In 2011, he was working on a TV series with most of the locations he had to find in downtown Langley. One day while driving through the area, he spotted a 1978 Pontiac Firebird with a for sale sign on the windshield parked in front of a small house. “I burst out laughing. I couldn’t believe it,” he recalls. “I’ve been a crazy huge fan of the TV series Rockford Files and always loved Jim Rockford’s Pontiac Firebird Esprit. But, at no time, was I actively looking for one.” Actor James Garner played L.A.-based detective Jim Rockford in the series that ran from 1974 through 1980. He always drove a ‘copper mist’ Firebird Esprit which was renewed every year up to the 1978 model year.