The car I was really looking forward to SKETCHING was Thomas Magnum’s FERRARI 308 GTS. Technically, it belonged to Higgins but who cares… This Ferrari became an Icon in Automotive Lore and cemented Pop Culture PI’s for years to come. And it’s what modern TV Shows are missing.

Now, they did do a modern Magnum PI, but it was lacking in so many ways that we don’t even want to get started. Remakes rarely work, but what do you think was the BEST PART of the original?? You guessed it… STORY. Stories about People, enhanced by Action, Comedy, Location and a few other tidbits. But again, STORY IS KING.

And the stories over the 10 year run of Magnum were hard to wait each week for as they all took place in PARADISE!

Get Thomas’ FERRARI in the GARAGE on a bunch of cool stuff including BEACH TOWELS!

DID YOU KNOW?? Magnum, P.I. made its premiere on CBS in 1980, the same year the network’s long-running Hawaii Five-0 was taking its final bow (My Dad wrote 9 episodes of H5O!). Magnum’s location was picked because the network didn’t want to let its Hawaiian Production facilities go to waste, so the Tom Selleck show filmed many of its indoor scenes on the old Hawaii Five-0 Soundstage!

The two shows are even set in the same universe, as Thomas Magnum would make references to Detective Steve McGarrett, who was famously played by Jack Lord on Hawaii Five-0. Though Lord never did accept the offer to make a cameo, the link between the two shows was never broken.

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