Advertising Last completed movie pages 1961 Comet Station Wagon [71A] Ep. 1.02Class: Cars, Wagon — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2007-07-22 00:12 |
Funny how they taped over the COMET on the tailgate. |
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◊ 2007-07-22 00:14 |
Perhaps they had a product placement deal with a rival manufacturer. |
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◊ 2007-07-22 00:32 |
Were there already product placement in these times?  |
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◊ 2007-07-22 00:55 |
Yeah. They had product placement since the Marx Brother's film "Love Happy". |
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◊ 2010-07-27 01:55 |
This is a 1961. It's clearly not a '63, that year had two small round tail light lenses side-by-side on each side, like the '62. This tail light treatment was '60-'61 only, and the large power window key surround bezel identifies it as a 1961 model. I have a '60 Comet wagon. -KK |
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◊ 2012-08-22 14:39 |
I don't know why they'd do that, since Comet was part of the Ford corporate family, which supplied cars for the show. Perhaps it's just an over-aggressive network attorney, censor or vice-president, which was legendary in those days. There's actually a book about silly memos from network vice-presidents in television, called "A Martian Would Never Say That!" (Yes, that line came from an actual memo, meant at the time to be taken seriously.) |
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◊ 2012-08-22 15:02 |
...and what's really weird is, one of the characters actually says it's a 1961 Comet wagon! -- Last edit: 2013-01-04 18:28:22 |
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◊ 2012-08-22 15:39 |
Another theory: Could the car have been used in another show with the letters taped over and they just hadn't been removed when used in this one? This has always been among my favorite station wagon taillamp designs. -- Last edit: 2012-08-22 15:40:29 |
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◊ 2013-01-06 20:07 |
Wasn't Comet a Ford marque at the time anyway? |
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◊ 2013-01-06 23:21 |
In '60 and '61, Ford Motor Co listed the Comet as a separate make (much like they did with Continental in the 1956-1959 period) but for 1962, they brought it into the Mercury line and it bacame a model. |
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◊ 2013-04-02 08:31 |
The emblems on all makes of cars in the first few years of Adam-12 were taped over as well. I would say that it must have been a Jack Webb/Mark VII thing, but I've seen it in a few early '60s shows that weren't MK VII, so it was common then. -KK |
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