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Old 02-15-2010, 03:31 PM
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Firebirds in movies and tv shows

Hi everyone, I noticed a thread on camaros in movies, so I decided I would start one for birds. For some reason I always seem to see way more 3rd gen camaros in movies than firebirds. Aside from Knight Rider I honestly have hardly seen any 3rd gen birds in movies or shows. However I just found out that in the movie the Big Hit, Mark Wahlberg plays a hitman and drives a yellow 3rd gen firebird formula. I havn't seen the movie, but heres the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ymxShEpUI. You can see it drifting at about 2:04 in the trailer. Unfortunatly it also explodes off of a cliff . Anyway I'd be really interested in seeing what everyone comes up with.
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

There is one in "Coming to America."
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There is white one that Hannibal is sitting in during the first episode of The A-Team. I *think* I also saw a couple/few others here and there in the first couple seasons. Not much in the later seasons though IIRC.
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

Big Trouble in Little China has a nice 86' Red with silver gfx Trans Am in it. http://imcdb.org/vehicle_47537-Ponti...s-Am-1986.html
and actually you could just view http://imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Pontiac.html and see the list of all the Firebirds/Formulas/Trans Ams in movies with the Internet Movie Cars Database
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

in the tv show the office one off the office workers drives a trans am gta. and they show it alot on the tv show.
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

Dwight(spelling?)
It is red or maroon or something.
I always thought it was a Camaro but then I never really watched that show so I dunno. :P

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Totally a Firebird.

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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

crossroads. its been a while but i believe the "devil" drives a white 87 GTA with t-tops.
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Originally Posted by 87firebird305V8
crossroads. its been a while but i believe the "devil" drives a white 87 GTA with t-tops.
that's the one.
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

i beleive smokey and the bandit 3..... i beleive its a 3rd gen.. it looks real close to the Knight Rider car.
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the knight rider is in kicking it old school. david hasselhoff comes and lets the kid borrow it on his first date.
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White 85-90 Trans Am in Street Fighter II (animated, not the Van Damme abomination)

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There was a red Formula in Gone in 60 Seconds that Kip Raines drove at the very beginning before it got crushed with him in it.
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a black and gold 84 firebird in road house
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theres a red camaro convertible in the movie "it". and "the stand" has a blue camaro in it. both stephen king movies.
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Movies, Music Videos, and TV shows with Camaros/Firebirds
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

The rapper TI is sitting in an ls1 TA in the video "I'm Serious" while he says the line "pull up in the blue coupe that's damn near clear and Polo gear that won't drop til next year."
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i know its not a 3rd gen but daybreakers the vampire movie that just came out has a sick 2nd gen bandit transam in it.
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The move ExTerminators, which is coming out in May, features a red Firebird that gets crashed through a cinder block wall. I stumbled across the car on eBay.
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Re: Firebirds in movies and tv shows

Originally Posted by formula forever
in the tv show the office one off the office workers drives a trans am gta. and they show it alot on the tv show.
This description kinda made me mad. LOL

http://www.autoshowbiz.com/archives/...hrute-and.html
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You have to look close but in the movie "TOP GUN" Tom Cruise's GF is chasing him in her little convertable as she blasts through a intersection forcing a black 85-86 T/A to slam on the brakes...the T/A sits there for a moment before proceding through the intersection.
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Oh, no. It looks like this '91 won't be starring in any more films. Also, as the owner of a car with t-tops, I have to say that the third shot makes me want to make sure I keep it shiny side up.
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I can't stand those german shows, they keep destroying nice cars for stupid stunts. There's one called "Alarm für Cobra" that always begins with a big car collision on on the Autobahn. Last time I saw it, a Ferrari 308 was badly crashed...I've seen a few Camaros, a Caprice, and many others, it's not as if those car were common here. I'm sure they're trying to make their show look like american shows.
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If you want to see third gens, you need to watch Miami Vice. You can find at least one thirdgen in almost every episode it seems. The cars are sometimes prominently featured in some of the chase sequences. In the pilot episode in one of the early scenes the character of Sonny Crockett drives a Camaro of some kind in pursuit of a criminal. Later in the same episode the character Ricardo Tubbs is seen driving a early black and gold Trans Am. In later episodes I've seen a 1984 Trans Am convertible, 1985 blue and silver Trans Am, and a gray Camaro featured in chase scenes. There are also tons of Camaros seen in background shots.

McGuyver or virtually anything else from the 80's will show them. You only see them in background shots in Airwolf and you see at least one yellow IROC-Z driven by McGuyver which he had to hotwire. He drove that car for much of the episode.
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The Macgyver episode "Collision Course" features a race between mid 80s Trans Ams and Camaros. Macgyver naturally wins it in his Trans Am
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The Macgyver episode "Collision Course" features a race between mid 80s Trans Ams and Camaros. Macgyver naturally wins it in his Trans Am
I didn't know about this one. Then again I haven't seen that show in quite some time.
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I didn't know about this one. Then again I haven't seen that show in quite some time.
Yeah it was always one of my favorite episodes as a kid. It wasn't until years later that I realized what the cars were.
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I watched a movie last night ... "Hard Cash" starring Christian Slater - he drives a 3rd gen Camaro in the movie - but about 1/3 into it, there is a long chase scene - there were so many 3rd gen birds that got wrecked in the chase scene, that I couldn't keep count.
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