I saw this Bonnie and Clyde car in 1972 at the fair in Madison or Milwaukee. I was eight years old. My parents paid a few dollars to take us all into a circus tent where there were lots of folding chairs and the older gentleman running the show played the films of the ambush reenactment. After that, we all stood in line to walk past the car and get a good lQQK. If my memory serves me right, the gentleman was a colonel Tom Parker type! When I got to the car, he said “ come here little fella! You can get a good look… “ with that, he grabbed me under the armpits and stood me on the passenger side, running board, where I got to peak in through the window and stick my head in there. It smelled old and musty and was pretty macabre, and it made a big impression on me that I have never forgotten. Thanks to that gentleman for giving me that lasting memory. 😀
Great story! Thanks. My sister-in-law got a '66 Mustang in turquoise color. When my brother and she came visiting in October 2017 on a sunny day, they let me drive it a few blocks. It was cool but it smelled musty too, but it was beautiful.
@@yooper2186 Neato! Although I have long been a Floridian, I have family that are also now “Yoopers”! Small world, “ but I wouldn’t want to paint it. “
I saw it (?) as well, in 1974 in Somerdale, NJ, in the parking lot of a shopping center alongside White Horse Pike (Rt. 30), displayed in a trailer.... but after viewing this video, I'm wondering if the car I saw was one of the fakes.
I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car at the New York World’s Fair when my mom played a fast draw sheriff at the Frontier Palace show. It made quite an impression on this 6 year old boy. Thanks for the history!
Great timeline of the Bonnie & Clyde "Death Car" Bart. Thanks. As an update, the Death Car was briefly on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library mid June of 2022. Upon it's return to Nevada it is now on display inside of Buffalo Bill's Hotel & Casino in Primm, Nevada across the Interstate from Whiskey Pete's as of January 2023.
I saw a car in a carnival in Pasadena, Tx back in the late eighties and I thought at the time “ this is a fake”! I stand by that claim to this day! Great time line video! 👍
I have never seen the car, but I have been at the ambush site several times. I suspect that Sheriff fought the Warrens so hard because he too saw the value of that car. I am actually surprised the car did not come up as "missing" during that process!
I really enjoyed watching & listening to your video! I was born in 1953,in the early to mid 1960's,a man had the car inside an enclosed trailer. It was parked in a small shopping center parking lot. I believe it cost me about 25 cents to enter the trailer,walk around the car. It was roped off by red velvet ropes, so you couldn't actually touch the car. I'm 70 now,& will always remember that bullet riddled car,& the broken glass! I only wish i could've looked inside of the car! I almost forgot, this was in Columbus, IN.
I saw the famous Ford at Whiskey Pete's in Nevada in 1998, but it was not enclosed in glass at that time. Your video has answered a lot of questions I had about the car, so I thank you!
I remember in the seventies a casino owner paid a crazy price for what was supposed to be the actual death car, sometime after that I saw another supposed one along with the Russian leaders personal limo that resembled an American Packard
First time I seen the car whisky pete's 1990 I was there about 10 years ago it was still there but it was behind a glass wall with other artifacts gun's and car from that error
My Dad took me to the local K-Mart on a Sunday afternoon back in the mid 1970s to (allegedly) view the Bonnie & Clyde car along with one of Hitler's Mercedes. They were travelling across the country, placing an ad in the local newspaper, and showing up at little podunk towns and displaying them in a couple of tractor-trailers. You paid your buck or two and walked through to see the cars. Still not sure just how authentic either of them were!
FANTASTIC!! Somebody FINALLY freakin did the leg work to GET IT RIGHT!!!! From south Louisiana, my daughter and I took a day trip, to Gibsland and the death site. Visited the museum too.
I saw what I think was that car in Federal Way Washington at what I remember being a Thriftway store on the corner of 312th and Pacific highway, in the early 70s. It was like in the back of a semi trailer with a walkthrough, memorabilia etc. I still remember it vividly, so I guess it was memorable 🤷 ...... Well researched, produced, done, TY 👍
Just a point, Hitler never owned a Mercedes. All of the cars he was pictured in belonged to Daimler_Benz who hired them out to the German State. Same thing happens today with the pope who is often seen in Mercedes 600's. Daimler has a fleet of cars which are also hired to the vatican.
Ok, but Adolf Hitler also presented Daimler automobiles to foreign dignitaries and other important people. So was he giving away vehicles he didn't own?
This car was stolen about 30 minutes from where I live. I've stood in the driveway in the spot where it was taken and returned to before it was sold to the Crime Doctor. The driveway sloops toward the street making it easy to steal by simply releasing the brake and pushing it to the street before starting and driving away. unnoticed.
Great video. I was at the auction of this car back in 1973. There was a significant amount of promotional advertising in various old car magazines prior to the auction in Worcester, Mass run by the Auburn, Indiana based Kruse Auction House.. I remember the Ted Toddy telling those in the crowd to touch the car to bring luck as it brought him so much luck. I reached over and touch the rear fender. My mother was so angry......claiming that Bonnie and Clyde had no such luck touching that car.....and now I was cursed!!! Ha! Fun times.
Hi Bart- I have no way of knowing if it was the actual car, but back in the late 1970s, my father had a Body Shop on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and for about two weeks, he stored what was supposed to be the Bonnie and Clyde car. I remember it extremely well... It was tied down to a big flatbed car hauler. It looked EXACTLY like the period pictures, same bullet holes and bloodstains... You name it. I remember that the tires were rotten and flat. I remember the lettering being on the hood. And the car was FILTHY. Dad had a crew of 7 or 8 guys working in the shop at the time, and I remember him having two at a time stay overnight while that particular car was there. As I remember, it was either the winter of 1976 or 1978. But I certainly do remember that car. I wonder if it could be confirmed that it was in Ohio during one of those winters? Of course, it could have been a replica or a fake... But my memory for small detail has always been excellent... And I remember the car that was stored at dad's shop being exactly like the real thing. Cheers... Hopefully you'll be able to put that mystery to rest for me.
By the 1970s most fake death cars were destroyed for one reason or another. So It could have been the real one. Thanks for sharing your father’s story.
I seen it in the early 90s. one of my most vivid memories from bein a kid. This vid makes me wonder if it was a fake tho. How long that car been in glass at that casino?? I seen it at a Bonnie n Clyde trade days thing around Arcadia or gibsland
I remember my Dad, who was born in 1935 , telling me they brought the car around to the small town movie theaters so the kids could see it and they would tell the story of Bonnie and Clyde and how they died to discourage they from a life of crime.
The story of Bonnie and Clyde has always fascinated me. What I can not understand is why this famous couple of lovers incurred in the crimes of those 30s. Although the video shows incorrect images with the case as seeing Bonnie lifeless protruding from the car in the place of the driver seems to me a good video that makes you think how that fatal year of 1934 must have been in that convulsed moment.
I just visited the Bonnie and Clyde death car at Whiskey Pete’s Las week. I have previously visited the car there about 20 years ago and it was not surrounded by plexiglass at that time.
I knew Jennie Withers. She and her husband, Newt, owned Withers Goodyear in Fountain Valley, California. I had my car serviced there for years until they retired. I knew they had participated in races, but I had no idea she had ever driven the Bonnie and Clyde car.
I saw a car in the early 70s claiming to be the Bonnie & Clyde death car in the parking lot in front of Woolco at the 7th Street Shopping Center in Frederick, Md. They charged a small admission, and you went into this trailer, and they had velvet ropes in front of it and a Thompson machine gun displayed. I have no idea if it was the actual car or not, but the way it's pictured in the video is pretty much how I remember it.
In 1968 in Lousiville, KY I saw the Bonnie and Clyde Car and stuck my finger in one of the bullet holes on the driver side. It had a chain link fence around it. But since you say that there were fakes around, maybe that wasn't the real car. Anyway, I was 15 . The seats were ploughed up and stained. Cheap Thrills for a 15 year old. Thanks for the documentary.
@@CptFantaztic Cool!!! Maybe it was the original. To be specfic, it was at the Kentucky State Fair- 1968. By the was, just got some Burgoo from the Moonlite BBQ ! I live in Virginia, but I am a Kentucky Boy! All of the best! Dennis
@@denAlexVA Nice. Just took a gallon of Burgoo over to my mother-in-laws. She was excited to have it. My father -in-law passed away on Thursday morning and she hadnt eaten since so we made sure she got something we knew she would eat. If I remember correctly, the car was on tour and it was in front of the Krogers or Super X Drug Store.(They were side by side) Was up on a flat bed truck. Long time ago,,lol!! Keith
Right around the time of the release of the movie, I saw the car (real/fake?) on display in a shopping center parking lot in Monroe, Louisiana. I thought it was the real deal, but I could be wrong. Thank you for this most interesting video! I have been a Bonnie'nClyde-o-phile since a teenager (I'm now 70).
I saw the car on a trailer in Louisiana when I was about 4 yo. You could touch it, look inside of it and stay as long as you wanted. I was fascinated with it even being that young. I will never forget it.
I pose a curiosity question: 1) The front windshield in some still photos shows the passenger side riddled with bullet holes, and the drivers side clear. Then in other photos, the passenger side is clear and the drivers side is bashed-in. 2) In some photos the rear window is riddled bullet holes, and some photos with no bullet holes but smashed glass. Why the discrepancies?
The real death car had numerous bullet holes on Bonnie’s side of the car. They shot at Clyde mostly through his door. As the car was rolling into the side of the road, officers followed the car firing into the back of it.
I remember in either 1973 or 74 when this car came to karcher Mall in Nampa Idaho .at that time it wasn't uncommon to see cars of this age that had bullet holes in them in fact I knew where several cars were in the mountains that had taken a slide down an embankment and they would stay there for years and over the course of time people shot them full of holes. But as a kid seeing those holes in the Bonnie and Clyde car was your whole different experience at 8 years old.
I stopped at Whiskey Petes in 1999 for a break while travelling from Phoenix to Vegas. Did not know the car was there but there it was right inside like a lobby area and not behind glass, however I believe I remember it being roped off. Got a pretty good look at it and it still looked pretty gruesome even after all the years. If that car could talk it would be a helluva conversation. I hope the original owners were properly compensated.
At 2:30 you see the passenger rear window isn’t the same as the car in whiskey Pete’s, it’s the only thing that I question on the car, possibly the old glass came out and they put another one in with a couple of holes in but not the same places
No it does not reside there today. They removed it and all the Bonnie and Clyde content. I went through there a few months ago and no idea where it went.
I once had a copy of the letter Clyde Barrow had wrote to Henry Ford. In the letter to Mr. Ford, Clyde stated as long a Ford kept building them so good, he would keep stealing them.
My wife and I went to the Bonnie and Clyde days festival a few years ago. It was very interesting. I encourage everyone to go, you will enjoy yourselves.
As a new 1934 car, what was its insurance status ? Why would the owners not have been paid ? Great video, very interesting and a commentary on macabre human nature.
The original color was very unique. Over the decades the color has changed due to the many environments that it has been in. Even today it is a strange color. Most cameras don’t do it justice as the real color. Back in the 1930s was long before clear coat for cars.
I remember seeing the car at Whiskey Pete's when it was first put on display, there were no barriers around it and you could walk right up to it, which of course I did. Poked my head thru the drivers window and had a good look, amazing feeling...
Great info....thanks so much ! The car is no longer at Whiskey Pete's. It left in June, 2021 on loan to Ronald Regan Presidential Library FBI exhibit July 2, 2021 through January 9, 2022. 2023, supposedly back on display at Primm Valley Resort & Casino.
We moved into our house in 1976. Our neighbors used to not lock their doors at night. They started locking up after their truck was stolen from the driveway during the night. The keys were in it also.
What happened to the Car from the 1960's Bonnie and Clyde Movie???? Early 1980s the Sonny Corleone Lincoln Continental with bullet holes was going around the Rod and Custom Car Show Circuit. I wonder where that Lincoln is today??
I wonder if it still runs I saw the death car last year at the ronald regan muesum in california,,,,,,it surprises me that it has stayed together after all these years being moved around like that bullet holes an all,,,IM very surprised that it hasnt fallen apart yet ,,,as old as it is an with all the damage it has,,,,just wondering after all these years does the old car still run ?
Early 70's it was at the German Fest in Toledo Ohio. Dad wouldn't pay the admission fee to see it. He said if you want to see some shot up junk cars go out behind the barn plenty out there.
Thanks ! I always wondered how it got to Nevada, when I saw it in 1994. When I was 13, I saw the movie and was captivated with the story and the ambush. Interesting that the first owner's last name was the same as the actor that portrayed Clyde (Warren Beatty). Coincidence or synchronicity. 😉
I saw the car at Whisky Pete's in Primm Nevada two years ago. It is west of Las Vegas, on I-15, just inside the Nevada/California border. No charge to see it. Very interesting piece of the past.
I always wonder what happened to the car after the shooting. I do remember seeing some of it in the great race before I lost tv single antenna then. So cool. Thanks.
@@bartl.largent9048 it's sad it had to go that far.. that cop just wanted to profit off a stolen car that wasn't his.. even back then it was law, if your car got stolen u got it back once it's recovered by law enforcement after they search for evidence and etc.. the car automatically supposed to be released to the owner without having a court order.. that cop was shady. What u think?
I saw this Bonnie and Clyde car in 1972 at the fair in Madison or Milwaukee. I was eight years old. My parents paid a few dollars to take us all into a circus tent where there were lots of folding chairs and the older gentleman running the show played the films of the ambush reenactment. After that, we all stood in line to walk past the car and get a good lQQK. If my memory serves me right, the gentleman was a colonel Tom Parker type! When I got to the car, he said “ come here little fella! You can get a good look… “ with that, he grabbed me under the armpits and stood me on the passenger side, running board, where I got to peak in through the window and stick my head in there. It smelled old and musty and was pretty macabre, and it made a big impression on me that I have never forgotten. Thanks to that gentleman for giving me that lasting memory. 😀
Great story! Thanks. My sister-in-law got a '66 Mustang in turquoise color. When my brother and she came visiting in October 2017 on a sunny day, they let me drive it a few blocks. It was cool but it smelled musty too, but it was beautiful.
I was born in ‘63 and lived in New Berlin. My parents took me there too. Funny to think we might have crossed paths 50 years ago.
@@yooper2186 Neato! Although I have long been a Floridian, I have family that are also now “Yoopers”! Small world, “ but I wouldn’t want to paint it. “
I saw it (?) as well, in 1974 in Somerdale, NJ, in the parking lot of a shopping center alongside White Horse Pike (Rt. 30), displayed in a trailer.... but after viewing this video, I'm wondering if the car I saw was one of the fakes.
It must have been on tour. I remember seeing it at a car show in the late 60's. Edit: or possibly early 70's.
I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car at the New York World’s Fair when my mom played a fast draw sheriff at the Frontier Palace show. It made quite an impression on this 6 year old boy. Thanks for the history!
You look like a girl, there is so many switch hitters on here it's scary...
As a car and history buff, i found this very interesting. Thank you very much.
Great timeline of the Bonnie & Clyde "Death Car" Bart. Thanks. As an update, the Death Car was briefly on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library mid June of 2022. Upon it's return to Nevada it is now on display inside of Buffalo Bill's Hotel & Casino in Primm, Nevada across the Interstate from Whiskey Pete's as of January 2023.
It's back at Whiskey Pete's Casino again. Saw it there about two weeks ago.
The car is their property, it was stolen from them so rightly so they have it back.
I agree
I saw a car in a carnival in Pasadena, Tx back in the late eighties and I thought at the time “ this is a fake”! I stand by that claim to this day! Great time line video! 👍
At last, a sensible, well researched account - so rare on the net. Thank you.
Thank you for watching and your comment
I have never seen the car, but I have been at the ambush site several times. I suspect that Sheriff fought the Warrens so hard because he too saw the value of that car. I am actually surprised the car did not come up as "missing" during that process!
I agree with you.
Evabody kno da po-lice be crooked AZZ MF and da sheriff be a punk AZZ MF fo doing those people like that
Good video. I enjoyed the part about the detail of it's manufacture.
Thank you for watching
In addition to Bonnie and Clyde it sounds like the sheriff also had a moral problem.
THANK YOU, great job recording this history!
Thank you
A little piece of trivia on this car is that 1934, I believe, was the only year in which they made them with all 4 suicide doors.
Same in 1933
I really enjoyed watching & listening to your video! I was born in 1953,in the early to mid 1960's,a man had the car inside an enclosed trailer. It was parked in a small shopping center parking lot. I believe it cost me about 25 cents to enter the trailer,walk around the car. It was roped off by red velvet ropes, so you couldn't actually touch the car. I'm 70 now,& will always remember that bullet riddled car,& the broken glass! I only wish i could've looked inside of the car! I almost forgot, this was in Columbus, IN.
I saw the car in trailer about the same time in Marion Illinois.
I Used To Live In
Greensburg, Indiana About
25 miles East Of Columbus, Indiana...
@@jeffadams9807 I know exactly where Greensburg is. Until 6 years ago, I lived in Shelbyville.
I saw the famous Ford at Whiskey Pete's in Nevada in 1998, but it was not enclosed in glass at that time. Your video has answered a lot of questions I had about the car, so I thank you!
I was there in 93.
I remember in the seventies a casino owner paid a crazy price for what was supposed to be the actual death car, sometime after that I saw another supposed one along with the Russian leaders personal limo that resembled an American Packard
@@rogercamp6071 Joseph Stalin did have a Packard that served as one of his limousines.
First time I seen the car whisky pete's 1990 I was there about 10 years ago it was still there but it was behind a glass wall with other artifacts gun's and car from that error
@@joseph258081 SAW the car
Excellent video !! Its where my love for the 34 ford came from ! Thanks for the new info
Thankyou for all your research,i have enjoyed your videos
Fascinating, great job!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great presentation! Thanks for giving this to us. I own a 34 model M, so I have a great interest in it. These are fantastic cars.
Thank you for watching
A few years ago we went on vacation to Las Vegas and went to prim to see the car. I took about 400 pictures of the car from any angle I could get.
Great video... I saw the car at Whiskey Pete's years ago
My Dad took me to the local K-Mart on a Sunday afternoon back in the mid 1970s to (allegedly) view the Bonnie & Clyde car along with one of Hitler's Mercedes. They were travelling across the country, placing an ad in the local newspaper, and showing up at little podunk towns and displaying them in a couple of tractor-trailers. You paid your buck or two and walked through to see the cars. Still not sure just how authentic either of them were!
So u be sayin yo dad wuz a big hitler fan
I always loved, The Bonnie And Clyde Death Car that exchanged hands but especially went back to the ORIGINAL, owner! ❤
FANTASTIC!! Somebody FINALLY freakin did the leg work to GET IT RIGHT!!!! From south Louisiana, my daughter and I took a day trip, to Gibsland and the death site. Visited the museum too.
I saw what I think was that car in Federal Way Washington at what I remember being a Thriftway store on the corner of 312th and Pacific highway, in the early 70s. It was like in the back of a semi trailer with a walkthrough, memorabilia etc. I still remember it vividly, so I guess it was memorable 🤷
...... Well researched, produced, done, TY 👍
Just a point, Hitler never owned a Mercedes. All of the cars he was pictured in belonged to Daimler_Benz who hired them out to the German State. Same thing happens today with the pope who is often seen in Mercedes 600's. Daimler has a fleet of cars which are also hired to the vatican.
Po0ooooo9
I'm sure Mercedes didn't dare ask for their cars back!
Ok, but Adolf Hitler also presented Daimler automobiles to foreign dignitaries and other important people. So was he giving away vehicles he didn't own?
Your wrong Hitler did own several Mercedes
Hitler made the Volkswagen heil
2:43 - 2:50 Likely show a similar car, but the two men standing on the driver's side are Henry and Edsel Ford.
Great history and great story thanks 🇺🇲🗽
Thank you for your support
This car was stolen about 30 minutes from where I live. I've stood in the driveway in the spot where it was taken and returned to before it was sold to the Crime Doctor. The driveway sloops toward the street making it easy to steal by simply releasing the brake and pushing it to the street before starting and driving away. unnoticed.
Great video. I was at the auction of this car back in 1973. There was a significant amount of promotional advertising in various old car magazines prior to the auction in Worcester, Mass run by the Auburn, Indiana based Kruse Auction House.. I remember the Ted Toddy telling those in the crowd to touch the car to bring luck as it brought him so much luck. I reached over and touch the rear fender. My mother was so angry......claiming that Bonnie and Clyde had no such luck touching that car.....and now I was cursed!!! Ha! Fun times.
Wow, great story!
Hi Bart-
I have no way of knowing if it was the actual car, but back in the late 1970s, my father had a Body Shop on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and for about two weeks, he stored what was supposed to be the Bonnie and Clyde car.
I remember it extremely well... It was tied down to a big flatbed car hauler.
It looked EXACTLY like the period pictures, same bullet holes and bloodstains... You name it.
I remember that the tires were rotten and flat. I remember the lettering being on the hood.
And the car was FILTHY.
Dad had a crew of 7 or 8 guys working in the shop at the time, and I remember him having two at a time stay overnight while that particular car was there.
As I remember, it was either the winter of 1976 or 1978.
But I certainly do remember that car.
I wonder if it could be confirmed that it was in Ohio during one of those winters?
Of course, it could have been a replica or a fake... But my memory for small detail has always been excellent... And I remember the car that was stored at dad's shop being exactly like the real thing.
Cheers...
Hopefully you'll be able to put that mystery to rest for me.
By the 1970s most fake death cars were destroyed for one reason or another. So It could have been the real one. Thanks for sharing your father’s story.
Yep INDEED ❗👍🏼
And it really does not matter. You can go ahead and tell others it was the car. Don't mention the copies. I wish I had seen at least the copies
I seen it in the early 90s. one of my most vivid memories from bein a kid. This vid makes me wonder if it was a fake tho. How long that car been in glass at that casino?? I seen it at a Bonnie n Clyde trade days thing around Arcadia or gibsland
The car that was at the trades day is now at the Bonnie and Clyde museum in Gibsland.
Thanks for explaining about the copies. When I saw the one in Gatlinburg, I thought it was the one and only.
Very interesting video, Thank You!!
Thank you for watching
Excellent doco mate
I remember my Dad, who was born in 1935 , telling me they brought the car around to the small town movie theaters so the kids could see it and they would tell the story of Bonnie and Clyde and how they died to discourage they from a life of crime.
That is true. I have read newspaper stories about that. Your dad was born in the Greatest Generation. Thank you for sharing.
The story of Bonnie and Clyde has always fascinated me. What I can not understand is why this famous couple of lovers incurred in the crimes of those 30s. Although the video shows incorrect images with the case as seeing Bonnie lifeless protruding from the car in the place of the driver seems to me a good video that makes you think how that fatal year of 1934 must have been in that convulsed moment.
I just visited the Bonnie and Clyde death car at Whiskey Pete’s Las week. I have previously visited the car there about 20 years ago and it was not surrounded by plexiglass at that time.
I knew Jennie Withers. She and her husband, Newt, owned Withers Goodyear in Fountain Valley, California. I had my car serviced there for years until they retired. I knew they had participated in races, but I had no idea she had ever driven the Bonnie and Clyde car.
Good Documentary. Thanks!
I saw a car in the early 70s claiming to be the Bonnie & Clyde death car in the parking lot in front of Woolco at the 7th Street Shopping Center in Frederick, Md. They charged a small admission, and you went into this trailer, and they had velvet ropes in front of it and a Thompson machine gun displayed. I have no idea if it was the actual car or not, but the way it's pictured in the video is pretty much how I remember it.
Great story. Thank you.
I think I saw the same car on the same tour in Seattle area. Your description brought back more detailed memory 👍
In 1968 in Lousiville, KY I saw the Bonnie and Clyde Car and stuck my finger in one of the bullet holes on the driver side. It had a chain link fence around it. But since you say that there were fakes around, maybe that wasn't the real car. Anyway, I was 15 . The seats were ploughed up and stained. Cheap Thrills for a 15 year old. Thanks for the documentary.
About that time I saw the car in Owensboro, Ky on display. Was here about a day. My mom brought me and my brothers to see the car. Remember it well
@@CptFantaztic Cool!!! Maybe it was the original. To be specfic, it was at the Kentucky State Fair- 1968. By the was, just got some Burgoo from the Moonlite BBQ ! I live in Virginia, but I am a Kentucky Boy! All of the best! Dennis
@@denAlexVA Nice. Just took a gallon of Burgoo over to my mother-in-laws. She was excited to have it. My father -in-law passed away on Thursday morning and she hadnt eaten since so we made sure she got something we knew she would eat. If I remember correctly, the car was on tour and it was in front of the Krogers or Super X Drug Store.(They were side by side) Was up on a flat bed truck. Long time ago,,lol!! Keith
@@CptFantaztic I am sorry for your loss. I take it that you still live in KY. I am from Lousiville
Right around the time of the release of the movie, I saw the car (real/fake?) on display in a shopping center parking lot in Monroe, Louisiana. I thought it was the real deal, but I could be wrong. Thank you for this most interesting video! I have been a Bonnie'nClyde-o-phile since a teenager (I'm now 70).
Charles, you only have a few years on me. I also have been interested in Bonnie and Clyde since my teens.
Gramps?
I saw the car on a trailer in Louisiana when I was about 4 yo. You could touch it, look inside of it and stay as long as you wanted. I was fascinated with it even being that young. I will never forget it.
I pose a curiosity question: 1) The front windshield in some still photos shows the passenger side riddled with bullet holes, and the drivers side clear. Then in other photos, the passenger side is clear and the drivers side is bashed-in. 2) In some photos the rear window is riddled bullet holes, and some photos with no bullet holes but smashed glass. Why the discrepancies?
The real death car had numerous bullet holes on Bonnie’s side of the car. They shot at Clyde mostly through his door. As the car was rolling into the side of the road, officers followed the car firing into the back of it.
It was a beautiful car little did they know that this car was going to make history
I remember in either 1973 or 74 when this car came to karcher Mall in Nampa Idaho .at that time it wasn't uncommon to see cars of this age that had bullet holes in them in fact I knew where several cars were in the mountains that had taken a slide down an embankment and they would stay there for years and over the course of time people shot them full of holes.
But as a kid seeing those holes in the Bonnie and Clyde car was your whole different experience at 8 years old.
I seen it in Seattle in 73
How many times was the car shot, And how many shots were fired totaled. Jim
I have read 167 holes
@@bartl.largent9048 Well you know what they say if you want to do something do it right the first time. Jim
The car was at the Gold Ranch Casino on I-80 for many years. Possibly when Clyde Wade owned it and Stremmel owned the casino.
I stopped at Whiskey Petes in 1999 for a break while travelling from Phoenix to Vegas. Did not know the car was there but there it was right inside like a lobby area and not behind glass, however I believe I remember it being roped off. Got a pretty good look at it and it still looked pretty gruesome even after all the years. If that car could talk it would be a helluva conversation. I hope the original owners were properly compensated.
At 2:30 you see the passenger rear window isn’t the same as the car in whiskey Pete’s, it’s the only thing that I question on the car, possibly the old glass came out and they put another one in with a couple of holes in but not the same places
Many pieces of glass (front, sides and rear) were removed by souvenir hunters after the ambush and years past.
No it does not reside there today. They removed it and all the Bonnie and Clyde content. I went through there a few months ago and no idea where it went.
I once had a copy of the letter Clyde Barrow had wrote to Henry Ford. In the letter to Mr. Ford, Clyde stated as long a Ford kept building them so good, he would keep stealing them.
Hats great. Thank you for watching
Awesome!
Wow, cars were expensive, even back then.
My wife and I went to the Bonnie and Clyde days festival a few years ago. It was very interesting. I encourage everyone to go, you will enjoy yourselves.
I agree. It’s a family fun event. Thank you for watching
I saw it at the National Orange Show in San Bernardino, California, in 1971.
As a new 1934 car, what was its insurance status ?
Why would the owners not have been paid ?
Great video, very interesting and a commentary on macabre human nature.
I don’t think in 1934 many car owners had insurance. It was not a law back then like now.
Very intresing video Bart
Thank you John.
It sits at Whiskey Pete's Casino Primm Nevada. I've saw it there a few years ago. It's really neat to see.
Nice piece
What I want to know is did the old couple get another new car and make the trip they wanted?
That’s a good question. Wonder what they did with the money they received from the death car when they sold it.
What Was The Decision Of The Court "Why They Didn't Give The Car Back To The Rightful Owner?"
GREED/PAY OFF MONEY?
The sheriff’s official reply was, he was holding it for evidence.
Great story with so much detail; amazing !
Thanks so much!
Any hotel recommendations for the upcoming B&C festival? Not sure, but may try to make it?
@@DavisSuccessSolu I hope to see you there. There are a few motels in Minden, one in Arcadia. Those are the closest that I know of.
It's all such a shame. Even to this day, hard-working people have to lose out to cheap thieves.
Timeline of Bonnie and Clyde two young people living it up life of crime they end up becoming Swiss cheese 🧀 end of story.
Thanks for a great viddo
Thank you for your support
How did it get from gray to tan?
The original color was very unique. Over the decades the color has changed due to the many environments that it has been in. Even today it is a strange color. Most cameras don’t do it justice as the real color. Back in the 1930s was long before clear coat for cars.
Very well done.
Bonnie and my mother-in law were in the same class at school. Yep, she scares ma at times.
I remember seeing the car at Whiskey Pete's when it was first put on display, there were no barriers around it and you could walk right up to it, which of course I did. Poked my head thru the drivers window and had a good look, amazing feeling...
I saw this car in the Summer of 1973 after it was sold at auction. I remember it having the record for the highest price
We saw the death spot. Spooky! There were no birds chirping , no sound at all. Very quiet and very spooky
If Bonnie and Clyde were here today; the corrupt police wouldn’t stand a chance😊❤
Today is May 23 2024 exactly 90 years now
In some pictures the bullet holes in the passenger side windshield are missing and bullet holes don’t line up🤔
Over 100,000 miles! They must have driven it everywhere instead of hauling it? I can't imagine driving it.....
Great info....thanks so much !
The car is no longer at Whiskey Pete's. It left in June, 2021 on loan to Ronald Regan Presidential Library FBI exhibit July 2, 2021 through January 9, 2022. 2023, supposedly back on display at Primm Valley Resort & Casino.
I think police have shown how despicable they really are, and they still are.
I saw the car at the Ford museum in Detroit Michigan probably 3 years ago.or was it a copy?
We wouldn't think of leaving the keys in the car, those days were so different from ours.
We moved into our house in 1976. Our neighbors used to not lock their doors at night. They started locking up after their truck was stolen from the driveway during the night. The keys were in it also.
I am 83 years old and was always told Bonnie and Clyde were killed in Platt County Missouri
They had a shootout there but escaped
I saw the car in pics where bonnie was still sitting in the car. They put a lot of lead into her side too.
Actually, all the shooters were on Clyde's side. Some bullets went thru him & struck her
It was displayed at Modern Motor's Ford in St. Joseph, Mo. I think around 1947.
my daddy saw the death car when he was a little boy at a carnival,i think that was so cool
Looks like it did a lot of appearances, do you know if it’s still in existence?
Yes it is still in Nevada
@@bartl.largent9048 thanks
What happened to the Car from the 1960's Bonnie and Clyde Movie????
Early 1980s the Sonny Corleone Lincoln Continental with bullet holes was going around the Rod and Custom Car Show Circuit.
I wonder where that Lincoln is today??
The movie death car has it’s own history. Today it is in the East Alcatraz Museum In Tennessee.
Good job
I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car at Whiskey Pete's casino at the CA/NV state line when I was 16 back in 1989. Dang! Time flies.
I wonder if it still runs I saw the death car last year at the ronald regan muesum in california,,,,,,it surprises me that it has stayed together after all these years being moved around like that bullet holes an all,,,IM very surprised that it hasnt fallen apart yet ,,,as old as it is an with all the damage it has,,,,just wondering after all these years does the old car still run ?
70 YEAR OLD DALLAS HIS GRAVE MOVED FORDS 1934 CAR I SAW IT @ TEXAS STATE FAIR
The car came to my home town in about 1972 in the back of a transport truck .
Who in there right mind would modify this car for a race? That is utter STUPIDITY. If i were a collector, this decreases its value significantly.
I agree. Thats just crazy. Thank you for watching
They should have replaced the hood ornament. Liked!
I saw the car in 1975 in a carnival in st. Joseph mo. I kinda doubt if it was the original one
Early 70's it was at the German Fest in Toledo Ohio. Dad wouldn't pay the admission fee to see it. He said if you want to see some shot up junk cars go out behind the barn plenty out there.
I saw that car in Las Vegas back in 93. It was at whiskey Pete’s truck stop casino.
Thanks ! I always wondered how it got to Nevada, when I saw it in 1994. When I was 13, I saw the movie and was captivated with the story and the ambush. Interesting that the first owner's last name was the same as the actor that portrayed Clyde (Warren Beatty). Coincidence or synchronicity. 😉
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I saw the car at Whisky Pete's in Primm Nevada two years ago. It is west of Las Vegas, on I-15, just inside the Nevada/California border. No charge to see it. Very interesting piece of the past.
I always wonder what happened to the car after the shooting. I do remember seeing some of it in the great race before I lost tv single antenna then. So cool. Thanks.
That's bogus, her car was stolen.. the car is supposed to go back to the owner once recovered
Through a court order it did return to the rightful owner.
@@bartl.largent9048 it's sad it had to go that far.. that cop just wanted to profit off a stolen car that wasn't his.. even back then it was law, if your car got stolen u got it back once it's recovered by law enforcement after they search for evidence and etc.. the car automatically supposed to be released to the owner without having a court order.. that cop was shady. What u think?
130 bullets they must be very scared of them
I remember seeing this car in LaGrange Kentucky in the late 1950s it was part f some sort of traveling tour