The car Odette drives, the Pontiac Trans Am Kammback is a concept car, one1 of only 2 GM produced, and never went into production.
This episode features the final television appearance of the Richie Brockelman character. Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (1978), which aired for five episodes in 1978, was intended to be picked up for the 78-79 television season on NBC, but the network didn't have an appropriate lead-in series in which it could follow; the ratings not being strong enough to have been a lead-in program itself.
The racing scenes were filmed at Riverside Raceway, which was in operation from September 1957 to July 1989.
Harold Gould, plays the part of Richie Brockelman's father, who gets cheated out of his business. Richie goes to Rockford to help him run a con (a 'sting') on the men who cheated his father. A few years earlier, Gould had a feature role in the film The Sting (1973), about an elaborate con to cheat a cheater. This "The Sting" type con will be used in a Bret Maverick episode Faith, Hope and Clarity (featuring Robert Webber and Jameson Parker) and again in a Simon & Simon episode Act Five (featuring Jameson Parker).
Mr. Brockelman tells Richie not to make a 'tummel.' 'Tummel' is Yiddish for making a noise, commotion.