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Title: Aunt Bea's car
Post by uncle nat on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:12pm

Anybody remember the year and model of her ford conv.? Thanx

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Keevy Hazelton on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:15pm

uncle nat wrote on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:12pm:

Anybody remember the year and model of her ford conv.? Thanx

Aunt WHO? I'm surprised at you, Nat! :o

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by uncle nat on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:20pm

Keevy Hazelton wrote on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:15pm:

Aunt WHO? I'm surprised at you, Nat! Shocked

Them darn :D Vicadin!

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by SWFLguy on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 8:09pm

I think it was a '55 ?

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 9:28pm

uncle nat wrote on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 7:20pm:

Vicadin

;D ;D i'm chuckling over here!

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Dan Caldwell on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 7:20am

Here are some photos that you all might like to see. I hope I inserted the photos correctly if I didn't maybe somebody can let me know the correct way.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Keevy Hazelton on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 8:05am

Dan Caldwell wrote on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 7:20am:

Here are some photos that you all might like to see. I hope I inserted the photos correctly if I didn't maybe somebody can let me know the correct way.

Hey, now that's some cool stuff there, Dan. I read that she still owned that same Studebaker when she passed in 1989!

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Dan Caldwell on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 8:26am

That's true as far as I know the car is still located and on display at the Denton Farmpark in Denton NC were they hold the Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion. It is (or was) owned by Brown Loflin & Sean Bingham of Denton they paid around $20,000 for it at her estate sale in 1990. They would probably like to have all the car paper work of hers that I have. :)

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Keevy Hazelton on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 9:49am

SWFLguy wrote on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 8:09pm:

I think it was a '55 ?

That's correct, SWFguy, it was a 1955 Ford Fairlane, Sunliner model.

Floyd: "Aunt Bee, may this be the start of many hours of smooth driving. May you glide over the highways like a swan, skimming across a lake."
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Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Karl Childers on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 10:58am

Dan Caldwell wrote on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 8:26am:

Yep...it was still there last time I went a few years ago. If I remember right it was green and was getting pretty well worn.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Phil on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 12:02pm

Keevy Hazelton wrote on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 9:49am:

May you glide over the highways like a swan...

LOL. Typical Floyd. ;D

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Rafe_hollister on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 2:44pm

That was a fabulous set of wheels that Aunt Bee owned and to think she was thinking about trading it in from the episode "Goober goes to the auto show" . Rafe

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Karl Childers on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 7:06pm

Here is a pitcher of Ms. Baviers real car that Mr. Caldwell was talklin' about.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 8:59pm

Dan Caldwell wrote on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 8:26am:

Brown Loflin & Sean Bingham of Denton paid around $20,000 for it

you can tell Brown Loflin & Sean Bingham that i have acres of cars in that kind of shape behind my barn, if they have another 20K!

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Ronald Bailey on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 9:01pm

Wow, it's kind of funny and kinda hard for me to imagine Aunt Bee...or eh, Frances driving in Los Angeles traffic!!!! :o

P.S. I wonder why a big actress with that kind of money would drive that beat up old thing for nearly 20 years!! :-?

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 9:10pm

the story i heard was that it was a 'gift' in return for some personal appearances. it had not been driven in years and was a rust bucket with grass growing over it when she passed away. no matter who is telling the story, Aunt Bee's later years were not good ones.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Tom Mix on Apr 28^th, 2010 at 11:02am

Cool....I mapped Aunt Bee on google....Looks like a very nice area she lived in while in LA.....Just a few blocks from Melrose ave.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on Apr 28^th, 2010 at 4:52pm

332 1/2 ? it had to be a rented room (at worse) or a condo/apartment (at best). i'm just saying...

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Pierre on May 2^nd, 2010 at 1:57pm

Say Karl, where was that picture taken? Looks like some vehicle museum. A tractor behind it and some sort of machine next to it. :-?

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Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on May 2^nd, 2010 at 2:01pm

Pierre wrote on May 2^nd, 2010 at 1:57pm:

some sort of machine

seems to be a wheat thresher!

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by Karl Childers on May 2^nd, 2010 at 2:03pm

Southeast Old Thresher's Convention in Denton, NC. All kids of machinery there.

Title: Re: Aunt Bea's car
Post by widow bradshaw on May 2^nd, 2010 at 2:07pm

Doyle Lawson will be in Denton, N.C. next weekend.