The Hunt for Rolling Treasure

So popular were these high-horsepower V8 machines that they became stars in their own right in TV shows and films – the 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 driven by Steve McQueen in “Bullitt,” the 1969 Dodge Charger in “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am in “Smokey and the Bandit,” to name just a few. People wanted to own them, be seen with them, and drive them but as time went by they became hard to find, and even harder to afford.

In a new TV series called “The Hunt for Rolling Treasure,” three Indiana Jones-type car aficionados venture on a worldwide quest to find the rarest of these automobiles, now worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

Co-created by Chris Mazzilli, who executive produced and starred in the Emmy Award-winning “Downey’s Dream Cars,” “The Lost Corvettes,” and “Riding Shotgun with Michelle Rodriguez,” among others, and Larry Hochberg, the prolific producer whose vast credits include “Pimp My Ride,” “The Curse of Oak Island,” “Property Wars,” and “The Lost Corvettes,” the show is produced by Bungalow Media & Entertainment, in conjunction with Dream Car Restorations. The 10-episode “The Hunt for Rolling Treasure” stars Mazzilli, who also owns Dream Car Restorations on Long Island; Dave Weber, who oversees operations at Dream Car Restorations, and Greg Lotko, an IT executive and burgeoning car collector, who now personally owns many of the cars featured in the show. In fact, Lotko’s collection is already worth many millions of dollars.

The cars are being specially detailed and refurbished at Dream Car Restorations. The vision for all the cars is that they are driven rather than being museum pieces or tucked away out of sight, never to be seen.