Detroit Electric Car as seen on Perry Mason

[LessAspin]

Perry Mason had an episode air on MeTV last night that had an elderly actress driving a really old car. At first I thought it was a Model T so I looked up the episode on IMDb

The car driven by Mrs. Kerrick (Sara Taft) appears to be an actual working model of a Detroit Electric, which was an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The company built 13,000 electric cars from 1907 to 1939. The same car can be seen in an episode of Peter Gunn (1958), Love Me to Death (1959).


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673201/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

https://www.facebook.com/ElectricRoadTrip/videos/metv-meet-me-ev-we-stumbled-across-an-episode-of-the-iconic-tv-series-perry-maso/1092672654904629/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. The site you want to look up cars in movies isn't IMDb; it's

IMCDB, the Internet Movie Car Database. They cover TV shows too.

https://www.imcdb.org/

Drop me a line if you need help finding your way back out.

[MichMan]

2. Electric cars were especially popular with women & the elderly who found hand cranking gas engined cars to be difficult

The introduction of the electric starter in 1912, although it took several years for mass adoption, took that advantage away.

Interestingly, Clara Ford, Henry's wife, drove a Detroit Electric for many years instead of a Ford Model T.