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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 176955" data-attributes="member: 2740">interestingly, they changed up the cars a bit from the original pilot script.  I'm not sure if it was out of necessity or a shrewd producer, but I really think, as you've laid out that they absolutely nailed it!For instance, in the script Bobby had a 'Caddy' and Jock had a 'Fleetwood', which is not at all far off from the Lincoln Mark.  I thought Bobby's red Mercedes convertible in particular was absolutely perfect for a young 'playboy' type who'd grown up with money and would have been more open to a foreign car than his dad, being more refined and 'worldly', but not nearly as flashy in nature as a Mark Graison.  I think Mark's car was likely chosen as a prop to dazzle the newly nouveau-riche and forever tacky Cliff rather than as what someone like Mark would have actually driven day-to-day.<a href="http://thetelevisionpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Dallas.pdf" target="_blank">http://thetelevisionpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Dallas.pdf</a>(who would have been officially in charge of picking out and obtaining the cars for a show like this in those days?)</blockquote>