Immortal! The Andy Griffith show is destined to live on as long as television sets exist. Simply because Barney Fife is the greatest character in television history. Don Knotts set a bar for future comedic actors American Airlines couldn't pass over. He proves once and for all the greatest gift a performer can have is the ability to poke fun at yourself. Knotts acted through a nonexistent ego. Full of false bravado one moment, abject humiliation the next. Through every pratfall the most loveable everyman that ever existed. Only after he left did the Andy Griffith show descend from its mountaintop. Best show of all time while he graced the screen. Period and exclamation point.
"No more care-free hours. No more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. No more doing whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it." Barney's lecture to Opie and his buddies on the inconveniences of "Incarceration."
@@ak8990 If an episode is in black & white, it includes Barney, and is a gem. If it's a color episode, that coincides with when Don Knotts left to make movies. Those episodes are virtually NEVER seen on TV reruns. Why? BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THEM! Boring schmaltz.
The funniest scene was excluded from this video. After the car breaks down, everyone except Thelma and Barney push the car up the hill. Watching Aunt Bee and Opie pushing it is hilarious.
@@tims2501 Yeah, just as funny as in another episode when Andy asked Barney why he didn't administer a sobriety test to Otis the night before after he jailed him. Barney's reply: "He was too drunk for me to do that Andy." LOL
This my favorite episode. I love it when Barney sees the steering column growing out. But what caps it all is hearing Andy say , " I dont believe Ive ever seen anything like that before." Lol😊
Ellen Corby was a good actress. IRL she was foul mouthed, a bohemian lefty from the 20s with communist associations and some questionable but kept private romantic situations. Will Geer had a similar past. Yet she typically played the ultra conservative, traditional church lady. Good actress.
@@brianarbenz7206 Really? When the leftists that she associated with were the likes of communists like Will Geer (who played Grandpa Walton along with Ellen), who was not only an open homosexual & card-carrying member of the US communist party, but he was also the lover of Harry Hay, a communist gay rights advocate who was also a card-carrying member and a very vocal supporter of NAMBLA, an organization that advocates for the rights of adult men that s* xually enjoy young boys. So, let that be a taste of the type of people in 'The People's Party'. A bunch of rich degenerates that fight for their right to enjoy underage boys. Also, I enjoy how in Geer's wiki page, it goes on about how he's such a staunch, good little communist, but right under it, the article goes on about how he 'maintained a garden at his vacation house, called Geer-Gore Gardens, in Nichols, Connecticut', and how 'He also had a small vacation house in Solana Beach, California', no different from all the other champagne socialists who preach absolute mandatory financial and social equality from the balcony of one of their many vacation homes.
@@STho205 Refer to my other post about Will Geer's 'similar past'. It's a lot more disgusting than just 'some questionable but kept private romantic situations'.
I love this episode! It's so funny. After all Barney had been through, he was so gullible, he was about to let Mrs. Lesch get him again, but Andy saw to it that he didn't make the same mistake all over again.
My favorite scene in this episode is when Andy and Barney are sitting on the front porch after Sunday dinner waiting for Mrs. Lesch with the car. Barney says other than his mom and dad's anniversary present this is the biggest purchase he's ever made. Andy asks what he got them and Barney says, "A septic tank, two tons of steel and concrete." Andy says, "For their anniversary?" Barney says, "Yeah, they loved it and it was something they could really use."
If you notice, Andy and Barney never tell the old lady he was the sheriff and deputy of the town. No reason to ever leave it out, unless it made sense NOT to divulge it to the old lady so she wouldnt get spooked and NOT sell them the car, otherwise great scene. Especially at the end when they catch the thieves and Barney was going to trade her freedom for a different car they wanted to sell him. Funny
What a hilarious episode!!! U SMELL GAS!!! AND THE CAR RUN ON COAL CONVERSATION HAD ME SORE BUT THE EPISODE WITH BARNEY and the portable mopad episode is my top 25
@@KISSHOOTERS6969 No, it was still a big hit but wasn't number 1 in the ratings when it went off. It was only the number 1 show in the ratings in its 8th season. 1989-1990.
Another great episode. "an" was never in Andy's vocabulary: a apple , a hour , a insult. 2:49 The speedometer must have been on the floor. Everyone in suits and ties to go for a drive. LOL You left out one of the best parts when Mrs Lesch offers Barney a replacement after being caught. 2:19 The car tracked well, Barney didn't watch the road for 20 seconds.
I tie it with I love Lucy. I watched Lucy at 12 and Andy at 12:30 for years and years. Mama would let my brother and I stay out of school to watch them. Good times. Then as a teen my husband and I (my boyfriend at that time) would fall asleep on the phone watching Andy together at 10 pm every weekday night!
Joe Cunningham, Barneys first car and the loaded goat are hilarious episodes, But my all time favorite is The Clubmen with my 2nd favorite being Black day for Mayberry (Gold truck)
Them towing the car back to their lair with Andy and Barney in it would get them a kidnaping charge...wind up in the state prison for a good stretch! :D
This is my favorite one, when Gomer tell's Barney about his poor car!!!!!! Mrs. Lesh is an evil woman..... Love this show, never get's OLD!!! 🥀🥀🥀🥀.... 2022..
Yep, he bought it from that old shyster Grandma Walton. A shady character, indeed! By the way, Gomer failed to recognize her when she turned up again in Los Angeles about 2 years later.
It’s too bad we don’t have shows like this anymore. This show, the honeymooners, happy day, threes company etc. Family television, family being the operative word.
The idea of this episode was somewhat repeated in an episode of Matlock called THE LEMON. Don Knotts portrays Matlock's neighbor "Ace" who buys a Delorean that turned out to be a lemon car and Ace gets accused of murder because of the car and Matlock has to save "Ace" like he saved Barney.
My X and I had a wonderful time visiting My Airy, NC (Andy's home town NOT the pattern for Mayberry, but the town later fashioned itself after Mayberry) ,The Snappy Lunch in Mt Airy was mentioned only ONCE on the show but the scenes at the dinner was bit ir!)!
The missed the scene when Gomer, Andy, Aunt Bee and Opie are having to push the car, while Thelma Lou is steering and Barney is too dejected to help out either way and the part when Gomer says he's sick as a dog but having the time of his life.
Hmm-let’s take a look at this car. A 1958 Custom Sedan on blocks since 1959-low mileage with white wall tires. Now my guess is that it was a 1958 Ford Custom or Custom 300. A lot of car. My guess is something was majorly wrong with it and it was a lemon straight from the factory and possibly was robbed of parts to get other cars going.
Some jobs in the late 1950's paid around $75 a month, my parents said that's what they got at jobs they had back then.I don't know what minimum wage was during 1960.
Good gosh - I remember seeing this episode with the car first run on a black-n-white TV as a kid. It's almost 60 years old now? Holy crap. That was a modern car back then!
@@johntapp7232 Well, I wouldn't want it if the steering shaft was rising up from the column! But then, I've never heard of that happening in real life, either.
Years later, after Don Knotts left the show, he would come back occasionally as Barney as a guest star. Whenever Barney came back to visit Mayberry, he was always driving an Edsel. He never changed!
Observ45er The price index is the same but the dollar was worth a lot more than today. I bought a 1970 Cougar XR7 in 1970 for $3,500.00 with a monthly note around $120.00 per mth after finance charge . I was bringing home $155.00 week as a skilled tradesman and I rented a two bd. rm. apt in a nice area for $145.00 nth. wow, those were the days.
+sthpac69, Not sure what your point is. What do you mean by "The price index is the same..." It changes by the inflation. ... Also, You have it backwards. The dollar is worth LESS today. That's why it takes more to buy things and pay you... ... I did this comparison a couple of weeks ago. From mid 1963 to 2018, prices changed by a factor of over 8. ... 30.6 cpi in 1963 (mid year) 252.89 cpi in 2018 8.264 Inflation Factor $300 $ in 1963 $2,479 $ in 2018 .. So in today's dollars, Barney bought a 2009 car for $2,479. ... Kelley numbers for 2009 "Fair condition" 50 k mi cars: Taurus - $2,859-$3,758 Focus - $1,876 - $2,617 I'd say that the numbers look ok. ................... inflationdata.com/Inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/HistoricalCPI.aspx?reloaded=true
@@sthpac69 Yep $4.00-$5.00 an hour was good money.. As a house payment on a $14,000.00 home was around $150.00 a month...And $14,000.00 bought you a nice home...
My mom and dad had a Mercury and it was a solid as could be. The only reason my dad sold it was my mom was so tired of trying to steer it and park it. They bought a Rambler!
@@jamesroy4044 exactly. They were on they're way to return the car to the little old lady in Mt. Pilot but the car was delivered to Barney at Andy's house.
I wouldn’t have minded having that tow truck (wrecker). Far as I can figure, it was a 1953 GMC 3/4 or 1 ton (I’d say a 1 ton) with a heavy stovebolt six under the hood. Just love the way that engine sounded!!
I learned these things and today used tire dealers and car sales dealerships still use the old black paint and brake fluid to make old damaged tries look new. Beware
FOREVER!! This show will last that long, never gets old .they set a bar,that no one can reach.
This show is pure gold. America at its finest
As Kenny Bania told Jerry Seinfeld "Gold Jerry. Gold!"
Poor Barney, I think we all have a little Barney in us.
The first scam I fell for was paying $45 for a car auction catalog. Guaranteed results!
All the auctions listed in the Catalog needed a car to get to.
Immortal! The Andy Griffith show is destined to live on as long as television sets exist. Simply because Barney Fife is the greatest character in television history. Don Knotts set a bar for future comedic actors American Airlines couldn't pass over. He proves once and for all the greatest gift a performer can have is the ability to poke fun at yourself. Knotts acted through a nonexistent ego. Full of false bravado one moment, abject humiliation the next. Through every pratfall the most loveable everyman that ever existed. Only after he left did the Andy Griffith show descend from its mountaintop. Best show of all time while he graced the screen. Period and exclamation point.
"No more care-free hours. No more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. No more doing whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it."
Barney's lecture to Opie and his buddies on the inconveniences of "Incarceration."
Agree💙💙💙
Yeah
I never knew he quit the Andy Griffith Show before the series ended. Couldn’t imagine the series without him.
@@ak8990 If an episode is in black & white, it includes Barney, and is a gem. If it's a color episode, that coincides with when Don Knotts left to make movies. Those episodes are virtually NEVER seen on TV reruns. Why? BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THEM! Boring schmaltz.
The funniest scene was excluded from this video. After the car breaks down, everyone except Thelma and Barney push the car up the hill. Watching Aunt Bee and Opie pushing it is hilarious.
They also forgot the scene at the beginning was when Barney was telling them where to sit in the car so it was proportion correctly
@@charlesswanson2207 Yeah, gomer says he smells gas and Barney says of course you smell gas. What do you think this car runs on coal?
@@tims2501 lol
Exactly 😂
@@tims2501 Yeah, just as funny as in another episode when Andy asked Barney why he didn't administer a sobriety test to Otis the night before after he jailed him. Barney's reply: "He was too drunk for me to do that Andy." LOL
This might have been the best of all the Mayberry episodes...it surely is one of the most remembered by all fans...
This my favorite episode. I love it
when Barney sees the steering column
growing out.
But what caps it all is hearing Andy say , " I dont believe Ive ever seen anything like that before." Lol😊
It’s funny how always Barney always tells Andy to guess what he is going to do and before Andy can guess Barney already tells him.~
Always always?
Always loved this program!
Poor Barney, he didn't deserve that. One of the greatest characters of all time.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that before.”
When $300 was a lot of money. Good old days.
Still is to alot of people
About 3 grand in today's money.
$2834.00 today. June 8 2022
That's still pretty bad for back then
New Fords in the 40s went for $800
I love the music 🎶 that plays when we see Mrs. Lesh. I have this episode on dvd. I admit watching it over & over! 😂
Shame on Grandma Walton for ripping off car buyers! Since leaving Walton's Mountain her morals really declined!
This was before Zeb found her and straightened her out
Ellen Corby was a good actress. IRL she was foul mouthed, a bohemian lefty from the 20s with communist associations and some questionable but kept private romantic situations. Will Geer had a similar past.
Yet she typically played the ultra conservative, traditional church lady. Good actress.
@@STho205 Her leftist activity was fine with me.
@@brianarbenz7206 Really? When the leftists that she associated with were the likes of communists like Will Geer (who played Grandpa Walton along with Ellen), who was not only an open homosexual & card-carrying member of the US communist party, but he was also the lover of Harry Hay, a communist gay rights advocate who was also a card-carrying member and a very vocal supporter of NAMBLA, an organization that advocates for the rights of adult men that s* xually enjoy young boys. So, let that be a taste of the type of people in 'The People's Party'. A bunch of rich degenerates that fight for their right to enjoy underage boys.
Also, I enjoy how in Geer's wiki page, it goes on about how he's such a staunch, good little communist, but right under it, the article goes on about how he 'maintained a garden at his vacation house, called Geer-Gore Gardens, in Nichols, Connecticut', and how 'He also had a small vacation house in Solana Beach, California', no different from all the other champagne socialists who preach absolute mandatory financial and social equality from the balcony of one of their many vacation homes.
@@STho205 Refer to my other post about Will Geer's 'similar past'. It's a lot more disgusting than just 'some questionable but kept private romantic situations'.
❤ they work so well together Barney is so funny God bless his soul he was wonderful
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Love this show soooooo much. Don Knotts made the show...
Yes .barney really made the show, he was the only reason it was funny love Don knots
true!
I used to think "family ties" was my favorite. Not sure now
If they did make one today,, They would be cussing each other up-and-down the street,,,,,
Thelmalu's reaction to the steering wheel is priceless lol
My favorite🤗
"Oh, Barney, I never KNEW!" 😊😊☺️☺️😘😘
I bet that was her reaction when something else popped up like that.
This was one of the best shows! I about die laughing every time I see it
Love it. This show was the best show ever. They need more shows like this today.
I don't think they can ever replace this crew. Not in a million years.
@@jeffreyknight3884 lightning in a bottle
One of my favorite episodes, Mrs. Lesh !
4:13
Aka Grandma Walton.
1:10 Barney reads "1954 Ford sedan" in the ad. My parents once owned a 1954 Ford sedan, according to a legal filing I found in a family file. Hmmm.
Thanks for posting this it's one of my favorite episodes
i love that look of Barney's, when he listens to ALL the things that are wrong. At 3:40. So funny! But, he can get a good wash!
Sawdust. That's the oldest car hustlers' trick in the world.
I love this episode! It's so funny. After all Barney had been through, he was so gullible, he was about to let Mrs. Lesch get him again, but Andy saw to it that he didn't make the same mistake all over again.
ILoveStorms *didn't make
My favorite scene in this episode is when Andy and Barney are sitting on the front porch after Sunday dinner waiting for Mrs. Lesch with the car. Barney says other than his mom and dad's anniversary present this is the biggest purchase he's ever made. Andy asks what he got them and Barney says, "A septic tank, two tons of steel and concrete." Andy says, "For their anniversary?" Barney says, "Yeah, they loved it and it was something they could really use."
And Andy’s reply was: Barney your all heart!
"You're a good son, Barn"
If you notice, Andy and Barney never tell the old lady he was the sheriff and deputy of the town. No reason to ever leave it out, unless it made sense NOT to divulge it to the old lady so she wouldnt get spooked and NOT sell them the car, otherwise great scene. Especially at the end when they catch the thieves and Barney was going to trade her freedom for a different car they wanted to sell him. Funny
This is one of my favorite episodes. Great show.
What a hilarious episode!!! U SMELL GAS!!! AND THE CAR RUN ON COAL CONVERSATION HAD ME SORE BUT THE EPISODE WITH BARNEY and the portable mopad episode is my top 25
This episode was Andy Griffith’s favorite
I love Lucy, Andy Griffith and Seinfeld are the only 3 shows to call it quits while in the #1 ranking slot.
@@KISSHOOTERS6969 No, it was still a big hit but wasn't number 1 in the ratings when it went off. It was only the number 1 show in the ratings in its 8th season. 1989-1990.
Bob Fields cheers was 8th it’s last season
She's gonna need...plus, points, bearings, valves, rings, starter switch, ignition wires, water pump, fuel pump, oil pump, clutch, clutch bearings, clutch plates, radiator hose, radiator hose coupling. And a good wash too.
The last thing was radiator hose couplings, or what we better know as hose clamps.
3:25
With everything that Gomer told Barney the car was going to need, that would have probably cost enough to buy a brand new car in those days.
Another great episode.
"an" was never in Andy's vocabulary: a apple , a hour , a insult.
2:49 The speedometer must have been on the floor.
Everyone in suits and ties to go for a drive. LOL
You left out one of the best parts when Mrs Lesch offers Barney a replacement after being caught.
2:19 The car tracked well, Barney didn't watch the road for 20 seconds.
“And I’d give her a good wash”. lol
Best show ever made.
And my favorite episode of all time!!
Hubcaps Lesh.
wings cheers all in the family frasier dick van dyke mary tyler moore bob newhart I love Lucy Seinfeld
Sounds like you’ve got all the bases covered.
I tie it with I love Lucy. I watched Lucy at 12 and Andy at 12:30 for years and years. Mama would let my brother and I stay out of school to watch them. Good times. Then as a teen my husband and I (my boyfriend at that time) would fall asleep on the phone watching Andy together at 10 pm every weekday night!
2:33 “BAAAAAARNEY” 😂
😂😂😂😂
I've seen this a million times and that part still cracks me up
My favorite episode ever...... Followed closely by the loaded goat
Joe Cunningham, Barneys first car and the loaded goat are hilarious episodes, But my all time favorite is The Clubmen with my 2nd favorite being Black day for Mayberry (Gold truck)
Joe Cunningham this is my favorite along with Gomer performing a citizens arrest on Barney for the illegal turn 😂
another really funny episode when Aunt Bee and her friends by that elixir and they all get drunk.
@@danielthoman7324 I love that episode
Don't they get arrested at the end of it?
"there he goes!!!"
300 HUNDRED TODAY MIGHT GET U A CARTON OF CIGGS LMAO SHE PLAYED BARNEY LIKE FIDDLE LMAO LOVE THIS SHOW
Them towing the car back to their lair with Andy and Barney in it would get them a kidnaping charge...wind up in the state prison for a good stretch! :D
Barney got trapped in his own steel trap.
This is my favorite one, when Gomer tell's Barney about his poor car!!!!!! Mrs. Lesh is an evil woman..... Love this show, never get's OLD!!! 🥀🥀🥀🥀.... 2022..
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I remember that episode as Barney really got suckered when he thought he had a good car. It turned out to be a lemon! Lol😂
“Are you with Hubcaps Lesh or do you have your own racket?!”
He bought it from Grandma Walton!
Yep, he bought it from that old shyster Grandma Walton. A shady character, indeed! By the way, Gomer failed to recognize her when she turned up again in Los Angeles about 2 years later.
@@docadams7099 Damned old bitch...
Hubcaps Lesch
Grandma Walton had some criminal tendencies.
2:34 -- Thelma Lou just killed the mood...hee hee... :D
This is one of my favorite episodes of this show.
It’s too bad we don’t have shows like this anymore. This show, the honeymooners, happy day, threes company etc. Family television, family being the operative word.
YOU'RE ON " POINT " 😂
The little old lady Mrs Lesh, who appeared to be a granny in her '70's, was played by 51 year old Ellen Corby. FIFTY ONE.
thema lous reaction to too much grease is priceless
There's a home video on TH-cam in color of candid shots while filming this scene, so nostalgic.
th-cam.com/video/a6cwRj3cQ8k/w-d-xo.html
I just bought a so called clunker for $250.00 bucks in January 2019
It runs as smooth as a kitten. Great show that mayberry was♡♡♡♡
Cars today will easily run 3 times the mileage before any major work is needed on them. Fuel injection over a carburetor made a huge difference.
@@rotunda57 Yeah, but, carbs are easier to fix, so are old cars, but I digress! Cheers!☺
@ Yep, and Gomer said "and I'd giver her a good wash, Barn!"
Love This Show
Driving along and the steering column begins to get closer and closer to your face 🤣
Loved this episode !! 😄😄😄
They call me Barney but that's just a nick for Bernard, Hilarious.
Dear husband Bernard, never over 25 miles an hour - now come on, really.
Seen it a hundred times and laugh every time
I like how on tv these shows are digitally remastered
Thelma Lou’s reaction to the steering wheel was priceless🤣🤣🤣🤣
This episode and the one with Aunt Bee's kerosene pickles are THE best episodes ever made.
Who knew Grandma Walton had a career as a car hustlerbefore she met and married Zeb Walton and started the whole Walton family!
I was CRYING!!!!!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Grandma Walton on the Andy Griffith show. Well how about that? I've already seen this episode by the way.
I love at the end of this episode when Barney accused the reverend of being a partner of Hubcaps Lesh.
Mrs. Leach was also on "The Rifleman". She played the mother of an escaped convict.
Lesh
andy was a very talented serious actor as well
Yes, we all remember Matlock
This was the most and popular/memory episode 😂😂
The idea of this episode was somewhat repeated in an episode of Matlock called THE LEMON. Don Knotts portrays Matlock's neighbor "Ace" who buys a Delorean that turned out to be a lemon car and Ace gets accused of murder because of the car and Matlock has to save "Ace" like he saved Barney.
“The machine “ an archaic term for car mostly forgotten so cute 😅
My single favorite episode of the entire series!
Poor barney's first car, I think some of had that happen to us in real life. This show was a classic. All the crew staff was amazing.
Enjoy watching every episode, even repeats.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Perfect example of Facebook market place.
3:37 "I've been f&%$ed!"
I watch these episodes over and over. Buying a car then was a major decision. Nowadays, you can have one delivered.
$300 in the bank. Lot of money back then !
That's Grandma Walton he bought it from.
Whoever has made the mistake in life of buying a used car will laugh uncomfortably at almost every scene.
My X and I had a wonderful time visiting My Airy, NC (Andy's home town NOT the pattern for Mayberry, but the town later fashioned itself after Mayberry)
,The Snappy Lunch in Mt Airy was mentioned only ONCE on the show but the scenes at the dinner was bit ir!)!
The missed the scene when Gomer, Andy, Aunt Bee and Opie are having to push the car, while Thelma Lou is steering and Barney is too dejected to help out either way and the part when Gomer says he's sick as a dog but having the time of his life.
I love that scene....it looks like Thelma Lou is driving then they pan out and everybody is pushing, except Barney...including Aunt Bee 😂
Lol love it
Barney should have been the one helping to push the car and NOT aunt bee😲 Shame on you Barney☝️
@@maryhall6193 He was too dejected and heartbroken.
Homer, you sit by the window
You took out the best part when she offers him a other car"
"Low mileage?"
Easily my favorite line in the episode. Simple and hilarious
Red
Hmm-let’s take a look at this car. A 1958 Custom Sedan on blocks since 1959-low mileage with white wall tires. Now my guess is that it was a 1958 Ford Custom or Custom 300. A lot of car. My guess is something was majorly wrong with it and it was a lemon straight from the factory and possibly was robbed of parts to get other cars going.
We talk about how bad the economy is now but I find it odd during the prosperous early 1960's that a man in his 30's hasn't yet bought a car.
1:05
Moral: never buy a car for $300!
I didn’t-bought my first car-a 1971 Pontiac LeMans-for $100.00. It lasted me a year. Had a lot of history with it though!!
Me neither. Bought a '65 Dodge pickup, 6 cylinder three on-the-tree for a hunnert. Two years of heavy use; resold it for $135.
Or, never buy one from grandma Walton
Back then, $300 was a LOT bigger than $300 is NOW!
Some jobs in the late 1950's paid around $75 a month, my parents said that's what they got at jobs they had back then.I don't know what minimum wage was during 1960.
JFK when made president raised minimum wage to $1 per hour.....in 1963 I think
What's considered rich or poor in the 50s and 60s?
1. 25
Good gosh - I remember seeing this episode with the car first run on a black-n-white TV as a kid. It's almost 60 years old now? Holy crap. That was a modern car back then!
Yeah!! And that car’s 68 years old now!! Think what a showpiece it would be today!! It would be a bargain at any price!!
@@johntapp7232 Well, I wouldn't want it if the steering shaft was rising up from the column! But then, I've never heard of that happening in real life, either.
It sounds like either a shade tree mechanic’s ignorance or dishonesty. Either way, something sounds like a major replacement is called for.
I would also be concerned, That the car didn't have a dashboard,,lol,
Years later, after Don Knotts left the show, he would come back occasionally as Barney as a guest star. Whenever Barney came back to visit Mayberry, he was always driving an Edsel. He never changed!
If he’d hold onto one of them, he could join an Edsel Club.
He had an Edsel when he played in The Ghost and mr. Chicken
The Edsel was only in one episode I think, and I think he says its a '61 which doesn't exist lol
A 9 year old car in 1963 can be purchased for $300.00. A 9y/o car today can cost thousands. A $300.00 car today is a junker.
Yes...And minimum wage in the 60s was around a dollar an hour. Inflation works both ways.
US consumer price Index shows: $300 (1963) --> $2,450 (2018)
Observ45er The price index is the same but the dollar was worth a lot more than today. I bought a 1970 Cougar XR7 in 1970 for $3,500.00 with a monthly note around $120.00 per mth after finance charge . I was bringing home $155.00 week as a skilled tradesman and I rented a two bd. rm. apt in a nice area for $145.00 nth. wow, those were the days.
+sthpac69,
Not sure what your point is.
What do you mean by "The price index is the same..." It changes by the inflation.
...
Also, You have it backwards. The dollar is worth LESS today. That's why it takes more to buy things and pay you...
...
I did this comparison a couple of weeks ago. From mid 1963 to 2018, prices changed by a factor of over 8.
...
30.6 cpi in 1963 (mid year)
252.89 cpi in 2018
8.264 Inflation Factor
$300 $ in 1963
$2,479 $ in 2018
..
So in today's dollars, Barney bought a 2009 car for $2,479.
...
Kelley numbers for 2009 "Fair condition" 50 k mi cars:
Taurus - $2,859-$3,758
Focus - $1,876 - $2,617
I'd say that the numbers look ok.
...................
inflationdata.com/Inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/HistoricalCPI.aspx?reloaded=true
@@sthpac69 Yep $4.00-$5.00 an hour was good money.. As a house payment on a $14,000.00 home was around $150.00 a month...And $14,000.00 bought you a nice home...
This episode made everyone in the market on buying a car to get it checked out first.lol
US consumer price Index shows: $300 (1963) --> $2,450 (2018)
more than what 80% of americans have in the bank
It's getting worse. Inflation is making people homeless.
Danggg
Oh this is so funny poor Barney lol
My mom and dad had a Mercury and it was a solid as could be. The only reason my dad sold it was my mom was so tired of trying to steer it and park it. They bought a Rambler!
They did not call him " Big Barn " for his height or weight. 😂 Thelma Lou knows.
You know what is crazy about this my dad use to tell me the same thing wait and let's not make a hasty discussion lol god bless our dads
Female escaped convicts my favorite
I never did understand how Barney and Andy knew where to to take the car back
It was towed there by the old womans crew.
@@geraldwaldrop5131 No I mean Barney and Andy were going there anyway.
@@jamesroy4044 exactly. They were on they're way to return the car to the little old lady in Mt. Pilot but the car was delivered to Barney at Andy's house.
I wouldn’t have minded having that tow truck (wrecker). Far as I can figure, it was a 1953 GMC 3/4 or 1 ton (I’d say a 1 ton) with a heavy stovebolt six under the hood. Just love the way that engine sounded!!
They fell asleep in back of car when towed to hideout
The Andy Griffith show is a great show.Andy Griffith is a awesome actor and Don Knott's.
I learned these things and today used tire dealers and car sales dealerships still use the old black paint and brake fluid to make old damaged tries look new. Beware
We also visited Pilot Mountain only a short distance from Mt Airy.
Only the name of the town was mentioned but as Mt Pilot.
oldie and goodie love em all
I smell gas, I smell gas to.... lol They left that out.
Did someone fart?
Boy I had to learn my car buying lessons the hard way. Live and learn!!!!
GREAT EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!