According to TVLand.com it is episode #190. My son who saw the
episode in December, tells me that June says something to the effect
of "Ward, I don't like Wally going out in a racing car." and Beaver
says "Boy! Look at that thing burn rubber." Joe(B)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>
To: <dkettler@tcbi.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Leave it to Beaver, was TRs in the Cinema
> >From: "David Kettler" <dkettler@tcbi.com>
> >Reply-To: "David Kettler" <dkettler@tcbi.com>
> >To: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>, <fot@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Re: TRs in the Cinema
> >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:37:16 -0600
> >
> >Does anyone remember an episode of Leave it to Beaver that had two
TR3's in
> >it?
> >
> >Dave Kettler
>
> I remember it. Wally gets mixed up with a group of sophisticated
older boys
> and Ward and June are concerned about him. Ward and June watch
through the
> window as Wally rides away on the back of a TR3 Homecoming Queen
style and
> have the following dialogue:
>
> June: (concerned) "Ward, all that prestige and sports cars...that's
very
> tempting to a boy of Wally's age."
>
> Ward: "To a boy of any age."
>
> John Herrera
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>
> >To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:33 PM
> >Subject: TRs in the Cinema
> >
> >
> > > Amici:
> > >
> > > Pardon me, but I have to weigh in on this one. Being in
Maryland, I well
> > > remember Start Your Engines. I bought parts from them. It was
nice
> >having
> >a
> > > parts place near enough to visit. I think it was in Beltsville.
> > >
> > > I, too, am a fan of Diner, but no discussion of TRs in movies
would be
> > > complete without a mention of B movie Girlstown starring Mel
Torme
> >playing
> >a
> > > teen but looking about 35, Mamie Van Doren, I forget her name
but she
> >was
> > > the ol;der daughter in Father Knows Best, and a rather tatty
Long Door
> >TR2!
> > > Singing gigs were hard to come by for Mel, so he took the part
> >reluctantly.
> > >
> > > The long door is Mel's ride. He is in a sports car version of a
> >motorcycle
> > > gang. They call themselves the Jags. It has a great Chicken Drag
(hands
> >off
> > > the steering wheel) scene between Mel in the 2 and a guy in a
Hot Rod in
> >one
> > > of those concrete drainage ditch things like in American
Graffiti or
> >some
> > > such movie. And did I mention Mamie Van Doren is in it?
> > >
> > > Also Daddy-O which includes a race between a small mouth 3 and I
think a
> > > T-bird. The small mouth magically becomes a wide mouth halfway
through
> >the
> > > race, like those movie airplanes that suddenly become the
Capellis
> >Transport
> > > just before they crash.
> > >
> > > I've said my piece and I'll shut up for a while.
> > >
> > > John Herrera
> > > I've been accused of having too much time on my hands.
> > >
> > >
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