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Get Smart Car - Red Sunbeam Tiger convertible sports car issued to Control
agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) on the spy comedy GET SMART/NBC/1965-70. The
CFB600 model (License Plate No. D6-893) contained a cigarette lighter (that
doubled as a grenade); ejector seat (activated by remote control or switch
on dashboard); exhaust pipe machine gun, tail pipe oil slick device, two
100-velocity, 50-caliber machine guns concealed in hood, radar scan, radar
tracking device to track Control agent cars. (activated by pulling light
switch and turning it left); radiator cap filled with poisonous gas; trunk
(opened by dialing the plate numbers to CA44N); and smoke screen device. The
car cost $32,000. During the second season Maxwell Smart got a blue Karman
Ghia convertible. During the fifth season, Max drove a gold 1969 Opel GT
sports car. On a few occasions, Max drove a white Mustang convertible.
TRIVIA NOTE: In episode No. 114. "Ironhand" (aired 3rd October 1969) while
trying to prevent KAOS henchman Ironhand (Paul Richards) from getting "The
Anti-Anti-Anti-Missile-Missile" plans, Maxwell Smart accidentally fires a
mortar shell and completely destroys his gold Opel. But miracles upon
miracles, in the scene shortly after that, Max pulls up to the Washington
airport in the same car with no damage what so ever to the car.
Those were the days!
Matt Smith
And Loreli (no cigarette lighter grenade, no ejector seat... dang.)
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