Starsky & Hutch California freeway with a flat-tired Ford Explorer). At the first viewing of the car with David Soul (Hutch), Glaser remarked that the car looked like a "striped tomato." That nickname stuck, and very soon the show's writers had worked it into the show as Hutch's derogatory name for Starsky's beloved Torino. Glaser remarked to Soul that he hated the car and that he was "going to destroy that car...burn it down every chance I get", and repeated the story in the 1999 "reunion" interview. Several scenes of Glaser driving the car show him smashing the front wheels into curbs as
Ella Hill Hutch her early death of natural causes. Mayor Dianne M. Feinstein said, "She was a warm woman who cared very much about the city and its people." In tribute to the first African American female supervisor, a community center was built in San Francisco, California in her honor. Ella Hill Hutch Ella Hill Hutch (June 9, 1923 – February 25, 1981) was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in San Francisco, California, in 1977 (along with Harvey Milk and Dan White) and reelected in 1980. She was the second African American elected to the Board (Terry Francois was the