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Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« on: June 03, 2014, 06:26:52 am »


Boob-tube hot rods.

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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 08:20:59 am »
Nice article.  I have a soft spot for the General Lee as I had a push-pedal version as a kid.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2014, 08:28:54 am »
The Ferrari 308 GTS in Magnum, P.I. was my favorite TV car.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2014, 09:04:21 am »
What about the Charger from Burn Notice?! I loved that thing. Also Burn Notice rocks.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2014, 09:58:28 am »
Quote from: Snowman on June 03, 2014, 08:28:54 am
The Ferrari 308 GTS in Magnum, P.I. was my favorite TV car.

If you're ever in Oahu, the house is out near Kailua, and it's possible to swim out and see it - very shallow ocean there.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2014, 10:22:14 am »
Quote from: JacobBlack on June 03, 2014, 09:04:21 am
What about the Charger from Burn Notice?! I loved that thing. Also Burn Notice rocks.

first couple(maybe 3) season was pretty entertaining.

gets too repetitive after.

that charger went thru some damages in the show, and kept showing back up!  liked that.  :rofl2:
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2014, 10:25:01 am »
Quote from: JacobBlack on June 03, 2014, 09:04:21 am
What about the Charger from Burn Notice?! I loved that thing. Also Burn Notice rocks.

Well, it's sort of interesting, but if we expanded this list to top 15, I'd start putting in stuff like the Truck from The Fall Guy instead.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2014, 10:33:21 am »
I liked the Rockford Firebird and of course the General Lee.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2014, 10:51:41 am »


Al Bundy Dodge Dart!

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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2014, 11:06:33 am »
1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe - #1  car used for the Mad Max movies, for me there is no other.

#2 would be the white Lotus Esprit 1986, I think, from the James Bond movie

then #3 General Lee :) :) :)

but it's not fair, there is just way too many cool cars used in movies, like the one in the Last Starfighter
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2014, 11:10:00 am »
Quote from: Whofan on June 03, 2014, 11:06:33 am
1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe - #1  car used for the Mad Max movies, for me there is no other.

#2 would be the white Lotus Esprit 1986, I think, from the James Bond movie

then #3 General Lee :) :) :)

but it's not fair, there is just way too many cool cars used in movies, like the one in the Last Starfighter

Good picks those!

Move cars from the 80s are here: http://www.autos.ca/auto-articles/movie-star-cars-1980s/
(And more from other eras are coming soon)
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2014, 12:11:25 pm »
Blue Chevy Stepside and gold Trans-Am from CHiPs, that Fall Guy truck you mentioned, the Kenworth (not a car, I admit) from PJ and the Bear, the Munster Mobile (no, I'm not that old but that thing is so glam-rod), Ralph Malph's hot-rof from Happy Days (I am THAT old), and the list goes on and on...

My top (almost) current star car is the Citroën DS from The Mentalist (before the Great GM Plug that is Season 8).

Best TV car memories: General Lee

Worst TV car of all times: the Clenet (or Excalibur?) from that lame detective show based in Texas (early '80s, can't remember...).
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2014, 12:34:25 pm »
For TV shows with Cars, nothing beats "Get your kicks on Route 66". ;D
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PS. Runner up - The Prisoner and the Lotus 7.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2014, 12:41:43 pm »
If we include fare from the BBC, then fire up the Quattro! Also, Inspector Morse's Jag - what a car that is.

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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2014, 12:49:43 pm »
Get Smart and Maxwell Smart's Sunbeam Tiger.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2014, 12:51:36 pm »
Quote from: Railton on June 03, 2014, 12:49:43 pm
Get Smart and Maxwell Smart's Sunbeam Tiger.
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That's actually on the list, if for no other reason than 50th anniversary of the Tiger.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2014, 12:56:25 pm »
Quote from: Brendan McAleer on June 03, 2014, 12:51:36 pm
Quote from: Railton on June 03, 2014, 12:49:43 pm
Get Smart and Maxwell Smart's Sunbeam Tiger.
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That's actually on the list, if for no other reason than 50th anniversary of the Tiger.
OK, here's two that aren't...from "The Munsters".
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2014, 12:58:26 pm »
Life on Mars - UK edition had some cool cars including this Cortina.

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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2014, 01:08:53 pm »
The TV Show Manix had a few nice drives, Dodge Dart GTS and Olds Toronado for two. there were others as well.
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Re: Feature Article: TV Star Cars
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2014, 01:10:00 pm »
Patrick McGoohan drove a Super 7 on The Prisoner (well, in the opening scene anyway). I'd never seen that car before and was blown away (as I was by the show itself.)

And I remember getting turned onto Jeeps because of Mork and Mindy. Was it a CJ-5 that Mindy drove?
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