What TV And Movie Characters Deserved Signature Cars But Didn’t Get Them, And What Should They Have Been?

I was just thinking about how The Six Million Dollar Man didn’t have a car, which seems like a miss. Now, some of you, like The Bishop, may say Steve Austin drove a Mercedes 280 SL, which he in fact did. If I ever knew this, I forgot it. But the car wasn’t really a signature vehicle, not in the mode of something like Starsky’s boldly striped Gran Torino or the Ford Mustang II Cobra II that Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett, Mrs. Six Million Dollar Man) drove on Charlie’s Angels. Or, consider Jim Rockford’s Firebird Esprit, Magnum P.I.’s Ferrari 308 GTS, or Columbo’s 1959 Peugeot 403 – which I like to imagine was loaded with gadgets à la James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5. “Oh, just one more thing…” (activates ejector seat).

Anyway, back to Steve Austin (the cyborg, not the wrestler). I think it would have been fun if Oscar just issued a Schwinn Continental to Steve as his official OSI transportation. With his bionic legs good for 60 mph running, I gotta believe Steve could effortlessly maintain highway speeds on a bicycle.

BUT, he wouldn’t be able to easily carry a passenger or spare D batteries or Bigfoot repellent or whatever, so I guess a car would be best. Shades of Farrah’s ride, I think a Mustang, a full-size Mustang, would suit him well – see topshot. Steve was stylish enough to pull off a salmon leisure suit, so I think the flashy Mach 1 would suit him well

What about the Golden Girls, whom you may recall from The Golden Girls? Once again, The Bishop tried to bring me down.

Thank you, Stephen Walter Gossin, for the clap.

You take it from here, The Ask has been made!

What TV And Movie Characters Deserved Signature Cars But Didn’t Get Them, And What Should They Have Been?

Top graphic images: Ford; Universal Television

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