1956 Chevrolet One-Fifty
1956 Chevrolet One-Fifty in American Graffiti, Movie, 1973
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2009-06-16 02:03 |
1956 Chevrolet One-Fifty |
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◊ 2012-02-07 19:23 |
Another one:![[Image: graffitibackground23.3843.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is851/graffitibackground23.3843.jpg) |
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◊ 2013-06-13 20:00 |
REPLACEMENT 10.24![[Image: snapshot20130613194622.21.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/13592/snapshot20130613194622.21.jpg) |
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◊ 2014-01-18 19:49 |
That '56 has a totally incorrect license plate for a 1962 setting.. the license plate should be yellow like the '60 Biscayne has, not the blue 1970 California plate.. |
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◊ 2025-09-30 00:28 |
That’s me at age 17 driving my dad Clay Walsh’s ‘56 Chevy on 4th Street in San Rafael in late June 1972. The car was first owned and used by the American Red Cross office on Hamilton Air Force Base, where my dad was a civilian worker from 1945 to 1973. When the Red Cross declared it surplus around 1960, dad bought it, and it became his daily driver from then until 1973 (when the base was inactivated). In the month before shooting began, ads had appeared in the Marin and Sonoma newspapers, seeking young drivers with pre-1962 cars who were willing to work from 6 PM to 6 AM for $20. On a specific day I drove the car to a vacant lot in downtown San Rafael, where the production staff was snapping Polaroids of cars and their drivers. Some days later, the phone call came to show up for this first night of filming on 4th Street. A few days after that, I went up to Petaluma for a night of filming there. On that second night, for one shot the production assistant (Jim Bloom) told me something like “drive by the guy standing in the street, but don’t hit him.” Well, the guy was Richard Dreyfuss, running out there looking for the white T-bird - but no one knew who he was then. G-MANN has attached an image from that scene, which I’ll repeat here. ![[Image: img_4250.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/35949/25/img_4250.jpg) In real life, the Chevy used to have black 1963 license plates. But I got pulled over at a random CHP vehicle inspection around 1971. The officers thought the front plate was too mangled, so we had to get new plates, which by then were blue. Prior to filming we were given cardboard facsimile yellow 1956-62 plates with thin rubber bands to hold them in place. Since the Chevy didn’t have a license plate frame, the edges of the actual plate cut through the rubber bands, and the facsimile plate fell off. As to why my taillights weren’t on … I can only imagine that with all the idling and waiting, I’d turned them off to save the battery. 4th Street was lit so brightly that I forgot to turn them on again. -- Last edit: 2025-09-30 00:36:57 |
