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  1. Dr Tommy Cosgrove

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    #26 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    You forgot the episode, J "Digger" Doyle when Erin Gray used another 308 to con her way into the estate.
     
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    #27 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    Someone changed it because I can assure you there was never a black interior on screen.

    By the way I LOVE your book. Have one sitting right here next to me this very second
     
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    #28 matumorales, Jul 11, 2012
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    If you look closely at this picture, you can get a glimpse of what appears to be some sort of roll-cage... so maybe it did run after all; was it a stunt vehicle? It is almost certain at this point that it was not a real Ferrari. I know they use to do this kind of thing; use panels of the "star-car" and fit it to a dune buggy frame to perform jumps and other type of risky maneuvers. On the A-Team's van, for example, they had one prop van that actually had the engine located in the center of gravity and almost no interior panel fitted, they used it to the jump scenes because the regular engine configuration would take the van out of balance, bringing the front down first with "undesired" results.

    Someone mentioned an episode where Magnums car was hit in the front LH fender, shattering it to pieces; I remember watching it and having the thought "WTF??? is it a fiberglass car?" Maybe it was this one?

    Hope somebody comes up with more information about it... it really is a piece of history that contributed to the "iconic" level of this Ferrari model!
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  4. Dr Tommy Cosgrove

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    #29 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    That poor car is such a hybrid. Look at the engine cover.

    Is that Columbo's next to it?
     
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    #30 2NA, Jul 11, 2012
    Looks like.
     
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    #31 Jonny Law, Jul 11, 2012
    The Pilot used a different car also. The military base stickers on the rear bumper disappeared on session one, first show.
     
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    #32 nerofer, Jul 11, 2012
    Watched the 162 episodes during the summer 2010, and then bought a 328 GTS as a companion to my 328 GTB.
    Promised myself I would watch the whole serie again this year, but my wife said: "and then after, you will probably buy a 308 GTS this time", so I guess that my review of the whole serie will have to wait a little...
    Pity, I still like it very much!

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    The Season 6 episode in which the car gets whacked and shatters is "Photo Play" (end of the season). I just had it on via Netflix a couple of days ago. It's clearly not a steel car, as it should be (yes, I'm very glad that they didn't wreck one). This car at Universal is just a very cool "dummy" car that they worked up, with the bare minimum. The keyhole bezels on the door protrude, the airfoil is way too thin, no windows, no quarter glass, the rear window doesn't seem to wrap, etc. and there are no Cavallino badges on the front or rear...so no branding problems there. With those minimalist seats they could easily shoot it at a distance parked at the house and no one would know the difference. With the space frame construction, that bar highlighted by matumorales is probably needed to keep the windshield from folding in. These cars would be great for crashes, fires, bad weather scenes, etc. The wheels look like the only genuine thing on it. I'll be surprised if that side badge actually includes "Disegno di Pininfarina".

    I wonder how many of those cars they built? :) I love the old-school studio wizardry and art of illusion, before the days of just dropping a car in digitally.
     
  9. Dr Tommy Cosgrove

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    #34 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    The car used on the pilot episode actually drove right past my house (actually about 3/4 of a mile but I can see the interstate from my driveway) on Sat Dec 29th, 1979 on it's way to California to begin the shoot.

    Believe it or not that is 100% the truth, too. No BS
     
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    #35 nerofer, Jul 11, 2012
    Dr Tommy,

    There is no reason not to believe you, as it is a fact that the car used for the show was driven from the east coast to the west coast at this date, and if I remember it correctly this drive was also the subject of a magazine article.

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    #36 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    Bingo

    The article opened with the football traffic jam he was stuck in. A qiuck google pulled the date of that game

    cool stuff
     
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    #37 nerofer, Jul 11, 2012
    And to think that the original car of choice for the serie was the Porsche 928's...
    Perhaps if Porsche has agreed to the conditions (if my memory, etc, it has to do with an opening top on which Porsche did not agree?) we would all be driving 928's today...(a fine car, by the way).

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    #39 vaccarella, Jul 11, 2012
    Not me. The tv show was entirely incidental to my purchase. I didn't even realise it had been a key feature of the show until well after. I don't think I've watched more than a couple of those shows. I'm not a fan of the genre today, though as a kid I certainly watched Colombo, Starsky, Dukes of Hazzard etc with my dad. Maybe Magnum & then Miami Vice came too late for me & instead of watching tv I was out having fun or in studying hard.

    Btw, what made you get a 328 rather than the more obvious 308 GTS if you were Magnum-prompted?
     
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    #40 Owens84QV, Jul 11, 2012
    I always love watching the pilot and seeing Magnum slide the targa roof backwards...where did it go?
     
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    #42 Drive550PFB, Jul 11, 2012
    A stage hand caught it as it slid off the back of the car.

    Anybody care to guess the license plate on that car?
     
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    #43 Matto, Jul 11, 2012
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    56E-478 :D That roof catch was great, as it doesn't seem to hit the car at all. Tom was slick in pretending to fiddle with the latch before tossing it. I've always liked the fact that they apparently shot it on a non-closed road (a car passes just as he's going for it). He turns to check for traffic as he hits the pavement. To me, one of the coolest car maneuvers by an actor, he was clearly really familiar with the car by then. Second only to James Garner in just about every episode :) Magnum P.I. just = Great television. I miss the quality.
     
  19. Dr Tommy Cosgrove

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    #45 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    Go back and watch that episode again. They used two green ones. The other had a deep front spoiler
     
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    #46 Drive550PFB, Jul 11, 2012
    Erin Gray. One of the hottest women of all time.
     
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    #47 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    No ****

    I have a picture of her and I around here somewhere. I'll dig it up and post it
     
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    #48 matumorales, Jul 11, 2012
    They DID, didn't they?? It always bugged me, at first I thought it was an angle camera thing... the one on the chase scenes was the one with the deep spoiler, right?
     
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    #49 Dr Tommy Cosgrove, Jul 11, 2012
    Yep
     
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    #50 Matto, Jul 11, 2012
    +1...absolutely. And I love that Scirocco, Dr. Tommy. One of my all-time favorite cars.
     
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