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Anybody know which Mercedes is featured in the movie? the one which Roddy McDowall was driving

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I know the car belonged to Walt Disney .. and that it was a fairly new car at the time .. so I'm guessing it was a 1964 or 1965 model.

Here's a story about the car told by Dean Jones...

DEAN JONES: Well, Walt was very conservative on money that he spent on himself, at least that was my experience with him. He told me once that he had been walking down the street, I don't know if it was in Beverly Hills or where, but he passed a Mercedes dealership, looked in the window and saw this little two-seater, they were about $11,000 at that time, and he said, "I walked on down the street, I thought, I can't afford that." But then he said he stopped and said, "Well, I can afford it, too." So, he went back and bought the car. Now when I did "That Darn Cat," that car was Roddy McDowall's car, in the picture. And I said, "How come we're using Walt's car?" And I was told, "He's being paid $100 a day for the use of his car." I felt that he felt guilty about spending $11,000 and felt it had to be of some use other than to drive him around.

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If it were true to character Roddy would be driving a Dodge Dart.

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It was a 1965 Mercedes-Benz 230SL.

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