The Black Beauty:

[Brock Samson]

 




some of you whippersnappers are probably too young to remember this,.. i was the very impressionable age of nine...
and belive me this show was the talk of the school yard, we all went jumping around pretending to be Kato...
but it's not to late...   for you   

                                 
                             
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P2RDh0EqRH8   (yeah, my ratchet does that) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu-HHmgMgM&NR=1  (think it's a model?..) 



the back story:
1.  http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1966/BlackBeauty/
2.  http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/amabb.htm
3.  http://www.jayohrberg.com/TV_Cars.html   (built his own)
4.  home.comcast.net/.../blackbeautygadgets.html



   











   

[PocketThunder]

born in 1975 and i have no idea what that car is. 

[General_01]

The Green Hornet and his trusty sidekick Kato(Bruce Lee) drove that vehicle to catch the bad guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet

[FlatbackFanatic]

I remember that show, it was my favorite. The car was so cool , and Kato always kicked ass!

[68rt]

that car was at the nats 1 year in ohio neat looking car

[moparstuart]

The Green Hornet and his trusty sidekick Kato(Bruce Lee) drove that vehicle to catch the bad guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet

wow the was an awesome show and i watched it all the time, never realized kato was bruce lee how cool .

[Brock Samson]

I just read the entire wikipedia definition of the show, and it occurs to me this would make a great big budget movie,..
the entire idea of the G.H. being descended from the "Lone Ranger" would make it an awesome franchise...

"One relatively minor aspect of the character which tends to be given limited exposure in the actual productions is his blood relationship to The Lone Ranger, another character created by Striker. The Lone Ranger's nephew was Dan Reid. In the Green Hornet radio shows, the Hornet's father was likewise named Dan Reid, making the hero the Ranger's grand-nephew."

and the night vision goggles, pilotless drone, silent running of the B.B. could be explained satisfactorily..

 
   "The TV series displayed the Hornet's car, Black Beauty, a 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial sedan customized by Dean Jeffries.[3] The Beauty's regular headlight cluster supposedly could be flipped over to reveal what studio publicity described as "infra-green" headlights, but this could not be done on the actual vehicle, and the green filters were always seen deployed. It was revealed in the related comic book spun off from the show that the green headlights used polarized light which in combination with the appropriately polarized vision filter (translucent green sun visor-like panels that the two men pulled down when needed) could provide almost as much illumination as conventional headlights while being extremely dim -- almost invisibly dark -- to someone without the filter. In some early episodes in two-shots with both Van Williams and Bruce Lee inside the Black Beauty, as seen through the windshield, Lee's face was tinted green since he was supposedly seen through a "polarized" filter in the form of a large pull-down, transparent green-gray visor; Williams on the other hand was seen in normal light. The tint is not present in close-ups of Lee alone. Since specification of what this lighting was supposed to indicate never actually made it into any finished episode, the effect was unexplained to the audience and soon discontinued. However, most night shots were actually filmed during the daytime by the day for night technique, giving the illusion of night-time as the actual car headlights were not polarized but just had green lenses, which would render the headlights useless for real night-driving. As the series progressed, the process was executed less effectively, reaching the point where the viewer would need context to understand that some scenes were supposed to be taking place at night, as can be observed in screening the episodes in either original network airing or syndication (production) order.

The Black Beauty could fire explosive charges from tubes hidden behind retractable panels below the headlights, which were said to be rockets with explosive warheads; had a concealed-when-not-in-use, drop-down knock-out gas nozzle in the center of the front grille, and could launch a small flying video/audio surveillance device (referred to as the Scanner) through a small rectangular panel in the middle of Black Beauty's trunk lid. Jeffries built two vehicles for the series. One is now in the Petersen Automotive collection in California, and the other is in a private collection in South Carolina. George Barris subsequently made a copy, which has led to some sources incorrectly crediting him with creating the car in the first place.

The TV series also employed an audio device from the radio show. In its era, the engines of cheaper cars made a lot of noise; the expensive Pierce-Arrow was reputed to be extremely quiet. So, when the Green Hornet said, "rig for silent running," the hornet-like buzz on the radio show was turned off and the listener was left to imagine that the car really was silent. On TV, the car sounded like a modern car, but the noise was removed from the soundtrack after this command.

(An article in TV Guide published during the show's network run made reference to disparaging comments made within the industry about ABC being "the two-car network" because of the Black Beauty and the Batmobile.)"

  Yesterday when i was putting the thread togeather I was simply concerned with the Black Beauty,..
But thinking about it, if made as realistically (as possible). i think it would be a movie I'd want to see,..


....And the Black Beauty could be based on a completely Black Super Bee..

[triple_green]

Batman was my favorite...then green hornet. When green hornet guest starred on Batman (or vice-versa), I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

3X (8 years old in 1966)

[Silver R/T]

thats one cool gangsta car

[69_500]

Loved the show the Green Hornet. I have probably half of the episodes on VHS around here. Not that I have a VCR to play them on anymore, but still have the tapes. What can I say I'm a pack rat

[CaptMarvel]

I loved the Green Hornet. I was only a toddler when it was first on the air, but still remember the episodes from syndication in the early 70's. Very cool Imperial! The Hornet was a Mopar guy!

[Ponch ®]

the title of this thread is misleading   

I'm gonna make things right!

[Ponch ®]

[Ponch ®]

Old School.

Pam Grier:

[Ponch ®]

Thandie Newton 

[Ponch ®]

Lauren London

[moparstuart]

 those dont look like the green hornet to me !

[Brock Samson]

Gabrielle Union

[moparstuart]

  or how about ram jam's black betty ?        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo


   or for you dukes fans spiderbaits version     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywf29EF_0yI&feature=related

[Ponch ®]

[Ponch ®]

Sanaa Lathan

[Ponch ®]

last one before I go to work (and until I get back):

Kerry Washington (the hot wife from "The Last King of Scotland):


 

[Brock Samson]

i hear wing likes tractors..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfmr1QzMh0

[Ponch ®]

i hear wing likes tractors..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfmr1QzMh0

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