1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible [2434]
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air [2434] in The Brady Bunch, TV Series, 1969-1974 Ep. 3.04
Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
![1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible [2434]](/i255976.jpg)
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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2009-11-06 13:29 |
This episode is all about Greg's disastrous first car.![[Image: brady34b9596.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5217/brady34b9596.jpg) ![[Image: brady34f1268.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5217/brady34f1268.jpg) ![[Image: brady34g5539.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5217/brady34g5539.jpg) ![[Image: snapshot200911011757482784.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5217/snapshot200911011757482784.jpg) -- Last edit: 2012-08-06 04:49:11 |
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◊ 2009-11-08 00:53 |
If I recall correctly, he had bought the car from a friend for $100, restored it cosmetically in his driveway in the way only a montage can provide, but it was all mis-wired and he ended up selling it to the scrapyard for $50 at the end of the episode. Even in the 80s when I first saw it as a kid, I was aware how ludicrous those prices were for a '56 Chevy ragtop. |
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◊ 2009-11-08 01:27 |
In those day a 16 years old car were considered a clunker  |
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◊ 2009-11-08 02:32 |
Axl, that's pretty much what happened. And the guy he tried to sell it to, was played by Charles Martin Smith, who would later appear as one of the main characters in the movie "American Graffiti." |
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◊ 2009-11-13 16:47 |
And this car had a sad fate - it was later blown up and burned on an episode of "Mannix". |
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◊ 2009-11-13 21:45 |
Do we have this on IMCDb capture yet? |
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◊ 2010-09-07 06:56 |
We do now:![[Image: th_cap995-2.jpg]](http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/?action=view¤t=cap995-2.jpg "http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/th_cap995-2.jpg") ![[Image: th_cap998-2.jpg]](http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/?action=view¤t=cap998-2.jpg "http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/th_cap998-2.jpg") |
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◊ 2010-09-07 13:48 |
@62imperial: Why don't you go ahead add a page of own at /movie_61277-Mannix.html ? |
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◊ 2011-02-25 00:28 |
I watched this episode when it first aired, and screamed at the TV that this car was a classic and needed to be saved, not crushed at the wrecker. |
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◊ 2011-02-25 01:37 |
The problem is that Hollywood never listens. |
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◊ 2012-08-14 05:29 |
this '56 Bel Air got the same plates from the previously movie California: RAA-157 |
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◊ 2012-09-06 21:52 |
My favorite line in this episode is when Greg proudly announces he "redesigned the engine" to explain the pile of leftover parts on the ground. Question... do we ever see both sides of the car in one shot? I ask because the restored images are all from the right-hand side, while the un-restored images are from the left. The image capture from Mannix seems to show the same primer and rust spots as the car had in the unrestored condition on the Brady Bunch episode. I'm wondering if the car was simply cleaned up on one side, or aged and distressed on the other. |
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◊ 2012-09-30 12:37 |
You're correct. That's what I figured when I first saw that episode - all the "before" shots are on the driver's side and all the "after" shots are on the passenger side. |
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◊ 2014-06-14 15:01 |
Current value $53,O35 in US dollars. Stupid Greg. When I saw this episode in first run, I was yelling at him that the car was a classic and scraping it was a crime! He didn't listen. Stupid Greg. |
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◊ 2014-06-14 18:00 |
It was an old junker back in the early 1970's, portacker. |
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◊ 2014-06-14 21:04 |
I would agree based on it's condition only, but I was exactly the age of the Greg character in 1971 and I did not regard 1956 Chevrolets as "junkers". The '55-'57 Chevy convertibles were collectible even at that time, although certainly not to the extent they are today. |
