Your info on Ed Byrnes is correct.

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From: bueses <bueses@earthlink.net>
> on 9/11/06 1:06 PM, Todd Last at rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET wrote:
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> > Route 66 was Buzz Murdoch and Tod Styles in a '61 Corvette traveling the US.
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> > Gerald lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III was from 77 Sunset Strip - a detective show
> > in Hollywood. Not sure what car he drove on the show - he started out as a
> > parking attendant.
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> I thought Kookie was Ed Byrnes-("Kookie, Kookie, let me comb your hair?")
> the original "Fonzie" before Happy Days/American Graffiti?.  I do remember
> Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was the head detective.  Connie ?????? was the blonde
> bimbo.  Didn't Kookie drive a 32 ford hot rod?
>
> Tom B.-& I can't remember my own voice mail ph. No.!
>
> VC content-um, um oh yeah, no early buses in 77 Sunset that I can remember.
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