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Every time I see a bowery boys picture I wonder who ended up with their 1914 jalopy. I believe the series ended in 1955-56 and it seems unlikely that the car was not moved on to a collector. Does anyone in the LA area have knowledge of where the car went after the mid fifties. Seems like a pretty important car with all the on screen time it had.

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Probably a good place to start would be to find out what movie or production company made the Bowery Boys movies and go from there. Some of those earlier movie companies went by the wayside years ago.

Wasn’t that the East Side Kids?
I remember my grandmother talking about that show. I never got to watch it much.

The group had many names and members.

Leo Dorcey. Tommy and Jimmy's long lost cousin.

Saw that, Gorcey should have been the correct last name.

Wasn’t one of them named Snatch or something like that?

I have a feeling the 14 T is long gone by now. Might have wound up a different color going by the photographs. Then sold or ???
As far as the show goes I don’t remember it being on Saturday morning TV.

Providing military vehicles to the movie industry in the Atlanta area, the way it works now is transportation directors hire third partties to provide specific vehicles and there are many layers between the vehicle owner and the actual movie crew. I presume back in the day, a vehicle that was used over and over whould have been purchase by some level of production crew in the parent company. But, like sets, props, costumes, these things get sold or auctioned off after the production is over to offset the cost. I have had movie crews purchase vehicles from me, only to use them for a few weeks and sell them back to me for pennies on the dollar.

And I remember Satch being the nickname for Satchmo, I think the tall mentally challenged member of the crew. Called Satchmo by the elderly drug store malt shop owner with the Joe Peschie type voice. Showing my age. Never say a movie, only on TV.

Huntz Hall's character had the nick name of Satch in the shows his name was Horace Debusey Jones III, I had a dog when I was a kid that I named Satch after him. I loved watching their movies.

Car was undoubtedly rented from one of the car/prop rental companies in the area.

Ed aka #4

Maybe the car belonged to Norma Desmond? Since we are talking about old movies...

No, her car would have been a Hispano Suiza. But she may have had the model T in her tool box, to be sure that she wouldn't get stranded out somewhere.

Ed aka #4