The Brown car

Charlie Brown's Ford LTDSometimes, to get some Peanuts information, one has to reach beyond the Peanuts sources. For example, the other day while researching something else altogether, I came upon a Ford muscle car forum where a few years ago, Ford enthusiasts were discussing a Sunday strip that had just rerun. That strip, which had originally run on February 7th, 1965, showed pieces of the Brown’s car in two panels, but that was enough for one forum member to identify it as a 1965 Ford LTD hardtop 4-door. Once that’s been stated, the identification looks easy – there’s that logo on the rear panel in the first shot, the particular trim around the rear edge of the window in the second, among other smaller touches, but it wasn’t something that I ever thought to look at. It’s interesting that just as Charlie Brown had finished up his years of work promoting the smaller Ford Falcon, his family takes on the new, full-size model (this was the first model year for the LTD, then part of the Galaxie line.)

And that’s today’s bit of Pointless Peanuts Trivia! You’re welcome!

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …

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Candidate Snoopy

The promotion of “Snoopy for President” dates back to at least 1961 (possibly earlier, I don’t have great reference on it.) The idea is not limited to US presidential election years, but it does tend to swell then. There was not only merch but newspaper articles on it in 1968. …

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Coming to America

Remember a few months back when I got that manga biography of Schulz and it made me really happy, even thought I couldn’t read it? Well, that may be in for a change, because coming in October is Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz, The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts. I …