Skyliners used in Movies

[hercules]

40 years ago movie titled French Connection . Movie had a 1959 black retractable chase . If I remember correct the car got smashed . Any members know about whereabouts of this movie car ? I'm guessing 1971 this Skyliner would have been low cost . Likely car got junked after crashing it . You never can tell someone out there might have the car . James Bond drove a 1957 brown Skyliner in a later movie . Can't think of the title . Bond was in Cuba driving back roads . Our cars are Bond 007 character cool . Movie makers actions have picked this car . Actions speak loader than words .

[skeehorse]

I have seen a black 1959 skyliner used on the Perry Mason show and I have seen them on other shows and movies in the back ground , but like most of the actors they are most likely long gone? Just the same it is fun to see them.
Jim

[WILLS RESTORATIONS]

The bond movie was thunderball. In the temptations movie, there is a scene of a red & white 58 with the roof in motion. Also, in chasing 300 for scenes taking place in 1966, henry kopczak's gulfstream blue 58 appears twice. Once top up, then top down in another.

[Lars-57]

James Bond, Die Another Day 2002

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/DieAnotherDay.jpg

James Bond, Thunderball 1965

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/Thunderball.jpg

[droptopford]

I remember seeing the black '57 Skyliner in Thunderball. I don't remember that particular scene though. Was Bond operating the 007 smoke screen or did he just need a ring-job?:confused:

[Lars-57]

Here another shot I found, no registration plate on this one.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/thunderball2.jpg

[Lars-57]

Here another one, Hot Rod Horror (2008)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/HotRodHorror.jpg

[hercules]

Fabulous pictures Lars- Thanks for finding them . Walt

[Lars-57]

From a crazy Swedish TV-series from 1994.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/Rapporttillhimlen.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/Rapporttillhimlen2.jpg

[droptopford]

Thanks for posting those pictures Lars...Great Stuff!

By the way, I believe there is a movie from a few years ago called 'Ya Ya or Wa Wa Sister Hood' (something like that anyway). Somewhere during that movie I remember seeing a nice '58 Skyliner a couple of times.
And let's not forget the epic cinema masterpiece...Ford Fairlane. Andrew Dice Clay supposedly blew up a red and white '57 in that one!

[Lars-57]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/TheAdventuresofFordFairlane.jpg


Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/DivineSecretsoftheYa-YaSisterhood.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/DivineSecretsoftheYa-YaSisterhood2.jpg

[hercules]

Movie Hollywoodland about 1950s era TV Superman actor suicide or murder . Green white 1957 Skyliner gets a comment - nice car .

[Lars-57]

Bad pick,, http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/Hollywoodland.jpg

[hercules]

Yes this is the car . In movie it's parked in a driveway . Thanks for your picture Lars .

[uk58]

Note also that Thunderball was shot in England, as are most of the James Bond films. The Skyliner is carrying a British registration plate. US built cars were pretty rare here, even in the 60s, due to high road taxes and fuel costs, and most here were left behind by servicemen on the air bases. So a rough estimate of maybe a couple of hundred 57 Fords of all models in the whole country, and they had to pick a Skyliner to destroy !

[Lars-57]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/SkippedParts.jpg

Skipped Parts (2000)

[hercules]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/SkippedParts.jpg

Skipped Parts (2000) Nice 59 picture You sure are finding the movies with Skyliners

[Lars-57]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/flatred53/TheValachiPapers.jpg

[skylinerman58]

Sorry my computer skill's don't allow me to put it on here but in the movie there is a red & white 57 cycling the top in the back ground...Temtation's Forever...

[silverbird58]

bobby darin drove a Black 57 , Code F maybe, in a movie he made in 57

[droptopford]

This thread is yet another glaring reminder of what useless, crappy outfit Photobucket is.

[JSTUEBER]

Hello,

interesting thread - but as droptopford said - no pictures to see! @ Lars, could you put the photos somewhere else online so we can see them? Photobucket ist not showing them.

Thanks Johannes

[White59]

Thank you for the updated pictures.

[droptopford]

Yes... Thanks Lars! Great pics and it's good to see them back up.

(All over the web on sites like this, thousands of pictures that were hosted by Photobucket have disappeared.

I don't blame them for wanting to make a buck. What I do blame them for is changing their policies after the fact. If they wanted to charge new customers for their service...fine. Their attempt to extort payment from existing members/customers for a service that was advertised as free is deplorable. I'll go out of my way to do business with anyone but Photobucket.)

[droptopford]

Wow... Looks like someone was listening.

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Hopefully under new management things will improve. Maybe I'll give them another shot.

[droptopford]

Okay, not a movie and possibly not a Skyliner (might be a Sunliner; I can't tell). This recent TV commercial for the South Beach diet caught my eye. Besides the obvious eye-catching scenery, there is a very quick glimpse of something cool at the :32 or :33 second mark. The producers clearly wanted to show something classy.


https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Inca/south-beach-diet-keto-friendly-save-40-percent-featuring-jessie-james-decker

[White59]

Good catch! I think it's a Sunliner from the looks of the chrome trim at the windshield header.

[silverbird58]

and the black skyliner in Gold finger

[silverbird58]

bobby darin did a movie in 57 or 58 With a Code F black skyliner

[JSTUEBER]

OK it is not a movie but a nice music clip with a '59 Skyliner:

Eros Ramazzotti - Por Las Calles Las Canciones

[droptopford]

Thanks for posting that JSTUEBER. Nice to see the Skyliner in that video... or any Ford for that matter... '66 Mustang is nice too.

(This link is 'clickable'. I tried to embed it but it wouldn't take.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjmQdhMmO0M

[zrone90]

Perry Mason drove a 57,58, and 59 Skyliner in the original series. The 58 is the hardest to find, I think they always showed him driving it a night.

[White59]

Thanks for posting that JSTUEBER. Nice to see the Skyliner in that video... or any Ford for that matter... '66 Mustang is nice too.

(This link is 'clickable'. I tried to embed it but it wouldn't take.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjmQdhMmO0M

Thanks for posting.