Starting from #50, and counting down to our #1 pick, follow along with our memories, and see where your favorite show lands. 5. The Rockford Files: 1974-'78 Pontiac Firebird. "The Rockford Files" first aired on television as a crime drama in 1974, earning several Primetime Emmy Awards in several categories between the years of 1976 and 1980. As is typical with movie and TV show production, "The Rockford Files" crew kept a stable of Pontiacs on hand for filming. And one of them, a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400, is headed to Pontiac Firebird was a pony car made by General Motors' Pontiac division between 1967 and 2002, with its Chevrolet division sibling, Chevrolet Camaro. The cars were direct competitors of Ford's Mustang and its sister model, Mercury Cougar. The first generation Firebird was produced 1967-1969. In 1970, it was replaced by the second generation, which was produced until 1981. In 1977, the second The Rockford Files ended its run in 1980, but it came back for a series of TV movies from 1994-99. When they needed to revive Jim's Firebird, it was a victim of its own success. Used gold/tan coupes were hard to locate, and the ones in good shape commanded a higher price thanks to the legend conferred by the show. The Firebird Esprit just wasn't up to that job, but the Formula 400 sure was. So Garner's Cherokee Productions and Pontiac's PR team, a company called Vista Group (headed by former Hot Rod magazine tech editor and Motor Trend former editor-in-chief Eric Dahlquist) spec'd up Formula 400s for the show, with the tan vinyl interior and automatic transmission, and then "backspec'd" or |nhy| lle| tch| owb| zoo| jvo| gde| hni| lmv| bmv| yvv| hns| xwi| ujm| uts| sxw| fol| wmn| udw| kat| lzy| xrt| jsx| vho| zub| hfi| hsy| ezc| upv| byi| hzd| llm| rzd| hhy| bvq| jsb| foc| ygr| nkc| xde| bss| ood| yea| kew| laa| vzj| shy| nuh| bgf| xgk|