Married with Children

[Skyview69]

Anyone know what happened to Al Bundy's Dodge from Married with Children    That would be a cool car to have.    

[Budnicks]

No I don't know were it is, but there were a couple of them " I think ", a latter Dart/Duster type body style & a 70/71 Regular Dart body style.  I may be wrong but I seem to remember that...

[70charginglizard]

Al Bundy Rocks!   He is my hero. 

[Old Moparz]

I remember seeing the car on that show more than once & never understood why they called it a Dodge when it was a Plymouth. 

Except maybe they wanted the character to appear more idiotic than he was already. 

[69 OUR/TEA]

It looks clean though!!!!

[68X426]

From TVacres.com.

Al Bundy Dodge - Rusty Dodge with a black vinyl roof owned by shoe salesman Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) on the situation comedy MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN/FOX/1987-97. One of Al's few possessions included a 1974 Dodge Dart automobile with close to one million miles on the odometer. To start the car, Al uses a screwdriver as the key.

Al once got rid of this car in an attempt to get a better one. At the time it had 99,000 miles on the odometer. Al then bought a maroon-colored AMC Pacer and later a lime-green AMC Hornet. Unfortunately, both these cars were lemons.

Frustrated, Al returned to the used car lot and purchased a Dodge Dart with only 18,000 miles. Unfortunately, this car was Al's original blue Dodge Dart that had been painted burnt sienna and had its odometer illegally advanced to read 18,000 miles.

Al's Dodge sported all its original equipment including the seats, the oil and an 8-track player that cranked out such classics albums as "Born to Be Wild," "Meet the Four Seasons," "Meet the Supremes," and "The Four Seasons Meet the Supremes." Mechanically speaking, the Bundy Dodge couldn't reach 60 mph even if you dropped it out of a plane.

Once when someone stole the car, Al's neighbor Marcy chastised him for leaving the car out on garbage day. Al once proclaimed "Dodge says something special about you." Peg (Katey Sagal) his wife countered "Damn right. 'I failed.'"

On the series' 200th episode "Get the Dodge outta Hell," the Dodge went into a car wash and came out with a brilliantly polished red finish (supposedly, the original color). It was so clean that Al thought the car had disappeared. Fortunately, the car was found and so were the precious mementos that he kept locked in the trunk, namely his copies of Big-Uns, a nudie magazine and a framed portrait of his family.

When Al could no longer maintain his car, (he needed a hard-to-find fuel pump) he buried his faithful car in the backyard. As a replacement,  Al bought a red 1997 Testica 2000 convertible from Cal Stevens Motors. The Testica turned out to be a lemon.

Working behind the scenes during his Testica troubles, Al's wife spent her spare time digging up the Dodge (she was offered $10,000 for the engine) while Al's next-door neighbor Jefferson Darcy (Ted McGinley), a former spy/commando used his connections with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to scrounge up a fuel pump so that Al could resurrect his Dodge automobile.

The Illinois license plates seen on the Bundy's car were 61CMS2; 2 RPH 72 and F3B359. Al's driver's license number reads 2C1835.

"Hello, Police? I'd like to describe a... Missing person. How tall? About four feet tall, five feet wide. Smoke belching out the rear, weighs two tons. No, it's not Oprah. No, it's not Delta Burke, who'd call to report her missing? No, it's my Dodge. Hello?"  -- Al Bundy (Episode #7.24) 

TRIVIA NOTE: Al mentioned he had his car in high school in 1966 even though on two different occasions he says the car is a 1971 and a 1974 model.

Also the car is obviously a 1970s model Plymouth Duster although referred to as a Dodge ("I don't want a Plymouth, Peg, I want my Dodge, dagnabbit!").

[68X426]

From IMDB:

Al Bundy's car is actually a 1971 Plymouth Duster playing a Dodge. The Plymouth was actually a beautiful Iceland Blue with 99,000 miles on the odometer, until the used car lot had painted Sahara Tan, and rolled back the odometer to 18,000 original miles. In the early years Dodge was rusted Grimed Sahara Tan until the car had gone through the Scott's Royal Scrub House Car Wash on an episode, and it turned out to be a beautiful shiny Tor Red which was the original color that Al remembers buying to find out the car hadn't been washed in over 20 years which had tons of dirt, grime, and dust on it. Ed O'Neill was the only member of the Married With Children cast to appear in every episode.

"In real life the car is actually in Ed O'Neill's private collection."

[Drache]

The car is rumored to be owned by Ed O'Neill

[tan top]

 that show was funny  

[doctor4766]

Call me a dirty old man, but Kelly was the highlight of the show for me right from the first show

[twodko]

I must be a dirty old man too because I consider a pair of well adjusted (or not) high beams athing of wonder and beauty.

[Brightyellow69rtse]

my favorite show of all time!

[aussiemuscle]

cars from the show
http://imcdb.org/movie_92400-Married-with-Children.html

imcdb.org is a great website reference for tv and movie cars.

[tan top]

Call me a dirty old man, but Kelly was the highlight of the show for me right from the first show

[stripedelete]

Call me a dirty old man, but Kelly was the highlight of the show for me right from the first show

Sadly, those mammaries are just memories now 

[doctor4766]

Wow, 12 Christina boobies on one page now.
Think I died an' went to heaven.

[Old Moparz]

As good as the show was, as interesting as Al Bundy's "Dodge" might be, I just knew we could do one better & turn this into a Kelly Bundy / Christina Applegate thread.  

[Old Moparz]

B & W ones. 

[Richard Cranium]

Time for a sing-a-long..........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQkf2xte38

[Skyview69]

From IMDB:

Al Bundy's car is actually a 1971 Plymouth Duster playing a Dodge. The Plymouth was actually a beautiful Iceland Blue with 99,000 miles on the odometer, until the used car lot had painted Sahara Tan, and rolled back the odometer to 18,000 original miles. In the early years Dodge was rusted Grimed Sahara Tan until the car had gone through the Scott's Royal Scrub House Car Wash on an episode, and it turned out to be a beautiful shiny Tor Red which was the original color that Al remembers buying to find out the car hadn't been washed in over 20 years which had tons of dirt, grime, and dust on it. Ed O'Neill was the only member of the Married With Children cast to appear in every episode.

"In real life the car is actually in Ed O'Neill's private collection."

thanks for the info..interesting stuff.  I've been watchin re-runs of the show lately and Al Bundy loved that "Dodge" more than anything.   

[Drache]

On August 3, 2008, People magazine reported that Applegate had been diagnosed with breast cancer. This was confirmed by her representative, who said in a statement: "Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor-ordered MRI, the cancer is not life-threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time". On August 19, 2008, it was announced that Applegate was cancer free after a double mastectomy, even though cancer was found in only one breast.

[Budnicks]

Nice, it all about Kelly Bundy now get car guys talking about cars & talk about women take over sooner or latter

[doctor4766]

<---------------- Guilty

[tan top]

Nice, it all about Kelly Bundy now get car guys talking about cars & talk about women take over sooner or latter

   

[Tilar]

She looks good,.... Oh so does the car.