Classic Cars of Leave It To Beaver 

Artificial Intelligence reproduction. Still, though, RIP Tony Dow.

Really? I'm sorry 😢 to hear this. I thought he was still with us.

He was on Adam 12 for an episode, his car was stolen. G.T.O. I believe ⁉

No

Very cool

I toured it in the 80s during the writers strike. They were in the process of moving 1313 Mockingbird Lane and repainting it. They were using it for the murderers house in the movie "The Burbs". The white house next to Tom Hanks house in The Burbs is it. I met part of the cast including Tom Hanks that day. They were there to check out the set. Only thing filming that week were Game Shows.

@@snugj5957 Cool! Thanks. MR

I lived in Los Angeles during the 1970s. A friend took me out to see two houses in Highland Park: one looked like the house in _The Addams Family_ and the other like Tara in _Gone With The Wind_ . I took her into Troutdale Estates (Beverly Hills) and showed her a house whose gate, driveway and facade looked like the house used in the movie _Cinderfella_ and the series _The Beverly Hillbillies_ .

My wife has always been a homemaker our whole married life. I don't believe she has any pearls, but she wears a dress or skirt every day, and a necklace and earrings no matter what she does around the house. So, I don't get this excessive scrutiny or complaints of Beavers mothers' clothes. Always been that way with us.

Barbara Billingsley always wore a necklace to conceal a small scar on her throat.

Agreed. I'm 76 and never saw my mother in a dress unless we were going to church! Surely not while cooking or cleaning. My father was a blue collar worker so obviously, didn't wear a suit or jacket every day but,, this is what made these types of shows so special in a simpler time of life. I learned to drive on a '57 Chevy with a stick shift on the column. Not sure anyone of my kids or grandkids has even seen a stick shift on the column! Thanks goodness we can find these shows on METV or streaming service. Great memories. Also...how beautiful were those cars? No SUV's that all look the same now.

@@MagSeven7 My three on the tree made a good armrest at times.

I wanted to help her take them off . . .

I was going to mention that too. I remember it well. Lumpy's reaction was priceless😂😂😂😂😂

I heard this episode was the inspiration for George Lucas in the similar cop car scene in the movie American Graffiti.

The chain they used belong to Ward.

@@AyeCarumba221 Great scene, but the host describes Lumpys 1940 Ford with another scene. Great episode but we get the idea right!?

So true

As a "B-52" (born 1952) here I have similar memories. OMG!!! just yesterday I was commenting to a younger neighbor how "back in the day" one could identify a cars make/model/year just by looking at it. Today its much more difficult as they all look the same!!!

This was the time when the Chrysler Corp. made Dorkmobiles. Except Imperial, of course.

@@edwardbazylewicz960 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the early 60’s Chrysler-Plymouths were beautiful cars. Of course, all manufactures built beauties in the late 50’s. The 55,56,57 Chevys and Fords were iconic, but the Dodge, Plymouth, Desotos had a sleek look that others went to in the early 60s. My brother in law had a 57 Dodge Coronet that he drove until the 1980s. When I was 10-11 years old (1970-71) my folks had a 1956 Buick Special it was basically a 56 Chevy tagged as a Buick. It had a V8 and a two speed Power Glide automatic Transmission. I loved that car.

@@larrybruce4856 I was too young to remember the cars. But, in reruns they’re really cool.

...my boss at my first job in 1969 drove a 62 Dart - by that time it looked like shit...

our dads brought us up proper...

I wonder why there was no Studabakers on the show . Not even just in passing traffic

most of them weren't classics, but many were buy-backs and even purchased from other production companies.

Especially in the movie ¨Christine¨

Plymouth made some awful cars. My dad made a big mistake buying one in 1957. He went back to Fords.

@@yvonneplant9434 Interesting. My dad was a GM guy. As far as looks goes, I love the Fury.

Couldn't beat the styling

Know what we used to say in my old college fraternity way back in the day? 'What's the dirtiest thing ever said on television?' 'Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.' 😂

I agree with Ward and his harsh approach.

Ward was hard on the Beaver, its true. But in the end, it was because he loved the Beaver so much.

@@bellemorelock4924 Passionately

@@retroguy9494 My memory from university was the question: "Do you remember when Beaver Cleaver was a name and not a reputation?" 🤣🤣

Love that translucent steering wheel on the '61 Plymouth Fury!

Yes, love the Plymouths!

I feel you, I too miss Beaver.

@@spankynater4242 you've got to get hold of yourself!

Weird they left the front Fairlane badge uncovered though.

2:29 2:30 2:33

I’m curious why the masking tape ? Because the Ford are still on the hood and the trunk.

@@YS-fr6numaybe they didn’t want it scuffed or damaged ?

“Ward, you were a bit hard on the Beaver last night” that old gag.

If this was real life Ward, almost certainly, had a company car. From 1965 to 1983 my Dad was a salesman for a company selling coal mining machinery. He had a company car that was on a 12 month lease so every year he got a new car. At the time tax laws were generous so he was able to use the company car as our family car with the extra mileage and gas counted as income. The more he sold the nicer car he could pick out. Cars ranged from Chevy Impalas and Ford LTDs then up to Oldsmobile Delta 88s or Cutlass Supreme, Chrysler Newports and even a Buick Riviera.

And a massive house.

@@aarons3695 I doubt Ward would have had a company car. We're never told what it actually was that he did for a living, but it's been kind of an opined consensus that he was some kind of accountant. When I was little back in the '70's, our neighbor up the street was a district manager for a supermarket chain. He had a company car and was allowed, like your father, to use it for personal use as well.

You guys have to bear in mind several important factors here. First off, Ward made good money as a professional. Although we were never told exactly what his job was, it's assumed he was an accountant. Second, houses in the 50's and 60's were much more affordable than they are today. Part of the whole post World War II American dream was a house in the suburbs. My own parents had a house built in the 50's in a brand new development when they first got married. It only cost them $17,000 and the payments were only like $78 a month on a 20 year mortgage. I inherited it and today I can sell the house for close to half a million! The rule of thumb was that you spent no more than 25% of your income on housing. That was mortgage, property taxes and insurance. As for the cars, they were much more affordable back then. Unless you bought a luxury car like a Cadillac or Lincoln. In addition, the trade in versus resale value was much higher then. If you traded in a car after a year, you got close to what you paid for it and the profit on resale was very little for dealers. Also, until the Reagan tax reforms of 1986, interest on new car loans was tax deductible. So it made sense for a middle class family to always have a newer car. Helping that was that a family only had ONE car. It wasn't until the 60's that it started to become common for a family to have two cars. Today, if you trade in a new car after a year, you're lucky to get half of what you paid for it. Used car values are the highest they've ever been and dealers now make more money on used cars than they do new ones. Finally, cars back then weren't designed to last for the high mileage they are today. Almost no one reached 100K on a car back then. There would be all sorts of problems mechanically. Todays cars can go 200K or more with almost no engine trouble. Although you'll pay thousands in repairs for computer repair, sensors and the like.

@@retroguy9494Ward was an accountant. It was easier to afford new cars back then, but they weren’t well equipped or as long lasting as what we have today.

Least expensive @ the time Chevrolet & Ford was TOP DOLLAR

Ward be easy on the Beaver

if he asked her to see a doctor..

I hear ya Thomas.

My dad had a 59 Pontiac Bonneville mint green with a chrome dash. What a car

Amen I miss my parents

Back in the days when dads had union jobs that supported their entire families.

I know Thomas, I know. I'm a bachelor who never married or had kids. My family was everything back in the day. They're all gone now. My father was one of the last and I lost him last year at almost 94. We used to know all the neighbors and were all friends. Today, I'm still in the same town and none of these new young people want to know me or even say hello. The only people I know are the last 4 of the original people in the neighborhood and they're very old. The world, for me, IS ten times colder and lonelier compared to back in the day. Especially when it's automatically assumed by society that you have some kind of support system.

The narrator was Wally Cleaver

I know…in the opening credits for one of the later seasons the car backs out of the driveway, and it’s obvious that there is no rear window in the car.

Yea that was common back then. Just like the Pontiac used in I Love Lucy when they drove to Hollywood had no front windshield either. It's pretty obvious too! LOL

@@retroguy9494 Yeah, I don’t think it had wipers, either!

@@DavidBugea It didn't! 👍

sometimes, i roll up a fatty and watch 'svengoolie' on saturday nights.

"PS - thanks for the pearl necklace!"

i miss the old pontiacs and oldsmobiles- you can have those ugly new buicks.

I remember thinking about the cars during the episode, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" with Claude Akins.

Any of the old shows set in a city were gold mines. Dragnet was a great one for car spotting, and I've thought a million times that if I somehow traveled back in time people wouldn't be amazed at my clothes or mannerisms, they'd be wondering why I was caressing the car and draping myself across every old car I walked up on. I'd be hoping that at that moment I'd be whipped back to the present, my contact with the car dragging it back through the vortex with me! 🤣

@@k.b.tidwell caressing yourself? don't try that now.....

@@tommurphy4307 fixed it!

Well they're LONG GONE..... (Let Pat Boone know too)

they got smaller and then faded away into history.

fins were all the rage back then. what a great time to be a kid!

I thought the same thing.

You are correct 👌

It is.

@@nealshirley6479 That would be amazing since the video is 18 hours old and Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver, died two years ago.

@@joshuam4614 I should know better than to assume. Thanks.😏

Then she'd just love my 1965 Riviera. It looks like a shark.

Wasn't that the "Christine" car

@@jaybennett236Christine was a 58

Is that the car where Beav says it was burning rubber? LOL.

@@curtchase3730 I don't know! "Burning rubber"? The Beav? Whoa. Serious respect for the Beav.

you should see the mess it made on the showroom floor!

Slap some old Cadillac fins on your new SUV! Wouldn’t that look great?!

a prius would look better with a pair of big fins on it...

I bet she loves it! 😂

Dragnet is pretty good for that too!

you must be a real hoot in front of the tube.

Same creative/production team behind both classic shows!

Yes it is! That's because both the Cleaver house (technically called the 'Paramount House') and the Munster house (technically called the 'Maxim House) were both located on 'Colonial Street' which was on the backlot of Universal Studios in Hollywood.

@@retroguy9494 it was really in universal city?

@@tommurphy4307 Well, that's what I've read and saw in documentaries. I never visited it myself as I'm all the way on the other side of the country just outside New York City. According to one documentary I saw, when the Universal City tour jitneys used to roll by, they would have to stop filming on The Munsters and people would want autographs. It drove the crew crazy. But I read that Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne were very happy to oblige the fans.

Like a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu convertible in blue I believe.

I wish they would have had some Cadillacs once in a while.

Chevy was a major sponsor for them. Darrin drove a Corvette.

we should roundup short list of which shows were Mopar, GM, and Ford. were any AMC?

Show was sponsored by Chevrolet.

was it a triple-carb setup? we had a plastic tonneau for our '64 t-bird and it was a pain-in-the-butt to put on/off

If you look closely, you'll see there's no glass in that rear window. It was removed to eliminate glare in the camera shot.

@@nealshirley6479 i think a half-dozen commenters already said that....

@@tommurphy4307 Sometimes I comment without reading all the other comments. A lot of them aren't worth reading, like yours.

I just commented on that. I remember it well. Lumpy's reaction was priceless!😂😂😂😂😂

theyve all been scrapped and now theyre re-incarnated kias.

not refined- transformed into newer garish-looking cars.

we had a '64 t-bird ragtop- you had to rev the motor to put the top up/down or the right-rear window up/down. that was the last year before ford started putting alternators in them.

the one with the spring that stuck june in the ass.

Yep, you're right, mikeadcock. That was the same Ford used in Psycho. My favorite scene where Mrs. Bates says, "Norman wouldn't hurt a fly" as the Ford is being pulled out of the swamp.

@@utbob2010 yes, remember that scene at the very end of the movie. Norman might not have hurt a fly, but he sure ruined some nice cars in his darn swamp.

Yeah, don't forget that beautiful 1959 Mercury that the P.I. (Martin Balsom) drove.​@@mikeadcock1592

i think they did that on happy days, too.