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Originally Posted by Overkillphil
The Rockford files got me interested in 2nd gen Birds. The McQ movie made the 70-73's my all time favorites.
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I still remember my dad watching the pilot episode of The Rockford Files.
I don't think I'd ever seen him so thoroughly entertained by a single tv show ever.
He watched it religiously through its entire run, and was actually a bit agitated when it finally left the air.
….and he was impressed with the car, too...I remember him pondering if that one came with a six cylinder engine.....
This whole thread has been a real blast from the past for me and thanks to Steve V for making me aware of its existence.
I've lived in this area since 1966, so I remember when the movie was being filmed, although I was just a kid at the time.
In those days, people didn't relate "the movie industry" to this area, so when word got out that John Wayne was in town, you can bet the filming of the movie made the front page of The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and probably half a dozen other local papers for days on end (and there's a little bit of a story in that nugget, too).
I don't think we'd had a "big star" in town since Robert Stack showed up to film "Namu the Killer Whale" in the mid 60's.
It's wild to watch the movie and see him pulling out of a house on Beacon Hill, then in the next scene, he's out in LaPush, which is on the coast (there's like hundreds of miles between the two places).
Almost everything you see of the downtown area is either gone now, or about to go, too.
Sadly, the only thing constant is change and Seattle's changed a lot in the years since that movie was shot, but for those of us who remember "
The Big City with the Small Town Feel ", its a nice walk down memory lane.
Nice to know the cars are still around and still up here....maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be able to catch one in a museum or at a car show some time.
Ponchy