Buck Barrow
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Chuck Dempsey
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I guess he too, when he could, stole Ford cars.... Thanks for posting.
Marshall V. Daut
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There's another famous photo showing Buck standing next to a 1929 Model A Fordor Sedan. A second photo shows Buck and his wife Blanche next to the same car with him embracing her. I think she was standing on a runningboard. By the way, Blanche was Buck's second or third wife, I don't recall which. And Bonnie was still married to Roy Thornton even while she was running with Clyde terrorizing small business owners. Technically she was no longer Bonnie "Parker" by then, but MRS. Roy Thornton.
More useless trivia to start day with! 'Might help you win a trivia contest some day, though...
Marshall
More useless trivia to start day with! 'Might help you win a trivia contest some day, though...
Marshall
Fullraceflathead
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I always really enjoyed the movie bonnie and Clyde that they made in 1967!!!
gdmn852
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Hello I believe Buck also had a Marmon Sedan that was left behind in the Joplin shootout , leaving 2 officers killed. The Barrow family wanted the car back but was given to surviving family members of the killed officers. The house still stands in Joplin and is a historical structure, 2 story garage with apartment above, l think they used the 32 Convertible Sedan as a getaway car .
SDJason
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Here's some more pics of Buck Barrow (with Model As, and with Blanche) that I accumulated over the years; sorry - I cannot give credit to where I originally got them from - been too many years, and I didn't keep track.
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Marshall V. Daut
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Not to get too far afield from Model A discussions here, but since the topic has been brought up... ahem...
Much as I loved that 1967 movie for many years, I later learned through extensive reading that virtually nothing was accurately portrayed in dealing with their lives. The truth was danced around the edges quite a bit and many liberalities were taken with the facts, "fast and loose" as they say. I realize that Hollywood has to take a certain amount of "poetic license" to make their movies more appealing to the masses in order to make the otherwise dreary lives of ordinary people palatable and entertaining to moviegoers. A true student of B & C could point out glaring errors in EVERY scene. However, if one views the movie purely as entertainment and not as historical fact, it's a good movie. (I still like to watch it every year or two.) The omissions of what actually happened are even more glaring than the outright distortions and half-truths portrayed in the film. Oddly, the writers and Warner Brothers didn't even touch on some incidents that were FAR more interesting and telling of character than what was put into the movie, such as Bonnie becoming a virtual cripple after sustaining 3rd degree burns on one leg down to the bone after a car accident in the country. Her leg muscles shriveled up and she had to virtually be carried from then on until her death. I wonder how the script writers missed THAT little bit of the B & C history? And don't even get me started on the "C.W. Moss" character in the movie, who was actually a combination of at least two actual gang members.
One final trivia comment before getting back into Model A's: newspapers of the day invariably referred to the outlaws as Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, in that order, not as Bonnie & Clyde. It took the 1967 movie title to change the billing order. That's a slight to Clyde who was always irrefutably the one in charge of the various gangs he belonged to.
Marshall
Much as I loved that 1967 movie for many years, I later learned through extensive reading that virtually nothing was accurately portrayed in dealing with their lives. The truth was danced around the edges quite a bit and many liberalities were taken with the facts, "fast and loose" as they say. I realize that Hollywood has to take a certain amount of "poetic license" to make their movies more appealing to the masses in order to make the otherwise dreary lives of ordinary people palatable and entertaining to moviegoers. A true student of B & C could point out glaring errors in EVERY scene. However, if one views the movie purely as entertainment and not as historical fact, it's a good movie. (I still like to watch it every year or two.) The omissions of what actually happened are even more glaring than the outright distortions and half-truths portrayed in the film. Oddly, the writers and Warner Brothers didn't even touch on some incidents that were FAR more interesting and telling of character than what was put into the movie, such as Bonnie becoming a virtual cripple after sustaining 3rd degree burns on one leg down to the bone after a car accident in the country. Her leg muscles shriveled up and she had to virtually be carried from then on until her death. I wonder how the script writers missed THAT little bit of the B & C history? And don't even get me started on the "C.W. Moss" character in the movie, who was actually a combination of at least two actual gang members.
One final trivia comment before getting back into Model A's: newspapers of the day invariably referred to the outlaws as Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, in that order, not as Bonnie & Clyde. It took the 1967 movie title to change the billing order. That's a slight to Clyde who was always irrefutably the one in charge of the various gangs he belonged to.
Marshall
Marshall V. Daut
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Here is the photo I referenced in Post #3. The typical 1928-29 Murray and Briggs Fordor cowl and lack of cowl lights and cowl band identify this Model A as a Standard Fordor Sedan. Buck must have liked Model sedans!
By the way, this is not the same Fordor shown in SDJason's photos. That one is a 1929 Murray-bodied Town Sedan (cowl lights, cowl band, arched side windows).
Marshall
By the way, this is not the same Fordor shown in SDJason's photos. That one is a 1929 Murray-bodied Town Sedan (cowl lights, cowl band, arched side windows).
Marshall
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Jeff/Illinois
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Interesting thread! I too like the 1967 flick I get it out once or twice a year to watch it.
The Highway Man, a remake of that duo starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, is good, check it out! Probably more accurate that the Arthur Penn directed 1967 movie.
Once when I was in western Iowa coming back from LaMars I stopped at Rembrandt, Iowa to see the bank they had robbed. That town is very small about 250 people, but it has a nice bank pretty modern. Lots of wealthy farmers in that area.
I went into the new bank and obviously it was not the 1934 bank scene of the robbery, and asked a couple of the locals in there about the Bonnie and Clyde history and they didn't have a clue! No one had heard about that hold up before. This was 15 years ago, the original bank still stood across the street pretty run down it's probably been torn down by now.
Here is a picture I found on the internet of what it looked like in '34
The Highway Man, a remake of that duo starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, is good, check it out! Probably more accurate that the Arthur Penn directed 1967 movie.
Once when I was in western Iowa coming back from LaMars I stopped at Rembrandt, Iowa to see the bank they had robbed. That town is very small about 250 people, but it has a nice bank pretty modern. Lots of wealthy farmers in that area.
I went into the new bank and obviously it was not the 1934 bank scene of the robbery, and asked a couple of the locals in there about the Bonnie and Clyde history and they didn't have a clue! No one had heard about that hold up before. This was 15 years ago, the original bank still stood across the street pretty run down it's probably been torn down by now.
Here is a picture I found on the internet of what it looked like in '34
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Gary/IA
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A few years ago our Model A group toured the area around Dexter, Iowa where The Barrow gang camped after their shoot out at Platt City,MO. After Platt City, they stopped at Caledonia, Iowa (no longer exists) for bandages and supplies, the Caledonia site is close to my place. The Dexfield Park shoot out was in July 1933. About a year later (April 1934) Bonnie and Clyde returned to the near by town of Stuart, Iowa and robbed the bank. That bank building is still there. Down the road is the place where J James committed the 1st train robbery. A very interesting Model A tour. The people at Dexter are VERY informative about the Barrow gang,
Fullraceflathead
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Lots of history hopefully soon not to be forgotten yeah I realize Hollywood changes things a lot in movies it's actually unfortunate because people use movies for the history and they really shouldn't!!!
Jeff/Illinois
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Yes happens a lot.
In the movie 'Patton' as I recall they used the US Army M46 'Patton' tank in the battle scenes. That didn't show up until the late 40's early 50's, for the American tanks. Paint the Iron Cross symbol on another US Army tank I think it was the M-43 as I recall, and now you have a WWII German 'Tiger 'tank.
Oh well it would be hard to source original WWII battle tanks. At least in 'Kelly's Heroes' with Clint Eastwood (1970) they DID have Sherman M-4's for the Americans and Tigers in the street square scene for the Germans
gdmn852
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Hello again, I blame Bonnie and Clyde for my pre war car fetish .Saw that movie late 1960,s at drive in and haven’t been same since. Clyde had a thing for roadsters also , he killed a man named Doyle Johnson Christmas Day 1932 over a 31 Green Deluxe Roadster, in Temple Texas.Shot him right off the running board as Johnson was trying to prevent his car being stolen. Total killed was 12 to 14 people depending on which source.