Dean Martin damaged his valuable Stutz Blackhawk at McDonald’s drive-thru

In the early days of the fast food drive-thru, Rat Pack legend Dean Martin once totaled an expensive vintage car while trying to buy a burger for his girlfriend’s son.

Bing Crosby’s grandson, Phil Crosby Jr., told Fox News Digital that his mother is the “White Christmas” singer’s son, Phil Crosby Sr. She told how she dated and even got engaged to Martin – who always called her “kid” – after her “turbulent” marriage to.

“I was almost like Dean Martin’s stepson,” he said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. “I mean, if that were the case, I would have grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth, but it didn’t happen.”

Crosby said he was very young when his mother, Peggy Crosby, now 85, started seeing the “That’s Amore” singer after meeting him at a club where he worked following her short-lived marriage.

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“And I guess my mother wasn’t really ready [to be married again]Crosby said of their eventual separation: “She was still a beautiful young woman. She’s still a very beautiful woman.”

He said Martin, who was 23 years older than his mother, was “very advanced in years” when they were dating.

Even though she was very young when she met Martin, she remembers him.

His best memory of the singer was that he once looked into his mother’s bedroom looking for her and Martin was there, asking him to buy a pack of cigarettes.

“My only real memory of him was a little too stereotypical, Crosby said. “He used to call me ‘the kid’. And this is a true story. I was ‘The Kid’. ‘Where’s the kid?’ Even years later, when my mother bumped into him, I was ‘That kid’.”

Crosby said the singer asked him, “‘Hey, kid, you know, come down and get me some cigarettes.’ Because an adult of those times should be able to ask a kid that, and the kid should be doing it.”

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Dean Martin, right, Phil Crosby Jr.’s grandfather, performs with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, center, in 1959. (Disney General Entertainment Content via ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images)

“Well, I’m the first member of the spoiled generation where we lost respect for our elders,” he continued. “And I told him, ‘You can’t tell me what to do. You’re not my father.’ This is what I remember about my Dean Martin story; I wish it were a little better.”

But he said he was told Martin’s story about destroying his own classic car while trying to feed “The Kid.”

“I don’t actually have this memory, but it’s a story I was told, and I call it the Stutz and the drive-thru because Dean had a Stutz. [Blackhawk]”Or Stutz Bearcat, I’m told,” Crosby said. “When I do research now, I see photos of him with Stutz. [Blackhawk]. “These were very large, vintage cars.”

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Peggy Crosby holds young Phil Crosby Jr. (Phil Crosby Jr.)

Crosby explained that Stutz cars are “very classic, very, very valuable collector’s items, vintage cars, but they’re roomy.”

“I was kind of a spoiled kid. I didn’t like to eat a lot of different types of food, but I loved McDonald’s,” Crosby explained. “My mom, Dean, and I were driving back in his Stutz, and I was sitting in the backseat, probably complaining, complaining that I hadn’t had dinner and was probably hungry.”

He continued, “So Dean decides, ‘Well, the drive-thru is open at McDonald’s,’ and the drive-thru was probably pretty new at the time,” and said it took place around 1976 in Santa Monica, California.

Dean Martin embraces Peggy Crosby. (Phil Crosby Jr.)

“But it was too tight,” Crosby explained. “So Dean takes this thing and throws it right into it. [drive-thru] and just cracking the sides, scraping the side of it; So we’re talking about one of the most valuable, collector’s vehicles.”

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He said his mother just laughed “because when we got to the window the people there had terrified expressions, like aliens had just arrived. They heard a terrible crunching sound and there’s Dean Martin sitting there.”

Crosby said he wished he had remembered Martin better because “what am i I know about him, especially the way he reacted to having expensive damage done to his car so he could feed the little spoiled brat, he ruined everything.”

1977 magazine article highlighting Dean Martin’s relationship with Phil Crosby Jr.’s mother, Peggy Crosby. (Phil Crosby Jr.)

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Crosby said the damage “was of no consequence to him” as he was not a “materialistic man”.

“He wasn’t a mean guy. He was a really sweet guy, and from what I’ve heard even from some of the Rat Pack stuff, he was pretty loyal and nice, you know, a pretty good guy compared to the other guys.”

Phil Crosby Sr., left, Phil Crosby Jr.’s father, performs with Bob Hope and the USO during the Vietnam War in 1968. (Phil Crosby Jr.)

Crosby said he met Martin once more before his death, when he was a teenager.

“That was beautiful,” he said. “It was one of those class acts.”

Crosby also reflected on what Christmas meant to his grandfather.

“Bing was a great American and I think that meant a lot to him because of his Catholic faith. [Christmas] be honored and enjoy,” he said of his grandfather, who died when he was a baby.

Bing Crosby’s grandson says Christmas means a lot to him because of his Catholic faith. (George Rinehart/Corbis via Getty Images)

“He came from a big family,” Crosby continued. “So, I think Christmas has become a very important American tradition… and I know they do it pretty well at the Crosby House, tall trees, lots of presents.”

“Honestly, Christmas is still dominated by Bing Crosby’s voice.” he added.

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Even though he never met his grandfather, Crosby said he still enjoyed many Crosby Christmas celebrations as a child.

““I grew up with a couple of my cousins ​​and a couple of uncles… and I would see them on some holidays,” he said. “We had some great big holidays with a lot of Crosby’s. So I definitely had Crosby Thanksgivings and Crosby Christmases with Bing’s other sons and their wives and children. And I was very, very grateful and happy for that.”

Crosby is also releasing two holiday singles: a cover of a rarely heard Bing Crosby song called “A Time to be Jolly” and an original song called “Guess Who’s Coming Tonight.”

“This is a Christmas song that no one else has recorded,” Crosby said of “A Time to be Jolly.” “But it’s a fun song. It’s kind of stupid… I’ve never heard that before… You won’t find it done by Dean Martin or anyone else. So I hope people like it.”