The Monkeemobile.

The late 60’s was a very interesting time, a lot of new singers and bands came along, it was a new era for fashion, music, movies, etc. Who lived in the late sixties will remember this great movie “The Monkees,” an American comedy series, it was about four boys and their band the Monkees and their innovative Monkees car. Their names were Peter, Mike, Davy, and Peter. What started as a comedy and movie it went on reality, people loved them so much that they believe their band was a real band and not just the one they saw on television.

So they traveled around the world making their fans and followers very happy. The four successful boys went all around with their amazing and the innovative Monkees car.

The great history about the Monkees car

We can surely that the innovative Monkees car was one more integrant of the band. Even at that time the Beatles fever was high, the Monkees had their own audience, fans, and followers. And referring to their car almost nobody knows that there were two cars, from which they chose the Pontiac one. George Toteff was the one who produce this car model.

He had a contract with Universal Studios, and he was the chosen one from the beginning to create an innovative Monkees car for the TV show. So he took his time to create the best car with a very nice color, the best engine, with a great velocity, and properly space for four of the band. Pontiac was a company of cars and they saw a great opportunity of making a car for this show and at the same time they could promote their brand and do a long time business with the producers and stars of the show. So after showing and transmitting the 1966 GTO convertibles as Monkeemobiles, they sold more than seven million of this sample.

The show was more and more demanding, producers wanted a very innovative Monkees car. So Jeffries made mechanical modifications, and after so, the first car was used on the TV show, and the other second one was took it for promotions and commercials. The first car, the one showed in the show was seem as a super car, so everyone wanted to have one. But the truth is nobody had it because the cars on sell, weren’t the same as the one in the show, because that one was a special one with no copies in anything. But some time later things weren’t ok for Pontiac because the producers of the show told them the cars were not all what they expected from the cars, so they got a new partner to help selling these Monkeemobiles.

Producers of the show make a new partnership with “The Kellogg’s TV Screen-Stake,” it was contest and this Rice Krispies and Raisin Bran cereal boxes had great awards such as a 1968 GTO convertible, and become a guest role on the Monkees TV show. The other winners could have Monkees LP albums and other kind of cars. In this way the innovative Monkees car was a great deal, it was because the great partnership with Kellogg. The GTO’s cars were the boom of that time, everyone wanted one.

Destiny of the innovative Monkees car

The innovative Monkees car destiny was uncertain, the number one was sent to Australia with the band in a concert tour, the Monkees came back but the Monkeemobile never came back. It is not known if it was sold to someone, if it was transferred or something, the last they knew were that the Monkeemobile ended up in a hotel in Puerto Rico, where it was used as a courtesy car for a long time.

In 1992 the vice president of GTOAA Dave Barsky bought the innovative Monkees car for the 10% of the original price. The car was still in good shape, it wasn’t difficult to modified it and fix it. And after some time the Monkeemobile was being fabricated again, still there are people who buy this kind of cars. Especially the collectors and those who had lived their best experiences in the 60´s. It is because the Monkeemobile will always have a great part in the Monkees fans’ heart.