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Woody
Woody MegaDork
2/4/16 2:54 p.m.

Semi related:

I remember seeing this in TV Guide before the premier of Knight Rider.

NickD
NickD HalfDork
2/4/16 3:05 p.m.

Clearly the General Lee. It might not be the most tasteful, but no denying it's influential (Everybody knows what it is) and with 440s under the hood, it was a real ripper.

Hot Rod Magazine did a General Lee vs. Bandit Trans Am competition a few years back. For comedic content, Smokey & The Bandit won by far. But in a straight up race, the General Lee murdered the Trans Am both on pavement and dirt.

Any TV car? I don't know, I was always kinda partial to the scruffy flat black Road Runner from Jericho (2006). I loved that show, pity it didn't make it. That car had a bunch of cool old cars in it, there was a mid-60s C10, a Nova 4-door, a really bitchin' Jeep Gladiator

Michael Weston's '73 Charger from Burn Notice was a good one too.

The Canadian
The Canadian Reader
2/4/16 3:40 p.m.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
2/4/16 4:09 p.m.

Joe Mannix drove a kick ass GTX most of the time, I saw him tool this Toronado 'vert twice. Maybe it was his secretary's....

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock
Nick (LUCAS) Comstock UltimaDork
2/4/16 4:30 p.m.

Anybody who would pic the original batmobile over the General Lee is clearly a firefighter who goes by Woody.

Joe Gearin
Joe Gearin Associate Publisher
2/4/16 4:34 p.m.

Nah.....I'll take the Power Wagon from Simon and Simon... and crush your silly little T.V. cars!

Woody
Woody MegaDork
2/4/16 4:39 p.m.
Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: Anybody who would pic the original batmobile over the General Lee is clearly a firefighter who goes by Woody.

Guilty.

Woody
Woody MegaDork
2/4/16 4:40 p.m.

Also...I should not have used the descriptor "Original" before the name Batmobile, for there is but one true Batmobile.

TucoRamirez
TucoRamirez Reader
2/4/16 5:24 p.m.

Lt. Castillo used a black Jalpa in one storyline on Miami Vice. That's the first one that popped in my mind.

But if it could only be one... Grandpa's Drag U-LA from the Munsters.

Woody
Woody MegaDork
2/4/16 5:48 p.m.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
2/4/16 5:50 p.m.

Does it have to be cars? Because the "Screaming Mimi" from Riptide was the E36 M3.

But I'll settle for Air Wolf.

Bobzilla
Bobzilla UltimaDork
2/4/16 5:54 p.m.
Appleseed wrote: Does it have to be cars? Because the "Screaming Mimi" from Riptide was the E36 M3. But I'll settle for Air Wolf.

Blue Thunder would kick AW's butt!

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
2/4/16 6:01 p.m.

Air Wolf is Mach 1 capable. So, no, it wouldn't.

JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 MegaDork
2/4/16 6:20 p.m.
914Driver wrote: Joe Mannix drove a kick ass GTX most of the time, I saw him tool this Toronado 'vert twice. Maybe it was his secretary's....

I have never seen this before...
Good god man, couldn't that tonneau, deck cover be even a little more streamlined?

Are those side pipes?
I like side pipes and I like Toranados but this looks like a bad combination.

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock
Nick (LUCAS) Comstock UltimaDork
2/4/16 7:26 p.m.

These would be at the top of my list for movie cars.

I'll take the rig and the car.

Although I have to give two honorable mentions.

One for this one

And one for this

Knurled
Knurled MegaDork
2/4/16 7:40 p.m.
NickD wrote: Michael Weston's '73 Charger from Burn Notice was a good one too.

And here I thought that I was the only one who liked the late B-body Charger. (I ignore the existence of the ones that looked like squashed Wagoneers)

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Dork
2/4/16 9:19 p.m.

From the OP- Knight Rider for me. I remember sitting in what I thought was "the" car at a car show in the Notre Dame JACC. Cool memory.

Outside of that, it may be this:

Hal
Hal SuperDork
2/4/16 9:27 p.m.
slantvaliant wrote: Nice, but ... no love for the Striped Tomato?

I'll take this one. Actually I had one with the same paint job even.

Woody
Woody MegaDork
2/4/16 10:00 p.m.

If we're including Big Rigs...

vwcorvette
vwcorvette Dork
2/4/16 10:04 p.m.

From tv show of the same name:

pinchvalve
pinchvalve MegaDork
2/4/16 11:27 p.m.

NickD
NickD HalfDork
2/5/16 5:47 a.m.
Knurled wrote:
NickD wrote: Michael Weston's '73 Charger from Burn Notice was a good one too.
And here I thought that I was the only one who liked the late B-body Charger. (I ignore the existence of the ones that looked like squashed Wagoneers)

The '71-'74 Mopar "fuselage styling" as they called it is such an under appreciated design. But these cars do have a growing fan base.

dean1484
dean1484 MegaDork
2/5/16 6:55 a.m.
IndyJoe wrote: For me it's this: or This:

Exactly what I was thinking.

KyAllroad
KyAllroad SuperDork
2/5/16 7:42 a.m.
TucoRamirez wrote: Lt. Castillo used a black Jalpa in one storyline on Miami Vice. That's the first one that popped in my mind. But if it could only be one... Grandpa's Drag U-LA from the Munsters.

The Drag-u-la lives around here. A friend of mine has driven it a couple of times. It gets looks.

foxtrapper
foxtrapper UltimaDork
2/5/16 8:07 a.m.
pinchvalve wrote:

I forgot about that one!

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