Damn! I hate to admit this but I saw the ORIGINAL season and I think I was in highschool! DAMN I'M OLD!
I remeber the episode where Ponch and John have to ease up to this bozo on a brand new-just-off-the-showroom Z1(?) 900cc Kawasaki 'cause the dude was like, all frozen with fear and *****.
One of 'em hung on to the eased off the throttle while the other banged it down the gears... (Should have just pulled in the clutch but that's like what, 2 seconds and the other takes up minutes of DRAMA)... anyway they git the guy pulled over to the side and this proto-squid, (he's dressed like any other moto-dude of the '70 - no helmet, sleveless shirt, slacks and sneakers), swears off motorcyles and starts walking to the nearest off ramp.
Man, I bet there wasn't a Z1 to be found in a Kawasaki delaership in the lower 48 the day after that aired. Ask him if Kawasaki PAID them for that episode?
OBTW Years later I was pulled over on the 210 Fwy, (the same freeway I beleave they shot the show on before it opened to the public), by a young hispanic CHP officer... it was all I could do NOT to ask. "Ah, didn't you used to have your own TV show?"