and lots in after school. If I wasn't playing with my toys, I was watching television because I really wasn't a video game kid until years down the road and for myself on the weekends, I watched a lot of television too. Throughout all the years I watched many different television series and some of them I even got into because of the cars that were into them. I'm not talking about the custom ones that you find in shows like Knight Rider or the A-Team. I'm talking about the cool ones that you find in some of the most regular shows on television.

      One of my favorite shows back in the early 90s was Family Matters, and when Steve Urkel shows up for the first time to pick up Carl's daughter, he shows up in a BMW Isetta. That was actually my introduction to that car. I never knew about it until that TV show and I thought oh my God, what is this? I want to know more about this car. It is so cool. All from a TV show Family Matters. It was funny, it was great. It brought tons of family values into my world. Hell, you can say I'm bad and try and shame me for it all you want, but I actually went out as Steve Urkel for Halloween when I was a kid because I love the show so much His nerdy aspect always being put down and yet never taking no for an answer, and his car was just the coolest thing. It fit him so well. Well, television has given us some great icon cars and today AutoLooks is going to be talking about some of the most famous TV icon cars of all time.
 
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​     So, like I said in the beginning, family matters. Well, Steve Urkel's famous car was actually a 1960 BMW Isetta 300. Not the 600 that fit more people, a 300. When he rolled up in that car, I thought it was the most fitting car for his image this dorky, whiny little kid that just did not give up on anything. He wants to date Laura so badly, but he can't. Only his alternate ego when he separates himself out when Janelle White is actually playing another character, the cool, suave version of Urkel, does Laura want to date him? And seeing that car going on the date with him, she doesn't think anything of it. It's the dorkiest little, weird bubble car of all time. While, as a kid who loved cars, no, it may have been the weirdest, dorkiest, slowest car you can ever think of, but you know what, to me that was one of the coolest things I ever saw. And when I saw the door open and swing out with the steering wheel attached to it, I'm like, oh my god, this is even better, except if you get in a front-end collision. How do you get out? Well, you got to go through the roof. It was cool, but it was an icon.
 
     Family Matters today is not a show that you can find on any major streaming sites. Hell, you can find it on YouTube, but it's really hard to find. Unlike the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, family Matters apparently didn't get put into major syndication. So, the Izetta is lost but not forgotten, because for anyone who grew up during those times, if you say the name Steve Urkel and you're a car fanatic, you automatically think Isetta.
 
     It's an icon car from television, kind of like one of the original tv icon cars, a 1921 Oldsmobile roadster utilized by the Beverly Hillbillies. Yep, you could be shooting at some pool and up comes a bubbling gruel. But hey, when you move to Beverly Hills and you show up in a beat-up old 21 Oldsmobile with all your stuff on it, you are going to change the world. A lot of people didn't know what the car actually was, but for it was an Oldsmobile and the Beverly Hillbillies lived like it was a prohibition time and they showed up in a car from a prohibition time of the Dirty 30s. They did it perfectly to their characters. Now you hardly ever saw the car in the TV series, but it's funny. It's a memorable vehicle because it was also utilized on a Simpson episode where Homer goes to space. When they show up at Cape Canaveral, they show up in the Beverly Hills Roadster with Marge on top in the rocket chair being Grandma. It's kind of cool and it's an icon vehicle. Put it on a piece of paper with a whole bunch of different iconic movie, television series, cars and people would be like the Beverly Hillbillies car. It's just like a stair truck. So, they had two different variations of it. They had one from the 80s and one from the 70s. For the stair truck yeah, it actually changed throughout the series and if you know what the show I'm talking about, that's arrested development.
 
      One of the early shows to help Matthew Bateman’s career take off the stair car or they called it the stair car, but it's more of a stair truck was an old ford f-150 with stairs at the back of it. Now the entire company goes bankrupt and they lose all their money except this one house and the only vehicle they have to use is the stair car used to get into their old personal jet. It's kind of funny because there's so many instances during the show that the stair vehicle is used for so many different things. He parks it at the wall in Mexico and Mexicans hop over the wall. He parks it by the wall so his brother could try and get out of jail and other convicts sneak out of jail, goes through a parade route and destroys banners. It's an iconic vehicle. It's a red, white and blue mostly white Ford F-150 stair vehicle to access an airplane and it became an icon. It's not even from a show that was super big. 

     People remember Arrested Development and remember the careers it helped create. But the stair truck Put an F-150 with stairs on it. People are like Arrest, like arrested development. I remember that car just like if I look at you with red, glaring eyes in a stoner attitude and say you can literally cruise the vista.
 
     If you grew up in the 90s and into the early 2000s, you've seen this show, that I'm talking about, that 70s show. Now red, the father of Eric, gives him the old car, his vista cruiser, a 1969 vista cruiser, yeah, and it becomes the car of that 70s show, all the way until the near the end of the series where red is finally doing good in his life he has a good paying job, his kids are moving out, he doesn't have to pay for anything else. He could finally live his dream. And what does he do? He buys a 56 Corvette. Like, come on, what person in the 1970s who went to war, who came back, lived through the hard times of the economy and finally, near the end of the 70s, when things were starting to get better, says to themselves I can finally afford what I always wanted and what I wanted when I came back, I can get my Corvette. But the 70s show, the Vista Cruiser, is it? Seriously? You go to a car show and if there's a green Vista Cruiser there, people automatically think of that 70s show.
 
     That is the car from the show we all know. It Kind of like a 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5. Now, if you don't know what this is from, then you don't remember one of the most iconic scenes in tv history. It was done near the end of this series and it was all in hopes to save the show and yet it was such a cheesy move and yet it didn't save the show. I'm talking about fawns from happy days and his jump over the sharks, like come on, it was cheesy, it was a cheap way to try and save the show, but the Fonz was too cool and it's the 1950s.
 
     He rolls around on a Triumph Trophy car, tr5 motorcycle. That is the Fonz Cool car, cool ride. Because he's the Fonz. Ay, Mr. Henry Winkler, somebody my wife has actually met Because he's actually come to our city and stayed at our hotel the Fonz Henry Winkler. I wasn't able to go and meet him because my son was too little and I couldn't leave him on his own, so I miss seeing the Fonz. But I wanted to meet him and be like how was that triumph? Was it a cool bike? Did you actually get to drive it around or was it literally just part of the show for show, like I get it, you're the Fonz, you're supposed to be cool, but you think you'd be rolling around in like a 1930s Ford T-Bucket Roadster. No, this is the Fonz with his leather jacket man. He's rolling around like James Dean on a motorcycle. Oh yeah, because he's too cool His leather jacket and his motorcycle. Unfortunately, he's living in the United States and he's driving a British-made motorcycle, so I think if he was driving a hog, it might be a little bit different.

      The 70s kind of had a lot of the great iconic vehicles that you can think of, and one of them that a lot of people forget about is the Rockford Files. Now, this is a show my dad liked to watch. It's just like, yeah, okay, whatever, it's a cop drama from the 1970s. Blah, blah, blah, boring, boring, boring. Well, the one guy's coming up to the office once and he pulls up and I'm like what the hell is that? Like he's showing up in his first car. My dads like no, that's his car, the Rockford Files Drove a 1974 Pontiac Firebird, Esprit Sportsman model. Sure, it was that stupid, stupid brownish beige from the 1970s. That's just so boring. Like who wants a color that you can literally lose on a beach? Well, it's the 70s, a lot of people did, but it's a Pontiac Firebird. I'm like, hey, wait, that's a Firebird. But it's like, yeah, that's the Rockford Files car. I'm like oh, yeah, that's the rock for files car. Like, oh, that's pretty cool.
 
     Funny thing is, no matter how bad that show is or how much, you didn't want to watch it with anyone or even think about it. When he rolled up in his firebird he thought, okay, he's a little bit cool, he's got a cool car, maybe the show is worth watching, kind of like today when you watch the show lucifer. If you don't understand this, the show lucifer is about the devil coming to Earth wants to get out of Hell. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. And then there's this smoking hot woman he's working with you know, officer Beckett. Her ex-husband's in there. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
 
     But Lucifer rolls around in a 58 Corvette. I'm sitting there thinking like the devil that's the earth. He chooses a corvette. And then I'm like thinking to myself, okay, yeah, yeah, I could. I kind of see that the corvette does make you feel like a badass. It's a cool car to anyone. The early generation corvettes when you people see them, they think badass. Second generation model from like 55 until 58, until the 60 Stingray took over, and even the 60 Stingray model until the 70s those two generations were some of the coolest Corvettes in history. And it doesn't matter. You see it and you think cool, you think great. Like I said, red Foreman from that 70s show got one. And then people automatically think, ah, that's one of the two cars from that show Hell, they used one in the movie True Lies even for a short period. Arnold Schwarzenegger drove one. It was cool. And Lucifer has the Corvette the devil Now.
 
     I only know this because mother-in-law really loves this show. I got her kind of into it as we're watching it. You need something to watch when she's up. So, I put it on one day because I know they like cop dramas. I'm like, okay, whatever, we'll just watch, watch this. I kind of got into it. It was, it was okay, it was decent, it was pretty much. Officer Beckett is the only reason why I stayed watching the show, because she's really attractive, but lucifer's got this suave, cool aspect to it and you just you want to kind of see how it winds up. But every once in a while, they'll throw in his corvette and it's just like, yeah, yeah, that's the devil, that's the devil driving a corvette. That is cool. 

​     Not as cool as Miami vice, which used a 72 Ferrari Daytona Spider 365 GTB and a Ferrari Testarossa. Oh yeah, now the Daytona. You really don't think about when you think of Miami Vice. If you watch the show and you followed it. Yeah, okay, you remember Miami, remember Miami Vice. And then Ferrari Daytona, the Testarossa, pure white Ferrari. Testarossa is it. That's the car. That is the car, one of the most synonymous cars of the 1980. Next to the Countach, the Testarossa is the 1980. And Miami Vice made that Testarossa famous and the Testarossa made that show famous. But Ferrari was just living the high life during the 1980s. Because where Miami Vice had its pure white Testarossa, magna PI had his 308 GTS red Ferrari.
 
     Like this, guy solves mysteries, he's a private investigator. How does he live in this giant mansion, have a helicopter and cruise around in a Ferrari when he solves crime? How many PIs have you ever seen driving around something that cool? I don't know about you, but I watched the cartoon Duckman and that always seemed a little more realistic to me because he's driving around in a beat-up, crappy old car in that series. But Magnum PI, he's got the Ferrari. How Playmobil released that Ferrari and it's sitting right behind me as I'm recording this episode.
 
      Because, yes, I am a collector of Playmobil, movie, tv and specialty cars. I have most of the Porsche collection, the back to the future collection, quite a bit of the Volkswagen collection and most of the great movies and television series, the A-Team van, Night Rider Firebird, Magnum P.I.’s Ferrari and the Aston Martin from James Bond, because you know I got to have that Aston. You see a 308 GTS. It doesn't matter what shape it's in if it's red and it's sitting there. You're thinking big mustache tom Selleck, 1980s, with a Hawaiian shirt, partially open, showing his hairy chest off. And that is Magnum PI in a nutshell. Hell, that's the 80s in a nutshell. The 80s on television literally belonged to Ferrari, where you think of the 80s and you think of the duke’s hazard with the 69 Charger. No, magnum PI and Miami Vice were bigger and I'm literally waiting for Playmobil to release the Ferrari Daytona and the Testarossa from Miami Vice so I can add it to my massive collection of Playmobil cars. They're ones that I think you know, now that they're doing Ferrari cars for Playmobil they need to do, come on, give us our Miami Vice stuff. I, you know, really want these.
 
     Hell, Playmobil, if you're listening to this Playmobil, if you're listening to this, listen to a lot of vehicles in this and try and make them. You know you got sales, at least with me. But before that, looking back into the 70s, you saw a lot of great cool cars and there's been a lot of great television icon cars Hell, you got Get Smart, the Addams Family, green Acres all being part of it. They all have their vehicles. Hell Get Smart's original car is essentially borrowed from the very first James Bond movie, doctor no, get Smart. His iconic television series car comes from James Bond, the man that they are literally trying to make fun of in the comedy spy show and he cruises around in a 65 Sunbeam Tiger, the same car James Bond drove around in Cuba in when he was going after Dr. No, a Sunbeam Tiger yeah, one of the first James Bond cars is also synonymous with Get Smart. But people don't remember the Sunbeam Tiger for James Bond. They remember the Aston Martin DB5. 

​      When it comes to television, get Smart is with the Sunbeam Tiger, kind of like a 33 Packard V12 limo. Is the Addams Family car? You have a black Packard V12 limo. Is the Addams Family car? You have a black Packard V12 limo with the convertible front and the covered rear. Okay, because that's how they did it in the 30s. The driver got soaking wet or freezing cold. Well, the occupants stay dry, because that's literally how we rolled back then and that's how the Addams Family rolls. Lurch sits up front out into the weather and the Addams Family sit in the rear. That black Packard has been utilized by the Addams Family. The original television series, the newer movies and even the new Wednesday show Utilizes that same car A 33 Packard V12, one of the most luxurious cars for its time. Well, with Duesenberg and Piers Arrow sitting above that Packard. It wasn't right at the top of the game, but it competed with the top of the game vehicles. And even though they don't exist today, all you have to do is show somebody a black Packard V12 limo and they're automatically like. I know that that's the Adams family. Where's Lurch? Where's Lurch, hell 66.
 
     We got the Lotus Elan, one of the lightest Lotus sports cars ever made. Well, until the Elise came out, they work so much to keep the weight down to ensure that that vehicle was as light as possible and easy to throw around. That's why it became such a great vehicle for the Avengers to drive around in. Yes, the Avengers television series used a Lotus. Well, hell, they're from Great Britain, they might as well use a British vehicle. And Lotus was looking for a way to sell the brand-new Elan to the public, so they gave one to the Avengers series. Pure black Lotus Elan. You see one today. If it's black or if it's white, you automatically think the Avengers series, kind of like one of the most famous tractors in television series. 

​     I want to live a simple life and Green Acres is the place for me. I don't care that my wife wants to live in New York City. Screw her. We're moving to Green Acres and I'm getting myself a Hoyt Clagwell tractor, a green Hoyt Clagwell tractor, because Green Acres is the place to be. Yeah, I've watched the show. We got that. What is it? Deja View right before while I was in college, living at home, and my dad and I actually used to watch a lot of the older series, so Green Acres was on that, usually around supper time and we would watch and I watched and I'm like this is a funny show. But in the intro video you see him on the Hoyt Clagwell tractor. But him on the Hoyt Clagwell tractor but you hardly ever see it in the show. 

     But if you're a person that's seen the show and understand it and know that song, if you see one out sitting in a field somewhere, even in beat up shade, you're like hey, that's Green Acres, that's the Green Acres tractor. Right, it's kind of like seeing a silver Lamborghini, nitro. You're like hey, that's Lamborghini, I know that tractor, tractor, its green acres is the place to be one of the most memorable ones in history. One came from a show in the 70s and the other one came from a show in the 80s. Funny thing is the one from the 70s. The car was brand new for the show and the one in the 80s. The car was old for the show. 

     The ones I'm talking about the first one is about two detectives, one's real button down-down and one's very easygoing and they use a car. That's cool. The button-down one uses a cool car. He has a 1975 Gran Torino, red with a custom white stripe on it. Yeah, you know what show I'm talking about Starsky and Hutch Hell, ben Stiller and Owen Wilson relived that in the movie series. But the original television series had that 75 Gran Torino and a Gran Torino. You can own any of them out in the world, any color. People just see it as Gran Torino. If it's red with that white stripe flapping around the side, people automatically look at it and go Starsky and Hutch. 

     Yes, it's the Starsky and Hutch car. It's kind of like an orange 1969 Dodge Charger with the Confederate flag painted on top. And I don't care who fucking wants to fight me on this. The Confederate flag. I don't care what it stands for, it's got to be on the top of it to make it the original. General Lee, you got to remember. The show came from the Deep South. There's a reason why the Confederate flag was there. I don't care if it offends anybody, but it was there for a reason. It was part of the car because of the area it came from. 

​       The Dukes of Hazzard came out in the late 70s and into the 80s, really blew up in the 80s and that 69 Charger they went through hundreds of them trying to do all those jumps because they bent the frames on them. They're not made for jumping like that. Those things were big and heavy. Hell, those cars barely even turned corners. You can remember the 70s Power was good for straight line drag racing, not for turning corners. You want to turn corners? You got to get yourself a European sports car their weirdo, that's what people thought, but an orange 69 Charger with a push bar on the front. People automatically know what it is. That is one of the most famous television cars of all time the General Lee and the show also had Daisy's Jeep and Boss Hogg's Cadillac two other famous vehicles from the TV series and they were all standard products.
 
      You can go out and buy. Anyone can go out and buy these things. Get a Cadillac, put some horns on the hood and I'm Boss Hogg. Them damn Duke boys done it again. Now, that was one of the few shows. That was actually good, like Starsky and Hutch was Whatever, but Duke's a hazard. There was always a chase in it, so you always Knew it was going to be cool. Them damn Duke boys. And I actually got to meet them once. An old car show I went to that no longer exists the Fleetwood Classic Cruise Inn just outside of London, Ontario, no longer exists, and I actually missed going to the last one because of automotive issues. I thought it was going to be happening again the next year but it wasn't. I went one year and both of the original characters who played Bo and Luke were there. I got to meet them.
 
      The Dukes of Hazzard. The Duke boys Would have liked to meet Daisy instead, but you know, duke boys, whatever Also got to meet the guys from Welder Up as well. They could have talked my ear off for hours. Those guys I could just sit down and chat with. They were too cool.
 
      But the Dukes of Hazzard 69 Charger that is one of the most famous television icon cars of all time. There is one more that's more famous than it, even though its tv series was even shorter, but I got two more before that. One is one of the most famous Canadian television cars of all time the dodge ram van or, as we better know it here in the great white north, the possum van from the red green show. The first television series ever aired on the international space station, the red green show from Canada yes, from rick green and Steve Smith from Smith & Smith Productions. The red green show had the possum van literally a dodge van painted to look like a possum. You only saw it in the little flash forage from scene to scene. That's about it. You saw it more in the movie than anywhere else on the TV show. But if you have an old Ram van from the early 1980s and you paint it to look like a possum, you'll know it's the possum van from the Red Green Show. And even to the south of our border in the States, people down there know about it as well, because the red green show was one of the biggest Canadian tv series of all time. Yeah, Canada actually does make some cool shows and actually has a car on one of the most iconic television series lists not as iconic as our next one. 

      Our next one started in a manga series. Oh, yeah, you know where I'm going with this a car, I actually missed out on getting once because I just I was too scared to pick up the phone and call for a $400 86 Corolla GTS notchback not, not the hatchback, the notchback one and I missed out on the deal. I drove past. I'm like I got to call the guy today. It's been for sale for like two, three days now. I saw the price. I got to call him today. I can't, I can't drag my feet. I'm driving past and he's signing the papers with somebody. I'm like no, no, I missed out and I really wanted it because I found out about a brand-new show from Japan. This is during my days in college when I started being able to download and see shows and everything from around the globe and I found this tv series called initial d, with a 1986 corolla, or as they call it, the 86 Toyota Trueno from Japan.
 
     Black and white Panda, one of the most iconic cartoon cars in history. This is one of the only ones that makes the list. That's a cartoon, but it's a cartoon based on real cars, you have to remember. There's a Skyline in there, there's a Civic Type R, there's a Silvia, there's the Sil 80. They put real life cars into this cartoon series, later made into a movie. But the cartoon series gave us one of the most iconic Japanese cars of all time, the 86 Corolla. A car that people in North America always just pushed aside as a piece of crap oh, some Jap crap that doesn't have enough power until we realized this thing could turn corners like nothing else. It may not have the power of a Corvette, but if you're on a mountain pass it'll outperform a Corvette. Oh yeah, that 86 Panda, Trueno, and I almost had one.
 
     Everybody always asks if you can go back in time and change one thing.  You're like one thing, what thing?  What would you change? I'm like I would have made that phone call, like really. I'm like, yeah, I would have made that phone call. I was in college. I barely had enough money to finish my year out, but I had more than enough money to buy that car and I would have bought it. I would put it in the garage my dad's garage and I would have sat on it until I can afford to fix it. That is the time in ever chase life that he can go back. If he could change it, I would. A lot of people would be like I'll go back and make up with this person. Oh, I'll go back and make this little decision. So, I went no, no, I will go back and get that car because I missed out on it and it's one of the most iconic television series cars of all time and it's the only cartoon one to make the list. Well, the next one actually makes the list is one of the most iconic cars in history and it comes in both regular version and now in cartoon format. 

​      I'm talking about that lime green, black hood 1977 mini cooper from Mr. bean. Mr. bean has been around the world and why is the Mr. bean mini cooper bigger than some of the cars on this list, like the 69 Charger? Well, you have to remember, dukes of Hazzard didn't really make its way outside of North America very well, same with Miami Vice or Get Smart. But Mr. Bean has been everywhere. He's been seen in more countries than any other British show.
 
      Rowan Atkinson is a car enthusiast on his own and his Mini Cooper in the show is so famous and so well known of that. Anybody can think about it my kids; I bought them a little green Mini Cooper back in the day and they call it the Mr. Bean car. Funny thing is it was just a regular Mini Cooper label at the bottom of it but literally Matchbox, wrote on its Mr. Bean, Mini-Cooper yes, that's 77 Mini Cooper, the most famous television car of all time, and today you can still see it as his own car. In the cartoon series it is transferred from real life to cartoon. It lives in both. Television world Hasn't made a transition to CG, thank God, because we don't need a CG Mini Cooper. Okay, we got the regular, we got the cartoon, that's all we need, Mr. Bean. He's the man by a guy that was once told you'll never make it in this industry. A man who twice crashed his McLaren F1 and turned around and when he finally sold it off, he sold it off for more than he paid for it and repaired it, for he made a profit off of it.
 
     Rowan Atkinson in Mr. Bean, the most iconic television car of all time, the Mini car of all time, the mini cooper hell, it's one of the most iconic movie cars of all time from the Italian job, both the original and the newer one with mark Walberg. Yeah, you may fight me and say you know the Testarossa are from Miami Vice or the Ferrari from Magnum P.I. Hell, even the Trueno are bigger than it. But no adults and kids’ hell, even the elderly know what the mini cooper is and they all know if it comes in bright green, it's from Mr. Bean. So iconic cars from TV shows. 

​      But even though we've gone through this massive list and named the Mini Cooper from Mr. Bean number one, we have to give a special shout out to another car with a bit of green on it and lots of green behind it. I'd say it's the most iconic car from Canadian television. The Possum Van may be one that people across North America know, but this one more people know of because of the story of Green behind it. And what I'm talking about is that 1975 Green Chrysler New Yorker driven by Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys. He's missing a passenger side door and is literally beat up and a piece of crap. Its literal name is the Shitmobile and the funniest thing is last year at Motorama in Toronto, I actually met a person who had the original one from the TV series and drove it across Canada, even though it's missing a door.
 
     Yeah, a 75 green Chrysler New Yorker, Ricky’s most famous car for picking up and delivering green, which is funny because it has a bit of green on it. And this is another car, like the Mr. Bean car that has made the transition from the real-life version into the cartoon, as the Trailer Park Boys, has merged into the cartoon world, now on Netflix. And if you don't know who the Trailer Park Boys are, go out and find out about them, because, like Mr. Bean and how he's gone across the world, the Trailer Park Boys from Canada hell, from the East Coast of Canada, are another great show. And we have to give a special shout out to Ricky's Shitmobile, because this 75 Chrysler New Yorker is one of those famous cars that always gets overlooked on many different lists. It may not top the list, but it sure well is there. 

     So, really, is it one of your favorites or are there others? How many of them do you remember and how many of them have you seen in real life? I've seen quite a few of these cars in real life, the actual variations of them, and it's pretty cool. I haven't met the characters behind it. I've met some of them, but seeing these cars in real life just takes you back to watching those television shows. Like I said in the beginning, how many hours a day did I watch television from elementary to high school? Eight hours a day, every day and up to 12 to 14 hours on weekends. My life was television and shows with cars in it took precedence over everything else because, hell, in the end, I am literally just a car guy at heart and I love my cars and I love my tv shows with cars.
 
     So, if you could think about any other tv series that you could, you've watched and you know of, that has some great, iconic tv cars, just let us know whether it be cartoon or regular.  Tell us about the famous real-life vehicles from television series.  Send us an email, send us a text, send us a message, a comment, anything.  Tell us about some of these great cars and some of the ones that we have may have missed from some tv shows that you know of. Hell, if you don't like the fact that we named Mr. beans mini cooper, the most iconic television series car of all time, send us a comment about it.

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