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XC_Ute
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Posted: 07/13/08 12:18 PM
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While reading through a recent issue of R & C there was mention of "Falcon Gasser" and I automatically remembered the one photo of the "Peanuts and Greer" straight axle 60-61 Falcon 2 dr. (The photo seems to have been shot from the back of a grandstand or other elevated structure and the car was pointing to the left, seemed to be sitting/being driven on grass)
Other then an earlier R & C article on P & G's 1959(?) Ford Anglia gasser P & G must have stayed "under the radar" and not receive mention elsewhere. I am surprised at the number of people who automatically call both 59 Anglias and early Falcon gassers "Peanuts". It must have come from being mentioned/shown in R & C.(Ever hear someone mention "Fatheads Forever" in regards to the R & C cartoon?)
So who was "Peanuts and Greer" and were there other photos of the Falcon?
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jalopy45
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Posted: 07/13/08 03:41 PM
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There was a Sheldon Konblatt that used to run a Peanuts funny car in the 60's on the west coast, I have a few pictures of it. It was a real ugly 4 door fiberglass car, but he may have had other ones? R&C used to have a regular cartoon called Erin Cee that used the flatheads forever slogan quite often.
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XC_Ute
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Posted: 07/14/08 05:52 AM
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Looks like everyone didn't read R & C "back then". Peanuts and greer was the team's name, R & C readers picked up on the "Peanuts" name as a representation of a car like the team's Anglia and Falcon.
Both cars had their names on the doors.
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ekimball
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Posted: 07/15/08 01:30 PM
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Man this is all way before my time, I need to start digging into the archives and reading the old issues.
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XC_Ute
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Posted: 07/16/08 05:52 AM
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There is only a single photo of the Falcon and it is near the bottom of a page displaying a number of unrelated photos. I'm thinking mid-1970's.
The article on the Anglia ran before the Falcon photo. And don't ask which issue had the "Fatheads Forever" joke (Two guys, one wearing shirt with the lettering, caption "Because they were cheap" (re:miss prints)"
And there was the "We have a 9/16" wrench, a spark plug (etc.), do we have enough to build a car?" cartoon...
I also remember a number of items from MAD Magazine from the same era. mis-spent youth?
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