63 Colony Park in The Fastest Indian

Anyone seen the movie, The Fastest Indian? Great movie, and supposedly a true story, about an elderly guy from New Zealand spending every dime he had to bring his Indian motorcycle to America to set a land speed record at the Bonneville salt flats. One of the main characters drives a 63 Mercury Colony Park wagon. Mercury wagons like that don't show up in movies very often. The only other movie I've ever seen with a 63 Colony Park wagon is the Alfred Hitchcock movie, Marnie, but the wagon only makes a very brief appearance in that movie.

 

Awesome movie! Highly recommended.

 

Anybody remember the movie Yours Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda? She had 8 kids and he had 10 and they wind up getting married. She drove a 1967 Country Squire but I can't remember his car, though it had to have been a wagon as well.

 

Yeah, I recall that flick. They really needed a schoolbus!

 

A quick google search and it looks like I was a bit off the mark. Lucille Ball's car was a '67 Ford wagon, but not a Squire. It didn't have the wood, so maybe it was a Country Sedan? Henry Fonda had a '65 Colony Park. Even with both 9 passenger wagons, they still wouldn't have been able to fit the whole family in.

 

Not legally anyway.I can remember a neighbour lady getting about twelve of us kids into her 1968 Colony Park.In the early 70's,it wasn't such a crime against humanity...

 

Thanks for the suggestion, I wish it had worked.

 

Very good movie.:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

How bout the Colony Park that Betty Draper drives in Mad Men? It is shown quite a lot...blue, I think.

 

There's a Colony Park in Mad Men??? Now I'll have to watch...