“Without a doubt the Rockford Files.
They took every car in America and put them in a chase.”
I have been streaming reruns of The Rockford Files lately and I had kind of forgotten about that aspect of the show. That Firebird is up against some pretty powerful iron romping through the streets of rural and urban California, Nevada and othe regional area.
There are a few cars that they use as background cars that appear over and over. One is a 63 T-Bird. It just shows up in a lot of episodes.
We found The Rockford Files a year or so ago, and streamed every one of them. I love the show but I couldn’t help noticing the inconsistencies and discontinuities.
I cannot remember the specific episode, but there is one that shows the Firebird as 1976 or earlier (round headlights) in one part of a chase scene, and in another part of the same chase, it shows a 1977 model (square headlights)!!!
Now - I can see that, perhaps, but they must have had a TIME MACHINE... The episode was filmed before 1977... Maybe late 1976, but I seem to remember it was even before 1976. The first two seasons are 1974 and 1975.
Love that car (an “Esprit). It was a luxury model - made for “executives”.