Kirby Classic III spotted on 'Halt and Catch Fire'

[human]

So I've started binge watching this series on Netflix called 'Halt and Catch Fire' about the early days of the PC industry (it apparently originally ran on Netflix from 2014 to 2017). I'm only about four episodes into it and a red Kirby Classic III has showed up at least twice, once being used by a housekeeper and another time in a basement storage area, where it drew a character's attention because the floor was concrete. It was kind of fun to see, even though the machine would have been several years and a couple of models old as the show starts off in 1983, which would be at the beginning of the Heritage era. maybe that's even more realistic. At least they didn't err in the other direction with, say, a Legend II.

I enjoy period pieces like that, especially seeing the vintage appliances, vehicles and so forth that they use and so far, I have to hand it to the producers of 'HCF' for getting things right as sometimes producers get it laughably wrong.

Case in point: 'Hidden Figures' (2016). In the opening scene, Taraji P. Henderson expresses amazement that a white policeman in 1961 is giving them an escort to work (after previously hassling them beside the road) but what's even more amazing is he's doing it in a 1964 Ford Galaxie police cruiser! Later in the movie, the same vehicle is seen on patrol at "Cape Canaveral". Another scene clearly shows a 1968 Volkswagen Squareback parked alongside the road--in 1962!

 

[kirbyklekter]

"Let me count the ways"

Some of the inaccuracies can be pretty funny for those astute enough to catch them.It was common to put a car up on blocks or something spring loaded and have the same scenery flying by like the cartoons do then and now. I'd watch through the rear window to see what they'd do with the view. Sometimes a bus would suddenly show up behind "us", then a different scene all together.

The audio was another. I'm watching some guy trying to outrun "the coppers" and he's obviously driving an automatic, his hands never leave the steering wheel, but you can hear the gears grinding on the upshift. Oh and he's rocking back and forth, left and right because we're to believe he's flying down that country road.

 

[ultralux88]

I think there was maybe a twin fan Singer or Kenmore in the garage, and later it appears in the closet when they live out to CA, where he has the radio in the closet.