Originally Posted By: Turnbull
A truly SPLENDID post, Johnny! \:\) Thanks for those pics! Although, knowing you and your erudition, I would have expected nothing less!!! ;\)
And, what you said is right on. Any old director could have gotten any old Cads for a "gangster" movie of the Fifties. Trust FFC, the fanatic about details, to think it through and come up with that '54 Packard Patrician (prior to Michael Francis Rizzi's baptism); the '54 Imperial limo (when Michael visits Fredo and Moe Green); and that absolute classic '58 Crown Imperial Ghia limo that takes Michael back to Tahoe after Havana. One of only about a dozen built; and, at $13k, the most expensive American car--even more than the Eldo Brougham.
I would happily have had the one you like: the '58 Chrysler New Yorker that your namesake drove ahead of Michael's (probably Avis rental) '58 Ford Custom 300 when he called on Roth in Miami. But my favorite authentic car is the '57 Mercury Montclair







that drives Michael in Havana: original two-tone Sea Green and Cream paint, slightly bent grill, loud tappets, tinny European horn--exactly what a Hispanic chauffeur of that era would have used to drive a rich gringo.
BTW: Did you check out the '47 Ford Woodie wagon in the scene where Michael woos Kay in New Hampshire? And the '54 DeSoto Firedome ahead of (or behind) the Buick you posted?


Good one on the Woody, and I do remember the '54 Desoto.


Add insult to injury, they whacked Carlo in a '51 Plymouth Cranbrook ! How much more embarrassing could it have been for Carlo?




They at least let Paulie have his last ride in nice 1941 Packard!


I love my Chrysler and tuna fish sandwiches.