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Anyone remember a show called My Mother the Car.
I think the car was a old model T.
And it stared Gig Young, I can not remember the
maids name but I think she was english.
Kurt

A one season stinker - starred Jerry Van Dyke with the voice of the car by Ann Southern. Don't recall the maid....

the car was a 1928 porter.

Well I learned more then I knew before.
I am guessing it was Jerry Dyke instead of Gig Young!!!
I only ever saw the car while it was in the garage on the
show so thats why I thought it was a model T but I'll take your word that it was a
1928 Porter, what ever that is. I am not familiar with it anyway.
Kurt

Did you know 'Mother' was a street rod, here is a description of the car from Wikipedia,

The car used in the show was an amalgam of different cars. "Mother" was built by Barris Kustom Industries and was powered by a 283 cubic inch (4.6 L) Chevrolet V8 and Powerglide automatic transmission. The carnation red body with white top was created from parts of a Model T, a Maxwell, a Hudson and a Chevrolet. Mother's hood, radiator shell and "Porter" radiator script were custom made. The design was anachronistic in many ways, with features from vehicles of the early 1920s and even the 1910s.

In order to create the illusion that the car was driverless whenever "Mother" drove it, a second car with its floorboards removed was used. The driver could then be placed out of sight and could drive the stunt car with the aid of mirrors. "Mother" number one, the stunt car, is currently on display at Tennessee's Star Cars Museum. Number two is in the hands of private collector David Bodnar of Edmonton, Alberta. The Porter wore a genuine yellow-on-black California license plate with the number PZR 317 throughout the show's run, a sequence that would have been current in 1965.

It's amazing what you can find on Google


Mike

Vara4, I remember the show, but did not watch it more than once - it is said to be on the short list of worst shows ever made Here's a link that tells lots of the history, including the background on the "Porter" that was a Barris custom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mother_the_Car If you Google the title there is even a site where you can watch an old episode!

A while back the guys were naming old movies with cars in them.
And I didn't remember anyone saying this one.
Funny that I even remember it since I was only about 3 when it came out.
But I always thought that Gig Young was the lead actor in it.
But the memorie ain't what it used to be.HE! HE!
Well thanks Guys for the info, Back then as a kid anything with a car in it was a good movie. Kurt

The credit to Barris is a bit off base. The car was actually built by Norm Grabowski, it's a T phaeton: http://www.reesman.com/rumpsville/norm_vehicle3.asp

It's likely that Barris did the modifications to make it a "Porter".

For those not familiar with "Normie-poo" here's a Street Rodder write up, about 3/4 of the way down is another reference to My Mother the Car;
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/miles...kar/index.html

Originally Posted by vara4

A while back the guys were naming old movies with cars in them.
And I didn't remember anyone saying this one.
Funny that I even remember it since I was only about 3 when it came out.
But I always thought that Gig Young was the lead actor in it.
But the memorie ain't what it used to be.HE! HE!
Well thanks Guys for the info, Back then as a kid anything with a car in it was a good movie. Kurt

I agree Kurt. I think Heroes was an all time favorite as a kid, watching that orange z28 or was it a trans am? running around with Henry Winkler and Sally Fields. Funny as an adult I ended up living two blocks from where one of the scenes was filmed in the movie!

Hello,

I found this thread while doing a search for "My Mother the car". I know the owner of the original, or " hero" car. That car was the one used most of scenes in the show. The Barris car was the stunt car that would appear to drive itself, and also had movable headlights. The #1 car is still up in Edmonton, Alberta. I've visited the owner a few years ago and drove around Edmonton in the car.

Now there's one from the archives! I hadn't thought of that, probably since it was on tv in the sixties(?). About the only thing I could recall was the title and a vague memory of the car itself.