Pelican running from the CHP?
 

Strange, the siren wasn't on while they were on the busy freeway, but on when on empty streets.

Ponch never plays by the rules. I love how he dumps his bike and Walker just laughs it off and keeps rolling.

Who is "Walker"?

I think you mean "Baker", as in Jon Baker.

You notice the dispatcher on the radio identified it as a "1976 Carrera"? Looks like a '74 to me.

Classic. I see I'm not the only one who dug that show as a kid.

I was surprised, however, that this scene didn't end the usual way most CHiPs chases did-- with the bad guy going over a cliff into the ocean and shots of the car massively exploding from 10 camera angles.

Glad he got away, haha

So when are the city streets ever so clear of traffic?

season 1 episode 1 scene 1 thats cool. I saw a targa chace back in the day I think it was on Cops. He stole his bosses car went to go on the highway and spun it around. Took off like hell and left the cop in the dust. He got away but soon after they found him crashed at an intersection. I havnt been able to find the clip

That show was a huge favorite of mine as a kid. Anything with cool cars, chases or stunts was. I had to watch the A Team, Magnum PI, Dukes of Hazzard and The Fall Guy every week too.

Was that Magnus Walker driving the Targa? Looked familiar somehow.

Cheers Richard

I have first and second season on DVD, it's pretty awesome. You can even buy the seasons on iTunes.

he-he.... I remember those young and dumb days.... ahemmm.... but where we were on the scoots :cool:

Here it is embedded.

Funny to see a police chase start in Simi Valley, cut to Sylmar, then Canyon Country and suddenly they are Downtown. I spent too many hours sitting in traffic on those freeways.

Think about how much it must have cost to produce this show, every week. I mean the sheer number of cars wrecked..

Then there's Dukes of Hazzard.


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A-Team, Dukes, Knight Rider.. All those shows had cool theme songs.

This is damn funky..

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^^ They made it from the Valley to downtown in seconds!

I remember all the chase scenes on the show had to be filmed at a maximum of 55 mph (the speed limit at the time) which meant the rest of the traffic had to be going much slower.

It was convenient that the 118 was under construction during the early days of CHiPs. Freeway shots required no shut down, since parts were not open yet.

If you haven't already seen this, you'll like it, post from a couple years ago.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/662090-charlies-angels-carrera.html

You guys do know that nobody ever referred to them as "chips"

Nice Airwolf vid, NC!

"CHiPs" is a television show, not a law enforcement agency. ;)