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1978 AMC Model Lineup
Sigh. This makes me want to go home and turn on an episode of CHiPs.
As usual, I can't link to the image at Jalopnik. Here is the catalog:
A Pacer wagon at the thoroughbred farm. Sure.
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Top 6: The Best TV Cop Cars
by Rob Sass on Thursday, June 26th, 2014
The Crown Vic was the most widely used police car and taxi in the U.S. and Canada, and although they’re starting to give way to the Dodge Charger, they still show up in the rearview mirrors of speeders everywhere…
The cop show genre goes back to the pre-TV days of radio (where you had to imagine what black and white your favorite cop was driving).
Here are some favorite full-size, rear-wheel-drive American cop cars from 60 years of the best cop shows:
“Adam 12” (1972 AMC Matador)
Although it was shot in the 1970s, in many ways, “Adam 12” was a throwback to 1950s cop shows in which gangs, heroin dealers and street snitches didn’t exist and officers Reed and Malloy played by Kent McCord and Martin Milner rarely drew their guns, let alone actually capped anyone. In seasons five through seven, they drove an AMC Matador. In actuality, the LAPD was always a strong supporter of underdog American Motors; they owned more than 500 Matador black and whites at one time.
by Rob Sass on Thursday, June 26th, 2014
The Crown Vic was the most widely used police car and taxi in the U.S. and Canada, and although they’re starting to give way to the Dodge Charger, they still show up in the rearview mirrors of speeders everywhere…
The cop show genre goes back to the pre-TV days of radio (where you had to imagine what black and white your favorite cop was driving).
Here are some favorite full-size, rear-wheel-drive American cop cars from 60 years of the best cop shows:
“Adam 12” (1972 AMC Matador)
Although it was shot in the 1970s, in many ways, “Adam 12” was a throwback to 1950s cop shows in which gangs, heroin dealers and street snitches didn’t exist and officers Reed and Malloy played by Kent McCord and Martin Milner rarely drew their guns, let alone actually capped anyone. In seasons five through seven, they drove an AMC Matador. In actuality, the LAPD was always a strong supporter of underdog American Motors; they owned more than 500 Matador black and whites at one time.
What's the difference -- like 4 sq. feet?
Time has not been kind to the design of these cars...
