CrossedUp

Was in a typical, made for TV, chase scene with burnouts, power drifts and Rockford pulling his usual J-turn.

cheapta

I like it!

210ken

Looks like a studio customized 73; flares, paint, tail lights. Note the small nerf bars framing the front license plate. Also the Goodyear slicks all around.

a striper

VERY similar to the one in "Cleopatra Jones". IIRC it was a modified '69 in that movie.

7t2vette

Greg

Sort of incongruous.
It looks funny to see these 40 something guys in suits driving a car that just screams 20 year old kid.
I'll bet it probably belonged to a production assistant or somebody's kid who asked to have it in the show.

Earthquake Driver

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1070-C...e-C3-1973.html

https://www.imcdb.org/v303827.html

Earthquake Driver

The Magician TV series in the '70s staring Bill Bixby

Earthquake Driver

page 17 to 30

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?m...rvette&page=17

Greg

Here is a pic (sorry for poor quality, taken from a VERY bad video clip) of Bixby's '74 Corvette from The Magician TV series. Note the unusual head rests. Anyone seen anything like these before? I have not.

7T1vette

GM was a sponsor on several of these shows, so their product was used per some contractual agreements. James Garner was an accomplished road racing enthusiast/driver and probably had his hand in making decisions as to what 'chase' cars were used on the Rockford Files.

DWAVette

So, how did Rockford’s Camaro do against the mod’ed C3?
I used to watch Rockford Files all the time, but can’t recall this one.

Earthquake Driver

*Firebird

DWAVette

Yep. You got me. I stand corrected.

Tranz Zam

I like it a lot!

I like the Shelby style scoops on the b-pillars

marshal135

My Dad loved that show. My father was a private detective also.
Marshal

AdamMeh

I have the DVD set of the Rockford Files seasons, and that Vette sounds really good. Would be neat to find out what was done to it - definitely not stock.

carriljc

I went to the BAR website and that plate "923 AUN" does NOT show up as ever being smogged(but I think they only go back as far as 1996). I can look up my old cars (of those the first I smogged in ~1985) and the oldest smog tests I can find are for 1996....... so this thing did NOT make it to getting smogged in 1996. Either went out of state, no longer ran, or changed plates.
That "SPIRIT" plate ended up on a Nissan and a Toyota and I can see smogs between 1998 and 2020.

https://bar.ca.gov/pubwebquery/Vehicle/PubTstQry.aspx

Greg

Hmmm?
Maybe the 923 AUN plate was just a prop plate similar to Rockford's 853 OKG plate which was also a prop made for the show, rather than a real, registered California plate.
The car has different prop plate "CLEO" in the earlier blaxploitation film.
Cheers, Greg

SEVNT6

Hey Greg......I've been trying to figure out those head rests too.
Something GM that's maybe post '65 but pre '70?
I dunno....