The Kookie Kar
A studio promotional shot from television's seminal detective show, 77 Sunset Strip (as found in the Jan. '62 edition of How To Hop-Up Your Engine), depicts Ed Byrnes, aka Gerald Lloyd Kookson, leaping into the saddle of "his" T as if in a western movie. Our suspicion is that this is a "doctored" photo, for such an impact wouldn't have done Norm's roadster much good, and if Ed were off just a degree or so in hitting his mark...well, you know. Has this guy got "smog in his noggin" or what? And did you know that not only were Norm and Ed Byrnes friends (Ed loved to cruise "his" T around the studio grounds even when they weren't filming), but that Norm actually played a bad guy on one of the episodes? It's true!
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