Top 50 TV Cars Of All Time: No. 20, Green Acres’ Lincoln Continental

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Green Acres featured three Lincoln Continentals appearing in 1965, 1966 (pictured above), and 1967. Photos courtesy of IMCDB.

We are counting down the Top 50 hot rods and street cars of all time that have made an appearance in a television series, or a memorable television episode. Starting from #50, and counting down to our #1 pick, follow along with our memories, and see where your favorite show lands.

20. Green Acres: Cars, Trucks, And Tractors

Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin’ is the life for me.
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside!

New York is where I’d rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue!

At the height of the mid-‘60s, a different type of sitcom came along, one that paralleled lifestyles of farm folk and social elite. Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) is a successful lawyer married to Lisa (Eva Gabor), but his life has become complacent. With his head in the clouds in a lofty Manhattan apartment, Oliver longs to bury his hands in the soil, to plow the fields, and grow crops. In fact, it’s is all he has ever wanted to do since he was a boy.

Although Lisa encourages him to grow a farm on the open terrace, Oliver goes one better, purchasing a farm sight unseen outside Hooterville from Eustice Haney, an old coot con-man that promises the moon and stars to Oliver.

Haney’s truck is a 1924 Dodge Brothers Four, and is seen throughout the series. According to a contributor on IMCDB, “It is a touring car, or maybe a roadster, which has been converted into a truck. It is original up to the cowl and windscreen with the truck cab and deck added in place of the passenger carrying body.”

Ford products, supplied by the company, include an AA truck and the most famous tractor in U.S. television history – a 1918 Fordson Model F shown in the opening credits. On the show it is implied the manufacturer, Hoyt Clagwell, in still in business in the 1960s. There also was a John Deer tractor, a 1928 GP Series, which appeased fans of both. The tractors have recurring roles through the run of the series, from 1965 to 1971.

In addition, three Lincoln Continental convertibles represent the Douglas’ first, second, and third luxury cars, a 1965, ’66, and ’67. All are the same color, and with California license plates, despite the character being fictionally from New York.

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