kenmo

The amount of collector cars that Hollywood has destroyed over the years is sickening... I wonder how many perfectly fine Chargers have been destroyed by the Dukes of Hazard?

I heard several classic Studebakers were hacked and remade to look like Tuckers in the movie Tucker...

Yes..it's sickening and heart wrenching....

Old Blazer

Odd how the car is unrecognizable but the license plate is untouched!

Cruzmeisters

Was sure I read somewhere that the "roll-over" Tucker was a '65 Ford "all-glassed-up" to look like a Tucker...???

sub006

As to the last two posts, the license plate probably flew 50 yards upon impact and was reunited with the front end of the wreck for the photo.

I have seen pictures of a four-door fiberglass "pro street" Tucker 48 street machine, so apparently more than one person is using molds from an original car.

65air_coupe

I did not remember he had 3 passengers with him at the time either! I do remember the crash though, was a fan back then.

The motorcycle/palm tree crash sounds like Gary Bussey's accident. He suffered some pretty serious injuries himself.

64 daytona blue

The "three killed" part of the Deadman's Curve is an urban myth. The article that appeared in the LA paper the morning after the accident had a headline that read "3 More Die in Traffic; Singer Hurt". Many assumed by looking at the headline that the three killed were riding with Jan, but reading the clipping it talks of traffic accidents over the last 24 hour period in LA.

62Jeff

http://www.robidaconcepts.com/page/page/1918153.htm

Ron Miller

You can read the whole story, straight from Dean, at Jan & Dean's website, http://www.jananddean.com/#

Great music & great memories!!

65air_coupe

AHA, that makes better sense. Thought all these grey hairs were causing memory loss!

Thanks for the reminder about the website Ron, I had forgotten all about that. As he said, it's a great site with a very readable story.

Glenn"Mr.Blue"Smith

Here's a photo from my 'total' wreck in my '66 "Love Is Blue" back in '68(NOT my fault). Yes, the front end 'blew apart' and absorbed a lot of the impact from the near head-on @ 60mph!! Note the W/S isn't even broken! (Yes, I ALWAYS wear my belts and was not injured, believe it or not!) and the front tag is still attached (not reattached for a photo like someone suggested they did for Jan's photo). Glenn

savewave

Painful way to beat the draft.

sub006

62jeff, thanks for the "new" Tucker info. Someday C2's will be so expensive someone will start manufacturing brand-new replicas that accept all stock parts. Heck, you can almost do that now with aftermarket frames and components, about all you need is a repro birdcage structure.

65air, Gary Busey dumped his Harley and hit his unprotected head on the curb. As I recall it happened on Washington Blvd. near the (old MGM) Sony studio.

sterlsys

One of my friends had his ferrari used in a movie made in the Chicago area. His car was worth about $1,000,000.00. Showed two high school boys jacking the rear off the ground and running in reverse to "roll" back the odometer reading. Car slips of jack crashes through the rear of of building and down into a ravine. After seeing the movie we called him to see if he got paid. Told us it was all done with a toy car.

Mark_Milner

And no one here knows what that movie is, do they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off



There are normally enough real cars wrecked to make cars for wrecking that they rarely have to wreck a real one, if there is any collectibility or extreme price to it. Remember, in 1978, that '64 that wrecked in place of the '67 he was driving in the movie was worth about $3500 to $4000 in good condition! That wasn't a drop in the bucket to a movie budget, but what probably happened is that once anyone got wind that they intended to total the car, no one would sell them one, even back in '78, since Corvettes were the fast rising collectible at the time (remember the Pace Car?).

In some of the Corvette magazines of the time, it was mentioned several times that it was a put-together car just to crash, so they probably pulled out a junkyard wreck, tossed on a $125 front clip, and a quick spray job to tow it down the road and slam it into the truck.

Mark_Milner

Is this your buddys car?

glenn64vette

Heck, I got one those pictures, not quite as bad, of the front end blown off my 64. T-boned a Datsun 510 Station at about 60 mph. No seat belt and I was not hurt at all. Corvettes are tough.

dejavu67

Here is my 1965 .. and the tag is readable too.

sub006

I guess the license plate is a vital integral part of the C2's front-collision controlled-deformation safety system! Remove it at your peril!

I'd better watch it, mine doesn't have a plate, bumpers or retractable headlights.

SILENT BOB

The car used in Ferris Bueller was a kit car with a plastic Ferrari body. They were plentiful when the movie was made. The give away is the instrument panel - Smiths instruments. Ferrari never used Smiths.

mrg

I remember seeing Jan and Dean perform at an outdoor on-the-beach summer concert series at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. I believe it was the summer of 1998. ... Dean looked pretty good for his 'age' .. Not so, with Jan. Even from a distance one could see how Jan's right side appeared to be listless. His facial expression seemed to be a bit out of kilter, as if to suggest 'accident' victim. Jan had a little trouble with song lyrics and was also somewhat off key with his singing voice. This is not meant to disparage Jan in any way. .. Anyone who knows or remembers what happened to Jan must have appreciated his willingness to carry on, despite his accident from decades before. It was great to see Jan and Dean perform.

After the performance we went down to the stage. Dean was taking chit chat questions and answers. It was interesting to hear what he had to say. Jan was there too but pretty much remained on the sidelines and in the background.

Ahhhh, the summer of '64 and 'The llittle old lady from Pasadena' ... Those sure were some fun times. . .Thanks, Jan and Dean, for the memories!