Hardcastle and McCormick (1983)

A judge on the verge of retirement finds files on 200 people who escaped conviction on legal technicalities, and recruits an ex-con race driver to help him bring them in. Brian Keith's crusty Judge Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly's Mark "Skid" McCormick bicker like father and son, and that relationship is the real draw. The other draw is the Coyote X, a prototype sports car. From season two it became a different, DeLorean-based Coyote, because Keith had trouble climbing in and out of the original. Another Stephen J. Cannell production, it ran three seasons on ABC and gets far less attention than it deserves.