Barrow gang Krag

[JBinIll]

When that movie came out in 67 about Bonnie and Clyde their car was taken around the country and shown by whoever owned it at the time.It was in a big enclosed van trailer.They charged admission to see it just like a carney side show.Stopped here,I saw it.Don't remember what the admission was,something like a $1 or so.

[psteinmayer]

The movie sure does contain a lot of Hollywood fluff! The fascination with them... and their deaths has always been a morbid one for most people sadly. After the ambush, they were not removed from the car, but rather the car was towed in to town to the morticians. When it arrived, people started trying to obtain what ever pieces of them they could - from cutting pieces of Bonnie's dress and hair, to one sick individual trying to remove Clyde's left ear! The mortician and local law thankfully put a stop to it. I only want to see it because I have seen it in photos, and the story intrigues me.

[Motorcop]

Supposedly the car is on display at Whiskey Pete's Bar and Casino somewhere in Vegas. Years ago it was carted around in a semi trailer to state and county fairs for people to see after paying a fee. I saw it a couple of times but I think the touchy-feely people didn't like it being at the state fair and it left and never returned. I was just a kid when I saw the car the last time and it was in a pretty sad state and didn't look nothing like I expected. They also used to haul around one of Adolf Hitler's big touring cars and had that one display with the B and C Ford.

Rick

[psteinmayer]

There are several cars that were made to look like the real 34 Ford, and are on display in various locations, but you're correct about the actual car being at Whiskey Pete's in Primm Nevada. It's displayed on the casino floor behind glass, along with the actual shirt Clyde was wearing during the ambush (accompanied by a letter of authenticity). Next trip I take to Vegas, I might just venture out that way...

[kragnut]

When that movie came out in 67 about Bonnie and Clyde their car was taken around the country and shown by whoever owned it at the time.It was in a big enclosed van trailer.They charged admission to see it just like a carney side show.Stopped here,I saw it.Don't remember what the admission was,something like a $1 or so.

The movie with Warren Beatty is mostly glamorized junk. By the time Clyde got out of prison in Texas he was a raging homosexual and his relationship with Bonnie was by this time more of a sibling type born of necessity than a romance. Clyde also, as one poster pointed out, died behind the wheel, not rolling around on the ground. The car looks like it has way too many holes in it from a handful of lever actions and a Model 8. Some of the holes are through the windshield and straight out the back of the car so the deputy down the road with the BAR probably made these. The rangers in the movie had Tommy guns....no account of the barrow killing included them but they are easier to shoot blanks with than a 1918 Browning I guess.

Frank Hamer was not the bumbling jerk he is portrayed as in the movies, and he knew how to deal with a bunch of goddamn ballot box stuffers. You know someones a badass when he shows up with just a 1911 in a hip holster and dozens of armed men retreat without him ever having to take it out:

"In 1948 Hamer was called again to Ranger duty to play a small role in a notorious episode in an election acknowledged to have been one of the most corrupt in Texas history.[35][36] Hamer was hired by Governor Coke Stevenson, whose name by now was synonymous with old-school Texan conservative integrity,[37] to accompany him to the Texas State Bank in Alice, the county seat of Jim Wells County in South Texas. Stevenson wanted to examine the tally sheets for ballot box 13, which held ballots for his opponent, then-Representative Lyndon Johnson, he knew were fraudulent, and not in a way that favored him. Outside the bank stood two glowering groups of armed men. Hamer got out of the car. He approached the first group and said, "Git." They did. To the second group blocking the doors of the bank he said, "Fall back." They did.[38] In the end, Johnson won the election and went on to win the Presidency Of The United States."

[psteinmayer]

Clyde did die behind the wheel. The established reports of those involved state that the first shot (fired before the command to fire was given) was a head shot which killed Clyde instantly.

[JBinIll]

Frank Hamer was not the bumbling jerk he is portrayed as in the movies

Nope,neither were any of the others.Tough looking bunch-

[kragnut]

This one's a little better than the Warren Beatty version, although Holliday Grainger is far more beautiful than Bonnie really was. At least they have a couple of BARs, but the couldnt even even find a pre-war model 12 shotgun , and the rangers have Series 70 Colts? Well, I'm a stickler, dammit.

http://www.aetv.com/bonnie-and-clyde...nnie-and-clyde