Andy Griffith's Vintage Car Collection

[@FusionKidd]

*What other cars do you know of that Andy drove? Leave a comment below!*

[@jerrycallender9352]

His wife had a red Bentley and terrorized their town of Manteo

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

@@jerrycallender9352 Manteo. That sure tells us a lot. Got any other intelligent contributions?

[@simonjenkins4481]

@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Yeah..I'd see him at Copeland Motors in Virginia Beach with his FIAT X1/9

[@joemazzola7387]

I always liked Andy Griffith And now I like hime more now that I know he was a fellow gearhead

[@JIMJAMSC]

He worked hard for his success so good for him.

[@jnywd8450]

I'm diggin his taste in cars.

[@mistervacation23]

I liked the first Ben spread a little sunshine everyday

[@tomp1612]

July/Aug 1973 Ford Life magazine has a story about his cars. At the time he had the 30 Cabriolet, a 30 Tudor, the 34 pickup, the Buick convertible, the 1912 Baker Electric someone else mentions (I saw that at Harrah's Museum too) and an English Taxi. He lived in North Hollywood and owned a place in North Carolina where he stored the 55 Ford be bought new.

[@tomp1612]

It also says the first car he bought was a 52 Ford station wagon, two door with overdrive . 52 was when he quit his teaching job to become an entertainer. It says he gave that car to his parents when he bought the 55. And noticing all the cars on his TV show i'd say he's a Ford guy. I already admired him before reading that.

[@freddiecarr7602]

I used to see his Baker Electric at the National Auto Museum in Reno. However this past Christmas I noticed they had remolded the exhibit halls and I could not locate it.

[@thebestisyettocome4114]

On TV he used Ford. His daily driver was late model Mercedes Benz C Class. Known fact. Driven in his own community.

[@retroguy9494]

Andy seemed to prefer Fords. What kind of surprises me is that there didn't seem to be any Cadillacs in his collection.

[@MattMorris481]

He was definitely a ford guy that’s one reason on Matlock he drove a Crown Vic.

[@retroguy9494]

@@MattMorris481 Oh yea....I forgot about his Crown Vic on Matlock! Plus the squad cars on the Andy Griffith Show were Fords as well. I believe they were Galaxies.

[@kevinhamblin951]

When you know he was a big weed smoker you can understand “ No Time For Sergeants “😊 Thanks Fusion Kidd !

[@lawrencelewis2592]

That was one funny show! Especially the saluting toilet scene!

[@kevinhamblin951]

I read it somewhere ….can’t find it on the internet now …. Maybe it’s not true 😊

[@Splungers]

Cite proof of your claim. I'm calling B.S.

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

Back in the mid-70s I met Andy at a car swap meet near Van Nuys. He was looking for parts for a 1956 Buick.

[@joeanderson9852]

❤

[@user-np2hn5kc5b]

Good

[@OldDood]

I sure hope all of his vehicles made it to 'Good Homes'. Or better yet a Car Museum.

[@kevinhamblin951]

Ben 😊

[@juansaladzar]

0:17 what does salt of the earth mean?

[@juansaladzar]

@@FusionKidd interesting brah 🤔

[@TheSaturnV]

@@juansaladzar The phrase derives from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: “You are the salt of the earth.” (Matthew 5:13) Jesus meant that the common people he was addressing - fishermen, shepherds, laborers - were worthy and virtuous. He was alluding, not to the tang of salt, but to its value.

[@juansaladzar]

@@TheSaturnV 🤔

[@Thelake9667]

Someone who is kind and down to earth. Something Andy Griffith definitely was not!😢

[@juansaladzar]

@@Thelake9667I wouldn’t know but it’s been my experience that whenever someone goes to great lengths to claim their religious or morality superior that’s the ones who are crooked brah 🤨

[@williamoxendine6121]

He owns nothing he left it all to someone else no u-Haul trucks follow you to a graveyard he’s😮 in paradise or hell

[@llooik]

didn 't he gather musical instruments 🎷🎤🪕🎸🪕🪔

[@juansaladzar]

5:37 what is an honest car brah?

[@FusionKidd]

Trustworthy.

[@juansaladzar]

@@FusionKidd how can a car be trustworthy brah?

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@juansaladzar By fulfilling it's mission. By being reliable and doing what it was designed to do and serve faithfully.

[@juansaladzar]

@@lawrencelewis2592 I see so my Corvette is honest brah 👍

[@FusionKidd]

@@juansaladzar What kind of Vette do you have brah?

[@BeingRomans829ed]

I was beginning to think that for a man of his means he certainly was going the cheap route in his car collection... until they finally got to the Packard, that is. Nonetheless, Leno could certainly have shown Andy a thing or two about car collecting. But, of course, Andy was a staunch Democrat, so I guess you can't expect him to know much concerning these things.

[@59Rosco]

I'm so bleeping sick of Andy Griffith and those bleeping 40 acre back lot shots of Mayberry! Enough already!

[@tomc8617]

As much as I loved the AG Show and old American cars, I lost a ton of respect for Andy Griffith when I saw him and Ron Howard (aka 'Opie') do that campaign commercial for Barack Obama, pushing his Socialist/Marxist "Change" agenda. Henry Wrinkler ("Fonzie" from Happy Days) was also in it. It's one thing being Liberal, which would be bad enough, Obama was way past just Liberal.

[@1940limited]

Typical Hollywood liberals. Obviously he forgot the wholesome, country lifestyle pushed on the Andy Griffith Show.

[@dickdomain719]

Wow, never knew that! I just added 3 more to my shit list, however I never liked Ron Howard so it's actually 2 more.

[@tomc8617]

@@dickdomain719- Well, they didn't outright push for "Marxist transformation", but everyone should know what Obama's campaign slogan "Change" meant along with his pledge to, once elected, "Fundamentally transform the United States of America". The guy was surrounded by communists his entire life, going back to his days as a boy in Hawaii with his "Uncle Frank". UF turned out to be Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis. He spent 20+ years in 'reverend' Jeremiah Wright's phony church listening to Wright promote "Liberation Theology", a communist-concocted bogus religion created by the Soviet KGB to promote revolution throughout latin America. Black communist James Cone later came up with the "Black Liberation" variant of it. He worked closely for years with Bill Ayers, a founder and leader of the communist-revolutionary domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground. He hired admitted communist Van Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar". And he selected John Brennan to be his CIA chief! Brennan is on record admitting that, a few years before entering the CIA, having voted for Gus Hall for president! GH was the Communist Party USA candidate for president. Not only that but he was a Stalinist, the worst of the worse pro-USSR communists! The Soviets at that time were heavily funding the CPUSA! Great choice to head the CIA "Comrade Obama"! And these things are just the tip of the iceberg.

[@JackF99]

Anyone who calls Barack Obama a Marxist is likely far more extreme than he ever was.

[@Sojourning_]

although I like to watch the Andy Griffith show, he was far from being the salt of the earth.

[@jerrycallender9352]

Andy Grittith was a drunk. I recall seeing him, drunk, at Copeland Motor Company in Virginia Beach when he brought his Fiat X1/9 in for service.