From the April 30, 2014, Hi-Liter "Fake Bonnie and Clyde murder car to be displayed at Volo Auto Museum.
Eighty years ago this month, May 24, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were driving a stolen Ford V-6 sedan near Sailes, Louisiana, when the law ambushed them. And made extra sure they were killed by pumping lots and lots and lots of bullets into them and their vehicle.
The pair were were very well-known back then and even more when the 1967 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway movie "Bonnie and Clyde" was released.
Their story is well known, including the gunfight they had in Joplin, Missouri near good old Route 66. But less is known about what happened to the car they were in when they died. Naturally, hordes of curiosity-seekers descended on the deathmobile (and not the Delta Tau Delta one, either.) It brought about quite a legal battle over ownership and later became a traveling anti-crime exhibit. Kind of like those drunk driving and prom crash wrecks you see.
More to Come. --Cooter
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