This 1970 Challenger R/T convertible was used in the TV show Mod Squad. I've heard about the other Challenger in the show but not this one. It seems to be a real red with red interior, 383 automatic car and three speaker dash. I couldn't make out much else. Does anyone know anything about it?

Wow, I forgot about that car and now remember the show well. This should be a needle in a haystack.

ADAM-12 had an episode with a red/red R/T 'vert, but it has bumper guards & "ROAD" wheels

& duct tape to hold the emblems on

I remember that episode. The girl stole the Challenger from Tony Dow. He was playing a vet on leave?

Robert

IIRC..Tony Dow was a Marine, and he had a Chevelle?

How about this GTX?



Or Sport Fury...



http://www.imcdb.org/movie_62589-The-Mod-Squad.html

What was up with the duct tape???

Probably had to cover up the emblems unless they had permission from Chrysler.

I'm waiting for someone to ask how's the girl in the tan skirt?

How's, or who's?

WAG - per their contract w/Plymouth they couldn't promote "DODGE"?

You are correct! Your memory is better than mine. Just took the refresher course...

It's funny, all four of the Challenger emblems are obscured but no other cars I noted. '69 GP model J, Shelby GT 350 etc.

Robert

they aren't "stars" - just props, background
like extras VS. an actor with a speaking part getting credit

I was looking at those legs myself.

Might as well...

I remember the episode with Tony Dow. He had an army uniform on.
But I think it was Adam-12. It was an episode about illegal street
racing. Dick Clark was in that episode portraying a race track promoter trying to get racers off the streets and into an organized track event.
Tony Dow speaks with the Malloy and Reed, stating he had his
Chevelle stolen.
A Mopar tidbit in this episode is a racing green 69 Roadrunner that was street racing in one of the scenes. I beleive that very car is owned
by a member here on Moparts.

Cool stuff about the Adam 12 Challenger but no info on the Mod Squad Challenger?

You need to see if the Mod Squad and Adam 12 car have the same license plate

different plates, would these plates be authentic?

front valence moulding/rear "astrotone" panel on both the ADAM-12 & MOD SQUAD cars, but NO belt mouldings?

MOD SQUAD R/T lost its front bumper guards - it has rears

do you know the season and episode number for the MOD SQUAD R/T?

close but not quite

ADAM-12 "744 AEH"
VS.
MOD SQUAD "112 AEG"

who's the CA plate use numbers guru?

ADAM-12 car has A/C - any interior shots from MOD SQUAD?

I am

Those are 70 California plates. The plates are sequential starting with the letter A.

Those are the real deal

Some very early 70 cars were issued the older black plates starting with Z and the number order is reversed. Black would be ZZZ 999 and the Blues start 001 AAA

After we blew through that sequence we reversed the sequence again 000 ZZZ --> 1 AAA 001

So 70 California cars will start with Z, A or B

Never got in to watching Mod Squad back then, but saw a re-run about a year ago, and never realized the show was so mopar heavy! One episode had some bad guy messing with Peggy Lipton? She was driving I think a 70 GTX, think the darn thing had power windows too. The challenger showed up in same episode. Good stuff.

& if plates were distributed sequentially - these two would be 368 1,632 vehicles apart from the same DMV office

Like I said earlier the Mod Squad car had a three speaker dash and I don't believe it was an A/C car.

I have fender tag info from one of these two cars (unless there were more):

V6X Y05 26 EN1
+ N85 N95 P31 P37 R22 +
G32 G34 H51 M31 N41 N42
V3X A62 A63 B51 C16 C55
FE5 H6E4 000 915 Q03954
E63 D32 JS27 N0B 12xxxx

Dan, that is to cool! Could be the same car in both shows. I might be incorrect about the Mod Squad car not having A/C. I think the A63 on both cars is a pretty good hint that the cars could be the same.

the problem is I have it hand written from I don't know where

..... but the "ODD" thing is both cars appear to have the A63 - "moulding package" which included M31 - "belt mouldings" & they're missing on both cars aren't they?

a possible explanation: there are a number of late-September/early-October '69 built 'cudas that were built w/o their STANDARD M31 - "belt mouldings". I've known of the missed mouldings on the 'cudas for decades, this is the first evidence I've seen (& realized) that it was a Challenger issue also!

learn something new everyday!

different plates, if they are using actual registered cars & plates, they wouldn't have swapped them

I bet the MOD SQUAD car is no A/C & NO ROAD wheels

check out the clear windshield on the air conditioned ADAM-12 car - Oh HOLLYWOOD!

Plates are issued to offices sequentially in lots.

You are correct that these plates are 1632 apart - in CA that is darn close. We go through a lot cars .... and plates

Adam 12 road runner

What number was the street racing episode ?? I have never seen it.

Frank

Took me a while to find on my phone, but this was from a episode on a car theft ring I think, I was just flicking the channels when it popped up...obviously a "custom" job done for the show...

2)

That is a 72 Challenger convertible...

I have noticed the red 70 Mod Squad Challenger was well optioned with power windows,rim blow wheel,rally dash and that rear trim panel like S/E. Yet it did not have wood grain on door panels and was a column shift bench seat car.

I think the episode with some good Challenger shots is Willie Poor Boy, season 2, #34. I had no luck pulling it up.

She just showed up on the Twin peaks reboot on Showtime. She was also on the series in the nineties.

I have the box set of the Mod Squad. They used the 1970 Challenger R/T convertible for many episodes, like 20-25. I made a note of all the options, it is misplaced for now. They have some very close up shots of it, like the radio face on the whole screen, AM-8 track. It does have A/C, power windows, rim blow, column shift. I see it does have the M31 trim on it.

There is one episode with another 70 Challenger R/T convertible. It is lime green with white top stripe interior, 15X7 rallies, polyglas tires with tire size. Has rocker mouldings, body side mouldings, front bumper guards, dual painted mirrors, painted gas cap, argent grill with R/T emblems on both fenders and the grille, no exh tips, and no moulding across the rear edge of the hood. They show it pretty good from the outside under street lights several times, can't tell interior details other than a rim blow wheel.

The 70 GTX is very cool, it was in one episode only. It's options are: bench seat, column shift, power windows, woodgrain steering wheel, FE5 red paint, black vinyl top, black reflector stripe, hood turn signals, remote drivers mirror, turndown exhaust, road wheels, polyglas tires with tires size. It has single speaker dash, but they never show a close up of the dash face to see the type of radio.

In the episode they run over some rocks and blow a tire and show up close the tire changing. They show the car with polyglas tires in every scene except the tire changing close ups it has blackwall tires, drivers side only. Looking close they blacked out the white letters, where the bottom of the tire is wadded up you can see the white letters are there and not blacked out.

They moved up to a 1971 Challenger convertible, gold with black side stripes, flat hood, light tan interior. Then it changed and it looked like the same car with 1972 grille and taillights. Then moved into a 72 or 73 Charger with a custom stripe up the one side of the hood.

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.

Don't have the VON in front of me, but Barry might have my info on file.

(Barry: Did I ever give you my info?)

I can offer that the VIN ends in 1968, if that helps to check your records.

I can assure you that on MY car, there was/is chrome at the top of the doors and rear edge of the hood and short top run of the front fenders.

I attach these photos ONLY as a reference of this chrome.
There is no need to look elsewhere in the photos, other than at the chrome.

Came across a better view of the chrome (and teenagers in a typical pose).

No need to look at those other pictures, now.

...or this one.




Wait, there's hardly any chrome here.

nevermind

Great pictures and information.

Back in the day most tv shows had a contract with a certain car brand .
The shows got a brand new car(s) for the star(s) each model year
For example , I dream of Jeanie had Pontiac , and you can see Larry Hagman
sporting around in a Firebird convertible . Bewitched had a contract with Chevrolet and Darren Stevens was driving a Camaro convertible in 1969 and
his boss Larry Tate was stylin and profiling in a 69 Corvette convertible .
The Brady Bunch had a contract with Plymouth and they furnished them with a brand new convertible Barracuda in 70 and 71 . The contract said they get a convertible so in 1972 they had to make them one by using the 71 and swapping in the 72 grille taillights etc. They did the same for Mod squad who had a contract with Dodge .I believe George Barris did the mods. Beverly Hillbillies also had a contract with Dodge and Jane Hathaway got a brand new red convertible each season .

Greg

Here are a couple of pics of one of the Firebirds from I dream of Jeannie..

I like the 67 GTO convertible in blue on the Genie show.

Hey Evets,
No, but I do have it recorded. I saw it at Spring Fling once.

Did you find any broadcast sheets in it?

No broadcast sheets [that I remember]. It is possible that a long-ago trip down to TJ involving liquor and upholstery left a silly piece of paper that no one care about back then in a Mexican landfill.

Back to Dan's questions about "belt moulding"...

I re-reviewed the Look Back Yesterday episode, and was reminded just how many excellent views of the car there are. No screen capture technology here, but I guarantee that the car on screen has chrome where my car has chrome, as I demonstrated above in photos.

Note that this episode features both a young Margot Kidder (of Superman fame) and Mark Goddard (Lost in Space).

Very cool info

I must be getting way old, my first thought was what a perv with all the high school girls.

c'mon they're paid professionals

The license number on the mod squad lime green R/T convertible is 360 ANK. Car has wheel lip trim and rocker trim, grille sometimes looks argent and sometimes black. Every scene Is at night.

The red mod squad car looks to have the belt moulding on it all the time.

Is that a WAG or just a general disrespect to women in general?

it was a commercial shoot

Now I feel really old, I binged WAG and not sure what to look for.

Dog walking or pet motels?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=WAG&pc=MOZI&form=MOZTSB

Yes, I am a perv.

There are two kinds of females seen in, on, and near my car in this thread.

1. High school beauty queens in long, conservative gowns, getting prepared for an enjoyable time waving to the crowd along a parade route.

2. Adult women dressed in bikinis, working a paid gig on a high-budget shoot for a national magazine.

I have almost 20 years of photos, documenting both paid and volunteer work for movies, TV, print media, and personal appearances. I chose to share a small subset of those photos, thinking it might provide some entertainment to the membership.


Boy, do I miss this place.

not

Some of us appreciated the photos and seeing you get to enjoy your car and the work you did

I think most of the members appreciate the pictures and information that 68HemiB provided. I know I did.

I love that episode. Adam 12 had some great MoPars in it, plus the old shots of LA are pretty cool.

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