The Rockford Files Stunt Cars

09/30/2012

The Rockford Files Stunt Cars

The Rockford Files Stunt Firebirds
By Jim Suva

In Season 1 and 2, in order to save the 74 and 75 Firebirds, the use of older 1972-73 Firebirds were used. These older Firebirds were painted the Rockford color to match the hero Firebirds. The rear chrome bumpers were painted black to match the rear bumpers on the 74-75 Firebirds.

The pictures below are from the IMCDB web site. Internet Movie Car Database.

The Pilot

Season 1

"Tall Women In Red Wagon"

Season 2

"Gearjammers"

"The Girl In The Bay City Boys Club"

Here is a video of this stunt car in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjdlHuLUNU

"Joey Blue Eyes"

Starting in the 4th season they started to use the current year Firebirds for the damage stunt work.

Season 4

"Beamers Last Case"

"Forced Retirement"

"The Dog And Pony Show"

Season 6

"Only Rock and 'N' Roll Will Never Die"

We do not know how many Firebirds were actually wrecked during filming. We do know they were driven hard and put through their paces, by Roy Clark and James Garner. We will try to add more pictures in the future.

Sep 30, 2012 1:41:53 PM

4 Comments Comment feed

Good info. Thanks Jim!

Posted by: GoToPEngel | 09/30/2012 at 02:10 PM

I love this cars

Posted by: Jacek Paproszewski | 10/31/2012 at 05:14 AM

This is my first time at your blog and I've really enjoyed looking around. I will come back again in the future to check out some of the other articles. http://autolinetransport.com

Posted by: Mr Sheone | 01/18/2013 at 08:45 AM

Thank you for visiting. Jim

Posted by: Jim Suva and The Suva Files | 01/18/2013 at 10:31 AM

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09/30/2012