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Schultz, Volo Auto Museum) TV Movie Car Magic When complete, Al had himself a fleet of four Daytona replicas on his lot. Tom looked at that and said “this’ll work fine.” Al handed Tom the keys, and Tom commenced to mold-making. But, as chance would have it, sitting on Al’s lot was an original Ferrari Daytona Spyder, there on consignment. The first idea was that Tom would build a replica AC Cobra on a Corvette chassis, but as Tom got all technical on it, he knew it wouldn’t work: the wheelbase was all wrong. For the tremendous skillsets necessary to do that right, he turned to a builder named Tom McBurnie, who has a resume as long as your inseam for this behavior. There was an affluent car dealer in California, named Al Mardekian, and he got into doing replicas of exotic cars. But how they decided on his iconic 1972 Ferrari Daytona Spyder is a story in itself. Of course, he had to have a stunning ride. The protagonist, Sonny Crockett, plays an undercover cop looking like a high-level drug dealer. Then exotic weapons and even more exotic boats. The music? Edgy and spot on, Phil Collins and Jan Hammer and Glen Frey, some of whom cameo’d on the show. Mann kept a fashion consultant who jetted off to Milan and Paris and other epicenters of haute couture, to make sure everyone looked cutting edge. Then it was the talent, Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas, among others. The palette of aqua blues and pinks and other pastels is of his authorship, and indeed, some people credit him with a revival not just of that color scheme in south Florida, but even so much as the revival of the local economies. And he famously banned red and brown from his camera lenses. If he didn’t like the color of a building, he sent somebody to go to paint it, unclear as to what extent he actually sought permission. Everything about the series, from top to bottom bears his imprint: he exercised control over things as subtle as what colors appeared in street scenes.
Probably first among them was the Executive Producer, the incomparable Michael Mann. It was an instant, explosive hit, for a whole bunch of reasons. In September of 1984, Miami Vice hit pop culture like the Yucatan Meteor.
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