REO trucks were all over the roads when I was kid in 50s. Super well built heavy duty hard working trucks and best of all made with pride in the USA like almost everything else. Miss that a lot.
@@glennso47 i miss hearing 2cycle diesel trucks and the whining of gears as they accelerated. I was born in the mid 70s, and there were still plenty of old classics rolling around the highways up until the early 90s.. but now theyre all gone.
What STYLE! We just thought the style was just getting started! Just like the fashion of the day also! Aside from these few criminals, people and decorum were wonderful also. What an ERA!
You mean SOME people were wonderful! How about all of that racial hatred which still exists in this country which was much worse in the late 1940s and into the 1950s when I was a youngster!
I haven't watched this program since I was a kid, until yesterday and I thought to myself it seems like I do recall watching that episode, and how well written these shows were. Fast forward to the next day... going to watch another episode, and I feel like it's all coming back to me. It's getting to be a must have just like that morning cup of coffee...Not the soft soap stuff but the real McCoy!
That would be a real hoot,it would be like that time the state police came in and took over the town for a manhunt and all their tools couldn't find him but Andy got him with his boat with a hole in it.Andy did get a new state map with magnets out of it
@@donnienicholson6062 I understand they didn't really do it their budget would never allow that. I'm surprised they got him a helicopter in a couple episodes.
Such a Great program!! I dig the Huge Cars w/ the Fins!! What is Missing are the nicely dressed 50's Gals with fancy, well done Hair Styles! I suppose that ZIV was tightening the Budget!! ❤😮😊
I'm a massive classic film buff. Matter of fact I spent so much time reading and watching old movies that I'd NEVER heard of Highway Patrol......but Broderick Crawford - you kidding me , the mans a bloody legend "Larceny Inc" , "Born Yesterday", "All The Kings Men " ----- Sheesh....Hes been in a bunch of beauties. I found out about six weeks ago about "Patrol". Well , I believe I'm on episode 80 or so........they're bloody addictive. And that I know being 25 years clean & sober.......Not sure just how many episodes there are but I'm going to find out.......JRS
This was one of the better shows showing real police work. Most shows, Dan just happens to have an idea of what could have happened, and like magic, it was what the crooks did. In this one used math, mileage lab results to solve the crime.
Fedora, Florsheim shoes, teletype, big maps, @ - @ action packed scene with the invincible Buick Interceptor. What's not to like......? Dan's The Man. The CHP use this as one of their main training films. However, aging those pristine beauties was almost as bad as murder.
A degree of realism here in that there really was a Chrysler plant in the Los Angeles area then. It closed in 1971. The REO diesel truck really has raw power and lets it rip. In that day only the companies with money had diesel rigs as more than half were still gasoline powered. Along with the trucks this show had some beautiful things on wheels.
Fyi: these old REO'S had the same Continental Red Seal gasoline engines that were used for their 5 ton 6x6 military trucks that were still around in the late 70's-early 80's which I had the pleasure of driving when I was in the 1438th Transportation company of the Indiana National Guards. Definitely not a Detriot Diesel in these old trucks...
But to drive a car you need to prove you can use one responsibly, pass a test, and get renewed at regular intervals. And if you prove to be irresponsible, there are consequences. Not sure why the same can’t be done for firearms.
It's interesting to note that just before production started on the Hiway Patrol series Broderick Crawford (along with Richard Basehart) starred in a Federico Fellini film called "Il Bidone" which can be seen on TH-cam.
I was a truck driver and those guys would have had the shock of their lives if they pulled out and stopped in front of me. I would have flattened them like a tin can. Some joker miffed at some incorrectly perceived misdeed jammed it from behind me, got in front and slammed on the brakes. Boy was his pants a mess when I not only didn't hit the brakes but slammed down on the fuel , I saw that car get smaller and smaller and just about disappear until he made like speedy gonzalez. I still don't know how I didn't hit him. I bet he won't do that again.
Mark, I did the same thing around 1993 some lady past me got about 200 yards ahead of me slammed on her brakes, I floored my truck. A 1990 GMC 300 Cummins I turned it up to run about 84 MPH she decided I wasn't going to stop and she took off. She was driving a Firebird about a 1985 I was so close I couldn't see the 3rd. Brake light in the rear glass. We went 36 miles at over 80 MPH before I backed off and let her go on. I thought if the crash doesnt kill you, I will!! I know not the correct aditutde for a professional truck driver. It just set me off
And had you hit that car and someone died, the charge would have been Murder in the First Degree, for hitting the gas would be "Gross Negligence" and that murder not manslaughter in many states. Hit the brakes so you can at least claim it was an accident based on simple negligence and not even vehicular homicide for you would have done every thing possible to avoid the accident.
4:20 I often wonder about the small moments in this show. Was Crawford blocked on purpose (script detail), or did they just get it wrong? 18:57 Darn it. I wanted Crawford to point to the blackboard and say "Set up roadblocks here and here. That lab must be the hardest working crime lab in the state. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere. And the results are always ready within an hour.
Come on now.....WHY would any dealership have their brand new cars shipped down an old dusty road?? Even though the Freeway system hadn't been built yet, the regular State Hiways were FAR BETTER than this. I remember as a kid back then seeing all the "Burma Shave" signs along the nice CONCRETE and ASPHALTED roadways.
@Black Buick And that's a whopping big "maybe" methinks. The driver took dirty back roads inorder to get to dealerships? Drivers with that kind of desirable commodity had to take pre-determined routes inorder to not get hijacked (especially on back roads). Not to forget that the dealership being delivered to would have complained to the distributor that all the cars were continually being delivered dirty. Sorry.....I'm thinking that because this was a "low budget" TV series, they "made do" with what they had available to them.
To be fair, a lot of new cars were shipped by train back then as well, and were quite often covered with rail dust when they arrived. Cleaning them up was part of the "new car prep".
@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 Rail transport understood, and many times, the non-covered transport trucks drove through rain and snow and brought the cars to the dealerships dirty and had to be cleaned up. However large transport trucks didn't deliver cars over winding narrow dirt roads to dealerships out in the toolies....they took the main highways for many reasos. Can you imagine a car dealership in a spot-in-the-road town with only dirt roads going in and out? Anybody living in those tiny towns would go to the bigger city for a better deal, just like people in tiny towns do today just to buy their groceries.
Just listen to that Ol' REO truck screamin' along with it's (likely) Continental 'Gold Comet' engine just cranking out the power. Might be a dog by todays standards, but what a work horse back then.
Appreciate it for its distinction. Technology of the past was beautiful and elegant. Though superior in reliability, today’s cars, trucks and technologies are being transformed into boring, lifeless shapes.
This is the 1950s, so that bomber jacket is most likely from WWII. Try buying a new jacket like that today. The carrier truck is an REO. They aren't around anymore.
I once saw a hydrant in the middle of a forest, nothing but trees in all directions. It was on a popular hiking trail. Turned out the hydrant was on a water line to a neighborhood. The area was to steep for housing but the water line ran right through that forest. That hydrant was there for decades on a hiking trail. A few years ago the water company replaced the line and took out the hydrant, but I still have a photo of that hydrant.
I also knew a farmer who had a fire hydrant by the entrance to his farm. The hydrant was NOT connected to anything, he just used it as a way to find the entrance at night.
And he knew the cars did absolutely zero miles at the factory, no testing miles, no mileage transferring from storage to a train then to a car carrier.
I used to see those DeSoto's Dodges & Plymouths on the road when I was a kid in the 1960's. So futuristic & loved the dash mounted rear view mirrors. Instead of defacing & dismantling the new cars they could've sold them hot under retail value & still profit. Push button radios were a big deal then, my dad's new 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air didn't have push button. Push button was an option & let's not forget about tape recorders.
There were 'signal seeking' radios, as well.. Chrysler introduced Philco all transistor radios in 1955 (for 1956 models) which were available with a 'search bar' function as had been tube based models for several years prior. My 1962 Cadillac had a 'Wonder Bar' radio.
***** The o e speed whirlwind! Buick more or less copied the Allison V-drive bus transmission from 1940...which made GM city coaches notoriously inefficient and VERY slow. At least it had an automatic low gear!
The Dynaslush was a little better by 1957. I had a '55 Century that really moved along--well after I hit 25 lol. I had several in the straight 8 era and yes they were sluggish.
Ever wonder why the HP bigshot does all the driving while patrolmen go along for the ride? And while at the crime scene Dan called into HQS and there was no "HQS bye." And worse, there was no "10-4" at the end of the conversation.
Those two young guys really worked their nuts off to get those cars ready, and they didn’t mean for the driver to actually die. I do hope the Court shows some compassion, maybe put them on probation or something. It’s their first offence, after all.
I quit Sunday School.They lied about Noah's Ark and his animals 2 X 2.....Genesis 7:2&3 says 7 of each animal.Good lord if they lied about the Bible why trust anything they said????
Sensible people grow out schooling when they turn adults; only those stuck in teenage would ever refer back to school teachings, for their dealings in adult life. Once out of school and parents' home, you are on your own and should think for yourself. Schools are not meant to teach you how to behave, but only basic things, mostly forgotten.
Noah took 7 "Clean" animals i.e. domesticated animals and then TWO of every "Unclean" animals, i.e. non domesticated animals. It is viewed the difference was to make It clear that our duties to fellow creatures on earth includes all animals, not just animals we can make money on.
Why use the interstate or state highway system to transport new vehicles by car carrier to their destination when you can use a one lane dirt road in the middle of nowhere to do it instead?
Guy takes a heavy object and beats on the rear fender of the Imperial. Later when they dump the car there is no sign of body damage on that side of the car.
"Murder, hijacking and grand theft -- that takes talent." "What'll do we do?" "Go looking for talent." These writers are straight from the Raymond Chandler school of hard-boiled dialog.
@ 19:54 you can count 13 tires in the farm. From 23:50 to 26:07 there are 13 tires that were thrown from the truck. We have 3 cars times 4 equal 12 tires. Were there 13 or 12 used tires in the barn before the theft ? Or tire number 13 was taken from one of the spares, and which car is missing a spare, and where is the spare rim? Please help me to understand what is going on!
I’d love to work with the police chief He’s direct and no bullshit Maybe if police were left to actually do there job without doing backflips to please the tree huggers and dooooooogooders we’d see more police work like this
Teach yourself homonyms and homophones, starting with "their", they're" and "there". "Maybe if police were left to actually do _their_ job", not _there_ job.
No one would be that stupid to steal a carrier with new cars and commit murder for them, the premise is ridiculous but hey its the fifties and anything worked.
@@tomservo56954 that's a fact.i was born in 1956 and when I was 16 these were the only cars I could afford and by that time they were mostly junkyard rejects but I could get to work and back but I wouldn't take any of them on a long trip
The Chryslers I drove in the 70's all had a weird quirk in the electrical system. If you sat in the car without the keys, turned on the emergency flasher, turn signal, and stepped on the brake, you could play the radio. But those cars probably had vacuum tube radios. If you left one of those running on the battery, you'd run it down.
At 19:34 they both leave to ditch the cars and walk home....at 22:24 they both get out of the truck after being up all night.Why were they in the truck if they walked home????
Those were the days , just before Greed and Large Corporations started taking over ! Dan must have drove the bad guys crazy with his "One Liners " at the end when they got caught . Today we call that "Rubbing salt in the wound ".
The car carrier sure looks flimsy compared to today's models. I hate driving near them and log trucks. The log trucks are the worst. They don't tie the logs down. They are loose on the back of the trucks being taken to the lumber mills. I have seen logs roll off onto cars. I try to steer clear when possible.
That's how they were back then, gasoline powered, low geared, maybe do 50 at the most. Sure wouldn't want to be down a 7 % grade with a full load on board. Plus most would only haul maybe 4 cars. They needed a lot of drivers I'm sure.
Notice that the DeSoto has single headlights, this was early 57' before detroit got four headlights legalized. Why does the DeSoto have a license plate on? Why does these cars still look so great 50 years later? Those Virgil Exner cars are always sooooo Koool!!!
@@booklover6753 I remember growing up seeing most of the Georgia highways were two lane dirt roads until you got near Atlanta where they were putting all the road money
REO trucks were all over the roads when I was kid in 50s. Super well built heavy duty hard working trucks and best of all made with pride in the USA like almost everything else. Miss that a lot.
Yes The REO Gold Comet was a popular model in those years.
Sounds like one awesome Detroit Diesel under the hood. I miss those sounds too.
They later merged with Diamond T and became Diamond REO. The company went out of business I think.
@@glennso47 i miss hearing 2cycle diesel trucks and the whining of gears as they accelerated. I was born in the mid 70s, and there were still plenty of old classics rolling around the highways up until the early 90s.. but now theyre all gone.
Ransom Eli Olds, a very generous man lots of videos exist 🙄
Cars for the average joe were works of art back then.
What STYLE! We just thought the style was just getting started! Just like the fashion of the day also!
Aside from these few criminals, people and decorum were wonderful also. What an ERA!
Agreed! I wish I had been alive to experience it. As far as fashion and style are concerned, everything appears to have deteriorated since then.
You mean SOME people were wonderful! How about all of that racial hatred which still exists in this country which was much worse in the
late 1940s and into the 1950s when I was a youngster!
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Dan did some damned fine detective work with the circles and figuring out where the barn was. That is why Dan always gets his man!
You want to render Dan powerless? Just take away his maps. 😀
not Chrysler, but Imperial
5:53 background mountain view is same as Google Earth street view 6867 Valley Circle Blvd. West Hills, CA; Wow have things changed in 65 years!
Used to live there. Things did change quite a lot.
Great catch. I thought it was 6943.
Wow.. now it's filled with cookie cutter homes
I love this Show. Never watched it as a kid. Discovered the series about ten years ago. What a wonderful show.
A Chrysler, a Dodge and a DeSoto. Defacing them was the true crime.
Roy Dean I had a 55 dodge, red ram v8 eng, 3 speed on the column. Also a 58 Chrysler. Great cars...
Rest assured they never harmed one of these cars. This was a fairly low budget production.
@@Timewontletme And everything in the interior!
Thank god none of them were Plymouths.
You know what they say "Mopar dont go far" 14 mile radius? sounds about right xD
"We're farmers, not highjackers."
:"Yeah. Well, everyone should have a hobby."
Yes, and that was the scared kid talking. After he slugged the guy, all of sudden he thought he was invincible. Then the radio announcement....
Not hardened crooks. "God a hot rod Ford and a 2 dollar bill. And I know place right over the hill."
Red clearly wasn't the brains of this operation... And use the word " brains" liberally..
I haven't watched this program since I was a kid, until yesterday and I thought to myself it seems like I do recall watching that episode, and how well written these shows were. Fast forward to the next day... going to watch another episode, and I feel like it's all coming back to me. It's getting to be a must have just like that morning cup of coffee...Not the soft soap stuff but the real McCoy!
Yeah Okay Dip Shit Moron
@Black Buick Thanks Black Buick now I'm watching Highway Patrol to night! I may be addicted...lol
I'd like to see Dan Mathews meet Andy Taylor. Andy talks slow. I think Dan would explode, especially after meeting Barney.
That's funny shit Nota 🤣🤣😃
That would be a real hoot,it would be like that time the state police came in and took over the town for a manhunt and all their tools couldn't find him but Andy got him with his boat with a hole in it.Andy did get a new state map with magnets out of it
It will probably drive him to drink some Mayberry moonshine and wake up with Otis.
They should put the 2 shows together.
It would be a hoot. L.O.L.
Great ideas!
Dan would make Andy lose his shit, because Dan loves to drive fast, talk smack and let his pistol smoke!
These grrreat old shows were terrific and Broderick Crawford was magnificent in his starring role as Dan Matthews!!! What fond memories!
I was eight years old when this came out. I distinctly remember cringing, when that guy was ready to start hammering on the Imperial. LOL!
They didn't hammer those car's You Tool. Moron !!!
@@jaystarsky7271 Ah yea he did at 10:01 what else do you think he's doing polishing the paint. He even you used a Tool you Moron !!!! LOL
They showed all 3 cars close up......not a scratch or dent.Just some fake looking soap film.
@@donnienicholson6062 I understand they didn't really do it their budget would never allow that. I'm surprised they got him a helicopter in a couple episodes.
@Jay Starsky Bud Spaulding was EIGHT years old back then and he tells us so. And you call him a moron. Now, how is the real moron here?
7:34 Frantically wipes down steering wheel and door sill, then yanks door open by the inside handle...and leaves. Duhhhhh.
HAHAHHAHAHAH!
Yes and leaves the gear shifter with his prints on it. Later the prints were on the ramps they put back up on it
The De Soto justly tops them all! What a beaut. Sculpture!
I had a 58 Firesweep
Coolest ride I
ever owned
Where is the disclaimer: "No cars were harmed in the making of this film."
lol
Broderick Crawford was a fine actor. Drama, comedy, he could do it all. I've always enjoyed his work.
Reminded me of The Little Rascals when he started throwing those tires out. LOL
Imperials and Desotas Fine Iron
Such a Great program!! I dig the
Huge Cars w/ the Fins!! What is
Missing are the nicely dressed 50's Gals with fancy, well done
Hair Styles! I suppose that ZIV
was tightening the Budget!! ❤😮😊
I'm a massive classic film buff. Matter of fact I spent so much time reading and watching old movies that I'd NEVER heard of Highway Patrol......but Broderick Crawford - you kidding me , the mans a bloody legend "Larceny Inc" , "Born Yesterday", "All The Kings Men " ----- Sheesh....Hes been in a bunch of beauties. I found out about six weeks ago about "Patrol". Well , I believe I'm on episode 80 or so........they're bloody addictive. And that I know being 25 years clean & sober.......Not sure just how many episodes there are but I'm going to find out.......JRS
🤔 3:06. 3000 for new right out the factory cars 😮. They must be death traps 😂😂😒.
This was one of the better shows showing real police work. Most shows, Dan just happens to have an idea of what could have happened, and like magic, it was what the crooks did. In this one used math, mileage lab results to solve the crime.
Right out of Sun Tzu.. know your enemy..🤔
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
Fedora, Florsheim shoes, teletype, big maps, @ - @ action packed scene with the invincible Buick Interceptor. What's not to like......? Dan's The Man. The CHP use this as one of their main training films. However, aging those pristine beauties was almost as bad as murder.
A degree of realism here in that there really was a Chrysler plant in the Los Angeles area then. It closed in 1971.
The REO diesel truck really has raw power and lets it rip. In that day only the companies with money had diesel rigs as more than half were still gasoline powered. Along with the trucks this show had some beautiful things on wheels.
Fyi: these old REO'S had the same Continental Red Seal gasoline engines that were used for their 5 ton 6x6 military trucks that were still around in the late 70's-early 80's which I had the pleasure of driving when I was in the 1438th Transportation company of the Indiana National Guards. Definitely not a Detriot Diesel in these old trucks...
I love the last line "but they are professionals and they're going to be paid like professionals".
Brand new cars ... with ... uh .. license plates ... That is like seeing jet plane contrails in old western movies.
They were probably old dealer plates from.55 or 56 they just slapped on the cars for effect.. Love those old Mopars...
Matthews repeatedly remarked that it was a "professional job." But it was two farm boys who'd never pulled a caper before.
One of my friends parents had a 1959 Buick Century; it was a beautiful design.
no century for 59
@Black Buick You are both right. I was thinking of the 57.
@Black Buick This one had three beautiful rear split windows.
@Black Buick Those were beautiful, too.
@TooLooze The joke around Chrysler was that rear window on both Buick and Olds said "Suddenly it's 1949"
“He’s flatter than the tires”. I cracked up when I heard that comment after Dan checked on the dead criminal at the end of the show...
Dan should have a 'Thug life' meme... So should his. 38 snubby! 👌😊
love seeing those classic cars
It's not the car that kills, it's the driver. Same with guns. It's the shooter, not the gun that kills.
... by using a gun. Idiot.
@@Zordboy Guns and cars don't have moral agency so think a bit before calling someone an idiot.
But some people think the gun does it all by itself
But to drive a car you need to prove you can use one responsibly, pass a test, and get renewed at regular intervals. And if you prove to be irresponsible, there are consequences. Not sure why the same can’t be done for firearms.
Now I know where " barn finds" come from! 👍
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It's interesting to note that just before production started on the Hiway Patrol series Broderick Crawford (along with Richard Basehart) starred in a Federico Fellini film called "Il Bidone" which can be seen on TH-cam.
I was a truck driver and those guys would have had the shock of their lives if they pulled out and stopped in front of me. I would have flattened them like a tin can. Some joker miffed at some incorrectly perceived misdeed jammed it from behind me, got in front and slammed on the brakes. Boy was his pants a mess when I not only didn't hit the brakes but slammed down on the fuel , I saw that car get smaller and smaller and just about disappear until he made like speedy gonzalez. I still don't know how I didn't hit him. I bet he won't do that again.
Mark,
I did the same thing around 1993 some lady past me got about 200 yards ahead of me slammed on her brakes, I floored my truck. A 1990 GMC 300 Cummins I turned it up to run about 84 MPH she decided I wasn't going to stop and she took off. She was driving a Firebird about a 1985 I was so close I couldn't see the 3rd. Brake light in the rear glass. We went 36 miles at over 80 MPH before I backed off and let her go on.
I thought if the crash doesnt kill you, I will!!
I know not the correct aditutde for a professional truck driver. It just set me off
And had you hit that car and someone died, the charge would have been Murder in the First Degree, for hitting the gas would be "Gross Negligence" and that murder not manslaughter in many states. Hit the brakes so you can at least claim it was an accident based on simple negligence and not even vehicular homicide for you would have done every thing possible to avoid the accident.
most ins fraud people die messing with big rigs.
4:20 I often wonder about the small moments in this show. Was Crawford blocked on purpose (script detail), or did they just get it wrong?
18:57 Darn it. I wanted Crawford to point to the blackboard and say "Set up roadblocks here and here.
That lab must be the hardest working crime lab in the state. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere. And the results are always ready within an hour.
I wondered the same, about 4:20...🤣
18:41 ... draws circles to scale over a squiggly line was never to scale to start with. 🤣🤣🤣
Murder, hijacking and grand theft? That takes talent.
Come on now.....WHY would any dealership have their brand new cars shipped down an old dusty road?? Even though the Freeway system hadn't been built yet, the regular State Hiways were FAR BETTER than this. I remember as a kid back then seeing all the "Burma Shave" signs along the nice CONCRETE and ASPHALTED roadways.
@Black Buick And that's a whopping big "maybe" methinks. The driver took dirty back roads inorder to get to dealerships? Drivers with that kind of desirable commodity had to take pre-determined routes inorder to not get hijacked (especially on back roads). Not to forget that the dealership being delivered to would have complained to the distributor that all the cars were continually being delivered dirty. Sorry.....I'm thinking that because this was a "low budget" TV series, they "made do" with what they had available to them.
To be fair, a lot of new cars were shipped by train back then as well, and were quite often covered with rail dust when they arrived. Cleaning them up was part of the "new car prep".
@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 Rail transport understood, and many times, the non-covered transport trucks drove through rain and snow and brought the cars to the dealerships dirty and had to be cleaned up. However large transport trucks didn't deliver cars over winding narrow dirt roads to dealerships out in the toolies....they took the main highways for many reasos. Can you imagine a car dealership in a spot-in-the-road town with only dirt roads going in and out? Anybody living in those tiny towns would go to the bigger city for a better deal, just like people in tiny towns do today just to buy their groceries.
Just listen to that Ol' REO truck screamin' along with it's (likely) Continental 'Gold Comet' engine just cranking out the power. Might be a dog by todays standards, but what a work horse back then.
Music ....Nice shifting too..
Appreciate it for its distinction. Technology of the past was beautiful and elegant. Though superior in reliability, today’s cars, trucks and technologies are being transformed into boring, lifeless shapes.
It was beautiful.
They didn't check on the other brothers.
In the back of the truck.
Good mix of '57 cars, Mopar, FoMoCo, and GM
Every episode that happens next week is very unusual.
True classic TV
They do not make good tv like this now
Excellent episode.
Oh, that"s a great chase scene!
This is the 1950s, so that bomber jacket is most likely from WWII. Try buying a new jacket like that today. The carrier truck is an REO. They aren't around anymore.
Dan loves those maps!
Notice the trailer hitch on the patrol car?
He loves to throw up a roadblock also.
How to make a brand new car look stolen.. smear on it with your hands. Dan says "It's a real professional job too" hehehe
DANG! 5:33 Seems he's making the KID do EVERYTHING! He's just supervising.
In some of the episodes, you'll see fire hydrants in the idle of nowhere. I'm betting they were future subdivisions.
+Thomas Coughran brush fires
I once saw a hydrant in the middle of a forest, nothing but trees in all directions. It was on a popular hiking trail.
Turned out the hydrant was on a water line to a neighborhood. The area was to steep for housing but the water line ran right through that forest. That hydrant was there for decades on a hiking trail. A few years ago the water company replaced the line and took out the hydrant, but I still have a photo of that hydrant.
I also knew a farmer who had a fire hydrant by the entrance to his farm. The hydrant was NOT connected to anything, he just used it as a way to find the entrance at night.
I notice that a lot of 60+ year old productions have paved streets with curbs also out in the middle of nowhere.
Why was a car carrier going down a country dirt road?
Back in the 50s most highways back then were two lane.
Or dirt. 45 to 55 MPH.
Luckily he drew everything to scale on that chalk board.
To the second.......................
Back when they took geometry classes seriously...👍
And he knew the cars did absolutely zero miles at the factory, no testing miles, no mileage transferring from storage to a train then to a car carrier.
This was a good episode. Just realized this was another episode with no beautiful dames!
Must have been the end of the month and no more budget for beautiful Babes
I used to see those DeSoto's Dodges & Plymouths on the road when I was a kid in the 1960's. So futuristic & loved the dash mounted rear view mirrors. Instead of defacing & dismantling the new cars they could've sold them hot under retail value & still profit.
Push button radios were a big deal then, my dad's new 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air didn't have push button. Push button was an option & let's not forget about tape recorders.
There were 'signal seeking' radios, as well..
Chrysler introduced Philco all transistor radios in 1955 (for 1956 models) which were available with a 'search bar' function as had been tube based models for several years prior.
My 1962 Cadillac had a 'Wonder Bar' radio.
@@-oiiio-3993 Yeah, ain't that something, Chrysler used Philco radios which was a division of FOMOCO in 50's, 60's and up into the 70's...
Push button automatic transmission on Chrysler products too.
Listen to that Dynaflush in that '57 Buick "patrol car". What a slug!
***** The o e speed whirlwind! Buick more or less copied the Allison V-drive bus transmission from 1940...which made GM city coaches notoriously inefficient and VERY slow. At least it had an automatic low gear!
The Dynaslush was a little better by 1957. I had a '55 Century that really moved along--well after I hit 25 lol. I had several in the straight 8 era and yes they were sluggish.
That's got to be the best driving Dan Mathews has ever done after going after his crooks!
Ever wonder why the HP bigshot does all the driving while patrolmen go along for the ride? And while at the crime scene Dan called into HQS and there was no "HQS bye." And worse, there was no "10-4" at the end of the conversation.
Broderick Crawford was usually loaded to the gills.
BC used to pay crew members to smuggle booze on set. Unless they kept an eye on him he would be boiled by noon
Sad. He was a fine actor .
Those two young guys really worked their nuts off to get those cars ready, and they didn’t mean for the driver to actually die. I do hope the Court shows some compassion, maybe put them on probation or something. It’s their first offence, after all.
What was the car hauler doing on a country dirt road?
I thought the something, a hell of a shortcut perhaps or maybe the driver had a lady friend way out in the country.
Because that is where the writer put it.
There were alot of unpaved highways back then.
Back then, that could have been the best route to some small town Chrysler dealership.
7:11
They have no idea whatsoever what they got into, do they? Zero. Should've paid attention in Sunday School, if they ever went.
Amen to that one. That's how I went straight.
Your a what we call
A DIP SHIT
I quit Sunday School.They lied about Noah's Ark and his animals 2 X 2.....Genesis 7:2&3 says 7 of each animal.Good lord if they lied about the Bible why trust anything they said????
Sensible people grow out schooling when they turn adults; only those stuck in teenage would ever refer back to school teachings, for their dealings in adult life.
Once out of school and parents' home, you are on your own and should think for yourself. Schools are not meant to teach you how to behave, but only basic things, mostly forgotten.
Noah took 7 "Clean" animals i.e. domesticated animals and then TWO of every "Unclean" animals, i.e. non domesticated animals.
It is viewed the difference was to make It clear that our duties to fellow creatures on earth includes all animals, not just animals we can make money on.
Why use the interstate or state highway system to transport new vehicles by car carrier to their destination when you can use a one lane dirt road in the middle of nowhere to do it instead?
Guy takes a heavy object and beats on the rear fender of the Imperial. Later when they dump the car there is no sign of body damage on that side of the car.
Resilient metal
"Murder, hijacking and grand theft -- that takes talent."
"What'll do we do?"
"Go looking for talent."
These writers are straight from the Raymond Chandler school of hard-boiled dialog.
pour some oil on the engine LOL
Mrolds made reo but gmc blocked him from using the name olda for his trucks so he used the firstletters of hi name REO.
The leaded gas fumes, guess I'm not used to em anymore. Light-headed.
Good luck lifting a car from under the bumper with a bottle jack that's already fully extended!
Right. Where's the bumper jack which came as standard equipment with new cars? One use and you scratch the chrome and maybe twist the bumper.
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They must've had to change that wall map in the office daily, lol
I'm only half way through this but already feel they may not get away with it.
How about that wireless, keyless mic at 17:00?
Okay, so one of the crew members really need a mic cable, so what?
Good catch. I totally missed it.
He never hit the "push to Talk" button either.But he id say 'over" !
@ 19:54 you can count 13 tires in the farm. From 23:50 to 26:07 there are 13 tires that were thrown from the truck. We have 3 cars times 4 equal 12 tires. Were there 13 or 12 used tires in the barn before the theft ? Or tire number 13 was taken from one of the spares, and which car is missing a spare, and where is the spare rim? Please help me to understand what is going on!
just a show lol
There's special dirt in CA that makes tires squeal on it.
Well dang, that tire disappeared when it hit the car.
The 1950s cars were the most beautiful, and yes I come in too because the ww2 jacket
The officer said there were skid marks on the road, "probably made by a transporter." How did he know that. Do transporters make special skid marks?
By the duel wheel skid marks .
Looks like there's a couple of '58/'59 Mopars on that carrier...
The old hit to the head, guaranteed to knock anyone out... Lol. Next week's show is always an unusual one.
How did some of those tires went under the police car and they never came out just went up in dust?
... they were too tired.
The Buick was hungry. It ate them.
I’d love to work with the police chief
He’s direct and no bullshit
Maybe if police were left to actually do there job without doing backflips to please the tree huggers and dooooooogooders we’d see more police work like this
That's right. Pursuing a car and shooting a suspect without even attempting to take them into custody.
Teach yourself homonyms and homophones, starting with "their", they're" and "there". "Maybe if police were left to actually do _their_ job", not _there_ job.
@@coloradostrong always a schoolmarm in the crowd.
@@markmccarty1275 He's pointing out that apple muffin is illiterate, thus explaining the idiotic nature of the comment.
@@skydiverclassc2031 cheaper to bury them than feed them
No one would be that stupid to steal a carrier with new cars and commit murder for them, the premise is ridiculous but hey its the fifties and anything worked.
I quite enjoy the premise.. the absurdity is part of its charm.
The joke is there are no stripped cars in this episode, perhaps they couldn't get Chrysler to let them disassemble the all-new cars.
Funny thing is...those 1957 Chrysler models had such quality issues, they could have disassembled themselves.
@@tomservo56954 that's a fact.i was born in 1956 and when I was 16 these were the only cars I could afford and by that time they were mostly junkyard rejects but I could get to work and back but I wouldn't take any of them on a long trip
How could they turn on the car's radio without turning on the ignition for power?
Cars back then were built like that, radios were basically straight wired in at the fuse box. Same way dome lights operate without ignition turned on.
The Chryslers I drove in the 70's all had a weird quirk in the electrical system. If you sat in the car without the keys, turned on the emergency flasher, turn signal, and stepped on the brake, you could play the radio.
But those cars probably had vacuum tube radios. If you left one of those running on the battery, you'd run it down.
Looked like an I’ll thought out plan to dispose of those cars
Why would new cars fresh from the factory have license plates?
“Let’s see your gun Pete.”
Those brothers should have sold the farm and went into the shoe business.
At 19:34 they both leave to ditch the cars and walk home....at 22:24 they both get out of the truck after being up all night.Why were they in the truck if they walked home????
TIME TO RE-TIRE TO THE PEN BOYS LOL
Those were the days , just before Greed and Large Corporations started taking over ! Dan must have drove the bad guys crazy with his "One Liners " at the end when they got caught . Today we call that "Rubbing salt in the wound ".
11:43 Cue the news.
Ooh, brand new 1957 cars. The story is fairly cheesy but I would take any of those cars when they were brand new.
When they were new I was an itty bitty baby
@@michaelmerck7576
Same here, I was born in October, 1956.
Dan: It not the car that kills, but me the drunk BEHIND the wheel.
The car carrier sure looks flimsy compared to today's models. I hate driving near them and log trucks. The log trucks are the worst. They don't tie the logs down. They are loose on the back of the trucks being taken to the lumber mills. I have seen logs roll off onto cars. I try to steer clear when possible.
Helen Kruse Of
B654321 What?
That's how they were back then, gasoline powered, low geared, maybe do 50 at the most. Sure wouldn't want to be down a 7 % grade with a full load on board. Plus most would only haul maybe 4 cars. They needed a lot of drivers I'm sure.
You're right. True story - Two state troopers in NH were killed a few years ago when a logging truck turned over on their cruiser.
Helen Kruse me too I’m on motorcycles. Still alive at 67. Be safe.
What is a REO Speedwagon?
very typical 50,s....cars ,,cars ,,,cars,, most episodes had something to do with them,,don,t mind a bit,,love em all
Farmers vs. the 'lab boys'... with Dan in the middle.
Notice that the DeSoto has single headlights, this was early 57' before detroit got four headlights legalized. Why does the DeSoto have a license plate on?
Why does these cars still look so great 50 years later?
Those Virgil Exner cars are always sooooo Koool!!!
They hadn't been legalized in all states by the fall of 1956...you could order them in states that did.
Same with the Imperial. Yes, these were probably early '57 models. Dodges, however, never got quads until '58.
The so called highways in this show remind me of the back roads through the desert in Nevada. Not like highways of today.
Many unimproved roads were highways in those days.
@@booklover6753 I remember growing up seeing most of the Georgia highways were two lane dirt roads until you got near Atlanta where they were putting all the road money
What about the VINs?