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James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« on: January 17, 2019, 12:20:47 am »
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The 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula personally owned by James Garner and used when filming The Rockford Files is heading to auction with Barret-Jackson at no reserve

To a generation of loved-up millennials, James Garner remains known for his portrayal as Old Noah Calhoun in 2004 weep-fest The Notebook. However, to those who grew up during the era of flared trousers and disco, Garner was the king of cool; Jim Rockford.

Whoever said they didn’t want to be Rockford when surviving the 1970s as an adolescent is an out-and-out liar, with his uber-American lifestyle one of envy for those stuck on the school run in their father’s humdrum saloon. Quite frankly, The Rockford Files was more of a religion than a TV series to those of a certain age. Well, courtesy of Barrett-Jackson, you can finally be Jim Rockford, as his 1978 Pontiac Firebird is headed for sale this week at no reserve.
More Pontiac greatness!

Perhaps rivalling Burt Reynold’s Bandit for the title of coolest on-screen Pontiac, Rockford would showcase his Firebird Esprit and its 6.6-litre V8 abilities every Friday at 9pm. Reruns over the succeeding decades helped cement an unwavering fan base that currently outstrips most modern TV shows.

In fact, Rockford remains the only TV detective to have coined a driving manoeuvre – the famous ‘Jim Rockford turn-around’. Although he didn’t invent the reverse 180-degree ‘J-turn’, Garner’s character employed the action so often that the manoeuvre is forever associated with the show and its titular character.
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2019, 12:23:10 am »
@The Ghost @RoosGirl

Who the hell would want a used Second Gen F-Body, especially in a baby shit color?
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2019, 09:01:25 am »
I liked Garner as Maverick when growing up,but I don't think I ever watched a single episode of The Rockford Files. I was too busy chasing wimmins,riding homebuilt Harley's, and getting loaded in the 70's to watch tv. I knew at some level that other people watched tv,but didn't understand why.
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2019, 09:06:35 am »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on January 17, 2019, 12:23:10 am
@The Ghost @RoosGirl

Who the hell would want a used Second Gen F-Body, especially in a baby shit color?

Not when you can snap up Starsky & Hutch's Grand Torino with vector stripe for a measly 40k.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2019, 09:10:21 am »
1st off that isn't a Formula in the pictures. Secondly the cars used in the entire series up till 1979 were Firebird Esprits.  Pontiac had 4 trim levels.  Base Firebird for your cheep bastards. The Esprit for your secretaries. Formula for the tuners.  And the Screaming Chicken for the gold chain crowd.
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2019, 09:30:39 am »
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 And the Screaming Chicken for the gold chain crowd.


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The gold chains and Thunder Chicken decals were such a perfect fit with the Disco Dust.
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2019, 09:48:49 am »
James Garner was one hunk of a man.  *girly sigh*  :lubyou:
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2019, 09:49:36 am »
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I liked Garner as Maverick.....

That's silly. No one would have watched the show if he drove a Maverick....



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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2019, 09:52:57 am »
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That's silly. No one would have watched the show if he drove a Maverick....



They would have had to change the name of the show if they had used it!   LOL
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2019, 09:57:13 am »
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They would have had to change the name of the show if they had used it!   LOL

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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2019, 09:59:29 am »
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They made a "Grabber" model.  Today they would #metoo to it.
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2019, 09:59:58 am »
Any bets on what this car will go for? Burt Reynolds 78 T/A went for $192K 3 months ago and that was not a real Bandit car used in the movies. Garners car was actually used in the filming of half the series and beyond that it was the "Hero" car. I am thinking $200K.

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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2019, 10:01:54 am »
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Any bets on what this car will go for? Burt Reynolds 78 T/A went for $192K 3 months ago and that was not a real Bandit car used in the movies. Garners car was actually used in the filming of half the series and beyond that it was the "Hero" car. I am thinking $200K.



Sounds about right.  If you get the right fools and and their money bidding on it....it could go higher.

Is @RoosGirl going?
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2019, 10:03:49 am »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 09:59:29 am
They made a "Grabber" model.  Today they would #metoo to it.

Grabbers are interesting when I see them today, but back in the 70's, 80's and 90's when I saw one I thought they were disgusting garbage for losers who couldn't afford even a Torino. 
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« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2019, 10:28:42 am »
Quote from: Millee on January 17, 2019, 09:48:49 am
James Garner was one hunk of a man.  *girly sigh*  :lubyou:
Indeed. Who cares about his car?  :laugh:
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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2019, 10:32:48 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 17, 2019, 10:28:42 am
Indeed. Who cares about his car?  :laugh:

Depends on the "Seatcover"
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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2019, 10:52:40 am »
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@The Ghost @RoosGirl

Who the hell would want a used Second Gen F-Body, especially in a baby shit color?
I don't know, remember the insane money they paid for Don Johnson's base model Cuda convertible? Yeah I know, it was Cuda and a convertible but they were paying so much money I thought Johnson and Marin were going to shit their britches trying to keep the laughter in as the bids just kept going up and up and up........
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« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2019, 10:55:54 am »
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Indeed. Who cares about his car?  :laugh:

Heretic. The car was the whole damn show. The reason I can do a fluid J-Turn today is because of Jim and his Firebird....




Sorry...

He even did it in a '74 Montego MX 4 door.
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For Frank C.


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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2019, 11:19:11 am »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 10:01:54 am
Sounds about right.  If you get the right fools and and their money bidding on it....it could go higher.



Who else do you think Barret-Jackson invites to their auctions and reserves seats up front for? People pay stupid money for crap they don't even want so they can be seen on teebee proving they have "stoopid money" to just throw away. Most of the vehicles bought get taken home and locked away in a garage without ever being seen again until they go back up for auction a couple of years later.
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2019, 11:32:37 am »
The Rockford Files and Mannix were two of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2019, 11:34:01 am »
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2019, 11:42:22 am »
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Most of the vehicles bought get taken home and locked away in a garage without ever being seen again until they go back up for auction a couple of years later.

From what I've seen roll across the block this week, I wouldn't drive them either. Total snoozefest boring Mustangs and old C10 Chevys.
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« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2019, 11:59:01 am »
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« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2019, 01:47:35 pm »
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@The Ghost @RoosGirl

Who the hell would want a used Second Gen F-Body, especially in a baby shit color?

Ugh, Laredo Brown.  Double ugh, rally rims with white walls.  And no rear spoiler?  WTH were they thinking.
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« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2019, 01:56:24 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 09:10:21 am
1st off that isn't a Formula in the pictures. Secondly the cars used in the entire series up till 1979 were Firebird Esprits.  Pontiac had 4 trim levels.  Base Firebird for your cheep bastards. The Esprit for your secretaries. Formula for the tuners.  And the Screaming Chicken for the gold chain crowd.

The article says it was a Formula 400 that was modified to look like an Esprit.  Odd decision to me to make the car look more old man-ish.  I guess that's better than Ponch's Formula with the shaker hood.
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« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2019, 01:56:45 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on January 17, 2019, 01:47:35 pm
Ugh, Laredo Brown.  Double ugh, rally rims with white walls.  And no rear spoiler?  WTH were they thinking.

That was known as 'stealth' back in the day.
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« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2019, 01:56:57 pm »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on January 17, 2019, 11:59:01 am
No one asked you Tommy. Go back to posting irrelevant stories about shit happening in some local election in Bulgaria.
Some of us - who also like old cars and handsome manly (*swoon*) actors - are interested in world events. The threads in the World cat are not irrelevant.  Don't crap on our lovefest, Frank!  :laugh:
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« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2019, 01:58:54 pm »
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That was known as 'stealth' back in the day.

Ohhh.... it was a "sleeper". 
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« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2019, 03:03:46 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on January 17, 2019, 01:56:24 pm
I guess that's better than Ponch's Formula with the shaker hood.

That bastardization was so butt Ugly it made the baby Jesus cry.

Speaking of crying.  In an early Rockford File the blowed up Rockfishes Esprit.  The 75 or 76 model bird.  But they really wire the explosives to what looked like a 71 model.   
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« Reply #32 on: January 17, 2019, 03:22:35 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 03:03:46 pm
That bastardization was so butt Ugly it made the baby Jesus cry.

Speaking of crying.  In an early Rockford File the blowed up Rockfishes Esprit.  The 75 or 76 model bird.  But they really wire the explosives to what looked like a 71 model.

The 71 is soooooo much nicer than a 75/76.
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« Reply #33 on: January 17, 2019, 05:21:01 pm »
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The 71 is soooooo much nicer than a 75/76.

It broke my heart.  After the classic looks of 70 1/2 thu 73 models, the 74,75 and 76  were "transitional" styling years for the 'bird.  77 is when it took off again.  In 79 they finally sold more units than the crapmarro.
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« Reply #34 on: January 17, 2019, 06:16:18 pm »
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The 71 is soooooo much nicer than a 75/76.

Like hell. You couldn't get a Screaming Chicken on those except for a small one on the nose of a T/A. Small sucks....

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« Reply #35 on: January 17, 2019, 06:21:28 pm »
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Like hell. You couldn't get a Screaming Chicken on those except for a small one on the nose of a T/A. Small sucks....



If you keep that talking out your ass stuff up I am gonna have to take a trip up to  the great state of Pennsylvania and have your ass kicked....while I watch from a safe distance....hiding behind a Camaro Z-28 .....  damn philistine.
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« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2019, 06:49:31 pm »
Quote from: Amb. Frank Cannon on January 17, 2019, 06:16:18 pm
Like hell. You couldn't get a Screaming Chicken on those except for a small one on the nose of a T/A. Small sucks....



You can go choke your screaming chicken.  The front nose alone was better looking on the 70-73 than anything that came after.
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« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2019, 06:53:41 pm »
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You can go choke your screaming chicken.  The front nose alone was better looking on the 70-73 than anything that came after.

Kick his ass.  You go girl.
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« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2019, 07:02:21 pm »
Y'all can have ALLof that GM junk!  Give me a 68 Charger RT over that crap any day and every day!
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« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2019, 07:05:57 pm »
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Y'all can have ALLof that GM junk!  Give me a 68 Charger RT over that crap any day and every day!

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« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2019, 07:15:36 pm »
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We ate those old 2 plus ton  Mopar pigs for lunch

SURE you did!  ROFLMAO!!!
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« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2019, 07:22:25 pm »
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« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2019, 07:27:33 pm »
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SURE you did!  ROFLMAO!!!

A ram air 400 would kill your land yatchet Charger.   You watched "Bullet" to many times.   
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« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2019, 07:52:01 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on January 17, 2019, 06:49:31 pm
You can go choke your screaming chicken.  The front nose alone was better looking on the 70-73 than anything that came after.

First of all only poor people drive around with dual headlamps. Real people have quads. Secondly you suck.

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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #44 on: January 17, 2019, 08:00:11 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on January 17, 2019, 07:02:21 pm
Y'all can have ALLof that GM junk!  Give me a 68 Charger RT over that crap any day and every day!

Sir, this is a discussion of fine American vehicles on this thread. There is a thread for Italian cars on the Alternate Realities thread.



There is also a thread there where people are discussing that the sound of the Highland Park Hummingbird reduction gear starter on a 60's and 70's Chrysler product isn't hysterical.


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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #45 on: January 17, 2019, 08:16:52 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 07:27:33 pm
A ram air 400 would kill your land yatchet Charger.   You watched "Bullet" to many times.

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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #46 on: January 17, 2019, 08:25:22 pm »
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You don’t become cooler with age but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool.

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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #47 on: January 17, 2019, 08:30:52 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on January 17, 2019, 08:25:22 pm
This is not air you want....



I don't care what type of smoke they blow up your ass people are lying when they say torsion bar suspensions handle better than springs or leaves.
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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #48 on: January 17, 2019, 08:30:57 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on January 17, 2019, 07:02:21 pm
Y'all can have ALLof that GM junk!  Give me a 68 Charger RT over that crap any day and every day!

Any company that allows a horn like this cannot be trusted to not bleep up the more important things.


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Re: James Garner's personal 1978 Pontiac Firebird heads to auction
« Reply #49 on: January 17, 2019, 08:34:30 pm »
Quote from: EdJames on January 17, 2019, 07:22:25 pm

Sorry...

The engine is Supercharged Chrysler’s 501 cubic-inch, big-block V8 with Dyers 8-71 blower on top. This engine produces 693 horsepower and 728 lb.-ft. of torque. The engine is bolted to a custom built TorqueFlite A727, 4-speed automatic transmission.

VERY nice!  Only one thing wrong with it.  It isn't mine!
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