There was an episode once where Julie was bitten by a rattler. Car was a 3rd generation GTX. As a kid I was thinking "that's a cool car". Then remember seeing the lettering on it.

Spoiler alert- the guys find her and save her just in time.

Yes this is the episode with the 1970 GTX.

sorry Who?

If Linc was inspecting a rust free Mopar how would he describe it?

"The Oxide. It's here ......... I can feel it. Dig it."

No, that's not it.
Hint: one word.

I think he would say it's Di-no-mite!

Come on guys....Linc was famous for this word.

"Dy-no-mite" was Jimmy Walker (JJ)

Groovy


Sorry I never watched this show very much and it was back in the day.

linc hayes solid

Not sure if this will appear, but Linc's thing was to respond with "solid" very often as a form of agreement to whatever the topic (often a plan of action) was.

Does anyone know why the 71-72 Challenger convertible got all of the publicity after the show was over and the red on red Challenger got zero? Since I didn't follow the show before recently I had no idea the red Challenger even existed.

Solid

I don't know, they were both in many episodes. The red 1970 car looked way better on screen than the gold 1971 ever did. IMO

Wow. Haven't seen Mod Squad since it first showed up on TV. I was only 10 and remember very little. A few years later Charlies Angels arrived and I noticed a lot about the scenery, but that scenery wasn't the cars.

A63 is a rare trim option that is super hard to find convertible specific parts for.

The Adam 12 drag strip was actually Lions, but I never knew Tony Dow was on Leave it to Beaver.

Clarence Williams III (Link) was awesome as the muscle on 52 Pickup

Never knew Peggy Lipton was on Twin Peaks!

Column shift on the red R/T convertible? That has to be pretty rare. And it has disappeared? No one has seen it?

Hi guys... long time, no see.

I was coincidentally stopping in to check out the "[not] flying hellcat" thread that a MCSD club member pointed out, and I couldn't help noticing this thread about the 1970 Mod Squad Challenger R/T convertible.

As you know, TV shows and movies typically use multiple identical cars, if the car is going to be central to the plot line. Furthermore, cars registered at the same time at the same DMV location get sequential plates. The car seen on screen sports the CA license plate 112 AEG. For about four decades, I had the twin of the car (or perhaps THE car, with switched plates) in my possession. It originally carried the CA plate number 113 AEG.

Most of that time, all I knew was that it was a moderately rare car, with a bizarre combination of options. When The Mod Squad came out on DVD, I had a Holy Shhhhh...mokes moment, when I saw my car on the screen. By that time, I had not a clue as to how to prove provenance, as everyone associated with the show was probably dead, senile, or didn't give a rat's behind about some project they worked on briefly, way back when.

Galen was the first one to point out that it was probably built for PR work (ads, TV, or movies), as it carried a Q- order number (Executive Lease or PR). Coupled with the almost-never-seen combination of A/C + clear glass made the PR story even more likely.

Two years ago, when I bought the Hellcat, I sent RTRAGTP to a good friend up north, who had been lusting after the car for many years. He is right now putting it back to the way it was born (as I had changed the interior to black many years ago). I am sure that he would appreciate any additional info that might come out of publicity this thread generates.

Almost all of my paperwork and notes went with the car, but here are the particulars as I remember them. Please excuse the fact that I am not a walking/talking white book, able to spout build codes at will.

I purchased it from a private party (who mentioned nothing about TV history) in about 1977 or 1978. I passed the baton in early 2016.

It was a "real" JS27N0B 383 magnum R/T convertible.
FE5 red with black longitudinal R/T stripes
383 Magnum callouts on the hood, but no hood blackout
Full "Challenger" raised center wheel covers
A/C, P/S, P/B (front disks), power windows, CLEAR GLASS (so less camera distortion)
Deluxe seat belts (that's a "fasten seat belts" light on the dash, not a reverse light)
Red interior, and a COLUMN SHIFT (so actors can slide across easily)
AM/8-track radio with 3-speaker dash

M63 "S/E" bling (yes, I know there's no such thing as an R/T-S/E convertible). I am not sure what 6bblgt means about "belt mouldings", but this WAS an early build car. It had the rear argent panel, chrome on the front valence, back of the hood, along the top of the doors, and around the convertible boot (it's actually where the clips go that secure the convertible boot when the top is down and covered).

Although I pointed out the clear glass to anyone who would listen (and some who weren't listening) at the photo shoots using the car, it was only the director of the Budweiser commercial who appreciated the fact.

Click here to view the Budweiser commercial on Youtube

I received the car in mostly stock trim (albeit very tired and with an interior infected with Leprosy). The hood had already been bashed and replaced with a "safe" one (larger hinge bolts + crumple zones). The D O D G E and 383 Magnum callouts were never remounted. A chrome gas cap got on there too.

On my watch, I changed the interior to black and traded out the engine (numbers engine still exists, and is going back in it). The repaint is modern FE5 + clear coat, but over a "primer" of Viper red. Because of this, it looks different than "correct" FE5 (not just shinier, but also deeper) in the sun. I also replaced the front valence and never got around to remounting the chrome trim there.

Very cool Steve.

Tinted glass was recommended with AC, but not required.

Clear glass was standard & tinted cost extra.

is your former R/T's VON Q03954? It would make sense that I'd seen it decades ago at one of the Spring Flings & wrote the fender tag info down & missed C15 (deluxe seat belts) for C16 (console)

the pictures are not the greatest but in the above pics of the ADAM-12 & MOD SQUAD R/Ts it appears the chrome mouldings on the tops of the doors & back of the hood/fenders are not there - anyone have a clearer screen capture that clarifies the issue?

I was aware of the '71-'72 MOD SQUAD 340 Challenger convertibles - there are a couple still out there - this thread is the first I've heard of red R/Ts used during the '70 season.