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9 lip 2021 · Considered to be one of the best looking cars created for the big screen by Barris and one of his personal favorites, this is the 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado “Mannix Roadster” created for the hit 1960’s television show “Mannix.”.
23 gru 2023 · A high priced detective needed a car to go along with his station in life, so the natural choice would be a car that was unavailable to anyone else in the whole world: a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado roadster.
7 maj 2020 · Korean War veteran and karate black belt Joe Mannix was an LA-based private eye played by Mike Connors (1925-2017), who by 1967 had appeared in more than 20 films and made hundreds of TV appearances. With his lopsided smirk, the 42-year-old was a familiar face rather than a household name.
24 sie 2017 · After choosing a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado (perhaps inspired by Barris’s previous experience building the 70-X Toronados for Esso for Expo 67), Barris cut off the roof and installed a semi-permanent tonneau cover behind the front seats, thus converting the coupe into a two-seat roadster (the top apparently did go up, as seen in one episode ...
21 lut 2019 · One thing that’s hard to argue with about the TV show Mannix, they sure had some cool and unusual cars, such as this George Barris creation: the Mannix Roadster, a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado. This famous TV personality can be found here on eBay, not in Hollywood but in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
When Barris first built the car for the 1967 season, he took a brand new stock 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado and cut the roof off, eliminated the back seat and made a custom tonneau covering the rear compartment making it into a two seat roadster.
6 lut 2019 · This custom-built roadster is based on a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado and was used as the protagonist’s vehicle of choice in the first two seasons of 1960’s TV detective series Mannix.
