Top 10 Most Famous Movie Cars of All Time

Starsky and Hutch 1974 - 1979 Ford Gran Torino (continued)

C&D Test Results: Zero to 60 mph: 5.6 sec Zero to 100 mph: 13.7 sec Street start, 5–60 mph: 6.2 sec Standing ¼-mile: 14.1 sec @ 102 mph Braking, 70–0 mph: 281 ft. All in all impressive for a 33 year-old hulk.

Although an unknowable number of S&H replicas have been built, or at least attempted, there are only three official renditions. The original TV car was a more-or-less stock 1974 two-door Ford Gran Torino, painted fire engine red with a narrow to thick, front to rear, white stripe down the side and up the rear pillar. The car (more so than the show) spurred a host of imitators, the least of which wasn’t Ford, who produced the second official version as a marketing ploy for the 1976 model year.

There have been three distinct designs for the signature white stripe. The first was the stripe on the cars used during production of the TV series, 1975 – 1979. The second incarnation was the stripe Ford put on the 1000 reproduction Starsky& Hutch Torinos it sold during the 1976 model year. The final, and if you ask Movie Mike, the best, had an altered angle and was painted on the dozen cars or so Torinos that starred as Starsky’s Striped Tomato in the Warner Brothers’ movie.

Movie Mike sold one of the Hero cars, a 1976 version, on ebay (where he sells a lot of his movie cars) for $50,000. Must be one big fan out there, somewhere (I accentually know where it is, but I’ll let you so the detective work, if you’re interested). Mike had an offer nearer to $100,000 for Hero #1, but he's saving it for the sequel. If you want to find out everything that could possibly be know about the Starsky & Hutch Torinos, the best place on the Internet is John & Penny Quirk’s Starsky Torino website,  great people and a really cool (if you’re a fan of the car) website. If you're interested, we have hundreds of photos of the build and the finished cars. They will be posted in the Photos Section of this website shortly (whenever I get a few extra minutes).