Crockett: 229 Legion, Tubbs: Python &/or Shockwave!

Key points to remember...

1) The movie was an insult to Miami Vice fans the world over. My head hurts just thinking about it.

2) Crockett can NOT be adequately portrayed by any foreign actor. Colin Farrell? NO! Just No... I'm thinking Matthew McConaughey would make for a great Crockett.

3) Crockett favors a big bore or magnum of some sort as a primary arm.

4) Crockett is a Ferrari man. It would be sacrilege to put him in anything else.

5) Whatever Crockett carried would ride in a Miami Classic/Jackass shoulder carry rig.

Crockett is smart enough to know Zev Glocks suck.

On one hand, the new STIs like the Costa Carry Comp would be an option. As mentioned above, it would likely have to be stainless or chrome. I also think Crockett would likely opt for something even more high end.

My guess is he'd likely carry something along the lines of an SVI:



Though I would imagine it would be toned down to a more business like version with a few less embellishments. He'd likely opt for the integral compensator built into the island barrel. It would also need co witnessing tritium iron sights in the dot on dot configuration, because Crockett would not trust an electronic sight without backup irons.

For a back-up... Nope, Crockett won't be having any common Glock or P365. Even back in the day, he rocked a Detonics on his ankle. So it would have to be something similarly unique.

A Boberg perhaps:



My guess is Crockett/Burnett would be arriving on scene in a sweet preowned Ferrari 488:

Crockett might wanna Ferrari but Burnett was forced to settle for a Corvette-based kit car.

Hard to be picky when the taxpayers are footin’ the bill.

Let’s keep it traditional
Crockett with Sig p220 elite 5 inch in 10mm or 45acp backup gun Sig 938 in ankle holster
Tubbs with a mossberg shockwave and a kimber k6 revolver

Crockett gonna be Crockett. Lets just get Tubbs a 3'' Stainless Chaippa Rhino. Then replace that AOW with a nice V3 TAC-13

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McLaren

No...just no...friends don't let friends drive, let alone own, McLarens. The Taurus (the gun company, not the Ford) of the supercar world.

You need to recall the context.

Crockett didn’t have a car; Burnett had the car.

What would a player in Miami drive (that was within the budget of a municipality that was already reluctant to splurge for an undercover identity)?

If not a McLaren; then a Lambo. Something flashy that would appeal to a Guido. That’s the context.

Speaking of recalling, the white Testarossa in the TV show storyline was a respray of a confiscated black Testarossa from an earlier episode. Other than a paint job, that Ferrari didn't cost the make-believe muni a thing. Certainly spared Crockett/Burnett further indignation of "hi-rollin'" it in that old Chevy Apache pickup...

Same sort of backstory could be the case if Crockett/Burnett were to rock a SF90 Stradale (my suggestion) today. Some high rollin' smuggler/arms dealer/Grade A lowlife gets nabbed, stuff confiscated, and then repurposed. EZ-peezy. No sleazy VW-Lambo needed.

The only thing good about the movie was the Adam A500 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_A500).


I enjoyed the show.

I always wondered who paid the bills for oil changes, tires and routine maintenance for that Testarossa. Did the drug dealer that they seized it from provide a maintenance and repair budget?

Id love to see them relaunch it - have someone from the original cast take the lieutenant seat - or pull in David Caruso - he kinda has that brooding Castillo feel...

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Originally posted by Dakor:
Crocket: CZ Custom 97B in 10mm
Tubbs: Remington V3 Tac-13 with or w/o SB brace depending on episode / situation

^^^
He's right, you know.

Slight thread drift. My brother met Michael Talbott(Switek). A gun guy, he told my brother that at the end of the show, the production company let him buy the Browning Hi-power he used in the show. He took it to a gunsmith, and had the restrictor for blanks removed from the barrel. Shoots great. They charged him $75.00 for the pistol. He also has a veterans' charity.

My thought is they go to Vltor and tell them to finally produce and release their MV Bren Tens that they made a few years ago as prototypes.

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Somewhat like his cars. The Testarossa was “the car” at that moment in time. But history has not been kind to that model. Of course, Crockett would have already moved to the next fad again and again.

Cool thread. I still remember watching the first airing of the episode with Zubiena. My college roommate and I had gotten hooked on the show; our girlfriends didn’t appreciate that Friday night dates had to await the end of the show. Neither of us were familiar with Zubiena or such skill; we were stunned by the speed of that early scene.

I always wondered how the police department was able to afford that car, on top of all of Crockett's other vanity toys; and also, how long before the Miami criminal underworld figures out that every narcotics boss who cuts a deal with "Burnett" and "Cooper" ends up dying in a massive gun battle?

They’d carry a Taran Tactical Glock and a 2011 by Atlas, Wilson or Cabot. PCC B&T, MPX or a FN P90 with a Remington TAC-13. The cars would be a Lamborghini Urus and a G-Wagon.

Pair of Canik Miami full size 9mm Miami Night and Day models

https://x.com/JGSALESLTD/status/1612864170659295233




Glock 43 Miami in an ankle holster

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2001413379395563894

Tubbs, with his NYPD history could sport a Kahr K9. That would be cool. Carry the gun with the trigger too good for the NYPD. (They should have hired me for marketing).

Sonny would almost have to carry whatever version of the Staccato costs the most.

Crocket isn't going to carry a 9mm, so it's either .45 ACP or 10mm. Desert Eagle is too big. Something exotic like .45 Super is an option but not many viewers would know what it is, and it's not common enough for LE use.

10mm fits in a double stack 2011, so that's what I'm going with. Not sure of brand, but has to be all metal lower - like Nighthawk's double stacks. And it has to be two-tone stainless and hard-chrome.

Backup gun probably a stainless Kahr MK40 It would look the part and be small enough.

Tubbs is a snubby revolver guy, so the Kimber makes sense, or a snubby new Colt. Shotgun a semi-auto Shockwave size gun.