I was there the day Mr. Henning presented the truck to the Ralph Foster Museum on the School of the Ozarks (now College of the Ozarks). It was a big occasion. We also went out and watched the Beverly Hillbillies being filmed at Silver Dollar City in 1969.
It makes sense that Barris found the original truck in California. The Dust Bowl Oakies drove many cars converted to trucks to get themselves to the land of opportunity
And especially SoCal the weather is very nice to cars so anything left there has a better chance at surviving to be found than say in a wetter northern state
My granddad, a rural mechanic had a 27 Dodge truck that had started life as a touring car. I don’t recall if he actually cut up the body himself, it it was done before he bought it. He may have had an earlier truck converted from a car. He used it to haul around his welding rig and tools for years. The welding rig consisted of a “portable” acetylene generator. He likely acquired the truck in the 30s or early 40s. By the time I came along in the early 60s, it had been parked for quite a while inside his garage. Working with what you had was what people who needed to make a living did during the Great Depression or WWII.
The "Oakies" are still coming to California. Only they aren't oil rich. They're coming from places South of the border. And they aren't from the beautiful State of Oklahoma either.
I saw the truck that Barris made when I was a kid, my father helped him build it in Southern California. Dad worked with Barris and Roth back in the 60's. I though never saw the Rod at all! Thank you for this video!
Nothing was better than granny coming out of the mansion and asking where the truck was when Jeffro had that hot rod and finding out the truck was gone. She was hopping around and calling for Jed.
I remember one episode that Jethro turned the Olds truck into a monster truck. I remember seeing it in a car museum in Sioux Falls, SD some 30 years ago.
I could actually SIT in the actual Beverly Hillbillies truck?! For me, a fan since the 60s that's like saying I could take a walk around the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space or drive the original Batmobile or even spend a night in the Shady Rest Hotel. Just for a chance to sit in the original truck...THE truck that is in the opening sequence of the show would be worth the trip to Branson in and of itself. Thank you to this gentleman for creating this video.
Hello from North Carolina. Buddy Epson was 54 years old when he got the job to be Jed Clampett. Nobody else but Buddy could have played Jed like he did! To me, that was the golden era of Hollyweird. Being from a town here in NC that was once voted by WRAL TV5 to be the REAL N.C. town the most like Mayberry, North Carolina was, we can't forget about stopping through Mayberry to get a hair cut at Floyd's Barber Shop and stop by the Dinner and get Juanita to serve us a couple of CB's-, a large FF, a large Coke, and then stop by Goober's Flling station to get a tank of Ethel and a bottle of pop for the road trip ahead of us. Maybe if we were lucky we could try a few of Aunt Bee's pickles pop too! Lol... it's ashamed that they don't make TV shows like that any more! You dang sure don't see TV shows like that coming out of Hollyweird these days!! Like a lot of other things in our country now, it's all going to hell in a hand basket. Keep chasing the classics my friend and keep making these videos too while you're at it. You did a really great job with this video! May God bless you and your loved ones and keep you all safe and sound during these crazy times we're all living in now days!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@The Beverly Hillbillies Facts and Trivia I just read your post and went and subscribed to your other channel abut about The Andy Griffith show. LOL...I guess you could tell by my comment that I am a big fan of the Andy Griffith show, which is actually what I'm watching right now. Andy used to stop by my Dad's Texaco station here in Bailey, NC back in he late 60's to fill up with gas whenever he as heading back home to Manteo. Actually I'm a big fan of a lot of the tv shows that I grew up watching in the 60's and early 70's such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Hero's, Rat Patrol, My mother the car, Gilligan's Island, The Monkees, The Beatles, Gomer Pyle USMC, and just like you I'm 90% positive that I could name MANY MORE good TV shows from that era. I was born in 1960 so I came along during a time when some of the best TV shows ever to be on television was coming on for their first times and the golden age of television was born!!
My wife and I were at the Ralph Foster museum in the 90's and were fortunate to have our picture taken in the truck. My first impression was that the steering wheel was huge and close to my chest. Now Max Baer is a pretty big guy so I'm sure driving this truck wasn't all that comfortable for him!
One of my favorite lines from the show was where I think it was Pearl, asked Jethro if he fixed the brakes on the truck. Jethro replied “Yessum’ pulled them off yesterday. The new ‘uns is coming in the mail next week!”
@@TucsonDude all of the Armenians that I have ever met were some kind of Eastern Orthodox followers of Jesus. I don't know much about religion. I am absolutely not related to Mike Conners although I do have something in common with the fictional Joe Mannix. I have 1% of his concussions.
It looks pretty ratty, but I bet the studio had mechanics make the engine and transmission perfect. My wife was a TV actress in her younger years - one thing she told me is that TV show producers work on a tight schedule, they don't muck around, they hate anything or anybody that holds shooting up. Look at it this way - if that truck didn't start on cue, it holds up the director, boom mike operator, typically at least 2 camera men, at least four actors/actresses, and various assistants. In today's dollars, about $1000 per hour MINIMUM. That's not counting the studio rent. If all that's wasted for want of a mechanic spending 5 minutes cleaning the engine points, or a $10 fuel filter, the boss is not going to be happy.
@@kelseymathias3881 : I am Australian. My wife in the 1970's had lots of minor (mostly non-speaking) roles in various Australian TV shows, and in Australian TV commercials. She died 10 years ago from cancer. I forget the names of the shows and adverts. There was one that ran every day on Australian TV for months for a restaurant chain - she played the part of a female executive having a business lunch and was required to pretend to eat. There was all this excellent food and wine set out on the table, but she was not to eat or drink any of it. Her agent got her a talking part in a movie once. She came home and said ""Never again!"" TV people know their job and get it done. Movie people muck around, do multiple takes all day for a 1 minute scene, then somebody notices the shadows are wrong, so they do it all again the next day. If a TV scene requires 2 or 3 camera angles, they shoot once with 2 or 3 cameras. If movie people want 3 camera angles, they use one camera and get the actors to do the whole thing 3 times.
I'm from Michigan. In the farm country in the thumb area, doodle bugs were common farm all purpose vehicles. Kids started driving them to help around the farm as soon as they could. All the ones I've seen were modified to suit their purpose, to include altered wheelbase.
This is true and accurate. I saw this truck at that museum in the '80s. I think it is located on or near the campus of the School of the Ozarks near Branson MO. In the late seasons Branson MO, Eureaka Springs AR, and Silver Dollar City (a Theme Park near Branson) were all mentioned in the show. Branson and Eureaka Springs are near each other.
@@robertsmith9156Not a problem, my GM career start Oldsmobile, and being from Lansing, it was all part of our history. My Great, and Greatx2 Grandfathers both worked at REO in the very early days. That is where the band got their name from.
I knew a man that turned a wrench on one of those trucks. He lived nearby my childhood home and was one of my dad's friends and mechanic. We weren't anywhere near hollywood and it puzzled me until I learned he was originally from cali. I must've been around 12 or so. Great vid, glad I came across it
I’m surprised it didn’t get reclaimed for WW2 scrap metal for the war effort. I remember my dad telling me they pulled old abandoned cars from a gulley in my hometown in NC for the metal during the war.
Mr Bob, I'm 78 and watch the first airing of the Beverly Hillbillies.. I ❤️ Blown away when you said a 1921 Oldsmobile Joppa....Never really speculate really close on the Make or Model, but you have enlightened Me and brought back so many good Memories...Wee-doggiees... Thanks for the Memories"
There was a time when I would've given my left berry for that truck. In the early 70s my step-dad used to give me car magazines like Hot Rod, and rare treats like 'Cars of the Stars' I'm really surprised that Jed & Jethro could sit next to each other... cars of that Era were Very Small inside (I own a 1926 Model T). If you look closely, you can see changes that were made so the truck would function. Behind the steering wheel, where the turn signals would be now, should have one lever that's the accelorator (no gas pedal), and the other side would have a lever for advancing/retarding the spark plug timing if you look at the engine in the truck that's pictured while talking about the 2014 USA Today article, you'll see a small block Chevy [General Motors] engine. GREAT VIDEO ! ! !
Ya know, I thought that looked like a small V-8 in there. And to leave it Chevy orange was terrible. But if the show was black n white I suppose it wouldn't matter.
FWIW, the origimal was quite obviously a cut-up Pheaton, not a roadster, as was the Barris street-rod version; frame-length alone shoulda been the tell. And there were, IIRC, 2 additional copies made for stunts and 2md unit footage, accounting for the competing "original" vehicles on the Carny/Casino circuit. Still, an iconic character/car; a "Grapes of Wrath" archetype in metal, probably one of Barris's most successful happy accidents.
@@thekingsilverado3266 I was born in New Zealand and we watched the Beverly hill billies all the time in the 60's. US and UK TV shows were the main programs broadcast,followed by Australian ones. I picked up the Expression "wheels" to describe a car from eipsode when a hippie turned up at the clampet mansion driving a similar truck which he named Wheels.
@@Mercmad I really do love my Brit and Aussie friends I made while at sea on the Carrier. Trust me the Military vs the retreaded UK variety they even clash. I do know some Aussies had some knowledge of our shows but how much I never really asked. Don't care where ya come from a classic is a classic is a classic especially the Hillbillies.. One stupid statement I will make by observation is the UK is a bunch of dopes & suckers for trash with handle bars and tires. Americans R thee same dopes when it comes to used 4x4s and used guns. Same deal. Just depends on what on continent U R standin on... PS I am a Hillbilly Pocono Mountains of pa... Smack in the middle of the hills I mean place..
Hi thank you for making this video, I had a 27 dodge cut down to truck in 1976,paid $ 500. For it nice to see there old truck is being looked after, cheers mate
The Hollywood Museum has a truck that they say is the Clampett Truck. It has been a while since I visited the place. Still, the museum is worth the trip. The design of the exterior of the building is superb.
I had my picture taken sitting in the truck with my family while in Branson visiting the museum at the college of the Ozarks. It's on display there and the museum is top notch but the absolute best museum I have EVER seen is the Top Of The Rock museum just south of Branson on highway 65.
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 That's funny..... because we did frame it.😄 We live about four hours from Branson so we go there several times each year for a quick get away. If you ever get a chance to go to Branson it's a great trip, lots to do there.
During WW2 when gas rationing was in effect, you could buy more gas if you had a truck, so many 1920's cars were converted to trucks. That's what happened to the Olds here.
There used to be what I thought was the Beverly Hillbillies truck in a museum in Gatlinburg. As I remember, the kegs on the front looked brand new. That always bothered me.
I never noticed any other versions of it in the series except the hot rod one. Always the same one.. I got to sit in the original. I was so happy to stumble on it while on vacation. That other one in that vid ain’t even close. Maybe from the movie but I don’t believe it. Great vid bro. I really enjoy your content.
I remember seeing the Clampett truck at the Peterson Auto Museum in LA years ago and even had photos of me standing next to it! 😊 Sidenote: Years ago, while working in a furniture store in San Diego, I met a woman who was the daughter-in-law of the man who let CBS film at the mansion! The last name was Kirkeby. We had a nice conversation about the interior details, and even the then "cement pond", she went swimming in! 🤗 🏊♀️ The mansion was later purchased by Billionaire Jerry Perenchio, who did extensive remodeling and added additional acreage. The original driveway and gates seen at the beginning of the TV show are long gone. 😢 After he passed, his estate sold it to Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's son, who resides there today.
The sideboards on the bed of the museum truck are different than the sideboards on the bed of the truck they're driving. Shows that there are a few different ones
just so everyone knows, all of the early GMG mid size trucks were built on a Buick Touring Car chassis so the idea of converting a car to a truck wasn't so far-fetched. I have a smaller fire truck from that era and the entire driveline is Buick.
I wonder if this is the same truck that had been displayed in The Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, CA? I saw it there in 1974 and again when I visited the museum shorly before it closed in 2005.
I used to live Hollister,Mo. about 1/4 mile from the museum.It's got some pretty interesting stuff there.I think there is a log cabin at Silver Dollar City(by Branson West)that they filmed a episode of Hillbillies back in the day.I think you have to ride the old steam train to be able the see the cabin.
THANKS! I just ran acoss your channel and Love the BHBs, I or my family never knew the make and model. We here a Olds family, I will be watching you from the Philippines! Yo'all post another viedo soon! Ya Hear!!
i went to the museum many years ago. the truck was roped off and no one was allowed to sit in it - dang! i had to settle for my picture next to it. the top floor was every gun ever made and lots of dead and stuffed animals. it is a very interesting collection and i recommend it.
I paid eight bucks to have my picture taken in the ol' Oldsmobile. Afterwards, I handed my digital camera to the Girl and the free picture on my camera was better than the one I paid for!!! It sits in the Museum at the College of the Ozarks, just outside of Branson. BTW: ..... it's not a truck. It just kind'a resembles a flatbed because of the way it was loaded up with stuff.
I must admit that I NEVER, not ONCE, not even for A MICROSECOND, wondered where the Clampet TV car was, if it still existed, how many miles were on it, or what had been done to it since.
Not to dis your Roadrunner but I bet more people know about that truck than your Mopar muscle car. (I owned a 1970 Coronet R/T bout thirty years ago,that car scared me!) Peace out. 😆
my friends father made a truck like that from when he was a kid in the 30's, built from a 1920's "Star'" touring. he still had it in the 1990's in a big barn.... wonder what ever happened to it.
Correct! For years, I remembered somebody told us it was 1921 Oldsmobile. Until 41 years later. Where did Hollywood mechanics got vintage parts to keep it running? My folks had Olds and, I missed it. Also my great grandparents’ first car as 1922 Buick sedan. Seats 6. Convertible with leather seats. Brass horn, etc. I have seen their old picture and, I’m wondering what happened to their car in west Texas.
Here’s a guess, the integral exhaust/intake manifold on the 6 cylinder engine burned out. Quite a common failure on that engine. Extremely difficult to repair so they were simply junked.
You've got to remember that cars in SoCal didn't rust into the ground like they do up north or even in the midwest where I grew up. There are and have been hundreds of salvage yards and old car guys in California where the auto is a part of your personality.
Yeah, I myself are now 67. And that was a fun sitcom TV show. To grow up with as a kid in Detroit. As even at, 8 years old. I was into cars. Dad would scarf me up, to go to the big auto shows at Detroit's, Cobo Hall. And here. I always figured that car. Made only for the TV show. Was made, only for the TV show. It never crossed my mind. It was one of many. Cloned look-alikes. Yeah, so? They had a budget. And they were paid, to have fun. With a goofy, whimsical, Southern fried, comedy show. And was a big hit, in the day. Something we will always fondly remember. Who wouldn't? The way real comedy, used to be done. For TV. Without a computer. I watched too much television as a child. And my mother use to scream at me. WHAT do you think you are going to do for a living when you grow up!?!? Watch Television?!?! I don't know why mom was screaming? But after, 20 years. I recently retired. From NBC-TV. As my father had corrupted me. He produced a local Detroit, Sunday morning church program. For the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit. With Dr. Vic, Pastor. Then he took me down to the radio and other TV stations. Where he produced commercials. For his father's advertising agency. My grandfather had founded. Then dad did the unthinkable. He took me down to the recording studio called Motown. Introduced me to a bunch of really cool black folk. Took out his violin and started playing. Along with a bunch of other guys like him from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. And I'm sitting in the control room. This sounds great! I know what I'm going to do for a career. I said to myself at age 7. And then pondered. I wonder what other 7-year-old kid. Just made their lifelong career decision? It was a very conscious thought. I remember it from 60 years ago. Virtually, like it was yesterday. But I can't remember, important shit. I need to. So aside from the network television job. I ended up being a history making 4 time Major Music Awards Nominee. I mean who wants to pay a lot of money to go to a stupid rock concert? When I could get them to pay me to come? That seems to make much more sense. I mean who actually wants to, work for a living? That would be like work. That's a 4 letter word. How dare you! I'M A LADY GOD DAMMIT!!! It sounds like PMS, doesn't it? But I'm 67 now. And you get PMS. Known as Pre-Mental Syndrome. RemyRAD
I attended the School of the Ozarks(now called College of the Ozarks) from 1985-1989 and saw it many times at the Ralph Foster Museum on campus. They always claimed it was the original truck but I never knew if it was for sure. I saw it again several years ago when we visited the museum.
I had a 1928 Dodge Brothers pickup that was converted from a car. Wish I had now. I recreated Hillbilly truck using Erector set stuff and an Empire Steam Engine. My truck was found in a dumpster 30 yrs ago and recently added engine.
We visited the Volo Auto Museum in Volo ,Illinois and they have the Clampett truck there. Apparently more than one original truck is still in existence.
There's no way the earth and everything on it as complicated as it is, was created at random. There has to be a superior being behind it. Most people call it GOD. Whatever it is, it had a vast template to create everything alive on this planet including the planet itself.
IN MY VIEW It is wonderful hearing trivia about the Beverly Hillibilies. I was surprised finding out the show used 5 trucks during the series. This was the perfect truch chosen for the Beverly Hillibilies family. Thank you for this video.
The truck still sits in the museum at the College of the Ozarks, looks just as good as it did back in the day.
I grew up in Branson area and I've seen it there a few times in the museum
I seen it their in 1984
@@yooperman1916 "I saw it there in 1984."
@@WootTootZoot I done seen it too!
Yep saw it there at the college museum five or six years ago
I was there the day Mr. Henning presented the truck to the Ralph Foster Museum on the School of the Ozarks (now College of the Ozarks). It was a big occasion. We also went out and watched the Beverly Hillbillies being filmed at Silver Dollar City in 1969.
Huuut-Dow-gie!
It makes sense that Barris found the original truck in California. The Dust Bowl Oakies drove many cars converted to trucks to get themselves to the land of opportunity
And especially SoCal the weather is very nice to cars so anything left there has a better chance at surviving to be found than say in a wetter northern state
My granddad, a rural mechanic had a 27 Dodge truck that had started life as a touring car. I don’t recall if he actually cut up the body himself, it it was done before he bought it. He may have had an earlier truck converted from a car. He used it to haul around his welding rig and tools for years. The welding rig consisted of a “portable” acetylene generator. He likely acquired the truck in the 30s or early 40s. By the time I came along in the early 60s, it had been parked for quite a while inside his garage. Working with what you had was what people who needed to make a living did during the Great Depression or WWII.
it was a big enough event in history that they made a movie about it.
The "Oakies" are still coming to California. Only they aren't oil rich. They're coming from places South of the border. And they aren't from the beautiful State of Oklahoma either.
What ever happened to the Plymouth Dusters that Al Bundy drove in
Married with Children?
My favorite iteration of the truck is when Jethro fixed it up with all of his double naught spy gadgets. Still makes laugh all these years later.😂😂😂
Lol that was comedy gold
There's also an episode where Jethro invents the catalytic converter. I've only ever seen it once, but I'm sure it's real.
I saw the truck that Barris made when I was a kid, my father helped him build it in Southern California. Dad worked with Barris and Roth back in the 60's. I though never saw the Rod at all! Thank you for this video!
WOW, ur dad worked with Barris and Big Daddy Ed Roth! Beatnic Bandet was my favorite model car i built in early 60's
That truck was just as much a character as any of the actors were on that show.
True
Nothing was better than granny coming out of the mansion and asking where the truck was when Jeffro had that hot rod and finding out the truck was gone. She was hopping around and calling for Jed.
Lol
Loved how Chrysler Motors sponsored the show. Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway always drove shiny new Chryslers and Dodges.
I loved miss Hathaways conv.
I remember one episode that Jethro turned the Olds truck into a monster truck. I remember seeing it in a car museum in Sioux Falls, SD some 30 years ago.
The monster truck was in the hillbillies movie released in the early 90s, Jethro made the truck into a hot rod during the series like Bob showed.
Anyone know where the monster truck is now? Still in Sioux Falls, SD?
Look up Beverly Hill billies monster truck lady .
I could actually SIT in the actual Beverly Hillbillies truck?! For me, a fan since the 60s that's like saying I could take a walk around the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space or drive the original Batmobile or even spend a night in the Shady Rest Hotel. Just for a chance to sit in the original truck...THE truck that is in the opening sequence of the show would be worth the trip to Branson in and of itself. Thank you to this gentleman for creating this video.
Thanks Johnnie! I hope you get to sit in
Hello from North Carolina. Buddy Epson was 54 years old when he got the job to be Jed Clampett. Nobody else but Buddy could have played Jed like he did! To me, that was the golden era of Hollyweird. Being from a town here in NC that was once voted by WRAL TV5 to be the REAL N.C. town the most like Mayberry, North Carolina was, we can't forget about stopping through Mayberry to get a hair cut at Floyd's Barber Shop and stop by the Dinner and get Juanita to serve us a couple of CB's-, a large FF, a large Coke, and then stop by Goober's Flling station to get a tank of Ethel and a bottle of pop for the road trip ahead of us. Maybe if we were lucky we could try a few of Aunt Bee's pickles pop too! Lol... it's ashamed that they don't make TV shows like that any more! You dang sure don't see TV shows like that coming out of Hollyweird these days!! Like a lot of other things in our country now, it's all going to hell in a hand basket. Keep chasing the classics my friend and keep making these videos too while you're at it. You did a really great job with this video!
May God bless you and your loved ones and keep you all safe and sound during these crazy times we're all living in now days!!!
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You should check out my other channel the andy griffith show facts and trivia youtube.com/@theandygriffithshowfactsan3585
@The Beverly Hillbillies Facts and Trivia I just read your post and went and subscribed to your other channel abut about The Andy Griffith show. LOL...I guess you could tell by my comment that I am a big fan of the Andy Griffith show, which is actually what I'm watching right now. Andy used to stop by my Dad's Texaco station here in Bailey, NC back in he late 60's to fill up with gas whenever he as heading back home to Manteo. Actually I'm a big fan of a lot of the tv shows that I grew up watching in the 60's and early 70's such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Hero's, Rat Patrol, My mother the car, Gilligan's Island, The Monkees, The Beatles, Gomer Pyle USMC, and just like you I'm 90% positive that I could name MANY MORE good TV shows from that era. I was born in 1960 so I came along during a time when some of the best TV shows ever to be on television was coming on for their first times and the golden age of television was born!!
I'm with ya. I've only been mildly curious about Branson, but this fact alone has shot it to the top of my vacation list.
I grew up watching this show and love to hear it crank up and run .
My wife and I were at the Ralph Foster museum in the 90's and were fortunate to have our picture taken in the truck. My first impression was that the steering wheel was huge and close to my chest. Now Max Baer is a pretty big guy so I'm sure driving this truck wasn't all that comfortable for him!
Got to remember there was no such thing as power steering so the steering wheel would be much bigger than the average ones today.
Today, the Beverly's Hillbillies would never be made, it would hurt feelings.
How sad is that?
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 Very.
We can be thankful we can still watch it.
Amen
One of my favorite lines from the show was where I think it was Pearl, asked Jethro if he fixed the brakes on the truck. Jethro replied “Yessum’ pulled them off yesterday. The new ‘uns is coming in the mail next week!”
Lol
I remember Pearl saying, "Jethro, I told you to get rid of those brakes!" Jethro said, " I did, Maw, that's why we ain't got any!"
All my life I was asked if I was related to Jethro.
My standard answer was how could I be related to a fictional character.
good answer😀😉
I have people ask me if I am related to a fictional private detective. He drove cars that were mildly customized by Barris.
You'd be jewish if you were related to him.
@@TucsonDude all of the Armenians that I have ever met were some kind of Eastern Orthodox followers of Jesus. I don't know much about religion. I am absolutely not related to Mike Conners although I do have something in common with the fictional Joe Mannix. I have 1% of his concussions.
I was always amazed that the truck ran at all! Looked like it was always on its last legs. But it had a lot of personality!
For sure
I got a cat just like that ole truck on his last leg but still runnin..
It looks pretty ratty, but I bet the studio had mechanics make the engine and transmission perfect. My wife was a TV actress in her younger years - one thing she told me is that TV show producers work on a tight schedule, they don't muck around, they hate anything or anybody that holds shooting up. Look at it this way - if that truck didn't start on cue, it holds up the director, boom mike operator, typically at least 2 camera men, at least four actors/actresses, and various assistants. In today's dollars, about $1000 per hour MINIMUM. That's not counting the studio rent. If all that's wasted for want of a mechanic spending 5 minutes cleaning the engine points, or a $10 fuel filter, the boss is not going to be happy.
@@keithammleter3824 yeah, I figured beneath the ratty "makeup" was a topnotch automobile. Thanks for pointing this out. What shows was your wife on?
@@kelseymathias3881 : I am Australian. My wife in the 1970's had lots of minor (mostly non-speaking) roles in various Australian TV shows, and in Australian TV commercials. She died 10 years ago from cancer. I forget the names of the shows and adverts. There was one that ran every day on Australian TV for months for a restaurant chain - she played the part of a female executive having a business lunch and was required to pretend to eat. There was all this excellent food and wine set out on the table, but she was not to eat or drink any of it. Her agent got her a talking part in a movie once. She came home and said ""Never again!"" TV people know their job and get it done. Movie people muck around, do multiple takes all day for a 1 minute scene, then somebody notices the shadows are wrong, so they do it all again the next day. If a TV scene requires 2 or 3 camera angles, they shoot once with 2 or 3 cameras. If movie people want 3 camera angles, they use one camera and get the actors to do the whole thing 3 times.
Enjoyed that, very interesting! Great to know it's still around.
Thanks for watching
The Beverly Hillbilly truck looks original / unrestored.
Do you know, I have NEVER given it a second thought!
Good old Oldsmobile. Still driving one today and everyday. Looks great, runs great. 32 mpg on the interstate.
Around here, the post-war cars were also converted to tractors. They were called "doodle bugs".
I'm from Michigan. In the farm country in the thumb area, doodle bugs were common farm all purpose vehicles. Kids started driving them to help around the farm as soon as they could. All the ones I've seen were modified to suit their purpose, to include altered wheelbase.
@@vicswincki1124 at our cabin on Sunrise lake our doodlebugs duty was giving everyone rides thru the woods
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This is true and accurate. I saw this truck at that museum in the '80s. I think it is located on or near the campus of the School of the Ozarks near Branson MO. In the late seasons Branson MO, Eureaka Springs AR, and Silver Dollar City (a Theme Park near Branson) were all mentioned in the show. Branson and Eureaka Springs are
near each other.
I’ve seen the truck in the museum at The College of the Ozarks.
It’s like it’s a character in the show!
I saw it as a teen but I guess I never realized it was the original. Great thing to have it there, that seems like a nice college!!
So true Robert
I believe they were not called Oldsmobile at that time. It was an REO Speedwagon, named after Ransom Eli Olds, the founder of the Oldsmobile.
I thought it was a REO but I also thought I could be wrong. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Olds started REO in 1904, after he left Oldsmobile the previous year.
The Clampett truck is however a 1921 Oldsmobile.
@@brianwilson6403 I stand corrected! Thank you.
@@robertsmith9156Not a problem, my GM career start Oldsmobile, and being from Lansing, it was all part of our history.
My Great, and Greatx2 Grandfathers both worked at REO in the very early days.
That is where the band got their name from.
Is the band named after him too
I knew a man that turned a wrench on one of those trucks. He lived nearby my childhood home and was one of my dad's friends and mechanic. We weren't anywhere near hollywood and it puzzled me until I learned he was originally from cali. I must've been around 12 or so. Great vid, glad I came across it
Very cool
George Baris did some amazing stuff in his day ! The classic Batmobile Munster car & Monkees car!!! Rip George
I’m surprised it didn’t get reclaimed for WW2 scrap metal for the war effort. I remember my dad telling me they pulled old abandoned cars from a gulley in my hometown in NC for the metal during the war.
eh, whether stuff gets turned in depends on the owner. you can be sure Hollywood had a lot of leeway.
Whether it got scrapped depended on if it ran reliably and had tyres.
Cars simply weren’t built during WW2 so were irreplaceable.
@@allangibson8494 Yeah it was probably still in daily use during WW2, or kept up on blocks waiting for a returning GI.
My wife and I actually live in Ellie May's mom's old house in Louisiana.
Mr Bob, I'm 78 and watch the first airing of the Beverly Hillbillies.. I ❤️
Blown away when you said a 1921
Oldsmobile Joppa....Never really speculate really close on the Make or Model, but you have enlightened
Me and brought back so many good
Memories...Wee-doggiees...
Thanks for the Memories"
God bless you Milton! Glad you enjoyed it!
I always loved that show thank you for the information on where the truck is would love to see it
Thanks for watching!
There was a time when I would've given my left berry for that truck. In the early 70s my step-dad used to give me car magazines like Hot Rod, and rare treats like 'Cars of the Stars' I'm really surprised that Jed & Jethro could sit next to each other... cars of that Era were Very Small inside (I own a 1926 Model T).
If you look closely, you can see changes that were made so the truck would function. Behind the steering wheel, where the turn signals would be now, should have one lever that's the accelorator (no gas pedal), and the other side would have a lever for advancing/retarding the spark plug timing if you look at the engine in the truck that's pictured while talking about the 2014 USA Today article, you'll see a small block Chevy [General Motors] engine.
GREAT VIDEO ! ! !
Ya know, I thought that looked like a small V-8 in there. And to leave it Chevy orange was terrible. But if the show was black n white I suppose it wouldn't matter.
FWIW, the origimal was quite obviously a cut-up Pheaton, not a roadster, as was the Barris street-rod version; frame-length alone shoulda been the tell. And there were, IIRC, 2 additional copies made for stunts and 2md unit footage, accounting for the competing "original" vehicles on the Carny/Casino circuit. Still, an iconic character/car; a "Grapes of Wrath" archetype in metal, probably one of Barris's most successful happy accidents.
@@thekingsilverado3266 I've been selling those blokes Baywatch girl knockoffs for years.
@@joemanco5864 Now that is funny!!!
@@thekingsilverado3266 I was born in New Zealand and we watched the Beverly hill billies all the time in the 60's. US and UK TV shows were the main programs broadcast,followed by Australian ones.
I picked up the Expression "wheels" to describe a car from eipsode when a hippie turned up at the clampet mansion driving a similar truck which he named Wheels.
@@Mercmad I really do love my Brit and Aussie friends I made while at sea on the Carrier. Trust me the Military vs the retreaded UK variety they even clash. I do know some Aussies had some knowledge of our shows but how much I never really asked. Don't care where ya come from a classic is a classic is a classic especially the Hillbillies.. One stupid statement I will make by observation is the UK is a bunch of dopes & suckers for trash with handle bars and tires. Americans R thee same dopes when it comes to used 4x4s and used guns. Same deal. Just depends on what on continent U R standin on... PS I am a Hillbilly Pocono Mountains of pa... Smack in the middle of the hills I mean place..
Jed: "...swap it back, boy...!" Haha!
Most important best video I will watch all day
Great job Bob ❤❤❤Prayers are going 🙏 for Everyone
Duke was my favorite star of the show. He was so lovable. Wish my dogs would have been that laid back.
Lol..i'm that laid back..and droopy and quite loveable...now i need to convince my wife🤪
Love the show and have always liked that truck!!
Beverly Hillbillies. One of my favorites 1960's. Jethro is only Survivor. Still living.
Yup..did quite a few videos on him...and more to come! Thanks for watching, Robby! God bless
thank you kindly. i can always use your prayers.
You got 'em
Hi thank you for making this video, I had a 27 dodge cut down to truck in 1976,paid $ 500. For it nice to see there old truck is being looked after, cheers mate
Thanks for watching!
Watched the Beverly Hillbillies every day after school in the early 1970s.
They said "Californy's the place ya outta be".
So they loaded up the truck
and moved to Beverly.
Hills that is. Swimmin' pools, movie stars.
Very iconic truck for sure!
The Hollywood Museum has a truck that they say is the Clampett Truck. It has been a while since I visited the place. Still, the museum is worth the trip. The design of the exterior of the building is superb.
I think I saw that truck at a Los Angeles car show in the 90's. Although it could have been the real one that hadn't made it's way to Branson yet.
I have seen it many times since the 1980s in Branson. The Ralph Foster Museum is well worth the trip.
I would highly recommend it to anyone that goes to Branson!
I can honestly answer no to this, never wondered…
I had my picture taken sitting in the truck with my family while in Branson visiting the museum at the college of the Ozarks. It's on display there and the museum is top notch but the absolute best museum I have EVER seen is the Top Of The Rock museum just south of Branson on highway 65.
I would frame that pic
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 That's funny..... because we did frame it.😄 We live about four hours from Branson so we go there several times each year for a quick get away. If you ever get a chance to go to Branson it's a great trip, lots to do there.
Someday my friend, someday
It was genius to put a lifted bench in the back.
During WW2 when gas rationing was in effect, you could buy more gas if you had a truck, so many 1920's cars were converted to trucks. That's what happened to the Olds here.
Saw a episode where Jethro was converting the truck into a spy car. Lol. Imagine if Baris had the time to make Jethro his spy car.
Funny episode
I remember as a kid I bought and built the model of the swamp rat truck.
Would be cool if you still had it! Thanks for watching!
There used to be what I thought was the Beverly Hillbillies truck in a museum in Gatlinburg. As I remember, the kegs on the front looked brand new. That always bothered me.
I was in Planet Hollywood in Orlando and they had one hanging on the ceiling. They too claimed it was the original.
The truck is in the museum at the School of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri.
I live about 45 min from Branson. I keep thinking someday I’ll get around to checking out the car and tractor museum…
I thought I'd seen every episode of the Hillbillies. But I never saw Jethro's dragster
It was something else
In the mid to late 80's, it was at a shop next to mine for a while. I was all over it.
I loved that show I still watch it
I never noticed any other versions of it in the series except the hot rod one. Always the same one.. I got to sit in the original. I was so happy to stumble on it while on vacation. That other one in that vid ain’t even close. Maybe from the movie but I don’t believe it. Great vid bro. I really enjoy your content.
I had, for some reason, believed that the Clampett truck was an old REO Speedwagon, before this.
REO speedwagons and Olds may have shared some parts since they were both part of R.E.Olds empire.
Well, that new. I always thought the "truck" was a Ford model "A" convert. I only remember seeing it in the first episode, and the lead in credits.
Thanks for watching
Wasn't TV great back then in the 60 's, no special effects but special stories😅.
I remember seeing the Clampett truck at the Peterson Auto Museum in LA years ago and even had photos of me standing next to it! 😊
Sidenote: Years ago, while working in a furniture store in San Diego, I met a woman who was the daughter-in-law of the man who let CBS film at the mansion! The last name was Kirkeby. We had a nice conversation about the interior details, and even the then "cement pond", she went swimming in! 🤗 🏊♀️
The mansion was later purchased by Billionaire Jerry Perenchio, who did extensive remodeling and added additional acreage. The original driveway and gates seen at the beginning of the TV show are long gone. 😢
After he passed, his estate sold it to Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's son, who resides there today.
I read somewhere recently that this house was the highest price house last sold in the state of California.
The sideboards on the bed of the museum truck are different than the sideboards on the bed of the truck they're driving. Shows that there are a few different ones
One of my favorite shows.. Thanks.
just so everyone knows, all of the early GMG mid size trucks were built on a Buick Touring Car chassis so the idea of converting a car to a truck wasn't so far-fetched. I have a smaller fire truck from that era and the entire driveline is Buick.
"Bring back the car, boy"
I wonder if this is the same truck that had been displayed in The Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, CA? I saw it there in 1974 and again when I visited the museum shorly before it closed in 2005.
Same here. It was called “The cars of the stars” next to the Planes of fame in Buena Park.
I used to live Hollister,Mo. about 1/4 mile from the museum.It's got some pretty interesting stuff there.I think there is a log cabin at Silver Dollar City(by Branson West)that they filmed a episode of Hillbillies back in the day.I think you have to ride the old steam train to be able the see the cabin.
THANKS! I just ran acoss your channel and Love the BHBs, I or my family never knew the make and model. We here a Olds family, I will be watching you from the Philippines! Yo'all post another viedo soon! Ya Hear!!
I just got back home from the philippines in march
i went to the museum many years ago. the truck was roped off and no one was allowed to sit in it - dang! i had to settle for my picture next to it. the top floor was every
gun ever made and lots of dead and stuffed animals. it is a very interesting collection and i recommend it.
At least you got that pic...i'd frame it
One of the best museums I've been to! Check out Harold Warps Pioneer Museum in Nebraska too!.
Is that the car Jeff Bodine drove in his first super speedway race at Daytona.
Lol yeah that's it
WELL TO TELL THE TRUTH I WASN'T CURIOUS UNTIL I CAME UPON YOUR VIDEO,
BUT NOW THAT YOU PEAKED MY INTEREST (YES)
I paid eight bucks to have my picture taken in the ol' Oldsmobile. Afterwards, I handed my digital camera to the Girl and the free picture on my camera was better than the one I paid for!!!
It sits in the Museum at the College of the Ozarks, just outside of Branson.
BTW: ..... it's not a truck. It just kind'a resembles a flatbed because of the way it was loaded up with stuff.
Frame that pic
I must admit that I NEVER, not ONCE, not even for A MICROSECOND, wondered where the Clampet TV car was, if it still existed, how many miles were on it, or what had been done to it since.
Same here. But I enjoyed the video regardless. 😊
Not to dis your Roadrunner but I bet more people know about that truck than your Mopar muscle car. (I owned a 1970 Coronet R/T bout thirty years ago,that car scared me!) Peace out. 😆
I had my picture taken next to the truck in the fall of 22. Great museum in the Branson MO area.
Frame it!
my friends father made a truck like that from when he was a kid in the 30's, built from a 1920's "Star'" touring. he still had it in the 1990's in a big barn.... wonder what ever happened to it.
Correct! For years, I remembered somebody told us it was 1921 Oldsmobile. Until 41 years later. Where did Hollywood mechanics got vintage parts to keep it running? My folks had Olds and, I missed it. Also my great grandparents’ first car as 1922 Buick sedan. Seats 6. Convertible with leather seats. Brass horn, etc. I have seen their old picture and, I’m wondering what happened to their car in west Texas.
Here’s a guess, the integral exhaust/intake manifold on the 6 cylinder engine burned out. Quite a common failure on that engine. Extremely difficult to repair so they were simply junked.
You've got to remember that cars in SoCal didn't rust into the ground like they do up north or even in the midwest where I grew up. There are and have been hundreds of salvage yards and old car guys in California where the auto is a part of your personality.
I’ve been to the museum at College of the Ozarks. Saw the car and it’s a neat museum and campus.
Yeah, I myself are now 67. And that was a fun sitcom TV show. To grow up with as a kid in Detroit. As even at, 8 years old. I was into cars. Dad would scarf me up, to go to the big auto shows at Detroit's, Cobo Hall.
And here. I always figured that car. Made only for the TV show. Was made, only for the TV show. It never crossed my mind. It was one of many. Cloned look-alikes. Yeah, so? They had a budget. And they were paid, to have fun. With a goofy, whimsical, Southern fried, comedy show. And was a big hit, in the day. Something we will always fondly remember. Who wouldn't? The way real comedy, used to be done. For TV. Without a computer.
I watched too much television as a child. And my mother use to scream at me. WHAT do you think you are going to do for a living when you grow up!?!? Watch Television?!?!
I don't know why mom was screaming? But after, 20 years. I recently retired. From NBC-TV.
As my father had corrupted me. He produced a local Detroit, Sunday morning church program. For the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit. With Dr. Vic, Pastor. Then he took me down to the radio and other TV stations. Where he produced commercials. For his father's advertising agency. My grandfather had founded.
Then dad did the unthinkable. He took me down to the recording studio called Motown. Introduced me to a bunch of really cool black folk. Took out his violin and started playing. Along with a bunch of other guys like him from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. And I'm sitting in the control room. This sounds great! I know what I'm going to do for a career. I said to myself at age 7. And then pondered. I wonder what other 7-year-old kid. Just made their lifelong career decision? It was a very conscious thought. I remember it from 60 years ago. Virtually, like it was yesterday. But I can't remember, important shit. I need to.
So aside from the network television job. I ended up being a history making 4 time Major Music Awards Nominee. I mean who wants to pay a lot of money to go to a stupid rock concert? When I could get them to pay me to come? That seems to make much more sense. I mean who actually wants to, work for a living? That would be like work. That's a 4 letter word. How dare you! I'M A LADY GOD DAMMIT!!!
It sounds like PMS, doesn't it? But I'm 67 now. And you get PMS. Known as Pre-Mental Syndrome.
RemyRAD
When the world was in a much better place than we are today
Vietnam War notwithstanding?
Have you checked out the nostalgia channels? The people in the comments sound just like you! 😊
How much fun, thank you.
God bless
I live near Branson...guess I'll have to go back to the museum and see it.Wasn't there the last tine I was by.
Next trip to Branson I'll go see it. Always loved those old trucks.
there's a fella in the PIN-MAR antique car club who has an original olds touring built for the show. Pinellas county, FL.
I saw this truck while in Branson Missouri… As far as I am concerned, that truck is just as much a cast member as the rest…
Enjoyed this a lot. Loved the show back in the day and appreciated this little update on a very iconic television "personality".
Thanks for watching!
I attended the School of the Ozarks(now called College of the Ozarks) from 1985-1989 and saw it many times at the Ralph Foster Museum on campus. They always claimed it was the original truck but I never knew if it was for sure. I saw it again several years ago when we visited the museum.
Very cool
Nice 😎👍
Be sure to cover the crown imperial that mr. Drysdale used to ride in. Both were extremely classic and unusual cars
Will look into it
His secretary drove a spiffy red Mopar conv. back then too!
Maybe the funniest six com ever! And Olds may have been the greatest American car manufacturer ever!
I had a 1928 Dodge Brothers pickup that was converted from a car. Wish I had now. I recreated Hillbilly truck using Erector set stuff and an Empire Steam Engine. My truck was found in a dumpster 30 yrs ago and recently added engine.
Nice
It is at the School of the Ozarks near Branson Missouri, you can get your picture taken with it, it is sertified,,,
I knew it wasn’t a Ford, but didn’t really know what it was for sure, Thanks
Yessir
We visited the Volo Auto Museum in Volo ,Illinois and they have the Clampett truck there. Apparently more than one original truck is still in existence.
Often, super fans build convincing replicars, and pawn them off as "original".
@@lancerevell5979 Look at the Batmobile.
Well no, I have to say that that is not something I have ever wondered about.
Thanks for the info. I'm 64 years old and Love, love love the Beverly Hillbillies.
btw...
There is no god. Grow up.
I'll be praying for you
Prayer are like farts. Please keep them to yourself.
@@RossDrum another one just went up for ya
There's no way the earth and everything on it as complicated as it is, was created at random. There has to be a superior being behind it. Most people call it GOD. Whatever it is, it had a vast template to create everything alive on this planet including the planet itself.
@@darrelprewett8331 The template included my mother dying in horrible pain for 11 years? THAT'S not a superior being.
IN MY VIEW
It is wonderful hearing trivia about the Beverly Hillibilies. I was surprised finding out the show used 5 trucks during the series.
This was the perfect truch chosen for the Beverly Hillibilies family. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for watching Carolyn! God bless
I love the hillbilly narration.
Aint it grand?